Richard Musgrave Evans is my favorite pallet, knife painter - Australian. never looks like cake frosting /icing. He uses a simple color palette and does massive paintings in a couple hours.
Others beat me to it! I was also going to recommend Michael take a look at Richard Musgrave's palette knife beach paintings....they very much give the impression of 'being there' on the day. The incomplete colour mixes are mesmerising. Great video, Michael.TFS!!
I wasn't sure about it through the progress but it turned out great. It has a lot of energy about it. You may have swapped the brush for a knife but all your other principles remain. I like how you described it as frosting a cake🤣
You and Clare Bowen are my go-to painters. You are very similar in your approach...plein air, talking while you work, unafraid to make mistakes, enthusiastic...my own painting has really progressed with your and Clare’s videos.
I wasn’t sure about this to start with, I was holding my breath and tensed up 😂 but it turned out to be a wonderful painting in the end. It looks fantastic from afar. The mix of colours are beautiful and I’m a fan of your colour palette. Great work Michael 😊
I really like this painting!! With your talent you could paint with a dishcloth and I'm sure it would turn out nice. Would like to see more pallette knife painting!
really love this painting! I'll have to try painting in my patio area & in terms of style of painting I will try a few styles. I have a lovely view of rolling hills and forest type trees but also I have traveled all over the world and took many photographs that I intentionally meant to paint someday so I still have the raw images. Plan to print out and use to paint off of. I can actually learn some tips from your videos, you explain very clear!
Ditto on the Richard Musgrave Evans. I have done pallet knife and brush separately, or both for over 20 years. It's fun and I really like the texture. Already bought the canvases and paints to try a Richard ME size painting. Don't worry about detail.
Great to see you using a pallete knife for a change. The painting came out beautifully. I was a brush man myself for almost three decades and have started using the knife from last couple of years after watching the Russian artist Vladimir Volegov on RUclips. He is the ultimate master of the palette knife and brush combo. Suggest checking out his videos.
Another great video Michael. Like you, I’ve not been really satisfied painting with a palette knife, but your painting turned out well which encourages me to give another try. Thanks.
This was really fun to watch, I have experimented with using a palette knife and found it was more difficult than I thought it would be. One thing I noticed about my own process and I saw you doing the same thing, is using the palette knife as if it is a brush. I just tackled the painting the way I would do any other painting and I think there is a more subtle slow application process that works better with the palette knife. What I mean is that it might be easier to make slow deliberate strokes with a clean knife each time rather than mixing as you go on the painting. I am no pro on this, it is just something I have learned by watching other palette knife painters. They put paint on then scrape it off too, keeping the knife very clean. Loved this! Thank you for letting us see your process, I think the painting came out beautiful!!
I think it looks great! Thank you for sharing your observations on color and value as you paint. It's really helpful. This painting feels more like I am there than most other paintings. Thank you!
It was a lot of fun to watch you spend a couple of hours complaining about lack of control. A real experimental day for you. 😅 Thanks for sharing it and I hope you get outside your safe boundaries again soon!
Michael, this was a brave, but good attempt. Palette knives are very different than brushes. When I first started to paint in seriously in oils, my professor, Gillian Pederson-Krag, suggested I try knives because I thought of painting as sculpting. I also was using brushes that were too small and the paintings were not good. I painted in oils using knives exclusively from 1970-1982. From 1974-1999 I painted watercolors and got control of the brushes. I took up oil painting again in December 2014 and have used almost exclusively the right brushes. Your painting is an excellent return. An intresting, good, abstract "mess" when viewed close-up. From 5'-10' it falls into place. I think you should continue to experiment with knives. This was a fine piece.
Really love how this painting turned out. Lots of energy. One palette knife trick is, if you want a hard edge or straight line like the horizon place the edge of the knife where you want the line, and then draw/scrape the knife away from the line, not toward.
