Wow! So many classes there! I would be overwhelmed. I learned acrylics back in university, it’s my favorite one to use. I can use it as thick as oil, or as light as water color without worrying about lifting pigments (watercolor), or waiting days for it to dry (oil). I recently found an old box of oil pastels, so I might give those a try again. I also have two paintings of orcas to finish in acrylics and mixed media. Congratulations on the waterfall!
I saw absolutely nothing in your video that looked like a failure. You have a natural talent that you have honed over the years which has given you a great foundation for moving into painting. I think both of your paintings look beautiful. I'm wondering how you may feel about your portrait painting in a day or two with the benefit of time on your side. I hope that you will be able to see it as it is. Beautiful. I love your waterfall. I look forward to more of your painting adventures. I'm most interested in how you will handle watercolor and gouache. It sounds like perhaps I've missed an oil painting, maybe? I will have to go searching... Blessings.
@@annihull6373 I realised which video that is too. I also watched it 🙈🤣. This should be a Reddit thread because it is so funny ♥️. Great way to meet you and also I am glad you asked because I was wondering the same thing. Now we both know that we have seen it 🤣♥️.
I love watercolor. I play with it, but struggle knowing how to use it properly. I would love to see you tackle some watercolor painting! 😁 Come on- show me how easy and fun it can be.
When you thought you failed, I thought the portrait was very good. Then I saw it look really good when it looked like it had multi colored confetti in front of the face. Then you fixed it again, and it IS just fine! I think it would look better with the right side of the pupil slightly less round so as not to have the girl look so wild-eyed. But beauty and “good” or “bad” art is completely in the eyes of the beholder. I’m glad you’re going to paint more. I think you will love it and be very good at it. The landscape and waterfall are beautiful.
Thank you for the free month of Skillshare. I'm recovering from back surgery and now is a perfect time to pencil-down and brush up on my art skills. (Pun intended). Thanks, Sarah, for all your hard work creating these amazing videos. Btw... Great job on the first painting.
Lady!!!! You really did good for first tries. The portrait, if you end up hating it, just paint something new over it. Until you seal acrylics ,you can keep changing it. Maybe come back in 6 months, and show us what you've learned! I'm proud!
I think you did an amazing job! Acrylic painting is not as easy as a lot of people say.. It goes like this --> Oil painting - easiest to learn, most forgiving, easiest to blend and lay down colour, most pigmented colours BUT most people are put off oil painting because of the expense, the amount of ‘stuff’ needed like thinners, turps, cleaners, etc and the fact that most professional painting commissions are in oil as are most historical art is oil and therefore ‘hard’. Painting is worked dark to light but with oil it is better to leave voids for light areas to be painted - my opinion and preference. Paint mistakes can simply be removed by wiping off or painting over. Next is acrylic painting - easy-ish to learn and use but acrylic dries very quickly so blending can be a learning curve, not so much stuff needed and paint washes off with simple water (if you wash items immediately). Also huge variety of premixed vibrant colour so there’s that! Most people go to acrylic because it is a little cheaper than oil and doesn’t have the same illusion of grandeur. You can work from dark to light or light to dark and easily paint over mistakes And of course watercolour painting - THE HARDEST TO LEARN! Watercolour painting is, in my experience, the hobby that almost everyone tries and says this ‘I really wanted to learn to paint so I started with watercolour but I was rubbish so I gave up’ I have heard that so many times! Watercolour is translucent, unforgiving (unless you’ve learnt the tricks to remove errors) difficult to fix mistakes, difficult to work and MUST be light to dark, hard to blend without ending up with mud! It can be difficult to have really vibrant bold watercolour very early on as that takes experience. A lot of my students have made the mistake of using watercolour from the tube like acrylic and then don’t understand why the pigment moves when they add another colour! This is a long waffle and based on my experiences as an artist of the last 20 years and a teacher for 16 of those! I am so glad to see you found a really great skill share video to follow. Having a great teacher can really make all the difference 🎨🎉🎨🥰
Acrylic is the ideal one to start! Congratulations! You already have a sense for color harmonies, matching, and combining colors with color pencils and markers.
Acrylics can be so fun and equally frustrating to use haha. I find the blending is what gets me, as I haven't sanded my gesso after applying it to the canvas. I typically prefer oils cause blending is so much easier, but I've rediscovered acrylics in a way and really enjoyed using them.
