r/BeAmazed • u/xriddle • Jun 05 '26
Art Live Wedding Painter Doesn't Disappoint š¤Æ
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Credit where it's due: https://www.instagram.com/the.wedding.painter
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u/Alone-Historian-5308 Jun 05 '26
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u/LordHelmet47 Jun 05 '26
I would actually pay to have this done. Just to get a laugh out of the faces of those watching the artist at work.
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u/CalliopeSaffron Jun 05 '26
My daughter painted this picture for her Dad. Fatherās Day gift! š Itās awesome!
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u/PureYouth Jun 05 '26
How is it possible to finish a painting like that in one day, let alone a few hours?
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u/DrMcFacekick Jun 05 '26
From what I've seen, this is more of a "
", they then go back and add a bunch of details after the fact. They'll do the base layer and basic background before the wedding, then use a photo of the couple on the day of for a reference for doing the figure work. Notice she also did the faces first, since that's what everyone there is going to focus on. sketch Also, probably a ton of practice first!
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u/NoLemonadeToday Jun 05 '26
Yeah exactly, I could do this too. Just would need the talent, thousands of hours of practice, patience and discipline.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 05 '26
You'd be surprised how little impact tons of practice has on your skills when you have no talent! Source: practiced guitar for 4 hours per day for over a year and still sucked.
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u/LanguageNo495 Jun 05 '26
I could do it too. Iām actually pretty well known for my spastic stick figure drawings.
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u/theweddingpainter Aug 19 '26
Hi! This is actually me in the video and this was all done on the same day (from a blank canvas) over approx. 5 hours. I am using oils āŗļø
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u/FreddyNoodles Jun 05 '26
It showed her taking a photo of the venue so she likely had photos of them, the outfits, the venue, the bouquet, etc and just needed to sketch it out and essentially fill it in at the wedding. I assume she has done this many, many times and she may have practiced this particular piece a few times before. She clearly knows what she is doing.
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u/theweddingpainter Aug 19 '26
Hi! This is my video and my painting. I took the photo of the background while they were getting married inside and then quickly sketched the background before I saw them. I only had approx. 5 hours to paint this on the day. I did not have photos of them or their outfits prior. āŗļø
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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26
Combination of working smart (tricks) and preparation. There are a few things you can do to make a painting really quickly. For example when I paint outdoors, I focus on filling the painting asap and you can do that in a mere half hour if you have to. After that all thatās left is details. I am working on a very large oil painting right now and I had the entire basis on canvas in about 45 mins to an hour. The hours after that was adding details to have the image show up. After three hours ai basically have the painting finished enough to be satisfied with. If you want you can stop there. But you can continue for finer details. Iām seven hours in now so Iām in the fine details. And you can work more and more precise the longer you spend on it.
So the trick is to place the basis asap. Some people are really good at it. I was taught by Vladimir Volegov (like over a decade ago) he did a demo and taught me tricks, and he painted an entire canvas in 35 minutes. He has a YT channel. The video āportrait of a girl in pinkā is a great example how to quickly do the first layers. Those first 16 seconds might be about the same in minutes.
I hope this helps haha.
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u/CandleMonster Jun 05 '26
it helps a lot!! thank you!! may I request... a painting tax? i want to see your work šš
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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26
Iād like to be anonymous on this account. I hope you understand. Iām really sorry!!!
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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC Jun 05 '26
Reminds me of Bob Ross. Of course, he did his paintings in less than 30 minutes, but he also did two more paintings for each one. The first was for planning everything out and it's off camera to the side for reference when he was doing the show, the second was the one he made on the show, and the third was one that he took more time on to go in his art books/gallery.
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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26
Yeah the right preparation does a lot of heavy lifting beforehand. Just sitting down and thinking I am going to make a great painting rarely happens.
Youād collect references, sketch a bit, and paint post stamp sized mini paintings to figure out the composition without too much detail before you start. Before I make an illustration I have already figured out my colour palette, the composition and lighting, the materials and how much time I plan on spending on it.
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u/Sohuli Jun 05 '26
Thank you for the explanation! How many years did it take to reach this kind of speed/level of painting?
