Upcoming Video News & more - Ep.5 Oil Painting Q&A with Mark Carder
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- If you have a question for me, post it in the comments below. I'll answer as many as I can on next Thursday's episode. Here are links to each question answered in this video:
00:15 - brief talk about the "Benefits of a Limited Palette" video
00:55 - introduction to the new color formulas chart on the Geneva Fine Art Supplies website
01:26 - What do you think about the progression of Rembrandt's work as he matured and aged as a painter?
02:48 - Tell us about your art educational background, both formal and informal.
04:39 - Will Geneva paint be coming to stores? Will Geneva make canvases?
06:09 - Do you have any tips on tonalism? How to start a painting, colors and composition, etc?
06:52 - I used to paint dark values to light values, but now I paint from top-left corner to bottom-right. How do you cover your canvas?
08:57 - Can you be successful using only high-quality photographs as a source for painting realistic portraits?
11:44 - When working on large paintings, do you ever mix and paint some portions of the painting, finishing those before mixing colors for the rest?
13:00 - How do I get an honest opinion on the quality of my paintings from knowledgeable professionals such as yourself?
15:19 - What is the best way to store oil paintings?
Hi I am Heidi G Weber, 61years Artist with Multiple Sclerosis.
I started with Rembrandt...now I am painting on my own. I have completed UNISA BA(FA) ...(Photography)...
Creating Master Copies of the great painters artworks is the best way to learn and improve. Consider buying Master Oils and Master Watercolours both by Tate Gallery Publishing. You have to paint around 30 paintings in the style of Turner for example. Really good instructions. Good way to get started. It's $15 / £10.
Thank you
Dear Marc,
what you should think about when you paint from photos, and your so highly praised painting method of "not blending", would be:
That you actually always reproduce only the color printout of the printer! Actually you are with this painting way a color printer which reaches the final color only by the right ratio of a mixture.
In one (or more videos?) you mention Rembrandt.
Yes Rembrandt did very little mixing of colors on canvas. That's true. But the charm of his technique is quite different! In many Baroque works, the shadow areas are applied very little or only glazed. (In many baroque works you can see almost only the imprint, which serves as a shadow!) While to the bright light was always applied thicker. And that actually always in layers,- to achieve just this color effect! The clever play with glazes and opaque color application make the charm.
Your so favored al-Prima technique is, to be honest, only a substitute painting, a stopgap to paint outdoors in nature. (Corot etc...)
The same with the light. Apart from the fact that there was no artificial light, the Old Masters often darkened the high windows in the lower part to avoid reflections or too bright light. But we have to admit that the rooms in Europe at that time were at least 4-partly 10 meters high! Such a thing does not exist today, purely for energy reasons. And not like in your garage!
So as you see, there much more factors play a role and one should be there somewhat cautiously an opinion like you, so strongly to favor, which stands only on a foot! That is what generally annoys me with you Americans so much that you think you have eaten the absolute truth with the spoon.
But I often say, how can you explain the taste of a real Italian pizza to someone who has never been to Naples, the hometown of pizza, in his life and only knows the American puffed-up pizza with artificial cheese made from palm oil and fake salami?
So please do not be angry. It's meant to be a thought-provoking suggestion.
I watch your videos and have bought your products but not used them yet. I'm learning a lot and I'm amazed that you were able to teach yourself to paint. That's a level that's beyond my understanding. Soon I hope to take the plunge and follow your painting course. thanks.
Really I am just so grateful that you are so generous with your tips and your techniques I have been following you for years even before you got on RUclips my question is how do you get out of a painting slump?
Thank you for all your classes and videos. I never had a drawing or painting before your videos. My first 3 paintings I used black background and then I tried a drape but I can not seem to get a soft draping in my painting. Could you help me or make a video on painting fabric? Looking forward to more classes. Thank you for all your work and helping people that never painted before. Barbara
I would be highly interested in buying pre-toned canvases from Geneva Fine Art.
