I wish I could add 1000 thumbs ups! In all my studies I’ve never read or seen a demo of transparent or opaque colors like this! Full disclosure, I’m two whiskeys in.....but regardless, the demo of the opaque colors over transparent and transparent over opaque was mind blowing! Thank you for the specificity in this video- (painting) life changing!
May I suggest a new video teacher who has a lot of tricks. I’m new to painting,I assumed I couldn’t because I cannot draw ,my acrylics aren’t bad , however this lady uses the transparent ones in the Bob Ross gesso with oil and medium @ oil paints that can be used . ( Water mixable oil colour paints ) She shows you the hog hair kit and oil paints ,so it’s different ,but for some paintings ,it’s excellent. She also makes her own gesso,but there’s so many recipes out there . Do you use sandpaper if using canvas? Painting with Yovette . Golden Rays of Sunshine inspired by Bob Ross, , see part 1 . then go to part 2 @ watch the magic happen. I’m looking to buy gesso , both white@ black, but I wondered , if I could mix black and white to get the gray? She’s also trying this new type of water oil paints ,where she paints a picture saying the cleanup is brilliant,but I saw a video where vegetable oil can be used , baby oil, or linseed oil,then soap and water,rinse twice dry. There’s an excellent video with a non toxic cleaner , butif the vegetable oil is working the same ,it’s better for our lungs and the environment, if I’m wrong please help with any suggestions. She does have an excellent tip to apply gesso. Check it out ,you buy it at a hardware store ,so it’s way cheaper. I’m looking to buy and paint the golden rays of sunshine. It’s a beautiful example of translucent paint. ❤️🇨🇦
I’m a few years late to the party, but this is only one of the amazing videos from Alex. I subscribed to his Patreon page, and using his advice, I painted the best portrait I’ve ever done.
I've seen TONS of art videos since I started painting 2 years ago, and this is the first one that clarifies this for me. And brilliantly explained as well! Thank you.
This is a revelation to me! Up to now due to getting mixed results I would let the paint dry for each stage in portrait drawing . Now that I understand the use of transparent and opaque paint I can approach painting differently and hopefully speed up! Many thanks for this
Wow, this is probably one of the most important videos I’ve watched on oil painting this year (and I’ve watched a lot since I started!). Can’t believe everyone doesn’t talk about this just as often as they talk about fat over lean. Thank you SO much for making this!!! Can’t wait to get back my easel and experiment with this more knowledgeably in my work!!!
In college I don't remember hearing anything about the transparent, or opaque qualities of the paint I was using. Thank you, this is a great video. Love your portraits.
Hi. In college I wasn't shown/told much about techniques like this. It seemed that most art 'tutors' were above anything pedestrian like that. I know they did their best in their own way, but little got passed on.
@@MrMjp58 Did you go to Art college in the UK? Don't get me started. They don't teach anything technical because they've forgotten it all. For the bast 50 years Art education has been a philosophical debate about "what is art", so all they seem teach you, is how to talk about your work. That's fine if you're into that sort of thing but rubbish for the rest of us who who want to draw and paint from life. When I did my foundation at central st martin's in the 90's it was like the human race had lost the ability to draw. But there were always teachers out there, who still knew their shit. It was just difficult to find them. Today, thanks to the internet we can and the knowledge is spreading.
Great explanation of transparent and opaque pigments! I was aware of the difference but never realized how to use them practically. Your confident and accurate rendering of the portrait was amazing.
Have watched hundreds of painting videos and bought far too many DVDs and this succinct and genuinely useful lesson is up there at the top. I am just graduating from graphite/charcoal portraits to oil portraits and your explanation of the significance of opaque and transparent will save me a lot of frustration....excellent, and thank you.
I've watched loads of painting videos and you do a great job of discussing things that are not usually discussed - your title Simplify is right on, thanks
Thanks Lynn, yes it painters can be a bit mysterious about this stuff. (or they just don't know). Painting is difficult enough, they don't need to act like they've got magic powers.
