Mountains always speak to your heart,whether a trail,creek or river below the mountain,it's telling you to slow down and gaze at the beauty.-Lynn Joe,what a beautiful scenery.👍
Hi joe. Nice painting for being new to the medium. A couple of things I learned about acrylics that may help. 1) the streaks were from applying the retarder to the canvas. It makes the acrylic slippery and a bit greasy. Also, using too much paint. Acrylics are nice because you can get brush strokes for thicker paint similar to oils but if you want something soft with smooth transitions use less paint and scrub it into the canvas with a nice bristle brush. What I’ve learned is to apply the retarder to the white paint you put out in a 50|50 mix. It not only keeps the paint on the palette open longer but any color you mix with white gets extended. 20 use a spray bottle with water and 10% retarder in it.
Also, apply several coats of gesso to your canvas or do an under painting. The canvas is sucking the water right out of the paint drying it up to fast. Properly preparing the canvas with keep your paint o-en much longer
Since I painted this one I have painted some other acrylics this video is a couple of years old now. I’ve used retarder as well as Golden open brand and heavy body acrylics. Thanks again for the tips!
@@joemenzaart yea. Different medius and different brands all need different things and sometimes pre-primed may not be primed to your liking. For ex. I like alla-prima oil painting and when using a buttery oil like Windsor a basic pre-primed canvas is ok since I want the canvas to absorb the oil so I can work over it without muddying my paint. The 1980 brand of oil needs additional priming on a canvas since it is so thick to make the paint more fluid since I don’t use medium. I practice with hobby store canvases and find their pre-primed canvas insufficient for acrylic if I want a longer open time with the paint and additional priming or under paint seems to do the trick. Especially with canvas boards. It also allows your retarder to stay on top of the canvas and mixed in the paint instead of in the canvas giving you more work time with the paint. In any event, just food for thought. Your experiences, humidity level in your room and canvases are certainly different then mine.
I think the sky problem is because, doing it first, the retardant and water was still too wet. It had time to dry by the time we got to the mountains. ? Also, while you were laying it in, on the sky, I felt like you needed a heavier dose of the blue on the brush. I noticed that those streaks were going to be there before you moved on.
Thanks, this video is a few years old now and I mostly painted in watercolor so I was pretty new to the medium and trying paints sent to me by the myartscape company. If I remember correctly. Thanks for the comments
@@joemenzaart Yes. It was really only because you had said that you weren’t as certain about the acrylics as you are water paints that I had the … courage … to add my input.