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u/Rugkrabber Jun 05 '26
Depends on how fast you pickup. But technically with the right approach if could be a mere day of practice, genuinely. The thing is, the preparation and determination is most important. Know beforehand what you are going to make. Understand your materials. And make a choice on the approach (I am going to fill the canvas and not be distracted on focusing on something else).
If you are serious about learning, my best suggestion is to start big. Use large materials.
If you use paint, use a large brush or palette knife so you donāt even have the option to go into detail. Then after the canvas is filled, get a smaller brush. Then after half an hour an even smaller brush. This is the best approach.
Or do the opposite. Instead of getting a large brush on a large canvas, we flip it. The canvas much be tiny. Draw a post stamp size square on a paper. That will be your entire canvas. Draw or paint in that. You want to put detail in there. But you canāt. Itās too small at some point even if you try to. Many illustrators do this to sketch quickly. Then, they blow it up several times later.
Some things you could try!
In the end: donāt worry if itās good. Or if itās correct. Just try to get the necessary info on the canvas asap. You can adjust and fix more than you think later on.
So it could be a day. But getting good at it could be several days. But thatās practice. It doesnāt have to be weeks or years. Those are details we talk about. But simply the technique is to keep it simple for yourself and to make sure that canvas is filled.
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u/Toadsted Jun 05 '26
After three hours ai basically have the painting finished enough to be satisfied with.
They said the quiet part outloud folks
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u/peacelovetree Jun 05 '26
Looks like she did the whole background ahead of time so she just had to paint the married couple on the day of the reception.
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u/theweddingpainter Aug 19 '26
Hi! I am the artist in the video and I did not do the background ahead of time. This was all done in approx. 5 hours on the wedding day.
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u/Much_Statistician864 Jun 05 '26
Lots of practice. Lots of reference material. Probably paints mostly just people and backgrounds.
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u/ArentWright Jun 06 '26
Thereās this dude in the oil painting sub that makes an incredible portrait almost every day and it takes him 3 hours. Itās possible. She probably pre-paints the background and pre-mixes all her colors.
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u/queefer_sutherland92 Jun 05 '26
Itās very common for artists to paint from life in timed studies.
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u/oregiel Jun 05 '26
Every painting you've ever seen was finished in one day. This one is no different.
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u/amora_obscura Jun 05 '26
Huh? That's not true at all. Da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for over a decade.
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u/oregiel Jun 05 '26
Sure he started it a decade earlier, but he finished it only in one day. Much like this painting.
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u/Teinzq Jun 05 '26
Wow, let me see the fucking painting instead of other peoples reactions.
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u/UnMeaningnessName Jun 05 '26
Fr, this type of video style/editing can suck my non existent left nut. (Cancer)
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u/CrystallizedRose Jun 05 '26
Then the video would be maybe 5 seconds and practically no time for her to advertise her business which is the whole point of the video
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u/Pi-ratten Jun 05 '26
nah. These days you do a few shock reactions at the beginning, then the real video and the shock reactions again, this time at the cronological correct time. And all of that you are putting in a smaller screen while some minecraft character jumps in the bigger screen in the back.
And no, people have no problem with attention spans being fucked by instant-gratification-social media algorithms.
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u/CrystallizedRose Jun 07 '26
This one is actually one of the best live paintings Iāve seen. Definitely the most realistic. You donāt want to see some of the tiktok drama Iāve seen from artists that donāt have the training but still charge an arm and a leg for their work.
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u/TheMamid Jun 05 '26
If you only have one nut, can you still differentiatie between the left and the right or do you just have a single middle nut?
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u/UnMeaningnessName Jun 05 '26
Dude, my right nut is fine and still there.
But in this hypothetical...sigh please look into human anatomy.
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u/OnePinginRamius Jun 05 '26
Completely agree. I filmed an event where we had a painter like this throughout the entire night and I just set up a GoPro on him to time lapse and then the final video I showed little snippets of that time lapse as it built to the finished piece throughout the video. Boooo this editor!
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u/UnMeaningnessName Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Lol its okay I laughed, and to be fair i had a fake one installed to level things out.
Edit: to the idiots downvoting, I literally have a fake left nut, from cancer. Its an option, I chose it.
Just laugh at the joke... dicks.
