A simple way to make shadows in a portrait. By ben lustenhouwer
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Portrait painting in oil paint. A basic approach to make believable shadows. Easy to understand and apply. For beginners or intermediate painters.
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Your teaching skill in painting is a gift to the young artists.
Always nice to hear!
and inspiration to budding artists...
@@lustenhouwer sir thank you so much i am now studying how to paint and u help me a lot
Thank you❤
And to this older artist!😊
Pearls. Absolute pearls of wisdom: “Will power and energy sometimes are enemies.” “The simpler the display, the more powerful the impression.”
Yessss,,, that´s all truth...
Very precisely said...
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I’ve learned so much from these videos. Also have drooled so much throughout so many of these videos. I love you Ben
thats funny, i was thinking about you watching this video.. then there you are. lol
rdubs love me some good painting videos
I love to see you here. Never stop being humble. It's great of you :)
I enjoy your videos too!!
Дякую. Ви чудовий вчитель і світла людина.
Дякую
Thank you so much for this! Your detailed comments help me tremendously!
You are welcome
You are the only artist I watch on RUclips. I’ve recommended your videos to all my Oil Pastel Artist group members. The way you emphasize simplifying the details , the planes , the colors is priceless. I write down all your words of wisdom and save them. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing wisdom.
Thank you Carol. I am glad it is helpful.
Thank you, Master! I am so happy I stumbled on this precious video by pure accident! All my Admiration!!!
Thank you so much. The tutorial, the music, the advice.
You're so welcome!
A masterful and painterly rendering, as you moved through the facial tones , I swear she came to life and moved a bit , anyone else see that?
Thank you. Wonderful instructive tips!
Great tutorial and thanks from New Zealand. Comments made about simplicity of the painting are so important …..I need to remember that!
Thank you Joan
Thanks for being so thoughtful and teaching this. It is so helpful. I'm taking notes. This is what a portrait painter really needs to know. You are the best.
Thank you Janet.
I love this man's work! So simple and beautiful.
Thank you very much!
Beautifully painted.
I love the way you draw and express the painting
This is pure magic. I love your approach and your simple and calm explanations!
Glad you liked it!
Ben, I SO appreciate that you are posting these short instructional videos. Thank you so very much.Connie from Israel
Thank you!
The GOAT.. many years ago I watched one of your video and it changed my painting career
love this!!!
You are a truly amazing and knowledgeable artist! Love your videos in every way especially your wisdom to see and overcome artist’s block. Stay safe and can’t wait to see your future update! ❤️
Thank you so much 😀
Спасибо,что не жадничаете и делитесь своими знаниями!
So happy to have found you! Such a great teacher you are. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for showing us your painting skills and even letting us to your color pallet. I love watching your painting videos and applying what I learn from you to my paintings. You're awesome!! 👌
Thank you Peter
Very inspiring indeed! Maybe I eventually imrpove my portrait painting by learning such a good teacher
Go for it!
Besides the wonderful painting and instructions, beautiful background music too.
Thank you very much!
Wow captivating
Thank you, your directions are clear to fallow. I admired your skills. 🫶🏽🤲🏽🪷🌟
Thank you Carmen
Hi Ben,
Thank you for taking the time to teach us your wisdom. I genuinely appreciate it and it really does improve my skills. Thanks
Thank you Daniel
Thanks for sharing your process, talent, insight and skill...loved the music also!
It is my pleasure.
You are a master! Beautiful guitar music too!
Thank you so much 😀
Your style, voice, and the music...are perfect!...thank you
Thank you too!
I really appreciate your teachings. They are so valuable. Thank you.
You are so welcome
Cheers Ben, You're an inspiration.👍
I appreciate that!
I am just practicing fine art painting, so much to learn. Nice to have the time to study and explore. Great video, thanks.
Have fun!
Thanks for sharing, your turorials and explainations are wonderful
Fascinating & relaxing to watch at the same time. I love the way you hold the brush.
Thank you
Thus us only your second video I have watched and the emotion I feel as I watch them come to life is amazing. The explanations are so simple and easy to understand. I am guilty of trying to put to much detail in my paintings. Thank you so much. Now. On to watch another.
Welcome aboard!
Today I am starting a portrait having done a lot of them over the year and a half that I have been painting. This video is exactly what I needed as I have had a sense I am overdoing some of them. Thanks so much Ben for sharing your experience about that tendency. I will keep coming back to this clip and also explore your other offerings.
It is my pleasure. Keep painting.
Thank you for sharing this precious tips! I'm a fan of your work!
You are so welcome!