It is so motivating to see you overcome that anxious feeling to start painting and then make so much progress so quickly! I honestly think that abstract portrait was looking really cool and I am so glad you went back to it. I want to try acrylic now too! 🎨🖌💙
Yes I actually approached Skillshare for this video, not the other way around! I thought it would be such a fun idea and it was the perfect fit for a sponsored video.
My first acrylic painting was a sort of monochromatic impressionistic style landscape, very easy, on a big canvas. I think it was 50x50cm in Grade 11... and while I'm now a lot better at painting with acrylics, I still love that one. It was even on display at my school for the time I went there. 😊
I paint with acrylics and that portrait painting is fire. Love the color palette you chose for it. You could easily sell that and people would be honored to hang it. Well done girl.
Love this! Love Skillshare. I like that all the content has been vetted and you aren’t running in circles trying to find a tutorial that’s clear and concise. I’m so excited to see you painting and looking forward to seeing you do more! Hopefully we’ll eventually get to see you play with water color! Would love to see you print a coloring page on water color paper and paint it.
Waterfall looks really good! I don't personally like pallette knife painting, so I can't speak much for the other one. I do like the colour combination though. You said yourself, but: always, always spend the time needed to get your sketch/base layer to where it needs to be. You cannot fix the foundation with detail-work. It's true for all mediums.
Well done my dear! At just over a minute in, you asked if learning a skill by watching and absorbing things I say yes! Bob Ross was often accompanied by Dvorak in my family home while I was also learning shorthand and crochet. You are indeed of a musical and creative mind like the women in my family, I bet you could probably learn or devise anything.
I learned how to paint with acrylics through watching videos on UA-cam and I really love it. It's very forgiving and a process I really enjoy. I'm currently trying to use my jelly gouache paints again. Hopefully I'll be able to learn more techniques along the way. You should try them too. Btw, thank you for sharing this fun video. Never give up as they say and always enjoy what you're doing. Hugs from the Philippines 🤗💕😊
This was fun!! I think the portrait paint was fun to watch, especially when u were using the pallet knife. I have always been so intimidated by painting lol
Wow this is fabulous for it being your first attempt at painting, my Paternal grandmother was a painter and my Aunt also is an acrylic,oil water color and pastel painter and she's an active member of , Federation of Canadian Artists believe that I have at least one or two of my Grandmother's paintings at my parents house currently.
Your acrylic dabble projects are absolutely wonderful! The portrait is AMAZING!!!! Be kind to yourself. You are an incredible artist!!!! (Also love the shirt and the Jazza cameo haha ;) ) Sooooooo~ when's the Bob Ross paint and follow vid? 😁
You did great! It gives you something to work towards. I would be interested to see how you would do after 1 year of practising. This looks fun to try.
I think you did very, VERY well. It's not easy using a palette knife for the first time, and then to top it all off you picked the wrong type of picture to try to reproduce. I think if you had picked a landscape first of all you would have got on far better. I would be seriously proud of either of those final pieces in your place. They were wonderful. Keep on going sweetie, you have so much fun ahead of you yet to enjoy! God bless you and your family.
WoW in 4 hours that’s amazing ! As an surrealistic acrylic artist I really like the portrait you made, it only miss a tiny white shiny spot in the eyes ;)
Thank you for another great video, welcome to painting! Finally! Acrylic is considered difficult to manipulate n fix mistakes. But wait there is Oil painting n i have a feeling you will enjoy it more, you will have lots of time for the perfectionist in you to blend n fix mistakes etc there's a lot more freedom when working with oils ❤
Sarah, all I can is WOW, everything you made was absolutely fabulous! I have tried something similar in the past and I can say with certainty, mine did not come out as good as yours. You have a natural talent I wish I had, keep it up sister ♥️
That is a whole lot of improvement for such a short amount of time! I am drawn to paints over pencils because I have shaky hands that can't handle pressing down for more than a very short amount of time so I can paint for hours but only sketch for minutes. Taking the painterly route to art is different but I wish I had been taught it in school and not have been made to feel like a failure when I wasn't good with pencils. Now as an adult I'm diving back into art and finally having fun (even though the perfectionist in me tries to ruin it sometimes!).
This was fun! And I really liked the face! I have a friend who is an abstract artist so I totally get it. Unfortunately, her health has taken a turn for the worse and she has to spend more time out of the wheelchair and on the bed, plus the smell is getting to her since the Covid shots. However, she is now totally into adult colouring with pencils and she is happy to be making art anyway. Never let anything stop you...just follow a different path!
