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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Hi Ian. The more I see your weekly videos, the more clear the need to draw and find the shapes and how they relate. Thank you for taking the time to continue sharing your knowledge. Stay safe as well, and I hope that injury under that bandaide is not serious. Take care all.
I was cutting big masses of kale and my hand was buried in it. And wack. Fortunately the guy that sharpens our knives at the farmer's market hasn't been coming now for weeks or it would have been a disaster. The shapes, how the relate, how they overlap and create depth. You got it. All the best.
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.
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.
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 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!
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
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!
"...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.
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🙂
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.
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.
I am coming late to your party. This was so helpful to me! I will be looking at this again and again. I do the majority of my painting from photographs, and mine are not very good. But luckily I have people around me when I travel that take much better photographs that i can work from. Again, thanks for your sharing your knowledge. And thanks to Angela Fehr for recommending your book an your you tube channel!
Hi Joanne, I'm delighted you are enjoying the videos. Getting good photo reference is a game changer. It's hard to make a good painting from a boring photo.
My takeaways from this video are: SIMPLIFY and TAKE AWAY. This basically leads to LESS IS MORE (something an illustrator friend of mine said about some of my paintings). However, this is still something I struggle with, because I often allow myself to get caught up in too much detail.
Explore both! Have a day where you adopt lead is more!! Then another day dedicated to detail. But maybe the details can be increased in micro imagery! Details of the animal fur, or the hand stitched craft, etc.
To Joyces comment below, and if you explore both and find your are attracted to one over the other, then that probably helps guide you on how to go forward. One isn't better than the other, only what you are attracted to has relevance.
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.
I'm new to your work and videos and find them very helpful. It's a constant struggle in looking at nature to fight against the instinct to be a stenographer and record everything rather than being an interpreter of what's before you. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the scene and the mass of material in nature. Juggling shapes, values, and elements takes constant awareness and discipline. Just as a writer needs a good editor, painters need to be good editors of the abundance nature presents.
The expression I use is cataloguing. Just making sure it's all accounted for and included. Rather than stripping it to its essence. Glad you liked the video. All the best, Ian.
Very educative and interesting video, you turned all the photographs into lovely paintings ,even lovelier than the photos themselves! Thank you so much .
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.
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!
I think it takes a lot of talent to create good photos. Most snaps are focused on an object, snack dab center, not a composition. And I believe through creative mentally editing the not so great photos, we, as painters, can still often evoke the sense of place, sometimes with very pleasing results. Especially if we've experienced the actual scene in real-life.
I suppose most photos really could be called snapshots and aren't taken for the purpose of making a painting from it. That of course changes the dynamics of how and why you take the photo. And usually you can tell right away if it is going to be useful or not. Usually not.
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.
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.💐
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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.
I could have watched that for an hour. It was great fun trying to predict how the painted images would look.
This is unbelievable how the composition changes the whole theme of the picture. Thank you for sharing your talent.
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!
Thank you for pointing out how to look for the shapes and change the composition to render a beautiful painting.
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.
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 love this channel so much. Thank you so much. Hope you have a lovely day whenever you are reading this!
Simplicity is truely more beautiful!!
Thank YOU.
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 ✌️
Hi Ian. The more I see your weekly videos, the more clear the need to draw and find the shapes and how they relate. Thank you for taking the time to continue sharing your knowledge. Stay safe as well, and I hope that injury under that bandaide is not serious. Take care all.
I was cutting big masses of kale and my hand was buried in it. And wack. Fortunately the guy that sharpens our knives at the farmer's market hasn't been coming now for weeks or it would have been a disaster. The shapes, how the relate, how they overlap and create depth. You got it. All the best.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Sorry to hear about that. Glad it was only "a flesh wound." Looking forward to your next video. Take care out there.
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.
Just what I needed to understand how to work from photos, and how to simplify !!! Thank you Ian, from CHILE
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.
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.
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.
Excellent, thank you, love the way you simplify the process
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!
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
Your videos on composition are a great discovery!
Yes very helpful. I hope you and your family are well and happy.
An amazing teacher.
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!
U are a wonderful teacher.So easy to follow and learn.Thank u so much for sharing.
Thank you , have a great week your self. 🌸
"...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.
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.
Ian we want more of this! This is such an important topic.
Very useful to me - the emphasis on shapes, simplifying, I can use in my own attempts. Thank you from Glen Ellen, California.
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!
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!
Excellent lesson gives me a new perspective to my photos and hopefully my paint!!
Thank you! I am going to use some of your ideas to improve my still life and landscape photography.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You are very good at what you do and have a lot of skill. You are excellent teacher.
I'm so glad I ran across this informative video. Thank you!
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.
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.
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.
This might be one of the most helpful videos I've ever seen.
Very happy that you feel that way Jon. All the best.
