Thanks for this! I love knife painting and so I always leap at the chance to see how other artists approach the method. Your explanation of starting with base colors, masses and temps is what I find works for me too, so I was glad to see the confirmation (& much clearer explanation of what I merely feel my way toward...!) Haha. Happy painting!
Have had a very enjoyable day copying this painting. I learnt not to be afraid of using lots of paint or strong colours and my palette knife technique definitely improved. So many thanks. I hope I can incorporate what I have learnt into my own work soon.
Fantastic demonstration of use of palette knife, warm and cool colors and knowing when to stop. Please keep these excellent videos coming. I have learned more from this video than any others I have watched online!!
Love the colors and picture style, with the palette knife, what can be said, you studied with/about art with the best, and you accomplished it, your heart must be full. You helped to fill mine. ThankYou, An absolute treat for my Soul
Thank you for watching and your kind remarks. I'm battling COVID right now and your comment makes me feel better. With another week to go of isolation I hope to put some paint down on canvas.
What a stunning painting ! One can see all the palette strokes he has made. So many colors overlapping. You may be fairly happy, but I am positively amazed and happy at this wonderful piece.
I'm really enjoying your tutorials! I love your use of color and the light touch. I know for my, I occasionally get muddy from pressing harder than I wanted to. thank you !
Hello from France Mike, first of all thank you so much for taking time to explain how to do what you do. What you do and the rendering you obtain is brilliant! I'm painting my first painting with a palette knife just now, on my own, but the kind of "abstract realism " or expressionism you paint is the direction I would very much like to take. So, following attentively the progression of your painting and benefiting from your comments as you go along, is quite invaluable to me. In fact I downloaded several of your videos and plan on studying them one by one to learn. Being a beginner has its drawbacks and advantages. One of the advantages being that many have walked that way before you, so you can learn quickly, especially so with RUclips videos. So, if in future videos, you can say which colours you are applying when you are applying them, or which ones you are mixing to obtain a certain shade, that would be great. I do realise this may slow you down, though... The main drawback, for me today at least, is that colour mixing is still a time-consuming thing for me. I have to discover the colours or spend time learning. There are some videos, such as Will Kemp's (UK artist), that show the undertones of the main acrylic colours used, and that helps so much, like this one for instance: Basic acrylic colour mixing: how to mix a perfect purple| Part 2 of 2 ruclips.net/video/IUc31f0A7CQ/видео.html Again, thank you very much. With kind regards Anne
LOVEit!! I don't know how many times one of my painting instructors has said "congratulations! You've now made mud!". We do indeed have to know when to stop!!!
Absolutely beautiful I am also a professional artist I have been doing abstracts the last few years but I have been getting antsy lately to go back to my impressionistic art again this is just the push I needed thank you
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You are absolutely amazing!!!! I love watching what you can do. I am getting into the impressionistic painting techniques, just a beginner but so inspired by you! thank you for posting these wonderful videos...so beautiful!
I love the painting. It is so difficult to find instruction for Ala Prima technique. I'd love to see more.... I can learn so much by watching. Thank You!
+Karen Samenow Hi Karen- thanks for watching. If I'm doing a studio painting with a size under 30" in either direction I try to hit my self-imposed time limit of 3 hrs; 1 hr block in, 1 hr "in the thick of things" and 1 hr finishing up with pushing darks and lights. For me, it creates a painting with a "painterly" feel, which is what I strive for in developing my style. Anything longer than that tends to make the painting less desirable. Plein air works are kept to under 2 hrs due to changing light conditions.
lovely painting, rich and sumptuous...i wonder, do you think you could do the same in acrylics or would you be limited by their particular qualities? i am trying to develop my acrylics, but not sure if i could ever achieve this sort of work in it. have you ever tried?
+safi456 Hi. Possibly but doubtful. Part of the beauty of oils is they stay wet for extended periods. While this came together quickly, the ability to blend wet or tacky paint is key. I've done acrylics but I'm not an expert with that medium. Someone who understands extenders and other additives to allow that paint to not set up so quickly could provide better insight.