You are a brave and talented artist, loved the paintings you created. It will be fun to follow this journey with you. But.. please don’t stop doing the pencil and marker videos, I really enjoy them and continue to learn from you.🐧😀🤩
Woah, this uploaded 36 seconds ago?! First! :) Wow, learning acrylic in 4 hours… I am still learning, and I have been at it for about 2 months! (I am self taught though)
I think you're too hard on yourself. That portrait is so cool! And love the waterfall. This inspires me to keep trying new things. You accomplished so much in a short time.
Glad you did this video, Sarah! Your subjects were ambitious, especially the portrait, and looks as though you learned some important skills in a short amount of time! I really like how the waterfall jungle piece turned out. The values and colors are so great (teal is wonderful)! The portrait is cool! I haven’t yet tried to paint abstract portraits because I’m trying to learn how to copy what I see first and then hopefully eventually learn how to add abstractions. I’m wondering if you could maybe paint with acrylic or gouache on a Disney coloring page and then do details in colored pencil if you need to. That could be cool!
This was fun and your final painting looks great! I think a kinesthetic learner is someone who learns by doing, NOT someone who disregards all instructions and tries to bumble through it knowing nothing. Ahem. Not that I'm referring to anyone in particular 🤣
Oh no Sarah, a portrait on your first acrylic painting attempt?? Wow, you are a perfectionist! Lol But I knew it would end up looking good with your talent and ambition. Can I borrow it for a week? I've been trying a new acrylic technique that is kicking my ***, and I'm kind of starting to give up on it, I admire your determination tho. Thank you for a great video as always.
AHHH omgg I love your attempts at this! You’re seriously so amazing✨ lately I’ve been interested in acrylics a lot more than usual and I’ve improved quite a bit hehe!!💓
In my first painting class in 10th grade, we had to choose a grayscale picture of a celebrity, and choose one color where we where allowed to use 3 gradients and then we had to paint ONE feature in the opposite color on the color wheel. I think there was some really fun takes, and ofc some "edgy" ones too.. One that stood out was Stalin in green, with a red mustache, it really made the whole silhouette pop! The fun thing about this was that half of the class had never tried painting before, but the portraits was all amazing looking :) It was a great way to make our first painting with limited, choices :)
*Sarah:* Oh this is really bad.. this is why I need to take a class. *Me, SCREAMING:* IT LOOKS REALLY COOL!! IT'S UNFINISHED BUT IT'S REALLY COOL!! >:U
I have never done abstract painting, but yours turned out rather well! Your waterfall, on the other hand, is more in my wheelhouse of painting. Your waterfall scene is lovely 😍 ! If you explore this medium further, you will see that, just as with coloured pencil, there are shading and highlighting techniques but with brushes! BTW a filbert brush is rounded at the end, and has the nickname of 'cat's tongue' (which it kind-of looks like👅) There are brushes for oil paint and brushes for acrylic so try to choose the right one cuz it does make a difference. I would love to see you do a video using and explaining the different brush stroke techniques for shading, etc. with acrylics!! All in all, I'm amazed that you did all that in 4 hours .. great job funny girl😁. P.S. Don't forget to sign and hang those!!!
