@@marypartridge5154 I will work on more painting demonstrations in the future. Thank you for letting know what I can do to make this more helpful to you.
I really like the transparent layers. I have acrylics and tried them years ago, but didn’t like them (I paint in watercolors). I do like the look of oils, but after watching your video, I am going to try with acrylics. Just subscribed. Thank you!!
Oh fabulous! Yes, I don't like the "plastic" look of acrylics either! Then I started working with this process, and the results were much more exciting! I love oils too, but know that it is hard if you don't have a space where you can use solvents safely.
@@MelissaFurness The solvents were the problem when my kids were young. There was one they made smell like the most delicious oranges you can imagine, and yes, it was horrible and scary. I switched to watercolors at that point, but have no fear of solvents now! Do you have online lessons or workshops?
@@M0odyBlue I have this youtube channel, which I began during the pandemic to help my students. I am a university professor, so I teach college level courses in art and add what I can from what I teach here :) I admit, I need to do more with adding painting demos, which is the plan... but at the moment I am teaching drawing on-line, so that's what I'll be posting in the upcoming months. Starting in Spring of 2024, I will see what other painting demos I can put onto my channel.
new subscriber here.. this was really interesting and helpful to watch.. I am a gouache and watercolor artist, but want to delve into acrylics .. i'm fascinated with the golden open paints, as I feel like it would be such a nice transition towards the experience of oils, without having to use oils lol ( hope that makes sense).. anywsy , thanks so much for this video and your tips and perspectives.. Norakag, here 👍👍
New to your channel and loving it so far. Also new to painting. I have canvas, a few, but I'm curious what you recommend for practice? I don't really want to buy and toss canvas's if I don't have too. What a good surface for practice?
I am glad you are enjoying the demos! You can practice with canvas paper, which it probably your best option... however, it still won't have the same absorbency as canvas, but it is a good place to begin with getting used to painting. Good luck!
I'm sure that you're an excellent teacher because you explain very well, thanks for this tutorial. I have a question, do you just use water or do you use another medium in the first layers.
Very good tutorial. I think I will watch more of them in the future from you. Just curious, though you seem to use such a small brush and most of the tutorials I see from well-established artist use quite a big brush. In fact, they usually say the biggest when you can for the size of your canvas. Just wondering if you could explain your choices to me as I tend to use smaller brushes also
Thank you! I noticed several people asking me about the brushes, so I created this short edited from the video where I talk about switching out to many different brush sizes. Glad you enjoyed the video! th-cam.com/users/shortsXCdD6MVLtSo?si=d4cOyMa9YSxjHxQ0
@@drmidnight680-kz2le Thanks! Yes, agreed. I always use a combination of water and medium, not only one or the other to get the best transparencies with acrylic. You'd have to be pretty extreme with your use of the water for it to cause binding problems with acrylic as @marastar208 mentioned. The binding issue is a rule with oil paint and solvents mainly (evident in some of the color field painters like Rothko and the struggle to conserve their work over time), not acrylic.
I want to try to do an acrylic painting. I got a few quick questions: 1. How long should I wait before painting over a layer? 2. I see that Hobby Lobby has some Acrylic paper. Does the paper work good or should I use canvas or board? 3. Which brand name paints do you recommend? I'm just starting out. I've only done watercolor before. Thanks
My apologies for the delayed response! I've been busy with teaching :) Canvas paper works well. You will need to tape it down to a hard board or table (tape all four edges fully). Acrylic dries very quickly, so 30 minutes should be enough time between transparent layers. As for brand, Golden is my favorite with great color/pigment, though it is a little more pricey than other brands. Liquitex is also good, but the heavy body acrylic (not the basics stuff). I hope it goes well!
I admit that I haven't used them so much, but they seem like an excellent option for those that really need to utilize water-based media. Most of my creative work is done in either straightforward acrylic or oil.
Just found this. Super helpful. Questions: you refer to mediums. Is this a reference to water, to paint or something else? It seems like you use a small brush. Is that right? Did you stop to let it dry between layers? If yes, how often? Thank you. Really great.