No one did it like you did! I started out with digital oils and have never painted with real oil paint. This knowledge about opaque and transparent colours really helps me figure what I should be expecting from digital oils and how I can simulate what I want. Thank you.
Thankyou Alex for this most informative video of opaque and transparent pigments. I have watched a lot of video on the different techniques of painting dark over light and vice versa but never have I had the most important of opaque and transparent colours exlplained in any videos I have seen. Not even my art teachers have ever explained this.
Oh this is mind blowing! Thank you so much for addressing this, and the other tips of using a soft brush to not disturb the bottom layer and the initial drawing on the canvas. I am very green and really am not at a stage of mapping the face with paint. I love watching you demos.....going from basic paint strokes to a portrait. Not only a portrait but one that actually looks like the sitter. Beautiful to watch.
Thank you very much Monika, glad it was helpful. In my experience the difference between opaque and transparent paint was never explained very clearly. When I was a student I was just told that you always had to paint light over dark, but then I would see more experienced artists doing so.
Thankyou for sharing your knowledge about transparent and opaque colours and their behaviour when it comes to one on top of the other. Thankyou very much.
Transparent and opaque and knowing how to use them , good point. Unlike our friend here I dont do so much alla prima work , but I use the transparent and opaque when glazing and scumbling. I let the layers dry then add another, this helps with optical blending. The Venetians were good at this as opposed to the florentines who built on the tight drawings in layers. It's all good. It depends on what you're going for as far as technique and its effects. Great video and explained well through the demonstration. If you look at the tube of oil paint there is usually a code that tells you if that color is transparent , semi transparent, or opaque. Certain colors lend to these qualities more then others , like explained in the video like cadmiums are more opaque and ultra marines are good for translucent layers of color over dry paint . The video will be very helpful in the alla prima technique, or wet into wet. ☆
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. It’s always very powerful, precise, right, efficient your content and the way you explain everything. This explanation is super useful!!! Greetings from Mexico!!
thank you alex. i painted your SP last week; its the best portrait i have done so far. i have learned todays lesson; very timely. doing this one today.
Brilliant art lesson video! So much better to use voice over whilst demonstrating what you are talking about. Very useful info. Thank you! And thank you for NOT being just another talking head selling stuff!!!
Great talk about how to use the oil colors for painting process. Its difficult to master wet in wet. Many beginners struggle with this. I just moved on to acrylic so you can just paint, dry in 15 minutes, so you don't have to paint wet in wet. On the flip side, then you can't do much wet in wet unless you paint really fast. There are other work arounds, but some effects are pure oil I believe. Thanks for sharing!
I know this doesn't apply to digital painting (when it comes to the physical mixing), but understanding the choices as to why these colours are used this way is very helpful.
This video single-handedly solved the biggest problem I’ve been having so far in my oil painting journey. Alex, thank you from the bottom of my heart! You’re awesome!
Very useful video. I've had to paint red shirts a few times before, really frustrating as red from the tube is very transparent and it took a lot of layering
This really demystified things for me. The lingo of painting can be a more than a little esoteric, lots of counterintuitive or outright contradictory naming conventions. Thanks very much.
I couldn't agree more. It took me years before I understood what anyone was on about. Tho to be fair, it's not easy. As Harold Speed says at the start of his books talking about painting is like describing the taste of Vanilla to someone who's never tasted it. That's why the longest part of making these videos for me, is writing the commentary. My first draft, often doesn't make sense to even to me.
Hello Alex! You do fantastic work! After 45 years as a professional, I’m still learning. I thank you! You may never see my comment & question because this video was painted 4 years ago, as it shows in the timeline. Anyway, let me ask it- At the time of underpaintings and glazing in the Dutch Golden Age, Frans Hals painted alla prima portraits and was able to capture such fantastic lively expressions in his paintings. How did who do that? Beyond the academic methods we know of painting color, value, placement of brushwork… how did he bring life into his paintings with such great expression? Thank you in advance for a reply.
