Can a Pencil Artist Learn ACRYLIC PAINTING in 4 Hours? 

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.

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!

The waterfall is AMAZING !!

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.

can't wait to see more dabbles into this kind of medium

Hey I stopped watching the new Chip and Dale movie TOO WATCH YOU!!!😊

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.

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!

Love your channel 💕. Could you do more Disney Coloring Book Pages?

Hope someone from the Ten Hundred Collab will pick you next

Although I'm not much of a painter, that portrait was really cool looking to me!!

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 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.

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? 😁

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 don't even care that this is an ad because you actually used and demonstrated what you're advertising. 🙌🥰

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.

OMG I LOVE THE BRUSHSTROKES!!! ONLY IN 4 HOURS NO WAYYY

I can teach you some JOY-tastic watercolor in an hour! I have an idea and tagged you in my most recent community post ❤

Yay! I was able to get the 1 month free! Thank you.

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 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.

*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

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 🤣

yay im first!i hope your acrylic journey goes amazing!my favourite isss…. all!you are amazing at art and hope you success!

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 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 🎨🎉🎨🥰

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.

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.

You did such a great job for being a beginner!!! Congrats!!

A lot of solid work is done in this video. Nice job!

I recommend you use something called retarder or slow dri medium this will slow the drying time of acrylic paint by a lot like an hour its very good for beginners and experts👍

You should try to follow a Bob Ross video and that waterfall looks amazing

"Art is meant to be enjoyed." -Clark, 2022 Amen 🙌

Makes me want to use skillshare!

That's great! You dared with acrylics :D The good thing is that you can apply many techniques as you use brushes, spatulas and more...to be your beginning is fine since it is about patience and applying layers and shapes that you make with the tools. I will hope to see more works with acrylics and if the important thing is to enjoy the process

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.

Hii loved this video can't wait for next weeks one!!!!

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 ❤

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

Loving watching you learn this new art medium, very inspiring to me

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

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!

I haven't watched the video yet but I know the answer is yes. (I was there when you showed one on stream on twitch) (TheMoonHaven)

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 am good at acrylic painting

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.

Hey, it looked like a face!! 👏👏

do more thomas kinkade

I’ll point out only positives. You have never painted before and you turned a grayscale picture to colour, a round of applause just for that. No under drawing, you just made shapes of colour where you thought they belonged on both pictures. You recognised there was a point you should have stopped earlier. Bravo.

yayyy im earlyyy

Amazing

Both paintings look really good, I'm impressed.

They both were awesome works; I’m an artist too, trust AWESOME JOB

I find the way you really hate having dirty hands hilarious considering your an artist. I painted before I coloured, and I love the painting process but my dirty hands drive me nuts during the process. Hence the desire to colour 😂😂😂 but my paintings are VERY abstract. So I even ended up finger painting one of them - can you imagine?!?! By the way ALL of your paintings were gorgeous!!!

I learned how to paint with acrylics through watching videos on RU-vid 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 🤗💕😊

as a lover of learning news things, especially with mistakes and taking risks: Ethan Becker and SamDoesArts are excellent and invaluable resources for anatomy and portraits respectively. especially cz they're both incredible teachers and majority of their content is meaningful critique of their audience's art pieces. their subscribers submit their work willingly specifically to be critiqued because their humor is "gentle" as Sam puts it, and their passion for their students is undeniable. I'm not an artist but in the field of biology geometry and spacial space is paramount. Alzheimer's is as the result of a protein becoming filamentous, becoming polymerized. when proteins fold incorrectly they lose their correct 3D shape and become obsolete in orienting themselves in a given biological process' machinery. so biologists are constantly drawing random 3D shapes in 2D. pattern recognition in biology is almost like paranoia, you're always wondering if a shape is hiding in the blind spot of the molecule you're analyzing. Ethan and Sam teach pattern recognition for anatomy and the face. if Rob Liefeld watched some of Ethan and Sam's videos, he'd be able to finally draw some damn respectable feet. I mean how could you be a comic artist and not draw feet well... tangent. sorry. anyway, Ethan Becker and SamDoesArts. ps. the waterfall is freaken awesome. I'd want that on the back panel of my denim jacket.

