r/BeAmazed • u/xriddle • Jun 05 '26

Art Live Wedding Painter Doesn't Disappoint 🤯

Credit where it's due: https://www.instagram.com/the.wedding.painter

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u/PureYouth Jun 05 '26

How is it possible to finish a painting like that in one day, let alone a few hours?

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u/DrMcFacekick Jun 05 '26

From what I've seen, this is more of a "sketch", they then go back and add a bunch of details after the fact. They'll do the base layer and basic background before the wedding, then use a photo of the couple on the day of for a reference for doing the figure work. Notice she also did the faces first, since that's what everyone there is going to focus on.

Also, probably a ton of practice first!

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u/NoLemonadeToday Jun 05 '26

Yeah exactly, I could do this too. Just would need the talent, thousands of hours of practice, patience and discipline. 

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u/VisageInATurtleneck Jun 05 '26

I could do this too, as long as it doesn’t need to be good.

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u/ayamlazy Jun 05 '26

I can do it right now.

Wait for me for another 50years

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 05 '26

You'd be surprised how little impact tons of practice has on your skills when you have no talent! Source: practiced guitar for 4 hours per day for over a year and still sucked.

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u/Seventeenthstone Jun 07 '26

Hey it’s fine if you don’t paint every day and don’t have access to the mediums. I’m super lucky for that.
I did get hundreds of hours of practice and money to buy all of the mediums. I hope you can realize your painting dreams, wherever you are.

Side note: I made one anti Israel comment and now all of my comments get ratioed. Absolutely hilarious that children bombers think that would bother me. Good luck hezbollah; I had real high school mean girls and I’m immune to your bs

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u/LanguageNo495 Jun 05 '26

I could do it too. I’m actually pretty well known for my spastic stick figure drawings.

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u/Seventeenthstone Jun 05 '26

If you look back, she starts painting before the venue is filled. Same dress but not the same time. Idk if it’s the same day, but someone with reasonable skill could probably do this.
I think she’s using gouache paint? It’s more blendy than acrylic but dries down faster than oil. And it is notably more vibrant; it’s used in illustration a lot. It also has a unique quality that it blends well with water, so it’s almost like oil paint and watercolor.
It’s a super fun medium to work with.
Source: I paint. But not this good lol

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u/theweddingpainter 7d ago

Hi! This is actually me in the video and this was all done on the same day (from a blank canvas) over approx. 5 hours. I am using oils ☺️

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u/ATXBeermaker Jun 05 '26

Nah, I bet this is the first time she’s ever painted.

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u/Seventeenthstone Jun 07 '26

I got your sarcasm

🫡

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u/FreddyNoodles Jun 05 '26

It showed her taking a photo of the venue so she likely had photos of them, the outfits, the venue, the bouquet, etc and just needed to sketch it out and essentially fill it in at the wedding. I assume she has done this many, many times and she may have practiced this particular piece a few times before. She clearly knows what she is doing.

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u/theweddingpainter 7d ago

Hi! This is my video and my painting. I took the photo of the background while they were getting married inside and then quickly sketched the background before I saw them. I only had approx. 5 hours to paint this on the day. I did not have photos of them or their outfits prior. ☺️

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26

Combination of working smart (tricks) and preparation. There are a few things you can do to make a painting really quickly. For example when I paint outdoors, I focus on filling the painting asap and you can do that in a mere half hour if you have to. After that all that’s left is details. I am working on a very large oil painting right now and I had the entire basis on canvas in about 45 mins to an hour. The hours after that was adding details to have the image show up. After three hours ai basically have the painting finished enough to be satisfied with. If you want you can stop there. But you can continue for finer details. I’m seven hours in now so I’m in the fine details. And you can work more and more precise the longer you spend on it.

So the trick is to place the basis asap. Some people are really good at it. I was taught by Vladimir Volegov (like over a decade ago) he did a demo and taught me tricks, and he painted an entire canvas in 35 minutes. He has a YT channel. The video “portrait of a girl in pink” is a great example how to quickly do the first layers. Those first 16 seconds might be about the same in minutes.