i loved all the pieces you created in this video :D can you give us more disneyxkinkade content? i love watching this when my kids take their breaks, it's so relaxing and entertaining
I think you did such a great job!! I used to love acrylic painting in highschool, but then when I've tried dabbling with it again at home after starting up art again within the past year or 2, I realized very quickly why I don't enjoy acrylic anymore. The clean up process 😅. It was so much easier in highschool because we had a huge sink for "clean up" time and apparently it was totally fine for us to clean our brushes and let the acrylic paint go down the sink? Now here at home, I'm super hesitant to do that because I feel like I'll clog my parents sink... So needless to say, I ruined a lot of my brushes 😣😖😖 I know for sure not to allow oil paint to go down the sink (water soluble oil paint I think is okay? Not 100% sure because I'm 30 now so highschool art classes were we waaay too long ago for me to remember 😭) I'd love any tips here in the comment section because I have a bunch of cute little pots of beautiful acrylic paint colors I'd love to use. I also bought acrylic flow aid so I have more working time before the paint dries (another pet peeve of mine!) Halp 😭 Anywho, Sarah, literally no matter what new medium you learn, everything always turns out amazing in my opinion!! Much love as always 💞💞
Really cool to watch this process. I’ve been using acrylic paint forever, but never taken a class (outside of HS) Ahh!! I love your shirt- is that NerdeCrafter’s????? I love fangirling over artists fan-girling over other artists
I believe you have done a wonderful job picking up a new skill! Like everything more practice will improve your finished painting! Brushes are such a tricky thing to get a recommendation on! It truly comes down to personal preference! I will say this TAKE CARE OF ANY BRUSH YOU BUY! Buy a brush soap that conditions and cleans and lay them flat or tip down to dry. (You have to do a hanging thing but there are a lot of different holders out there flat is what most people use to dry their brushes) I have abhorred filberts for the longest time and preferred rounds with a big belly as I have been mostly a watercolor painter! I will say the advancements in synthetic hairs are amazing! There are professional painters that can not tell the difference in a true Kolinsky brush and the new synthetic haired brushes! The Princeton Aqua Elite have fast become my favorite. You may not want such a soft brush, It really should be trial and error buy a similar size in the shapes you want to try out, then try different hairs once you decide on a shape. I believe Golden tacklon a good starter hair, then just try a round, flat, filbert, scrubber, liner, brush assortment and see what you use most or like best! You can switch hairs to all natural or a combination or pure synthetic with multiple hair shaft diameters! It is complex and confusing. If you start simple with a general or basic set that does not cost a fortune you can have a grand brush collection in no time at all! Keep going you are doing great!
Im an artist, i can paint,draw and colour, my art teacher taught me to work on wet paints on wet background for blending and use 1 colour and then different colour on each layer
Most important tip : look at your work from a distance from time to time !!! Even turn it upside down. It really help to assess the painting. And don’t finish it in one session. With acrylic you can work on your painting over and over again. Sometimes it’s nice to let it sit a couple of days and look at it before you continue.
As someone who had to learn how to use Aycrlic paint I mostly used it for painting and kept it simple so I guess I kept it easy for myself(since it was for an English project) and at first I thought it would fail but trusting the process and.. IT TURNED OUT AMAZING AND I'M PROUD OF MYSELF. anyway.. Don't know why I'm bringing this up while on my third day of Summer break 😂
Wow! So many classes there! I would be overwhelmed. I learned acrylics back in university, it’s my favorite one to use. I can use it as thick as oil, or as light as water color without worrying about lifting pigments (watercolor), or waiting days for it to dry (oil). I recently found an old box of oil pastels, so I might give those a try again. I also have two paintings of orcas to finish in acrylics and mixed media. Congratulations on the waterfall!
I saw absolutely nothing in your video that looked like a failure. You have a natural talent that you have honed over the years which has given you a great foundation for moving into painting. I think both of your paintings look beautiful. I'm wondering how you may feel about your portrait painting in a day or two with the benefit of time on your side. I hope that you will be able to see it as it is. Beautiful. I love your waterfall. I look forward to more of your painting adventures. I'm most interested in how you will handle watercolor and gouache. It sounds like perhaps I've missed an oil painting, maybe? I will have to go searching... Blessings.
I haven’t painted with oils, but I did a color mixing video with oil paints recently
Between you and I, I think Sarah hid this video 😂. I also seemed to have mysteriously missed it 🤔.
@@SarahRenaeClark oh yes, now I remember the paint mixing. :-)
@@annihull6373 I realised which video that is too. I also watched it 🙈🤣.
This should be a Reddit thread because it is so funny ♥️. Great way to meet you and also I am glad you asked because I was wondering the same thing. Now we both know that we have seen it 🤣♥️.
@@gilashroot8697 nice to meet you as well. :-)
The waterfall is AMAZING !!
Thank you!
You are so welcome, you are so talented!! Thanks for sharing!
I love watercolor. I play with it, but struggle knowing how to use it properly. I would love to see you tackle some watercolor painting! 😁 Come on- show me how easy and fun it can be.
When you thought you failed, I thought the portrait was very good. Then I saw it look really good when it looked like it had multi colored confetti in front of the face. Then you fixed it again, and it IS just fine! I think it would look better with the right side of the pupil slightly less round so as not to have the girl look so wild-eyed. But beauty and “good” or “bad” art is completely in the eyes of the beholder. I’m glad you’re going to paint more. I think you will love it and be very good at it.
The landscape and waterfall are beautiful.
I love the abstract, personally. Even when you first stopped, it was beautiful. You have a brilliant eye for colors. Love your videos!