+safi456 You can absolutely paint like this in acrylics. They key is to lay down a layer of super heavy gel medium first! I've done many a painting this way, still following the full-color seeing techniques advocated by the Cape Cod School of Art. My acrylics and oils are almost identical.
It's great to see your process and have you talk your way through it. I would like to see what you are referencing. Is this out of your head or do you have a photo to assist you?
You are lucky. Her book "Painting the Impressionist Landscape" is a valuable resource I often refer to. Color temperature is a complex topic and requires hours of practice and miles of canvas to master
Hi there. Would you be able to leave a link as to the brand and kind of turpentine tire using? I’m new to painting and still learning a lot. Thank you for any help
Hello- I use odorless mineral spirits (OMS) instead of turpentine. You can buy it at your local hardware or big box home improvement store. I recycle used OMS with a glass jar, like a jar for pasta sauce. Pour it in there and let it settle for a week. The solids sit on the bottom and you can reuse the OMS again for cleaning brushes or thinning paint.
I’m always intrigued by the colors artists use - I’ve never seen someone embrace reds so much but I love red. Do you tend to go for right out of the tube color?
Would like to create a painting as beautiful as that. I am just beginning and watching videos. Paints especially oil paints are somewhat uncommon and pricey in my country.
I really wish you would show me 'how' you did this, explain the angles of the knife, how much color to use etc..so I can learn. How do you keep the colors from mixing on the canvas? Thank you
Devora- My suggestion is to do what I did: spend hundreds of hours experimenting with different knives. Practice and trial and error is the only real way to know "how" to paint like this. A gentle touch and layering colors over each other is a very delicate process. Avoid mixing. Read how the impressionists put complementary colors next to each other to achieve results. Read about Henry Hensche and the Cape Cod School and his approach to color and temperature.
+Yuzhong Zhang Hello. This painting took three hours from start to finish. Alla prima! The underpainting/block in was done with a thin turpy mixture. That dried almost to the touch in under 15 minutes. Every other layer is applied wet-on-wet. A light touch with the knife and avoiding blending is key. Applying the "correct" temperature color allows you to put colors next to/or on top of other colors and achieve some level of harmony. Hope that helps.
It looked amazing at that time as well as his finished product. I got to say my favorite is when he completed his painting amazing colours, uses of light and shadows.
Hi- I used varied palette of colors for this one; 3 yellows, 2 reds, viridian green and two blues. Some of the keys are finding color temperature and using complements to gray down straight tube color.
Creating art is an experiment. Sometimes those experiments don't turn out "as you had hoped". But you still learned something and that can be used as reference for future endeavors. Since you can't fail, there is no real fear.
Yes this done alla prima, in one session over a 3 hour period. The painting was executed wet into wet. It dried over the next several days. Thanks for watching.
thanks for your response. I'm on the way to class impasto -knife painting - and learning about color theory and I appreciate the mentions to complementary grays and contrasts, good stuff
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Thanks for this! I love knife painting and so I always leap at the chance to see how other artists approach the method. Your explanation of starting with base colors, masses and temps is what I find works for me too, so I was glad to see the confirmation (& much clearer explanation of what I merely feel my way toward...!) Haha. Happy painting!
Have had a very enjoyable day copying this painting. I learnt not to be afraid of using lots of paint or strong colours and my palette knife technique definitely improved. So many thanks. I hope I can incorporate what I have learnt into my own work soon.
Fantastic demonstration of use of palette knife, warm and cool colors and knowing when to stop. Please keep these excellent videos coming. I have learned more from this video than any others I have watched online!!
Love the colors and picture style, with the palette knife, what can be said, you studied with/about art with the best, and you accomplished it, your heart must be full. You helped to fill mine. ThankYou, An absolute treat for my Soul
Thank you for watching and your kind remarks. I'm battling COVID right now and your comment makes me feel better. With another week to go of isolation I hope to put some paint down on canvas.