I am coming late to your party. This was so helpful to me! I will be looking at this again and again. I do the majority of my painting from photographs, and mine are not very good. But luckily I have people around me when I travel that take much better photographs that i can work from. Again, thanks for your sharing your knowledge. And thanks to Angela Fehr for recommending your book an your you tube channel!
Hi Joanne, I'm delighted you are enjoying the videos. Getting good photo reference is a game changer. It's hard to make a good painting from a boring photo.
My takeaways from this video are: SIMPLIFY and TAKE AWAY. This basically leads to LESS IS MORE (something an illustrator friend of mine said about some of my paintings). However, this is still something I struggle with, because I often allow myself to get caught up in too much detail.
Explore both!
Have a day where you adopt lead is more!!
Then another day dedicated to detail.
But maybe the details can be increased in micro imagery!
Details of the animal fur, or the hand stitched craft, etc.
To Joyces comment below, and if you explore both and find your are attracted to one over the other, then that probably helps guide you on how to go forward. One isn't better than the other, only what you are attracted to has relevance.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition thank you to both of you for taking the time to give some advice and guidance.
Very useful video . I love the descriptions of light and shadows in the paintings Very simple way.
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 for this wonderful transcription & analysis of your processing photo to paint. Highly useful for my big sky desert where I live.
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.
I'm new to your work and videos and find them very helpful. It's a constant struggle in looking at nature to fight against the instinct to be a stenographer and record everything rather than being an interpreter of what's before you. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the scene and the mass of material in nature. Juggling shapes, values, and elements takes constant awareness and discipline. Just as a writer needs a good editor, painters need to be good editors of the abundance nature presents.
The expression I use is cataloguing. Just making sure it's all accounted for and included. Rather than stripping it to its essence. Glad you liked the video. All the best, Ian.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful Thank you 🙏
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.
Thank you! The information shared is invaluable! I never heard landscape painting conceptualized in this way.
Thanks Ian. Just delightful and very informative. Love your color choices.
Very educative and interesting video, you turned all the photographs into lovely paintings ,even lovelier than the photos themselves! Thank you so much .
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
Absolutely beautiful paintings!!! My sons and I are artists. It is so funny how we always say look at the shapes make them simple.
So useful and you have a very kind manner. Thank you.
I had no idea a person could do this. So helpful.
Excellent lesson in depth and structure and simplification. Thank you sir.
Oh this is sooooo brilliant, and so very helpful. Thank you Ian!
You're very welcome!
i am speachless. it just, just superb.
Very helpful, I do have trouble looking at the perspectives!thanks
YES!!! using light to create drama!!!
OH my gosh, what a wonderful teacher you are. So much good and applicable information. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Sally
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!
I think it takes a lot of talent to create good photos. Most snaps are focused on an object, snack dab center, not a composition.
And I believe through creative mentally editing the not so great photos, we, as painters, can still often evoke the sense of place, sometimes with very pleasing results. Especially if we've experienced the actual scene in real-life.
I suppose most photos really could be called snapshots and aren't taken for the purpose of making a painting from it. That of course changes the dynamics of how and why you take the photo. And usually you can tell right away if it is going to be useful or not. Usually not.
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.
This was really helpful. Thank you Ian. I am enjoying this series of videos and finding them really inspiring.
Ian, recently found your videos and really enjoying them. Thanks for your generosity
I love your lecture and I am learning so much.
I learned a lot! So short and informative! thank you!!
wow! loved finding this and you. thank you. now I've some catching up to do with the rest of your videos
Wow, very helpful instruction on seeing and executing. Thanks!
That was very beneficial!!! Thank so much for sharing!!!
Great paintings and instruction
Thank you for taking time to share all this information!😍
You are so welcome!
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition 😍
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.
Well this helps so much! Helps me understand I can push the background bluer even though the photo doesn’t. Thank you 🙏🏻
Friend. Stumbled across your page. Loved it. Subbed. Thank you for sharing your talent. On a catch up mission!
Amazing how you make a clear distinction between what is to be paint and not . Great and thank tou so much .Will try to paint from photographs!
Hi Christine, I think the main thing is I look at structure and strip most of the rest away.
Distinctive touch and interesting presentation.
Nice.
Maravilloso uso del color Splendido! Grazie
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.
I’ve just discovered you & can’t wait to see more once I settle in with a freshly brewed cup.
I try and keep them around 6-8 minutes. Just thinking as I read your comment, just about the length of time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
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.💐
Ian...so glad to have found your channel... Your instruction on composition is timely and very useful. Thank you for sharing your talent and time.
You are most welcome and glad you found the videos. All the very best.
Beautiful, beautiful. Really nice.
Beautiful work.
OOOHhhhhh Nice. I like this style.
Very, very helpful, Ian. Thank you for this one! (and all of them)