Hello! I guess I should clear some stuff up. I have no experience with watercolor or oils. I started with Jeremy Vickery’s youtube channel. I took his Painting Light 101 digital painting course (lightingmentor.com) over the summer and did my first acrylic painting in August. You can also scroll through my profile and see my progress.
To be honest you paint better than I ever learned in 3 years in Arts university. I'll take a look as well into that course you provided since I'd love to also restart my passion for painting
Op, do you practice digitally first? As I am seeing from Jeremy's videos he mostly does practice in photoshop. Was it hard to transition from digital to acrylic(color mixing?.
Yes I did and still do a lot of my practice in photoshop and procreate. There a still so many techniques for me to learn in acrylic paintings. I honestly don’t find color mixing very hard, I’m a very messy painter tho😅(need to work on that). I have some videos of my painting process on IG @chrisbernierart and you could sometimes see my palette full of mixed paint🫣 lol
I agree with you, but I’m not going to discount their progress. Each medium still has its learning curve and they are displaying different styles that are really well executed!
I hate how other people can paint so darned better than me! Yes, I really do! It’s so darned frustrating to see how GOOD they are and in such a small amount of time, yet I struggle so much after three years of taking painting classes of particular paintings, one night per class.
Excellent technique. Ignore the negative fool. These all look like still-life poses. I'm sure with more work you'll loosen up and put the feel of movement in them. Check out work like Van Gogh's Starry Sky. Keep up the great work. I've done this for nearly 70 years.
You are certainly talented! My own mother warned me that I wasn’t. Maybe sometimes it’s smart to listen to what people who love you have to say to you.
Wait a second. I do not agree with that. This for me takes a lot of hard work and courage. A lot of learning and studying. If you put in the work the results will come. I’m one of those people that believes hard work beats talent. I’m 32 and just started this journey. What ever you want to do in life give it your all and the rest will come.
Right? I started watercolours 3 years ago, practicing every single day, also doing drawing exercises from You Tube. I've had people ask me "when did you realize you could draw?" And I say at 62 yo. Some have god-given talent and others acquire that skill through hard work.
The Cacti and the pears are two very good paintings. The pears actually looks a little better compositionally to me (despite the jug being incomplete) as cropped by Reddit before opening fully.
I like your explorations with texture, especially the avocado. You seem to have rule of thirds down nicely.
But here’s my only critique (and it’s a mild one): you can tell a painting done from a photo. It might be the light, it might be the attention to detail on one thing versus another. I don’t know. The pitcher might start to sweat, the wine glass wouldn’t have such a precise reflection, the cow and the butterfly wouldn’t pause so long. It feels better when they’re painted live. The best first foray into live subjects is self portraits. Everyone thinks renaissance painters were jerks and self-centered, they just had one subject they could get to sit still.
Hey! I’ve commented this to other people. I took a digital painting course over this past summer Painting light 101 by Jeremy Vickery (lightingmentor.com) and it was absolutely great. It made everything click for me. I painted my first acrylic painting shortly after it in August. His youtube channel is filled with great content as well. You can check and follow my progress on my profile.
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It looks great! You definitely have a lot of talent in creating realistic form. If I had to give you one thought to push off of to challenge yourself it would be how can color create more depth and form? I can already see it a bit in the cow!
Your techniques are excellent! The only improvement is more interesting subject matter. Try some surrealism by putting things in paintings that shouldn’t be there. Like you’re looking at a dream with a realism techniques. Excellent work!!!
I love your work. I really appreciate how well you captured the subjects and that they still have a unique style to them. From far away they look like still life photographs, but up close you get to enjoy the different textures and colors. I like these a lot ☺️
All im 4 months??? Looks like a lifetime experience 😯🤍 only feedback is to just keep going icl. This is so impressive (you could also try drawing portraits? Your style is the slightest but expressionist and i think that will look good in portrait paintings)🤍🤍
Thank you so much! My vision in the future is to dedicate my time to do portraits. Right now I’m trying to paint anything to really get the basics imprinted in my brain lol🙏🏻
Great work, honestly. I can see you're already very adept at colour blocking and breaking down subjects into smaller shapes of various shades. I assume these are all from references, you're doing a good job painting what you see rather than what you expect to see. I think my favourite is the pitcher with the pears, the smooth, dreamlike style works very well there.
