OIL PAINTING TIP: Should you blend!?
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- I get into the weeds on Oil Paintings most controversial topic: Blending!! Should you? Shouldn't you? If so . . . how!? I also lay out some painting exercises that could be helpful if you dare practice the forbidden art of blending.
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Took me about 10 years to finally accept that I’m a blender and that it’s ok to be a blender. Thanks for the video!
Saying that blending is a bad thing in oil painting is like saying that Spagetti sauce without mushrooms is a bad sauce. Their Conservatism IS the bad thing. Great video! I learn a lot from you.
Hi Scott. You are defenitly my favorite teacher. About blending issue, I studied some classical paintings ( Kaufmann, Poussin, Vermeer) I noticed that the faces are most often blended but not the draperies/clothes. They added light impasto highlights. That makes it more spontaneus and gives more texture to the form. Some modern painters using flemish method over blend and their glasing colors are too pale. It has no substance and their draperies look like Jello... very strange. Your work is soo perferct, like Bouguereau. Your faces look like angels. And although it seems very photographic, when I compare your paintings to your models they are very different.
Some of your intros are silly and hilarious, Scott!
I believe that blending is just a matter of personal preference :) Love your work
I'm a fan of your work 😍💕
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I really appreciate your defense of blending but I most appreciate how you break down how blending is done with thought and care! In the beginning I couldn’t help but want to give ya a big hug and tell you don’t give up!- you had that look of defeat; was there a project that was kicking your butt?
I'm a digital artist and I blend (smudge) the bajeezus out of everything... And I have no shame about it. Literally feels like sculpting I love it.
Great teacher...
When said blend shaming I lost it lol. What saves your soul is that you teach actual blocking the drawing rather than tracing :). Seriously though, this topic reminds me the black pigment thing. I've seen countless times people advocating not using black, especially beginners who are just repeating what they heard somewhere else without even making experiments or trying out things. And when you see their artwork it's far, far away from a Sargent, a Zorn etc. The whole thing about blending is precisely because a beginner have NOT developed the sense of form therefore it could be harmful blending all the way through. Same goes with the dangers of black (with undeveloped sense of color) or tracing when an artist have not developed their sense of proportion, measurements etc.
Thank you Scott🙏 you are Da Man!!😜 please say howdy to Leah, Ewan and Tom who’s attending your tutorial in Edinburgh. I had the good fortune of spending 2 years there.
Have a great day!!🤩
Your results speak for themselves. You do you. No need to defend perfection. Can't think of anyone who can top your process. However you do that, I wanna learn how!
I finally understood how to blend. Thank you!
Scott, I am all in favour of blending. It produces a much more realistic effect. I use it all the time in my own paintings. Thank you for sharing your techniques for successful blending. Your paintings are truly amazing. Thank you. ✌️😳👍
I love the way you explained the blending process! I needed this over-lapping then kind of shingling of the graduation of color shifting tiles. It is a great approach and a control I like. 3D the form by not over-blending the shifts too aggressively but delicately!
The old masters blended all the time. It wasn't until Impressionism made the scene that people began questioning it.
Finally a video without background music. Thumbs up just for this.
I feel that sometimes artists take preferences of how to approach painting and make them sound like that's a universal rule and everything else is wrong. I love blending
Thank you for that good explanation. I think you're a good teacher
Blending is in part just mixing on the canvas instead of the palette.
Great video, I’m coming out as a blender, and tossing away the guilt from all the videos I’ve watched that tell me I shouldn’t. Thank you.
"Blending makes you a bad person" 😂😂😂 that's definitely the impression I got from other oil painting videos! Blending was the reason I wanted to get into oils in the first place!
This was exactly what I needed to hear. I just finished a self portrait and this video makes me want to go back to it before adding varnish.
I think one of the hardest things in oil painting for me has been brushwork. By that I mean trying to retain vitality and gesture in some areas, yet refining certain parts enough to be realistic.
Some questions i have asked myself that may be relatable are:
"How smooth to how impasto should I make it in a particular area?"
"How do I strike the balance between gestural, abstracted form, and transition into refined detail?" Another way of phrasing that may be, "how do I retain the loose, sculptural quality of earlier direct painting and still push some areas to refinement?"
I felt like I always had to use flats and Filbert, and trying to allow myself to push paint around rather than "get the perfect stroke on the first try" like Sargent, has been a hard thing to reconcile stylistically. I think I always wanted to paint more like you but the school I went to favored a slightly impressionistic direct-painting method, like Zin Lim.
That was a ramble but thank you for your videos, they inspire me a lot.
