I wonder if there was a way to deteriorate the paint (or a copy) and send it to Baumgartner Restauration, so that they can make a collaboration video. To see how faithful the restauration would be. XD
Unfortunately ten hundreds videos are annoying, his additude is too try hard in my opinion. Slew is way more chilled, relaxing and I actually feel like I learn stuff
Ol' Dutch masters used to prime the canvas with a brown wash first, then sketched the dark values followed by the light ones. Speeds up the process and a really fun way to work. Also puts colors into an environment already. Might be fun to try that as well sometime.
@Karmacoma What the hell kinda high school did you go to?? My high school art teachers would explain our next assignment to us and then they'd be like ''Good luck. I'm gonna get some coffee, see you in an hour.'' :'))
Coming from someone who doesn’t appreciate or consciously realize the art of videography. I actually am in awe at the masterpiece of your videoa, and the videoing and editing quality.
Okay, small thing, I loved seeing the ring while you were painting the ring. Really gave it some life seeing your right hand paint your right hand with the ring still on! Amazing work man. Love the commitment to quality.
I’ve already watched this video like three times today. So happy to have been able to be a part of this project and you knocked it out of the fuckin park, dude!
Listen here Slewsefston, we, as a whole (SlewCrew), LOVE YOU. I haven’t seen this video just yet, but I’ve been waiting. I hope you forever continue to develop your art and yourself because we are here for it. I hope your day is blessed. We appreciate you and your hard work.
Ooooh mannn!!!!! This is amazing. When it is possible again you really have to come to The Netherlands and visit the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I am now doing an internship at the Rijksmuseum. It is amazing to be surrounded by these beautiful paintings. 😍
I went to school for art and whenever I watch your videos I learn something new each time and i try to apply them to my own paintings. Great job! Love the narration! Love the Vision!
Hey SLEW! Nice job. Get yourself some 100% clove oil, add 2 drops to each of your paint piles (seems right for the size) and they will stay open for a week to two. The freezer thing is OK but when you bring them out they get condensation on them and keeping water off your oil paints is gonna better for them. Or at least just make sure you wait for them to condensate and then completely evaporate before using them. Keep up the work. Peace!
You Slew are from a long line of ye oldie art apprentices.🧑🎨 It’s beautiful seeing the methods from the old masters still having value today. I love how your a RUclips creator into cameras, lights and all the technology, while at the same time loving the old portraiture and everything they did 100’s of years ago. Awesome vid . ❤️🇦🇺❤️✌🏾✌🏻✌️
how are you so good at editing. it always blows my mind how subtle you are with everything. the videography is truly art. art that harmonises with the fine art and the photography. your whole channel is just a temple. a temple that I regularly visit to analyse and learn and just be tranquil. glad to be here during the golden age. :)
Just a wonderful video Slew you did a great job. I loved the you captured the Rembrandt flavor and made it your own. Your choices were so interesting and successful. Dutch Master. Real joy to experience.
The shadows on the coat is breathtaking. I found you and your channel while starting oil panting for the first time and I have to say its a blessing. Thank you!
Wow. I knew you were academically trained but dude this portrait is great. I'm impressed. I was looking at it thinking how solid it was and then it hit me... It's the limited palette! The palette helps so much man. Great job dude. Keep it up.
Thank you for also sharing how you took the photo in march several months ago. As a fellow artist who has many more ideas than time to execute, its really nice to know that other artists who i look up to, who seem to crank out amazing piece after piece, also sometimes get backlogged by life and that art is allowed to take time. Its too easy to pressure yourself to get every project done ASAP just because youre excited and more ideas keep popping up on the horizon
I read in an old beginners oil painting book from the 50s that said to scrape your paint off the pallet onto a small piece of glass and put it under water to store it. Pretty neat idea
This is BEYOND amazing! One of the many reasons each week I look forward to your uploads, such a cool idea Sam! I think this might be my favorite work of yours!!
Beautiful painting and beautifully shot! Really enjoyed the photography, set-up, and explanation of the concept and inspiration behind the painting. Love the process and dope shots! Really appreciate the attention to detail you give to the art and the full video process... sunsets at the window and so many other details. Very inspiring! Great job, Slew!