Thank you for the free month of Skillshare. I'm recovering from back surgery and now is a perfect time to pencil-down and brush up on my art skills. (Pun intended). Thanks, Sarah, for all your hard work creating these amazing videos. Btw... Great job on the first painting.
Lady!!!! You really did good for first tries. The portrait, if you end up hating it, just paint something new over it. Until you seal acrylics ,you can keep changing it. Maybe come back in 6 months, and show us what you've learned! I'm proud!
That's literally a abstract portrait style painting.
You nailed it. Lol I don't know what else you wanted. Cause you did the style you chose.
I think you did an amazing job!
Acrylic painting is not as easy as a lot of people say..
It goes like this -->
Oil painting - easiest to learn, most forgiving, easiest to blend and lay down colour, most pigmented colours
BUT most people are put off oil painting because of the expense, the amount of ‘stuff’ needed like thinners, turps, cleaners, etc and the fact that most professional painting commissions are in oil as are most historical art is oil and therefore ‘hard’. Painting is worked dark to light but with oil it is better to leave voids for light areas to be painted - my opinion and preference. Paint mistakes can simply be removed by wiping off or painting over.
Next is acrylic painting - easy-ish to learn and use but acrylic dries very quickly so blending can be a learning curve, not so much stuff needed and paint washes off with simple water (if you wash items immediately). Also huge variety of premixed vibrant colour so there’s that! Most people go to acrylic because it is a little cheaper than oil and doesn’t have the same illusion of grandeur. You can work from dark to light or light to dark and easily paint over mistakes
And of course watercolour painting - THE HARDEST TO LEARN! Watercolour painting is, in my experience, the hobby that almost everyone tries and says this
‘I really wanted to learn to paint so I started with watercolour but I was rubbish so I gave up’
I have heard that so many times!
Watercolour is translucent, unforgiving (unless you’ve learnt the tricks to remove errors) difficult to fix mistakes, difficult to work and MUST be light to dark, hard to blend without ending up with mud! It can be difficult to have really vibrant bold watercolour very early on as that takes experience. A lot of my students have made the mistake of using watercolour from the tube like acrylic and then don’t understand why the pigment moves when they add another colour!
This is a long waffle and based on my experiences as an artist of the last 20 years and a teacher for 16 of those!
I am so glad to see you found a really great skill share video to follow. Having a great teacher can really make all the difference 🎨🎉🎨🥰
Acrylic is the ideal one to start! Congratulations! You already have a sense for color harmonies, matching, and combining colors with color pencils and markers.
Acrylics can be so fun and equally frustrating to use haha. I find the blending is what gets me, as I haven't sanded my gesso after applying it to the canvas. I typically prefer oils cause blending is so much easier, but I've rediscovered acrylics in a way and really enjoyed using them.
It is so motivating to see you overcome that anxious feeling to start painting and then make so much progress so quickly! I honestly think that abstract portrait was looking really cool and I am so glad you went back to it. I want to try acrylic now too! 🎨🖌💙
I don't even care that this is an ad because you actually used and demonstrated what you're advertising. 🙌🥰
Yes I actually approached Skillshare for this video, not the other way around! I thought it would be such a fun idea and it was the perfect fit for a sponsored video.
OMG I LOVE THE BRUSHSTROKES!!! ONLY IN 4 HOURS NO WAYYY
Both paintings look really good, I'm impressed.
Although I'm not much of a painter, that portrait was really cool looking to me!!
I've many gaps in my skills but I so appreciate how she says that art is to be enjoyed and I enjoy the process. I hope you do too.
My first acrylic painting was a sort of monochromatic impressionistic style landscape, very easy, on a big canvas. I think it was 50x50cm in Grade 11... and while I'm now a lot better at painting with acrylics, I still love that one. It was even on display at my school for the time I went there. 😊
can't wait to see more dabbles into this kind of medium
I paint with acrylics and that portrait painting is fire. Love the color palette you chose for it. You could easily sell that and people would be honored to hang it. Well done girl.
love the abstract portrait
Love this! Love Skillshare. I like that all the content has been vetted and you aren’t running in circles trying to find a tutorial that’s clear and concise.
I’m so excited to see you painting and looking forward to seeing you do more! Hopefully we’ll eventually get to see you play with water color! Would love to see you print a coloring page on water color paper and paint it.
Waterfall looks really good!
