How to paint a bokeh background in Acrylics - Lachri
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2018
- Have you ever wanted to create a bokeh background for your art but you don't have an airbrush? I'm going to show you how you can get a very similar look by glazing and blending your paint! I will also show you how I painted a little bird for this painting too!
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I'm self taught acrylic artist. I just want to tell you, never fail, no matter who else I watch, I always come back to you! Thanks Lachri!
Aww that's so awesome to hear! Thank you!!
This is invaluable info! Also worth mentioning, if you find that your paint is drying mega quickly before you can blend, especially in the summer heat (which was the nightmare I was having to endure recently lol), slow drying mediums are very useful rather than thinning with water! You only need about 10-20% of it to 80-90% of paint and it extends the dry times just enough that you can get a layer down and blend it.
I found a wonderful slow drying medium from Winsor & Newton, it comes out as a gooey gel instead of most which are very liquid. It really made my average Decoart Americana colors, feel like working true oils. It is so nice to get time back while painting, blending is the theraputic part for me!
@@WoodysAR which product was you using? This project was a hot mess for me because it dried to fast. Thanks
You make it look SO easy! This technique is just what I've been looking for! Thanks so much for the tutorial! Beautiful painting! Love your work!
The painting is ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL!
Wonderful video on how to make a broken/mottled background. This really helped me complete a background for a portrait painting I was working on in oil. The background turned out amazingly realistic showing the person outdoors amongst the greenery and sunlight. I plan to watch her other videos for tips even though I paint in oil. Lachri is a wonderful artist!
Love this whole technique!! Thank you, Lisa, and thank you to those who identified the name of the bird!!
Just keep painting until it looks good again. I just realized that this is basically my motto for most of my painting!
Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for discussing the distinction between blending wet into dry vs wet into wet. That's so helpful!
Your work is amazeballs! Your students are really lucky to have you.
Thank you! I now feel it is possible for me to paint a lovely background. Your instruction is so clear and detailed!
Love your way of instructing, facts and instructiond, without lots of smalltalk that takes time! Some people´s instructions you have to scroll to skip! Thanks for your sharing techs
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I'm very new with acrylics and every bit of info I can get from a professional artist is priceless. I love birds, and as this cutie came more and more to life, I was awwww-ing all the way. Great start to my day, Lisa.
I'm going to try this technique tonight. You make it look so easy. Can't wait to try it. Love watching your videos.
This is my first try. I'm happy with progress! Can't wait to do it again!.
You're a fantastic teacher, thank you for all your hard work!
I like doing outlines on scratch paper as well. I've been doing it for almost 10 years now when I began using more pricey papers like Strathmore 500 series papers (I wasted 1 due to a composition fail.... therefore, I draw and transfer the outline to the good paper). It is all totally worth it. I also adore watching this painting come to life, and such a cute birdy too.
Thank you so much. Your words encouraged me about screw ups and that it’s okay. I usually use watercolors so this is a whole new learning process. I love your work. Beautiful.
This deserves so much more likes and love😱💕🙇♀️☁️
Great demonstration of painting the Background. I was just planning to paint an Eagle with a Green Background. Very timely!
This is such a great tutorial, thank you! I love that you shared when something didn't work for you, makes me feel better about my own mistakes 🙂
Not only an amazing artist but a beautiful art of teaching Thank you
This was a great class. I love this look of the background.
I’ve been waiting for this tutorial! Thank you so much 🙏😊 I just did the background of your painting of dolphins with sunset ribbon, it was a challenge, but I liked the technique 👍🏼
Such a great lesson on this technique, thank you so much! Love your videos!
Your class is tremendously educational!
Gracias!
Thank you so much! I had been wanting to do this but had no clue. Very helpful video. I have learned so much from watching your videos.
I'm so glad to hear that! :D
This is THE best tutorial I've ever seen! Thank You so much for this! xx
Thanks Lisa, great advice/tuition, I followed your advice and the background is achieving the lovely depth that I wanted.
You are the best, watching UA-cam to see bokeh effect , so wonderful, thanks!
Great step by step tutorial. Beautiful painting, thank you so much.
Thank you for doing this tutorial! I couldn't figure out how to paint a blurred background. I'll practice this method. Plus the bokeh was an added bonus.
Wow thank you so much for doing this is acrylics! You inspire me to keep painting. Thank you
WITHOUT an airbrush!!Woah thats incredible !!! It looks really great!!:) Thank you for posting :D
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Thank you sooooo much! I’ve been trying to paint something for my exhibition but I never new how to paint, because I was working with a partner we had chosen the category art. She wanted us to paint so I came to this video
It came out beautiful. I love it! 😍
I really enjoyed learning your bokeh technique, will definitely try! Really like this painting. Thanks!
It seems very complicated to me. But I suppose actually doing it, practicing, well... makes perfect! I admire you so much! You are a great artist!
One of the best teachings
You're an awesome artist! Respect from South Africa
Thank you so much for making this video ! I've been trying to find a tutorial on making blurred back round but I couldn't find one 😍 this Is amazing
Thank you so much for all the info, enjoyed your continued instructions throughout the video.
Wow....I have never tried a bokeh background before 😃. This looks so cool 😃. I will also try this in my videos 😃
WOW!!
Its ammazzingg tutorial.i ll definitely going to try this today.
Keep making more videos on different blurry concepts.
It’s amazing! Loved watching every bit of it 🎉❤
Thank you so much!
Idk if you intentionally mess up.. but I love it, because we're obviously going to mess up and you're there to help us fix it 😊
Thank you for your video. I love this painting. I can’t wait to try the background.
Thanks!
