Stephen Durkee
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Frank O'Cain How to start a painting by using a letter of the alphabet. Demo 02 20 24
Demonstration by Frank O'Cain at the Art Students League of New York, February 20, 20234, showing how to start a painting by using a letter of the alphabet to trigger the initial forms. This is a useful exercise to help the artist understand how forms, negative spaces and other elements in a painting work together.
Frank O'Cain is an important instructor at the Art Students League of New York who has, introduced generations of students to the basic principles of Abstract Painting developed by Cezanne and Hans Hofmann.
Recorded and edited by Stephen Durkee
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Frank O'Cain: working in acrylic with a palette of orange, and green to build a planar structure.
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Frank O'Cain's demonstration at the Art Students League of NY on November 12 2024 shows how to work with a few challenging colors primarily orange and green to build a structure using planes.. The demo includes many tips including how to use difficult colors without creating mud. Once colors are in place, the demo shows how the artist can make them interact. A few Qs and As follow the demo. Fra...
Frank O'Cain: Abstract Painting with Acrylic Using Limited Colors
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Frank O'Cain's demonstration at the Art Students League of NY on October 8 shows how to work in acrylic with a few colors i to build an abstract painting. The demo includes many tips, such as how to begin lightly and use medium, how to use a few colors to create excitement, and how to use white to finish the work. A session of Qs and As follows the demo. Frank O'Cain is an important instructor ...
Frank O'Cain Painting with oil medium, egg yolk and tubed watercolor when traveling. Aug 6 2024
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Demonstration by Frank O'Cain at the Art Students League of New York, August 6, 2024. Frank O'Cain provides a unique approach for painting during a trip, using a combination of oil medium, egg yolk and tubed watercolors. The result has many characteristics of oil but is very light to carry, quick to dry, and easy to use. The demo also covers many principles of creating a lyrical abstract painti...
Frank O'Cain Demo 6 11 24: Creating an Abstract Watercolor with a Limited Palette
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Demonstration by Frank O'Cain at the Art Students League of New York from June 11, 2024. This demonstrates how to create an abstract watercolor painting using a limited palette. The demo takes you through starting, building, and finishing two 22 x 30 watercolors producing both a lighter and warmer painting as well as a darker and cooler work. Recorded and edited by Stephen Durkee.
Frank O'Cain Painting with Acrylic on Canvas Demo 4 9 2024
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Demonstration by Frank O'Cain at the Art Students League of New York, April 9, 2024, shows how to work with acrylic on canvas to gradually build up an engaging abstract painting. the demo. Frank O'Cain is an important instructor at the Art Students League of New York who has, introduced generations of students to the basic principles of Abstract Painting developed by Cezanne and Hans Hofmann. T...
Frank O'Cain Collage: Playing with Color Demo August 1, 2023
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Demonstration by Frank O'Cain at the Art Students League of New York, August 1, 2023, shows how to build a collage with an eye on color interactions, sizes, and shapes. Starting with how colors interact one-on-one, the demonstration moves to show how to create movement across a large 90 inch by 30 inch surface and make the various elements interact with each other. Recorded and edited by Stephe...

Комментарии

  • @liliannaa3627
    @liliannaa3627 День назад

    What a masterclass!!! Thank you, maestro!

  • @karimparvinian8008
    @karimparvinian8008 День назад

    This is not art . Sheer bullshit .

  • @ceeemm1901
    @ceeemm1901 День назад

    Great vid, although in 2024, you've still got a crap video camera.....

  • @luciclaireshedoe2230
    @luciclaireshedoe2230 2 дня назад

    really like/appreciate this... Low key, doable, yippy! Sometimes they trying to teach u to paint the taj mahal but we not there yet! I like the 'thank u's' 😸not.sure exact what they about but nice... Glad.to find! I guess them in-house students as well? Good idea! 🙋🏽‍♀️💐🎊

  • @StepbyStepbyMiriam
    @StepbyStepbyMiriam 2 дня назад

    At 48:48 I wanted to yell stop! But the final painting wasn't half bad ;P Wonderfully explained and demonstrated. Envious of the students!!

  •  2 дня назад

    Crappity crap b s

  • @annamarieavera5620
    @annamarieavera5620 5 дней назад

    What a gift :) makes me look at my work and how to improve. Academic learning in my living room. Who would have thought

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 5 дней назад

    Could anyone suggest where one can read more about Cezanne's principles to organize the surface?

    • @jvkarts
      @jvkarts 3 дня назад

      There’s plenty of books on Cezanne

  • @medhan847
    @medhan847 6 дней назад

    Excellent tutoriel. Thanks

  • @bearbait7405
    @bearbait7405 13 дней назад

    Generosity. My upmost gratitude to this gentleman artist

  • @v639dragoon
    @v639dragoon 14 дней назад

    what a great teacher and fantastic painter. Wish I could take his classes in real life

  • @v639dragoon
    @v639dragoon 15 дней назад

    Thank you for these. Super helpful, watching them all. Wish I could take his classes in person

  • @Vesper007_
    @Vesper007_ 21 день назад

    He says this dont work for realist but cant you use the abstraction to create eye magnetts and a better composition using this for realism? Andd impressionistic realism? Like a Casey baugh painting or a richard schmidt.