A lot of these reference paintings remind me of Rembrandt. All his portraits were actually painted onto a black canvas. He worked differently than most artists, choosing instead to work on a dark background and add highlights VS painting on a light background and adding shadows. It gives a much darker and richer feels to the paintings :) Dunno if any of you have used the Rembrandt toothpaste - but that's why the name is clever - whitening your dark teeth like Rembrandt added light to a dark canvas ;) the more you know!
Rembrandt actually always started with umbra layer onto the dead layer then glazed the colors the last thing was the highlights. Also the brightest parts of the image were the thickest, shadows were really seethrough and warm!
The way slew paints would be really expensive back in the day, dark colors were cheaper since most of them were made with dirt pigment. Almost every master known to art world painted from umbra layer
Rembrandt used a dutch double ground for linen, and a traditional white chalk ground with a light impratura on panel. That was a really common approach. The double ground on linen consisted of a glue size layer pressed into the weaves of the fabric, and then a first ground of a red ochrish color but could also be brown. The reason was simple - cheap pigment to cover the most linen and even out the texture etc. Often this was a mixture with chalk pigment as a filler as well which also plays a role in the absorption for the following layers. The second ground would be applied when dry with lead white, a black - in grounds often charcoal black, and earth tones. The eventual color would be a sort of greyish neutral tone, balancing out the strong red from underneath. This second ground could be very close to white but could be made darker if it was needed. There were many variations but that’s basically the procedure for linen prep in the 17th century, also counting for Belgium with Rubens and Van Dyck. Note that these layers were all applied with a special made painting knife and not a brush (except for the imprimatura on panel). Hope that helps for someone looking into this stuff
the portrait just came out amazing just a beginner but the first layers look pretty amazing incredible how much deepness and more details can be added !!
As someone who does oil painting as well I love the way you structure your videos. I love seeing how other people paint and your in-depth explanations are really interesting and educational to watch. Your skills as a videographer really make you unique in the painting community.
You are an amazing artist. I'd like to congratulate you on achieving a level of skill so few have the patience to reach. I know it must have been a long journey learning the library of knowledge you store in your mind. You will surely be remembered in your local community long after you die; because your pieces art will be cherished by any who is lucky enough to acquire one, and the beauty of your passion will live on in your place.
Proper loving how chill your videos are :) I've done a digital renaissance style of a self-portrait before but this is a whole new level of precision - looks boss!
Well, the end result is fascinatingly beautiful, especially from distance, looking Rembrandtesque enough! When looking closely, there are some things that clearly disclose the modern features of this painting. I'd say, it needs another layer of refinements to be considered top notch, but I really love how it looks from few meters distance. That person is like a live one. Great work.
Loved it, and all the work you put in. Tell my students, this is how it's done. A question about your paint in the freezer: When I began to paint, I used a controlled palette, in which 8 or more colors were all mixed into 10 values, like a grid. Needless to say, this took forever,and you wanted to use it for a while. We used clove oil to keep our paint workable for quite a while. Are you familiar with that? Works well, no skin, just a drop or two with earth colors needing more as they dry more quickly. Your enthusiasm for all you do, especially from a young artist, is refreshing. Keep it up.
From a actual dutch boy: Goed gedaan! Het ziet er prachtig uit.
Inderdaad! Heel mooi gedaan
Netjes inderdaad!
Echt heel mooi!
Prachtig
fenomenaal
Historians in 300 years are gonna be real confused trying to decipher what century this guy is from
Time traveler!
naw we have science on our side now: carbon dating!
Absolutely loved this. It would be great if this became a series, Slew Through the Centuries. Fun stuff and an amazing outcome.
This is a really good idea.
I’d love to see that tbh
Slew the centuries!
I wonder if there was a way to deteriorate the paint (or a copy) and send it to Baumgartner Restauration, so that they can make a collaboration video. To see how faithful the restauration would be. XD
@@mariondumont7634 Yes! We need this.
This guy is more than talented. He’s a legend. Slew and Ten Hundred are the ones!
Most definitely
Unfortunately ten hundreds videos are annoying, his additude is too try hard in my opinion. Slew is way more chilled, relaxing and I actually feel like I learn stuff
@@bhanemidas845 Well, at least they have two separate channels so you can watch the ones that you enjoy more
cmoon...
1000%
Ol' Dutch masters used to prime the canvas with a brown wash first, then sketched the dark values followed by the light ones. Speeds up the process and a really fun way to work. Also puts colors into an environment already. Might be fun to try that as well sometime.
