I really appreciate every single comment. Thank you. And I read them all. In the past I've also answered them all. Given how much the channel has grown, answering them all is proving a bit daunting. Going forward know that I will continue to read them all. I really enjoy your comments. If there is a question or comment that might be interesting in a way that is generally helpful I will continue to answer those. But please do know that I read all your comments and appreciate them. Thank you and best wishes.
After watching many of your compositional videos, I have noticed that the way I view the world has changed. I’ve painted in watercolor for decades, so my sense of color and value is pretty well tuned, but now every where I go, I mentally compose pictures from landscapes to cityscapes to people doing activities. I’ve even become very aware of how movies are filmed to get the best composition to catch the viewer’s eye. I just watched the Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power filmed in New Zealand…the videographers are certainly masters of their craft. The whole time viewing, I was mentally composing paintings based on what I learned from you. Thank you…you have made my life more enjoyable😍
Thanks so much for sharing that with me Leila. I watched a film last year called The Dig that it seemed every scene was so considered in terms of composition. Best wishes
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Have to agree on that. I’ve been on digs. In that film they took an isolated element and transformed it into a world. It was impressive.
You are a master artist and a master teacher. Thanks again for another act of generosity, sharing your talents and what goes on behind the eyelids. 🧠 Thank you!
Your videos always hold such gems of information Ian. Sometimes its a reminder of a concept/idea previously known yet I've forgotten how important it is to remember to remember it, or sometimes it's a totally new-to-me gem. Your videos are little treasures, especially in the context of the pressure these days for us painters to be film makers too and produce a slick, quick, attention getting, "junk food" like reel to feed the social media gods. Whereas your videos are like "whole foods", making me just want to sit down with a nice cup of coffee and take the time to thoroughly drink in and digest your informative, helpful and enjoyable content. I do have both your books and pull them out over and over. Oh, and lovely painting too!
Hi Julie, thank you for equating my videos with whole food. I too find it so easy to let my attention get distracted by youtube analytics. But I think what I have to say it pretty much decided so I don't stray looking for more.
I am an artist that loves watercolor, photography, digital art, and zentangle. Your instruction on composition really resonates with me. In zentangle, there is a “string” that serves as a structure to the finished piece. After watching you, I feel I could do a lot more with this string in terms of movement and direction leading to a center of interest. Thank you, and please keep sharing your videos. 🎨🖌️🖼️
This video ended with me gazing out my window on the scene I look at every day. I have wanted to paint it - an alley - but wanted it to look more “back yard”. Watching how you just eliminated elements instantly guided how I was looking at this site. The details often drag me down a rabbit hole. Your recomposing of a scene, drawing on the bones or architectural design elements, has influenced my way of seeing. What power you have and have given us! 😉
Thank you once again Ian, I have watched your videos for many years now and have purchased several of them. You are so giving and a wonderful teacher. Good on you mate
Allow me to join the chorus, you are an excellent teacher. When you first put up your photo I was struck by the shape of the distant trees, I saw the wind in them pulling them to one side...but you elected to draw them and paint them straight up and down. I would have left that wind in....but we're all different, and that's what makes painting exciting. Thanks for the lesson.
Even as someone doing large format pinhole photography instead of painting, I find your videos very instructive! While I can't leave out things that are there, it helps to get a better sense of what the important elements of a scene are. Pinhole photography has some slight similarities with painting, as it smoothes out many small details and forces to simplify the composition.
Oh it’s so good to be back and listen and watch your very very helpful videos. I love how you delineate the composition at the very beginning and walk us through all the next steps. I also admire your colour mixing skills 👏🙌🏻👏 your way of teaching is kind and encouraging. Have a wonderful day Ian!
I cannot express in words the value of your tutorials. They have helped me see things in a more concise manner, and my drawing has improved vastly as a result of your instruction. Thankyou so much for all that you share with us.
Hi Ian ! It is always a pleasure to get your much awaited monthly video ! Thank you for adding your pencil sketches which I never get tired of seeing !! I am blown away everytime ?😁 I enjoy and appreciate your explanation which is always to the point and in so much detail. I send you my sincerest thanks and blessing to You and your lovely wife Anne. Warmest regards....Lorraine 🤗🎨😁
This is again a very useful and instructive video of a great landscape painting of yours. What I found particularly useful this time is how you showed very clearly till what stage you had reached at the end of the first day, before finishing off the painting. Thanks again for the inspiration!
A very helpful tutorial that simplifies what the artist should see first. This relieves the tension the every single detail would add to at first sight. Thanks again Ian !