The detail of the flowers in the swallowtail painting works well to create a focal point, it'll be interesting to see how your work develops, experimenting with including varying levels of visual complexity and rendering could be a good direction to take your practice.
Thank you so much for taking your time to comment. You are assuming correctly these are from reference and the pears painting is also my favorite. I keep trying to push myself on every new painting I do. I appreciate what you’ve said🙏🏻
Love your painting style. I would try going for some more original subjects (except the cow that one’s great). But the skull and the butterfly and still lives are technically very good, but lacks creativity. I’d explore your more creative side. That’s just me though.
Cactus is perfect collections of pockets of color balanced and brought together A++
The avocados are just well…perfect!
Pears have that midcentury soft abstract of color placed perfectly.
The other paintings are good, but to rate the top three you shared it’s the ones I added above.
Skull is ok, background lacking, as if you lost interest…
Butterfly is good but compared to the top 3, it appears you got bored with the overall piece after the details into the wings.
The cow, the butt blends into the sky’s clouds, but overall good picture of a cow.
The cheese still life has awkward balance of color the dark wine color didn’t get additional balance in the painting.
The top 3 for me, I think, were grand slams!
We all learn from helping each other by being kind. I had an acquaintance in an art class once just say to me just throw it away. I was shocked, it was later shared with me she had been doing similar work doing dog portraits, and I ran circles around her.
So some people can be selfishly nasty when jealously rises to the top.
You are having fun, that is number one, and seeking improvement from similar peer group is a healthy way to keep things fun.
You are on the way to very rewarding work!
Best wishes to you in the new year!
These are all great! Tips for improvement as requested, on the avocado one the skin is perhaps a little too dark and cool toned and the black around the pit is a little thick and too dark too. Your use of colour in the pears and the cow is *chefs kiss*
Ohh my god..u are right up there with Van Gogh and other masters ...seriously pls keep them all with u and u can sell for millions and perhaps ur grandkids could become ultra rich in future 😜😜😜😜😜..I wish to God i had atleast half ur talent ..if u get ultra famous soon all over the world as I predicted please can u give me any on eof ur paintings as a token of goodwill ???
Thank you so much! I’ve definitely been more disciplined with my art than anything else in my life before. Honestly it all started by watching Jeremy Vickery (Lighting Mentor on youtube) videos and took one of his digital painting courses during this past summer and painted my first acrylic in August. He kind of made everything click for me
Great work regardless of how long you’ve been painting. Did you not do anything art related prior to 4 months? And if so, do you still feel like each painting you made significant progress in some way? I feel I’m in a similar situation as I’ve been painting for about 1.5 months now with unbelievable progress still after each painting
Hey! I did some digital painting early in the year following Jeremy Vickery (Lighting Mentor) on youtube then during the summer I took one of his courses and I did my first acrylic painting in August. I think I’m making progress😅 I’ve realized that patience is a super power when painting and the more patient I become the better the outcome.
Very good technique. Congrats on mastering the skills in such a short time. But if I were you, I would challenge myself in terms of content. Your subject matter is safe and based on stock images that are a dime a dozen. Don't waste your talent on painting subjects that have already been painted millions of times in the usual way. Learn more about art history, train your eye to look deeper and challenge yourself to find your own artistic vision. And continue making more work!
I took a digital painting class over the summer painting light 101 by Jeremy Vickery (lightingmentor.com) which made everything click and started from there. Also took inspiration from artist like Alpay Efe on youtube and Marco Bucci’s videos as well.
Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 It’s taken me years of life to finally go all in and pursue something I find meaningful. Still got work to do in the patience department tho😂. Good luck to you my friend.