I recently saw the Frans Hals exhibition in the National Gallery in London. Yes indeed, the expressions are amazing. When you paint someone from life, you have to keep talking with the subject for them to have a more animated expression. They will have an expression that keeps reappearing and the key to capturing usually lies in the corners of the mouth. I made another video on the subject here: ruclips.net/video/sI86_n84k4Y/видео.html However, Hals expressions are sometimes so animated they would affect all the muscles of the face, so you would need to record them during the block in at the start then retain them throughout the portrait. IN an age before photography I can only think Hals had an outstanding visual memory? This is a question to ask those people who think the old masters must have all used lenses, because a camera obscura still won't freeze an expression in time, will it?
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thank you, Alex. I watched it. I see what you mean. I’m going to remember that. The fact that the mouth has such a big impact on the expression. Nice job with the portrait. Beautifully done.
From transparent to opaque as opposed to from just dark to light has become a revelation to me. I'm a contemporary art student, third year, but they don't teach us such things. They don't teach us anything, to be honest. I wish there was at least one art academy in the country... Contemporary art education is absurd. Thank you for this liberating piece of theory!
Yes, my brief encounter with the mainstream Art school system was a waste of time. I had a laugh, but not much good if you want to learn to draw and paint from life. When I was there in 94-95 I couldn't find anywhere that taught you how to draw. There was life drawing but without any useful instruction. Today it's better tho, there's a bit of a resurgence thanks to the internet and it's easier to find teachers who know their stuff. Tho unfortunately still not in the mainstream system, so they're private and can be quite expensive. Whereabouts are you? There are more and more places opening up in the UK and Europe and many in the US.
The more I see all the hassles of oils when it comes to do the art of portraits or landscapes, from the toxic chemicals in it to all the nonsense of transparent and none transparent, I am so glad I discovered pastels,.! After all the years of learning to draw, by practicing over and over, oils got me to the point of giving art all for good. But I love drawing, so I couldn't give it up, and thank God for Pastels..!!! Pastels gave me back the original love for drawing and art.!
Hi Alex, I wonder how you can make perfect likeness without measuring proportion. It seems very easy to you. Please share video tips around this portrait likeness. Thank you.
Taufiq Suleyman, here’s some advice he gave on his comparative measuring technique: ruclips.net/video/l-tI9wNeloc/видео.html Hopefully it’s useful to you.
I all comes down to accurate drawing. It's difficult and it takes a lot of practice. Though I am I think I might do some videos on painting specific features. Also I did do this video of the alignment of the features, I hope you find it useful ruclips.net/video/7CtFkjpzVjQ/видео.html
Funny how when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I have been a subscriber a long time but only now just started watching. I have gone through a drawing phase, watercolor phase and now an acylic phase. I have no intention of starting oils (yet) but I still learn so much. Question: Are transparent colors in oil pretty much transparent in acrylic? Brilliant work. I was upset you ruined that portait just to teach us.
Great video. Transparent comours are extremely useful but I sometimes think that manufacturerscould make a better attempt to produce the major transparent colours in an opaque version.- particularly in acrylics where even some colours traditionally opaque in oils turn out to be transparent. In acrylics.
I didn't know that about acrylics. Maybe because acrylics are water soluble it make them behave more like gouache or watercolour, which are all transparent?
I wish I could add 1000 thumbs ups! In all my studies I’ve never read or seen a demo of transparent or opaque colors like this! Full disclosure, I’m two whiskeys in.....but regardless, the demo of the opaque colors over transparent and transparent over opaque was mind blowing! Thank you for the specificity in this video- (painting) life changing!
May I suggest a new video teacher who has a lot of tricks. I’m new to painting,I assumed I couldn’t because I cannot draw ,my acrylics aren’t bad , however this lady uses the transparent ones in the Bob Ross gesso with oil and medium @ oil paints that can be used . ( Water mixable oil colour paints ) She shows you the hog hair kit and oil paints ,so it’s different ,but for some paintings ,it’s excellent. She also makes her own gesso,but there’s so many recipes out there .
Do you use sandpaper if using canvas?