@Karmacoma What the hell kinda high school did you go to?? My high school art teachers would explain our next assignment to us and then they'd be like ''Good luck. I'm gonna get some coffee, see you in an hour.'' :'))
@@puckvanrooij And so the dutch masters were killed
your progress is absolutely monumental
hahaha - this was by far your best video. so informative, funny, i like the costumes. good one.
Thanks smoey♥️
He do be looking nice in that outfit tho.
Am I the only one who waited for this?
And man you look like a classy Prince
You used time travel matching?
I was born a few century’s late!
@@slewp
We officially believe this. Probably reincarnated.
awww baby...you are just on time!
The world wasn't ready for you yet!!
@@slewp awww baby...you are just on time!
The world wasn't ready for you yet!!
Coming from someone who doesn’t appreciate or consciously realize the art of videography. I actually am in awe at the masterpiece of your videoa, and the videoing and editing quality.
That means a lot thanks!
It’s eerie how well you “fit” into the look of the era. Outstanding work!
Okay, small thing, I loved seeing the ring while you were painting the ring. Really gave it some life seeing your right hand paint your right hand with the ring still on! Amazing work man. Love the commitment to quality.
I’ve already watched this video like three times today. So happy to have been able to be a part of this project and you knocked it out of the fuckin park, dude!
Listen here Slewsefston, we, as a whole (SlewCrew), LOVE YOU. I haven’t seen this video just yet, but I’ve been waiting. I hope you forever continue to develop your art and yourself because we are here for it. I hope your day is blessed. We appreciate you and your hard work.
♥️
Nice to know that other Artists uses the Grid Method! Thanks for validation of an old legit method!
"if you don't know what a grid is.... it's lines" 😆
This is insane! You replicated the style perfectly and got all the aspects of the painting really well. I'm sure you'll enjoy having it on your wall!
Wow! This is hands down your best oil painting yet! You're awesome Slew!
For the past two years you have done nothing but outdone yourself. I’m so glad that I got to be part of the experience as a viewer. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Bravo!! Seriously, start to finish, thoroughly enjoyable! That portrait deserves a place of honor.
Imagine having slew as a art teacher, what a blessing
I’m doing a charcoal portrait drawing for class and I did a grid it helps a lot!!!
watching the jacket come together during your first pass with the oil paint was amazing, awesome job!
Ooooh mannn!!!!! This is amazing.
When it is possible again you really have to come to The Netherlands and visit the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I am now doing an internship at the Rijksmuseum. It is amazing to be surrounded by these beautiful paintings. 😍
this is one of the most impressive things i've ever seen
I Watched a Twitch streamer painting a Bob Ross work live, and now I got this on my RUclips Recommended, AND I'm Dutch :P
Have you seen the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year show? Season seven is just kicking off. Great way to see other artists approach portraits.
I went to school for art and whenever I watch your videos I learn something new each time and i try to apply them to my own paintings.
Great job! Love the narration! Love the Vision!
That photo was amazing. And the rendition... Oh my... I'm losing my words...
This really looks like it's from a museum! It's stunning! Thank you for sharing your art! ❤️
Yes I agree. your goal orientation is impressive. Great body of work here. Your iterations are fun to watch.
Very cool! As someone with ancestry going back to 16th century Amsterdam this was especially fun to watch.
Hey SLEW! Nice job. Get yourself some 100% clove oil, add 2 drops to each of your paint piles (seems right for the size) and they will stay open for a week to two. The freezer thing is OK but when you bring them out they get condensation on them and keeping water off your oil paints is gonna better for them. Or at least just make sure you wait for them to condensate and then completely evaporate before using them. Keep up the work. Peace!
You go above and beyond for your videos and I guess all of us appreciate it. Thank you for yet another amazing video!
Love everything about this video, the music, videography, and of course the painting. You did a great job. Shout out from South Africa. Huge respect.
You Slew are from a long line of ye oldie art apprentices.🧑🎨 It’s beautiful seeing the methods from the old masters still having value today.
I love how your a RUclips creator into cameras, lights and all the technology, while at the same time loving the old portraiture and everything they did 100’s of years ago.