The mediums that I mention refers to acrylic painting mediums. I prefer a fluid mat or gloss medium. And as for brushes, I am always switching them up.... usually a fist-full of them in one hand and painting with one in the other so I can switch it up often. I chat about this in the video at 7:55 minutes in and then at 9:35 you can see a view of my pallet. I put a pool of the medium down on my pallet to dip into it a lot as I paint, a bit of color, a good amount of medium... also helps to keep a "wet" feel with acrylic. From there in the video you see the layers build with the transparent layers. Hope this helps! Glad you are enjoying the demo :)
How do you decide what color to use for an underpainting? Does it matter? I have used transparent burnt sienna as underpainting for landscapes (I am very new to acrylic) but I was under the impression that would give the final picture a glow and you might see a small amount peek out. Is there a science to picking the color though? I love the idea of mapping out your values, to me it seems like it would make it easier to paint the pic once the values are mapped out.
Sorry I somehow missed your comment! Honestly, your underpainting color is totally your choice, however, I wouldn’t advice a light valued color like yellow, as it won’t show and it will be difficult for you to fully understand the composition without seeing the full value range. And yes! I always do an underpainting and work up from there in transparent layers. Having the values mapped out in the beginning really helps to create a stronger piece.
Certainly, that I one way of painting-there are many! This tutorial addresses how to use medium and glazing with acrylics to help expand your skills. I love seeing the color interactions with transparencies :)
Very informative and interesting to see your process. The only thing that I would point out is that your comment around the 10:45ish mark is flat out wrong and should be corrected as it involves health and safety of these paints. There’s a huge misconception about acrylic paint being safe and these paint companies are not correcting or doing a good job of informing the public about their products health risks, in fact it’s misleading and harmful to perpetuate this myth of nontoxic paint. Especially one held in a acrylic suspension. Acrylic paints are actually extremely toxic to the environment. They are a plastic which is composed of synthetic resins derived from petroleum components. “These pigments are then suspended by an acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers (synthetic resin binder) to make it stick or dry on any surface. Binders are usually synthetic resins or natural polymers such as acrylic polymer emulsion. Many of them are known harmful to health, especially in the air, water, and soil.” “Acrylic polymer emulsion serves as the binder in most acrylic paints, they are mostly made of compounds like methyl methacrylate and a common catalyst mostly made of carbon and hydrogen. Although humans can not ingest this chemical compound it can affect the skin and may cause cancers.” Acrylic paints are ‘plastic’ or called latex paint which means they contain plasticizers which are basically liquid plastic to make them stick or dry on any surface. They produce toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde, acetal, acrolein, and ethylene oxide when exposed to intense heat. Some acrylic paint contains cadmium, cobalt, manganese, chromium, and lead. These metals and substances can cause damage to the brain and kidneys and can also cause nervous system disorders. Acrylic paint also contains carcinogenic pollutants such as benzene, xylene, styrene, and butadiene. Benzene is an ingredient used in pesticides; it has been shown to cause leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and other blood disorders. So this whole dilution in water with acrylic’s is actually very harmful to our shared water sources and the environment in general.
Yes, acrylic is essentially a plastic. Plastic is indeed toxic to the environment, true! I was not trying to say that it isn't toxic to the environment, but that it isn't toxic to the artist who is painting with it and breathing in the air as they work with it. Very different from painting with oil, which requires ventilation for the artist to work with it. All artist paints (no matter the type) contain pigments such as you describe. One should certainly NOT ingest them. Ever. Painters will continue to paint, however.
Yes, I've improved the video quality and sound in more current videos, for sure. I plan to revise this one to fix these earlier issues. This one was filmed in the classroom with ventilation fans running, so difficult to control the quality.
Just found this. Super helpful. Questions: you refer to mediums. Is this a reference to water, to paint or something else? It seems like you use a small brush. Is that right? Did you stop to let it dry between layers? If yes, how often? Thank you. Really great.
