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Also, don’t forget to watch my latest full-length tutorial video on YouTube…where you will learn to paint a very simple sunset sky!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and until next time,

Let’s Bring some color into the world!

Little Mermaid Painting—-Complete!

I’m very pleased to reveal to you the finished product of my two-week-long project painting a scene from “The Little Mermaid.” I fixed Ariel’s face and now she no longer looks like a red-headed Keebler Elf, which is always a good thing. Actually, she is looking pretty sexy if I do say so myself! 😉

Below the painting I added a close-up shot so you can see the beautiful colors and characteristic textures as they were meant to be seen.

But first, here is the initial sketch again, so you can see just how far I have come!

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A Part of Your World 18×24 inches oils on canvas

I’m super proud of this painting and I feel like it captures the true excitement and spirit of the film! But I really made it my own which was a special experience for me, seeing as the animated film is one of my favorite movies of all time!

I hope you guys had fun coming along on this adventure, and I’ll be sure to post some pictures of my next project. My next BIG project! I will be painting an underwater coral reef scene on a 30×40″ canvas, the biggest painting I have ever attempted so far in my young career! It will have dolphins, reef fish, sea turtles, a shark, a manta ray, and an orca!

It should be very epic indeed!

I hope all of you are doing well and creating some awesome art as well, writing some great content for your blogs, and just plain having an excellent week!

Let’s bring some color into the world!

Ryan Kimba

http://www.ryankimbaart.com website

http://www.ryankimbashop.com shop

Fairwell, my Angel

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On the late evening of March 12, which also happened to be my 30th birthday, I had the very unfortunate experience of losing my puppy. I’m not sure whether she got away somehow or if somebody snatched her. I’m not the only one. Lots of people have had this same kind of event occur in their lives. That’s just how it goes when you own a dog.

Her name was “Faith” and she was a Pomeranian / Chihuahua mix. She looked like a little fruit bat. Even the vet technicians told me so. We seemed to get that comment everywhere we went. She was the first puppy I have ever owned.

I haven’t been in the art studio in two long months because I have been, well, busy grieving and going through the ordeal. It is very hard for me to paint and work when I’m grieving a loss. But I look forward to the day I pick back up again on my art business. I have definitely missed the outlet that painting provides, that’s for sure.

So whatever furry creature you have waiting for you at home, could you please do me one favor? Give them a big hug and a kiss for me, because you never know how long they are going to be there. It might be your last chance to do that.

In closing, I’d like to share a quote that has meant a lot to me over the years.

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

How true, indeed.

Goodbye Knucklehead!

Ryan Kimba

http://www.ryankimbaart.com (website)

Realistic Art

In my Youtube videos I often talk about realistic paintings and how they aren’t better than other styles of painting. How would I know this? Because I used to be a realistic painter! In fact, people often mistook my artwork for photographs, especially at art fairs and gallery exhibitions.

My Days of Realism

As you can see, my old style was hyper realistic. Very life-like! It required brushes, meticulous blending effects, and LONG hours to achieve this style of painting. People seemed to be blown away by it, but there was just something missing. Keep reading to find out what.

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A New Life, by Knife!

And here is a new painting in my current impressionistic style with palette knives. You can see some notable differences, can’t you? 🙂 First of all, these works are much more expressive. They have more charm, character, and life to them. The colors and textures really “pop.” This style is more painterly, and thus, evokes a stronger emotion than my old works did.

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The truth about realism in art

Too many times you’ll here people say that they love a painting and that it is “very good.” When you press them for a reason, they will often say “because it looks SO real!” In other words, these people equate talent with making something look real.

The problem with that way of thinking is that it undermines all the artists out there (myself included) who have the techniques to paint realistic, but prefer not to do so. Realism is just one style of art, not the only style, and it is certainly not any better than other styles like abstract art, impressionistic, pop art, etc.

I often laugh when I think about my old style of art. After all, if I cared that badly about making something look true to life, I should have just taken a photograph! Can you feel me?

