I'VE BEEN DRAWING THIS ALL WRONG FOR YEARS.

[@vickirivera2240]

That was amazing!

[@cindym9851]

Sandy, SERIOUSLY, you are the BEST teacher!! This is magnificent!! Thank you!

[@henryfleming792]

I love the highlights on the trees

[@nancyprobst6311]

Ooooooo, very cool! I love the "old way" in the pictures you painted, and I love the "new way." The new way adds a dramatically realistic flame and is quite gorgeous. I love both for different applications.

[@lorik2565]

Thanks! Love learning how you “view” the subject to paint.

[@annesmith1718]

Thank you so much - how I wish I'd been able to follow you years ago. You make things so "do-able" as you explain and demonstrate .... marvelous way for us to learn. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@janecrisci2658]

I think this is the fifth time I’ve watched this video! Doing a night scene with a campfire. This is the best video out there! I recommend you relaunch this. It is so informative!!! Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

[@SandyAllnock1]

Wow, thanks!

[@katpaints]

Oh, yes! Observation is the teacher! This almost makes me regret making the decision to not take on Copics as a medium years ago. Now that the watercolor version will be coming, I am looking forward to it! Thank you much! I've always been mesmerized by flames and you've got it!

[@karenzemko6518]

I am finally catching up from Monday! This is such an awesome lesson. Although we see flames even doing it wrong, how much more real it looks doing it the right way! TFS

[@andrealavigne7824]

I have often wondered, when I've seen people color candles, etc., why there was no blue included. I never thought to color a candle flame while leaving a lot of white, having usually used a pale yellow. But I've been including the blue for a long time now. Thank you for sharing this knowledge & insight, Sandy. Take care, & I hope you have an awesome day! :)

[@sharongraham6091]

Oh my, what a great lesson. I am excited to try what I learned today. Bless you my friend.

[@craftyShirleyG]

Love, love, love this. Great tutorial and now I will never look at a fire without seeing all the colors and how they are in relation to each other.

[@suelanham5125]

This was fascinating! Although I do admit, I wondered why we colored fire with the hot red in the center and the lightest yellow on the top as the last color. Of course, I did not know how to correct it. Thank you for this video.

[@sherylosullivan9619]

I read the title and said to myself, ‘How could Sandy ever have been doing something wrong?’ So often we see what we think we should see. I always learn something from you! Over here in the ‘other’ WA (Western Australia) it is nearly winter. We light bonfires and sit around them.

[@teresamazotti1315]

Wow!! So I went and lite a candle, you know just in case you were wrong!!! LOL! I never even noticed the way a flame looked!! Thank you ❤️

[@SandyAllnock1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trust me!

[@bimmermom]

Wow! You are so right but I would never have figured it out! That’s brilliant!

[@MaKend0r_0607]

drawings realistic flames are so astonishing and they even look beautiful, the colours it has in it, it is just overall a cool thing to draw and see. Like you said we think yellow and orange colours for fire, but realistically looking, it is filled with other colours and when you draw them it amazes me someway xD. lovely video explanation

[@SandyAllnock1]

Glad it was helpful!🥰

[@FernCurtis]

Our main source of heat is a wood stove, which has a window so you can: a) simply enjoy watching the flames and b) see what is going on, if you need to make any adjustments, add more wood etc. When the stove is working at it’s best/ultimate there are definitely blue flames. Something that most people would never know unless they use wood heat AND can watch it actually burning.

[@SandyAllnock1]

🔥🔥🔥😍

[@donagreen3436]

Wow! Just wow. Reality vs how 'everyone' colors fire, including me. You will make me think before automatically coloring from now on. Thank you!

[@SandyAllnock1]

Crazy huh? We’ve all been doing it backwards!🤣

[@betsycosmos2054]

You are so danged talented and a great teacher, too!

[@terryblanchard9765]

That was super!! I've been looking for something new to get excited to try. After watching your videos with Copic markers I'm excited to try them! Thanks! I needed that!

[@marcydome8258]

Awesome, Sandy!! Thanks!!

[@LauraRumble]

Fascinating! I’ve always been transfixed by the blue in flames. It transitions to yellow with never even a hint of green 🤯

[@Taitcreates639]

Very interesting, who knew, wow, I learned something new today, thank you Sandy

[@shelleyrubenstein9420]

Fantastic flames!

[@danyareider8146]

Amazing and wonderful! Thank you!

[@sarahlongshore2605]

I love the realistic looking fire. It was beautiful. I've always noticed that in a lot of art the fire was wrong but as long as it reads fire it never bothered me much. I was looking at a fire my son built over a whole in my back yard one night. He built it over water because it had rained a couple of nights before. There was so much blue in the flames it was beautiful!! I thought to myself how water or moisture must cause blue to be more visible in flames. Anyway. Thank you.

[@SandyAllnock1]

There’s a lot of different things that cause blue flames-it’s worth the rabbit hole on the internet to ask Google some questions!

[@GmaReezScrapShack]

awesome video Sandy! thanks for sharing!

[@lovestobead]

Once again, you are a rockstar!!!! When I started watching the video I was thinking there is NO WAY she is going to be able to make that glow!!! You did it!!!! I can’t wait to try this for myself!!! Fire is mesmerizing! Thank you!!!

[@islandercirce2]

Coincidentally I was watching flames yesterday and Working out how I would paint them. I decided that doing it in watercolour with lots of water, dropping colour in, tipping the paper and letting the colours run. It's one of my favourite techniques and often gives magical results. But no matter what medium you use, I always learn something that I can apply. I wonder if a dark surround will work as well in watercolour. Edit to add: ooh, I'm coming back on Friday!!

[@SandyAllnock1]

👍🏻 Dark background makes all the difference!

[@gostowl]

Amazing the difference using observation can make. Will definitely get the class, especially since I’m getting back into marker art. 😀

[@kendistromberg6525]

That’s crazy amazing.

[@deborahreeder2901]

Wow! Thanks for the education!

[@wendychampness1901]

Loved this❣️ At Christmastime, I was trying to learn how to paint flames for candles. I did a lot of research on where (and why) to put the blue, white, yellow, orange, red, dark brown! Your video would have been very helpful then ! But I will save this for future use😉

[@Tzuriah]

Oh my! You can almost feel the heat off of the “cartoony” (black background )campfire…. I’m trying to type as you’re drawing the realistic one….very distracting! Lol! Awesome!!!!! Thanks Sandy

[@sharonorr4199]

Thank you very much. I will try this with colored pencils as I am not good with markers.

[@SandyAllnock1]

The principles are the same. 😍 White at the hot center, red at the edges. Dark background makes all the difference 🔥❤️

[@vickie9822]

You rock girl ! 😍

[@arlenedonald8688]

Interesting! Thank you!

[@sherryw-ponyluv-er2394]

Super interesting, though I can’t afford Copics. I’m not sure I am willing to put in that much work for a faux campfire 🔥!! It sure looks amazing.

[@DigineeVideo]

WOW.

[@fuzzydragons]

great tutorial for colour flames 😀 I knew about the different colours in flames/fire due to messing around a lot with flames in science class, yeah its a good idea to let a bunch of middle graders play with fire lol

[@SandyAllnock1]

🤣🤣🤣😦

[@gailhabicht8586]

Sandy - if you were doing a fire on a card - how would you achieve the flame without colouring everything around it black?

[@SandyAllnock1]

Did you miss the candle on a white background?