How to Make Dramatic Paintings from Your Photographs
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2020
- Most of us paint from photographs. Perhaps not always but often. In this video I show six photographs and the paintings I made from them. You'll see the photograph suggests the major shapes. From there I simplify those shapes into a cohesive whole.
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That is the weirdest thing: none of those photos looked especially interesting...until they were rendered into paintings and the structure in the photos became clearer. I've really enjoyed the design / composition videos in this series and the notion of looking at larger areas and how they relate in a composition. Really helpful. Thank you.
A lot of mediocre photos can make great paintings . It’s truly difficult to make an exceptional photograph.
I'm currently developing my vision and interpretations, this video helps to see things through the artist's mind. Beautiful!
Idk where ai is taking us however I’m sure many people were disturbed and threatened by the advent of photography yet clearly it takes more than just capturing what’s there to make an excellent work of art and I would imagine that intelligent touch will maintain an appreciation for art rendered from the human perspective over rapidly produced ai images.
It shows how great painting is like providing the viewer with a new sense
Your videos are gold. You are a talented artist and the best art teacher. Your time and knowledge is very much appreciated. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work and expertise.
Agreed, man. Soon to be former truck driver and I have thousands of photos I plan to work from!
GREAT opportunity for photography! Good luck on your new life, my friend ✌️
I have been painting for less than a year and this was one of the most helpful instructional videos I happened to hit upon. Thank you so much. I want to see more of this! You could have run through 12 or more photos then actual paintings and I would have been totally engaged! Great and helpful video , thanks!
Keep it going, the long term rewards of painting are awesome!
Same here. I loved this.
I'm really enjoying your videos, I feel like I'm in a university art class. I'm getting all the core concepts that most YT videos don't cover. They give you an image to copy, but not how to create your own original art. I just ordered your book too 😉. I have a ton of travel photos. I'm going to watch all your YT videos, read your book and cull through photos to paint!
I am delighted Lisa. Thank you for letting me know. It is true, a lot of youtube videos give you things to copy, or a demo to watch. For me, as a teaching tool, watching a demo is a little like trying to learn piano by watching someone play. You cannot get to the 101 internal and now largely unconscious decisions that the person is making.
I just discovered your channel a couple of days ago and after watching a handful of your simple yet amazing videos, this long-time "autodidact" can only say BRAVO and THANK YOU. You are both informative and succinct, cutting to the nitty-gritty and backing it up with EXCELLENT examples. You have a new subscriber to your channel and newsletter. Be well.
I’m really enjoying these little snippets of gold. They are just long enough to absorb all these crucial elements towards creating a good work of art.
I am very grateful to you for sharing your knowledge and time to help us become better artists.
I just found your videos recently and am so glad that I did. After a series of painting classes, I knew there were some fundamental things I wasn't getting. Fellow students may not be able to draw as realistically as me, but their paintings would be so much more compelling and powerful. Your videos are helping me understand how to simplify the subject matter (something that has been so hard for me to do!), see shapes and values, and focus on the whole composition of a painting rather than individual objects. Your teachings on structure and composition are just what I feel I have needed to move forward. Thank you for your sincere and generous help!
I could have watched that for an hour. It was great fun trying to predict how the painted images would look.
Very helpful analysis, demonstration, and instruction. Love the Rumi quote on the wall. "Out beyond right doing and wrong doing, there's a field. I will meet you there…" and Ian will show us how to simplify it structurally to make a great painting.
What a beautiful spirit you are. It was so nice just listening to you, you are such a caring human, thank you for sharing your talent with us.
I have been watching this whole series of highly informative, inspiring videos, thank you! And I have to say what a wonderful thing it is that they inspire comments of only gratitude and inspiration and not all the other stuff we see so much. It's like an oasis of sanity and beauty.
I'm so glad I ran across this informative video. Thank you!
This is unbelievable how the composition changes the whole theme of the picture. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Ian, I really enjoyed this.I am not a trained artist but I have always sketched, done the odd wartercolour etc.
This will hopefully help me improve and I must follow you.
Thank you for sharing this.
This was really helpful. Thank you Ian. I am enjoying this series of videos and finding them really inspiring.
