Any recommendations for good instructional videos?

[bif]

I'm looking for free videos for acrylic painting techniques. Youtube or any other sites. I find I learn better with videos than books.

[Ohiogal]

1. Have you tried Pinterest?

[bif]

3. Nope. Any videos or painters you can rec?

[GemDigger]

2. Nodding my head to Youtube.

I have to say that the acrylic painters grabbed my attention more often than not. I am not a painter but a colored pencil kind of girl but those painters on youtube almost had me looking for acrylic... almost.

[SheltieLover]

4. Art sherpa is excellent & free.

[leighbythesea2]

5. A prolific painter I enjoy

Is Duane Keiser. Youtube. He's oil tho. But he did a painting a day to challenge himself years ago, which is admirable. . That was before he was using YouTube. They aren't instructional, just demonstrative.

Maybe it'll prime the youtube algorithm to give you more, but acrylic. ?

[femmedem]

6. Any aspect of painting in particular that you're looking for?

I think you'd learn as much from watching an oil painting video as from an acrylic painting video: In either medium, it's drawing, composition, value structure--do you know what I mean by that? Happy to explain--warm and cool colors. The technical differences are much less important.

But is there anything you're particularly eager to learn about? Portraits, landscape, still ife? Or are you more interested in learning about color or drawing, regardless of the subject matter?

If you know what you're looking for, I'll see what I can find. Meanwhile, here's a short video on warm and cool colors that I learned a lot from. He starts a painting demo a little over five minutes in, so I hope you'll stay with it if it seems like too much talk at the beginning.

[bif]

7. Painting in general. I think my shading techniques needs some work.

And I'm interested in landscape and still life techniques. And you're right about oil demos. Painting is painting, for the most part.

[femmedem]

8. I think Sarah Sedwick's Youtube channel would be perfect.

I hope you enjoy these! I'm working on a still life myself this weekend, and this reminded me to revisit her channel. So thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahSedwick/videos

[bif]

9. Thank you so much!

Will look into it/them!

[femmedem]

10. You're welcome. You might like the SIMPLIFY Drawing and Painting Youtube channel, too.

Here's a short video on values.

I wasn't quite sure what you meant about wanting to learn more about blending techniques, but I thought you might mean that you are having problems moving from light areas to shadows, and if that's the case that video might help. But if you mean seamless blending, there are so many ways to paint. I don't know what your goals are or what other artists you admire, but I really like the graphic quality of your work, which comes in part from not blending a lot. Some art teachers do teach how to seamlessly blend, but others teach something called the tile method, where you block in some big simple light and dark shapes, then gradually refine them with distinct unblended brushstrokes of paint. I think this might work very well with acrylics since they dry so quickly. I have an acquaintance, Hollis Dunlap, who paints this way. He lives a couple of blocks from me so I've gotten to know his work. Here's one of his paintings on Instragram where you can see his technique if you zoom in:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CADYMHeH23D/
(He's insanely good.)

[bif]

11. Mainly light to shadows.

I find it challenging at times.

[LiberalLoner]

12. I actually found it worthwhile to subscribe to YouTube to avoid commercials

It’s worth it to me because I often spend a few hours a day watching various art instruction videos. Well worth the twelve dollars a month or whatever it is (memory sucks, MS.)

I tried acrylics and didn’t like them all that much, but Chuck Black and Bob Burridge have some wonderful videos out there, let me see if I can find some links...

[bif]

13. Thanks!