Caravaggio Technique Tutorial - St. John the Baptist
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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This was one of the paintings, I could see in the museum before painting.
So I took a lot of photos and tried to use the original colours and tones. Surely I also painted some old, yellowed mastix- or dammarvarnish - but I like this "museumtone"!
The main colours are:
Leadwhite, Ocher, Siena, Umber, Vermillion, Bone Black
Hope you enjoy the video!!
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How does anybody even get to that level of artistic ability it’s incredible
It’s just a repeatable process, Caravaggio was basically just a tradesman and did these paintings in one sitting for his clients, just follow the steps
Commitment?
like anything... practice
Yea.....kinda figured practice, it was more a compliment to the guys skill
10k hours
In a world where AI art is becoming more common and available.. I appreciate a video like this so much more. It's so mind-blowing to watch humans create. Beautiful piece! Subscribed!!
all the AI does is steal readily available images and mashes them together, and distorts them in a way it thinks is whatever the prompt reads. It's funny when you get things with watermarks in it, as the AI confuses that as part of the image. It's more just plagiarism with a twist
AI is direction, not creation. And it is context-driven, not idea driven. Because in visual arts, idea is embedded in the process of creation. That's why we'll never be able to replace our need for Art despite fancier industrial tools each year.
This guy is essentially doing what an AI does.. it’s illustration, not art.
@@psychomantis183 illustration is art
@@ytuseracct Nope. Illustration is illustration. Art has defined itself over centuries and is clearly much more than illustration.
When a master seems to be just waving their brush back and forth but everything turns out perfectly.
Like watching grandmasters play chess... But i could swear I'm making the same moves! lol
The glazes are going on over a well-constructed "drawing" layer that has dried. Glazes are like a varnish layer, the underneath shines through so you can swish them on.
@@james6401 There is a bit more to it than that.
@@dundeedolphin Of course, I was focusing on the "loose" brushstrokes of one of the skin glazes
He is not a master but amateur that uses prominent painting technique. It is clear he never had formal academic education and doesn't know human anatomy and the laws of form, lights and darks, blending, etc.
I just have to say thank you. Not everyone is willing to share as you do. I learnt a lot from you and improved my technique. I have been able to copy this masterpiece with very good results. Thank you a lot!
"I've learned" rather than " I learnt".
I learned then with time I learn’t to have much appreciation for those whom share experiences. Magnificent.
caravaggio made his art look seamless and effortless
Ever since high school art history, I have wanted to see a demonstration of the process of chiaroscuro. Great video, amazing work!
Just the under painting in burnt umber is bloody amazing. An awful lot of hard work when into getting that good.
I think that burnt umber wash was in all Renaissance paintings
The music alone is amazing. I look forward to playing this again and again and really watching it. Thanks!
Do you know what is the piece which starts at 5:04?
This almost seems like an easier method than typical portrait painting. Once you have the underpainting anatomy correct, and detailed out, you just paint the tones in with mostly transparent color layer by layer once each layer dries. Of course its not so simple, but this is the idea.
I was surprise to see that the color painted over the primary layer didn't hid the first one
Actually what you are describing is one of the typical old portrait painting method, it's called "olio a velature", that's how they did it back in the 1500. Anyway, the method depicted in the video it's not properly olio a velature and neither is the real Caravaggio's technique. This is an impressive display of skill, but not faithful at all history-wise. Very nice video though.
Source: student at Rome academy of Fine Art
@@lucacoppola3811 Hello, could you please point us in the right direction to find out about Caravaggio's techniques?
@@LucasGonzalezTube sadly most of my knowledge about Caravaggio comes from a lot of different sources (most of them being my teachers' lessons), so its difficult for me pointing in a single direction. I've also discovered just now (while looking on google) that searching info on Caravaggio in english is much more difficult than it is in italian, that's kinda sad.
artenet.it/caravaggio-technique-the-seventeenth-century-in-italy/
However i've found this and read it, and I think it sums up the process in an okay way, I didnt check the video that comes with it though.
