I am so in awe of you it’s not even funny. Your breath-taking talent, your humor, your ability to explain and teach the process is just so wonderful. Thank you for sharing this with us❤️
Incredible, thank you so much. Watching you create is like calming therapy. Makes you feel as though you are part of the process. You create such wonderful artwork. Thanks again ❤
I went back to watch this beauty as I am doing a texture piece. I too have had a bird on my head. As a small child I had a Bluejay peck my head until it was bleeding. I have never forgotten to NEVER climb in a tree and try to take eggs out of a nest. 😱😳
@@lydiabroderick867 Nah...it is a funny story now...probably 60 yrs later. My friend was screaming for my mother because I was just "frozen" in the tree and she just kept flying off the "dive bombing" again. Mom was screaming JUMP but I was just like paralyzed. Finally mom crawled up, grabbed one arm and threw me on the ground. Then she whipped my ass (AND the neighbor boy's) for being so cruel as to be stealing the eggs. 🤣😷 Being my mother was not an easy job! Thanks for bringing back hysterical memory and I apologize for putting it on your channel. Stick to painting comments Michelle. Oh...really sorry about the comments on other video today! DONE...
Very spiritual look to the painting! Love the background music as well...colors of the Northeast in Winter...I remember it but prefer the 75 degrees it is here. You just keep growing in your craft! Impressive!
Thank you mom!!! Yes... Winter is cold and gray. Thankfully, I have my boys here to keep me cheerful and warm. It would be nice to have a cup of tea and a crossword puzzle or two with you though.❤❤❤
#replay This is STUNNING. I SO wish you would do a real time or in depth tutorial on your portraits (in any direction or pose), from the initial outline to the shading to the details, etc. Do you use references? I only know how to use acrylics so I'm sure an oil painting tutorial would be harder to follow, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for the future...
I love your background technique & great painting overall! Lately I've been playing around with cold wax and transparent oils so I think I'll try your initial background & gesso and then start right in layering with cold wax. Great Video! Much appreciated! Stay Safe, Healthy, & Happy! 👍💖
Lydia you are MAGICAL! I am a new subbie and I am binge watching your magical videos. I am an amateur acrylic artist and I have been trying to achieve the types of backgrounds you create. They are absolutely my favorite parts of your videos. I love to create textural intitutive abstract art. Thank you for sharing your amazing skill, talents and visions. I am learning sooooo much!! I wish I was good at portraiture or at least better at silhouettes🥴😊🥴. I love the incorporation of the portraits in your work. ❤❤❤
😮😮😮😮😮just wonderful.. Hope , i could meet you... I want to learn your observation skills face to face . Really impossible it is ...but i wish it anyway..😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for making my morning! Another one of my favorite bird additions to your lovely talented collections. I love your beautiful haunting faces. So talented!!
My thought process: “Lydia is serious today. Why so serious? Ah, she’s trying to teach us luddites something! Cool! I miss wise-cracking Lydia! But again, this is hella cool. Focus Karen focus. And then, there it was! The quip of the day! “Now that I’m done fondling my painting…”. I spewed my wine! 😂😂😂. I love you and your talent so much. Another awesome painting. ❤. PS. I don’t love you love you; I don’t even KNOW you. You know? The bird needs a name…Spartacus? I really should put down the wine.
Haha!!! Thank you Karen! It's funny... During editing I was thinking "Hmmm... I feel like I've captured a weird intimate moment with me and this canvas.... Nice texture... Do you come here often?" I like Spartacus for the name of the bird! I raise my glass (wine glass) to you. ❤❤❤
Love it! I caught myself observing a cow while it was observing me the other day, and...I'm glad he didn't land on my head. And you're almost at 1,000 subscribers!! Congrats to you! Hope you're well friend. ❤
Thank you Shane! I'm certain that there would have been some irreversible damage to body and mind if a cow landed on you... I'm glad that wasn't the case.😁
Love your process & the way you explain it through out the video.I believe ive become a new enthusiastic fan of your work----- keep creating & sharing Thank you again❤
Love the way you talk me through the process of this beautiful piece 👌 But also you excplain how seasons and colours can effect a painting. And Lydia 🤣 you moved a lot of paint in this video 😉
Stunning, I have no words. Thank you for sharing Lydia ! I enjoy you telling us your process in creation of this piece. It was very interesting and cool to see it come to life 😊
I love your paintings and love how you describe what your doing and the reasons very valuable for me being a new artist you are very refreshing to watch 🎉
I can't find any more words...but ofcourse I will. Your pieces nearly always move me to tears...they evoke an emotional response that always shocks me. Next you have that personality that also draws me in... by it's layers of textures equal to your works. You are f+++ing funny! Finally your actual "teaching " that includes techniques as well as reasoning and sharing of thought processes. Finally I can't stop myself from asking...Will you marry me? 😂 We could put canvases side by side and live in painting bliss.......