I love it, you were able to get some really rich color swatches, energy, and impressionism with the knife. I love painting with palette knives. I did notice when you started with it you were giving it what I call the "death grip", choking the neck rather than working from the handle and trying to control it too much. However, toward the middle of the painting you loosened up, holding the handle and trusting the process, that's when you seemed to have fun and your marks came more fluid. Keep the light grip, use the handle, and use a knife with some spring to it and I think you will begin to see some amazing results. With your eye for things and your amazing sense of color, I think you will blow us all away with what you will create!!! Thank you for being vulnerable and letting us all come along to watch, as artists we all have those days we want to play and try things but are so afraid others will see us. I was out at the river yesterday painting and despite finding an isolated spot, people came around and I immediately tightened up...not happy with the end result. Oh well, I will try again.
Oh, the rocks, babe, have such teeth, dear As he paints with a pearly white Just a palette knife has our artist, babe And the paint used is outta sight You know with that new technique, babe Surrounding water starts to spread, dear Plastic gloves, oh, wears young Mike, babe So there's always, always a trace of red Palette the knife 🎶 I will stop now … 😁 I agree, the result is different from your usual technique. I love the colors and the thick paint. It looks more impressionistic, somehow. Thanks for sharing! Peace and love..Suz What ☮️💛
Great job, sir! Finally! Palette knives are cool. I think it turned out pretty good! I have seen some painters who paint only with a palette knife, using a brush only rarely to achieve certain effects. They usually use a much bigger palette knife and a much bigger canvas though. That blue-green color (azure) was beautiful. Have a wonderful day! Greetings from the EU!
I like how it progressed Michael! Really pushes one out of the comfort zone! Check out the Australian artist Richard Musgrave-Evans who does fabulous plein air palette knife paintings...inspirational!
Hi Michael, long time fan of your vids and fellow painter. I love how experimental you are on a regular basis, you're boldness to be constantly trying new ways of working is admirable and inspiring. This video of you painting with a pallette knife is very entertaining and I commend you for attempting the new way of working right on camera. It's interesting to see the result at the end of the video and your critique session of your own work and I must say that I agree with you about being unsure of the success of the work. I find that your brushwork in many of your other videos is so loose and confident while the pallette knife marks seem quite contained with not as much movement. Obviously you are still getting used to using the knife, I would encourage you to keep going with it and perhaps let the paint collide and mix a bit more and create a more abstract image? Just a suggestion. Always love watching your progress and your commitment to plein-air painting.
Another great video! And I think the painting came out great. But I'm like you, the palette knife is not really my thing either. But there are some effects you can't get with brush work. And it's always great to experiment. I learn more that way..
I really like this, Michael! The colors are great, and it was fun to see you trying something different by using the knife. It is a lot like icing a cake 😆 Do much texture!
Hi Michael, kudos for trying something new with the palette knife painting. I feel that way about water color, and will definitely try to enjoy the experience instead of hoping for a great outcome. Your videos are awesome and so incredibly inspiring. Love the "live in" experience theory. Please keep them coming!
Lol this was fun to watch! I often use control of my palette knives paintings! (I don't have many!) Took a short workshop with Mary Gilkerson (RIP, Mary). It helped quite a bit. I'm too impatient for knife painting.
I Like it, I would be curious to hear how you feel about this painting (or others in the 'series') after a few weeks of living with it (or perhaps after painting a few more this way).
Two criteria's I use is would the picture look good on my living room wall and would I get tired of looking at it. For your painting, the answer would be yes for both.
When I paint entirely with palette knife, the painting always feels a bit too indulgent to me (kind of like frosting!)...I prefer working partially with brush and using palette knife in key moments where I really want texture. Either way, it's a great exercise and I like how the piece came out. Excited to see how you develop the use of palette knife.