Another good source of information for an artist technique are restoration's report (but unfortunately they are difficult to find). Restoration is always the best way to discover details about old masters' ways, as texts and books from their contemporary are often very inaccurate.
Anyway, to be more specific, the main issue regarding accuracy in this video is the 'velature'.
The author did a fine and delicate job painting layer after layer, but that is more of a "scuola fiorentina" thing.
Putting it really simply, during Renaissence there were two "schools", the florence one and the venetian one.
The Florence school was all about drawing and perspective (example: Michelangelo), the venetian one was all about colors and their interactions (example: Tiziano, Giorgione).
Lets just say that Caravaggio's technique is related more closely to the venetian one. This isnt really a 100% accurate summary, but should get you the idea.
Hope someone find this interesting and/or useful, because it costed me an hour of my sleep lol
ps: sorry for any typo or error, english is my second language
@@lucacoppola3811 Thank you so much Luca. Sleep well.
How can seemingly random movements of the hand and brush produce something as beautiful as that ? Watching this really has made me imagine the other great artists at the canvas. Thank you.
I am a self taught artist, it's through videos like yours that I learn, (at least I try) 😉, I thoroughly enjoyed the video, and I think Caravaggio would be proud , Amazing result, Thank you for sharing .
would be nice to see your palette from time to time
I Canot discribe my feelings seeing such fantastic paint.
I cannot describe mine when cannot is spelled "Canot".
I cannot describe my feelings seeing such fantastic paint.
What a trip man
Thanks a million for sharing knowledge! It’s certainly one of the real and consistent demos on Caravaggio’s technique I ever seen since I decided to be trained under classical practices in painting since three years ago. All the best master. Greetings from Mexico City!
the fact that this whole process here is just free on yt is amazing, best way to learn is by watching; beautiful video
This is the most soothing painting video I have seen in so long.
i turned the music off to be fully immersed in the mesmeric process. as a former abstract artist but a lifetime lover of the Masters, i found this hypnotizing and a real treat to behold. thank you for sharing your gift and hard work.
El realismo del grandioso Caravaggio es sobrenatural, sus composiciones inteligentes hablan en sus cuadros .Y nos quedamos extasiados al observar tanta maravilla!!
Carravaggio a master of light and dark.
Thank you for this tutorial in motion.
At the underpaint level it looks like a masterpiece; if I were the artist I would stop painting further!😍
Stunning and mesmerizing to watch it reveal itself.
This made me want to get back into painting and improve my art more, thank you for sharing this piece.
This is wonderful. You are amazing. I think you got it right how slender John the Baptist was because all he ate was locusts and honey. And the red hair. The painting is chilling, but very beautiful. I love it.
In this digital realm,still painting with traditional Its Seems amazing
Digital art can never replace traditional art
It would be pretty strange if all of a sudden people would stop using paint and brushes
@SoundingTheRedAlarm uau, impressive
@SoundingTheRedAlarm Does not it matter what race he is and gender?
@SoundingTheRedAlarm First of all who knows, he could of been mixed with Roman. Plus it's his art, not yours, go make it yourself if you're so triggered by how he portrayed his.
Aplaudo tu magnifico trabajo!!!.
Gracias desde la patagonia Argentina.
De nada amigo
this video actually went over so many techniques i never knew about and it explains so much with little words, makes so much sense!! thank you!!
Care to elaborate? Seems like an evolution from verdaccio
Magnifique bravo de Paris👍🫶🫶💞
Pure Genius, you have Caravaggio in your blood. Thanks for the video.
he doesn't know how to draw properly. An amateur
Hi I ❤ your painting
Wonderful once again Torsten. Always a pleasure seeing on of your Caravaggio paintings!
This is the very same playlist Caravaggio listened to in Spotify while painting.
Magnificently observed and demonstrated….no one can do skin like Caravaggio but you came darn close sir….well done!
Excellent work I truly enjoyed that. My wife ask who it was and I said it was Jim Morrison waking up from a long weekend.
Thank you SO much for not only the upload, but for following a path into this kind of artwork. Very much appreciative that these themes still survive. Congrats to you.