There are acrylic mediums that you mix with the paint to give it more transparency with the color. I like to use a fluid mat or gloss medium. As for brushes, I use a lot of different brushes and pretty much always have one hand full of brushes and the other one that I am always using and switch out different sizes of brushes as I paint. I talk about the brushes a bit at 8:00 minutes into this video. If you continue watching and listening, at 9:30 I show you a view of my pallet and you can see the medium there. I often just put a pool of it directly on my pallet and dip into my color and dip into the medium as I go. It also helps to keep the acrylic a bit wetter for a time. Hope this helps! Glad you are enjoying the demo :)
this is the first video ive found that thoroughly explained the under painting process for acrylic , and i am grateful i found this.
I am so happy this helped!
Just watched you paint this and I will watch several more times as I develop my painting. Thank you very much.
Glad this is helpful to you! Happy Painting :)
Great but it's really just showing you painting and I lost the different colours and where you applied them. Good to see you painting this so well.
@@marypartridge5154 I will work on more painting demonstrations in the future. Thank you for letting know what I can do to make this more helpful to you.
I think you are one awesome instructor. I love your suggestion of using quality paints.
Thank you! So glad to be is help to you with your painting.
Thank you! I’m just getting started in acrylics…this was wonderful!
So glad! Enjoy!
You’re an amazing artist! I think I’ll try your layering method, seems fun
Thank you! Yes, love this process 💕
This is such a good, valuable video. Thank you. Really wanted to see the final painting tho!! Subscribed and will look for it
Thank you! I will be posting more painting videos this fall, for certain. Very glad to be of help :)
I really like the transparent layers. I have acrylics and tried them years ago, but didn’t like them (I paint in watercolors). I do like the look of oils, but after watching your video, I am going to try with acrylics. Just subscribed. Thank you!!
Oh fabulous! Yes, I don't like the "plastic" look of acrylics either! Then I started working with this process, and the results were much more exciting! I love oils too, but know that it is hard if you don't have a space where you can use solvents safely.
@@MelissaFurness The solvents were the problem when my kids were young. There was one they made smell like the most delicious oranges you can imagine, and yes, it was horrible and scary. I switched to watercolors at that point, but have no fear of solvents now! Do you have online lessons or workshops?
@@M0odyBlue I have this youtube channel, which I began during the pandemic to help my students. I am a university professor, so I teach college level courses in art and add what I can from what I teach here :) I admit, I need to do more with adding painting demos, which is the plan... but at the moment I am teaching drawing on-line, so that's what I'll be posting in the upcoming months. Starting in Spring of 2024, I will see what other painting demos I can put onto my channel.
@@MelissaFurness Thanks so much for the info. I will be looking forward to your demos!
Wow…I learned more in the first 5 minutes of this video than in scores of others online! Thank you, I can’t wait to watch more of your videos…
Oh wonderful! So glad this was helpful! I will post more in the future months regarding painting. Hope you will check back. :)
Very insightful and full of helpful instruction. Thank you
You are welcome!
new subscriber here.. this was really interesting and helpful to watch.. I am a gouache and watercolor artist, but want to delve into acrylics .. i'm fascinated with the golden open paints, as I feel like it would be such a nice transition towards the experience of oils, without having to use oils lol ( hope that makes sense).. anywsy , thanks so much for this video and your tips and perspectives.. Norakag, here 👍👍
You’re welcome! Yes, this technique is the perfect transition into using oils, with the use of acrylic. So glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much. This has been SO helpful! ❤
You're welcome! So glad you found it helpful. :)
Thank you. Very well explained Melissa
I'm happy that you enjoyed it!
Great canvas. Compositionally, the only part I’d change is the blue wall shadow sprouting from his head. But a good project idea.
Thank you :) ... yes, the imagery is from a film still. Fun to work with!
hola, un saludo desde Colombia. porfa no dejes de subir videos, son muy interesantes y te agradezco por hacerlos. gracias
Gracias! 🌸
Wonderful looked great..thank you
Thanks for watching!
Loved this.
Thank you!
New to your channel and loving it so far. Also new to painting. I have canvas, a few, but I'm curious what you recommend for practice? I don't really want to buy and toss canvas's if I don't have too. What a good surface for practice?
I am glad you are enjoying the demos! You can practice with canvas paper, which it probably your best option... however, it still won't have the same absorbency as canvas, but it is a good place to begin with getting used to painting. Good luck!