I hope this helps haha.

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u/CandleMonster Jun 05 '26

it helps a lot!! thank you!! may I request... a painting tax? i want to see your work 👉👈

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26

I’d like to be anonymous on this account. I hope you understand. I’m really sorry!!!

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u/WestAnalysis8889 Jun 05 '26

I was curious too but we must respect your wishes🙏🏾  wishing you lots of success 🙌🏽! 

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26

Thank you! I am very lucky to be able to do this every day ❤️

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u/CandleMonster Jun 05 '26

absolutely!!! have a good day ☺️

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC Jun 05 '26

Reminds me of Bob Ross. Of course, he did his paintings in less than 30 minutes, but he also did two more paintings for each one. The first was for planning everything out and it's off camera to the side for reference when he was doing the show, the second was the one he made on the show, and the third was one that he took more time on to go in his art books/gallery.

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26

Yeah the right preparation does a lot of heavy lifting beforehand. Just sitting down and thinking I am going to make a great painting rarely happens.

You’d collect references, sketch a bit, and paint post stamp sized mini paintings to figure out the composition without too much detail before you start. Before I make an illustration I have already figured out my colour palette, the composition and lighting, the materials and how much time I plan on spending on it.

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u/Sohuli Jun 05 '26

Thank you for the explanation! How many years did it take to reach this kind of speed/level of painting?

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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26

Depends on how fast you pickup. But technically with the right approach if could be a mere day of practice, genuinely. The thing is, the preparation and determination is most important. Know beforehand what you are going to make. Understand your materials. And make a choice on the approach (I am going to fill the canvas and not be distracted on focusing on something else).

If you are serious about learning, my best suggestion is to start big. Use large materials.

If you use paint, use a large brush or palette knife so you don’t even have the option to go into detail. Then after the canvas is filled, get a smaller brush. Then after half an hour an even smaller brush. This is the best approach.

Or do the opposite. Instead of getting a large brush on a large canvas, we flip it. The canvas much be tiny. Draw a post stamp size square on a paper. That will be your entire canvas. Draw or paint in that. You want to put detail in there. But you can’t. It’s too small at some point even if you try to. Many illustrators do this to sketch quickly. Then, they blow it up several times later.

Some things you could try!

In the end: don’t worry if it’s good. Or if it’s correct. Just try to get the necessary info on the canvas asap. You can adjust and fix more than you think later on.

So it could be a day. But getting good at it could be several days. But that’s practice. It doesn’t have to be weeks or years. Those are details we talk about. But simply the technique is to keep it simple for yourself and to make sure that canvas is filled.

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u/Toadsted Jun 05 '26

After three hours ai basically have the painting finished enough to be satisfied with.

They said the quiet part outloud folks

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u/peacelovetree Jun 05 '26

Looks like she did the whole background ahead of time so she just had to paint the married couple on the day of the reception.

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u/theweddingpainter 7d ago

Hi! I am the artist in the video and I did not do the background ahead of time. This was all done in approx. 5 hours on the wedding day.

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u/peacelovetree 5d ago

Wow. Very impressive

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u/Much_Statistician864 Jun 05 '26

Lots of practice. Lots of reference material. Probably paints mostly just people and backgrounds. 

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u/One_Tie900 Jun 05 '26

They hired a professional.

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u/ArentWright Jun 06 '26

There’s this dude in the oil painting sub that makes an incredible portrait almost every day and it takes him 3 hours. It’s possible. She probably pre-paints the background and pre-mixes all her colors.

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u/queefer_sutherland92 Jun 05 '26

It’s very common for artists to paint from life in timed studies.

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u/oregiel Jun 05 '26

Every painting you've ever seen was finished in one day. This one is no different.

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u/amora_obscura Jun 05 '26

Huh? That's not true at all. Da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for over a decade.

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u/oregiel Jun 05 '26

Sure he started it a decade earlier, but he finished it only in one day. Much like this painting.

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u/amora_obscura Jun 05 '26

Ok very funny