Michael I'm going to borrow your quote next time I paint. "It should work, even though the paint is applied by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.😂
Great Painting, I wasn’t sure it was going to work at first!! I like all the colors you get from being on top of another. I have tried using a palette knife before and never liked the results, so I would stop, scape and grab my brush. After watching you, I think I may give it ago again!😊
You are a brave man! I thought whoa, not only using a palette knife, but a bunch or extra colors from your normal palette colors. I was feeling your pain at points, but overall you came out with a decent painting. Could be worth more experimenting. Anyway…. Spent last week on the Outer Cape, Marconi Beach, Race Point Beach and Newcomb Hollow beach. No plein air this time around, just soaking in the views and lots of great photos for future paintings. Cheers-Greg
The painting turned out great, Mike! I really enjoy using the palette knife and the effects I can get with it. Way to throw yourself right into the fire…painting plein air with a new tool while filming!😅
Thank you for being willing to risk failure. Your painting worked in the end. Perhaps some added dark values on the rocks may have helped, but the sky and the water worked well.
( michael, 14:34 “‘ hearing a near whisper of thunder , , in the audio , however , , it maybe “‘ a buffeting breeze in the audio, microphone, also sound of the water, sea , at places, not loud , ,, unique imagery style, as well as initial cliff face view, “‘ field composition view “‘ is gouged it seems, phrase panel knife may have contributed to this thought 🤔🧐
For the first try it looks quite good. If your still interested in palette knife techniques I recommend the videos of Richard Musgrave Evans He paints beautiful pictures with it.
@@chamberlainpaintings Michael. Side note , I found old paintings in the attic, hung them up on the walls here , ( one is 4foot x 3 foot ) with icy peaked mountains ) watching a replay ; )
Great texture and colors. Love your characteristic spontaniety. Maybe add a touch of another color to the background water, it's a large expanse of the same color. The rock has a gentle slope, maybe make it more dramatic and rugged and add some details. Maybe the sand could use a little bit of interest?
You can also scrape the paint off and scratch lines onto the surface too. At this rate you’ll go broke from all the paint you slathered on. Fat over lean still applies.
Wonderful video Michael! I do have a request; would you please, if it isn't a hassle, include that unusual soundtrack of a dog that you did use in your frame making video? Thank you 😄
Michael , - 15:11. - ‘’ as though, above the orange highlight, and in “‘ living stone “‘ , above and as touching , it seems , “‘ Ice Covered Peaks , there, extend to, as placed by the sky , “‘ many beautiful thoughts, their protective energy ( having enlarged to view concisely) , this is a keeper, 🙂🙂🙂.
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Richard Musgrave Evans is my favorite pallet, knife painter - Australian. never looks like cake frosting /icing. He uses a simple color palette and does massive paintings in a couple hours.
I agree…I was just about to also recommend him…..it’s great to be taken on little adventures in the bush with him
Others beat me to it! I was also going to recommend Michael take a look at Richard Musgrave's palette knife beach paintings....they very much give the impression of 'being there' on the day. The incomplete colour mixes are mesmerising. Great video, Michael.TFS!!
Surprise ending to the show, I was quite pleased with the outcome, keep working it!
I wasn't sure about it through the progress but it turned out great. It has a lot of energy about it. You may have swapped the brush for a knife but all your other principles remain. I like how you described it as frosting a cake🤣
Excellent. Nice to see real experimentation. Never stop learning and trying different things. Keep it fresh.
Thank you Michael for another wonderful painting. How nice to have no expectations, nothing to lose and all to gain! Keep on experimenting.
You and Clare Bowen are my go-to painters. You are very similar in your approach...plein air, talking while you work, unafraid to make mistakes, enthusiastic...my own painting has really progressed with your and Clare’s videos.
I wasn’t sure about this to start with, I was holding my breath and tensed up 😂 but it turned out to be a wonderful painting in the end. It looks fantastic from afar. The mix of colours are beautiful and I’m a fan of your colour palette. Great work Michael 😊
Thanks Kirsty!
I like. You inspire me I am also a painter. Casablanca/ Morocco. THANKS
I really like this painting!! With your talent you could paint with a dishcloth and I'm sure it would turn out nice. Would like to see more pallette knife painting!
Thanks! 😂
Gorgeous painting Mike.
really love this painting! I'll have to try painting in my patio area & in terms of style of painting I will try a few styles. I have a lovely view of rolling hills and forest type trees but also I have traveled all over the world and took many photographs that I intentionally meant to paint someday so I still have the raw images. Plan to print out and use to paint off of. I can actually learn some tips from your videos, you explain very clear!