What a stunning painting ! One can see all the palette strokes he has made. So many colors overlapping. You may be fairly happy, but I am positively amazed and happy at this wonderful piece.
Thank you for your kind remark
Had to watch this again, beautiful. And I’ll probably be back a few times more.
I'm really enjoying your tutorials! I love your use of color and the light touch. I know for my, I occasionally get muddy from pressing harder than I wanted to. thank you !
Wonderful, lots of talent, lots of practice, lots of skills, mesmerizing stuff out of mere mortal's reach
Hello from France Mike, first of all thank you so much for taking time to explain how to do what you do. What you do and the rendering you obtain is brilliant!
I'm painting my first painting with a palette knife just now, on my own, but the kind of "abstract realism " or expressionism you paint is the direction I would very much like to take.
So, following attentively the progression of your painting and benefiting from your comments as you go along, is quite invaluable to me.
In fact I downloaded several of your videos and plan on studying them one by one to learn. Being a beginner has its drawbacks and advantages. One of the advantages being that many have walked that way before you, so you can learn quickly, especially so with RUclips videos.
So, if in future videos, you can say which colours you are applying when you are applying them, or which ones you are mixing to obtain a certain shade, that would be great. I do realise this may slow you down, though...
The main drawback, for me today at least, is that colour mixing is still a time-consuming thing for me. I have to discover the colours or spend time learning.
There are some videos, such as Will Kemp's (UK artist), that show the undertones of the main acrylic colours used, and that helps so much, like this one for instance:
Basic acrylic colour mixing: how to mix a perfect purple| Part 2 of 2 ruclips.net/video/IUc31f0A7CQ/видео.html
Again, thank you very much.
With kind regards
Anne
Sehr Kompakt und Details beladen, auch sehr viel Farbigkeit. Egal!!
Ich hatte den Eindruck Sie haben Spaß dabei gehabt!
👍👍🖌️🎨🍀🌈
Very nice painting, like the use of colors, and great way to do a demo video, too. Thanks.
LOVEit!! I don't know how many times one of my painting instructors has said "congratulations! You've now made mud!". We do indeed have to know when to stop!!!
Great job. love the colors and very striking.
Awesome!!! Love the colors and the finished effect!!!
I like very much the impressionistic style and the use of palette knive - great video
Your way of painting was very well described and helpful, plus the painting is so fresh and fantastic, loved watching this...
My pleasure. Thanks for watching
Absolutely beautiful I am also a professional artist I have been doing abstracts the last few years but I have been getting antsy lately to go back to my impressionistic art again this is just the push I needed thank you
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I somehow forgot my account password. I would love any help you can offer me.
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@Ira Gary i really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and Im in the hacking process now.
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Excellent Artwork, Luv this technique.
You are absolutely amazing!!!! I love watching what you can do. I am getting into the impressionistic painting techniques, just a beginner but so inspired by you! thank you for posting these wonderful videos...so beautiful!
Thanks for your kind remarks. Impressionism is just that: Don't be a slave to the photo or live scene.
Oh so beautiful!
Thank you for your kind remark
Thouroghly enjoyed this demo. Lot of good advise and technique.
Thank you! Your demo will help me to find the way back to oil painting.
beautiful! Love the texture and colors.
Thank you. Palette knife work gives you a chance to build color in ways not possible with a brush. Plus it's easier to clean up!
such amazing work and you make it looks so easy, I am tempted to try hahahaha.. Thank you! will definitely subscribe. Keep the great videos coming pls
I love the painting. It is so difficult to find instruction for Ala Prima technique. I'd love to see more.... I can learn so much by watching. Thank You!
+Karen Samenow Hi Karen- thanks for watching. If I'm doing a studio painting with a size under 30" in either direction I try to hit my self-imposed time limit of 3 hrs; 1 hr block in, 1 hr "in the thick of things" and 1 hr finishing up with pushing darks and lights. For me, it creates a painting with a "painterly" feel, which is what I strive for in developing my style. Anything longer than that tends to make the painting less desirable. Plein air works are kept to under 2 hrs due to changing light conditions.