Love yr work. Thank you for the way you break it all down. I wasn’t lucky enough to do art at school, was a young mum. Went to uni at 32 to do nursing & had a fulfilling career until Ill health struck home. So now at 62 decided to eat, breath & follow anything so I could to learn about Art. I Thought it would just be a few acrylic pours & abstract paintings….easy right! anyone can do it! No. I started learning about composition with abstract….heck theres a lot to it…I could not just put paint to paper….I needed to understand it Then I met you… love your style….now composition is making sense ( slowly). I just brought your book as well. Thanks again. Look forward to more info 😁
I live in France and I am surrounded by beautiful light and landscapes and I have long been wanting to start painting landscapes in oil. Thinking now is the time to start this journey, I stumbled across your tutorial. It is so clean and simple to follow! You really are able to transmit your confidence to the watcher! I love your style too!
I listened to your interview in the Learn to Paint podcast and I was intrigued by the way you explained the relevance of composition in a painting. This video and the clear, concrete, example you used, helped me understand much better how to think about composition. Thanks so much, this was super helpful!
I really appreciate your style and approach to painting and teaching. Showing us your attention to design is so helpful. One thing I need to do is to create thumbnails to work out the composition. I've tended to want to rush the process, to sketch on the canvas and get on with get the painting. I see the value now in taking a bit of time up front to plan the frame and make important decisions. Thank you for sharing your artistic wisdom!
I'm so glad I found your channel. I've always drawed and painted intuitively and your process is so simplified and refreshing, I feel like it has made everything easier for me. I even want to paint now, but using "your method". Love this, I just realized how much I complicate things because I always focus on the details throughout my paintings. Sir you put the fun back in painting because it's almost like I start things off already stressed out. I'm so stiff in my mind despite my brushwork seeming "free"... I'm a graphic designer and I admit, I've always thought about painting as a separate thing from design, but now, after watching your videos it seems kind of silly. It's also great that you read most of the comments. Greetings all the way from Portugal! :)
This looks like a scene in Northern California where I live. Now I am inspired to drive around and see what designs I can find. I loved watching you paint!
Thank you Ian for the lesson! You make me look at painting more professional every time. Thus, you support my creative work at professional level. I've learned a lot from you.
This one was magic! Great painting, and great reminder to sketch out the design first. Learned that the hard way this weekend working on a large piece without a roadmap first.
This is a great video!! I'd love to see more like this, where you give examples of how you identify a scene to paint. You're incredibly helpful, and I always want to walk into your paintings!!!
"Painting to design first." Oh, so that's how it's done! Fantastic demonstration of color choices, shapes, placement of them, and their interaction with each other, basically.
I have learned so much from how you teach our eye to view the essence of what is actually fascinating our mind/ heart . You instinctively teach us - The universal rule of beauty- the golden ratio - balanced relationship that the mind's eye loves! Thank You ♥
Watching this morning before heading out with the plein air group - so helpful. Thank you Ian! So many good reminders for how to start your plein air paintings….😊ps….the cows are feeling a tad slighted!😂 Have a great day!
Following your advice by setting up the composition - the basic form of the work I had already envisioned, and it is solid enough in many ways to begin a drawing. I love your drawings - so different and elegant in contrast to how I drew. Here goes...💐
I’m stealing the analogy of “ coming in from the backside” - it really speaks to finding the skeleton or structure to hang an idea on. When painting outside sometimes it’s hard to get someone to see shapes, so I think this will be helpful!
Really clear communication, one of my favourite RUclips painting instructors. Every time I think “I’ll remember that for next time”! I’ll have to put your book on my wish list.
I seen recently for the 1st time what your talking about. At first the beautiful scene is what caught my eye, not long after I began to see the design. It was winter trees, with repetitive V shapes, some were distorted V shapes, but they were repeated everywhere. It was really exciting when I saw the design of the composition and not just a scene.
Love how you simplified eliminating unessential elements of the scene. How you direct the focus to the center of interest, love the whole process. Thank you. This will help me see better!!
Another great lesson. This video could be the promo piece for the philosophy of your book and courses, but it works as an effective reinforcement/reminder for those of us lucky enough to have read your book and taken your courses too!
I loved watching you construct this painting and mixing the colors. The finished painting is awesome. Country roads are among my favorite subjects. Thank you.
Lovely painting. It is interesting how painters can see a much better reality than the scene before them. You did just that with great subtractions and abstractions. Thanks for the great video.