You really bring life to your portraits Ben Lustenhower! They are all so loose and effective, so masterly painted! Thank you for sharing your precious Art with us! Stay safe!
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you Ben. I feel I have reached a point in my art studies where my eye is pretty well trained and these extra insights you are freely giving are most appreciated.
I still realize how much I need to learn and it's also exciting that the knowledge we desire is infinite and can never be reached unless we lived a thousand lifetimes. So I'll just do my best in this one. Stay safe. Warms and cools😱🤣
My pleasure!
When you softened her left cheek, that’s the moment for me when it really came together, and couple little touches around her eye and the crease in her smile and the highlight on her nose, the greenish brown background with pinkish highlights on her face, and especially the more blueish background in front of her face is brilliant!
Jj
What a fantastic lesson from a real master. Thank you!!
Very welcome!
Excellent! just a word "Excellent"! THANK YOU Ben!
Thank you.
Thanks Ben, another great video packed with inspiring information. I've been a professional artist for over 20 years and find your style of work and sensible informative videos a joy to watch. I lived in Holland for 3 years and I recognise your neat, methodical approach as part of your DNA ! Lovely work.
Thank you.
Hello Ben, I never comment on RUclips videos but I must say thank you. The amount of knowledge you pack into these videos is astounding and is inspiring me to try and take my painting to another level. I normally work from photos and so your advice on what to take and what to reject is priceless. I think any artist will smile at your advice to take a break - so many paintings damaged because of over concentration.
Glad you like them!
Ben, you're not only an art educator but also a poet. Thank you for your demo and advice!
Too much honor . Thank you.
Wow, thank you. Beautiful painting, and couldn't be more timely for me. I'm beginning a portrait of a young boy outside in bright sunlight and I've just gotten some great reminders about shadows. I'm SO glad I stumbled onto your channel!!
Good to hear Evan
Thanks Ben, I learned much finer points here. Your suggestion of not going into too much of details in a portrait while working from a photo, makes sense, but hard for me what details to overlook and what to incorporate. I would love to try out different styles to get more depth in my portraits. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
very timely. I just finished a painting where her shadows were a value of 5 or 6. As i painted the cool side her shadow value was wrong value. I then started in with the old trying to make her exactly like her likeness. I measured and remeasured and still . Then i said this is a painting not a photograph.
Thank you , i think since i must have a tough time paying attention i will need to play your video before painting someone with a darker shadow. Another video with so many key points. Less is more less is more !!
It is so kind of you to do this instruction to aspiring portrait artists and you demystify things very well
I am glad you liked it.
Awesome!!!!!
I love your videos...such a calm, friendly voice, and very, very good info and skills. Has helped me a lot. ❤
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the amazing videos. They are helping me a lot to learn painting. Greetings from Brazil. Stay well! Beware!
Happy to hear that!
Great that we can see the palette as well, thanks
Of course!!
Beautiful! I was very uplifting! Including every world you said!! 💓
My pleasure.
How timely! I've been struggling with a self portrait I've been doing while in pandemic lock-down, I will definitely be trying this, with no ivory black in the shadows. Thanks for the great video!
Angus Timmons If u need a shadow to look more transparent, glaze something warm such as yellow or orange or a brown containing either. Its amazing....immediately the solid heavy stone feel of a dark mark becomes a shadow u can look into & through. Especially on skin. ✌🏻
@@friedricengravy6646 I'll give this a try too on an older portrait that never felt right in the shadows. Thanks!
Such a lovely painting Ben. Congratulations!!
Thank you for the great tutorial - I like the tip - if I´m strugling with a brown hue, work it towards red or greenish tint... :D Great!
Also I´ll keep in mind to mix the lights and shadows separately to avoid to make milky shadows.
Thank you and hugs from Brazil!!
Thank you! Cheers!
You explain the information so concisely and well. Very relieved to have discovered your channel, such simple, unvarnished instructions are difficult to find. I’ve received so much practical help here. 🌹
Thank you for letting me know.
Thank you - you are an inspiration and you paint so softly.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you very much well I have just finished seeing one of the most instructive videos on the complexion and on the issue hot / cold lights cold / warm shadows which is a topic not easy to understand (at least for me) I wait for your next video on the topic..for now thanks thanks thanks..you are an excellent teacher!
Glad it was helpful!
Muchas gracias, Maestro, por compartir estas preciosas lecciones sobre el oficio de pintar. El talento innato se malgasta frecuentemente sin la práctica y el ejercicio continuado y el estudio razonado de la técnica pictórica.
Has hecho con estos breves videos simples y accesibles unos conocimientos que han llevado una vida adquirir. Muy generoso por tu parte. Un saludo desde Granada!!!!