Painting with Yovette .
Golden Rays of Sunshine inspired by Bob Ross, , see
part 1 . then go to part 2 @ watch the magic happen.
I’m looking to buy gesso , both white@ black, but I wondered , if I could mix black and white to get the gray?
She’s also trying this new type of water oil paints ,where she paints a picture saying the cleanup is brilliant,but I saw a video where vegetable oil can be used , baby oil, or linseed oil,then soap and water,rinse twice dry. There’s an excellent video with a non toxic cleaner , butif the vegetable oil is working the same ,it’s better for our lungs and the environment, if I’m wrong please help with any suggestions. She does have an excellent tip to apply gesso. Check it out ,you buy it at a hardware store ,so it’s way cheaper. I’m looking to buy and paint the golden rays of sunshine. It’s a beautiful example of translucent paint. ❤️🇨🇦
2 years at art school and nobody ever taught me this 🧐
I’m a few years late to the party, but this is only one of the amazing videos from Alex. I subscribed to his Patreon page, and using his advice, I painted the best portrait I’ve ever done.
I've seen TONS of art videos since I started painting 2 years ago, and this is the first one that clarifies this for me. And brilliantly explained as well! Thank you.
Thank you! Glad you find my videos helpful.
This is a revelation to me!
Up to now due to getting mixed results I would let the paint dry for each stage in portrait drawing . Now that I understand the use of transparent and opaque paint I can approach painting differently and hopefully speed up!
Many thanks for this
Very glad it was helpful!
Wow, this is probably one of the most important videos I’ve watched on oil painting this year (and I’ve watched a lot since I started!). Can’t believe everyone doesn’t talk about this just as often as they talk about fat over lean. Thank you SO much for making this!!! Can’t wait to get back my easel and experiment with this more knowledgeably in my work!!!
Thanks Reed! Glad was helpful
One of the most important concepts for beginners to understand. I wish I had had this video when I was a beginner!
Thank you David. Me too.
In college I don't remember hearing anything about the transparent, or opaque qualities of the paint I was using. Thank you, this is a great video. Love your portraits.
Thank you!
Hi. In college I wasn't shown/told much about techniques like this. It seemed that most art 'tutors' were above anything pedestrian like that. I know they did their best in their own way, but little got passed on.
@@MrMjp58 Did you go to Art college in the UK? Don't get me started. They don't teach anything technical because they've forgotten it all. For the bast 50 years Art education has been a philosophical debate about "what is art", so all they seem teach you, is how to talk about your work. That's fine if you're into that sort of thing but rubbish for the rest of us who who want to draw and paint from life. When I did my foundation at central st martin's in the 90's it was like the human race had lost the ability to draw. But there were always teachers out there, who still knew their shit. It was just difficult to find them. Today, thanks to the internet we can and the knowledge is spreading.
SIMPLIFY Drawing & Painting - Well said, Alex, I agree. (Uk art college drop out)
Your channel is a great find!
They assume you already know.
This is literally the most useful art video I have ever stumble upon. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing this information!
Thank you very much!
Great explanation of transparent and opaque pigments! I was aware of the difference but never realized how to use them practically. Your confident and accurate rendering of the portrait was amazing.
Thanks Kayla
Have watched hundreds of painting videos and bought far too many DVDs and this succinct and genuinely useful lesson is up there at the top. I am just graduating from graphite/charcoal portraits to oil portraits and your explanation of the significance of opaque and transparent will save me a lot of frustration....excellent, and thank you.
Thank you for the feedback. Much appreciated!
I've watched loads of painting videos and you do a great job of discussing things that are not usually discussed - your title Simplify is right on, thanks
Thanks Lynn, yes it painters can be a bit mysterious about this stuff. (or they just don't know). Painting is difficult enough, they don't need to act like they've got magic powers.
This is extemely useful, thank you! I have never heard anyone explain it this way and never understood why it went wrong!
No one did it like you did! I started out with digital oils and have never painted with real oil paint. This knowledge about opaque and transparent colours really helps me figure what I should be expecting from digital oils and how I can simulate what I want. Thank you.
