How to paint a kitten in acrylics | Painting realistic fur

In this video I'll show how to paint a kitten in acrylics. When painting soft fur the layers and brush technique are important but as a lot of this kitten was slightly out of focus there were also many blending techniques used throughout. How to blend acrylics relies on a few factors. As the paint can dry very fast we need to keep it wet for as long as needed so that our blending brushes can soften the edges. For this my preferred method is wet into wet blending =).
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Materials used:
8" x 8" acrylic on canvas board
Reference photo: Unsplash

[Iamnosey]

Beautiful kitten! I love doing animals. Thank you for sharing your technical details.

[momasan]

OMG, Jara! Your expertise and beautiful details using acrylics is beyond amazing!! You are SO diversified in so many different mediums. I'm GOBSMACKED!!!

[mimisart]

Gorgeous! Looks way more realistic than my kitten painting, but hey, that was my very first...lol

[davekennedy]

Thank you Zara, such beautiful work. I've just spent 2 weeks painting my white cat and after seeing your video I'm probably going to start again😀Thanks for the video, its really been extremely helpful

[lorriepaints]

This is fantastic! Thankyou for posting it . I pint animals and it’s great to see how others go through their process! Learning lots! I also like to paint onto a black gessoed canvas. I find things go much faster that way.

[recreepy]

We can easily spot the sketch you create, we can feel it just by its originality.

[colibricomunica]

te felicito por tu gran trabajo, excelente técnica. Te ganaste un seguidor

[jacinthalawrence]

Just love love love your technique! ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉what brushes are you using hun xx

VERY BEAUTIFUL, AND VERY HELPFUL IN MY PAINTING, THANKS

[jcepri]

One more question. I've never painted before. I've been interested in oils. Do you think acrylics is better for total beginners? Can they serve as sort of training wheels?

[EktaShah]

Wow I thought this was going to be pastel but it is acrylic. Dayum

[OrioleBeagle]

What brands of acrylic paints to you use?

[jcepri]

This great! Very well explained. I heard there is a type of medium you can add to acrylics to slow the drying time. Do you know if that's true? So do you know what the product is called? Thank you.

[jeannegillette]

This is bestcat have seen.What is cost of your patrion to get this full tutorial of kitten?

[nancyjaminet]

The video is so fast! I can't see what kind of brush you are using or how you are mixing the paint or anything. The finished painting is impressive though.

[NadineMayette]

extraordinaire, vous êtes exceptionnelle dans les portraits animaliers, une surdouée, je n'avais jamais vu autant de talent, il est magnifique en plus j'adore les chats, ces yeux sont d'une réalité, ses poils, je m'abonne à votre chaîne car on ne peut que vous féliciter, je suis peintre également et je sais reconnaître les vrais talents cordialement Nadine

[southernbear]

I wonder why beautiful artists such as urself don't sell your services to those of us who would love to hire you???

[frogsong]

I have a question. I keep seeing people using blush brushes to blend or smooth out the paint. My question is, do you have several of the blush brushes? Do you rinse them after use. How do you keep the paint from drying on them? Do you use a different one every time you use it?