One does not find art. Art finds you.As akid I found a bible with etches of Dauré on a dust-bin in the street! I was 10 years old and started to draw when discovering those etches!
Hi, I don't have a question but I just want to let you know your video series has been really helpful and I am so intrigued to try your paints. If you make them available worldwide, I'll buy the entire set immediately - I live in Southeast Asia.
Mark, you have such a common sense approach to building artists furniture such as the palette table and easel. Do you build your own paintbrush holder? Thank you for your time.
Can you discuss how you deal with painter's block, distractions, and negative influences? Does more work equal good work, or must we wait for inspiration?
From South Africa Mpumalanga M28 Wittenberg.
What kind of light bulbs do you use while painting? I am trying to find the best neutral lighting, so I can accurately see the colors I am painting. Do you have any recommendations on light temperature? Thanks!
Mark, you say that your Geneva paints have no solvents in them. I'm wondering how you achieved that. I was studying your video on adding medium to tubes of color and noticed that the slow dry medium you used had quite a bit of mineral spirits in it. I was planning to thin down the colors I already have and then buy a set of your Geneva paints, but I'm getting bogged down in the details of how to do it without having solvents in the air.
Thanks for your continuing teaching. I love every bit of it.
I very much appreciate the extended drying time of the Geneva paint but there are times when I want to accelerate that drying time. What would you suggest using with Geneva to accomplish quicker drying times.
Mark,
Silly question but Is there any significance to the position of the white and brown on your color wheel?
Jim
I am painting with Acrylic (not oil health issues) am I in the correct group?
In your "How to Mix Colors" Video you talked about good step versus bad step. Could you please elaborate on what constitute a good step and what you mean by a bad step?
I love your videos and have learned a lot. Thanks for making them. I also love the colors offered with your Geneva limited color palette and I'm eager to try them.
I enjoy painting thickly with painting knives. Would your Geneva line work well with mixing into a thickening agent like cold wax medium?
AlonzoTheArmless ...if you like painting thickly see the louis velasquez videos.See CSO-rubens on youtube. This will be right up your alley. Be prepared to take notes. Also check out his website....calcitesunoil.com
Good Evening Mark, What would you say are the main differences, & also main similarities, that distinguish Impressionism from Realism?
I cannot find your instructions on how to use a camera....For me, getting an accurate photograph to enlarge is priority .Kindly advise a link........many thanks Mark Carder.
Hello Mark ! Can you please explain what you mean by "leveling paint" in your recent video about the limited palette ?
Do you have any tips on getting known as an artist by working out of a small town and small town galleries?
which number of brush you usually use on portraits?
for those on a tight budget, what should one prioritize first when it comes supplies, brushes, canvases, or paints?
dumontgo Paint probably, since the "student grade" stuff is full of fillers/extenders and you have to use more of it (making one tube's worth of pigment extend to three tubes or whatever), so it's not really a good deal, and I think it's hard to work with. If you use a limited palette you will save a lot of money since you won't be buying more colors than you need. Other than that, I think quality art materials are easier to use, but just get whatever you can afford. For brushes, I don't think it's critical to get nice ones (I like hog's hair brushes much more than nylon brushes myself), but I would recommend getting ones with filbert-shaped tips. Just find some that look like the ones I recommend on the supply list on drawmixpaint.com, even if they're cheaper or synthetic.
How long before we can buy a color-checker from you? I'm not good with saws ;-(
Thanks for all your help!
are you still answering questions? If so, what about digital 'painting' for practice for things like learning how not to overblend, or to paint ugly, or to stop over-drawing while painting? There are some pretty good digi painting programs out there that let you really law down colors and values, like on a canvas, wet into wet, or wet over dry- or a mix- and the colors blend pretty good- not great-, but enough to give a little bit of a feel how it might work with real oils- and enough to learn how not to do bad habits like too bright highlights, wrong color values etc- The reason for the question is purely for $$ purposes- to save on painting costs, canvases etc while learning to get away from bad habits in painting- like over blending, which can be a hard lesson to learn- and take a long time till we get the hang of it enough to start on a real canvas and feel confident enough to allow the ugly painting to take shape-
Hello Mark, I've noticed that many oil painters like to lay in their main colors with stiff brushes, then go back and blend with soft, synthetic brushes. Do you find this helpful when you paint? And what are your favorite brushes to use?
