How to Paint a Full Moon

Painting a full moon in the night sky is probably a lot easier than you might think! With just a few colors and building the blends up slowly, you too can create a beautiful nighttime scene.
In this video I show you how to paint this bright full moon on a cloudy, dramatic night. I show you how to blend the colors, how to paint the glow, and how to paint the clouds.
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Materials used:
Golden fluid acrylics - raw umber, titamium white, cad orange, cad yellow, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, quinacridone red
Water for mixing with the paints
Stretched canvas
Various brushes I showed throughout the video
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thanks for watching (:

[@chuckblackart]

The round ones are artist loft scrumbler or princeton round blender brushes. The others I change up a lot so I don't hold much importance on them. Also I apologize for the palette camera being out of sync for a few minutes around the 20 min mark. This was my new camera and gave me issues. Tried to catch it all, but looks like a piece of it slipped by. Should be fixed from here on out!!! Thank you!

[@cristycreates2887]

Beautiful painting! I'm not familiar with using oils with acrylics so I'm interested in seeing what you do!!! Love the depth and shades!!! =0)

[@virgeleyp.4040]

Chuck Black what type of canvas do you use? Is it a soft one that makes blending easier?

[@cristycreates2887]

Chuck... My canvases seem to be toothy if that makes sense... I'm going to Hobby lobby today.. Should I look for a smoother one?

[@chuckblackart]

My canvas is toothy as well. But I apply 2-3 additional layers of gesso to it. I use a hard board to scrape the excess off with each layer to fill in the crevices and smooth it out. Doing a video in the near future on this!!

[@cristycreates2887]

Chuck Black oh good!!! Thank you Chuck! Your moon turned out beautifully!

[@1bhanumathy]

What a beautiful moon. Just love it

[@jenmiller4516]

Now that's a tutorial, someone explaining the exact step by step process with audible sound. I Love it! 👍❤

[@naemahypnonae6685]

yup

[@youknoweverything7643]

Just like how Bob Ross did it gotta thank that man for making this popular

[@marydd4147]

Thank you! I'm having a hard time with a full moon painting! This helps.

[@ManifestTv.]

I can't explain how satisfying it is to watch those brush strokes, reaching to a magestic painting

[@suhoat307obsessionmv7]

I stopped painting in 2003 and I truly miss it now, I was trying to start but I needed a kick, your channel is now officially my favourite because there's nothing better than a REAL walk through, I will happily go buy my equipments tomorrow and will try painting this ❤️ thank you so much Sir.

[@kimsousa6420]

Beautiful Chuck! I am painting a starry night sky on my wood fence. I needed a great moon with some fog. You nailed it - now lets hope I can! haha

[@TXPRiNCEZZ09]

This makes me wanna try to paint the moon...but I think i'll just lay here and watch for now haha

[@stormcorrosion176]

Ohhstargazer i understand, but you gotta paint it

[@patriciasaenz7116]

Ohhstargazer 😂😂😂

[@poppyflorist]

I am in the lookout for high quality creative content on youtube, and you chuck, dont fail. Beautiful work, keep up the good work.

[@deidra7612]

While watching, just want to remind viewers and followers to not skip the ads...it helps Chuck if you let them play☺ Now back to the video!! Gorgeous moon! Exactly what I need to learn more about!!! Thank you! 💝💝💝xxx

[@lisalisa3652]

Deidra Bell I didn’t know that, thanks!

[@deidra7612]

Lisa Lisa Yes☺☺I didn't realize it myself until just last week💝💝💝xxx

[@JS-ys2uk]

I subscribe to KZbin Red so I get no ads. I'm assuming that content creators get a little Kickback from my subscription?

[@deidra7612]

H G thats great! I'm really not sure about that H G I only found out about the ad watching by reading another artists comments from their followers. Great question though💝💝💝xxx

[@shavaunaronan3188]

Deidra Bell, Thank you so much for that info, I didn't know that. I am always trying to skip over. I will play them from now on.

[@WhereTheRainbowEnds1111]

The moon is my favorite subject to paint... This is awe inspiring

[@farukkasum158]

Sometimes i dont even watch the video. I just put it on and listen while im falling a sleep. I just love your positive attitude and the way you describe what you do. Its like a meditation to me. So yeah, im gonna click play and fall a sleep. Ps: i watch them eventually though. Love your work. Haha peace out chuckehhhh!

[@durongloria]

Love the full Moon art you do !!

