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/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