Oil Painting Time Lapse | Underwater Rose

Thank you for joining me for this oil painting time lapse where I paint an underwater rose. I've done an underwater themed painting before. It was a portrait and it's been almost four years since I painted that. I wanted to revisit the idea but this time with flowers. The vast majority of my paintings start with an underpainting layer and I have a video all about this stage of the process so definitely check it out if you're curious and unfamiliar with why I choose to do this rather than using color right away. After I finish my underpainting I give it some time to dry and I mix the main colors that I would need for this painting after which I start the first color layer. Also yes I recently dyed my hair purple because why not? The world kind of sucks right now so might as well have purple hair right? Yep that logic makes total sense. I try to use my own reference images for my art as much as possible meaning I use photos that I take myself. In this case I'm actually using a screenshot from a video I filmed and if you would like to use references like this for yourself and your own paintings I have a whole series of underwater roses and sunflowers available on my Patreon which you can use as reference along with a color mixing demonstration where I explain exactly what I'm doing and why for this painting. I let my first color layer dry and then scraped off some of the dried paint off my palette leaving the larger blobs of paint because I could still poke through them and there's still a lot of usable paint there and I went for my next color layer where I do more detailing and smoothing things out. Doing details actually takes up way more time than the first color layer or underpainting combined. Those usually go by pretty quickly but I can spend an eternity touching up a painting. For larger paintings like this I usually never finish in one sitting. I always come back to the painting several times throughout the course of a few days, weeks, or even months. This one took about five or six separate sittings or standings technically. Lately with my paintings I'm trying to let myself be more free with my brushstrokes and use more paint to create texture and allow the painting to have visible brushstrokes versus making it really smooth like a photo but it is so difficult for me and my brain just wants to detail everything into oblivion and it's something I'm trying to challenge myself with and find a balance of the painting looking more painterly but also complete. That is the finished painting. This painting will be available in my art store on August 30th at 4 pm eastern time along with a bunch of other original paintings in all sizes and price ranges. There are new paintings, a couple really old paintings. I'm doing a huge studio clearance sale at the end of this month. There's going to be over 20 originals available because we're moving. I'll let you guys know more details about that and where I'm headed in a future video but I'd love to find new homes for these paintings so that I don't have as many things to drag across the country. So August 30th 4 pm eastern time they'll be available and I have a mailing list that you can sign up to on my website. I'll email you a reminder about that and don't worry I promise I won't spam you. I hardly ever send emails only when there's a major update to my art store and that doesn't happen very often. I feel like in the time span of having this youtube channel I've moved so many times and here we go again. Maybe there will be yet another moving vlog let me know if you guys want that or if you're just over me moving a million times. I mean the last moving vlog was like three years ago so that's that's cool it's a record. So I'll tell you guys more information in a video soon and yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this painting time lapse. Thank you so much for watching. I hope to see you in my next video and I'm wishing you a beautiful and inspiring day.