One can improve everything in life by applying drawing and painting techniques. Literally make an army stronger, a product better, the cocept is the same. Theres always room for improvement all around us.
Should we call this the betterment of all of life's domains?
For me classic art is so so beautiful than new age art works...U deserve more like & view broh... Thanks for sharing your Talent...
Caravaggio was the master , unparalleled
making art and watching making it is the best of the therapies...
and the best way of really good leraning in teo parts- theory and practice! And thats a good thing to see what is your talent and what can learn untalented people on unsiversities or shools...but in the end it will be no disadvantage to learn alao from art shool because in some countries there is no other way to be accepted as an artist and sell your art legally.
And me being impressed with the underlayer all by itself!
People ask me what I do now I have retired, I reply I am an artist, in comparison I am not. Truly wonderful.
Don't beat your self up ,just stay in the zone. Hi from Australia
Thank you for this painting video I learned loads can't wait to try out x
Thank you for sharing this amazing tutorial, it is greatly appreciated!
Incredible!
Hello Dear Artist. Your tutorial starts with applying "Burnt Umber" as the Underpainting. But while you do this can be seen more fine outlines which already were made before and which guide your paint brush for the painting. I presume these thin outlines are made with a pencil? And the pencil outlines were done on a background which resembles Burnt Amber. Is it so? And my last question is what is the technique you use for the application of the very first outlines with the pencil? Maybe a digital projector ? I am asking because I also like to do a painting using the techniques you are so kind to show to us. But obviously it is very difficult to "throw the inititial" design on the canvas... especially if there is no more real alive sitter available for the artist to wait for hours in some antic poses together with all the other items required to create the surroundings. I consider that there would be no shame to use a projector of the suitable kind to transfer the requested subject onto the plane surface to be painted. Already in the Renaissance the Artist Workshops used perforated cartons to apply outlines onto multiple surfaces to paint them again and again. By brushing pigment powder through the perforations with the canvas put flat onto the ground first. Norman Rockwell the artist of the 20th century was for sure one of the painters always embarrassed by the electric light projector he needed to use all his life, but he admitted to do so anyhow. He needed photographs as a start and made many of them himself to get the right poses for his patchwork assemblies to project on the canvas. Today sitting in a museum to paint a copy of a masterpiece is not necessary any more. Please let me know how you do this important part of the work. I subscribed and I will look if maybe you already uploaded a video explaining the technique for the very first stage of the artwork's outlines transfer onto the surface to be painted.
The ground is made with burnt umber. It also contains a lot of chalk, so it looks lighter than burnt umber alone. I use umber because it dries faster than ochres or the most other pigments.
The outline transfer is done with a projector and chalk, sometimes I do directly with brush and umber. Its fast and it saves time. You will sit so many hours on your painting so it´s good if the proportions are really exact.
@@oldmasterpaintings Dear Artist, thank you very much for the explanations. And also the information about the use of a projector at the beginning to get the proportions right. I will buy a digital projector which people use to watch videos. For less than 500€ there are good models available. With strong light to be able to work not just in very dark places. And the modern projectors are getting smaller. Size of a shoe box or less. (Norman Rockwell had one in the size of a cinema projector during his time). I am in the hope that in the future I can use some of the most suitable images I made myself over the years and keep archived to be transformed into paintings.The resulting artwork will be something new but the painting technique shall be like yours. Looking at your videos and skills keeps me hopeful that this dream may become reality. While painting on the canvas a beautiful music such as you make us listen in this video will be most appropriate. I foresee difficulties and moments of despair when the facial expressions need to be done correctly..
LOVE how you guys talk materials and projectors without getting controversial with each other. Projection seems to be such a hot topic for some, mmm we'll call them admirers. For whatever reason. "Ohhh, u can't use a projector and say you are using Old Mastet techniques!" LOL same with lead white verses titanium/acrylic gesso. Gets people ALL riled up. I don't know why. 😕 isn't art a personal preference/journey? I feel like art materials have become as hot of a topic as religious worldviews. Almost just as divisive. Anyway, thanks for the excellent video. Love the colors/techniques. And yes, I am a lead white/lead ground man. Acrylic is useful but it just feels less satisfying. And I use titanium alot mixed with lead. They both have their use. I don't understand guys who say "lead has no use in a modern artists studio" 😕 why not? Cause we might DIE??! 😏 👍 OK. Haha
@@DCweldingAndArt most old masters used a type of projection themselves ,there is a great documentary on youtube narrated by David Hockney where he explains how they did it haha
@Michael Pearce Thank you very much for your most interesting and valuable elaboration on the techniques of the ancient masters in their workshops.Also giving a thought to the apprentices who lived and worked there full time.