Your videos are so incredibly helpful for a beginner like me. I tend to get stuck in the details. Now I am really working on recognizing structure first. I have already seen a difference in how I look at the world. With many other instructors out there on the internet I get discouraged by the things I don't yet know and can't yet do. In contrast, your videos have given me the confidence to overcome empty canvas anxiety and really start practicing the skills you teach. I am a long way from calling myself an artist, but thanks to you, I have found the courage to paint again and improve upon my skills.
It convinced me and I was very impressed with your work. I don't think so clearly when I draw and change while drawing. I'm really impressed! Please continue! May God watch over you and keep your health and work!
An excellent painting. There are occasions when nature provides an almost perfect composition and this one certainly is one. The handling seems to be just right to express what you want to say. Many thanks.
Thank you for your lessons. I did my first one following your video the other week and I’m really having a hard time with the greenery. I’ll keep trying until I get this right. Thank you!
I love how you simplified the painting from the photo you took! Those shapes that you pointed out truly make it interesting! I will be honest I do the exact opposite most of the time (I like complexity) but I do agree 100% on how you explained that we as artist can pick and choose what we keep from the photo in the end if it helps with making a better composition!
Love it! So helpful to see step by step, and what you edited out to make the painting stronger. So often I get hung up on “getting everything in”…seeing this reminds me “less is often more”.. thanks!
YES!! I've always been a huge fan of the 'subtractive' process! A graphic designer, I approach most art projects this way..Find the overall composition-design- in the landscape first..making many thumbnail sketches..then commit the design to my canvas.. slowing adding only needed details.. a much more minimalist approach to oil painting which I love.
I always loved having graphic designers as students on workshops. Because they get the idea of a big idea. Of design. It's the essence of what has to be on the page, so it is not a big stretch to translate that to a canvas.
I really appreciate every single comment. Thank you. And I read them all. In the past I've also answered them all. Given how much the channel has grown, answering them all is proving a bit daunting. Going forward know that I will continue to read them all. I really enjoy your comments. If there is a question or comment that might be interesting in a way that is generally helpful I will continue to answer those. But please do know that I read all your comments and appreciate them. Thank you and best wishes.
Thanks for all you do!
One of the best on-line instructors in oil painting. Keep 'em coming, Ian.
Thank you Edward. I appreciate your telling me. All the best
After watching many of your compositional videos, I have noticed that the way I view the world has changed. I’ve painted in watercolor for decades, so my sense of color and value is pretty well tuned, but now every where I go, I mentally compose pictures from landscapes to cityscapes to people doing activities. I’ve even become very aware of how movies are filmed to get the best composition to catch the viewer’s eye. I just watched the Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power filmed in New Zealand…the videographers are certainly masters of their craft. The whole time viewing, I was mentally composing paintings based on what I learned from you. Thank you…you have made my life more enjoyable😍
Thanks so much for sharing that with me Leila. I watched a film last year called The Dig that it seemed every scene was so considered in terms of composition. Best wishes
Glad you are seeing more in terms of shapes and designs too Max. All the best
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Have to agree on that. I’ve been on digs. In that film they took an isolated element and transformed it into a world. It was impressive.
Ian, you are a highly effective communicator. When viewing other well-intentioned instructors, I come to appreciate your work even more.
You're a prince Ivan.
Thank you so much Ian.
You are a master artist and a master teacher. Thanks again for another act of generosity, sharing your talents and what goes on behind the eyelids. 🧠 Thank you!
Your videos always hold such gems of information Ian. Sometimes its a reminder of a concept/idea previously known yet I've forgotten how important it is to remember to remember it, or sometimes it's a totally new-to-me gem. Your videos are little treasures, especially in the context of the pressure these days for us painters to be film makers too and produce a slick, quick, attention getting, "junk food" like reel to feed the social media gods. Whereas your videos are like "whole foods", making me just want to sit down with a nice cup of coffee and take the time to thoroughly drink in and digest your informative, helpful and enjoyable content. I do have both your books and pull them out over and over. Oh, and lovely painting too!
Hi Julie, thank you for equating my videos with whole food. I too find it so easy to let my attention get distracted by youtube analytics. But I think what I have to say it pretty much decided so I don't stray looking for more.
I think the secret is just to love "painting" then we will see entire life in paintings visions.
I love what you do ... from algeria
The grasses are so full of vibrancy in such simplistic way!!!! Unbelieavable!!💚
Thank you for your videos! I’m not that proficient but even listening to it casually I feel like I’m learning a lot. Cheers!