I painted a bird like that today. It’s the first acrylic painting I did (not including elementary school paintings). It’s nice to see that every acrylic painter has it’s own approach. I am very precise, so I was afraid to go into painting. I need to loosen up a bit. I like how your bird turned out.
Thank you! And I'm happy to hear you're painting! That's awesome!
I wish I knew and watched this tutorial when I had to do my final grade portrait painting in college 😅
I love the way you teach!
Thank you
Beautiful 😍👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Birds are awesome Love your videos!
Thanks a heap for this vid. I've been flip-flopping iver my canvas for a while now (it's a rough one that's smooth now from colour swaps). Now I know how to achieve the look I 'see' for it. Cheers!
Very helpful; love the technique!
Before I found this vid I did it background. I painted the subject first. I didn't know what I was going to do with background. It'll be tough, first painting. Thank you for the vid, great info and advice, helps a lot.
Your my favorite artist!
Boy, this is an immense help.
I've been doing pen, ink pencil & graphite art since I could pick up & gain basic control of a pencil & pen, but in four decades (or more 🙄) my only experience with paint was limited to water color, oil for linoleum print work & acrylic for walls (gotta pay those bills) in the conventional non artistic sense.
My mom has been trying to get me to paint since she took it up some two decades ago & in all honesty, I've just been scared to try it.
Not of making mistakes you cant erase, but the mess & aggravation of things that were not anticipated, or known.
This vid is way better than the one I had planned fo follow.👍
The other artist claimed he would show both ways to paint the bubbles (bristle brush & air brush), but he ended up showing it done mainly with the air brush & with none of the tips, or warnings you offer.
I did think I could get done in a night, but its ok. Finding this vid really soothes that part of me that worries about what we dont know.
Thank you very much & have a very happy holiday & new years. 🎁🦌⛄🍾🎉🥳
Awesome! Thank you for this tutorial ❤
Perfect .. thanks needed a blurred background 👍. Lovely
Wow! Just ran across this video. Love your work. Will be following.
Beautiful background. I got an airbrush recently so I'm looking forward to videos using them! ;)
Make my portait painting quality with this video! Love it!
Beautiful background. ❤
Thank you! 😊
I love you for this and all you do! Thanks so much!
:D
I NEVER, EVER leave comments...but I just HAD to let you know that you are so talented! And you are such a great teacher. Way to go, GIRL!!!
This is so helpful!!! I love this!
Wow awesome painting
Thank you soo soo much!im currently working on a big painting :)🥰
Good to know about mixing white.
Marvelous 😍
I love your videos I learn and I love how funny you are
So simple :D Definitely want to try this one day :) Thanks so much for sharing, love the end result :D
Thanks :)
it's really amazing
oh my gosh, you read my mind! I wished just the other day that you would do such a tutorial :) Thank you so much for sharing all of your amazing expertise.
Glad you liked it :D
It’s like a fantasy background :) very Disney like it’s pretty
😳 holly moly first
Absolutely beautiful you are so talented
And I can’t believe how fast you can talk lol great work ty so much for sharing
This was incredibly helpful!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou for the tutortial :)
amazing 😁really helpful
Thank you for this tutorial!
Will colored pencil give similar results? If so, I would love to see a video of you doing it. Great video as always. Keep up the great work.
I love your work.....
Worth the time and will help improve my skills
Thank you so much. I will try this today 🥰👍
Very useful information. Thanks for sharing
Brilliant...
Wid luv ❤️ from INDIA 🇮🇳
Thank you :)
Thank you for this very useful video.
Thank you for the lesson 🙂
Hey guys I got a tip.
If you can’t afford the mop brush like me, what you can do is use makeup brushes instead! 💗
I've used Walmart make up brush. Very inexpensive
I have 4 older Sisters, so that's what I thought it was! ;~)
Do you rinse it constantly because mine gets all dry so quickly and then the blending gets streaky!
Love it
This helped a lot, thank you 💎
Thanks this video was helpful to me. 🤩
On the topic of painting a background before a subject, at times I've painted a whole detailed background in black and white, painted color over it, then painted my subject, starting in black and white, and finally painted color over that, all too avoid having to paint around my subject.
I would have to use a pencil or ink pen just so I could see where I might have missed by tracing it.
BUT... I normally just draw out my subject free hand.
There's a very simply way to do this...
Measure the width & the length of your subject from the reference photo... MULTIPLY each of those numbers TIMES how ever large you want it to be upon your canvas.
THEN... I use a method called "free association" to fill in my subject within my already measured perimeters... that works fairly accurate for me... sense my drawing skills have always been fairly acceptable.
I've never really studied the color wheel and just HOW to mix & apply shades, tones, hues, etc.
Lisa, by seriously listening to your good sound advice, I'm actually NOW learning HOW to apply PAINT to my drawings... ha... at my old age... ha ha!! 🤣😁😂
So exceptionable
Absolutely beautiful. Romantic
Shoulda gone with the Latin name. Great instructional video thanks. Now I need to find how to do bokeh in watercolour since I don't paint with acrylic (yet!)
Wow no dislikes, looks so good :-)
Hi🙋,WON DER FUL!!!!!no more words.....👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏from Rome🥇
Wow 👌
Great demo! Question: Does the mop brush become sticky (for lack of another word) when you repeatedly go over the circles making it hard to remove to smooth the paint? If yes, what do you do because you want a dry brush, right? I tried this a while back and seemed to struggle with the brush picking up too much paint, if that makes sense. Thanks!
Very helpful thank you . 😊
Thank u learn alot about blurring the back ground anf feather texture
excellent video!! Thank you. Was wondering what kind of paint you're using for your gray background?
sweet and lovely.