That was an interesting sight to see. Kind of Angel on one and Demon on the other shoulder. 😈: Let's jump right in, and have fun. Learning by doing. It's art who cares how it looks. Say it is a stylistic choice. 👼: You have to do that right, and learn the basics first. Make it look great. Both of them have good points I guess 😊. You just have to start somewhere. It is just the beginning and I'm pretty sure, in colored Pencil it was the same. No one has a masterpiece first try

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.

Awesome job on both paintings!!! Maybe check out the Art Sherpa on YT she has a whole line of videos for introduction to acrylics and explains a lot. Happy painting!

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.

The first u are way too hard on urself, which I am on myself too, but the proportions were very good being new to paints! I just painted a recreation of my photography for my mommy for Mother’s Day bc she loved the pic and not until the very end did I realize the proportions were way off lol and unless I redid it completely couldn’t be fixed and I loved so much of the shading and coloring… luckily she loves it and we joke about it too lol 😂 and yeah I never use rules lol my shading I do with my hands and use whichever brushes work for me lol :)

I love the waterfall. Thought I was back at the Big Island. How about trying a floral subject next time?

I love the abstract, personally. Even when you first stopped, it was beautiful. You have a brilliant eye for colors. Love your videos!

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 :)

Ow... you know the next step.... you must try to follow a Bob Ross tutorial....😆

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 love your shirt! I know you’ve mentioned it before but could you remind me who made it?

I loved the painting. It wasn't a failure. It was just different more like an abstract portrait. The second one is beautiful.

You end up showing these to the skill class teachers what you did cause you did quite amazing for someone that doesn't do painting very much. Please don't put your self down. Picasso art class that you bring own class food and wine Maybe if they like you and they will allow it maybe you can do maybe you can do a class with them class with them on your show. They paint do acrylic and it's fun night with your friend if you wish to do with your friend. It something to have look it. Maybe you can outdoor exercise that would cool.

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.

My problem is trying to learn watercolor pencils, it's harder than acrylics

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 🤣

Maybe someone should invent Acrylic pencils.

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

The collab we need is either of Jazza or SuperRaeDizzle teaching you some tips and tricks

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

Let’s hope I can learn in 4 hours in time for a b-day party. 😍

You should check out the skillshare classes by artist Clair Bremner. She has a loose abstract style you might like. And she is victorian and lives in the Yarra Valley.

The right brushes for acrylic paint: any, as long as you clean em quickly ;3

I'm learning to draw from Art and Science of drawing with Brent Evision

Both look amazing and I actually really liked the portrait 😍 You should be so hard on yourself

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.

I need some Dinosaur paintings. They would be epic! 🦖 🦕

If you like layering then oil painting may be better for you. Is a slower process with more rules but permits much more work time.

I have a challenge for you now. Try some gelli printing with the acrylics.

Wow! Practising for 4 hours you did sooooo good, then how good you will do if you practice for 1 year!!?

try next time not to draw at the table. hang it on the wall or place it at an angle (on an easel, for example) it is important that the angle of application of paint changes and you will have mobility in the process of working to step aside and look like a spectator

What about watercolor. ... p.s loved your work

I would like to see more videos on watercolor pencils and Inktense pencils.

So many little happy accidents in your painting! :-)

The artwork was all very beautiful - each with its own strengths and feel.

palette knife painting is soo much fun! yours did turn out really nice 😀

honestly itd be interesting to see you paint with gouache!!

Một video thật hay . tuyệt vời ❤️🖼️ tôi thích không gian làm việc của bạn 🖼️. painting ❤️

I want you to try one stroke painting. Donna Dewberry is the queen.

We are our worst critic's fantastic painting. :)

You are so cool and probably the best youTuber ever

Wauw the waterfall was beautiful 😻 Great video

I love your abstract piece, it’s beautiful.