Another vastly cheaper alternative blending brush is the makeup finish blush brush. it has super soft super fine bristles- perfect for effortless blending, especially feathering.
I do cross blending almost exclusively, using W&N Series 7 Miniatures. Their sharp points let you vary the stroke width on the fly. I can transfer paint with the tip without paint in the body of the brush being applied. press harder and the the the body paint is accessed. This allows one brush to work on more than one shade without cleaning the brush or going to the palette for more paint. It feels more like sculpting than painting. To facilitate the best angle of attack my entire easel surface rotates using a large worm gear.
@40 seconds: You're using oil paints, it seems. Blending can be rather different with acrylics. (Maybe you assume that people coming to your channel knows that you're using oil paints exclusively?) Also; In the left example (which you call dry blending) at least one or both of the paints haven't fully dried yet, thus you can blend them. That's clearly wet blending to me. IMHO "dry blending" would require the paints to completely dry first, then add new paints for the gradient. ... Weird that there is this difference in terminology. Do most or all oil painters consider the "left" example as dry blending?
Maybe watch it again? I'm pretty sure he explained that when he said "dry blending" he said he was using a dry brush to mix the paint softly. If the colors were completely dry you wouldn't be able to mix them with a dry brush. The right was making new gradients and adding them. Also, in his description he says "I do mostly drawing and oil painting..." and he lists all the supplies he is using.
Also being an acrylic painter, I translated it to "dry brush" vs "wet brush" -- moving the paint that is already on the canvas vs adding more paint to the canvas. Acrylic painter Toon Nagtegaal has a good tutorial on his yt channel for painting folds of fabric. His method is kind of a combination of both techniques.
Another vastly cheaper alternative blending brush is the makeup finish blush brush. it has super soft super fine bristles- perfect for effortless blending, especially feathering.
I have to say the way this is explained here its so easy to understand.
This was a really clear explaination, something clicked! Thanks, very cool!✨🙌
You've answered a lot of questions for me, many thanks ☺
Thank you so much. Love your technique videos. They do so much to help my practice.😊
Very helpful. Thank you so much ❤
Many thanks. Very clear instructions
❤Thank you! Great Demo😊
Thx for sharing. Great insights - very helpful
Florent, as always inspiring and very educational 👏👍😃☮️
Thank you for sharing ❤️
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Recently found your channel and immensely enjoying the videos. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
I do cross blending almost exclusively, using W&N Series 7 Miniatures. Their sharp points let you vary the stroke width on the fly. I can transfer paint with the tip without paint in the body of the brush being applied. press harder and the the the body paint is accessed. This allows one brush to work on more than one shade without cleaning the brush or going to the palette for more paint. It feels more like sculpting than painting. To facilitate the best angle of attack my entire easel surface rotates using a large worm gear.
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@40 seconds: You're using oil paints, it seems. Blending can be rather different with acrylics. (Maybe you assume that people coming to your channel knows that you're using oil paints exclusively?)
Also; In the left example (which you call dry blending) at least one or both of the paints haven't fully dried yet, thus you can blend them. That's clearly wet blending to me.
IMHO "dry blending" would require the paints to completely dry first, then add new paints for the gradient.
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Weird that there is this difference in terminology. Do most or all oil painters consider the "left" example as dry blending?
Maybe watch it again? I'm pretty sure he explained that when he said "dry blending" he said he was using a dry brush to mix the paint softly. If the colors were completely dry you wouldn't be able to mix them with a dry brush. The right was making new gradients and adding them. Also, in his description he says "I do mostly drawing and oil painting..." and he lists all the supplies he is using.
Also being an acrylic painter, I translated it to "dry brush" vs "wet brush" -- moving the paint that is already on the canvas vs adding more paint to the canvas.
Acrylic painter Toon Nagtegaal has a good tutorial on his yt channel for painting folds of fabric. His method is kind of a combination of both techniques.
It’s called dry blending cos the brush is dry, not the paint