Does this still matter with digital oil colours, have they programmed them to mix the same way? Interesting.
So good to see a decent painter, doing these kind of videos in the UK. Well done and thank you.
Thanks David!
Great demo and information! I need to pay more attention to the difference in opaque and transparent. Never seen it presented in this practical way.
Thankyou Alex for this most informative video of opaque and transparent pigments. I have watched a lot of video on the different techniques of painting dark over light and vice versa but never have I had the most important of opaque and transparent colours exlplained in any videos I have seen. Not even my art teachers have ever explained this.
Oh this is mind blowing! Thank you so much for addressing this, and the other tips of using a soft brush to not disturb the bottom layer and the initial drawing on the canvas. I am very green and really am not at a stage of mapping the face with paint. I love watching you demos.....going from basic paint strokes to a portrait. Not only a portrait but one that actually looks like the sitter. Beautiful to watch.
Thank you very much Monika, glad it was helpful. In my experience the difference between opaque and transparent paint was never explained very clearly. When I was a student I was just told that you always had to paint light over dark, but then I would see more experienced artists doing so.
You are a great teacher! Talk about very relevant things, thank you very much! I really want this ability to draw with ink, this is awesome!
Thankyou for sharing your knowledge about transparent and opaque colours and their behaviour when it comes to one on top of the other. Thankyou very much.
Transpartent colours on top mixes in, opaque colours on top covers up. Thank you very much.
Transparent and opaque and knowing how to use them , good point. Unlike our friend here I dont do so much alla prima work , but I use the transparent and opaque when glazing and scumbling. I let the layers dry then add another, this helps with optical blending. The Venetians were good at this as opposed to the florentines who built on the tight drawings in layers. It's all good. It depends on what you're going for as far as technique and its effects.
Great video and explained well through the demonstration.
If you look at the tube of oil paint there is usually a code that tells you if that color is transparent , semi transparent, or opaque. Certain colors lend to these qualities more then others , like explained in the video like cadmiums are more opaque and ultra marines are good for translucent layers of color over dry paint . The video will be very helpful in the alla prima technique, or wet into wet. ☆
Excellent. Went to art college to learn this stuff and was told nothing. Alex, you rock.
Thank you!
Never knew about the muddy issue can be due to type of oil colour. Very informative and wonderful demo..thank u
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. It’s always very powerful, precise, right, efficient your content and the way you explain everything. This explanation is super useful!!! Greetings from Mexico!!
Thank you José!
thank you alex. i painted your SP last week; its the best portrait i have done so far. i have learned todays lesson; very timely. doing this one today.
Well done Gerry!
You’re way more skilled than most of the other youtubers who are using projectors to make the underpainting
Thank you!
That is something I should know but nobody ever told md - thank you!
Brilliant art lesson video! So much better to use voice over whilst demonstrating what you are talking about. Very useful info. Thank you! And thank you for NOT being just another talking head selling stuff!!!
Thank you Victoria! Glad it was helpful.
thank you so much. Leanred a lot here with the transperant colors
Thank you for watching Sylvain! Glad it was helpful.
Wow. This explained so much and has made so many other things crystal clear
Great instructional video of a portrait. I enjoyed watching it
Thank you Irene! very glad you enjoyed it.
This video is some of the best information I’ve gotten in a long time! Thank you so much!!
Fascinating ..I’ll watch this several times for sure!
Wow, this is THE technique that I would like to acquire!
Many thanks for such an excellent video demo.
Great and thanks for informations which I have still never heard!
thanks, most helpful, have been struggling with this and now feel more confident thanks to your demo and explanation.
Thanks Paula, glad you find it useful
In one word, EXCELENT. Tanhk you so much Alex.
Thanks Eduardo!
What a useful tips Alex! Thanks for sharing knowledge. Great day!
This is IMMENSELY helpful
Yes. VERY helpful, Alex. I appreciate you putting this out for us.
