TUTORIAL: How to Paint your own Galaxy - painting!

This will be a simple tutorial on making your own galaxy or starry painting! 
Here is also the tutorial video just in case
LINK: youtu.be/m8gND0t48JM

Let us begin!   

Paper:
Vellum Paper

Paint:
Tempura Water Colors (basic) 


In making your own galaxy or starry painting, you have to visualize the color patterns that you will be using! 
Just think about how it looks like outside earth, tons of colors exploding in expansions orrrr.... you can straight out copy something searched in google!   
Once you visualize your own galaxy, start with the base! 

BASE: This usually starts off with the lighter colors in your galaxy painting.
In the picture above (marked 1) you will see I started off with a lighter shade of pink or  <da:thumb id="8179739731584211">  
WATER is the key element here when you need to spread out your color.
Before I added the color, I dabbed the spot with a bit of water then took a small, light brush with the light pink and had it spread throug.
The more water you add in the parts of your drawing, the more it'll adjust to be lighter. You can always darken it once it's dried up or adding up more pink paint. 
You don't have to wait for your painting to dry off, it's actually better when it's wet so that you can still adjust it when were layering. 




Layering it above the lighter shade of pink and leaving some white spots or blank spots. 
I had spread water on this again, to be able to spread the color through out, since were still at the 2nd phrase of the base which was darker than the 1st base. 
Making it look like a crumpled flower petal. You can always layer it with lighter pink with a bit of water. 



As we gradually layer things off, we will be adding up the darker layers of your galaxy painting! 
Since of course, the galaxy is not complete without the dark blue color or  <da:thumb id="3611023141468875">  
Water is very critical here as it will be mixing with the 2nd and 1st base colors together with your brush strokes! 
It depends on you if you like to have a galaxy or starry painting with just the color blue, what ever color you like is fine!   
Since Blue and Red violet was mixed around, it created a violet effect on the painting with the help of the water strokes and make sure you leave some red violet or the first 2 bases around! 




   STEP 4 (A AND B)     

A -
Comes the tricky part! Adding the outer BLACK layer for the black void of the night sky! 
When layering the black color, you have to keep your dark blue brush on stand by for the shading effect after adding up the black layer on the side of your galaxy painting. 
Once you've added your black color <da:thumb id="4188376282211393">  use your dark blue <da:thumb id="3611023141468875">  on the inner edge of the black color. (NOT THE OUTER ONE) So that the edges inside wouldn't look like a WHEEL or a circular stroke of the brush. 

B -
Once you're done adjusting the darker layers and inner layers of your galaxy painting, you can re apply the red violet layer above the dark blue.
Then you can adjust with the layering again, tamper around with water lighty to have some lighter spots of your darken layer/parts. Re apply and layer until you're satisfied of the "galaxy" look on your painting.




   STEP 5        
THIS PART GETS MESSY!   

There are many ways to get a lot of stars in your paintings, like:

• You can use a tootbrush dabbed in white paint and flick your finger on the brush making small splatters of white dots
  
• You can also use a stick, or barbeque stick and using a stiff brush, you can tap the brush on the stick, splattering white dots on your painting. 
  
• You can also wear gloves or plastic gloves and take a bit of white paint in your finger the start flicking your finger gently on the canvass creating a starry effect. 
  

For me, I have used the stick trick, since it would be less messier to use than my fingers XD 
You don't have to fill the whole canvass with painting, it still depends on you though,
it creates an illusion and it helps to hide the hard strokes that wasn't stroked with a brush properly
(e.g the fine lines on the black inner area, connecting to the blue, 'wheel' look) 



   STEP 6    
This is the finishing touch of your galaxy painting which is DETAILING! 
Details are important in every painting, so it would be realistic or surreal! 
Here I added the north shinning star and a bunch of small stars to finish it. 
You can also add the moon or another galaxy in it (which I will show you how to add galaxies ON galaxies soon!  ) 
You can add aliens on or even shooting stars! Use your imaginations then shine!   




  Notes    

I hope this helps for those who want to make galaxy paintings or starry night skies! 
You can also check my speed paintings which has a lot of galaxy themed art on it.
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