Oh Michelle!!! You are wonderful!!! Thank you so much and if wasn't already engaged, I would consider it!😁 I am so glad to have you as one of my biggest supporters! Your comments are always so heartfelt. I can't tell you how much it means to me... I don't have the words.❤❤❤
@@lydiabroderick867 I started with texture work in 1992. A couple of years ago I started seeing people pouring and covered MANY canvases. I am BORED with watching and doing. So several months ago I went back to my love. I am not saying that pouring doesn't require any talent...but most is "dump and hope". 🤣 Texture and other forms of abstract are MUCH more intentional (if I am making sense) I would love to share my work with you sometime...but I am sure you are bombarded with a thousand nut cases wanting to show you stuff. Have happy holidays!
I found out this morning and have been binging your videos (instead of editing images or doing homework) I'm in awe!! I would love to add painting, like the woman, to my creative outlets, where would you suggest I start? Drawing? more youtube beginner videos? You are amazing and thank you so much for sharing with us, this is so beautiful!!
I'm not sure how it would work on a wooden panel. I don't know if the paste would warp the panel as it dries. I've only done it on canvas. Good question!
Huge fan of your work!! Amazing painting. How do u lighten values with transparent oil? I have semi-transp white I mix with paints but that’s it. I haven’t tried galkyd gel tho, I’ve only used alkyd walnut oil and turpentine. Thanks!!
You mentioned SAD or seasonal effective disorder due to low light. I live in the Canadian Arctic where the sun disappears completely for a month. Prior to it disappearing completely you get progressively shorter days. Of course the opposite starts to happen in March and by the beginning of June we have 24 hour sunlight. Anyway I was just thinking I’d love to see what colours and textures you used at each of those extremes. I just love this painting. You are incredibly talented.
Thank you Chanda! That would be an interesting experiment. I'm curious... Living that far north with those extremes, how does it affect you? Also, how warm does it get in the summer months and how cold does it get in the winter?
@@lydiabroderick867 well I don’t have any problems with SAD but then I have put full spectrum lights in my home and we have have full spectrum lights at work. However as a nurse I see lots of people with SAD. The solution is a prescription for a special lamp that people can get for their home or take to work and sit in front of for several hours every day. Interestingly enough the Inuit who have lived in the north for thousands of years don’t ever struggle with SAD it’s just us non-natives who do. Summers can get very warm. Too warm these days actually. We actually hit 32C (90F) last summer. (Not good). Because the north is mostly rock and the sun never sets in the summer the rock heats up and then radiates that heat back up. The winter has been known to get into the -50C range (-50C=-58F) with the windchill even lower. It’s not as bad as it sounds actually.
@@chandarussell Wow okay... I need to get a prescription for one of those lamps! I had no idea it got that warm so far north! I figured it could get really cold, but that's some serious heat. Thank you for all that information. Really interesting!☺
@@lydiabroderick867 I’ve been up here for years and it rarely got above 20C (68F) in the summer. However the last 5 years we’ve been gradually getting warmer and that warmth has been causing big problems to the environment especially with the fauna.
You are who I wish to be creatively, completely enamoured by your talent and ability, thanks so much for sharing, oh, would you be so kind as to tell us where you get your text stencils? Thanks again!😊
Hi Tim, thank you!!! Here's a link for the script stencil.☺ CrafTreat French Writing Stencils for Painting on Wood, Canvas, Paper, Fabric, Wall and Tile - French Script - Size: A4 (8.3 x 11.7 Inch) - Reusable DIY Art and Craft Stencils - French Letter Stencil a.co/d/bARsHdS
J'adore votre travail💗💗💗 et encore une fois merci pour votre générosité. Pourriez-vous expliquer pourquoi avoir utilisé la peinture à l'huile pour le portrait? Merci pour votre retour.
