Creating Blends and Soft Edges with Acrylic

[@Lex-cg3ee]

Brilliant Nancy. Thank you.

[@maryk4053]

I love the simplicity of your explanation! Wonderful! Thank you!

[@margaretdagger6784]

Thank you. Its something I have not mastered yet.

[@vickyvictoria4u]

I was thinking about how to make a soft edge and I’m glad this video came out. I’m going to save it on my painting tips folder. Thank you

[@teacherleo20245]

No other video on KZbin has explained blending edges like this one. Thank you!!

[@nancyreyner]

you are very welcome

[@rajanvenkat]

Excellent.. very well explained.. you are a good teacher.. thank you.

[@juliahitchcock3769]

Thank you. That was great! I love to blend so I will try your method next time!!

[@wanderlustre6751]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you. Also, that painting directly behind you is gorgeous ❤

[@nancyreyner]

Oh thank you!

[@davidreinhart418]

Great show. Very helpful.

[@felizclassroom8766]

Thank you Nancy. I am about to apply it on my paintings.

[@nancyreyner]

Have fun!

[@katharinasliwiok6767]

Thank you for this precise demonstration! Very very uselful! The end result looks sooo smooth! Amazing!

[@nancyreyner]

Glad you like it!

[@majamarple8936]

❤

[@shawncarter8959]

When it started, I was like, I know her from your book. LOL This video is much easier to follow. Thanks for all your books and techniques. I know I learned a lot from the book Acrylic Revolution.

[@maribelteklado7491]

Love the way you teach. So precise and clear😄

[@nancyreyner]

Thank you Maribel for your kind words! I appreciate it. Glad you like the video.

[@nancyreyner]

You are very kind. Thank you for the comment.

[@maribelteklado7491]

Nancy Reyner You’re welcome Nancy.

[@lvspr10]

This was so helpful thanks for the vid!

[@nancyreyner]

Glad it helped!

[@graciesan9058]

This is great, i needed this. Thank you.

[@bigzhang]

Great demo, thanks!

[@1janhelene]

Have two of your books Nancy - Acrylic Revolution is my "go-to" book for acrylic paint ideas - Great to see you demonstrating on You Tube!

[@ellieh3923]

Fantastic explanation, this really helped me with a project I was struggling to move forward on! Thank you!!

[@nancyreyner]

You're very welcome!

[@jaswantkhalsa5189]

Thanks Nancy. Great clear demo. Just subscribed. Didn't even know you had a youtube channel.

[@nancyreyner]

Hey Jaswant!! So great to hear from you! Hope all is going well with you!

[@jaswantkhalsa5189]

Yes, all great. Nice to hear from you too.

[@andershelgeson647]

Wow, this is a great vid!

[@scottlondon8382]

Thank you very much ive just finished drawing a piece with pencil on a3 going to try applying paint this weekend wish me luck!!

[@nancyreyner]

Best of luck!

[@dianecharest8365]

Thank you. I e been having a hard time with this.

[@nancyreyner]

You're welcome. I hope this video helped you achieve what you want.

[@laurapope4715]

Have so enjoyed your book on illumination techniques, and am still working through some of the ideas. This is a great tip you just gave, I love the airbrush look but acrylic drying time can really be challenging. I use retarder but your tip on custom blending makes so much sense. As always, I am so grateful for the artists who share on KZbin. Thankful on Denman!

[@nancyreyner]

Laura thank you for your comment. I'm glad this video added another tool to your toolbox!

[@deborahmcgarry6719]

How can I do a soft edge between impressionist brushstrokes? Because I want to keep the brushstrokes showing BUT also have soft edges between some of the strokes. I hope this makes sense! Because I’m having difficulty making my impressionist painting “softer” yet still impressionistic. I like to keep some of my strokes with hard edges but need some with softer so the painting doesn’t look so rigid. Please advise! And I’m going to look and see if you have any videos showing this as seeing it would really help me learn how to do it!

[@brandonwilliams3362]

I’m guessing use a dry brush. And just keep wiping it off as you blend

[@Amah-Lady]

I CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH, after years of watching blending techniques, by chance I saw you and didn't stop watching your videos!!! One question please, do I repeat the method of the 2nd step to go on until I have the last result? Best wishes.

[@kelleymous7113]

That painting on the wall right behind you is gorgeous!!! Did you paint it?

[@mikeward2922]

Let's say you have evergreen trees somewhat in the distance, and the individual needle batches need to be softened. The size of these groups may only be a line brush width. What would you do to soften the edges for something like this in middle distance? Would you use the same technique, but just on much smaller scale? In the case of these needles, the intracies of the tree branch would make it very tough to achieve.

[@eiyhka8779]

Thank you so much..

[@nancyreyner]

You're most welcome

[@TheShamwari]

Very goog, but why not use oil paints which ate much rasier to blend ?

[@dearestsweetheart8265]

👀👀Looky, looky!!! 👀👀

[@cindiwalsh9398]

What brand brush are you using to blend the acrylics.

[@nancyreyner]

I use many different brands of brushes. It's the type of brush that I care about. I use soft synthetic bristles in a flat wash brush. These usually don't cost very much since they are synthetic.

[@AndresFnt]

To make soft edges on a detailed drawing that's normally done on a large scale would be very difficult for me. I have almost no experience painting and wanted to recreate an image on a 8x10 canvas. It has a lot of highlights and soft edges tho since it's originally a 3D cgi image....think I may have to create an original and try n save the copy for a bigger canvas....cause I don't have a lot of room for blending to create soft edges around characters

[@4h844]

Why not scale up the canvas size?