Quick Tips with Mark Waller - 3. Brush technique for realism @ExploreAcrylics

Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

Welcome to our new segment - Quick Tips! Quick acrylic painting tips to help improve your painting process is what it's all about. Short bites of easy to digest info to help you along your painting journey.

Next up! A quick tip on how to use brush technique to create realism in your ocean and skies.

For more great acrylic painting tips make sure you check out our tutorial website at explore-acrylic-painting.com

Mark uses Atelier Interactive and Atelier Free Flow Artists Acrylics by Chroma Australia.

Mark uses Micador for Artists Roymac Future Flats brushes by Micador Australia.

Quick Tips with Mark Waller - 3. Brush technique for realism

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$Painting the light play in water - simple? | full tutorial with Mark Waller Have you ever wanted to create that gorgeous play of light on the sand? That refraction? Heres your tute! Using simple techniques for any level painters, Mark shows you how to build layers of refraction to create gorgeous, sun-drenched realism in your water paintings. Heres what you need for this step-by-step tutorial. Heres a downloadable reference for you, lucky duck! https://s3.amazonaws.com/MarkWallerDVDTutorials/PDF+Docs/Paint+Refraction+Reference+pics.pdf Colours used: Atelier Free Flow Artists Acrylics: Titanium White Cadmium Yellow Medium Cadmium Yellow Light Pthalo Blue French Ultramarine Blue Dioxazine Purple Canvas: Pre-primed 40cm x 40cm Brushes: Synthetic flats approximately sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 00:00 - Equipment 00:55 - The background 01:40 - Painting the refractions 04:07 - Mixing the next refraction colour 05:38 - Mixing the next refraction colour 07:14 - Mixing the next refraction colour 08:38 - Mixing the next refraction colour 10:11 - Mixing the last refraction colour :) 12:23 - Painting the reflections 18:40 - Mixing a different reflection colour 19:30 - Adding some zap to the wavelets 21:40 - Final detailing Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzzJZa8_Obui-WGHgdUnng/join For more great acrylic painting tips, techniques and tutorials to improve your painting processes, make sure you check out Marks tutorial website at: https://www.explore-acrylic-painting.com For Marks tutorial products including his Beachscapes Paint Recipe Book, downloadable and streamable DVDs on painting water and waves, painting start to finish downloadable tutorials (the V-Logs) and ebooklets, go to his shop here: https://www.explore-acrylic-painting.com/shop.html Want to look at Marks available works? For limited edition prints and artworks go to his art website at https://www.markwaller.com.au For more info on upcoming workshops (or digital one-on-one lessons), go to: https://www.explore-acrylic-painting.com/workshops.html Mark uses Atelier Free Flow Artists Acrylics and Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics by Chroma Australia. Mark uses Micador for Artists Future and series 1300 brushes (amongst others, usually whatever is within reach). Micador is a fantastic Aussie company doing their best for the environment. For more info on their sustainability efforts see https://micador.com.au/green_earth Thanks so much for watching! Make sure your subscribed for more videos, and hit that notification bell to get all the latest clips :D Annnnnd, check out our stories via mobile or tablet too! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exploreacrylicpaintingcom https://www.facebook.com/MarkWallerArtist/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore.acrylic.painting/ https://www.instagram.com/markwallerpaints/$

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Quick Tips with Mark Waller - 3. Brush technique for realism