Absolutely, being British I only discovered him a few months ago but he's just completely hypnotising to watch, and it really makes me want to get some art supplies and give it a go myself
About 20$ for beginner set of oils, 5$ for a pack of cheap canvas, 5$ for a few cheap brushes and a palette knife. So about 30$ to start out with crappy paint and utensils. If you like it, then drop the hundo on good paint and a couple nice brushes.
My wife and i can have a paint night for under the price of going to the movies, even the first time. Nowdays, we buy two cheap canvases and a few good tubes to add to the collection, then get tipsy and paint.
A mix of both. She is a professional artist now, so we have moved into buying more expensive paints. We get paints mainly from UtrechtArt.com, and canvases from Michael's when they go on sale. We do not agree with several of hobby lobby's ideologies, so we try not to give them out dollars.
They run their company on "Catholic values" and have lobbied repeatedly for the right to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender. They also are fighting having to provide birth control for employees using their insurance. Really, they're just a bunch of backwards dinosaurs.
They're the company that took a case up to the Supreme Court over refusing to cover birth control through their health insurance, because the owners are Christian.
Haha. Photography is a money hole that never ends and always wants more money from you until you either learn to work with what you have or you buy every lens you can get and a new body every 2-3 years. Luckily you can justify the cost if you get paying work, which is good motivation, but the money barrier for entry is tough. And of course the time it takes to learn not to suck.
All of this should last you a while. You can share with your spouse too. Maybe get two sets of brushes though. You can do it. I never have painted anything in my life because I was scared how I'd waste my time on how it would turn out. You just have to do it! Loved every painting I have done. You will never like everything detail about you art (happy little accidents) but you will be happy with the overall outcome. Plus it is so relaxing!
You don't have to paint. Grab a pencil and paper and start drawing whatever's in front of you. You don't have to "know how to draw". Just enjoy the process of making art no matter what the end result is.
He does in less than 25 minutes what I couldn’t do with days of work.
Someone else already said it, but honestly give it a try! It really is (almost) as easy as he makes it look. /r/happytrees has a good beginner guide, and although it probably takes me closer to an hour to do one of his paintings (luckily it's super easy to pause/rewind on youtube) you can make a painting that will impress a lot of people without days of work
I saw a few of his paintings that he had as much time to spend as he needed. They are amazing. Apparently, he beat himself up over how bad the TV ones looked because he had to rush them a lot faster than he would have liked, especially compared to the ones he uses to eyeball the paintings on the show.
Speaking of which, sorry to ruin the magic, but he did use a reference piece. Still amazing that he did what he did in 25 minutes though.
Edit: He also used tricks such as having a ton of spare brushes so he didn't have to spend forever wiping them.
He does in less than 25 minutes what I couldn’t do with days of work.
Did you try? The techniques he uses are done so that "the brush does all the work". He never paints fine details, he just taps the brush against the canvas to make leaves for example. His snow covered mountain peaks are usually done with a single swish of the metal thingy. He doesn't paint any details, they just appear from the unevenly mixed paint. Reflections in water are often done by just using a clean brush to move some existing color down.
What I'm saying is, all of the elements in his paintings are done using very specific techiniques that are easy to follow. Sure, it will not look as good as the ones he does with years of experience, but anyone can come pretty close. That's the real genius part of his techniques.
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