[@lornabartlett2744]

Yes, another video from Chuck. I too, enjoy to learn from a professional personality point of view with acrylic painting. Thanks a billion strokes folks.

[@shioramenrabbit]

Extremely timely! I've been in the middle of struggling with a hazy night sky over the ocean and I just *couldn't* get it to work the way I wanted. Thank you!

[@TheNJ93487]

All i looks up there and see what the moon. I really loves the great full moon.

[@lisalisa3652]

This is fantastic! I can’t wait to see the next segment, although this looks perfect. Thank you for taking us through the process. I’m definitely going to try this! You rock!

[@sky2333]

Amazing tutorial! Thanks for sharing Chuck! The video quality and the angles are really great too! ❤️

[@chuckblackart]

Thank you! great to hear

[@paulapeterson-warnock3030]

Love, love your paintings!!!!! I love the tip to seal the pencil to keep it from breaking through the paint ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@shelbyohrenberg7607]

You’re so very talented and have made it so much easier for me to learn new techniques! Thank you! 😊

[@meglemaster461]

I love you use of color...and paint. I always seem to use so much paint and you used quite a bit in this creation. Makes me feel better!

[@cindylarson6130]

Glad you are back... Happy New Year....Love this painting. Thank you

[@sheilalaplante1512]

Your paintings are absolutely beautiful. I loved this video as a newbie to painting I am learning so much from you. Look forward to the next one. Thank you.

[@stormcorrosion176]

bro, you're a great artist. much respect for teaching folks your painting techniques on YTube. the step-by-step process is clearly stated, and that helps a lot when learning this stuff. take care bro

[@suebatson1765]

Thank you for sharing your talent. Beautiful work.

[@christianjoos7011]

Aye chuck, you have a good eye for the subtlety of paint, and I'm glad you take the time to teach the process. You're hella skilled, MAN!

[@mjjeter7169]

Many thanks for sharing your incredible talent! The tutorial was great, and you have a special way of letting us know just what is about to happen, and trust me, this helps a lot. I truly appreciate all of the little details that makes the painting come to life. I am anxious to see your other tutorials!

[@Casique1967]

Thank you for thinking of us. And improving your way of making better for us. That's awesome...

[@carmelitajollimore9235]

I really love this painting always wanted to paint the moon you gave some very good ideas may try this one soon .thanks

[@darzwena]

This was so fun to watch. Thank you for the in depth tutorial. This will def help me improve my moon paintings in the future inshaAllah

[@carmenmesinas2978]

Beautiful painting!!!

[@ABC123colorToysForKids]

love your painting. beautiful.

[@amyrobert9912]

Beautifully done! 👏👏👏

[@sheilakelley7281]

I really enjoyed watching your tutorial. I love to observe different ways of doing things to get really great effects. Your work is very beautiful....

[@taniaregina5007]

Seus detalhes dão vida !!! Parabéns ❤❤

[@leonasulam8474]

I love it 😍 that picture !! I will practice it !!

[@followthewhiterabbitwithsusi]

Loved this. Such attention to detail

[@homayounazarnoush5699]

Thank you sharing your experience and talent 👍

[@delila351]

Nothing is better than a beautiful full moon in the sky :). However, when the moon is not out, Paint your own and enjoy :). This is wonderful and I want to try it.

[@marymullins7297]

Thankyou Chuck, lov your videos

[@LollyGaggler]

Fabulous!!! Lucky brother to get that...thank you for your tutorial

[@vickierich4075]

Beautiful painting!

[@cheryl-thegardeningartist]

Very nice! Thanks for the tutorial.

[@sunnykante2161]

Best painter in the world

[@salvathijazi431]

Happy new year to you, goof to have your new tutorial

[@dshepherd107]

This is EXACTLY what I needed. I do expressionist landscapes. I attempted to paint a moonrise over a calm sea.. and it looks more like a huge alien orb, lol. This was perfect. Ty!!!

[@rhondag2926]

Beautiful!

[@doreenchristie1260]

HI! CHUCK, WONDERFUL FULL MOON, QUITE EXCITING SIGHT, LOVED IT.

[@parulchaudhary8525]

Just WOWwwwwwwwwwwwww .. Awesome painting and the way u r paint this just a lovely and perfect... It's really make my mind up to go and paint a canvas with the help of your perfect video...

[@cherylvanderlaan3994]

Love it !!!