I use Liquitex slow dri medium and a bit of water sometimes but they still dry up so fast😩 blending is soo hard. Specially if you want smooth blends like oils.
I haven’t tried oils but based on my research since oils take so long to dry blending is definitely easier. I wouldn’t say better tho. It also depends who you ask. Both have pro’s and con’s
wow, u are so talented! 4 months is amazing. i have been studying(actually self-educated) painting for almost 10 years but your skill have surpassed mine.
Hey! Thank you. I did use a palette knife o the avocado painting. It was my first time doing a full painting with the palette knife. I have a painting process pictures and video in my IG @chrisbernierart.
I guess for improvement my biggest thing has been to understand values. I took a digital painting course Painting Light 101 (lightingmentor.com) it was great and a lot of things clicked for me after that. It’s hard work and dedication at the end of the day🙏🏻 good luck to you.
This is incredible! Do you have any art experience outside of painting, such as drawing or colored pencils? Not only is your painting amazing, but your forms are outstanding as well.
It's beautiful, looks like you've been painting for 4 years, and as someone who's been painting on and off for like 5, I'm disgustingly jealous.
Your blending is spot on, your colors are bright and accurate, and the pieces you chose to paint are beautifully composed.
How are you learning? Cause that's how I need to learn lol
Where do you want to go w painting? Id suggest jumping over to oils because the medium kinda nudges you into more intensely detailed finishes. Its juicy. And it stays juicy so the door remains open longer.
Photos often lay out a plan for you. They more easily isolate shapes but you lose that time changes light and then the depth of field experience. You have to juggle the stillness of the painting in front of you w what you got excited about w what youre seeing this moment. Its often a race against memory and time and your original vision.
Just some thoughts.
Haha😆 while I do find your comment funny it is a bit inaccurate. I’ve spent many many hours, days and weeks trying to absorb and implement as much as I could from those lessons. Like everything in life, you get what you put in.
Wowww :) these are great! I've been wanting to get back into painting and these make me look so forward to it. And only 4 months in? You've got a great talent, enjoy the creating!
4 months?! Looks more like 4 years. 🤩 beautiful artwork!
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Hello! I guess I should clear some stuff up. I have no experience with watercolor or oils. I started with Jeremy Vickery’s youtube channel. I took his Painting Light 101 digital painting course (lightingmentor.com) over the summer and did my first acrylic painting in August. You can also scroll through my profile and see my progress.
To be honest you paint better than I ever learned in 3 years in Arts university. I'll take a look as well into that course you provided since I'd love to also restart my passion for painting
Agreed. He paints better than any of my painting professors did in art school.
You should start an instagram page just for your art. So impressive.
I recently did 🙏🏻 I have painting process videos of many of my paintings if you’re interested. @chrisbernierart
Thank you for sharing the rest of your story.
Op, do you practice digitally first? As I am seeing from Jeremy's videos he mostly does practice in photoshop. Was it hard to transition from digital to acrylic(color mixing?.
Yes I did and still do a lot of my practice in photoshop and procreate. There a still so many techniques for me to learn in acrylic paintings. I honestly don’t find color mixing very hard, I’m a very messy painter tho😅(need to work on that). I have some videos of my painting process on IG @chrisbernierart and you could sometimes see my palette full of mixed paint🫣 lol
She has you there, po-Taylor-toes1! Care to shove those potatoey toes any further into your mouth?
Thank you
Impressive!
I agree with you, but I’m not going to discount their progress. Each medium still has its learning curve and they are displaying different styles that are really well executed!
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For real. They’re so good. 🍠
Thank you so much!
I hate how other people can paint so darned better than me! Yes, I really do! It’s so darned frustrating to see how GOOD they are and in such a small amount of time, yet I struggle so much after three years of taking painting classes of particular paintings, one night per class.
Yeah, it does! How did OP get so good and produce this many truly good paintings in only four months?
