Your critique of this painting, followed by how you make corrections, is very helpful. Sometimes we're just too close to the forest of our own work to see the trees, or the right perspective of the buildings in this case. Learning to be objective about our own work comes with experience. Thanks, Michael, for this valuable lesson.
What a great lesson !!! The last few minutes where you do your own critique and then make the corrections are master class worthy. Your urban landscapes are spectacular - thank you👏👏
Very nice. Telling what you think and decide while painting is very educational for newbies like me. And I do like the orange/sienna pop against the blue.
Enjoyed your painting process, sketching your scenes, blocking in use of colors, shadow placements, adjusting actual colors. explaining your thinking process. Love how you capture San Francisco iconic views, Paris France, California Sea scapes. Thank you for posting
Fantastic cityscape, Michael! I loved seeing how you worked out the areas that were bothering you. If an area is bothering the artist, potential buyers will also see the "problem".
So helpful to take us along for the editing process. I know you try not to get bogged down in details but I like the additions you made, especially in the foreground.
Yay on showing the touch up/revision process very informative. My hand finally healed and I’ve done one painting since…this Fall I’m finally going to landscapes…my portraits aren’t appreciated (even by me😂) so new territory coming up!
IMHO Michael, I think your fixes are right on!!! I love that you shared your concerns on camera. It helps me to see what bothers you and how you fix things. As always, great video, great painting now!!! thank you
Damn! I would have been so happy with the first iteration, and not have had the guts to change it. Your courage paid off though, and you ended up with a real humdinger.
Good one . Like the composition, great view. When you do corrections later at home do you use photos for reference? When are you going to paint the cable cars Michael? Cheers
It's rare for me to do this level of touching up at home. I try to do all the major problem solving on site. I did use a photo reference for the buildings at lower right. The buildings aren't an exact copy, but the photo inspired the idea. I've painted cable cars! It was back when I used to paint from mostly from photos.
@@chamberlainpaintings yeah I guess it would be nearly impossible to paint a moving cable car , maybe the only place to try to paint them would be at the place where they turn them around . That would be a frenetic painting . Cheers
I like how you describe your process for trying to figure out what might be wrong with a painting. Some good advice there. One thing I do when I'm trying to figure out what I need to do with the painting is turning it upside down. It helps me to focus on the shapes and values rather than the details and subject matter. Have you ever tried that?
I've noticed that the tower of the bridge goes outside of the deck in several paintings, which cannot be true. A simple fix is to paint the tower down over the deck. Thanks.
It looks ok to me. There's a walkway/bike path on the outside of the towers on the GG bridge and Bay Bridge towers are build into the double decker deck.
Yeah, great video going into your changes at the end. What I’m noticing now is the street is straight, but the buildings are at angles - when you look at the shot the real shot with all those damn wires, oh my God, and then you look at your painting. It almost looks like there is a slight curve/angel in the street. The buildings are offset, but I don’t think that the vanishing point should be? that’s what I noticed now but I probably wouldn’t have noticed that if you hadn’t gotten into the critique so anyway. Thanks.
There are million things that will drive you crazy if you start carefully analyzing a cityscape. There are lots of inaccuracies in this painting but I still like it. If I got out a ruler and fixed everything I'd kill it. That's the biggest challenge when painting a complicated scene, getting bogged down in details and overworking. Thanks for your thoughts!
That's exactly what I do with my paintings. I correct the little inaccuracies and regret wasting so much time to change my artistic initial version to an overworked less appealing version. Thanks to you both for sharing your thoughts! ❤️❤️❤️I very much needed to hear it from the horse's mouth that it's okay to choose beauty over perfection . 😍😍
Did anyone else think the lower left of the painting the initial block in, before adding the green, looked like a mother holding a child and tenderly kissing the child on the side of its head?. Her hair is pulled back so you see her ear and side of face. The infant has its head back so you see its chin, mouth, and nose. The mouth and shadow cast by the nose are just simple horizontal lines. Hmm... that could be a great composition.
Great video, Michael! Watching the touch ups at the end is super instructive and a great addition to the video as a whole. Lovely painting !
Your critique of this painting, followed by how you make corrections, is very helpful. Sometimes we're just too close to the forest of our own work to see the trees, or the right perspective of the buildings in this case. Learning to be objective about our own work comes with experience. Thanks, Michael, for this valuable lesson.
Great learning experience for me. It is a learning experience to see how you simplify. I love your cityscapes. Great work.
Really enjoyed watching your discussion about your painting and the changes you made. Thank you for posting your film.
I like it...great painting!!! Thank you for showing the touch up process!
I liked that part where the camera moves from the painting to the sidewalk to notice the asphalt 🖼️🖌️
Really enjoyed this format of walking through the processes of both reflection and touching up from home.