I don’t see the problem with blending, I think it all comes down to a matter of personal taste.
great video!! i love the mix of instruction and humour :))
This obsession about the absolute need to avoid blending (I’m not talking about over-blending, when you end up with a mess/muddy colors) is total bulls*it. I hate it. What matters is the final outcome, and many great Masters were “blenders”. I blend, sometimes I don’t. The only one rule I follow is to keep the values right and play on the edges. The rest is consequential.
Well said! 👍
Absolutely right
Living master. Awesome video!
So very helpful! Thank you!
Great stuff. Thanks!
I need to study more about oil painting and im in 2 imonths in oil painting
Scott you are great! Too bad that your videos on youtube do not have the possibility of an automatic translator in the various languages (including Italian) ... I have serious difficulty in understanding some passages. I hope you want to solve this problem as soon as possible. Thanks again for your valuable teachings. ;-)
Great tips. Thanks
You have no idea how long I tried to look for proper blending tutorials. Maybe that's on my end, but regardless, your videos are really helpful.
Thanks really for the video and against the general ipocrisy that there Is often on web, all Artist that Say dont blend...they know how to Do It, but dont share, you showed and very clear, thanks really, best
Great video and advice
Fantastic, I don't see many faces or bodies with right angles so I must have a transition and then I have to blend...
i like blending i tried other techniques but blending suits my style best.
Eres un gran maestro y deberías expandir tu sabiduría en todos los idiomas!!!!😉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
appreciate all of your videos - you're my #1 resource for learning how to paint better, thank you!!
Thanks!
These are the kind of same people who say "dont play bass with a pick" i ignore them. Use whatever technique you wish as long as understood to a level you need to
You are really a great teacher in oil portrait painting.. i learned a lot from you.. thats why i follow you.. i want to learn more from you
You are awesome in technique as well as instruction! Thank you!
Thank you sm that helps alot
Videos that feels that I need to pay. You´re awesome.
you have a great channel, thank you for your effort and talent!
Excellent advice. Thanks. I don't know why, but this reminded me of the RUclips channel, Blendtec's Will It Blend. Your method seems much more refined. Thanks again.
I've been waiting for this video! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!
Sir, your class is very simple, effective, gave me confidence to do blending and it works 100%, thank you Sir for your content oriented videos....
Amazing artwork, great teacher Sir. Very nice arts 🎨👍😍🇵🇭
blending is my frenn
Thank you very much for this great video. Love your work.
Love this video 😁 thank you!
Ain’t nobody got no time for blend shaming! Hahahah!
good advice thankyou.
I've never liked the look of non-blended portraits. Only landscapes ever looked good to me without blending. I guess I never preferred a hybrid of photorealism and semi-realism when it comes to people. It gives me a borderline uncanny valley vibe.
Thank you
Thanks, You Just resolved so many doubts! Please could you do a Little tutorial of conceptual drawing pencil sphere? I know that there Is possibility to render without using blending stumps, Just pencil, best
Hii Sir I always like patch work but if you want to earn commision work you have to show blending trick of colours which shows depth to clients customer s
Is there a difference between blending light to dark and blending dark to light?
Better dark to light imo White Milk S the shdows nd its better to be careful
Sarebbe bello avere la possibilità di leggere i sottotitoli in italiano🙏🏼
Wow your Amazing..very glad to Find you💕
stay connected ❤️
There’s no rules in painting - Bob Ross
When you say you wipe your brush on a paper towel.....and turps?
Por favor 🙏🏻 pon subtítulos en español 🇪🇸
I prefer to watch a paint perfectly blended.If I start painting I will probably do the blending not an impressionist or figurative type, you blend wet on wet and dry on wet, but I have to tell that blending skin on men portraits look a little weird, the lack of pores and rough skin is not very believable. for women is great.
Beautiful! Except that, hmm, don't you lose a lot of time when you're not finishing the clear tones before you apply the darkest (like watercolour and acrylic order) ?!?!? Not academic at all!?!?!
Hola me gustaria que lo traduscas al castellano quisiera aprender es hermoso lo que haces😘
Impressionists don't blend. Realist paintings need blending. Two different styles, two different methods.
Love love loveeeeeeee
Saying "Don't blend your oil painting." is like saying "Only paint horses."... Paint how you like and what you like, it's art not mathematics.
What brand Round brushes do you use?
You're just a shameless blender Scott 😂😂
Hello.
Sorry.What is your canvas brand?
Blending makes you a worse person?
You're a bad person Scott? Do you have a linseed problem? There are support groups for that. I'm a blender as well.
blend shaming lmao
Am i the only one who barely can understand the man?
Yes
The problem I see in your paintings, Scott, despite your undeniable skills, is that you approach any subjects (faces, clothes...) as if they were made all of the same material. Also you often fail to describe some of the numerous tiny, random variations of hue and tone on the skin that make a portrait look believable - for instance, the foreheads of most of your models, whether they are 20yo or 70yo are described as one would describe a monochromatic plastic spheroid.