Don’t forget to check out my newest inspirational speed painting video on Youtube, and don’t forget to like and subscribe for future Ryan Kimba beach paintings!

So until next time, let’s bring some color into the world!

Ryan Kimba

https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanKimbaBeachPaintings

Bring on the Ocean Creatures!

It’s been a little while since I posted on here, as I’ve been focusing on my Youtube channel. So I thought today I would do something different and post a gallery of all of my marine animal paintings. I’m pretty excited about it too! But first here’s a bit of where you can find me around the web.

My presence is rapidly growing, which is very cool.

***I have a Youtube channel, where you can watch me paint speed paintings of beaches. My goal for my channel is to encourage and inspire my audience, as I talk a lot about personal development in my commentary. The channel is not just art…it is art meets life!

***I also have an exclusive Etsy shop where all of my original paintings are available. It is the ONLY place beach lover’s can buy an original Ryan Kimba palette knife painting! You can see detail shots of all of the creatures below at my shop.

https://www.ryankimbaart.com/contact

And if you’d like to join my Beach Lover’s Group, which is my monthly Newsletter to stay up to date on news, videos, and special discounts, click below!

So, without further ado, let’s roll out the ocean animals, in palette knife form!

Beyond the Shore

The Great Race

Starfish

Playing in Crystal Waters

Pepare for Landing

Through the Current

Airborne

Beneath the Waves

Between Flight

Dinner Time

The Great Wanderer

It’s an honor to paint these amazing creatures of the beach and sea! They are important to our ocean’s ecosystems and need to be protected. Hope you enjoyed checking these out.

There will be many animals yet to come!

Be sure to check out my latest speed painting video on Youtube of a crashing wave offshore! Just click “Play!”. If you enjoy it don’t forget to like and subscribe for future beach paintings.

Until next time,

Let’s bring some color into the world.

Ryan Kimba

http://www.etsy.com/shop/rkbeachpaintings

Studio Switch!

So I recently made a switch in my home. My new studio is now located in my friend’s old room, and my new bedroom is where my old dinky studio used to be. I am really enjoying putting together my brand new art studio! It is so much more inspiring! Not only is it TWICE as big but it also has it’s own private bathroom. How could you go wrong with that? I am in the process of decorating it with a beach theme/personal development theme.

So in addition to the beach decor, I will also be putting a bunch of encouraging words, quotes, and self-development insights all over the walls, which will be a great pick-me-up whenever I’m feeling defeated or discouraged.

I’ll be sure to post a picture of my new studio on my blog as soon as it is finished.

Here are a few new paintings to share with you. I haven’t shared new paintings in a while and I figured I’d get back to my roots. For more information on these paintings, visit my online shop on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/RKBeachPaintings

Golden Minutes Oils on canvas 11×14″

Hold Our Hearts Oils on canvas 11×14″

Goodnight Sun Oils on canvas 11×14″

And don’t forget to watch my new Youtube video. Come get to know me better as my friend asks me some thought-provoking questions about my art, fear, and some lessons that I’ve learned along the way. It is a must see!

So what changes have you made recently? Hope you have had a great week so far, filled with creativity and inspiration.

And until next time,

let’s bring some more color into the world!

Ryan Kimba

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDaJL5tkFEHCzrC_yYrmcA

Cruising in Style

It’s finally here!

Tomorrow morning I’ll be flying down to Fort Lauderdale, from which I will catch a train to Miami with my older sister. And then, VIOLA!!! It’s onto our Royal Caribbean ship for an unforgettable voyage to the Bahamas! Where sun, sea water, and dolphins await us!

I can’t wait to swim with bottle-nosed dolphins again. There is nothing quite like it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, which I’m grateful enough to experience again. But nothing will ever be as grand as that first swim in 2011 in Key Largo. Below is a picture of me swimming with momma’ and baby!

