Ben Eblen

Going live in 45! Stylized art study and chatting, catch you in there youtube.com/live/PESRL7Az8y4?feature=share

2 days ago | [YT] | 604

Ben Eblen

Some more oil practise 🎨. This time I was focused on figuring out how to layer wet paint over more wet paint in the one sitting.

It seems like it's all to do with keeping the beginning layers thinner and building the amount of paint up slowly over time.

Being mindful as to not try and lay thinner paint over thicker paint, it ends up just scraping off that thicker paint underneath which is a paint in the ass!

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3 days ago | [YT] | 522

Ben Eblen

This evenings oil hand study 🤚 absolutely loving playing with oils again

5 days ago | [YT] | 720

Ben Eblen

Been picking up the oil paints again lately. Made a little progress this morning on this one that I started ages ago.

Also, my palette is just a cheap glass picture frame that I painted a neutral gray behind. Keeping it cheap and scrappy to begin with 🕺

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1,060

Ben Eblen

Heyo! Seats are officially open for my 5-week workshop on painting light and value from imagination.

10% off until Dec 31 and starts Jan 24th

Have you been doing value studies but still feel like a bit of a copy machine? And you can't quite crack the code to invent your own lighting?

I get it. That was me for years.I was:
• guessing my way through shading
• stuck trying to copying reference exactly
• No idea how to fix my paintings when things looked “off”

This is the workshop I wish I had.

We'll walk through a reliable, repeatable framework for understanding what light is actually doing, so you can invent it confidently, not just memorise tricks.

Two cohorts:
🇪🇺 Better for Europe: Saturdays @ 9AM CET
🇺🇸 Better for US: Saturdays @ 4PM PST

Seat options:
• Workshop Seat (12 available) – live lessons, assignments, critiques
• 1-on-1 Seat (3 available) – includes 3 X 1 hour calls
• Sit-In Seat (unlimited) – Live lessons, no interaction/feedback

All seats include access to the private Discord.

Workshop & 1-on-1 seats get lifetime access and the ability to shape the (currently in development) Graymatter On-Demand Course.

Start 2026 off strong with 5 weeks to finally understand light, value, and form so you never have to copy references blindly again.

👉 Reserve your seat www.beneblen.com/courses/graymatter-live

Can't wait to get nerdy about light and value with you 🕺

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 877

Ben Eblen

We’re back at it again! Live in 25. Stylized art study and chatting 🕺catch you in there youtube.com/live/Zy7VSg_Kk

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 729

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Dropping this 1 hr demo to my newsletter subs tomorrow. Talking through my 4 step lighting loop as a promo for my upcoming live online 'Painting light from imagination' workshop in Jan. Make sure you grab the free brushpack so you don't miss it! beneblendesignnewsletter.kit.com/592b501cbb

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 439

Ben Eblen

Heyo, free brush pack alert!

I’ve been putting together some of the materials for my next ‘Painting Light and Value from Imagination’ live online workshop in January, and I wanted to send you one of them as a small thank you for supporting my work.

Here’s the brush pack for you to try out, it’s the same set we’ll be using in the January workshop: -> beneblendesignnewsletter.kit.com/592b501cbb

It includes the 'Flat Flowy' brush I use in a lot of my streams.

Hopefully it’s something you can play around with and drop straight into your workflow.

More details about the upcoming workshop in the next few days but for now, enjoy the brushes — and thanks again for the support!

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 574

Ben Eblen

We’re back at it again! Stream starting in 2 hours U.S. edition. Stylized art study and chatting 🕺catch you in there youtube.com/live/uxbpqjsmEvQ?feature=share

1 month ago | [YT] | 669

Ben Eblen

Going live in an hour, stylized art study and chatting, catch you in there 🕺 youtube.com/live/ofaKBHk0uAc?feature=share

2 months ago | [YT] | 628