Category: Painting Videos

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Video: Four Of My Attempts

This video is a speeded up version (eight times faster than real life) of four of the paintings I’ve done with this month’s Tall Trees painting project as the starting point. I’m using acrylic ink (no prizes for guessing it’s Payne’s grey) and DIY watercolour “ink” (hematite genuine and undersea green, both distinctive Daniel Smith colours).

If you’re a Project Subscriber, you should already have received the link to the real-time video of the first of these paintings, or go here. As a celebration of summer (or the thought of summer if you’re in the southern hemisphere), I’ve set the real-time video so that If you become a patron today via Patreon, including at the $2/month level, you’ll be able to watch this.

Which do you prefer? Speeded-up or real-time, a bit of both or speeded-up a little? Post a comment and let me know.

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How I Do It : Splattering Paint

So having discovered my phone has a slow-motion option on its videos, I’ve been playing with it a bit. This short clip shows how I splatter paint, a technique I use a lot for my sheep and seascape paintings.

It’s a “happy accident” technique you learn to control through practice. The consistency of the paint is crucial, and that you learn through trial-and-error.

If you don’t see the video above, click on this link.

The quality of the video isn’t brilliant because it was done late afternoon in low winter light. And imagine my phone balance precariously on my tripod, held by various bulldogclips. Perhaps I ought to set a Patreon goal that relates to better video equipment?

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Moods of the Minch: Iridescent Sea

Moods of the Minch Seascapes: Iridescent Paint

This time of year, between the position of the sun in the sky and the long daylight hours, there’s lots of light bouncing off the sea in the afternoon as the sun heads to the horizon. Little wonder then I’ve found myself reaching for iridescent pearl not only for my current silver birch painting but also my Minch seascape paintings-in-progress. It conveys the silvery glare beautifully and works both in the top layer and lower layers. A little can be quite determined to show through layers! Depending on the light falling on the painting, and your viewing position, you may see lots of it or you may see nothing at all.

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Video: The Daisy Painting Brush

Q: “Loved your flower painting; what size and type brush did you use for the petals? –M.W.”

A: It’s a large, flat, coarse, hog hair one that’s about two inches wide. They’re sometimes called a varnishing brush.

Here’s a short video clip to give you an idea of what I’m doing. Working wet-on-wet, remember is to wipe the brush regularly so you can pick up and apply ‘clean colour’. Remember too that whether the brushstroke is into the yellow or coming out of it influences how mixed the white becomes. Don’t second guess yourself but keep going. Mistakes can be rectified and overpainted later. She who hesitates is lost and all that.