This is my favourite so far!....I would love to know where you got this image or reference photo?...always looking for awesome references...please share!
Thankyou so much!....I did a wee play paint with this style today, of my daughter 😊, and turns out my Aunt asked me to do one for her...sharing the love xxx
Oh, I forgot to tell you, my nickname (well, one of them) is the bird whisperer! Lol! I have had many birds on my head!.... not all at one time.... and not just on my head.... everywhere, almost, really, cuz my cockatoos shower with me, TMI, Lol! This is gorgeous! (As are all of your pieces!)
Yes! and we stick together!.... cuz, you know, birds of a feather....(ok not quite deserving of a Lol.... I need an abreviation for snickering at my cheesiness.... SAMC! This is so veird, I am watching you do collagie papers and talking to you too! OMG, Its like hanging with a movie star!! @@lydiabroderick867
Thank you Sima! I used a mix of Paynes gray and Prussian blue thinned out for the background glazing. I stuck with a pretty limited palette. Burnt umber, raw umber, titanium buff and titanium white.
Excellent painting, did you burnish the painting later, if yes did you use Acrylic varnish or oil varnish..since you use both the medium in your painting
What a limitation …. Can only give 1 thumbsup…. I want give more.. so here it is…..
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Lydia, your videos inspire me every time I watch one. Your playful creativity has helped me out of an artistic rut. THANK YOU!
I am so in awe of you it’s not even funny. Your breath-taking talent, your humor, your ability to explain and teach the process is just so wonderful. Thank you for sharing this with us❤️
Thank you so much!!!❤☺🙏
Love this painting of yours the most. I love the colours and the effect of the oils. ❤❤❤
Incredible, thank you so much. Watching you create is like calming therapy. Makes you feel as though you are part of the process. You create such wonderful artwork. Thanks again ❤
Man I wish I could paint people like you do....practice, practice, practice, practice
I went back to watch this beauty as I am doing a texture piece. I too have had a bird on my head. As a small child I had a Bluejay peck my head until it was bleeding. I have never forgotten to NEVER climb in a tree and try to take eggs out of a nest. 😱😳
Omg! Did you scar? That sounds terrifying. Lesson learned.😳
@@lydiabroderick867 Nah...it is a funny story now...probably 60 yrs later. My friend was screaming for my mother because I was just "frozen" in the tree and she just kept flying off the "dive bombing" again. Mom was screaming JUMP but I was just like paralyzed. Finally mom crawled up, grabbed one arm and threw me on the ground. Then she whipped my ass (AND the neighbor boy's) for being so cruel as to be stealing the eggs. 🤣😷 Being my mother was not an easy job! Thanks for bringing back hysterical memory and I apologize for putting it on your channel. Stick to painting comments Michelle. Oh...really sorry about the comments on other video today! DONE...
Love watching your paintings come to life.
I always love the 50% mark on paintings, when I go, "Oh that's easy to do and look it's almost finished..."
Agreed!😁
Wowww!!! This is a absolutely a MASTERPIECE!!!! Awesome!!! Bravo Lydia👍🤗👏👏👏👌🫶😍🤩
Thank you so much Sylvie!!!❤❤❤
This is sooooo beautiful Lydia❤
Your work is out of this world - I just love your work - thanks for sharing it with us ❤
Thank you so much!❤
Very spiritual look to the painting! Love the background music as well...colors of the Northeast in Winter...I remember it but prefer the 75 degrees it is here. You just keep growing in your craft! Impressive!
Thank you mom!!! Yes... Winter is cold and gray. Thankfully, I have my boys here to keep me cheerful and warm. It would be nice to have a cup of tea and a crossword puzzle or two with you though.❤❤❤
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Your humor is so refreshing. Most youtubers take this too seriously. You are fun and serious!! ❤
Thank you Teresa! ❤❤❤
Oh wow this is stunning ... like they know a secret bird and human ... love it love it 🧡💛💙
Captivating Lydia, just captivating 🙏🏻
Thank you Lara!❤
Amazing piece of art - I love watching you create and it's really inspiring
Thank you!!!❤
The bird! Thank you for sharing! Absolutely loved your the final piece. Can't wait to see your next painting.
