Watercolor Fan Brush Painting Challenge
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2023
- Watch me sweat and suffer as I attempt to create an entire painting with JUST a fan brush!
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I think you just proved that it’s not the tools we use so much as the artists’ skills that determine the success of a painting. I love this one!
Thank you so much, Charlotte!
Definitely a lot to learn here about challenging oneself without getting wholly mired in expectation.
So glad that tou chose a horse to paint today.
Gotta love horses! 🙂
As long as we learn something, they are all a success. ''successful failures'' I have a ton of them.
Great video.
Thank you!!
Wow! I could never paint a horse that well, no matter what brush I used! You're amazingly talented!
You’re so kind! Thanks for watching!
I think it’s a bit more than a moderate success. It looks amazing for having only one brush, and a fan of all things!
I appreciate that!
Your whole philosophy of play as a way to learn is terrific! Modeling this for your students using humor made this fun to watch and listen to! You took fear off it's high horse and placed curiosity in its place. Way to go!
This is the best comment and exactly what I was hoping to achieve with this video! Thank you so much!
@@EmilyOlsonArt Came back to watch the fun video again. Glad you liked my comment and thank YOU, Emily!
Interesting! Seems like it doesn't hold a lot of paint, but gives lots of options for changing the contact surface and stroke. TV painting instructors have been spreading the word about fan brushes for decades (Bill Alexander called it the "Almighty Fan Brush") to the point where it almost seems like a magic wand! Great results with this fun experiment!
Yes, I’m so unfamiliar with fan brushes in general-I’m sure there are many good quality fan brushes that may have been easier to use and hold more paint. If you have good recommendations please let me know! 🙂 Thanks for checking out the video!
I love my fan brushes, to the point that I have 4 different sizes.
Wow! Fuuuun!!!
Emily, you just convinced me not to be scared to experiment with different art tools. Thanks for this interesting video.!!
I'm so glad!
Actually, I love the texture of it. I would hang that on my wall!
Thank you, Janet!
Love the way you used the end of the brush! 😅The painting came out quite well. Some artists swear by fan brushes, and others swear at them! (I tend to fall into the latter category.) They look so useful in videos, and I have never had much luck with one. This type of video using a specialty brush, in conjunction with other standards, would be most welcome.
I love this comment-either swear AT or swear BY! Lol
Omg! I wouldn't believe this if I didn't see it. The fan brush worked great on this painting. I'm going to have to try a painting with my fan brush. Which I also never use. Lol
Have fun! It’s kind of freeing, really!
I love this as well 😊 a regular Bob ross
Such fun Emily. Thanks for sharing all your talent, including fan brush painting, with us.
You are so welcome!
I think it was awesome just using a fab brush! Bravo, but it also speaks volumes to your talent 😊
Thank you so much, Kathryn! 😀
Hey, Jackie, this was so much fun...watching YOU do this and not having to do it myself! It might be a fun challenge to try. I'm thinking a little beach scene. Water and sand, maybe some beach grass. What's to mess up, right?! 😋
Yes, you should give it a go! 🙌
That was absolutely brilliant to watch. It can't have been easy but well done. I struggle with an ordinary brush full stop thank you very much for putting yourself through that. beautiful results
Glad you enjoyed it!
Looks really good to me! Love the softer Lok of this painting.
Thank you very much!
So good and challenging for sure!
OMG, I recently bought fan brush and was tempted to use it several times but as soon as it touches the water fibers separate. Makes me put it down and continiue with good old round brush. I might used it for splatter few times. I saw some people used it for blending watercolors this was one of the reasons I bought it. But I don't paint this way often. It is still a cute brush to have, no regrets buying it.
Yes, it’s nice to have “just in case”!
you didn't use the fan brush in my favorite way! dry brush pushing up to make the grass, I also love to paint large pine trees with it. I have three fan brushes my favorite is a large acrylic brush its scruffy and prefect for grass with my watercolors. I have a thick, soft brush for watercolor that I haven't used much because it is so soft. and a medium sized that is stiff and scruffy like the acrylic brush and it is well used too! I guess I can get the soft brush out and use it for a challenge! I've had the stiffer brushes for over 40 years.