I really like your demo's. Your skill and confidence are amazing and helpful in studying technique. Thank you for sharing your work.
This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you thank you 😊
Thank you Amy! Glad it was helpful.
Wow....this is an A Ha moment for me..thank you 🙏 your videos are so great for explaining things clearly and simply.
Thanks Tammy! Glad it was helpful.
Great talk about how to use the oil colors for painting process. Its difficult to master wet in wet. Many beginners struggle with this. I just moved on to acrylic so you can just paint, dry in 15 minutes, so you don't have to paint wet in wet. On the flip side, then you can't do much wet in wet unless you paint really fast. There are other work arounds, but some effects are pure oil I believe. Thanks for sharing!
I know this doesn't apply to digital painting (when it comes to the physical mixing), but understanding the choices as to why these colours are used this way is very helpful.
Thank u so satisfied with your expectations
THIS is the video I've been looking for! THANK YOU
super video with great clarity
What a fantastic tutorial. 👍
Thank you!
OH, no one ever told me this stuff before! This is critical information for alla prima!
This video single-handedly solved the biggest problem I’ve been having so far in my oil painting journey. Alex, thank you from the bottom of my heart! You’re awesome!
You're very welcome Kerry! Glad you found this helpful.
Really informative! Thanks for sharing your techniques and thoughts.
Perfectly answered all my questions about my alla prima problems! Thanks so much Alex.
Did u learn alla prima technique?
The alla prima technique allows you to learn to model the shape with very quick strokes.
Great talent... Good demo... Hats of to you sir
Thank you!
What an extremely helpful video thankyou
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Very useful video. I've had to paint red shirts a few times before, really frustrating as red from the tube is very transparent and it took a lot of layering
Wow, this is so interesting. Thank you for sharing
This really demystified things for me. The lingo of painting can be a more than a little esoteric, lots of counterintuitive or outright contradictory naming conventions. Thanks very much.
I couldn't agree more. It took me years before I understood what anyone was on about. Tho to be fair, it's not easy. As Harold Speed says at the start of his books talking about painting is like describing the taste of Vanilla to someone who's never tasted it. That's why the longest part of making these videos for me, is writing the commentary. My first draft, often doesn't make sense to even to me.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting Well then thanks again for your endeavours, I'm finding all your videos invaluable. E
What a wonderful and complete explanation of colors! Thank you very much.
Thanks Susan
That's why my paintings always look like a mess! It was like I wasn't able to paint anything. Thank you so much!
My pleasure Alexis! Glad it was helpful
Thank you very much for this video. Really good explanation.
Alex, your videos are amazing and I certainly have learnt a lot from you. Many thanks for sharing. 🙏🙏👍
Thank you very much Deepinder! Glad you like them
Great video, thanks for your hard work
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Best video I've ever seen about painting. Well done.
Thanks. Congratulations. Excellent.
Great info about transparent and opaque oils.
su técnica es excelente, maestro
thats really good mate
This is gold... totally subscribing 👨🎨👍👍
No doubt u r amazing artists. Sovwhy u show very fast!!
Thank you very much! There are all full length demos, filmed in real-time avalable to watch over on my Patreon channel.
incredibly presented information. thank you!
Great tutor.Thank you.Very helpfull
Really good information and clear demonstrations. Thanks!
Great , great and great ❤
Amazing and informative video !
Hello Alex!
You do fantastic work! After 45 years as a professional, I’m still learning. I thank you!
You may never see my comment & question because this video was painted 4 years ago, as it shows in the timeline. Anyway, let me ask it-
At the time of underpaintings and glazing in the Dutch Golden Age, Frans Hals painted alla prima portraits and was able to capture such fantastic lively expressions in his paintings. How did who do that? Beyond the academic methods we know of painting color, value, placement of brushwork… how did he bring life into his paintings with such great expression?
Thank you in advance for a reply.