I am an artist that loves watercolor, photography, digital art, and zentangle. Your instruction on composition really resonates with me. In zentangle, there is a “string” that serves as a structure to the finished piece. After watching you, I feel I could do a lot more with this string in terms of movement and direction leading to a center of interest. Thank you, and please keep sharing your videos. 🎨🖌️🖼️
Delighted you found it useful!
This video ended with me gazing out my window on the scene I look at every day. I have wanted to paint it - an alley - but wanted it to look more “back yard”. Watching how you just eliminated elements instantly guided how I was looking at this site. The details often drag me down a rabbit hole. Your recomposing of a scene, drawing on the bones or architectural design elements, has influenced my way of seeing. What power you have and have given us! 😉
Thank you once again Ian, I have watched your videos for many years now and have purchased several of them. You are so giving and a wonderful teacher. Good on you mate
You are very welcome
Allow me to join the chorus, you are an excellent teacher. When you first put up your photo I was struck by the shape of the distant trees, I saw the wind in them pulling them to one side...but you elected to draw them and paint them straight up and down. I would have left that wind in....but we're all different, and that's what makes painting exciting. Thanks for the lesson.
Even as someone doing large format pinhole photography instead of painting, I find your videos very instructive! While I can't leave out things that are there, it helps to get a better sense of what the important elements of a scene are. Pinhole photography has some slight similarities with painting, as it smoothes out many small details and forces to simplify the composition.
Sounds interesting Christian. Good luck.
So interesting, and so concise. Ian, I have learnt so much from you over the last year or so!
Oh it’s so good to be back and listen and watch your very very helpful videos. I love how you delineate the composition at the very beginning and walk us through all the next steps. I also admire your colour mixing skills 👏🙌🏻👏 your way of teaching is kind and encouraging. Have a wonderful day Ian!
I cannot express in words the value of your tutorials. They have helped me see things in a more concise manner, and my drawing has improved vastly as a result of your instruction. Thankyou so much for all that you share with us.
Wow, thank you!
Hi Ian ! It is always a pleasure to get your much awaited monthly video ! Thank you for adding your pencil sketches which I never get tired of seeing !! I am blown away everytime ?😁 I enjoy and appreciate your explanation which is always to the point and in so much detail. I send you my sincerest thanks and blessing to You and your lovely wife Anne. Warmest regards....Lorraine 🤗🎨😁
Thank you so much
Another great video. A bit silly but it gives me a great comfort knowing that Ian is also left-handed 👍😊
This is again a very useful and instructive video of a great landscape painting of yours. What I found particularly useful this time is how you showed very clearly till what stage you had reached at the end of the first day, before finishing off the painting. Thanks again for the inspiration!
Glad it was helpful Rafael.
Awesome sir.
A very helpful tutorial that simplifies what the artist should see first. This relieves the tension the every single detail would add to at first sight. Thanks again Ian !
Love yr work. Thank you for the way you break it all down. I wasn’t lucky enough to do art at school, was a young mum. Went to uni at 32 to do nursing & had a fulfilling career until Ill health struck home. So now at 62 decided to eat, breath & follow anything so I could to learn about Art. I Thought it would just be a few acrylic pours & abstract paintings….easy right! anyone can do it! No. I started learning about composition with abstract….heck theres a lot to it…I could not just put paint to paper….I needed to understand it
Then I met you… love your style….now composition is making sense ( slowly). I just brought your book as well. Thanks again. Look forward to more info 😁
Hi Anita, Lovely story and my very best wishes for your artistic journey.
I live in France and I am surrounded by beautiful light and landscapes and I have long been wanting to start painting landscapes in oil. Thinking now is the time to start this journey, I stumbled across your tutorial. It is so clean and simple to follow! You really are able to transmit your confidence to the watcher! I love your style too!
Ian, your demos are an incredible gift to your audience. Many thanks. Jane
Thanks Jane. Nice to hear from you
Thank you.
I listened to your interview in the Learn to Paint podcast and I was intrigued by the way you explained the relevance of composition in a painting. This video and the clear, concrete, example you used, helped me understand much better how to think about composition. Thanks so much, this was super helpful!
I really appreciate your style and approach to painting and teaching. Showing us your attention to design is so helpful. One thing I need to do is to create thumbnails to work out the composition. I've tended to want to rush the process, to sketch on the canvas and get on with get the painting. I see the value now in taking a bit of time up front to plan the frame and make important decisions. Thank you for sharing your artistic wisdom!
I just think it makes more sense to have a roadmap before heading out on the journey. Best wishes
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition I agree. Great advice. Thank you so much!