What a great lesson !!! The last few minutes where you do your own critique and then make the corrections are master class worthy.
Your urban landscapes are spectacular - thank you👏👏
A pleasure hear you thinking at loud about your composition, values, problems solving... really apreciate your videos.
Excellent painting! Like how you showed your correcting the things that bothered you. Great end result!
Very nice. Telling what you think and decide while painting is very educational for newbies like me. And I do like the orange/sienna pop against the blue.
10:55 The colors and everything are very good😍❤️🔥❤️🔥
Enjoyed your painting process, sketching your scenes, blocking in use of colors, shadow placements, adjusting actual colors. explaining your thinking process. Love how you capture San Francisco iconic views, Paris France, California Sea scapes. Thank you for posting
Fantastic cityscape, Michael! I loved seeing how you worked out the areas that were bothering you. If an area is bothering the artist, potential buyers will also see the "problem".
Thanks Kay!
@@chamberlainpaintings you rock!
I love your city scapes,this one is no exception.
So helpful to take us along for the editing process. I know you try not to get bogged down in details but I like the additions you made, especially in the foreground.
Yay on showing the touch up/revision process very informative. My hand finally healed and I’ve done one painting since…this Fall I’m finally going to landscapes…my portraits aren’t appreciated (even by me😂) so new territory coming up!
IMHO Michael, I think your fixes are right on!!! I love that you shared your concerns on camera. It helps me to see what bothers you and how you fix things. As always, great video, great painting now!!! thank you
I love your San Fran city scape paintings!
Great outcome. TY Michael
I have painted this view tree weeks ago!!!!
I m a French painter that follow your channel!!!
I Friend of me know you. Keylin Davenport.
Nice recovery well done
Damn! I would have been so happy with the first iteration, and not have had the guts to change it. Your courage paid off though, and you ended up with a real humdinger.
Thanks Dennis!
Good stuff! Thanks
Good one . Like the composition, great view. When you do corrections later at home do you use photos for reference?
When are you going to paint the cable cars Michael?
Cheers
It's rare for me to do this level of touching up at home. I try to do all the major problem solving on site. I did use a photo reference for the buildings at lower right. The buildings aren't an exact copy, but the photo inspired the idea. I've painted cable cars! It was back when I used to paint from mostly from photos.
@@chamberlainpaintings yeah I guess it would be nearly impossible to paint a moving cable car , maybe the only place to try to paint them would be at the place where they turn them around . That would be a frenetic painting .
Cheers
Excellent video ‼️
Eccezionale!
I like how you describe your process for trying to figure out what might be wrong with a painting. Some good advice there. One thing I do when I'm trying to figure out what I need to do with the painting is turning it upside down. It helps me to focus on the shapes and values rather than the details and subject matter. Have you ever tried that?
Yes! It can also be helpful to look at the painting without my glasses.
Good inspiration as I’m trying to do more loose plein air painting.
Do you still varnish with gamvar?
I use gamvar or spray retouch varnish from grumbacher
At first sight this was so intimidating.
Good morning Michael .
Good morning Mark
@@chamberlainpaintings : )
I've noticed that the tower of the bridge goes outside of the deck in several paintings, which cannot be true. A simple fix is to paint the tower down over the deck. Thanks.
It looks ok to me. There's a walkway/bike path on the outside of the towers on the GG bridge and Bay Bridge towers are build into the double decker deck.
Yeah, great video going into your changes at the end. What I’m noticing now is the street is straight, but the buildings are at angles - when you look at the shot the real shot with all those damn wires, oh my God, and then you look at your painting. It almost looks like there is a slight curve/angel in the street. The buildings are offset, but I don’t think that the vanishing point should be? that’s what I noticed now but I probably wouldn’t have noticed that if you hadn’t gotten into the critique so anyway. Thanks.
There are million things that will drive you crazy if you start carefully analyzing a cityscape. There are lots of inaccuracies in this painting but I still like it. If I got out a ruler and fixed everything I'd kill it. That's the biggest challenge when painting a complicated scene, getting bogged down in details and overworking. Thanks for your thoughts!
That's exactly what I do with my paintings. I correct the little inaccuracies and regret wasting so much time to change my artistic initial version to an overworked less appealing version. Thanks to you both for sharing your thoughts! ❤️❤️❤️I very much needed to hear it from the horse's mouth that it's okay to choose beauty over perfection . 😍😍
Did anyone else think the lower left of the painting the initial block in, before adding the green, looked like a mother holding a child and tenderly kissing the child on the side of its head?. Her hair is pulled back so you see her ear and side of face. The infant has its head back so you see its chin, mouth, and nose. The mouth and shadow cast by the nose are just simple horizontal lines. Hmm... that could be a great composition.