This is more than amazing You make it look so easy but it is hard thank you so much this is beautiful
Awesome demo and beautiful painting! Just subscribed 👍
Really came alive with the final notes.. beautiful
Thank you. It does take time to get to what you hope will be a good result.
Me, too. I'm in love with this painting, and particularly the palette knife work.
OMG! It is so beautiful! I bet my first one will be a mess! But I am gooing to try! Thanks for sharing!
+Gaby Muñoz Thank you so much for your comment Gaby. Your first one will most likely be beautiful.
Thanks!! Hope so!! lol
Simply beautiful 😻
Stunningly beautiful.
Many thanks!
Absolutely gorgeous! I’m going to try this in pastel!
Carol Ferguson thank you
WisconsinArtist turned out fabulously! Wish I knew how to share if with you. You can find me on FB under Carol Westwood/ Bayfield, Colorado
Que talento maestro , su pintura quedo excelente !!!
Stunning. Really enjoyed it.
absolutely beautiful!
Great job 👍👍 looks great
I love this way of painting.
Also you could use the "open acrylics" that have a longer drying time and you could add the heavy gel mediums for brush marks.
Very nice painting 😊👍
Thank you so much 😀
I really want to see these artists sometime soon, but I have company to deal with todaay...please show this group again!
Excellent tutorial. Very nice painting. Thank you
Yep . I learn more watching than listening .
I'll just be your fan.
how do you see the colors that may or may not even be there!
votre travail est tres beau . merci beaucoup
Amazing tecnique! Beautiful!
+rene ribeiro Thank you so much.
Amazing😊 I am huge fan...
Thank you for sharing this video! im new at oils and looking for techniques and some formulas with oils.
Fabulous painting
Felicitaciones me encanta como maneja la espátula y pinta hermoso!
Fantástico! Grande técnica e talento!
Just because I am curious I would have liked to have a written list of what oil colors you prefer and if you use a medium ?
Wonderful piece and teaching. Thank you
Beautiful!!!
Excellent demonstration!
+Kevin Woolsey Thank you so much.
he's "fairly happy" with how it turned out. if i could do that i would be a little more than fairly happy.
+Kyle Fafnis . Well, I'm my own worse critic. It's hanging in my house and most likely won't be sold because I really do like this piece.
how much does your picture cost? please, send me the answer.
kniaz this piece is $300 usd. Giclee is also available
lovely painting, rich and sumptuous...i wonder, do you think you could do the same in acrylics or would you be limited by their particular qualities? i am trying to develop my acrylics, but not sure if i could ever achieve this sort of work in it. have you ever tried?
+safi456 Hi. Possibly but doubtful. Part of the beauty of oils is they stay wet for extended periods. While this came together quickly, the ability to blend wet or tacky paint is key. I've done acrylics but I'm not an expert with that medium. Someone who understands extenders and other additives to allow that paint to not set up so quickly could provide better insight.
+safi456 You can absolutely paint like this in acrylics. They key is to lay down a layer of super heavy gel medium first! I've done many a painting this way, still following the full-color seeing techniques advocated by the Cape Cod School of Art. My acrylics and oils are almost identical.
safi456 try will kemp on RUclips he works in acrylics
Very good paint! Thhank you!!
Beautiful! 👍🏻
Gorgeous painting!
+Elli B Thank you.
It's great to see your process and have you talk your way through it. I would like to see what you are referencing. Is this out of your head or do you have a photo to assist you?
Hi- this scene was of a pond near my home. I used a reference photo.
Beautiful! I am taking a workshop later this summer with Lois Griffel and I just wanted to know is there anything I can do to get ready for this?
You are lucky. Her book "Painting the Impressionist Landscape" is a valuable resource I often refer to. Color temperature is a complex topic and requires hours of practice and miles of canvas to master
Love it great work
Very nice painting !
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
This is just fantastic
plastikxd9 this
I did love it sooo much thank you well done.