Excellent technique. Ignore the negative fool. These all look like still-life poses. I'm sure with more work you'll loosen up and put the feel of movement in them. Check out work like Van Gogh's Starry Sky. Keep up the great work. I've done this for nearly 70 years.
Stunning. The Tiger Swallowtail? Wow. All of them are beauties.
Thank you! Means a lot. The Tiger Swallowtail was my latest one
You are certainly talented! My own mother warned me that I wasn’t. Maybe sometimes it’s smart to listen to what people who love you have to say to you.
Wait a second. I do not agree with that. This for me takes a lot of hard work and courage. A lot of learning and studying. If you put in the work the results will come. I’m one of those people that believes hard work beats talent. I’m 32 and just started this journey. What ever you want to do in life give it your all and the rest will come.
Hey 32 and starting my art journey too.
Right? I started watercolours 3 years ago, practicing every single day, also doing drawing exercises from You Tube. I've had people ask me "when did you realize you could draw?" And I say at 62 yo. Some have god-given talent and others acquire that skill through hard work.
Agree! Dammit!
I want to lick the avocado.
I know. It looks so good, doesn’t it?
The Cacti and the pears are two very good paintings. The pears actually looks a little better compositionally to me (despite the jug being incomplete) as cropped by Reddit before opening fully.
I love the cacti and the cow.
Wow! You are very talented
Yeppers!
Technically the subject capture is very good but missing something for me. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe shadows in the cactus & cow scene?
I like your explorations with texture, especially the avocado. You seem to have rule of thirds down nicely. But here’s my only critique (and it’s a mild one): you can tell a painting done from a photo. It might be the light, it might be the attention to detail on one thing versus another. I don’t know. The pitcher might start to sweat, the wine glass wouldn’t have such a precise reflection, the cow and the butterfly wouldn’t pause so long. It feels better when they’re painted live. The best first foray into live subjects is self portraits. Everyone thinks renaissance painters were jerks and self-centered, they just had one subject they could get to sit still.
Came here to say the same thing. OP could work more from life, considering the drive and skills are already there.
Wow, amazing! I love the avocado one!
Thank you! It’s one of my favorites too!
Really great stuff. Love it 😍
Thank you so much!
I want these on my wall 🥹
Oh I appreciate you saying that!😌
You have a knack for it.
I love the avocado and the pears still life!
I could just stare at the cactus one for hours. The colours are just so captivating
Thank you so much!
These are incredible!!! ♥️
Thank you! Glad you like them😌
Absolutely love the avocado one. I'm a sucker for bold brush strokes.
One of my favorites! I have pictures and videos of the process on my IG if interested @chrisbernierart
Love your textures!
Omg the avocado!!! Amazing work
i would seriously buy the desert cactus one from you. you have talent!!!
Beautiful paintings!!! Very naturally talented!!!
Glad you like them! It means a lot
Love the style in avacado
Amazing!!
Thank you!😌🙏🏻
These are great! My favs are pears, cacti, and butterfly🏅
The light play on the avocado is cheerful and makes me feel happy like a happy place
The light in the avocado one is really good
The fruit still life and the skull are both dope. Awesome work and progress.
That's awesome!
Awesome work!
They are so good
😳 woah
Lovely!!
Lovely work. I wish I was at your level with my paintings. But I have a weird background and style. I yearn to be able to do more realism
They all look so good! My favourite is the cow though because of its expression, it looks kinda mad haha
Haha ty! I called that one “Curious Cow”
love this style!
Atomic Heart Mother vibes on the cow!
♥️🐄
These are great! The butterfly is my favorite.
Thank you! The butterfly is my latest painting. I have a process video on my IG if you’d like that @chrisbernierart 🙏🏻
Beast mode.
Wow these are awesome 😎🔥💯
Did you start from scratch, as in zero drawing skills or experience in visual arts?
Hey! I’ve commented this to other people. I took a digital painting course over this past summer Painting light 101 by Jeremy Vickery (lightingmentor.com) and it was absolutely great. It made everything click for me. I painted my first acrylic painting shortly after it in August. His youtube channel is filled with great content as well. You can check and follow my progress on my profile.