I'm sure that you're an excellent teacher because you explain very well, thanks for this tutorial. I have a question, do you just use water or do you use another medium in the first layers.
Thank you! In the very first layer, I use water, then for the second, I use fluid matte (or gloss if you prefer) medium. Happy painting!
Yes, I join in the comments, and thank you very much!👋👍🙏
You're welcome!
Class thanks for the help
Kudos from Cornwall
You're welcome!
Very good tutorial. I think I will watch more of them in the future from you. Just curious, though you seem to use such a small brush and most of the tutorials I see from well-established artist use quite a big brush. In fact, they usually say the biggest when you can for the size of your canvas. Just wondering if you could explain your choices to me as I tend to use smaller brushes also
Thank you! I noticed several people asking me about the brushes, so I created this short edited from the video where I talk about switching out to many different brush sizes. Glad you enjoyed the video! th-cam.com/users/shortsXCdD6MVLtSo?si=d4cOyMa9YSxjHxQ0
Awesome, thank you.
You're welcome!
Don't use a lot of water with acrylic, it breaks down the bonds and results in cracking. Use a medium. :)
True! Transparent layers are developed using medium.
@@MelissaFurnessI found that thinning with water doesn't break down the acrylic bond and water is the medium for acrylic paint.
Water is a solvent.
@@drmidnight680-kz2le Thanks! Yes, agreed. I always use a combination of water and medium, not only one or the other to get the best transparencies with acrylic. You'd have to be pretty extreme with your use of the water for it to cause binding problems with acrylic as @marastar208 mentioned. The binding issue is a rule with oil paint and solvents mainly (evident in some of the color field painters like Rothko and the struggle to conserve their work over time), not acrylic.
Thank you I have mediums that I never use. Now I will!!!
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I want to try to do an acrylic painting. I got a few quick questions: 1. How long should I wait before painting over a layer? 2. I see that Hobby Lobby has some Acrylic paper. Does the paper work good or should I use canvas or board? 3. Which brand name paints do you recommend? I'm just starting out. I've only done watercolor before. Thanks
My apologies for the delayed response! I've been busy with teaching :) Canvas paper works well. You will need to tape it down to a hard board or table (tape all four edges fully). Acrylic dries very quickly, so 30 minutes should be enough time between transparent layers. As for brand, Golden is my favorite with great color/pigment, though it is a little more pricey than other brands. Liquitex is also good, but the heavy body acrylic (not the basics stuff). I hope it goes well!
@@MelissaFurness Ok, thank you much.
@@believer7280 You're welcome!
What do you think about those water-based oils
I admit that I haven't used them so much, but they seem like an excellent option for those that really need to utilize water-based media. Most of my creative work is done in either straightforward acrylic or oil.
Do you varnish in between layers? Thank you very much.
Not between layers… varnishing happens once the painting is fully complete and dried.
Just found this. Super helpful. Questions: you refer to mediums. Is this a reference to water, to paint or something else? It seems like you use a small brush. Is that right? Did you stop to let it dry between layers? If yes, how often? Thank you. Really great.
The mediums that I mention refers to acrylic painting mediums. I prefer a fluid mat or gloss medium. And as for brushes, I am always switching them up.... usually a fist-full of them in one hand and painting with one in the other so I can switch it up often. I chat about this in the video at 7:55 minutes in and then at 9:35 you can see a view of my pallet. I put a pool of the medium down on my pallet to dip into it a lot as I paint, a bit of color, a good amount of medium... also helps to keep a "wet" feel with acrylic. From there in the video you see the layers build with the transparent layers. Hope this helps! Glad you are enjoying the demo :)
How do you decide what color to use for an underpainting? Does it matter? I have used transparent burnt sienna as underpainting for landscapes (I am very new to acrylic) but I was under the impression that would give the final picture a glow and you might see a small amount peek out. Is there a science to picking the color though? I love the idea of mapping out your values, to me it seems like it would make it easier to paint the pic once the values are mapped out.
