HOW TO PAINT A BLACK BEAR IN A MEADOW - with Suzanne Barrett Justis

In this step by step painting tutorial, I will show you how to paint a bear standing in a meadow. So this is also a simple landscape painting tutorial as well!!! This is an oil painting tutorial but the ideas can also be applied in acrylic paints as well.


00:00 Getting Started
Working on a smooth substrate and going over pallet

3:54 Roughing In
I will start out by showing you the gessoed substrate which is a 9 x 12 and the pallet of colors I will be using. I will be using a lot of gamsol and a little paint to do a rough sketch of the bear and the lines of the landscape


9:17 Laying down Paint
After the composition is roughed in, I will start blocking in the bear, starting with the darkest values. This takes some time as I am correcting along the way, inching out here, tucking in there, till I get the bears structure in correctly.

16:08 Blocking in Background
After the bear looks good, I go ahead and block in the background. I can also correct any structure problems on the bear by manipulating the background or negative space around the bear. It is this time that I work on my soft edges if applicable

27:27 Detail in Bear
Well, once my students arrive (and the party begins) I start refining the bear, and slowly add detail. I also put the trees and the flowers in the background. Notice that my trees are a similar value as the greens around them. The flowers in the background are also a bit cooler (adding yellow ochre ) and and lack detail in the background compared to the hotter ( cad yellow light) tighter flowers in the foreground. This adds depth

34:20 Wrapping it Up
This is where I start wrapping things up, refining details and cleaning up any minor mistakes.



generally use Rosemary and Company paint brushes and will include the link here for your consideration
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one of the brush I used for the most was a Synthetic Shiraz pointed round or rigger, I will also leave you the link to the brush here. It is a very versatile brush, and you can see that if was able to do everything I asked of it in this painting tutorial

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I also used several of the Eclipse long Filberts of various sizes, you can find them here
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and Ivory long filberts, my " work horse brush" I love them.
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