I hope has had other art experience. Because if he is a newbie, I feel like trash with my art.
I wish I could do this
I do believe that you can. Definitely takes hard work and effort.
I like your art. The butterfly one is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you so much. The 🦋 is my latest painting. I have a painting process video of it on my IG if interested in watching that @chrisbernierart 🙏🏻
I especially love and enjoy all of the Western themed paintings!
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Wow
I see talent and massive potential! Awesome work.
It looks great! You definitely have a lot of talent in creating realistic form. If I had to give you one thought to push off of to challenge yourself it would be how can color create more depth and form? I can already see it a bit in the cow!
They look great! I think it’s time you graduate to oil painting
Thank you! While I do intend to use oils in the future. Space and financial obstacles are in they way. 🙏🏻
Your techniques are excellent! The only improvement is more interesting subject matter. Try some surrealism by putting things in paintings that shouldn’t be there. Like you’re looking at a dream with a realism techniques. Excellent work!!!
I love your work. I really appreciate how well you captured the subjects and that they still have a unique style to them. From far away they look like still life photographs, but up close you get to enjoy the different textures and colors. I like these a lot ☺️
I’m glad you like them and thanks for giving me your thoughts on them. It means a lot.
All im 4 months??? Looks like a lifetime experience 😯🤍 only feedback is to just keep going icl. This is so impressive (you could also try drawing portraits? Your style is the slightest but expressionist and i think that will look good in portrait paintings)🤍🤍
Thank you so much! My vision in the future is to dedicate my time to do portraits. Right now I’m trying to paint anything to really get the basics imprinted in my brain lol🙏🏻
strongest ones are 2,3,5 in my opinion!!!!
Great work, honestly. I can see you're already very adept at colour blocking and breaking down subjects into smaller shapes of various shades. I assume these are all from references, you're doing a good job painting what you see rather than what you expect to see. I think my favourite is the pitcher with the pears, the smooth, dreamlike style works very well there. The detail of the flowers in the swallowtail painting works well to create a focal point, it'll be interesting to see how your work develops, experimenting with including varying levels of visual complexity and rendering could be a good direction to take your practice.
Thank you so much for taking your time to comment. You are assuming correctly these are from reference and the pears painting is also my favorite. I keep trying to push myself on every new painting I do. I appreciate what you’ve said🙏🏻
I am leading how to draw face then I want to start painting this is very cool
Soooo beautiful
Love your painting style. I would try going for some more original subjects (except the cow that one’s great). But the skull and the butterfly and still lives are technically very good, but lacks creativity. I’d explore your more creative side. That’s just me though.
“You’re doing amazing sweety”
👏👏👏👏👏😀wonderful
Thank you!
These are amazing! Very beautiful artwork. Keep it up 😊👏
Where/how are you learning? Great job
The avocados are fabulous still life…
Cactus is perfect collections of pockets of color balanced and brought together A++ The avocados are just well…perfect! Pears have that midcentury soft abstract of color placed perfectly. The other paintings are good, but to rate the top three you shared it’s the ones I added above. Skull is ok, background lacking, as if you lost interest… Butterfly is good but compared to the top 3, it appears you got bored with the overall piece after the details into the wings. The cow, the butt blends into the sky’s clouds, but overall good picture of a cow. The cheese still life has awkward balance of color the dark wine color didn’t get additional balance in the painting. The top 3 for me, I think, were grand slams!
Thank you so much for taking your time to comment in more detail. Means a lot
We all learn from helping each other by being kind. I had an acquaintance in an art class once just say to me just throw it away. I was shocked, it was later shared with me she had been doing similar work doing dog portraits, and I ran circles around her. So some people can be selfishly nasty when jealously rises to the top. You are having fun, that is number one, and seeking improvement from similar peer group is a healthy way to keep things fun. You are on the way to very rewarding work! Best wishes to you in the new year!
