How to Paint Loose and Expressive Black-eyed Susan Flowers in Acrylic ASMR Painting Demonstration

Hello and welcome to my studio! Are you a painter who would like to loosen up your style and paint more expressively and with more painterly emotion, in a bold and loose style? I am here to help! In this video, you will learn how to work with a toned canvas, how to scale up a drawing, thumbnail, or small painting up to a larger size with confidence. I will show you how to make bold brush strokes with the right sized brush and encourage you to select larger brushes to help you make looser and more gestural artwork.

I will demonstrate for you how to use the negative painting technique to carve out your subject as well as color mixing and show you how to sign your painting with a liner brush.

Today's subject is Black-eyed Susan (Rudveckia hirta) which is a painting commissioned from a client of Canyon Road Contemporary Art, the wonderful gallery who represents my originals in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

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My name is Dena Tollefson and I am a professional, full time artist from Iowa USA. I provide painting tutorials in watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint every Friday. I hope you will subscribe and come back again.

I am known for deep, vibrant colors in my signature painting technique called Daubism.

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I am a Christian and my artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use my paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.

Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.

I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the "feel" of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.

My work known as "Daubism" is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint."
"I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors"- Dena Tollefson



I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work. Find the list of galleries and licensed prints here www.denatollefson.com

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