  • @Esmeralda-bg7qq
    @Esmeralda-bg7qq 21 день назад

    I love how you demonstrate how to work and your explanations. Very clear art education for me. Thank you so much for posting. I have learned a lot.🙏

  • @kathythiessen3362
    @kathythiessen3362 23 дня назад

    I think I’m starting to get it!

  • @otfinoskiotfinoski8856
    @otfinoskiotfinoski8856 25 дней назад

    HIDEOUS PAINTING

  • @larryseals4665
    @larryseals4665 26 дней назад

    Crapstraction. The hallmark of modernity and individual expression. Nobody gives a shit about your individual expression, experience or personality which you foisted upon the world. Artist are a dime a dozen and art is superfluous. If everything is art then art becomes nothing. Dividing by zero is an Crapstraction. Religion is a man-made Crapstraction. If the only thing that spawns "new art" is affirming the opposite or denial of the past then that too is a formula ergo fucked. Nothing painted nor ever will be painted is "unique" apart from nature. A Madonna painted on a sewer wall and never seen will have the same affect as anyone's "personal expressions" and both are nothing and meaningless. A truth can only be expressed in mathematics. Paint your lies and Crapstractions for fools and delusional idiots like yourself, but don't think I buy into your mumbo-jumbo artistic psycho babble bullshit. I don't. I just enjoy laughing at it 🤣 😂. Thank you. 😅

  • @janetbecker408
    @janetbecker408 27 дней назад

    what medium is he using

  • @juliechevalier1516
    @juliechevalier1516 27 дней назад

    v helpful thanks

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 28 дней назад

    Mr Durkee, could you confirm the meaning of the words Mr. O'Cain uses? Very curious about the idea of position or the push and pull in an abstract. Is he referring the position in terms of swelling or coming at the viewer and contraction the receding back towards the surface or going under a form?

  • @cherylhorta4131
    @cherylhorta4131 29 дней назад

    what is the name of the stuff you're pouring into cups?

  • @johntaylor6211
    @johntaylor6211 Месяц назад

    All that time to demonstrate an absolute garbage painting. Well done.

  • @margaretbradish1764
    @margaretbradish1764 Месяц назад

    Are you seriously having a laugh 😮

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Anyone here trying this exercise out? Maybe if a few of us shared out attempts with each other, we could make progress or something.

    • @bridgesart
      @bridgesart 50 минут назад

      Classic Andrew Loomis or Edgar Payne on composition.

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Feeling compelled to tell folks here stuff I think about as I work - I think the word 'Position' Mr O'Cain uses means the forward and back or push and pull of a form or color and not so much the location of a shape on the picture plane, the left-right-lower-higher, a 2-D idea. ???

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    My first attempt at this exercise was not too informative and I feel like I need more information to continue. But having a blast giving it shot and trying the broken plane technique. Any one have the Romere Bearden A Painters Mind book? Very pricey book on the market, local library doe not have it and no one has in their system. :(

  • @songwolf108
    @songwolf108 Месяц назад

    He was my teacher years ago, thanks for posting this, & we get to see the finished piece! Wonderful 🎨

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Does anyone here know of any reading material that might explain the terms he uses in his demos?

    • @stephendurkee3115
      @stephendurkee3115 Месяц назад

      A painters mind by romare bearden

    • @donrogers776
      @donrogers776 Месяц назад

      @@stephendurkee3115 Thank-you Stephen! I will check it out and some or all of the terms Frank mentions during his demos are explained?

    • @bridgesart
      @bridgesart 34 минуты назад

      Another good book: Fishing for Elephants by Larry Moore.

    • @bridgesart
      @bridgesart 26 минут назад

      @@stephendurkee3115 thank you. Will have to look that one up.

  • @Midgy21747
    @Midgy21747 Месяц назад

    Brilliant

  • @wendywatson2566
    @wendywatson2566 Месяц назад

    Frank refers to a teacher of his but I can’t quite get the name and the captions don’t help to identify his. Who was he referring to please?

    • @tundratraveller1990
      @tundratraveller1990 Месяц назад

      Check the transcript (in the description box)

    • @donrogers776
      @donrogers776 Месяц назад

      me too but here is his name: Vaclav Vytlacil, am looking for more info about the terms Franks uses - know any books?

    • @wendywatson2566
      @wendywatson2566 Месяц назад

      @@tundratraveller1990he refers to Bill and Vid so I still don’t know who he’s referring to. He might mention the full name elsewhere though. 👍🏼

    • @bearbait7405
      @bearbait7405 13 дней назад

      @@donrogers776Hoffman

    • @peach500
      @peach500 7 дней назад

      Also mentioned Hans Hofmann and related is The Painter's Mind book (rare) @@donrogers776

  • @TheElysianPath
    @TheElysianPath Месяц назад

    I just happened on your channel Stephen…do you paint?

