How to Draw & Paint HEAVENLY AUTUMN BRIDGE - Paint & Sip at Home - Fantasy Landscape Acrylic Lesson

PAINTING VIDEO DESCRIPTION – Looking for a heavenly spiritual painting idea? Want to honor a loved one who has passed? Let me be your acrylic art instructor as I teach you easy step-by-step instructions throughout this fun beginner art video as you learn how to paint an autumn bridge leading to heaven—a dreamy, inspirational, and hopeful skyscape image of "HEAVENLY AUTUMN BRIDGE" with acrylic paint. During this canvas painting tutorial, you'll learn simple drawing styles and painting techniques that will help you to create this angelic spiritual image of a floating bridge leading up to the bright light in the sky symbolizing the Holy Spirit. As the bridge emerges from the clouds and travels up to the brilliant beam of light in the heavens above, you'll be captivated by the otherworldly element of the atmosphere in the clouds and luminous blue sky. Surrounded by the glowing light and the airiness of the fluffy clouds this symbolic structure will provide guidance, hope and peaceful energy to those who see it and wish to walk it. The delicate clouds emerge over the sides of the bridge, giving the sense of airiness as it floats in the sky, just above the fall foliage and changing leaves. You'll learn how to create dimension in the shape of the bridge, clouds, and trees with a simple layering technique with carefree impressionistic brushstrokes to create contour highlights and shadows that will define the small details and add texture and contrast to the elements. You'll also learn how to create a dramatic sky using color theory and blending to guide you through a soft gradient of colors using a scumbling technique. Then using a stippling brushstroke, the landscape will come to life with a 3D realistic texture. Use your imagination and customize this in your own personal way, perhaps you paint the impression of footsteps walking up steps or a stairway. Paint a silhouette of a person gently ascending to the heavens, be it an angel, a man, woman, mother, father, friend, or animal making their way to the other side. The point is to just have fun with it and make this walkway to heaven meaningful to you! With a heavenly spiritual light guiding the way in this image of a bridge, created in a fantasy fairy-tale illustration painting style, will be a little magical and realistic at the same time, making for a beautiful painting to decorate your home all year long. You'll have fun painting it and you'll learn some valuable lessons along the way that you can utilize in future work. Let this angelic country landscape symbolize devotion, hope, trust, faith, and love and let the light represent your deity, divinity, sanctity or holiness. Using only 3 brushes and 8 colors, you’ll paint like a professional and create the best canvas painting in the world to honor a loved one who has passed. Have a date night, paint party, or virtual paint night. Paint with gouache, oil paint, or watercolor, any medium will work! Paint just for fun or for art therapy. I hope you enjoy watching this Youtube art video and let's get painting and let's get sipping! IMAGE LINK FOR PRINTING: https://static1.squarespace.com/stati... MATERIALS: Canvas: 16x20 stretched primed canvas Brushes: 3/4 inch flat bristle (large), #8 round (medium), #1 round (small) Acrylic Paint: titanium white, burnt umber (brown), green oxide, mars black, deep yellow, fluorescent orange, cobalt blue and fire red Other: #2 pencil, palette, cup of water for washing brushes, paper towel for drying brushes PURCHASE FULL DIY KIT FOR THIS PAINTING or MICHELLE’S ORIGINAL PAINTING HERE: https://berkshirepaintandsip.squaresp... STEPS: 1. pencil – draw outline for bridge and landscape 2. 3/4 inch bristle brush – Paint base coat for sky, land and bridge with blue, white, brown, and green 3. 3/4 inch bristle brush – Finish land with brown, red, yellow, orange, white and green 4. 3/4 inch bristle brush – Finish bridge surface with brown, white and yellow 5. #1 and #8 round brushes – Paint 1st layer to posts with black 6. 3/4 inch bristle brush – Paint base coat for clouds and light source with tan (made in step#4), brown, blue, white and yellow 7. #1 round brush – Finish bridge with black, brown and white 8. 3/4 inch bristle brush – Finish clouds and light source with tan, white, yellow, brown and blue 9. #1 round brush – Sign with black LINKS AND CONTACT INFO: Michelle's Patreon Page:   / michellethepainter   Website: https://berkshirepaintandsip.squaresp... Facebook:   / berkshirepaintandsip   Email: contact@michellethepainter.com #painting #art #acrylic