Awesome vid . ❤️🇦🇺❤️✌🏾✌🏻✌️
how are you so good at editing. it always blows my mind how subtle you are with everything. the videography is truly art. art that harmonises with the fine art and the photography. your whole channel is just a temple. a temple that I regularly visit to analyse and learn and just be tranquil. glad to be here during the golden age. :)
Love this "Dutch touch" Slew... 👍🏼 🎨 💗
It pleases my Dutch heritage and makes me very happy. 😃
Loving the rise in multiple yous in a shot!!! A true filmographer
You’re legend! That’s so awesome photos, drawing and painting again. ☺️❤️
Stay healthy and God bless.🙏🏻
I really like the style of ur drawing very unique bro.
Just a wonderful video Slew you did a great job. I loved the you captured the Rembrandt flavor and made it your own. Your choices were so interesting and successful. Dutch Master. Real joy to experience.
impressive how much efforts you put in one painting, but that's how the great masterpieces like this one are done.
The shadows on the coat is breathtaking. I found you and your channel while starting oil panting for the first time and I have to say its a blessing. Thank you!
Master yoda with the paints 🔥🔥 Happy I found this dude, very cool
You sir are brilliant! I learn so much since you show the process
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is an amazing video and painting. You are my inspiration!!!
Wow. I knew you were academically trained but dude this portrait is great. I'm impressed. I was looking at it thinking how solid it was and then it hit me... It's the limited palette! The palette helps so much man. Great job dude. Keep it up.
Thank you for also sharing how you took the photo in march several months ago. As a fellow artist who has many more ideas than time to execute, its really nice to know that other artists who i look up to, who seem to crank out amazing piece after piece, also sometimes get backlogged by life and that art is allowed to take time. Its too easy to pressure yourself to get every project done ASAP just because youre excited and more ideas keep popping up on the horizon
The result is stunning, well done with the patience thing, whatever that is :D
You are so incredibly talented. Thanks for continuing to share your gifts with the world. Peace from Texas.
I absolutely love this, amazing work Slew!
I read in an old beginners oil painting book from the 50s that said to scrape your paint off the pallet onto a small piece of glass and put it under water to store it. Pretty neat idea
You really captured the vibe of the 16th century, amazing job!
All the work you put in this paid off. The painting and the video highlight your skills and the love for your art.
This is BEYOND amazing! One of the many reasons each week I look forward to your uploads, such a cool idea Sam! I think this might be my favorite work of yours!!
Beautiful painting and beautifully shot! Really enjoyed the photography, set-up, and explanation of the concept and inspiration behind the painting. Love the process and dope shots! Really appreciate the attention to detail you give to the art and the full video process... sunsets at the window and so many other details. Very inspiring! Great job, Slew!
This has to be the best first paint layer I've seen from you so far, amazing - big up for the progress you're making!
Pure talent. Absolutely amazing, thank you for always sharing and creating captivating videos. Such an inspiration! 🤩🎨
Thanks for explain your steps during the process!
It’s amazing to see all your progress since the beginning of your channel! I love it!
A lot of these reference paintings remind me of Rembrandt. All his portraits were actually painted onto a black canvas. He worked differently than most artists, choosing instead to work on a dark background and add highlights VS painting on a light background and adding shadows. It gives a much darker and richer feels to the paintings :)
Dunno if any of you have used the Rembrandt toothpaste - but that's why the name is clever - whitening your dark teeth like Rembrandt added light to a dark canvas ;) the more you know!
Rembrandt actually always started with umbra layer onto the dead layer then glazed the colors the last thing was the highlights. Also the brightest parts of the image were the thickest, shadows were really seethrough and warm!
The way slew paints would be really expensive back in the day, dark colors were cheaper since most of them were made with dirt pigment. Almost every master known to art world painted from umbra layer
Rembrandt did not use a black canvas. He used linen and worked with a monochromatic under painting and dead coloring.
Rembrandt used a dutch double ground for linen, and a traditional white chalk ground with a light impratura on panel. That was a really common approach. The double ground on linen consisted of a glue size layer pressed into the weaves of the fabric, and then a first ground of a red ochrish color but could also be brown. The reason was simple - cheap pigment to cover the most linen and even out the texture etc. Often this was a mixture with chalk pigment as a filler as well which also plays a role in the absorption for the following layers. The second ground would be applied when dry with lead white, a black - in grounds often charcoal black, and earth tones. The eventual color would be a sort of greyish neutral tone, balancing out the strong red from underneath. This second ground could be very close to white but could be made darker if it was needed. There were many variations but that’s basically the procedure for linen prep in the 17th century, also counting for Belgium with Rubens and Van Dyck. Note that these layers were all applied with a special made painting knife and not a brush (except for the imprimatura on panel). Hope that helps for someone looking into this stuff
There has been much technical research on the subject and I can point you to some it anyone wantd
the portrait just came out amazing just a beginner but the first layers look pretty amazing incredible how much deepness and more details can be added !!