[@pamanderson6408]

hi Chuck, love the moon, a great tutorial

[@heathergray4880]

So happy to see a new video from you! Can you please do an FAQ video where you answer the most frequently asked questions you get? That would help both you and us because you can point people to the video when they ask a question you get a lot! Thank you for all your videos. I really appreciate you so much! By the way, I live in Colorado and good grief, my paints dry so fast! I am running a humidifier in my studio, but the room still won't get above 25%. :(

[@chuckblackart]

I've been pondering that one, I will do that at some point here I promise! Thanks for the feedback!!!

[@CONSTELLATION_PEGASUS]

Great to see you back, and hope you're having a great New Year! Love the painting, too! This one would look fantastic as a mural, or even on the ceiling :-) It has a very calming, meditative quality. Looking forward to seeing the oils go on it. The new camera has a much crisper resolution, and the angles are much better. Great work, as always!

[@chuckblackart]

Thanks Mark!!! Yes it's a 4k camera so very clean and crisp. Working to improve the angles as well .

[@trishcoomerphelps9321]

Wow so cool Chuck .. thank You 👍

[@RKArtChannel]

hey this is a really kool video.... i wanting to paint a moon now... 😀😊

[@cristinanatela]

Ganhou mais uma inscrita!!! Obrigada por compartilhar!!!Sua noite ficou linda!!!

[@CVetriselvi]

Just.... luv it

[@arnabbiswas9461]

wonderful art

[@anujachoksi8139]

I loved the video...there is a request though...if you dont mind can u please next time also add in the oil paint layer video that you were talking about..i want to learn to do a base coat of acrylics and then do the painting in oil...please do the next one with this in mind..i would really appreciate it. Thank you so much for sharing the video.

[@rajendrajagtap9823]

Wow class great art ,

[@LaineyBug2020]

Lol, when you said to pull the blue to the yellow scale it made me so happy! I used to tease my art teacher that there was no such thing as green, it was just a yellow shade of blue, and there was no orange, just a yellow shade of red and so on...

[@janaturlich7204]

Wow, wonderful 😍😱👍👍

[@samirajohnson2772]

Thank for this great tutorial. You make it look so easy. That moon looks awesome! Did you prep your Canvas? And if so how did you prepare it? Primer? Gesso? Something else? Would really appreciate an answer.

[@zubinnaviraislam6901]

Very nice painting bro ... I will do that

[@robertcourtney7649]

Great stuff love your work😀👍

[@HimanArtists]

Wonderful

[@laradas6043]

Spectacular

[@maryamvossoughi9341]

You are a great artist👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻❤️❤️

[@herbalistics9261]

Thanks Chuck for this Great tutorial...really helped me a lot..you are very creative and talented.! and a good speaking voice. Don't worry so much about the camera, we could see there was a problem but everyone is understanding to that...no big deal and thanks.!

[@beenasibi5971]

Excellent!!!!!!!

[@Tomasz3kk]

Amazing job ! Watching in Poland

[@ladybug6450]

Beautiful painting :). Also, after the 15-min mark your palette doesn’t match what you’re saying/mixing. Does this make sense?

[@ReginaCordoba]

We love art!

[@patriciasaenz7116]

Awesome 👏🏼

[@reshminair5502]

It is so pretty :) Thank you for sharing tips :) I just had a question why do you add oil paint on the top ?

[@youtubeonly6586]

Awesome

[@durongloria]

would love to see this similar with part of the Ocean shore showing..

[@donaldsherbondy1950]

Always love your video's, may I ask what size canvas you're using?

[@saurabhatre2158]

First person to show how realistic moon is painted

[@edboutdoors3632]

Amazing

[@kellyachterhof2082]

Happened upon this today, a year after it was made. I have done this painting by numbers, and have no drawing ability, but want to paint so badly... After seeing this , I feel like I might be able to follow along and make something beautiful like this!! I will have to get some soft body acrylics, brushes and a few canvases when I get paid....! I have subscribed and hit all notifications! But for today, I will check out your finished pieces!!!!!

[@yamaha2704]

Ahhhmazing!! what do you listen to when you paint?

[@mentalcompassno1]

I wanna do this. Its awesome

[@gracaoliveira1597]

Perfeito! Desde de meu muito obrigada. Você é show!😘🥰👏👏👏👏👏

[@1996dodgeram1500]

YOU ARE THE MAN🤘

[@Avaristaa]

Thanks so much Chuck, I haven't painted in 15 years and i'm reteaching myself your videos are a lifeline right now, I soft of have a request, i'm not sure if you take requests, but I would love to see your take on painting waterfalls into one of your landscapes sometime. Thank you again!

