Cardinal Pair | full acrylic painting tutorial

🎨 This acrylic cardinal pair is a full acrylic painting tutorial. In this step by step voice over learn how I painted the cardinal pair and the red berries. This full acrylic painting tutorial gives insight on: ..... how to choose a picture ..... how to transfer the picture image to the canvas ..... the materials needed to create the (acrylic) painting ..... step-by-step guide with commentary on painting tips, insights on the colors, and even commentary on the cardinal pair -- their diet, mating practices and more! 🎨 My acrylic painting #11 🎨 Sneak Preview: The Northern Cardinal is one of three cardinals in the Americas. The male is easily identified by its red plumage and spiked crest while the female is lovely with ruddy markings on crest, wings and tail. Though with the more subdued colors, the female cardinal isn't featured as commonly in American folk art. 💎 Patreon :   / animalartbyterracotta   💎 Facebook:   / animalartbyterracotta   💎 Instagram :   / animalartbyterracotta   💎 Pinterest :   / byterracotta   🥰 FREE TRACEABLE LINK (Patreon):   / 65896627   🥰 FREE TRACEABLE and DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS LIST! 🥰 📜 COPYRIGHT INFO 📜 If you paint the cardinals from this tutorial and POST on SOCIAL MEDIA, please add my channel link @    / animalartbyterracotta   or @ animalartbyterracotta ⌛️ TIME STAMPS ⏳ 0:00 Intro to my first year of acrylic painting 1:01 Choosing the reference pictures 3:12 Preparing the canvas + transferring the pictures 3:55 Blocking in the initial shapes and colors 16:41 Adding the branch 18:35 Glazing to add color and depth 21:37 Painting the beaks 22:44 Building textures 29:54 Glazing the beaks 40:52 Painting red berries 58:44 Detailing the tails 🔆Alpha acrylic paints 🔆 🎨 Black 🎨 Cobalt Blue (Hue) 🎨 Burnt Sienna 🎨 Copper 🎨 Carmine 🎨 Yellow Ochre 🎨 Yellow 🎨 Mixing White 💎 ART MATERIALS 💎 Artmate 9 ½” x 13” cotton canvas Alpha Acrylic Gel Medium various brushes fan brush for those fine lines TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT 🎬 iPad 9.7 128gb (2018) 🎬 iPad 7.9 64gb (2014) 🎬 Apple pencil 1st generation 🎬 Lumafusion editing app 🌇 REFERENCE PICTURE 🌅 free Pixabay photos - see video