This is mind opening. I love seeing how you are treating the subject here. I struggle to paint from photos for a lot of reasons, I seek painting outside.
Really appreciated this presentation! I paused the vid at each photo and considered how I might approach each one myself. It was great to see how you treated and problem solved each composition. I also really appreciated hearing that it does take a lot of photos to find that one that sparks inspiration. That's been true for me also.
Hi Angela, so nice hear from you. I just saw you today on something, an internet platform, I don't remember. But front and center. I'm glad you liked the video. I am just working on that photo I showed a week or so ago and I realize it is so interesting to watch yourself making decisions. Some to push toward the photo and others that happen sort of on their own and you decide to go that direction. Almost the paint making the suggestion and you think, hey why not?
Anyway hope all is well up there in the north. Best wishes, Ian
Thankyou for doing this. You’re a kind man and a wonderful artist. today’s idea has really given me courage to paint from photographs but not paint every detail, which is what I would always get frustrated with. LEARNING SO MUCH FROM YOU. THANKYOU
"...the role of vision and skill." At this point my vision greatly exceeds my skill. This photo analysis was very helpful. Thanks. l can't help but wonder how digital photography would have influenced Paul Cezanne and the way he used light and color.
I really do like your style of painting and the simplicity of your approach. The colors you use and the "impressionism" is just fantastic. No matter how much I try to paint like other people I find that my niche is never the same as others and I always seem to have a "go to" in the type of work I end up with. Not that it's bad, but it's certainly not always what I intended whenever I begin. Thank you for your videos, they are very helpful!
Very helpful, as an artist I definitely struggle with simplifying my paintings. I give way to much detail to the background ... but I think watching this will help me a lot!
I love the idea of using a diagram when planning a painting. I just discovered your videos, now I hope I can stop floundering when it comes to composition. Will be watching! Thank you for this.
Thank you for pointing out how to look for the shapes and change the composition to render a beautiful painting.
Very, very helpful, Ian. Thank you for this one! (and all of them)
Great video Mr.Roberts.I love the way you use complementary colours to give a feeling of depth and distance. Your simplification process is a great tip to all of us .we all tend to over complicate things. Thanks for the advice.
You are a great teacher I have learned a lot from your videos. I havent painted in years and after watching a couple of your videos I got to it again. Thanks for the inspiration.
I'm learning so much from your tutorials, thank you. Happy in Manila for having you, through your tutorials, to guide me in drawing out my style.
Ian, recently found your videos and really enjoying them. Thanks for your generosity
Thanks Ian. Just delightful and very informative. Love your color choices.
I love this topic. Seeing the possibilities for paintings in ordinary scenes and then capitalizing on those possibilities is, in my opinion, one of the hardest and most creative aspects of painting. These were great examples. I'd love to see more! Those other topics you considered talking about at the beginning were also very intiguing!
You are such a generous artist and human begin! Thank you so much for sharing your experience and wisdom. I bought your book, but there is so much to learn from your demonstrations. THANK YOU!
Excellent, thank you, love the way you simplify the process
Looking so forward to going down the rabbit hole of your channel. I appreciate your instruction, and I find you warm and engaging. Hope you're well.
Absolutely beautiful paintings!!! My sons and I are artists. It is so funny how we always say look at the shapes make them simple.
This is the first of your video/tutorials that I have watched, but I’m sure it won’t be the last. Your way of teaching is very clear and you really brought out some techniques that I had never really thought.
I am an amateur photographer with thousands of photos, lots of landscapes, nature, animals, birds, flowers, cityscapes, etc.
When take pictures, I am always looking for elements of composition.
I haven’t done a lot of painting, but I am at a place in my life where, hopefully, I am going to be able to get back into my exploration of different art mediums.
I’m very excited to go through my photos and find some that I can use this technique on.
What I also find fascinating and helpful is that if someone prefers more detail, they could certainly add as much or as little as they want.
Thank you again for posting, and as I mentioned, I am looking forward to watching many other of your videos!
I love this channel so much. Thank you so much. Hope you have a lovely day whenever you are reading this!
Excellent lesson gives me a new perspective to my photos and hopefully my paint!!
Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for sharing. The values are so helpful. I end up changing a few things too. I really love the background and distance.
Thank you! The information shared is invaluable! I never heard landscape painting conceptualized in this way.
Agree with Jean Ross. I’m so glad your video popped onto my feed today. Subscribed and ready to peruse through the rest of your videos.
A little ironic that I’m watching this 1 year late but I’m watching while isolating with Covid 😷 really inspired thank you
IAs a photographer who has always wanted to be a painter, this video speaks to me. It's so frustrating to see something in a scene but having to deal with those elements that are objectionable.
Extremely engaging and helpful!
I appreciate your videos so much. Thanks for sharing your knowledge in a way we can grasp.
Just what I needed to understand how to work from photos, and how to simplify !!! Thank you Ian, from CHILE
Very useful to me - the emphasis on shapes, simplifying, I can use in my own attempts. Thank you from Glen Ellen, California.
Thank you for this wonderful transcription & analysis of your processing photo to paint. Highly useful for my big sky desert where I live.
It is so instructive to see your process to this degree. I had resisted simplification to my artistic peril. It is through learning an art app on the iPad that I encountered the efficacy of abstraction to forms, and you’ve taken the concept to another level with these examples. Thank you for a most excellent presentation.💐
Yes this was really helpful! Gives clear insight into the process..Thank You!
Thank you Ian. Very well explained and useful instruction. I love your less is more approach.
I paint a lot from my own photos, so this video has been really helpful. I learn something from all of your videos, thankyou for your generosity
Thank you! I am going to use some of your ideas to improve my still life and landscape photography.
U are a wonderful teacher.So easy to follow and learn.Thank u so much for sharing.
Beautiful, beautiful. Really nice.
Ohhhhh I´m glad I found you ... very inspirational !!!!
Simplicity is truely more beautiful!!
Thank YOU.
Ian, very helpful again. Helps me think about how a painting is not a photograph, not an exact recording of the subject but an artistic view. I too struggle with finding the right photograph to paint. I take lots of them but rarely to I capture in the photo the structure and depth and simplicity that might create a good painting. Now I see how I can take what I want from a photo and not try to paint all that the photo captured. Can't wait to hear more of your idea!
Hi Alan, it's an interesting balance really between the information in the photo and what you want to do with it. I've never found slavishly working from photos to have much juice for me. Structure is the thing I like to hang the painting on. Best wishes.
This was terrific information. Thank you for showing us your thought process with photos. I'm rather particular which photos I choose to paint...refreshing to hear that maybe 1/50 of your own photos are those that you are excited to use. Sometimes these videos make everything seem like it's supposed to be quick and simple...eh, maybe, maybe not! Ha.
Great info told simply. Like your paintings!
This was a really great video, I found it very helpful and informative. Thank you so much for posting these for free--it is very generous of you!
Hi Scott, I really appreciate your letting me know you are enjoying the videos. I'm glad you are finding them helpful . I really am enjoying making them. With best wishes, Ian
Excellent lesson in depth and structure and simplification. Thank you sir.
Incredibly helpful insights Ian, thank you for sharing. So many valuable tips, and I love how you referenced two of my favourite artists at the beginning, Diebenkorn and Degas. Your paintings remind me of how Diebenkorn treated landscapes.
Thanks so much James.
Very useful video . I love the descriptions of light and shadows in the paintings Very simple way.
Oh this is sooooo brilliant, and so very helpful. Thank you Ian!
You're very welcome!
So useful and you have a very kind manner. Thank you.
Wow! That was so helpful! Thank you, Ian. And you stay well too.
Glad you found it helpful. Best wishes.
Wow, this is amazing. Exactly what I was looking for. I was about to meet a art teacher to teach me just this. Thank you so much 💐.
Thank you very much, I have been looking for this sort of information for years!
im not a trained artist but ive painted for years as a hobby and ive learned so much from watching a few of your vids,its amazing.needless to say i have subscribed to your page,thank you for everything
Great to hear!
i am speachless. it just, just superb.