Ditto on the Richard Musgrave Evans. I have done pallet knife and brush separately, or both for over 20 years. It's fun and I really like the texture. Already bought the canvases and paints to try a Richard ME size painting. Don't worry about detail.
Yea love the thick texture of the final layer
Great to see you using a pallete knife for a change. The painting came out beautifully. I was a brush man myself for almost three decades and have started using the knife from last couple of years after watching the Russian artist Vladimir Volegov on RUclips. He is the ultimate master of the palette knife and brush combo. Suggest checking out his videos.
Another great video Michael. Like you, I’ve not been really satisfied painting with a palette knife, but your painting turned out well which encourages me to give another try. Thanks.
This was really fun to watch, I have experimented with using a palette knife and found it was more difficult than I thought it would be. One thing I noticed about my own process and I saw you doing the same thing, is using the palette knife as if it is a brush. I just tackled the painting the way I would do any other painting and I think there is a more subtle slow application process that works better with the palette knife. What I mean is that it might be easier to make slow deliberate strokes with a clean knife each time rather than mixing as you go on the painting. I am no pro on this, it is just something I have learned by watching other palette knife painters. They put paint on then scrape it off too, keeping the knife very clean. Loved this! Thank you for letting us see your process, I think the painting came out beautiful!!
Thanks for the info!
wow. this painting was a journey to watch and the end result is amazing, it really holds up when viewed from afar.
I think it looks great! Thank you for sharing your observations on color and value as you paint. It's really helpful. This painting feels more like I am there than most other paintings. Thank you!
It was a lot of fun to watch you spend a couple of hours complaining about lack of control. A real experimental day for you. 😅 Thanks for sharing it and I hope you get outside your safe boundaries again soon!
I wasn't complaining! I love being out of control! 😂👍
love how it came out!! the blockiness of it -- fantastic! keep experimenting with the palette knives.
You persevered and it looks great. Well done.
Wow you just inspired me to use a pallet knife.
Michael, this was a brave, but good attempt. Palette knives are very different than brushes. When I first started to paint in seriously in oils, my professor, Gillian Pederson-Krag, suggested I try knives because I thought of painting as sculpting. I also was using brushes that were too small and the paintings were not good. I painted in oils using knives exclusively from 1970-1982. From 1974-1999 I painted watercolors and got control of the brushes. I took up oil painting again in December 2014 and have used almost exclusively the right brushes.
Your painting is an excellent return. An intresting, good, abstract "mess" when viewed close-up. From 5'-10' it falls into place. I think you should continue to experiment with knives.
This was a fine piece.
I love the vibrancy of hues, and the energy of the texture from the deliciously thick paint - very exciting to look at!
This is something new for you! I really like it. It’s fun! Thank you for sharing
Really love how this painting turned out. Lots of energy.
One palette knife trick is, if you want a hard edge or straight line like the horizon place the edge of the knife where you want the line, and then draw/scrape the knife away from the line, not toward.
I love it, you were able to get some really rich color swatches, energy, and impressionism with the knife. I love painting with palette knives. I did notice when you started with it you were giving it what I call the "death grip", choking the neck rather than working from the handle and trying to control it too much. However, toward the middle of the painting you loosened up, holding the handle and trusting the process, that's when you seemed to have fun and your marks came more fluid. Keep the light grip, use the handle, and use a knife with some spring to it and I think you will begin to see some amazing results. With your eye for things and your amazing sense of color, I think you will blow us all away with what you will create!!! Thank you for being vulnerable and letting us all come along to watch, as artists we all have those days we want to play and try things but are so afraid others will see us. I was out at the river yesterday painting and despite finding an isolated spot, people came around and I immediately tightened up...not happy with the end result. Oh well, I will try again.
Thanks Terry!
This is awesome work do more palette knife painting
Love the result!
That painting is amazing! Love it!
