ASMR Painting: White Cat at Home Above the City (Soft Spoken, Brushing, 3 Hours)

Relaxing Palette Knife Painting ASMR: Watch as I create a vibrant painting of a white cat relaxing in his favorite spot above a cityscape, using oil paint, palette knife, and a little bit of brushing. Timestamps are below if you want to skip to your favorite part! Along the way I share my process in soft spoken commentary. Enjoy the painting session with headphones to hear the drawing sounds and palette knife scraping, scratching, and mixing on board.

For this painting, I was working from multiple reference images and attempting to combine them to create the complete scene. I begin with a black and white painting using acrylic gesso to define the layout and set up the initial values. I had planned to do a palette knife painting over top of that and develop the whole image in color at that point. I ended up not liking how that was going though and debated starting over about halfway through! Ultimately I decided to just have some fun and play with what I had for a while, and that led me to discover some new techniques using a filbert brush to create the fur texture and bring the light back into the piece. I think the result had a lot of character and I learned a lot from painting it.

I hope you'll enjoy watching the whole process. I debated removing the part where I got frustrated in the middle, but in the end, I think if you make art, or really challenge yourself in some way, you know it happens, and getting through it is a skill of its own.

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For those unfamiliar, ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It’s a calming, sometimes tingling sensation people may experience in response to gentle stimuli, like soft sounds, whispering, or repetitive actions. Whether or not you experience ASMR in any specific way, these types of videos provide an opportunity to unwind, relieve stress, and experience a calming presence. Some people also enjoy them for tinnitus relief.

I create no talking and soft spoken ASMR art videos with the goal of enjoyable sound quality and an unintentional ASMR feel. I want these ASMR videos to offer a comfortable, relaxing, and soothing experience, with a genuine, natural style. In my earlier recordings, I mostly set up the camera and audio recording gear, forget about them, and get into the drawing and painting. Now I sometimes speak a little, sharing my thought process along the way. Check the playlist section if you prefer one style over the other.

Each video I make has subtle variations that happen as a natural part of this process. In this collection so far, there are different styles of brushwork, palette knife techniques, foam brush painting, charcoal drawings, each with different amounts of background white noise, hum of traffic, and even some with real rain sounds.

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Recording Info:
Audio - Zoom H6e with Rode NT5 Microphones - Binaural/Stereo Sound
Video - iPhone 15 Pro
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Hello and Welcome!
00:00:21 - Reference Photos Here
00:01:42 - Palette Setup for Acrylic Gesso Base Layer
00:02:53 - Brush Painting Base Layer
00:10:03 - Adding the Cat, Continuing Layout
01:17:47 - Day 2 - Oil Painting
01:24:00 - Brushing Liquid Base Layer
01:26:48 - Brush Cleaning
01:28:09 - Palette Knife Painting
01:45:13 - Considering Giving Up
01:46:50 - Pressing Onwards and Having Fun with No Expectations
01:48:51 - Brush Painting
01:53:51 - Lightening Up :D
02:46:43 - Day 3 - Small Fixes, Final Details