Thanks a lot, Ian! I do a lot of photography in my travels, so, tons of them are in my archive by now. And I just started thinking of using them to remind me of some nice places plus using them as inspiration for the paintibgs. Your video reached me just in time! And I am happy to learn your ideas and approach to using photos for making paintings!
Really glad you found it helpful.
Interesting. I once did this, but with anoter technique, but I recognize the basic idea again in what you do and explain. Now I got inspired to do more of this.
Wow, very helpful instruction on seeing and executing. Thanks!
Hello Ian. This is a fantastic tutorial. I enjoy seeing how your paintings result from the use of these photos as reference/inspiration. Thank you for generously sharing your skills and talents. Deeply appreciate your videos.
Jasper, thank you so much for letting me know you are enjoying them. I appreciate it a lot. Best wishes, Ian
Your videos on composition are a great discovery!
wow! loved finding this and you. thank you. now I've some catching up to do with the rest of your videos
Makes you look at the pictures we take and really look at shape and form and the layering in the landscape I’m really learning lots from your videos Thankyou
Hi Yvonne, I am delighted you are learning a lot from the video. I really appreciate your letting me know. You seem to have got the idea for this week. All the best.
This one was particularly interesting - seeing the evolution from photo to painting. These seminars are wonderful especially right now when we are all staying home. Thanks again!
thanks Fran. I appreciate your letting me know. With best wishes, Ian.
I learned a lot! So short and informative! thank you!!
Well this helps so much! Helps me understand I can push the background bluer even though the photo doesn’t. Thank you 🙏🏻
This is so timely! Thanks, Ian. Hope y’all are staying safe
Hi Nancy, had a nice talk with Elizabeth the other day from her new home up in Ohio. Good to hear from you. Say hi to the baseman. Miss you guys.
Lovely indeed!! Thanks a lot Sir ..🙏
OH my gosh, what a wonderful teacher you are. So much good and applicable information. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Sally
Ian we want more of this! This is such an important topic.
Very good! Besides the theme of the video, very good understanding of the use of different shades of subdued grey to provide a field for the sharper spots!
I love your videos and instructions…. Amazing
This is great! Very useful. I hope you and yours have stayed well in the almost-year since this was published.
Thank you for your generous insights! I look forward to learning more from you, and am grateful to my art friend who sent along the link.
Hi Ellen, I'm so glad you've found the videos and are finding them helpful. My very best wishes to you. Ian
I was so happy to see this! I have traveled alot over the years and take way too many pictures but have been thinking lately that I should use those as inspiration to paint. I was thinking of doing a painting on my kitchen wall (the famous Edward Hopper's Nighthawks). Your painting style reminds me of his-alot. Great work! Thanks for sharing this amazing tip!
That was very beneficial!!! Thank so much for sharing!!!
I love your lecture and I am learning so much.
I'm not sure how I got here either, but I found this very useful. I do tend to try putting too much in a painting, so this was helpful - it's only when I use photographs that I tend to crowd a canvas (even if I've taken the photograph): putting too much distracting information in the background for example, not blue-ing it out when I should. I sort of KNEW I was doing that, but it's good to have a demonstration of how it can be avoided.
This was so helpful and amazing! Thank you so much!!!
Beautiful work.
As a professional photographer and a beginning painter, this was such a great, helpful video! I have so many photos from my travels, and this helps me narrow down my search through them to find something compelling to paint. Thank You!
Hi Sharyn, I imagine you must have a ton of photos. I find there are lots of photos that make photos but do not translate well into paintings. Say most National Geographic photos are really good as photos but most would be impossible or pointless to paint. So there is a kind of photo that lends itself well to inspiring a painting.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thank you! That is what I am trying to learn. A good photo composition doesn’t mean it is a good painting composition. I am learning. 🙂
Thanks. Very helpful.
Distinctive touch and interesting presentation.
Nice.
Have just discovered your amazing videos and what a treasure they are! I have been painting for a long time but frustrated by my lack of education. Your videos are easy to follow and extremely informative.
Maravilloso uso del color Splendido! Grazie
Yes very helpful. I hope you and your family are well and happy.
What a great video! Thanks so much. Very interesting how you changed the pictures in the paintings. Many blessings and be safe. Great demo. I truly appreciate it.
Thanks and all the best.