You've made my day!!! I'm so pleased the tutorial has been helpful! And thank you for letting me know.... 🥰

You are so welcome!! I'm delighted the video was helpful - enjoy your painting!!

You're very welcome Bobby! I'm so glad it helped you with your painting results.

What a great comment!! And you're right.... the more you look the more you SEE, and the more you open up to seeing, the easier it is to get into the art piece. I agree entirely - thanks so much for sharing those thoughts!! 🙏😁😁⭐

You are VERY welcome Ian!! And these techniques are timeless... I hope you enjoy your new-found cake mixing method!!

I''ve been painting with acrylic for years, and have never seen the technique of underneath layer of white first! Can't wait to try it this afternoon. I live in aus and have major issues with the paint drying too fast when doing really large pieces with large brilliant blue skies. Often gave try rely on gel retardants to keep in moist (and have probably been relying on water too much :/

you're so welcome!! Thank you for taking the time to comment, and I'm really glad it's been helpful!

Thank you SO MUCH for your comment and I'm glad the video helped !!

Hopefully the technique will give you some new ideas! And don't forget, I've done this a few times before....!! 😉🥰

Thank you so much for your really lovely feedback! I'm delighted this video helped.... and I promise I'm trying to find time to do some more!! In the meantime keep having fun and practicing your paint skills...

Thank you so much for your lovely comment!! I'm really pleased the video helped!!

Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I'm really pleased the video helped!!

Oh!!! Thank you so much 😀❤️ hope the painting video helped you !!

thank you so much Gail, I'm really pleased the tutorial helped!

You're very welcome!!

You are VERY welcome! Enjoy every step (including the frustrating ones!) one your painting journey.... have fun!

Thank you so much for your positive feedback!! I am delighted that you found my video easy to follow.

Emily I am absolutely delighted to hear that the technique has helped with your painting process! And thank you so much for telling me 🙌🥰

Thank you for your lovely comment!!

You're welcome! Hope the technique helps. Thanks for your positive feedback!

You're very welcome!!!

Thank you SO MUCH for your lovely comment!! I will try to get more videos done - at the moment I'm teaching art classes full time but during my next holiday I'll film more stuff. Thanks!

Thank you! 🙏🥰

Haha!!! Yes.... this is what my classes are usually like 🤣 glad you enjoyed it!!

You are very welcome!!!! 😁😁

Thank you so much for your feedback Tim! I'm really glad the tutorial helped 😀

@@charlottegiblinart hi, any tips on creating a shine like an aircraft catching the sun? Hope I'm not being too cheeky

@@timmayhew4656 hello! Getting a shine to look really bright is all about the contrast between the shine and the colours around it. You can't go brighter than white (or white with a tiny bit of yellow in it can look "brighter" than pure white, just as white with a tiny bit of blue in it can look slighter colder and more metallic than pure white)... but the key is making sure the surrounding colour - of the airplane in this case - is considerably different in tone to make the shine really pop out. Look really carefully at the colours of the plane which are around the shine. The edges of your shine might be white with a tiny hint of blue, and then the centre of the shine will be pure white, which will make the pure white look absolutely super-bright!!

@@charlottegiblinart hi, thank you for the tip, I'll give that a try. Really enjoy the videos.

@@timmayhew4656 you're welcome! Also.... you need to keep in mind the texture of the object which has the shine, and make sure your paint strokes echo that. For example, an aircraft is smooth, so your shine needs to have smooth, crisp edges, which describe the surface of the object....

You're very welcome!! I hope the technique helps - enjoy painting 🥰

I'm so pleased it helps.... and try not to be nervous about starting! The amazing thing about acrylics is that if you feel you've made a mistake you can just paint over the canvas and start again!! I have lots of canvases with 3 or 4 paintings underneath all the layers!!!

@@charlottegiblinart thank you for this. I’m gonna start painting

You're welcome!!

I'm so glad that the tutorial helped!! And you're right... covering over a perfect gradient is a nightmare - the only way to really correct a major mistake is to mask off (with tape) your foreground when it's dry and totally redo the sky gradient. Which is often unimaginable!!! If you just have a couple of flicks of paint you could try removing them (very carefully) with a scalpel blade when the paint is dry - sometimes the thickness of the fleck can be gently "prised off" with the tip of a blade without scratching the blended background. Or.... the flecks are birds!! Or, you embrace them as a beautiful part of the energetic painting process!!

@@charlottegiblinart I won't say I got it perfect first time but loading the white on first as a base and 'cake mixing' colours on top is a game changer for a larger canvas.

You're very welcome!! Thanks so much for the positive feedback!! The white paint is normal acrylic. They key is finding one that isn't too thick, so you are able to get the smooth blend (and cheap paints are totally fine to use for the white especially, if you find one with the best consistency on the cheap shelf!). If you have trouble finding a smooth white, add a little water into your white before you start - maybe mix up a pot of white watered down a little.... the thing you don't want to do is add water in WHILE you're doing this blending process as the water can leave holes and create drips. 🙂

@@charlottegiblinart This means a lot to me, thank you very much! Also, I was struggling to find gesso in my region and wondering what can i use to replace it. I watched some videos on KZfaq and they said that gesso is important to close the pores of the canvas. Adding white acrylic instead surely will do, i suppose? I really appreciate your helpful information :)

@@adienarthamarchia exactly!! Using the white thickly like this as part of the layering process does indeed help the canvas. Plus.... I'm imagining that like most of us you are buying your canvases already with a wooden frame behind? (Not loose raw canvas). If you ARE buying canvas stretched over a frame (and looking white) it will already have been coated in gesso. I've never seen any pre-prepared canvases for sale which didn't already have gesso on them, so this way of using white to create a sky is just extra extra icing on the cake!!

@DarrellBoyd-pl4gh hello! In all those videos I use 3 primary colours made by Derivan (which is a student quality paint as the videos were originally done for my students to watch at home). The Derivan series calls the red "cool red" and it's a "warm yellow"... both are similar to cadmium medium colours, although the red is quite pink. Derivan paints are widely available if you want to buy exactly the same colours. Oh, and white of course.

Try not to dip the brush in water while you are painting a soft blended sky because the water may dilute the paint too much, leave drip marks, or even create holes in the painted surface. Probably you need more paint on your brush if it is drying too quickly. Try adding a little water to your paint at the start, and mix the water in thoroughly - it's possible your acrylic paint is very thick which is why it's drying. Another thing you can try is to slow down your brush movements. The faster you move the brush, the more friction you create and the faster it will dry. I use a LOT of paint, which is why I get a smooth blend.... most students don't use enough and the paint drags. Try a few of the above suggestions.

@@charlottegiblinart thank you soooo muchh 🥺🥺💓💓💓💓

To properly blend the coloured paint into the white... so when you start the long strokes with the brush you don't have stripes of colour....

Thank you!!!!! 😁😁😁😁🥰

@lisasmith96 card should be fine! As long as you don't make the paint too wet (try not to add water) then the card shouldn't wrinkle or buckle too much.

@@charlottegiblinart aw that’s great thank you so much for taking time out to reply, really appreciated it 😍

You're absolutely right! If I do any more videos I will get a better microphone. Truth is when I first did them it was just for my students during lockdown and I didn't realise some of them would get so many views!! Appreciate the honest feedback, thank you.

Fair comment! It's a helpful technique for use in a lot of different acrylic situations though. 😃

You're welcome!! 🙏😀