"Learning technique, brush color, color mixing, and color theory is huge."
"Wet-on-dry adds detail, fine lines, and crisp hard lines."
"Vertical hold so my brush is pretty much straight up and down."
"But it's actually getting you more and more comfortable with how to hold the brush."
"Subtlety in the values is really something that I really enjoy creating."
"The smallest touches can make all the difference."
"Let's get into a painting...every time I use a technique, I'm gonna call it out."
"This is the peel that reveals the finished painting you know that's the A+ peel you gotta love it."
"You can use any paintbrush you want as long as it emulates the texture of an actual paintbrush."
"Can you do oil guys? Quick reality check... can we do oil paint over acrylic?"
"It's one of the most important steps to work on in a painting as it sets out the foundation of how we will essentially view a piece."
"Opacity and flow... affect how your brush strokes behave."
"You can match any color in the world with oil paint using a simple palette."
"Transparency is high on my list. As a general rule, I want all my watercolor to be very transparent."
"The artist created a sense of depth by values, adding the dark elements further towards the back."
"Just use more paint, paint really really thick, work in layers, and they dry really fast so really no complaints there."
"Putting a wash or a contrast paint over a metallic is a useful strategy."
"Remember, paint is just paint. You can keep applying it and get through that ugly phase."
"Flower painting is a lot of fun, but you gotta relax."
"Focus that color, pull all that lightness into this area here brightening this area right here and brightening this area here."
"That's what makes your paint job slick, smooth, and shiny, so don't compromise on the time spent blocking."
"The real secret of a loose painting is visual language."
"Mixing is also a breeze as you can see here, combining a bit of blue and red to create a purple."
"Let's start painting and making this sort of, this sort of like, it's not really a ray in this case, it's sort of like a soft ambient light that's just gonna be seeping through from this corner."
"Let's turn this off and on just see what it looks like actually getting a little bit of three dimension in the painting really cool."
"When you're painting at home, step back, always stepping back and looking. That's how you know when you're on the right track."
"You can see just what a difference it makes, helping all those details really pop out."
"We're trying to build up layers of color for a more realistic perception."
"Unmasking is an important stage masking is an important stage because if you get a bit of tape up on the panel that you're trying to paint you'll find when you learn mice that you've got spots that don't even have any paint on there at all."
"Flowers are a great subject because they're made with just a few brushstrokes and they are hard to screw up."
"I think a lot of people... think that they just have a lot of brushstrokes in their canvas... quite often it's really just that you need more layering."
"Let's get into how to paint more efficient, how to paint fast. We're going to paint fast, okay? That's what we're going to do."
"Gouache is a hybrid of acrylic paint and watercolor."
"Almost every painting is going to include shadows to one degree or another, even still life, even portraiture."
"A quick life hack for you guys: if your paint is too thick, you can dilute it with water. But if it's too runny, you can mix it with talcum."
"Sometimes you don't necessarily see what you need to do until you've already laid some paint down."
"If you take on these simple things, your overall paintings as a whole will become much more dynamic and much more exciting."
"Ambient light is often my favorite part of any painting! It can be fun and expressive, so long as you have these principles in mind."
"Weaker local colors can more easily make the trip to other colors!"
"You kind of start learning shortcuts over the years of painting what works for you."
"Always put a sealer on before you put your paint - base coat, clear coat, whatever you're going to put on."
"Listen to Bob Ross in your head, paint the bolt threads."
"We're going to try and create some extra dimensional elements as we paint."
"It's always the goal not to just teach one specific painting but to teach techniques, why we're doing things, how we're doing things, that way you can incorporate them into your own paintings."
"You just need to buy here's the cad red. okay so Quinn magenta cadmium red that's my choice painted a long time."
"I love how you can see all the amazing textures with those chip brushes and I love the smooth finish of the black satin spray paint."
"I'm going to have the light pink be the top and that's the side that I will be ragging."
"To get something that resembles a bunch of stars in a galaxy far, far away, I'm gonna mist in some white paint."
"Streaking effects can be achieved with speed paints, creating realistic weathering without using oils."
"Highlighting key areas with white before applying speed paints ensures brighter results and better contrast."
"Even a simple face paint job can be done quickly with the right colors and minimal refining."
"Using an old brush for dry brushing and weathering adds texture and character without overdoing it."
"For quick and decent results, using speed paints and dry brushing is the way to go."
"It's great to have different paints for different purposes and to know when you would want to use an acrylic heavier bodied paint versus an ink or a watercolor."
"Having a reference photo is awesome. When you have a reference photo, it really fills in the gap and you understand where he's taking you through the actual step-by-step of the painting."
"Using gray to temper colors is crucial, especially for beginners."
"I'm going to put my camera down shortly, and we'll get on with looking at ten realistic flower painting techniques."
"Whenever you're painting a head, it's very important to keep in mind the bone structure, the skull structure."
"He also mixed the yellow with minium, which is the orange lead he referred to also for coloring the frame, for example."
"Painting is just drawing with color."
"It's a really good book if you're interested in particularly medieval painting techniques."
"It's a good idea when freehanding thin lines to mix your paint with a similar colored ink to get good opacity but also good flow."
"I'm just gonna experiment to see if I can make it a little bit more painterly in its overall effect."
"Granulating pigments are an absolute gift to any kind of texture technique."
"You need Prime, base coat, dry brush, and then black wash."
"It's a great way to start a painting."
"The secret to successful paintings is when you have value changes."
"You can really manipulate where people's eye goes in your painting through your choices and your values."
"So for this reason, I could get quite a few different variations myself out of just mixing two colors right from the painting itself."
"Painting fast is kind of necessary, so when I'm doing these studies, I try to work quickly like I would if I was outside."
"He was all about capturing light in his paintings."
"It's a really good thing to know what is actually happening when you paint white on an area and what happens when you paint black on an area."
"The black wash really turns this building from being reasonably bland to something a little bit special."
"Why was it European painting had a vanishing point and shadows, while sophisticated image makers from China, Japan, India, and Persia got along very well without them?"
"When you paint fire you want it to be glowing, bright, vibrant, you want it jumping out or grabbing your attention."
"Gouache is a fantastic paint and it's very versatile; you can use it in a translucent way similar to watercolor, but it's also brilliant to work with opaquely and really shines that way."
"Skies can often be a minor part of a painting, a simple sky will do, but in other cases, the painting could be three-quarters sky."
"I prefer gouache to watercolor because I can play with everything from transparent all the way to super opaque."
"It's that combination of the dry brush work over the top of our lovely flowing washes that really make a painting come to life."
"It's those little details that really help to make a painting be successful."
"Artistic licensing allows you to add a bit more white in the facial area simply because it makes a difference."
"I'm just basically adding a little touch of highlights on instead of grass, I'm adding a little bit like little foliage to the painting, just to break up the monotony of just grass."
"Just by using contrast colors with a base coat of white, you can get some fantastic results."
"Some really interesting stuff in here, including dry brush use with contrast paint in the mix, which is not something I've ever seen done before."
"Really any beginner can do this, and the advanced painter can play with this a little more with the composition."
"Watercolor is kind of unique in its little aspect of being able to have such brightness."
"The translucency of the paint using the green tones just allows these much softer transitions and it keeps the surfaces different."
"It's really important when you paint everything, no matter what you paint, to paint the background first."
"I like to paint them as large shapes, as individual shapes, and with a varied wash of warm and cool colors."
"One is to learn art history, two, to learn how to paint, and I think many of us here are doing both of those hand-in-hand."
"This is why I paint 'new generation' acrylics, because I can get the look of oils."