I love to watch this
Hi there. Would you be able to leave a link as to the brand and kind of turpentine tire using? I’m new to painting and still learning a lot. Thank you for any help
Hello- I use odorless mineral spirits (OMS) instead of turpentine. You can buy it at your local hardware or big box home improvement store. I recycle used OMS with a glass jar, like a jar for pasta sauce. Pour it in there and let it settle for a week. The solids sit on the bottom and you can reuse the OMS again for cleaning brushes or thinning paint.
I’m always intrigued by the colors artists use - I’ve never seen someone embrace reds so much but I love red. Do you tend to go for right out of the tube color?
In most cases color is tinted or used with compliment.
Strokes and texture are amazing! Impasto paintings would have to sell for more due to the amount of paint used, is that correct?
Would like to create a painting as beautiful as that. I am just beginning and watching videos. Paints especially oil paints are somewhat uncommon and pricey in my country.
Love this! Do you ever let layers dry before doing the final color notes?
Yes I do let layers dry, especially the first notes. I'm not as concerned as I reach the final notes of "local" color
I really wish you would show me 'how' you did this, explain the angles of the knife, how much color to use etc..so I can learn. How do you keep the colors from mixing on the canvas? Thank you
Devora- My suggestion is to do what I did: spend hundreds of hours experimenting with different knives. Practice and trial and error is the only real way to know "how" to paint like this. A gentle touch and layering colors over each other is a very delicate process. Avoid mixing. Read how the impressionists put complementary colors next to each other to achieve results. Read about Henry Hensche and the Cape Cod School and his approach to color and temperature.
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. I'll do just what you said, by the way I think the way you paint is amazing!
well done; You know how to catch the light !
Thank you so much.
WisconsinArtist
great painting, love it..!
Thanks for watching
Hey! Great painting! I am wondering how long did this painting took you? And did u put the new layer on after the previous one dry? Thanks
+Yuzhong Zhang Hello. This painting took three hours from start to finish. Alla prima! The underpainting/block in was done with a thin turpy mixture. That dried almost to the touch in under 15 minutes. Every other layer is applied wet-on-wet. A light touch with the knife and avoiding blending is key. Applying the "correct" temperature color allows you to put colors next to/or on top of other colors and achieve some level of harmony. Hope that helps.
Здорово! Красота! Много цвета.
Thanks much! I'm going to try it one day.
bravo maestro bravo...... super
Marvelous. OKC, OK here
Hi WisconsinArtist, thanks for another great tutorial. On this particular painting I think you could have stopped at 9:38. Does anyone else agree?
It looked amazing at that time as well as his finished product. I got to say my favorite is when he completed his painting amazing colours, uses of light and shadows.
Dang dude that's awesome *.*
Ficou na minha memória! Espero ser útil para minha pintura. Obrigado e saudações.
Do you tend to vary your pallet knife or use the same one - I see so many sets a pallet knives these days to come in every permutation
Amazing!!
Thanks
hello wisconsin and thanks for great tips
beautiful! what colors did you use?
Hi- I used varied palette of colors for this one; 3 yellows, 2 reds, viridian green and two blues. Some of the keys are finding color temperature and using complements to gray down straight tube color.
Can you do something like this with digital painting?
what is that you r drawin on....canvas or wood
..btw nice work
very nice! thank you!
SO BEAUTIFUL.....:)
Very beautiful thank you
Do you feel any fear while you paint or just pure confidence?
Creating art is an experiment. Sometimes those experiments don't turn out "as you had hoped". But you still learned something and that can be used as reference for future endeavors. Since you can't fail, there is no real fear.
@@paintingsbypintar such a beautiful piece of work i really like it.
Brilliant!
‘You gotta know when to stop.’
So true haha.
Funtastic!
Excellent!
beautiful.
is this all in one sitting? when points did you let it dry?
Yes this done alla prima, in one session over a 3 hour period. The painting was executed wet into wet. It dried over the next several days. Thanks for watching.
thanks for your response. I'm on the way to class impasto -knife painting - and learning about color theory and I appreciate the mentions to complementary grays and contrasts, good stuff
which color do you use?