I don't personally like pallette knife painting, so I can't speak much for the other one. I do like the colour combination though.
You said yourself, but: always, always spend the time needed to get your sketch/base layer to where it needs to be. You cannot fix the foundation with detail-work.
It's true for all mediums.
I love your abstract piece, it’s beautiful.
Well done my dear! At just over a minute in, you asked if learning a skill by watching and absorbing things I say yes! Bob Ross was often accompanied by Dvorak in my family home while I was also learning shorthand and crochet. You are indeed of a musical and creative mind like the women in my family, I bet you could probably learn or devise anything.
Wow, it inspires me to paint more. Thank you!
A lot of solid work is done in this video. Nice job!
I learned how to paint with acrylics through watching videos on UA-cam and I really love it. It's very forgiving and a process I really enjoy. I'm currently trying to use my jelly gouache paints again. Hopefully I'll be able to learn more techniques along the way. You should try them too. Btw, thank you for sharing this fun video. Never give up as they say and always enjoy what you're doing. Hugs from the Philippines 🤗💕😊
This was fun!! I think the portrait paint was fun to watch, especially when u were using the pallet knife. I have always been so intimidated by painting lol
Wow this is fabulous for it being your first attempt at painting, my Paternal grandmother was a painter and my Aunt also is an acrylic,oil water color and pastel painter and she's an active member of , Federation of Canadian Artists believe that I have at least one or two of my Grandmother's paintings at my parents house currently.
This is a fun video to watch :p I love the way you cut the scenes and squish then together. And the supply digging.... The struggle is real 🤣
Your acrylic dabble projects are absolutely wonderful! The portrait is AMAZING!!!! Be kind to yourself. You are an incredible artist!!!!
(Also love the shirt and the Jazza cameo haha ;) )
Sooooooo~ when's the Bob Ross paint and follow vid? 😁
You did great! It gives you something to work towards. I would be interested to see how you would do after 1 year of practising.
This looks fun to try.
I can't beleve you learned so much in just 4 hours you did a really GOOD JOB!! I LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEO THEY ARE THE BEST🥰
I think you did very, VERY well. It's not easy using a palette knife for the first time, and then to top it all off you picked the wrong type of picture to try to reproduce. I think if you had picked a landscape first of all you would have got on far better. I would be seriously proud of either of those final pieces in your place. They were wonderful. Keep on going sweetie, you have so much fun ahead of you yet to enjoy! God bless you and your family.
I don't understand how Sarah is so good at anything.
You did such a great job for being a beginner!!! Congrats!!
Signed up and will be looking through it tomorrow!! It is late night here now, so my brain is all sleepy. THANK you for sharing!
WoW in 4 hours that’s amazing ! As an surrealistic acrylic artist I really like the portrait you made, it only miss a tiny white shiny spot in the eyes ;)
Loving watching you learn this new art medium, very inspiring to me
palette knife painting is soo much fun! yours did turn out really nice 😀
Both look amazing and I actually really liked the portrait 😍
You should be so hard on yourself
Thank you for another great video, welcome to painting! Finally! Acrylic is considered difficult to manipulate n fix mistakes. But wait there is Oil painting n i have a feeling you will enjoy it more, you will have lots of time for the perfectionist in you to blend n fix mistakes etc there's a lot more freedom when working with oils ❤
Yay! I was able to get the 1 month free! Thank you.
Me too.
Sarah, all I can is WOW, everything you made was absolutely fabulous! I have tried something similar in the past and I can say with certainty, mine did not come out as good as yours. You have a natural talent I wish I had, keep it up sister ♥️
That is a whole lot of improvement for such a short amount of time! I am drawn to paints over pencils because I have shaky hands that can't handle pressing down for more than a very short amount of time so I can paint for hours but only sketch for minutes. Taking the painterly route to art is different but I wish I had been taught it in school and not have been made to feel like a failure when I wasn't good with pencils. Now as an adult I'm diving back into art and finally having fun (even though the perfectionist in me tries to ruin it sometimes!).
This was fun! And I really liked the face! I have a friend who is an abstract artist so I totally get it. Unfortunately, her health has taken a turn for the worse and she has to spend more time out of the wheelchair and on the bed, plus the smell is getting to her since the Covid shots. However, she is now totally into adult colouring with pencils and she is happy to be making art anyway. Never let anything stop you...just follow a different path!
It's amazing how much you can really learn a new skill in only 4 hours. Would be great more videos using new mediums like gouache and painting.