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u/The_Forgotten_God Jun 05 '26
"Hey, babe, is that your rising sign, or are you just happy to see me?"
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u/EvanFri Jun 05 '26
So many people have tiktok brain. The painting was shown at the end. The reactions are there to hype it up and to keep the surprise reveal toward the end of the video. It builds story and hype around the painting.
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u/LongbottomLeafTokes Jun 05 '26
"Look at how many people ignored the camera pointed straight at their face to tell me how amazing I am"
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u/EvanFri Jun 05 '26
So many people have tiktok brain. The painting was shown at the end. The reactions are there to hype it up and to keep the surprise reveal toward the end of the video. It builds story and hype around the painting.
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u/Alsoghieri Jun 05 '26
getting 'hype' for a 'reveal' strategically saved for the end of the video to maximize engagement metrics is the real manifestation of tiktok brain
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u/EvanFri Jun 05 '26
It is not black and white. Some engagement metrics capture what people objectively care about. In this case, it is building a story and hype around your art. Having a big reveal at the end is nothing new as far as narratives go. Read a book, and you can see the same formula. Technically speaking, plot formulas that have been used for hundreds, if not, thousands of years exist because they have been found to drive the most engagement. Book sales are engagement metrics, newspaper articles about your art are engagement metrics.
Engagement metrics do not exist because of tiktok.
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u/Alsoghieri Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
you have the telescope backwards. tiktok exists because of engagement metrics. tiktok-based content, which this is, is shaped by the context and pressures of that platform and the specific algorithmic metrics they employ. those forces are specifically what make this such a shitty way to enjoy this painting. if it just let you see the damn thing, it would fail on that platform. that doesn't have anything to do with the merits of the art itself.
it's not even a good reveal. you see the whole canvas for literally a couple of frames before it zooms in, and even that's at a skew angle under uneven lighting for about a second and a half. it's garbage content. but because it works well within the context of the platform, and maybe because people really like the painting to the extent they can see it, it's a whole-ass popular post. that's as close as you can get to seeing the tiktokification of culture in action. 'tiktok brain' isn't just a way to rag on people for short attention spans.
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u/EvanFri Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
The stories around the paintings are arguably just as important if not more. Just take the Mona Lisa. If there was no story/history around it, we would not bat an eye about it. Yet every single day, there are massive crowds of people scrambling around each other to see it. Building hype and story around a painting is what separates it from the rest. There is plenty of good art out there competing for attention.
Edit: you can pause the video and see the full painting and they showed the focused on the main part of the painting long enough. No one cares about the edges. In paintings, the center is typically the focal point where artists put the most important part of their painting. Apologies if you could not see all of the grass in the bottom left corner.
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u/ProfessionalCell2690 Jun 05 '26
This has got to be one of the... sillier.. takes I have read in awhile. Sure stories are important, but this is clearly an advertisement post on some social, so its a bit odd not to show the end product in a clear shot. Crazy that you are arguing that the "edges" of the painting are unimportant, but the random 8 ppls reactions who watched it being painted are vitally important, perhaps moreso than the painting itself.
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u/Alsoghieri Jun 05 '26
the fact that it's obviously advertising is why it doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. that said, idk why you would focus on Reddit as the issue when this post has thousands of upvotes. people are obviously just as happy to suck down this slop here as on tiktok
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u/SnooBananas4958 Jun 05 '26
Then itās shitty advertising by not putting the main thing youāre advertising in a clear shot at the end. Itās still giving you the picture at the end in a terrible angle after you just wasted all this time watching reaction instead of what youāre trying to actually see. If it had actually ended with a proper shot, I would understand what youāre saying. But this has nothing to do with patience if the things not ultimately there at the end.
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u/EvanFri Jun 05 '26
There are lots of amazing paintings out there. What makes some more notable than others is the stories that are built around them. Just take the Mona Lisa. It is a good painting, but the story around it is why it is one of the most famous in the world.
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u/globalgreg Jun 05 '26
Whereās the button that allows you to see the painting as itās being created?
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u/downvote-away Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
But then you'd be able to see the construction techniques she used including tracing/chalk transfer.
Pro painter here.