Ooh for my next landscape painting I’ll definitely give that a try!
You are brave - good results
I think I have one fan brush that I thought would be great for animal hair. Tried it once and haven't touched it since lol
Isn’t that funny? Definitely a learning curve with some tools!
I enjoy your challenges Emily. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Glad you like them!
I love this painting love the flow and Texter I think the fan brush is bieng overlooked you did a fine job supper painting kudos do not trash this painting love thanks for sharing
Thank you so much 😀
Excited to watch this because i have 3 or 4 nice ones I don’t use🤷♀️
Oh and 30 or more years ago I watched Sue she had a watercolor painting show I think maybe on PBS.
Wow! I like challenges like that. Your painting turned out great!
Thank you so much 😀
That was awesome!! Sometimes I just fill a small page with all the marks I can make with just 1 brush. This type of challenge would be a spectacular way to make that exercise more interesting. I think your result is wonderfully soft and atmospheric. The horse is beautiful and matches the background style! 👍👍
That's a great idea!
Wonder amazing painting with just a fan.
Thank you, Judy!
I think it came out great.
Thanks, Donna!
Fantastic! You are a wonderful artist. Best regards, Nancy
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks, that was fun😁
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really appreciate your explanation of why you did the challenge, and its lovely hearing you learn along the way, like we are learning together. Tbh I have never bought one of these because i had no idea what to do with it, but now im curious to try one. I love your way of using play to learn. PS I also really like the finished painting, I’m a fan of loosely goose style but I also struggle to paint loosely.
Thank you so much! What a nice comment.
Hi, Emily! This was fun and interesting to watch, and definitely, you deserve five stars for it! * * * * * I am really happy that you have discovered this little-understood brush's versatility. I think it would have been a lot harder for detailing with a soft-hair fan brush, but I'm pretty certain you'd find a way to make that work, too. BTW, in my book, it isn't cheating to use the pointed end of the brush. 😄
I think that the paper possibly wasn't helping you with what is a very stiff-bristled wee beastie. It does best on better quality cotton (but I think Arches would be too soft? I don't know, though, as I haven't used a fan brush on it), and at the other end of the spectrum, not to be used too heavily on a pulped paper, but even so, your end result was definitely five stars!
And yes, definitely a brush for trees, foliage, grass and other textures. Hope you go on experimenting with it! 😊
Thanks so much for the kind thoughtful comment!
We homeschool and my boys would not paint anything apart from animals. Do you offer step by step classes online via subscription? Classes where we see tools needed for projects etc and you guide them to learn how to paint each picture? You are just so good!
Yes! Here is the link! Feel free to try it for a month--cancel anytime if it's just not a good fit. I do have several youths who are members.
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Success 👍💛
its looking gooooood!
I think it looks great
Thanks Shaz!
This was fun
I thought it turned out beautifully!
Thank you, Janice!
Susan Schwee is a great artist who used to have a show on PBS where she taught watercolor. She has lots of books on watercolor and published other artists books as well. I always love your challenges!! You are very talented!!!!
What memories Sue Scheewe"s name evoked! (Great personality but mainly instruction for beginners.) I had a book of hers , her palette, paints and a brush I still use. I used to watch her, Frank Clarke and Terry Madden on PBS.
Thanks for the info! ❤️
Wonderful video! I was holding my breath the whole time, but you did it. Good job! I have a fan brush I've never used. Maybe I'll try it next time for foliage or fur..
Yes! I hope you’ll try it! 🙌
Great challenge. Well done. Love it. 😊
Thank you 🤗
This is amazing! I have an old fan brush that I’ve never tried, might have to give it a go 😊
Go for it!
I recently did the same thing with a dagger brush- it really did help me to learn how & when I want to use it. I had seen videos on dagger brushes but I could never get it to have the same results. This helped a lot.
I love that you did this- the horse came out great- no one would k is you used only a fan brush throughout! Now I gotta shake the dust out of my fan brushes and give them a go- I hardly ever use them.