STUNNING work.
Que lindo! Que perfeição! Fico impressionada!
calculating the final tonal value post the layers - is what i was intrigued by!
Wow, amazing!
When you went to white so quickly I was like what,but then you started working on the background bringing that up then continuing made sense. Nice always enjoy that style of art.
He’s not using pure white. The entire painting starts with the under painting. The majority of colour are glazes. He does a fabulous job 👌🏼
I used to paint as a kid, but I never had the patience for it. Amazing work!
This is genius i never thought of lightly painting the shadows beforehand that would help me a lot
You are such an amazing artist,it’s really beautiful to watch the whole process.i love the colors in this beautiful sharing 😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I especially appreciate that you haven’t sped this up. Brilliant work❤️
I'm young aspiring artist and I this is one of many reasons I started painting, painting the beauty that God has given to us.
Amen
His hair looks like fire! Beautiful!
сколько терпения и усидчивости, картина превосходна
i feel happy just because seeing you painting with caravaggio technique. hmm odd😮❤️
Amazing....it is simply ashtonishing..!!!
It's interesting to see how you copy the master, but I would like to see your own. I have been painting since I was 13 years old. No body taught me how to. I could not afford the art schools. I bought lots of books about the Masters and that's how I kept on going. Today I am 73 years old. It's beautiful this painting, I have the book. You are great too. Try to do your own, please? Show the world your talent. Thanks for the music, is one of my favorite.
Wow. I have always wondered how such paintings were made. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I appreciate it.
Coincidentally saw two Caravaggio paintings today at St. John's Co-Cathedral.
From an artist to another, nothing but PERFECTION....great video
Waking up to this video is my way to go from now on.
I'm calm and just enough inspired to get out of bed.
That's a lovely painting ✨ I loved the video!
Need more women like you 😊
Beautiful! 😍😍😍 This method of oil painting is so fascinating, it seem like such a simple process yet so complex at the same time. I'm for sure gonna need to try this out for myself one day!
Beautiful. You make it look so easy. Thank you!🌱
Excellent! I took lots of notes as I watched. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing knowledge!!!
Теперь я точно знаю, что такое искусство и талант!!! Это потрясающе!!! Благодарю от всей души!!! Смотреть и восхищаться, и получать удовольствие, ещё многократно благодарю!!!
If you get a chance I'd appreciate your reply?
So if I have taken in your video correctly,
1. Apply ground colour which will also act as an under painting midtone.
2. Outline the drawing with a darker tone
3. Apply your darkest tone
4. Apply your lightest tones
5. Once dry you cover say the flesh area with a flesh hue that is diluted with a medium to give opacity and allow the under painting tones to show through and adjust the tones of the flesh hue?
6. Repeat 5 with a slightly less diluted mix?
I was taking notes as he went. I assumed the canvas was perhaps gessoed white, then sketched in charcoal or pencil, followed by a glaze of burnt umber or naples yellow(?) diluted enough to let the sketch show. Followed by painting the sketch using burnt umber(?). And the rest as you list. I intend giving it a try with my own reference. I have canvases I've been terrified to use! 🙂
Amazing. You made it like its easy
This man is manipulation me in a way that I find the changes in his art calming and un ravel a new Image within me.
I very salute this video for no narration 👍. Thank you for letting the work speak 🙏👏
Very beautiful work! I would be interested to know more about the specific technical aspects of working with just oil and pigment, how does it affect the Drying times? Or your use of other medium? How does your process shift from using more modern oils that dry quicker because of the additives? As a painter the things I would like to see most from other painters is their process. Especially those that follow the Old Masters. Again great work, I want to see more.