I loved the painting. It wasn't a failure. It was just different more like an abstract portrait. The second one is beautiful.
You are a brave and talented artist, loved the paintings you created. It will be fun to follow this journey with you. But.. please don’t stop doing the pencil and marker videos, I really enjoy them and continue to learn from you.🐧😀🤩
Definitely! My channel will always have pencils and markers!!
At this point im just jealous of how fast you learned to do ALLof that like it would take me at least a month hats off ma'am
The artwork was all very beautiful - each with its own strengths and feel.
Woah, this uploaded 36 seconds ago?! First! :)
Wow, learning acrylic in 4 hours… I am still learning, and I have been at it for about 2 months! (I am self taught though)
That portrait is very beautiful, considering it's your first time trying acrylic out.
All the best for all your future works💖💖
Hii loved this video can't wait for next weeks one!!!!
I think you're too hard on yourself. That portrait is so cool! And love the waterfall. This inspires me to keep trying new things. You accomplished so much in a short time.
I love your waterfall picture!
yay im first!i hope your acrylic journey goes amazing!my favourite isss…. all!you are amazing at art and hope you success!
I love that portrait! I’d also love to see you do a coloring book page in acrylic paint.
Wauw the waterfall was beautiful 😻 Great video
Love your channel 💕. Could you do more Disney Coloring Book Pages?
Glad you did this video, Sarah! Your subjects were ambitious, especially the portrait, and looks as though you learned some important skills in a short amount of time! I really like how the waterfall jungle piece turned out. The values and colors are so great (teal is wonderful)! The portrait is cool! I haven’t yet tried to paint abstract portraits because I’m trying to learn how to copy what I see first and then hopefully eventually learn how to add abstractions. I’m wondering if you could maybe paint with acrylic or gouache on a Disney coloring page and then do details in colored pencil if you need to. That could be cool!
I think you did a great job! I love it!
Makes me want to use skillshare!
It really doesn't look bad. Nice thing about acrylics is that you can keep layering to tweek what you don't like. Don't give up.
This was fun and your final painting looks great! I think a kinesthetic learner is someone who learns by doing, NOT someone who disregards all instructions and tries to bumble through it knowing nothing. Ahem. Not that I'm referring to anyone in particular 🤣
honestly itd be interesting to see you paint with gouache!!
Oh no Sarah, a portrait on your first acrylic painting attempt??
Wow, you are a perfectionist! Lol
But I knew it would end up looking good with your talent and ambition. Can I borrow it for a week? I've been trying a new acrylic technique that is kicking my ***, and I'm kind of starting to give up on it, I admire your determination tho.
Thank you for a great video as always.
AHHH omgg I love your attempts at this! You’re seriously so amazing✨ lately I’ve been interested in acrylics a lot more than usual and I’ve improved quite a bit hehe!!💓
flowers. well for a first time that does look wow!!!
I love the waterfall. Thought I was back at the Big Island. How about trying a floral subject next time?
I would like to see more videos on watercolor pencils and Inktense pencils.
Also I just want to say, you are a great inspiration, to me and to many other people who have seen your videos
Thank you!
What a fun experiment!
I wish you luck, acrylic painting is very frustrating for me, which is why I use acrylic paint pens since I have more control with them
I think you did a fabulous job
In my first painting class in 10th grade, we had to choose a grayscale picture of a celebrity, and choose one color where we where allowed to use 3 gradients and then we had to paint ONE feature in the opposite color on the color wheel. I think there was some really fun takes, and ofc some "edgy" ones too.. One that stood out was Stalin in green, with a red mustache, it really made the whole silhouette pop!
The fun thing about this was that half of the class had never tried painting before, but the portraits was all amazing looking :)
It was a great way to make our first painting with limited, choices :)
*Sarah:* Oh this is really bad.. this is why I need to take a class.
*Me, SCREAMING:* IT LOOKS REALLY COOL!! IT'S UNFINISHED BUT IT'S REALLY COOL!! >:U
They both were awesome works; I’m an artist too, trust AWESOME JOB
I have never done abstract painting, but yours turned out rather well! Your waterfall, on the other hand, is more in my wheelhouse of painting. Your waterfall scene is lovely 😍 ! If you explore this medium further, you will see that, just as with coloured pencil, there are shading and highlighting techniques but with brushes! BTW a filbert brush is rounded at the end, and has the nickname of 'cat's tongue' (which it kind-of looks like👅) There are brushes for oil paint and brushes for acrylic so try to choose the right one cuz it does make a difference. I would love to see you do a video using and explaining the different brush stroke techniques for shading, etc. with acrylics!! All in all, I'm amazed that you did all that in 4 hours .. great job funny girl😁.