You can fool your grandkids that it's the portrait of their ancestor. LOL ✌😲
I find myself with just pure smile on my face during the video. 🖤 Awesome art 👍
Wow slew I really appreciate this video. You have opened my eyes and given me much inspiration.
As someone who does oil painting as well I love the way you structure your videos. I love seeing how other people paint and your in-depth explanations are really interesting and educational to watch. Your skills as a videographer really make you unique in the painting community.
So much love for this self-portrait of yours. Really liked it.💙
Love, love love your masterpiece. Modern traditional mix. Love it. Thanks for sharing.
Dude my time watching this channel i have seen a huge leap in the quality of your paintings. Like wow
You are an amazing artist.
I'd like to congratulate you on achieving a level of skill so few have the patience to reach. I know it must have been a long journey learning the library of knowledge you store in your mind. You will surely be remembered in your local community long after you die; because your pieces art will be cherished by any who is lucky enough to acquire one, and the beauty of your passion will live on in your place.
U are an amazing painter and a very clear english speaker! As a non-native english speaker I really appreciate that ❤️
The final product is so gorgeous man, wow. Incredible
I love the grid method! It is an incredible tool that more people should take advantage of. You can be so creative with it!
I'm super envious of your artistic talents... Such a great eye, and amazing skill on a canvass... Great job man!!
That. Was. Awesome. I've never used oil paints and this was really informative and also, seriously you did such an amazing job.
Wow i am impressed, its amazing to see how you improve in every painting you do.
So good! I really love your enthusiasm and outlook when it comes to creating and building skills. Very motivational.
I love the coming together of the very modern and technological with the very traditional. A collab centuries in the making.
Fascinating to see and hear about another portrait painter’s process in detail.
Proper loving how chill your videos are :) I've done a digital renaissance style of a self-portrait before but this is a whole new level of precision - looks boss!
This is amazing! You have such diversity in the range of your work. Absolutely spectacular.
Damn watching that sleeve come together after you painted the shadows first was mind blowing
Wow that’s super good! I’m really impressed with the final result! Love it. 👍🏻👌🏻🔥🔥🔥
I am completely obsessed with this. You are a stunning soul.
I’m doing my quarantine which is quite horrible but you manage to put a smile in my misery.
Just muy bueno. Gracias señor.
Fantastic work! Just wish you had shown a closeup for a few seconds so we could appreciate all the labor you invested in it.
I loveeee your photography studio.. and your home as a art studio..
This was amazing and you're very talented. I also want to thank you for teaching me about freezing the paint and oiling out.
Well, the end result is fascinatingly beautiful, especially from distance, looking Rembrandtesque enough! When looking closely, there are some things that clearly disclose the modern features of this painting. I'd say, it needs another layer of refinements to be considered top notch, but I really love how it looks from few meters distance. That person is like a live one. Great work.
Loved it, and all the work you put in. Tell my students, this is how it's done. A question about your paint in the freezer: When I began to paint, I used a controlled palette, in which 8 or more colors were all mixed into 10 values, like a grid. Needless to say, this took forever,and you wanted to use it for a while. We used clove oil to keep our paint workable for quite a while. Are you familiar with that? Works well, no skin, just a drop or two with earth colors needing more as they dry more quickly. Your enthusiasm for all you do, especially from a young artist, is refreshing. Keep it up.
Brooo wtf I haven’t looked at your channel in ages I remember when you had 1k subs now you’ve got 200k+ that’s crazy keep up the good work
I love the story, the documentation, and wow the final product. Great video and art piece
💖Beautiful work Slew, cant wait to see what you do next man...😁
Man, I am laughing so hard at the fact that youtube knew I wanna make something like this as well.
Looks like I found my favourite channel!
This turned out absolutely phenomenal!! Wow!!
Wow! You have loads of talent and I enjoy watching you work. Thanks for sharing.....
Omg this freezer technique will save my life. Thank you 16th century Dutch boy
Perfect! And.. the studies...research and the process... I loved it! Aline.
Said wow out loud when the big reveal hit amazing dude thats such a special self portrait
This is such a milestone for you SLEW ! look how much you’ve succeeded in just a short time frame.