Oh, the rocks, babe, have such teeth, dear
As he paints with a pearly white
Just a palette knife has our artist, babe
And the paint used is outta sight
You know with that new technique, babe
Surrounding water starts to spread, dear
Plastic gloves, oh, wears young Mike, babe
So there's always, always a trace of red
Palette the knife 🎶
I will stop now … 😁
I agree, the result is different from your usual technique. I love the colors and the thick paint. It looks more impressionistic, somehow. Thanks for sharing! Peace and love..Suz What ☮️💛
Thanks Suz! 😊💛🙏
i like the new technique. look forward to more.
Great job, sir! Finally! Palette knives are cool. I think it turned out pretty good! I have seen some painters who paint only with a palette knife, using a brush only rarely to achieve certain effects. They usually use a much bigger palette knife and a much bigger canvas though. That blue-green color (azure) was beautiful. Have a wonderful day! Greetings from the EU!
I like how it progressed Michael! Really pushes one out of the comfort zone! Check out the Australian artist Richard Musgrave-Evans who does fabulous plein air palette knife paintings...inspirational!
Hi Michael, long time fan of your vids and fellow painter. I love how experimental you are on a regular basis, you're boldness to be constantly trying new ways of working is admirable and inspiring. This video of you painting with a pallette knife is very entertaining and I commend you for attempting the new way of working right on camera. It's interesting to see the result at the end of the video and your critique session of your own work and I must say that I agree with you about being unsure of the success of the work. I find that your brushwork in many of your other videos is so loose and confident while the pallette knife marks seem quite contained with not as much movement. Obviously you are still getting used to using the knife, I would encourage you to keep going with it and perhaps let the paint collide and mix a bit more and create a more abstract image? Just a suggestion. Always love watching your progress and your commitment to plein-air painting.
Very helpful- I'm a big fan of palette knife. Thanks so much!
“Going Full palate knife! “Love it.
Loved this! Came out great. I love pallette knife painting.
Another great video! And I think the painting came out great. But I'm like you, the palette knife is not really my thing either. But there are some effects you can't get with brush work. And it's always great to experiment. I learn more that way..
That was pretty amazing. I have done a painting but with pallet knife and brush. May do a pallet painting.
More pallet knife work, please.
14:37 cresting sea at sand, feels shadowed underneath at beach
I really like this, Michael! The colors are great, and it was fun to see you trying something different by using the knife. It is a lot like icing a cake 😆 Do much texture!
Hi Michael, kudos for trying something new with the palette knife painting. I feel that way about water color, and will definitely try to enjoy the experience instead of hoping for a great outcome. Your videos are awesome and so incredibly inspiring. Love the "live in" experience theory. Please keep them coming!
I especially Luvvvvvvv the consistent values of your colors that you achieved in this painting!!! Nice work!
Lol this was fun to watch! I often use control of my palette knives paintings! (I don't have many!) Took a short workshop with Mary Gilkerson (RIP, Mary). It helped quite a bit. I'm too impatient for knife painting.
i love it. beautiful.
Lovely work with the pallet knife.
I see you were open to using THE MIGHTY PALLET KNIFE 😂
Great work Mike🍻🎨
Thanks Cedric! Yes, and I gotta admit it's fun to use 😂
thanks for being a source of peace :D
the palette knife lends itself superbly for rock texture. it needs a lot of practice to put down the paint and leave it.
I Like it, I would be curious to hear how you feel about this painting (or others in the 'series') after a few weeks of living with it (or perhaps after painting a few more this way).
Yes, I'm curious too. I'm going to make a Patreon video discussing this topic.
I like it. The mid and fore ground in thick paint are great. I wonder if the sky and far ocean done with a brush would be more effective?
Beautiful job! As usual.
Two criteria's I use is would the picture look good on my living room wall and would I get tired of looking at it. For your painting, the answer would be yes for both.
When I paint entirely with palette knife, the painting always feels a bit too indulgent to me (kind of like frosting!)...I prefer working partially with brush and using palette knife in key moments where I really want texture. Either way, it's a great exercise and I like how the piece came out. Excited to see how you develop the use of palette knife.