I’m looking forward with anticipation to getting out of the studio, away from cold Michigan, and embarking on my first ever cruise. Cross it off my bucket list, please! As it is something I’ve always dreamed about doing. It will be so nice to get to share it with my sister Ashley, as this is her first cruise as well. We have no idea what to expect, but we are ecstatic nevertheless.

Can’t wait to get a wealth of inspiration for my painting!!! I’ll be taking lots of pictures and videos for reference material for when I get back into the art studio, so expect some lovely palette knife beach paintings of the Bahamas in the very near future.

I will talk to you guys when I return!

Hope your week is filled with adventure and joy like mine will be!

Until next time,

bringing some color to the Bahamas,

Ryan kimba

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDaJL5tkFEHCzrC_yYrmcA/videos

Bahama Bound!

I’m super excited to be traveling to the Bahamas at the end of this month for some much needed R and R! This trip will mark my first time to a tropical island, and it will also be my first ever cruise as well!

So needless to say, it should be a sun-filled, sand-between-my-toes adventure!

In the Bahamas I will be swimming with dolphins on the beach! I swam with them before in Key Largo, and I am very pumped to relive the experience. Dolphins are some of the most amazing creatures on this planet. Not only do I love the ocean, but I adore the animals that inhabit it as well.

So in honor of my impending cruise, I thought it was only fitting to paint a dolphin in palette knife form. Here it is, entitled “Playing in Crystal Waters.”

Playing in Crystal Waters, Oils on canvas, 11×14 inches

Check out my new beach painting tutorial on Youtube when you get a chance!

I would have to say that this is my favorite video I’ve done so far. I’m proud of this one! The colors are so interesting and make the whole scene spring to life. I hope you enjoy it.

**And don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for future beach painting videos.*

I hope all of you had a good weekend and I wish you a productive week in your creative endeavors.

Let’s bring some color into the world,

Ryan Kimba

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Painting Clouds with Palette Knives

Good morning!

I’m beach artist Ryan Kimba, and today I will be showing you a quick painting lesson.

Before we begin, remember that palette knives were not created for us to paint in a realistic style. With knives we need to surrender total control and paint loose. The clouds in my paintings are impressionistic. They look like clouds but they are by no means life-like. And they don’t need to be.

Let’s start off with a backdrop of blue.

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For the top of the sky we will use Pthalo Blue dulled down with a little bit of Titanium White. Work it from side to side like you are buttering toast. This is exactly how it will feel. To put more butter on your bread, you need to use varying amounts of pressure and tilt the knife downwards and upwards. Same thing when you are painting with a knife!

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For the bottom half of our sky we will use Pthalo but with a large amount of Ultramarine blue mixed in. This shade of blue will be much warmer than the top. When side by side, see how the bottom blue leans more toward purple? Generally the sky tends to get more purple and hazy as you go to the horizon.

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In this step we are simply blending the two colors together. This is a fairly quick process. And now that we have our base, we can begin adding clouds!

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This is where we add straight white out of the tube. Now your initial dab with the white will mix in with the blue beneath, so do not fear. Just add in some thicker white paint to sit on top of the stained white. You can make long wispy clouds or you can make puffy cumulus clouds. It’s totally up to you! Have fun with it!

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When I am painting clouds, I like to roll the white paint onto the bottom tip of the knife blade, rubbing it onto the canvas in a rolling motion. An amazing characteristic of palette knives is that they are surprisingly flexible. You can bend them any which way you choose and they will spring right back into action.

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And here we have a completed cloudy blue sky. For all of you artists that don’t like to paint clouds—do not be afraid! Give this a try. The only way to learn is by practicing and experimenting. You may even find your own exciting way of painting clouds!

Don’t forget to follow my Etsy shop and browse my original paintings:

Also, be sure to subscribe to my Youtube channel or leave a comment and let me know what you think of my videos. I’d love to here from you.

Until next time,

let’s bring some color into the world.