Gracias Alfonso
Amazing how you simplify, the best part of a good teacher. Thank you Ben
Thank you.
Great video and instructions Ben. Thanks and you stay safe too!
Thanks, you too!
Sir, I almost watch all of your tutorial. Easy analysis of sophisticated fact is fantastic when i watch you. thank you very much sir. stay safe....love from Bangladesh ♥
stay safe!
Good understanding makes you excel in painting : you use your mind to paint and this is the great Tutorial . Thank You
Hi Ben, Thank you so much for this great tutorial. Simplifying what many of us tend to make overly complex helps so much with the 'flow' of making paintings. I must say the idea of 'Phoning your mother in law' to take a break maybe pushing things too far! Haha... Thanks again and stay safe yourself. :)
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing technique, loved the detailed demo about color mixing and placing and your explanation of brushes and color palet. Thank you sooo much.
You are welcome Linda
Absolutely mesmerizing.
Thank you
Fantastic video as always Ben. Thanks ever so much for sharing it with us. Stay safe.
Thanks, you too!
Thank you for sharing your beautifull palet and the inspiration of showing how you block in the shadow areas and the beautifull contrast of cold and warm colors in a portrait. Very beautifull and very inspiring
Thank you very much.
Again , you are an amazing painter. I’m so glad I came upon your videos. So now I’ll be binge watching for the rest of the weekend. Your ability to create the portrait with small strokes of paint placed just right is what takes my breath away. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you, I am glad it is helpful
great great great 🖌🖌🖌
I addore the passion and real wisdom of this painter!
Thank you
Exquisite as a John Sargent painting. Thanks for showing shadows are warm.
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Your picture is the best
I keep going back and forth, squinting at the original image and as you paint, seeing the tones coming in.
Very cool
Thank you
You are the Best teacher for me and so many young arthesis.
Thank you, nice to hear.
You share so much valuable information, for someone who came to painting late in life, I REALLY have learned so much from you and your calm delivery isn’t intimidating. Thank you Ben.
You are so welcome Joan.
The way you mix colors is simple and wonderful
Good to hear
The music you put in the background is so calming and reflective of your process. Thank you.
My cousin is the musician. I am glad he made this music especially for my videos.
I love your painting! Thank you so much for this amazing teaching. Shadows is something I struggle with and I am always fearful of going too dark. I also wasn't confident mixing colour. Thank you for explaining all of these things clearly. This has taught me something valuable. Great advice about taking a rest from painting. I have ruined countless paintings from not stopping when I was clearly too tired to continue. I find your teaching videos very relaxing and inspirational to watch.
Thank you tracy. I am glad it helped.
Wow!!!
Wonderful colors and work, great teaching gifts. Many thanks
You are welcome
Thank you this is first time i really enjoyed watching videos of oil painting
Welcome 😊
@@lustenhouwer 🌻
Thank you so much, you are so gifted but wear it very lightly. Every video I watch, I learn so much.
Thank you Lucy
Hi Ben, wow! You make it look so easy and effortless. Very inspiring video. Thanks.
My pleasure!
So constructive, clear and talented in your teachings. Thank you so much.
You are welcome Barbara
Absolutely fantastic lesson.... if only painting was TAUGHT like this in Tertiary settings.... I did printmaking after deciding that the “teaching” on offer was non existent!
Thanks!!!
Many thanks!
Dit maakt me al zo blij! ik ga echt alles volgen dat je hier hebt geplaats, dan hoop ik met veel oefenen toch beter te worden dan wat ik tot nu heb gedaan. dank je wel Ben.
Geen dank.
Your tutorials are so easy to understand, thank you so much for giving away such wonderful information.
Thank you Sue.
Awesome!😁
Thank you Ben, it was beautiful!
Thank you Vittorio
Thank you so much for this wonderful video tutorial, it is very helpful and inspiring, not only a beautiful portrait!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this. I've always tried to include every detail I could, thinking it would make the portrait better and a better likeness.... but it never gets better when i do this, and i didn't know why!!
Well there you are. The more details the more suffers the likeness.
I love to watch your videos and your wise tips on how to paint.
Thank you
Beautiful painting 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks
You have a wonderfully simple way of explaining. Thanks for your dedication! Now it’s time to give it a try.
Please do!
Perfect video for understanding shadows . Thanks Ben !
Very inspiring
You are welcome.
I have read Cellino Cellini and he said to find a teacher, so I will go to his laboratory, and I will never go away if he does not chase me away. But I think it will not be easy to find a Maestro like you. Great job.
Tak you Ignazio