Sorry I somehow missed your comment! Honestly, your underpainting color is totally your choice, however, I wouldn’t advice a light valued color like yellow, as it won’t show and it will be difficult for you to fully understand the composition without seeing the full value range. And yes! I always do an underpainting and work up from there in transparent layers. Having the values mapped out in the beginning really helps to create a stronger piece.
Very helpful.
So glad to hear it!
I find it easier when i apply Acrylic on thick after mixing the color and tone straight from a photo🐮
Certainly, that I one way of painting-there are many! This tutorial addresses how to use medium and glazing with acrylics to help expand your skills. I love seeing the color interactions with transparencies :)
Thanks! lovely.:)
You're welcome!
Is this how Maxwell Parrish painted? Thk you . Learned a lot.
So happy to help!
Good video thanks for it. Im wondering why are u oainting with a mask on?
This was filmed in the classroom during the pandemic and masks were necessary. :)
Very informative and interesting to see your process.
The only thing that I would point out is that your comment around the 10:45ish mark is flat out wrong and should be corrected as it involves health and safety of these paints. There’s a huge misconception about acrylic paint being safe and these paint companies are not correcting or doing a good job of informing the public about their products health risks, in fact it’s misleading and harmful to perpetuate this myth of nontoxic paint. Especially one held in a acrylic suspension.
Acrylic paints are actually extremely toxic to the environment. They are a plastic which is composed of synthetic resins derived from petroleum components.
“These pigments are then suspended by an acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers (synthetic resin binder) to make it stick or dry on any surface. Binders are usually synthetic resins or natural polymers such as acrylic polymer emulsion. Many of them are known harmful to health, especially in the air, water, and soil.”
“Acrylic polymer emulsion serves as the binder in most acrylic paints, they are mostly made of compounds like methyl methacrylate and a common catalyst mostly made of carbon and hydrogen.
Although humans can not ingest this chemical compound it can affect the skin and may cause cancers.”
Acrylic paints are ‘plastic’ or called latex paint which means they contain plasticizers which are basically liquid plastic to make them stick or dry on any surface. They produce toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde, acetal, acrolein, and ethylene oxide when exposed to intense heat.
Some acrylic paint contains cadmium, cobalt, manganese, chromium, and lead. These metals and substances can cause damage to the brain and kidneys and can also cause nervous system disorders.
Acrylic paint also contains carcinogenic pollutants such as benzene, xylene, styrene, and butadiene. Benzene is an ingredient used in pesticides; it has been shown to cause leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and other blood disorders.
So this whole dilution in water with acrylic’s is actually very harmful to our shared water sources and the environment in general.
Yes, acrylic is essentially a plastic. Plastic is indeed toxic to the environment, true! I was not trying to say that it isn't toxic to the environment, but that it isn't toxic to the artist who is painting with it and breathing in the air as they work with it. Very different from painting with oil, which requires ventilation for the artist to work with it. All artist paints (no matter the type) contain pigments such as you describe. One should certainly NOT ingest them. Ever. Painters will continue to paint, however.
Good painting bad video and sound quality
Yes, I've improved the video quality and sound in more current videos, for sure. I plan to revise this one to fix these earlier issues. This one was filmed in the classroom with ventilation fans running, so difficult to control the quality.
I found the video hard to watch because of the constant repeating of the phrase , " you know."
Sorry about that! This was one of my first painting videos produced during the pandemic. Others are improved :)
Just found this. Super helpful. Questions: you refer to mediums. Is this a reference to water, to paint or something else? It seems like you use a small brush. Is that right? Did you stop to let it dry between layers? If yes, how often? Thank you. Really great.
There are acrylic mediums that you mix with the paint to give it more transparency with the color. I like to use a fluid mat or gloss medium. As for brushes, I use a lot of different brushes and pretty much always have one hand full of brushes and the other one that I am always using and switch out different sizes of brushes as I paint. I talk about the brushes a bit at 8:00 minutes into this video. If you continue watching and listening, at 9:30 I show you a view of my pallet and you can see the medium there. I often just put a pool of it directly on my pallet and dip into my color and dip into the medium as I go. It also helps to keep the acrylic a bit wetter for a time. Hope this helps! Glad you are enjoying the demo :)
Thank you. I have a lot to learn