  • @blondes
    @blondes Месяц назад

    I don’t get this , he paints with white over white paper. it starts at the top right and that seems to be important, but I don't see the importance of that. he also starts painting the same white in all kinds of corners everywhere. Is it the way he moves the brush from left to right in different directions??

    • @ealykke427
      @ealykke427 Месяц назад

      My understanding is this: If we want to create “good” abstract art and not decorative art (which is about harmony, balance, etc) we need to create visual tension in the art piece. Some tension arises in the relationship between positive and negative space(s). He’s using only black and white (both the paint and the paper) to make the spatial relationship more obvious (less complex for us learners). He is using the white paint in different areas to adjust the spatial relationship so the image gets more and more engaging to the viewer, and thus improving on it. He briefly mentions using the top right corner as an “anchor”. An anchor is important because without one the viewer’s eyes will perpetually wander over the image and never get a sense of rest (tiresome) or might be pushed off the image. He uses the top right corner as the anchor. I am guessing it is here because in Western cultural contexts we read left to right so putting it in the right corner gives the Western viewer a sense of closure.

    • @donrogers776
      @donrogers776 Месяц назад

      @@ealykke427 Good answer, I wondered the same but thought that the making of more obvious marks next to the top of the C and the edge of the C more hard edge suggested that the C was above the white background, I noticed too when he says 'coming over', it appears that he allows the gesso to cover part of the black again suggesting that the white was moving over the black. Do you know of any books, articles that explains the terms Mr.O'Cain uses?

    • @blondes
      @blondes Месяц назад

      @ Oh thank you for taking the time to explain this a bit. I've let it sink in and understand it better now. I will watch the video again with this explanation in mind. thank you🍀

    • @ealykke427
      @ealykke427 Месяц назад

      @@donrogers776I am sorry, I don’t know of books that cover his artistic vocabulary. I’m new to abstract art making 😅

    • @jamieluce5808
      @jamieluce5808 Месяц назад

      @@ealykke427Thank you.

  • @TheElysianPath
    @TheElysianPath Месяц назад

    I am two months into Abstract painting and I have never heard any of this…..This is amazing subtle information…Abstacting from my subconscious. pretty powerful. my paintings are dead!

  • @pamelabrowne3684
    @pamelabrowne3684 Месяц назад

    This is so informative. Thank you

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 Месяц назад

    For abstract artists…

    • @bridgesart
      @bridgesart 31 минуту назад

      For both. He is teaching design. All visual artists benefit from learning good design. He has a remarkable way of describing the visual.

  • @eduardomoreira6100
    @eduardomoreira6100 Месяц назад

    Great video!!! What a nice lesson, very valuable, Thank you!

  • @marypartridge5154
    @marypartridge5154 Месяц назад

    Thanking you so much as this showed us a lot of ideas to start a painting

  • @romanovrex
    @romanovrex Месяц назад

    I could watch this guy for ever, great energy and repose.

  • @dewarb8311
    @dewarb8311 Месяц назад

    Don't follow how does this look good

  • @creativityworkoutsforartan6951
    @creativityworkoutsforartan6951 Месяц назад

    The sound on this video is great!

  • @Brainhoneywalker
    @Brainhoneywalker Месяц назад

    I really enjoy listening to this artist discussing his process. It really is helping me understand how to better consider my own decisions and techniques. These lessons are invaluable. Thank you for posting these videos.

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Dies Mr. O'Canin give assignments or do the students work from that huge, crazy-looking still life set up? Was was wondering too, if Mr. O'Cain teacher, Vaclav Vytlacil, give assignments. I would enjoy working on an assignment to gain more understanding if the ideas O'Cain talks about.

  • @sherm50599
    @sherm50599 Месяц назад

    Thank you!

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Thank-you Stephen for these videos of Frank O'Cain teaching, explaining and demonstrating such important and facinating concepts of color and painting.

  • @sandraconstantine9599
    @sandraconstantine9599 Месяц назад

    Thank you for these videos they are a gift !!!!

  • @wendyneilson8422
    @wendyneilson8422 Месяц назад

    Excellent instruction from this guy!

  • @wendyneilson8422
    @wendyneilson8422 Месяц назад

    How wud u simplify so much detail? I have trouble leaving a place for eye to rest.

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Any suggestions where I can learn, read about this color planes Mr. O'Cain keeps mentioning?

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Thank-you for posting these art education gems. This demo using color4d paper was such a great idea and easier understood! Yes a gift!

  • @donrogers776
    @donrogers776 Месяц назад

    Yes Mr O'Cain's talk is hard to follow but I am hearing solid tips i.e. wait till it dries for a couple days to judge the work, work thin at first so you can adjust and change. And I as I suspected - a Hans Hoffman student through his teacher Vaclav Vytlacil at the art students league.