Ryan Kimba

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDaJL5tkFEHCzrC_yYrmcA

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The Colors of a Beach Painting

The colors artists use are extremely different from one another. And that is okay. There is nothing wrong with picking your own unique palette of beautiful colors. Your colors say a lot about your style and the type of artist you are.

Whenever another artist tells you that you need to use different colors, or ones that they love, don’t put too much stock in it. When someone tells you “you ought to use this blue or that red,” you have to resist all of that. Just because something works for someone else, it doesn’t mean that it will work for you. Or that you will even like it.

Always follow your gut, and listen to your heart. Picking your color palette is one of the most crucial things an oil painter can do.

Now if you don’t have a ton of experience painting, then by all means take notes from your peers and see what they are using. I’d like to share with you some of the staples on my own palette, especially when painting sunsets. All of these colors I have pretty much stumbled upon. By happy accident, of course! So here they are.

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Titanium White

I could not work without this amazing color. White is actually my favorite color, although it is technically all of the colors in the spectrum, or the absence of color (like most people say). I use TW to tint all of my colors on my palette. I also use it to paint bright white clouds and waves under a bright sun. There are other good whites, but nothing is stronger and more pigment-rich than this one.

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Pthalo Blue

This cool blue is incredibly strong. The pigment Phthalocyanine has a dramatic tinting strength, which you will need to look out for in your mixtures. Mixing Pthalo into another will overwhelm the other color quickly, so use small dabs of it. It’s powerful tinting capacity aside, this is a gorgeous true blue that is priceless when painting the sea and deep blue skies.

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Ultramarine Blue

I have a warm and a cool blue on my palette. This is the warm blue, meaning it leans more towards red on the color wheel. Ultramarine Blue has a slightly purplish undertone to it, which makes it invaluable for painting the shadows in cloud formations and wet sand impressions. I use a TON of it mostly because by mixing this color with Burnt Sienna, I get a brilliant chromatic black, which is a lovely rich black that won’t kill your other colors when mixing.

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Burnt Sienna

Burnt Sienna is a warm reddish brown color that is the other half of my black! It is a terrific color I found after I became tired of mixing this from blue, red, yellow, and black. I wanted something quicker and easier. This color is nice for the trunks of my palm trees, grass, rocks, and for warming cooler colors.

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Manganese Violet

This is a beautiful shade of violet made by the Old Holland line of oils. It is rich, deep, and bright out of the tube, and it cannot be mixed from other colors. This is a fabulous sunset color in your velvety skies. It is also great for flowers. I use this one sparingly.

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Brilliant Pink

Also by Old Holland, I am using this one more and more. It is lush, bright, and tropical. I love to use this for mixing various tints and shades for the tropical flowers which dot a lot of my paintings. You can get a shade similar to this one from mixing white with Cadmium Red, but it will not be as brilliant and true.

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Carmine Red

Carmine Red is similar to Cadmium Red Medium and other popular pigments. It also makes great magentas, pinks, and browns. It is bold and also has a high tinting strength, so a little goes a long way. CR is a deep blood-red shade that is sure to liven up your sunsets.

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Cadmium Yellow Medium

And lastly we have Cadmium Yellow Medium, which leans towards orange when compared to the “light” of the same name. All of the cadmium colors have high pigment concentrations, which makes them more expensive. They are also fairly toxic, so make sure you have proper ventilation in your studio. This is great for grass, trees, sunlight and bursts of color through the clouds. Mix it with Cadmium Red to get orange, and Pthalo Blue to get a true green.

My new sunset painting below was created using all of these wonderful colors.

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Don’t forget to check out my art painting tutorial channel on Youtube, and also my Etsy shop.

I am working on growing my audience and could use your help! So if you haven’t done so yet, be sure to follow my shop and this blog. Also be sure to hit “like” and subscribe to my channel on Youtube.

Thanks for reading, and I hope this has inspired you to bring your own colors into the world.

Give it a bit of beauty.

Ryan Kimba