Michael I'm going to borrow your quote next time I paint. "It should work, even though the paint is applied by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.😂
Great Painting, I wasn’t sure it was going to work at first!! I like all the colors you get from being on top of another. I have tried using a palette knife before and never liked the results, so I would stop, scape and grab my brush. After watching you, I think I may give it ago again!😊
Excellent piece, as always ,may I suggest you look at Kyffin Williams and George Rowlett. Good luck with the knives
You are a brave man! I thought whoa, not only using a palette knife, but a bunch or extra colors from your normal palette colors. I was feeling your pain at points, but overall you came out with a decent painting. Could be worth more experimenting. Anyway….
Spent last week on the Outer Cape, Marconi Beach, Race Point Beach and Newcomb Hollow beach. No plein air this time around, just soaking in the views and lots of great photos for future paintings.
Cheers-Greg
Love that area. I hope to paint there someday!
The painting turned out great, Mike! I really enjoy using the palette knife and the effects I can get with it. Way to throw yourself right into the fire…painting plein air with a new tool while filming!😅
Thanks Scott!
I love that you stepped out of your comfort zone. Like an earlier comment-check out that Australian Musgrave.
Thank you for being willing to risk failure. Your painting worked in the end. Perhaps some added dark values on the rocks may have helped, but the sky and the water worked well.
15:07 plus a tiny fraction , think I thumbnailed it , gotta hear your final instructions on this versatile beauty 😁😁😁
So cool.
Literally amazing! Bravo Michael, vraiment le meilleur
Thanks!
Nice try in pallete knife strokes makes something new ideas in style thank you
15:01 the work reads incredibly from a distance but up close in the photo that background for me starts to flatten to a wall
( michael, 14:34 “‘ hearing a near whisper of thunder , , in the audio , however , , it maybe “‘ a buffeting breeze in the audio, microphone, also sound of the water, sea , at places, not loud , ,, unique imagery style, as well as initial cliff face view, “‘ field composition view “‘ is gouged it seems, phrase panel knife may have contributed to this thought 🤔🧐
Lol nice cake!!
For the first try it looks quite good. If your still interested in palette knife techniques I recommend the videos of Richard Musgrave Evans He paints beautiful pictures with it.
Fantastic.
Good Morning Michael 🙂
Good morning Mark!
@@chamberlainpaintings the orange had a 3D feel in the close up, white water , a portion , in air above sand , gotta look some more 😆😝😁🔮✨
@@chamberlainpaintings Michael. Side note , I found old paintings in the attic, hung them up on the walls here , ( one is 4foot x 3 foot ) with icy peaked mountains ) watching a replay ; )
Great texture and colors. Love your characteristic spontaniety. Maybe add a touch of another color to the background water, it's a large expanse of the same color. The rock has a gentle slope, maybe make it more dramatic and rugged and add some details. Maybe the sand could use a little bit of interest?
This painting was just an exercise. Haha it’s done. Thanks for your thoughts!
You can also scrape the paint off and scratch lines onto the surface too. At this rate you’ll go broke from all the paint you slathered on. Fat over lean still applies.
Do more!!
Wonderful video Michael! I do have a request; would you please, if it isn't a hassle, include that unusual soundtrack of a dog that you did use in your frame making video? Thank you 😄
I'll have to rewatch that video!
@@chamberlainpaintings It's such an usual musical composition 😅 I've enjoyed your impasto seascape; a palette knife certainly gives an earthy texture.
Great painting! I’m trying my hand at nocturne paintings. Do you have any videos of you painting night scapes that you can link? Thanks, Michael!
Michael , - 15:11. - ‘’ as though, above the orange highlight, and in “‘ living stone “‘ , above and as touching , it seems , “‘ Ice Covered Peaks , there, extend to, as placed by the sky , “‘ many beautiful thoughts, their protective energy ( having enlarged to view concisely) , this is a keeper, 🙂🙂🙂.
Where do we get those 'Michael Chamberlain' palette knives?
Richard Musgrave Evans
🤦 'Promosm'