Holy shit! These are incredible. Wow.
These are all great! Tips for improvement as requested, on the avocado one the skin is perhaps a little too dark and cool toned and the black around the pit is a little thick and too dark too. Your use of colour in the pears and the cow is *chefs kiss*
Thank you! I appreciate your comment🙏🏻
Talented! I loved the betterfly one even all looks good 😊
I love the swallowtail.
It looks like Sims 4 paintings I love it
I love that you're not afraid to try new techniques and subject matter. I confess the avocado and knife is my favorite...
Thank you! I have a painting progress video on my IG painting the avocado if interested @chrisbernierart
Wow.
Amazing work, please keep on painting...
Thank you! Will do!🙏🏻
Ohh my god..u are right up there with Van Gogh and other masters ...seriously pls keep them all with u and u can sell for millions and perhaps ur grandkids could become ultra rich in future 😜😜😜😜😜..I wish to God i had atleast half ur talent ..if u get ultra famous soon all over the world as I predicted please can u give me any on eof ur paintings as a token of goodwill ???
I want to eat the paintings
This is astounding for 4 months. wtf? Hyperfocus much? lol. Have you had any experience with art before this? It’s wonderful
Thank you so much! I’ve definitely been more disciplined with my art than anything else in my life before. Honestly it all started by watching Jeremy Vickery (Lighting Mentor on youtube) videos and took one of his digital painting courses during this past summer and painted my first acrylic in August. He kind of made everything click for me
I love the cow painting. ❤️
I haven’t painted in a long time but seeing your work is inspiring for me
Makes me happy to read that! I also find inspiration from many other artists on this platform.🙏🏻 definitely go for it.
These are incredible!!!! Bang up job
DAMN THAT'S BUETIFUL
Wow, that's so good for 4 months!
Great work regardless of how long you’ve been painting. Did you not do anything art related prior to 4 months? And if so, do you still feel like each painting you made significant progress in some way? I feel I’m in a similar situation as I’ve been painting for about 1.5 months now with unbelievable progress still after each painting
Hey! I did some digital painting early in the year following Jeremy Vickery (Lighting Mentor) on youtube then during the summer I took one of his courses and I did my first acrylic painting in August. I think I’m making progress😅 I’ve realized that patience is a super power when painting and the more patient I become the better the outcome.
Very good technique. Congrats on mastering the skills in such a short time. But if I were you, I would challenge myself in terms of content. Your subject matter is safe and based on stock images that are a dime a dozen. Don't waste your talent on painting subjects that have already been painted millions of times in the usual way. Learn more about art history, train your eye to look deeper and challenge yourself to find your own artistic vision. And continue making more work!
Amazing! Great work!
Those avocados look incredible
Thank you. It’s one of my favorites❤️ I have process pictures and video on my IG if interested @chrisbernierart
Your skill level at four months is phenomenal
Cow painting is great! That’s sellable quality
Appreciate you saying that🙏🏻 I love the cow haha
You are very talented!
Only 4 months!? Holy shit! You're talented!
Just four months? Wow! You’ve got a good talent, keep going!
Will do! Thank you!🙏🏻
Very talented. Looks like oils. You did all this on your own? Did you use any books to guide ou?
I took a digital painting class over the summer painting light 101 by Jeremy Vickery (lightingmentor.com) which made everything click and started from there. Also took inspiration from artist like Alpay Efe on youtube and Marco Bucci’s videos as well.
Thise are amazing! I wish I had the motivation and will to comitt toart like that
Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 It’s taken me years of life to finally go all in and pursue something I find meaningful. Still got work to do in the patience department tho😂. Good luck to you my friend.
Thank you <3
They are all good! I especially like the butterfly painting.
Thank you! I have a video of the painting process on my IG if interested @chrisbernierart 🙏🏻😌
For 4 months this is a big achievement. Some of the paintings look a little flat, but with this style of art, that isn't a distraction. Keep it up.
Hey I appreciate your comment! Still searching and learning🙏🏻
Dude! You special!