Tom Cuff I like hog's hair bristle brushes with filbert shaped tips, and I used the same ones for everything, except obviously for some things I will use a bigger brush first to lay in color to an area and a smaller one to work with the details.
One additional question regarding the medium you are using in the Geneva paints. Are you planning at some point to sell the medium separately? It would be good to have that available for use with convenience colors you are not offering in the Geneva line. I would love having a medium that is safe to paint with in my small studio.
Skeet Sirmons We build the medium into the paint from the ground up (starting with dry pigment rather than tube paint), and it's different for each color, but in the future we might come up with a modified standalone medium, but if it happens it will probably be a while from now. What we are planning on doing sooner than later is selling small resealable mini-jars, and these can be used to store mixtures of Geneva colors - that way if you want certain convenience colors you can have them, but without sacrificing the other properties of Geneva paint. You can already mix most colors with the Geneva palette, but after we extend our line-up with the "power colors", you will be able to mix virtually any paint color out there. As for your other question, I'll answer it in Episode 6 :)
Hi Mark
How come you never use a palette knife when mixing oil paint instead of a pencil?
Brynjólfur Sigurjónsson I just find it easier to use a brush. Many people including students of mine use palette knives and find them easier to use, so I don't know why brushes are easier for me.
I reviewed your formulas for matching other colors and you get down to a tenth of a percent. How realistically can we approach this? I do not have any means of measuring that accurately.
Michael Martonick Just do the best you can at estimating the amount of each color, that will get you close, then use the simple color mixing rules to get the exact match. Watch my video on how to mix colors where I explain these simple rules: ruclips.net/video/NeyYXMl934g/видео.html
Michael Martonick I also cover this specifically later in my video "The Benefits of a Limited Palette": ruclips.net/video/DYGi18U4D4M/видео.html
Michael Martonick use cheap plastic medical syringes and just squeeze out a length of this and a length of another colour and keep a note of the bead lengths that you used and you can repeat it over and over.Put a small grid under your glass palette as a measure. You don't have to guess, because you will know.
Is it possible to color match burnt umber using the red, yellow, blue and white?
John Watson No, because burnt umber is like a very dark orange or reddish-orange, so in order to make orange with the other colors, you have to mix red and yellow, but since the yellow makes the color lighter, not darker, you will never be able to get a dark brown color. That's why I include burnt umber on my limited palette.
Thanks.
A couple minutes after I posted my question I decided to give it a try, and I got as close match as I could but definitely lighter.
Then I tried to mix black with it, but could only get a very bluish black at best.
Love the limited palette.
How do you store your mixed color palette between painting sessions?
you can cover your palette with saran wrap and store in the refrigerator. Mark hints at this in his video on how to make your own glass palette. He has his glass palettes cut to the same size as the interior of a small studio refrigerator.
Trying to handle red without killing it, geraniums in particular?
At what point in your career did you paint Bush and the other high profile people, and how did you wind up doing it?
Is it ok for a beginner to use cheap materials until you get better and then then transition over to more expensive and better materials?
juriaan13 You can, but I personally think working with "student grade" paint and other budget art materials is actually more difficult than using the good stuff. Also, "student grade" oil paint is just the good stuff with lots of fillers and extenders added (turning what would be one tube of paint into three tubes of paint or whatever), so you're actually getting less pigment and need to use more of it, so I think a better way to save money on paints is to use a limited palette so you're not buying more colors than you need.
What do you think of grisaille, the grey painting undertone? Thank you.
hevonie A lot of people use it to good effect, but it's not the method I use or teach. I like to paint direct rather than with layers and glazes and underpaintings and so forth.