For those whom are interested, i got the book, and its a gold mine of information. Thanks M. Roberts.
Delighted that you found it helpful
I'm so glad I found your channel. I've always drawed and painted intuitively and your process is so simplified and refreshing, I feel like it has made everything easier for me. I even want to paint now, but using "your method". Love this, I just realized how much I complicate things because I always focus on the details throughout my paintings. Sir you put the fun back in painting because it's almost like I start things off already stressed out. I'm so stiff in my mind despite my brushwork seeming "free"... I'm a graphic designer and I admit, I've always thought about painting as a separate thing from design, but now, after watching your videos it seems kind of silly. It's also great that you read most of the comments. Greetings all the way from Portugal! :)
Absolutely beautiful. This is very helpful information. Thank you.
Thank you. I took a picture of a scene with this style of information and did not know what to do with it. You answered every question.
Working with all those greens was terrific. Nicely designed, also.
Soooo beautiful! Every step makes sense. I live in Northern California and you’ve captured a scene I might drive by. Thank you very helpful!
This looks like a scene in Northern California where I live. Now I am inspired to drive around and see what designs I can find. I loved watching you paint!
Yes Sherry. See what you can find. So much up there. All the best
I have read that book from cover to cover, and these videos augment the book and bring it to life. Thank you!
Delighted that you found it helpful, Jane
Thank you Ian for the lesson! You make me look at painting more professional every time. Thus, you support my creative work at professional level. I've learned a lot from you.
Your painting is beautiful. I’ve often wondered, what to look for when taking pictures for my own paintings. This is great help. Thank you. Julie 🥰
Another home run, Ian. What a great synopsis on composition, design and simplification. Once again, “shapes, not things.”
This one was magic! Great painting, and great reminder to sketch out the design first. Learned that the hard way this weekend working on a large piece without a roadmap first.
This is a great video!! I'd love to see more like this, where you give examples of how you identify a scene to paint. You're incredibly helpful, and I always want to walk into your paintings!!!
I'll maybe see if I can do a video just on that. Finding the image.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thank you!!!
"Painting to design first." Oh, so that's how it's done! Fantastic demonstration of color choices, shapes, placement of them, and their interaction with each other, basically.
I have learned so much from how you teach our eye to view the essence of what is actually fascinating our mind/ heart . You instinctively teach us - The universal rule of beauty- the golden ratio - balanced relationship that the mind's eye loves! Thank You ♥
So much makes sense that did not gel before! Your explanations are down to earth and easy to follow.
Really helpful video Ian - thanks for making everything so clear and simple. Love the painting by the way!
It looks so easy when you're painting. I'm very attached to details and need to free myself from them. Your paintings are wonderful!
Oh my! Things seem so easy when I watch your videos… I love it ! Thank you !!!
Thank you so much! Once again, another excellent lesson.! I cannot get enough of hearing, "Simplify" !
Thank you so much, Ian! I am a beginner and your videos are incredibly useful! All the best!
Watching this morning before heading out with the plein air group - so helpful. Thank you Ian! So many good reminders for how to start your plein air paintings….😊ps….the cows are feeling a tad slighted!😂 Have a great day!
Following your advice by setting up the composition - the basic form of the work I had already envisioned, and it is solid enough in many ways to begin a drawing. I love your drawings - so different and elegant in contrast to how I drew. Here goes...💐
Glad it was helpful!
Such a good way of explaining - thank you!
I’m stealing the analogy of “ coming in from the backside” - it really speaks to finding the skeleton or structure to hang an idea on. When painting outside sometimes it’s hard to get someone to see shapes, so I think this will be helpful!
Glad that was helpful Liese.
Really clear communication, one of my favourite RUclips painting instructors. Every time I think “I’ll remember that for next time”! I’ll have to put your book on my wish list.
WOW! What an eye opener, thank you sooo much!
great book great video thank you Ian
I seen recently for the 1st time what your talking about. At first the beautiful scene is what caught my eye, not long after I began to see the design. It was winter trees, with repetitive V shapes, some were distorted V shapes, but they were repeated everywhere. It was really exciting when I saw the design of the composition and not just a scene.
Nice to hear you're seeing the design. Onward.
Love how you simplified eliminating unessential elements of the scene. How you direct the focus to the center of interest, love the whole process. Thank you. This will help me see better!!
Fantastic demonstration and lesson! Thank you Ian. Well wishes for you and yours. 🧡🧡🧡
You are very welcome
Ian, you are an awesome educator. I have your book and watching your videos live helps with better understanding.