[@chuckblackart]

At some point here I will!!! They need to thaw out around here though first! ;) Thanks Jackie That's wonderful to hear

[@gsky7777]

amazing tehniq

[@subzerobob]

Wow! Can you post more of the teachings? This is so nice, but I couldn't really make it so realistic. Don't know what's up with my hands or brush

[@marthiescholer4565]

Great. ... THANKS AGAIN.

[@dr.anthonyforgione4253]

A very helpful observation-that different regions, climates (and seasons) all affect the paint. True indeed. I think though, that with acrylic paint, it's difficult to get even, consistent color throughout a painting; and smooth color blending and transitions, if too little paint is used. It seemed that in this painting, you would find the color you wanted without much difficulty, but run out of it in only a few square inches, then have to start all over, mix another tiny amount, and try to match the color again. This makes the painting look blotchy and uneven, adds to the total time the painting takes, and ultimately uses more paint. Ultimately, I don't think this poses any real problem for you for two reasons: first, you are a very, talented and skilled artist! Second, you are very patient and persistent-you will stay with a painting, doing whatever is needed, until it's right. So I think at least with acrylics, mixing larger amounts, laying on more per stroke (at least sometimes), and using *slightly* larger brushes, over areas/expanses... might work well. There is a tendency, sometimes a rather strong tendency for many of us, including me, to conserve the artist grade paints. But it can lead to this I'm describing above. Maybe this all applies less to oil paint- I don't have a great deal of experience with it. But maybe paint conservers in acrylics, struggle more with blending, and turn to oil paint, when the problem can be somewhat easy to avoid with acrylics with a small change in technique-? Well, thank you so much for your insights, guidance, and expertise. You have helped so many people, turned so many people on to art and painting; and inspired them to create art of their own. Godspeed.

[@shivanshigupta438]

This was amazing... did you learn all of it by yourself??

[@sandy_the_hippy]

Just discovered your channel and subbed, great work sir. I have only ever worked in greyscale and graphite, and totally new to paint, but your tutorials are fantastic- both in your attitude, and in the fact that they ARE tutorials, unlike a lot of stuff on youtube(which are basically sped up and cut down versions, which are basically adverts for the artists patreon services- I'm not knocking patreon, but yeah... lol) On that subject, do you have a patreon, if not, it might be something to consider(I'm basically shooting myself in the foot huh?) Anyways, thanks for sharing your gift of art, and knowledge sir 🤗

[@edboutdoors3632]

What a nice moon it looks like it is reel

[@CyberZombie]

very helpful, cheers.

[@maggiesykes756]

Gorgeous. Thank you. One question please. If we do not add oil ( as acrylic users) is there not the potential for under binding with the amount of water with fluid acrylics. Sorry if you have already answered this

[@milvolts1]

If you can't give her the moon, make it for her. Loved this video man!

[@paulapeterson-warnock3030]

Love your stuff!!! Question: why oil over acrylic? I too am branching out into using different mediums on the same portrait

[@chuckblackart]

Oils have limitations and acrylics have limitations. I just try to take advantage of both mediums and their strengths. So by painting oils over the top of acrylics I can get the best of both worlds and get the effect on after quicker and easier

[@user-sh3lx3cz8j]

Great !!!!!!

[@gumba55]

Your patience and attention to detail to achieve the degree of realism you do is laudable. The moon is one of those iconic images however that when depicted needs to be accurately rendered or the viewer recognizes it right away or senses something is askew. You uncharacteristically painted the moons landmarks haphazardly and inaccurately depicted them. As the moon and its glow was your expressed goal I would like to understand better your thought process. Thank you for sharing your time, skills and work with your fellow travelers.

[@chuckblackart]

Thank you I appreciate that. Great point here and I actually don't do the best job explaining my process all of the time so this is good! When I work in the acrylic portion of my paintings I focus more building everything up as a whole and do not stress on the finer details. Since this is part one and I'll be finishing the painting in oils, I planned on refining the moon's landmarks at the end. This process as a whole allows me to achieve the desired effect a little faster. Hope that helped clear that up for you! :)

[@subhiaravinthan3397]

btw Ur skills are amazing 😊🙌