Draw Mix Paint it is really ironic how you mention not being a good student and having trouble learning from others because you are one of the best teachers I have ever seen on any subject.
Thank you very much for all these wonderful videos. I am looking foward the Geneva paints. I live in Germany and I would like to use them so quickly as possible because I suffer from respiratory problems and solvents effects it badly. I have tested the waterbasis oilcolors, but they show strong value shift after the drying. Perhaps you have good news about shipping Geneva abroad. (please excuse my poor english) Greetings from Bremen.
muhlenstedt We're working on it, but I don't have an estimate yet on we will be selling internationally. Hopefully it won't be too much longer!
Thank you. I appreciate very much, that you do not give up facing the customs demands.Hope!
Hi Mark,I truly wanted to thank you for all your clear,diy steps on how to paint in oils from A to Z,including the tips you've given from your own essential limited palette to making tools for painting realism,color checkers,correct studio lighting to making brush holders,etc.I have been painting off & on for about 20 yrs.but due extreme spinal injuries I acquired in my old line of work,I was literally unable to paint or come back to the many things I once loved.Finally,after14 years,multiple surgeries,therapies,etc.I am at a point to start again.I apologize for getting off of my point I'm trying to emphasize.I have acquired MANY paints,mediums & whatnot to get started again before stumbling upon your utube instructions you so generously give out.I know that when I used to paint,I previously fell under what you call the artist's curse & often did not want to paint again due to my own self criticism,although many others liked my work.So,I am hopeful(with more gathered online instruction I've learned)that my next attempt at painting will happen more naturally.My question that kind of stifles me at this point is about using a medium to thin my paint & at the same time give me longer open wet on wet capability.I am on somewhat of a limited budget & although I have already noted how you thin & make 'slow dry paint' into mason jars,I was wondering how you feel about starting out again with Gamblin Galkyd Slow Dry(that I had already purchased & is new in the bottle) as a slow dry medium mixed directly to the oil from the tube @ a 1;1 ratio it recommends.It says it has a dry time of about 3 days,which I thought might also force me to paint more boldly,faster & ugly as you suggest for being or keeping that abstraction to your work.Just curious about this slow dry medium or should I stick to the more traditional methods of using just refined linseed with OMS ratios with the fat over lean principles in mind.Thankyou for your help!Ron M.
Do you have a tutorial on painting a horse
where is now that nice chart with color mixing indications?
How do you find good sources for copying an old master painting?
Nancy Curran This !
Nancy Curran... go to google art project and you can zoom in on anything in museums around the world. Art books are ok but the limitations of colour printing abound. Art books are second best. Go to your closest museum and take your sketch book.
Nancy Curran That's tricky. They're always best in person, but for many paintings, you can't even find even DECENT reproductions online or in any books. It's usually do to poor photography or poor processing - you really have to know what you're doing and frankly most people do not. That being said, while not everything on Google Art Project is photographed correctly, a lot of it is actually very good. Ask on forum.drawmixpaint.com and maybe David can write a post when has some time about how he finds good images of paintings - he knows more about it than I do.
Can oil paints be mixed with acrylic paints?
155Elizabeth No
Richard Budig Many artists apply oil paint over dry acrylic paint, but never the other way around. Wet oil and acrylic paint cannot be mixed together. One is a water based paint, and the other is oil.
155Elizabeth even painting oil over acrylic gesso leaves it subject to the gesso sucking oil out the paint.Only paint over acrylic if you seal it first. This you can do this with 2 coats of NON fat milk. Check out how old masters painted without all the unnecessary products on the market...calcitesunoil.com
ok... just take a look at artsy and note that even the greatest hiperrealistic oil painters struggle selling their paintings , even WORKING with the best galleries in the world IN NEW YORK CITY for example... why? because the reality is pretty bad for reslism painters... just like that unfortunatelly... we have modern art selling for millions and the best hiperrealistic art for just 10 - 20 k usd in the best galleries... if it sells... this happens because art investors do not know anything about what good art is...