I'm so glad you find it helpful!
Those first words …. To c the picture from the back…. That was an EXCELLENT advice bcz the emotion will be easier to get in the painting
I don't know how to paint, but I just love watching your videos. Some of the painting ideas could be applied to other areas too.
Just what I needed. I often tend to add too many details. Your approach will be helpful.Thanks.
This is exactly the video I needed as I go out and design my next painting! Thank you, Ian.
I'm delighted you found it helpful.
Great demonstration the variation of greens…. Love roads in a painting I always learn so much from you. Simplification is my quest.
Another great lesson. This video could be the promo piece for the philosophy of your book and courses, but it works as an effective reinforcement/reminder for those of us lucky enough to have read your book and taken your courses too!
Thanks Joe. All the best
Brilliant! Thanks for these lessons that helpfully simplify it all!! 🙏👍
your videos are very relaxing and helpful while also still being very engaging
I loved watching you construct this painting and mixing the colors. The finished painting is awesome. Country roads are among my favorite subjects. Thank you.
Another useful reminder of how to approach the start of a painting. Thank you, Ian.
Amazing work, I just got your book too , I am learning a lot from you, thanks for sharing your wonderful work with us
Your videos always bring me clarity. Thank you so much
Thank you so much!!! New painter here and I found this incredibly helpful.
Lovely painting. It is interesting how painters can see a much better reality than the scene before them. You did just that with great subtractions and abstractions. Thanks for the great video.
Your color harmony is so lovely.
I love that you included some of the mixing process it is educational.
Your videos are so incredibly helpful for a beginner like me. I tend to get stuck in the details. Now I am really working on recognizing structure first. I have already seen a difference in how I look at the world. With many other instructors out there on the internet I get discouraged by the things I don't yet know and can't yet do. In contrast, your videos have given me the confidence to overcome empty canvas anxiety and really start practicing the skills you teach. I am a long way from calling myself an artist, but thanks to you, I have found the courage to paint again and improve upon my skills.
It convinced me and I was very impressed with your work. I don't think so clearly when I draw and change while drawing. I'm really impressed! Please continue! May God watch over you and keep your health and work!
Thanks Kate.
I really like the way you simplify things. Its so good to watch you work
So helpful and informative. Thank you!
Again! Just outstanding insight! Thank you, Sir, for sharing your experience and passion.
I value your instruction, Ian. Each time I gain insight and new techniques. Keep hammering home Mastering Composition which I find inspiring.
Another strong video Ian. I find that I go home every time I hear and see your videos.
Hope to get back to painting soon.
Thanks Candice
An excellent painting. There are occasions when nature provides an almost perfect composition and this one certainly is one.
The handling seems to be just right to express what you want to say.
Many thanks.
Your paintings really touch me.
I'm so glad you like them.
Thanks Ian
I learned a lot from your demos. It's also very useful for Aquarel paintings. I'm new in this art world.
Thank you, Ian, for another great video tutorial! Very clear and helpful. ❤❤❤
❤️❤️❤️👩🎨🎨🦋 Thank you so much…I begin in peint…I love your explanation.
Thank you for your lessons. I did my first one following your video the other week and I’m really having a hard time with the greenery. I’ll keep trying until I get this right. Thank you!
The finished work is very beautiful ❤
You’re a legend Ian, most helpful instructor I’ve watched
Thank you sir.
I love how you simplified the painting from the photo you took! Those shapes that you pointed out truly make it interesting! I will be honest I do the exact opposite most of the time (I like complexity) but I do agree 100% on how you explained that we as artist can pick and choose what we keep from the photo in the end if it helps with making a better composition!
Love it! So helpful to see step by step, and what you edited out to make the painting stronger. So often I get hung up on “getting everything in”…seeing this reminds me “less is often more”.. thanks!
This one ,I really liked and as a watercoor artist, what a exciting one to try out
YES!! I've always been a huge fan of the 'subtractive' process! A graphic designer, I approach most art projects this way..Find the overall composition-design- in the landscape first..making many thumbnail sketches..then commit the design to my canvas.. slowing adding only needed details.. a much more minimalist approach to oil painting which I love.
I always loved having graphic designers as students on workshops. Because they get the idea of a big idea. Of design. It's the essence of what has to be on the page, so it is not a big stretch to translate that to a canvas.
I always benefit from your videos but this one is fabulous for me!
Thank You, Ian.
You are so amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! I big hug! Eliana
NIIIICE! so painterly and fresh!