Thank you so much Erica!!!
#replay This is STUNNING. I SO wish you would do a real time or in depth tutorial on your portraits (in any direction or pose), from the initial outline to the shading to the details, etc. Do you use references? I only know how to use acrylics so I'm sure an oil painting tutorial would be harder to follow, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for the future...
Your techniques and creativity are inspiring! Awesome work!
Incredible
I love your background technique & great painting overall! Lately I've been playing around with cold wax and transparent oils so I think I'll try your initial background & gesso and then start right in layering with cold wax.
Great Video! Much appreciated! Stay Safe, Healthy, & Happy! 👍💖
Beautiful work again Lydia.
Thank you!!!❤
Lydia you are MAGICAL! I am a new subbie and I am binge watching your magical videos. I am an amateur acrylic artist and I have been trying to achieve the types of backgrounds you create. They are absolutely my favorite parts of your videos. I love to create textural intitutive abstract art. Thank you for sharing your amazing skill, talents and visions. I am learning sooooo much!! I wish I was good at portraiture or at least better at silhouettes🥴😊🥴. I love the incorporation of the portraits in your work. ❤❤❤
Thank you so very much! ❤❤❤
Gosh. Thank you. Just thank you.
This is insanely beautiful
My Goodness ~ you are amazing
Lydia that is GORGEOUS 🙀😍🥳
Thank you!!!❤❤❤
Hello from Canada Lydia so beautiful Thank you for sharing
Thank you Tracy!!!☺💖
Very spiritual because of the bird and feeling of familiarity. As always, I love the colours and textures 👌🏻💖💞
Thank you Catherine!☺💖
Yay to 1,000!! It should be 100x that. Very cool textures.
Thank you Rose!!!💖💖💖
Love your work!!
😮😮😮😮😮just wonderful.. Hope , i could meet you... I want to learn your observation skills face to face . Really impossible it is ...but i wish it anyway..😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Just a gorgeous work!! 🤩♥️
Love it 😍
Thanks for making my morning! Another one of my favorite bird additions to your lovely talented collections. I love your beautiful haunting faces. So talented!!
Thank you Carol! Birds always represent messengers in my mind. ❤
My thought process: “Lydia is serious today. Why so serious? Ah, she’s trying to teach us luddites something! Cool! I miss wise-cracking Lydia! But again, this is hella cool. Focus Karen focus. And then, there it was! The quip of the day! “Now that I’m done fondling my painting…”. I spewed my wine! 😂😂😂. I love you and your talent so much. Another awesome painting. ❤.
PS. I don’t love you love you; I don’t even KNOW you. You know? The bird needs a name…Spartacus?
I really should put down the wine.
Haha!!! Thank you Karen! It's funny... During editing I was thinking "Hmmm... I feel like I've captured a weird intimate moment with me and this canvas.... Nice texture... Do you come here often?"
I like Spartacus for the name of the bird!
I raise my glass (wine glass) to you. ❤❤❤
Stunning !!! Thank you
I’m in awe of your talent!! This is beyond words!! Thanks Lydia
Thank you Michelle! I'm so glad you like it!💖💖💖
Genius xx
FANTASTIC!!
Thank you!!!
Phenominal 🙏🏻👍🏻❤️
Thank you!❤☺
Wow! Awesome work! Ive used crackle medium gels, but have never heard of crackle paste.
I love it! Thanks for sharing your art skill with spirit and spontaneity.
Thank you!!!❤
hey lydia i...ts really gothic...loved it
very cool
Stunning! In awe
Thank you!!!
Oh boy this a such….. what we would say in N.Y “ That’s a dope ass piece “ Thank you for sharing 🦓
Love it! I caught myself observing a cow while it was observing me the other day, and...I'm glad he didn't land on my head. And you're almost at 1,000 subscribers!! Congrats to you! Hope you're well friend. ❤
Thank you Shane! I'm certain that there would have been some irreversible damage to body and mind if a cow landed on you... I'm glad that wasn't the case.😁
@@lydiabroderick867 me too 😅.
Love your process & the way you explain it through out the video.I believe ive become a new enthusiastic fan of your work----- keep creating & sharing Thank you again❤
Love the way you talk me through the process of this beautiful piece 👌 But also you excplain how seasons and colours can effect a painting.