I must try a dagger brush next! I never use those either…
Love it!
that looks really good 😀 tricky brush to use that way
It was! 😂
The painting turned out great! I usually pass over fan brushes too so it would be nice to try a challenge and only use that type of brush.
lol, i acidentally made a semi-fan brush by leaving acrylic dry in it, and it's becoming a favorite of mine. so easy to do texture, grass, crosshatching. experiment!
Yay! Have fun!
Thankyou, its great well done 👏
So fun!
Wow yes looks amazing to me..
Thank you!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your videos, Emily
Thanks, Mike!
How great this is! You truly are such a great teacher, Emily!! Super real, super genuine, and super adorable!
Hah hah, Aw thank you!
Ahhh the fan brush! I always pass by these at the art supply shops, pause for a bit and then say “nah” 😂
Though for some reason they do seem like a good idea for acrylic and oil (but maybe that’s just me, watching too much Bob Ross).
Now, the DAGGER brush… that one makes for a great one-brush challenge… it’s great for both fine and broad strokes. Definitely worth checking out! 😺
the dagger brush seemed nice, but i prefer to have them separated. cause when doing thin lines, it's easy to splatter paint... but i like it when i can only have 1 brush, when travelling or such.
I think a video with a dagger brush is in order… 😀🙌
The brush set I bought had besides the standard rounds and flats, a liner and a cat's tongue brush. Out of curiosity I just recently bought a dagger and it was a learning curve. If you are into florals I think the dagger is great for all the leaves and petals though.
Your videos are so fun. Thanks. Plus your camera work is the BEST. Love the close up’s.
Aw that made my day! Thank you!
Very good!!!
Considering the size and type of brush you were using I think this turned out really good. Much better than I could have ever done. That took a lot of determination to keep going even when you didn't like the way it was looking. Thank you for the video and inspiration.
My pleasure! Thanks for the nice comment, Cindy!
I think it's wonderful Emily, you really did a good job. I love my fan brush but I'm not as brave as you are. Thank you ❤️
Thank you so much!
This was great! Fun. Thanks for doing it and being so real!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this fan brush challenge! I have one that I received as a gift that I have literally never used, but since I primarily paint landscapes and en plein air, I will definitely reach for it the next time I need to do some foliage.
I'm curious about your comment about the Strathmore paper. Can you share some more info on why it isn't high on your list? (I love it.)
Thanks for the comment, Jay! I hope you’ll give your fan brush a try! The Strathmore paper is good-it handles multiple layers of wet on wet pretty well, tape and masking fluid. This was on a pad, rather than a block, which makes warping and rippling more of a problem. That’s probably MORE the reason I considered this pad my “play” paper. :-)
@@EmilyOlsonArt - Makes sense! It also has less "tooth" than, say, Arches, of course.
@@jayboehm3382 I really thought I'd actually got through an ArtTube video without the mention somewhere of the 'Almighty, all-conquering Arches'. Well, I guess I didn't... 😄
Ok, I exaggerate slightly but seriously, only slightly. There are some equally good papers out there! I know. I use some of them. It's incredibly frustrating as a tutor to hear, continually, that for top quality watercolour paper, "it has to be Arches." But that's why it's probably so over-priced and over-hyped...
Oh, before you ask, yes, I have used it. I love experimenting with paper! 😄
@@MrsBarnabas - I was using Arches as a comparison, not as a recommendation, because I know Emily uses it from time to time. In my experience, the Arches cold-pressed has more texture than the cold-pressed of other manufacturers. In any event, my personal favourites are Winsor & Newton, Strathmore, and SM-LT.
Fun video! Never got the hang of using fan brushes myself. I learned so much from Susan Scheewe (she-we) Brown's tv show that sired 20-30 years ago. A few episodes are available on UA-cam. You might enjoy this Frosted Windowpane lesson: ua-cam.com/video/FPrSyQD_9W4/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for your comment (and pronunciation! 🤣) I’ve never seen her show but now I’m curious!
Find a good quality fan first. Good ones don’t group up like yours. Cheep fans all do bunch up like yours did. I like a real hog to hold its shape.
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Thanks , Jimmy!