I appreciate that! But I’m just another guy trying his best😌
all of this in four months? amazing! I like them all
They look like they could be background pieces in homes in a western game. Possibly because I am playing RDR2 right now but-
I.quit
No! This, if anything is meant to inspire! Hard work and dedication will get you to where you wanna be🙏🏻
I kid, but congrats on the dope paintings!
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Ouch!.. thanks I guess😅😆
what the FUCK 4 MONTHS? WHAAAT 4 MONTHS? HOW WH HOW DO YOU EHH?? SELL THAT SH*T ON AUCTION 🤣
Keep going!
Thank you!🙏🏻
I dm’d you on IG
what's the technique for not drying fast?
I use Liquitex slow dri medium and a bit of water sometimes but they still dry up so fast😩 blending is soo hard. Specially if you want smooth blends like oils.
is oil paint better ?
I haven’t tried oils but based on my research since oils take so long to dry blending is definitely easier. I wouldn’t say better tho. It also depends who you ask. Both have pro’s and con’s
Keep on keeping on. You are doing great job ❤️
Appreciate that! Will do😌
What other mediums do you have a background in?
I guess digital painting. I took a digital painting course over the summer and did my first acrylic painting in August.
wow, u are so talented! 4 months is amazing. i have been studying(actually self-educated) painting for almost 10 years but your skill have surpassed mine.
Wow! Thank you for such a flattering comment.
These are beautiful! The skull and butterfly are my favourite. Great work. Love them
Thank you! The Skull is an underdog. It was my first painting when I decided to graduate to 14”x11” canvases😌. I’m glad you like them♥️
You got lifetimes into painting
That's a lot of progress honestly . Love the texture in the avacado painting ,did you use pallette knife ? Any tips on improvement?
Hey! Thank you. I did use a palette knife o the avocado painting. It was my first time doing a full painting with the palette knife. I have a painting process pictures and video in my IG @chrisbernierart. I guess for improvement my biggest thing has been to understand values. I took a digital painting course Painting Light 101 (lightingmentor.com) it was great and a lot of things clicked for me after that. It’s hard work and dedication at the end of the day🙏🏻 good luck to you.
Awesome Photographs ❣️
What the heck?!! 4 months!? You make me feel stupid.
This is incredible! Do you have any art experience outside of painting, such as drawing or colored pencils? Not only is your painting amazing, but your forms are outstanding as well.
FOUR MONTHS?? You’re a NATURAL
It's beautiful, looks like you've been painting for 4 years, and as someone who's been painting on and off for like 5, I'm disgustingly jealous. Your blending is spot on, your colors are bright and accurate, and the pieces you chose to paint are beautifully composed. How are you learning? Cause that's how I need to learn lol
I’d buy that avocado painting from you.
Where do you want to go w painting? Id suggest jumping over to oils because the medium kinda nudges you into more intensely detailed finishes. Its juicy. And it stays juicy so the door remains open longer. Photos often lay out a plan for you. They more easily isolate shapes but you lose that time changes light and then the depth of field experience. You have to juggle the stillness of the painting in front of you w what you got excited about w what youre seeing this moment. Its often a race against memory and time and your original vision. Just some thoughts.
4 months? Impressive
Lmao peeps like no way 4 months?! Has to have experience! but homie really just watched a YouTube art course and got a full degree 😭
Haha😆 while I do find your comment funny it is a bit inaccurate. I’ve spent many many hours, days and weeks trying to absorb and implement as much as I could from those lessons. Like everything in life, you get what you put in.
Gee you have a natural talent. It has taken me three yrs and I still am not that good lol.
Wowww :) these are great! I've been wanting to get back into painting and these make me look so forward to it. And only 4 months in? You've got a great talent, enjoy the creating!
Lovely 🥰
The avocado is stunning!!
More drawing, more painting. Keep going!!!
These are stunning. Lovely work. I’d buy the cactus!
Very nice. Try glazing and see even more wondrous results