And Lydia 🤣 you moved a lot of paint in this video 😉
Thank you Jolanda!!! ❤ The surrounding environment definitely has an impact on art. It's interesting.🤔😊
@@lydiabroderick867 the mood we are in, music, conversations ... it all has an effect on what we are doining, reacting. Very intresting 😉
Stunning, I have no words. Thank you for sharing Lydia ! I enjoy you telling us your process in creation of this piece. It was very interesting and cool to see it come to life 😊
Thank you Isabelle!!!💗
Soooooo beautiful !!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!!❤☺
Again in complete awwww, this is so beautiful and the work put in it well, all I can say is Absolutely Amazing!! I love the intire process
Thank you Kat!!!
Love it ❤
Thank you Jeanette!💖😊
I absolutely LOVE your work! Stunningly beautiful 😍❤️❤️
Thank you!!!🙏❤❤❤ I'm so glad you like it!☺
Wow! Stunning Lydia ❤ I love your textured pieces, this is beautiful. 🙏🏻🌻🌻🌻
Thank you Ann!❤❤❤
Fantastic!
Thank you!!!☺
Awesome video hunny. That painting is amazing . The colors and textures are really amazing. Thank you for showing us the process of how it was done.
Thanks darlin'!!!❤❤❤
OMG you are awesome!
Thank you!!!
I love your paintings and love how you describe what your doing and the reasons very valuable for me being a new artist you are very refreshing to watch 🎉
Thank you Bryant!☺
So beautifully done! The time you put into the background certainly paid off, it’s striking!! Love the looking at each other imagery too!
Thank you Stephanie!!!
Lydia, you are one incredible artist!!
absolutely stunning - your work is outstanding
I can't find any more words...but ofcourse I will. Your pieces nearly always move me to tears...they evoke an emotional response that always shocks me. Next you have that personality that also draws me in... by it's layers of textures equal to your works. You are f+++ing funny! Finally your actual "teaching " that includes techniques as well as reasoning and sharing of thought processes. Finally I can't stop myself from asking...Will you marry me? 😂 We could put canvases side by side and live in painting bliss.......
Oh Michelle!!! You are wonderful!!! Thank you so much and if wasn't already engaged, I would consider it!😁 I am so glad to have you as one of my biggest supporters! Your comments are always so heartfelt. I can't tell you how much it means to me... I don't have the words.❤❤❤
@@lydiabroderick867 I started with texture work in 1992. A couple of years ago I started seeing people pouring and covered MANY canvases. I am BORED with watching and doing. So several months ago I went back to my love. I am not saying that pouring doesn't require any talent...but most is "dump and hope". 🤣 Texture and other forms of abstract are MUCH more intentional (if I am making sense) I would love to share my work with you sometime...but I am sure you are bombarded with a thousand nut cases wanting to show you stuff. Have happy holidays!
Absolutely amazing
Love it so beautiful
I found out this morning and have been binging your videos (instead of editing images or doing homework) I'm in awe!! I would love to add painting, like the woman, to my creative outlets, where would you suggest I start? Drawing? more youtube beginner videos? You are amazing and thank you so much for sharing with us, this is so beautiful!!
Hi Shasta! Thank you! I was a charcoal artist for many years. Sketching/drawing was how I got good at portraits.☺❤
Love this painting….do you think this process would work on a wooden panel?
I'm not sure how it would work on a wooden panel. I don't know if the paste would warp the panel as it dries. I've only done it on canvas. Good question!
Congratulations on 1K subscribers! You deserve many, many more. Love your channel (whether or not you fondle your paintings 😂)
Thank you Mary!!!💖💖💖
Huge fan of your work!! Amazing painting. How do u lighten values with transparent oil? I have semi-transp white I mix with paints but that’s it. I haven’t tried galkyd gel tho, I’ve only used alkyd walnut oil and turpentine. Thanks!!
You mentioned SAD or seasonal effective disorder due to low light. I live in the Canadian Arctic where the sun disappears completely for a month. Prior to it disappearing completely you get progressively shorter days. Of course the opposite starts to happen in March and by the beginning of June we have 24 hour sunlight. Anyway I was just thinking I’d love to see what colours and textures you used at each of those extremes. I just love this painting. You are incredibly talented.