P.S. Don't forget to sign and hang those!!!
That painting looks good:)
You are amazing, giving new things a try :D
Looks good!!! Keep going!! UA-cam also has some awesome painters, some are smaller projects , but fast and really nice!!
Keep going Sarah
i loved all the pieces you created in this video :D
can you give us more disneyxkinkade content? i love watching this when my kids take their breaks, it's so relaxing and entertaining
The right brushes for acrylic paint: any, as long as you clean em quickly ;3
The collab we need is either of Jazza or SuperRaeDizzle teaching you some tips and tricks
You did really good.
I think you did such a great job!! I used to love acrylic painting in highschool, but then when I've tried dabbling with it again at home after starting up art again within the past year or 2, I realized very quickly why I don't enjoy acrylic anymore. The clean up process 😅. It was so much easier in highschool because we had a huge sink for "clean up" time and apparently it was totally fine for us to clean our brushes and let the acrylic paint go down the sink? Now here at home, I'm super hesitant to do that because I feel like I'll clog my parents sink... So needless to say, I ruined a lot of my brushes 😣😖😖 I know for sure not to allow oil paint to go down the sink (water soluble oil paint I think is okay? Not 100% sure because I'm 30 now so highschool art classes were we waaay too long ago for me to remember 😭) I'd love any tips here in the comment section because I have a bunch of cute little pots of beautiful acrylic paint colors I'd love to use. I also bought acrylic flow aid so I have more working time before the paint dries (another pet peeve of mine!) Halp 😭
Anywho, Sarah, literally no matter what new medium you learn, everything always turns out amazing in my opinion!! Much love as always 💞💞
You are so cool and probably the best youTuber ever
Really cool to watch this process. I’ve been using acrylic paint forever, but never taken a class (outside of HS) Ahh!! I love your shirt- is that NerdeCrafter’s????? I love fangirling over artists fan-girling over other artists
Yes it is!
Love the shirt, I have it too!
I believe you have done a wonderful job picking up a new skill! Like everything more practice will improve your finished painting! Brushes are such a tricky thing to get a recommendation on! It truly comes down to personal preference! I will say this TAKE CARE OF ANY BRUSH YOU BUY! Buy a brush soap that conditions and cleans and lay them flat or tip down to dry. (You have to do a hanging thing but there are a lot of different holders out there flat is what most people use to dry their brushes)
I have abhorred filberts for the longest time and preferred rounds with a big belly as I have been mostly a watercolor painter! I will say the advancements in synthetic hairs are amazing! There are professional painters that can not tell the difference in a true Kolinsky brush and the new synthetic haired brushes! The Princeton Aqua Elite have fast become my favorite. You may not want such a soft brush, It really should be trial and error buy a similar size in the shapes you want to try out, then try different hairs once you decide on a shape. I believe Golden tacklon a good starter hair, then just try a round, flat, filbert, scrubber, liner, brush assortment and see what you use most or like best! You can switch hairs to all natural or a combination or pure synthetic with multiple hair shaft diameters! It is complex and confusing. If you start simple with a general or basic set that does not cost a fortune you can have a grand brush collection in no time at all! Keep going you are doing great!
Thanks for all the advice! It’s more helpful than you know!
Amazing
Im an artist, i can paint,draw and colour, my art teacher taught me to work on wet paints on wet background for blending and use 1 colour and then different colour on each layer
Most important tip : look at your work from a distance from time to time !!! Even turn it upside down. It really help to assess the painting.
And don’t finish it in one session. With acrylic you can work on your painting over and over again. Sometimes it’s nice to let it sit a couple of days and look at it before you continue.
Great advice!
As someone who had to learn how to use Aycrlic paint I mostly used it for painting and kept it simple so I guess I kept it easy for myself(since it was for an English project) and at first I thought it would fail but trusting the process and.. IT TURNED OUT AMAZING AND I'M PROUD OF MYSELF. anyway.. Don't know why I'm bringing this up while on my third day of Summer break 😂
It's awesome.
"Art is meant to be enjoyed." -Clark, 2022
Amen 🙌
Hey, it looked like a face!! 👏👏