I recently saw the Frans Hals exhibition in the National Gallery in London. Yes indeed, the expressions are amazing. When you paint someone from life, you have to keep talking with the subject for them to have a more animated expression. They will have an expression that keeps reappearing and the key to capturing usually lies in the corners of the mouth. I made another video on the subject here:
ruclips.net/video/sI86_n84k4Y/видео.html
However, Hals expressions are sometimes so animated they would affect all the muscles of the face, so you would need to record them during the block in at the start then retain them throughout the portrait. IN an age before photography I can only think Hals had an outstanding visual memory? This is a question to ask those people who think the old masters must have all used lenses, because a camera obscura still won't freeze an expression in time, will it?
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thank you, Alex. I watched it. I see what you mean. I’m going to remember that. The fact that the mouth has such a big impact on the expression. Nice job with the portrait. Beautifully done.
The Don. Love your stuff Alex
Wow! Is that some sort of magic wand that u use?!!! Such beautiful strokes...so soft and lively. Thank u so much for sharing ur art. Have a great day.
You are brilliant. Like any Master, you make it look so easy!
Great video with lots of interesting info, and inspiring skills demonstrated.
Awesome tutorial ❤️
Subscribed.
Thank you very much Saba!
Beautiful descriptive videos your channel rocks 👍🏻🙋🏻♀️💕
This is astounding ...
You are amazing, had great talent
From transparent to opaque as opposed to from just dark to light has become a revelation to me. I'm a contemporary art student, third year, but they don't teach us such things. They don't teach us anything, to be honest. I wish there was at least one art academy in the country... Contemporary art education is absurd. Thank you for this liberating piece of theory!
Yes, my brief encounter with the mainstream Art school system was a waste of time. I had a laugh, but not much good if you want to learn to draw and paint from life. When I was there in 94-95 I couldn't find anywhere that taught you how to draw. There was life drawing but without any useful instruction.
Today it's better tho, there's a bit of a resurgence thanks to the internet and it's easier to find teachers who know their stuff. Tho unfortunately still not in the mainstream system, so they're private and can be quite expensive. Whereabouts are you? There are more and more places opening up in the UK and Europe and many in the US.
The more I see all the hassles of oils when it comes to do the art of portraits or landscapes, from the toxic chemicals in it to all the nonsense of transparent and none transparent, I am so glad I discovered pastels,.! After all the years of learning to draw, by practicing over and over, oils got me to the point of giving art all for good.
But I love drawing, so I couldn't give it up, and thank God for Pastels..!!!
Pastels gave me back the original love for drawing and art.!
Hi Alex, I wonder how you can make perfect likeness without measuring proportion. It seems very easy to you. Please share video tips around this portrait likeness. Thank you.
Taufiq Suleyman, here’s some advice he gave on his comparative measuring technique:
ruclips.net/video/l-tI9wNeloc/видео.html
Hopefully it’s useful to you.
I all comes down to accurate drawing. It's difficult and it takes a lot of practice. Though I am I think I might do some videos on painting specific features.
Also I did do this video of the alignment of the features, I hope you find it useful
ruclips.net/video/7CtFkjpzVjQ/видео.html
Thank you so much
Funny how when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I have been a subscriber a long time but only now just started watching. I have gone through a drawing phase, watercolor phase and now an acylic phase. I have no intention of starting oils (yet) but I still learn so much. Question: Are transparent colors in oil pretty much transparent in acrylic? Brilliant work. I was upset you ruined that portait just to teach us.
Extremely helpful. Thanks!
very good Alex, as always :)
Thank you Sven.
Thank you. Helpful
Superb. Many thanks for tips.
love this video and your style
great video, extremely helpful
So beautiful colour using.
Incredibly useful - many thanks
GREAT!!!!!!!! video❤
Great video. Transparent comours are extremely useful but I sometimes think that manufacturerscould make a better attempt to produce the major transparent colours in an opaque version.- particularly in acrylics where even some colours traditionally opaque in oils turn out to be transparent. In acrylics.
I didn't know that about acrylics. Maybe because acrylics are water soluble it make them behave more like gouache or watercolour, which are all transparent?
super useful vid. Thank you!!