Thank you Chanda! That would be an interesting experiment. I'm curious... Living that far north with those extremes, how does it affect you? Also, how warm does it get in the summer months and how cold does it get in the winter?
@@lydiabroderick867 well I don’t have any problems with SAD but then I have put full spectrum lights in my home and we have have full spectrum lights at work. However as a nurse I see lots of people with SAD. The solution is a prescription for a special lamp that people can get for their home or take to work and sit in front of for several hours every day. Interestingly enough the Inuit who have lived in the north for thousands of years don’t ever struggle with SAD it’s just us non-natives who do. Summers can get very warm. Too warm these days actually. We actually hit 32C (90F) last summer. (Not good). Because the north is mostly rock and the sun never sets in the summer the rock heats up and then radiates that heat back up. The winter has been known to get into the -50C range (-50C=-58F) with the windchill even lower. It’s not as bad as it sounds actually.
@@chandarussell Wow okay... I need to get a prescription for one of those lamps! I had no idea it got that warm so far north! I figured it could get really cold, but that's some serious heat. Thank you for all that information. Really interesting!☺
@@lydiabroderick867 I’ve been up here for years and it rarely got above 20C (68F) in the summer. However the last 5 years we’ve been gradually getting warmer and that warmth has been causing big problems to the environment especially with the fauna.
You are who I wish to be creatively, completely enamoured by your talent and ability, thanks so much for sharing, oh, would you be so kind as to tell us where you get your text stencils? Thanks again!😊
Hi Tim, thank you!!! Here's a link for the script stencil.☺
CrafTreat French Writing Stencils for Painting on Wood, Canvas, Paper, Fabric, Wall and Tile - French Script - Size: A4 (8.3 x 11.7 Inch) - Reusable DIY Art and Craft Stencils - French Letter Stencil a.co/d/bARsHdS
@@lydiabroderick867 you are the best, thank you so much!!
I enjoy your videos. You mentioned modeling paste. What brand do you use? Thank you.
Hey there! I use Utrecht. I order from Blick Art.
J'adore votre travail💗💗💗 et encore une fois merci pour votre générosité. Pourriez-vous expliquer pourquoi avoir utilisé la peinture à l'huile pour le portrait? Merci pour votre retour.
Thank you Nadia! Oil paint is just my preference. I attain better results with realism in less time than with acrylics.😊
@@lydiabroderick867 Je vous remercie pour votre retour🙏
This is my favourite so far!....I would love to know where you got this image or reference photo?...always looking for awesome references...please share!
Hello! I got it from unsplash.com😊
Thankyou so much!....I did a wee play paint with this style today, of my daughter 😊, and turns out my Aunt asked me to do one for her...sharing the love xxx
Oh, I forgot to tell you, my nickname (well, one of them) is the bird whisperer! Lol! I have had many birds on my head!.... not all at one time.... and not just on my head.... everywhere, almost, really, cuz my cockatoos shower with me, TMI, Lol! This is gorgeous! (As are all of your pieces!)
That's pretty awesome Kim!😃 You literally have feathered friends!
Yes! and we stick together!.... cuz, you know, birds of a feather....(ok not quite deserving of a Lol.... I need an abreviation for snickering at my cheesiness.... SAMC! This is so veird, I am watching you do collagie papers and talking to you too! OMG, Its like hanging with a movie star!! @@lydiabroderick867
your explanation is superb. What coclor oil pints did you use?
Thank you Sima! I used a mix of Paynes gray and Prussian blue thinned out for the background glazing. I stuck with a pretty limited palette. Burnt umber, raw umber, titanium buff and titanium white.
Excellent painting, did you burnish the painting later, if yes did you use Acrylic varnish or oil varnish..since you use both the medium in your painting
I use Gamvar by Gamblin which is perfect for mixed media oil paintings.😊
I use Gamvar by Gamblin which is perfect for mixed media oil paintings.😊
you are hyyysterical. we should write a pilot and pitch it! i work in film, live in brooklyn, and also do some arty stuff blah blah…
Thank you!!!
This is just beautiful beyond words….have you got a spare room so I can move in and be your padawan ❤️❤️
Thank you Lorraine!😁❤❤❤
Does this technique work with Acrylic?
Yes! I just prefer oils for portraits.