Excelente, me encanta la textura que consigue. Voy a trabajarla . gracias por el tutorial.
an excellent job, how much fluid, how much Baroque perfection.
Great job
That is a great pleasure to watch your working process. I really like and prise the work of M. M. da Caravaggio and also Matthias Grünewald (strangely I find some link between these two). Your videos are very, very good and inspirational and in my humble opinion they are progressing up. Keep the works. Thank you.
The art is my vessel for my soul to unleash it's true power upon the canvas! My love is my art, and my art will surely save my wretched soul. For true beauty can only be held for a moment to remember for all time.
This is the way I was taught to paint in college.
A master painting the masters!❤
Very helpful, lookin forward to trying this and putting my own swing on it. One of my favorite artists, gonna scroll through your videos to see if you have a Rembrandt one. If not, I would be ever so grateful if you’d honor that request. Keep safe and thanks for doing what you do!
Saved for tomorrow when I’m not falling asleep lol
He is like the Bob Ross of Baroque or Caravaggio painting without commentary, love his vids btw
Saved for tonight to combat the effects of insomnia. 😴
Now ill do the same thing
Immaculate. 💎
You sir, are Caravaggio reincarnated, bravo 👏
Caravaggio himself was reincarnated as an anemone occupying the Great Barrier Reef. Then was re-reincarnated as a Manx cat, a Hollywood Western horse, a dung beetle, and a bluebird before his current incarnation as a crippled llama. That's what he gets for offending the holy lord Ganesh. May his blasphemy be someday forgiven.
it comes together so quickly!! the monochrome under painting is a great idea
It’s really just painting by numbers isn’t it! 🤗
Not quite!?
A masterpiece indeed❤
Modern art is nothing to compare with this!
That's the understatement of the millenium. Some of it is just spitting in the face of art!!
We mustn't let those new painters in with their radical ideas, the likes of Monet, Sargent, Cassatt, will dilute the purity of Art! So Picasso was painting Rembrandts as a teenager and moved on, what of it...
Seeing as modern art includes photography, I'd say it definitely compares. I'm glad you appreciate Caravaggio, but it's sad that you don't know how to express appreciation for things and only know how to put other things down. You should learn to say "I like this" rather than "this is better than that, that sucks", makes you look pretentious as fuck.
@@joez6235 l still don't get how photography is art?
@@grazutissmith9647 In photography you compose an image and then adust the hue, value and saturation to achieve the desired effect. The desired effect being a visual representation of the artist's ideas, beliefs and interpretation of the world around them and the things that inspire them. If caravaggio had a modern camera, he would've been a photographer. As a matter of fact, research has shown that Caravaggio used photosensitive chemicals and the camera obscura effect to burn a projected image onto his canvas which he later traced and painted over, which is how he got such a photorealistic outline (the artist in the video traced it from a photograph too).
Modern painters, living in a world with colour photography, express their creativity in ways that a camera never could, proving that their ability to put images from their imagination onto a canvas goes beyond what a machine can do. Picasso could paint like a camera, but a camera cannot paint like picasso.
I'm a sculptor and draw realistically with pencils but I never could do painting with brushes, that takes another level of patience and dedication.
Complimenti sei bravo ,ma Manca il verde ossido ,se vedi da vicino i capolavori di Caravaggio li ritrovi in ogni bordo,👍✌
Un altro italiano! :) Ci sono risorse su internet dove analizzano bene dipinti di Caravaggio?
Alleluija qualcuno che capisce di pittura che non siano maniche di teste di legno che si stupiscono perchè non sanno prendere in mano na matita
Spectacular tutorial on the Caravaggio technique ... My congratulations !!! ...
Best art channel on technics ever
I´ve no words. Only can say: Thanks.
your brush control is truly remarkable.
Excelente aplicación de las veladuras!!!💖 Zacatecas!🇲🇽
Terribly fascinating! WoW!
Thanks for showing! Watched with great delight, would love to paint Caravaggio's with that skill.
Great painting 🙏❤
Great painting!