Nobody getting a likeness in the moment draws the head top to bottom like that. Nobody gets a likeness from memory. They use a reference photo or a live sitter. This person took an earlier photo and is now tracing it live.
That's why she showed her chalk outlines in super speed, so she can SAY she showed her real technique, but you'd only catch it if you know about painting and what it means.
Anyone with the ability to put acrylic onto canvas could do this.
Great example of social media "art" and how different it is from real world.
EDIT: LOL of course redditers hate this. I'm being mean to the pretty girl! SHE COULD BE MUH GF
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u/ForAHamburgerToday Jun 05 '26
And magicians have trick hats and collapsible flowers, we're still entertained.
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u/aaryg Jun 05 '26
These kinds of videos are purely for peoples reactions.lol. it's meant to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. If a video this wholesome makes you angry....chill out bro
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u/Particular-Leg-8484 Jun 05 '26
Iām impressed with how clean her hands and dress are after probably what was hours of painting
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u/BrownSugarBare Jun 05 '26
I thought I was the only one. I get covered in paint just messing around for my own hobby. She's all lovely in a gown without a single splatter!
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u/Hours-of-Gameplay Jun 06 '26
Iāve painted for decades and I donāt really get paint anywhere but the canvas
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u/amenape Jun 05 '26
OMG! I hardly got to see the painting.
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u/OhSheeeeeeeeeet Jun 05 '26
Yeah. Nahhh. Thatās special
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u/HaveyoumetG Jun 05 '26
Bet heās Australian.
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u/MrMpeg Jun 05 '26
Wow! It looks like a photo! ...I guess that's why painters started painting colored squares after the invention of photography.
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u/cakepanpancake Jun 05 '26
Thereās about 100+ years between the invention of photography and what you described as colored squares, but you have the right idea! Impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, and cubism are all evolutions first taken before arriving at an avant-garde work like Kazimir Malevichās Black Square or a elementarist painting like Piet Mondrianās Composition No 10. Art history is fun for the whole family!
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u/Appropriate-Berry816 Jun 05 '26
The painting looks great but the editing job on the video really takes away from that. This video is not amazing at all
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u/RagerRambo Jun 05 '26
Cries in singleness
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u/madcoins Jun 05 '26
Rejoices is singledom
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u/IWannaManatee Jun 05 '26
Embrace your single self before you can embrace others.
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u/sol217 Jun 05 '26
Tried that after my last relationship. In one year I'll have been single for a decade.
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u/DryResponsibility944 Jun 05 '26
I just scrolled to the end of the video to see the end result. Didn't bother to watch the whole thing
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u/zetoprints Jun 05 '26
A non-existant attention span is a strange thing to be so eager to flaunt, but you do you
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u/kelleehh Jun 05 '26
Or they didnāt want to see all the pointless same reactions and see the actual painting.
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u/dr_toze Jun 05 '26
I really want to hate the cringy, self-focussed style of this video but that is a fucking amazing painting.
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u/papierdoll Jun 05 '26
I get that, but honestly the compliments and admiration just kinda made me happy. I like when people like art and are kind to each other.
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u/whitedsepdivine Jun 05 '26
Must be hard because you have to interact in this setting to be polite.
When I paint in public, I don't usually respond with much.
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u/IfatallyflawedI Jun 05 '26
The complete painting is finished and delivered a few weeks after the wedding with any changes requested/
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u/Sand__Panda Jun 05 '26
My Brother and now SIL had a live painter at their wedding. Was pretty cool, she just hung out in the corner and knocked out a good portion via
and shades. blocking in color The painting was not finished there. It was finished within 2 weeks of the wedding. She did have a camera with her and basically snapped tons of picture during the
to "find" then best pose. first dance The painter they used worked in oils, and you can only do so much and then you have to let it sit and "dry" before you can add more.
Much props to live painters. I love painting, but I do not like being bothered.
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u/kambo_rambo Jun 05 '26
My friend hired her for a wedding and the photographer was hitting on her quite a bit. Most guests left her alone though and she got a lot of work done. Quite an amazing process
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u/Adventurous_Flow678 Jun 05 '26
She doesn't even finish until 4 to 6 weeks later. She sends it to her studio for finishing touches and brings it delivers it later.
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