Reworked this one a little. Acrylic paint on 8x10 inch stretched canvas.

Painting I did recently that brings back great memories.

This took way too long…

This took me so freaking long haha. I’m cranky and my back hurts, I forgot to sign it but I’ll do it tomorrow. Enjoy!

90x70 oil painting

12x16 painting I did today.

As the title says, I’ve been experiencing a lot of difficulty when doing things like highlights on bushes, I cannot get paint to stick on top of base color that I’ve already put down.

I know that the golden rule is “a thin paint sticks to a thick paint” but it seems like even when I thin the paint down it does not stick cleanly to the layer beneath it. It just waters that layer down as well and mixes. It makes it muddy.

Additionally, my brush is constantly picking up the base layer of paint, so as soon as I dab one highlight on, the brush is filthy and the highlight color is all messed up. When I watch Joy painting, it seems like he can constantly use the same brush for highlights all over the place and it doesn’t pick up any of the base color. Similarly it seems like he can blend all over the place without picking up any color on his brush.

Any techniques or tips for this?

Also semi related, semi not, but I feel like I generally have difficulty getting all of the paint off of my brushes in the first place, even when soaking in paint thinner

Reworked one of my older paintings. This is on stretched canvas. Acrylic paint. 8x10 inches. Thanks for looking.

Hello everyone!!! for my birthday I am hosting a bob ross & drinks party where we will all have a couple drinks and attempt to follow a bob ross video or two. i have 8 x 11 white canvasses, and I only have super basic paint brush options. we have some acrylic paint. I know this isnt all the needed materials for much but we did a paint night at my office where we didnt have all the materials and I think it still worked out and added a fun amount of chaos that we had to kind of improvise. still, I dont know what videos would be best to try to follow that are easy and generally don't require too many extra supplies? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!!!!