Oil Painting Tutorial For Beginners | How to Paint Blossoms & Blurry Backgrounds

Relaxing oil painting tutorial demonstrating the step by step process of blossom flowers with a blurry background. I share how to paint flower details as well as analyzing a reference photo, mixing colors, and blending oil paint to create a blurry background.

For the reference and grid: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36026702


⋆⋆Materials Used⋆⋆
Strathmore 400 Series Oil Painting paper
Faber Castell 2B Graphite Pencil
Royal & Landnickel Filbert (clear brush)
Royal & Landnickel Zen Series Liner Brush
Black Swan Filbert Brush
Spotter Multimedia Liner Brush (red brush, mystery brand... not a great brush tbh)
Princton Short Liner
Gamsol (solvent/paint thinner)
Gamblin Solvent-Free Gel
Gamblin Artist Oils (oil paint)



I am an artist residing in sunny, warm [humid] florida! My paintings are heavily inspired by nature and its beauty. I work primarily in oil paint, and sometimes watercolor. I prefer to work in a mostly realistic style and occasionally experiment outside of that. I post oil painting time lapses, painting lessons and tutorials, drawings, art tips, and occasionally artist vlogs where I share bits of my life as an artist. Creating art is my greatest passion and I'm thankful for the chance to share it with you. ♥

☾ My Links:
⋆ Patreon - I post real-time oil painting videos with voiceover of my oil painting techniques and process for several realistic paintings, royalty free art references of my own photography for you to use, postcards, q&a podcast, and more!: http://patreon.com/LenaDanya

⋆ Art Store- Original paintings and fine art prints available: http://lenadanyastore.com

⋆ Instagram - works in progress, my art studio, and many more: http://instagram.com/lenadanya

⋆ Facebook - my official facebook art page: http://www.facebook.com/LenaDanyaPage


Art Playlists of my channel and art videos:

Oil painting time lapse / Speed painting:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ3ynSeXKJN28oqGjgAgzay9In_8cJg7

Water Series | oil painting time lapses of my realistic, figurative, portrait paintings involving realistic water: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ3ynSeXKJNizJdvlfuKJaQYIjIoI0eu

⋆ Sketchbook Sunday | Casual series where I paint and draw sketches in my moleskine sketchbook while and chatting with you about artist life and many topics of that nature:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ3ynSeXKJMT_fHbAYho0YccmmqmcjxZz

⋆Learn to paint - Art help, oil painting tips, oil painting basics tutorials for beginners:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ3ynSeXKJN_BGvVsxmwV-Hyndu01BJ3

⋆Lena's Art Diary | Vlog series where I share some of my life as an artist. Traveling, adventures, art museums, art galleries, nature, follow me around, lifestyle:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ3ynSeXKJP4sBRT3PP1_4lvVNteMyJN

Music: All music is licensed from Epidemic sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/w2z97f/
Musical Credits/Featured Artists:
Amaranth Cove
Sabastian Winskog
Gavin Luke
Daniel Kaede
Arden Forest
Sam Eber
Franz Gordon
Lama House
Elm Lake
So Vea
Trevor Kowalski
Spectacles Wallet and Watch
Howard Harper-Barnes
Lotus
LUCHS