How to See Like a Painter
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Perhaps the most useful tip to see like a painter is to think less in terms of "subject matter", but to think more in terms of compositional structure and design. Essentially, seeing the big picture first. Then, you're able to simplify the painting and strip everything away that doesn't support the design or composition. I'll show you what I mean in this video.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
So interesting, and so concise. Ian, I have learnt so much from you over the last year or so!
The sketch was as engaging as the painting, which I guess is the point of the video.
Really helpful video Ian - thanks for making everything so clear and simple. Love the painting by the way!
Absolutely beautiful. This is very helpful information. Thank you.
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!!!
Thank you so much, Ian! I am a beginner and your videos are incredibly useful! All the best!
Fantastic. Really helpful. Love the painting you built. Once dry, Will you mount it on a panel?
Amazing work, I just got your book too , I am learning a lot from you, thanks for sharing your wonderful work with us
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 🥰
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! 😉
”Creative Authenticity” is the book! Would be grateful for a close description of the content.
I(Appreciate you Mastering Composition which I bought a year ago)/🌹
Thank you so much Ian.
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.
I realized that you can really make people become aware of where they really are if you do a good job as a painter/drawer.
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.
Amazing, beautiful,so helpfull.Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ,your experience .
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.
Awesome sir.
Such a good way of explaining - thank you!
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
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.
❤️❤️❤️👩🎨🎨🦋 Thank you so much…I begin in peint…I love your explanation.
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!
I really enjoyed watching your videos. I must buy your interesting book. You are a master teacher.:)
Thank you so much!!! New painter here and I found this incredibly helpful.
Hello Ian I’m a subscriber great work. Just wondering ,when not painting in alla prima , much time do you wait for the finish of the final application ?Thank you
green has always been the hardest colour to paint, but you managed to perfect it here. fantastic. PS..if you'd like to offer your theories on why green is more difficult to work with than the other colours (purple excepted perhaps) might make an interesting vid.
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!
Again! Just outstanding insight! Thank you, Sir, for sharing your experience and passion.
Just what I needed. I often tend to add too many details. Your approach will be helpful.Thanks.
So helpful and informative. Thank you!
You are so amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! I big hug! Eliana
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!
I wonder if all humans have some unconscious sense of this composition. And then, the artist makes it manifest? Is there some sort of primal need to visually scan our surroundings and "categorize" or analyze and stow away information that might have been useful tens of thousands of years ago for safety and survival?
Great demonstration the variation of greens…. Love roads in a painting I always learn so much from you. Simplification is my quest.
Thank you, Ian, for another great video tutorial! Very clear and helpful. ❤❤❤
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.
Great information, nicely done. Thank you for sharing it with us. This step is definitely too often overlooked. I will be more intentional.
Thank you so much for all your clear direct videos. The palette lists really help, I was wondering about how you would use your compositional sketches to blend two photographs. For using your photograph and perhaps another of another scene where you might like to include the trees or foliage or building in a different location not in your original photo,
Your videos always bring me clarity. Thank you so much
If we had taken N Tesla serious and valued his genius we would not have telephone poles and intrusive lines........
the ending of the road on the left is like a white arrow taking my eyes OUT of the painting... otherwise, good video and painting... thanks
Thank you, I appreciate so much to look at your painting process! It is so generous of you also to show the colors and how you are mixning them! Love this painting!
I do have you book ”Mastering Composition ” and am thinking of the other book. - Could you, please If possible, just describe a bit more, on your home-page, What it containes?/Kindest regards/🖼
I think there is a pretty good description on Amazon. And a ton of reviews. More about you. What you want to do and say as an artist. And how.
I paint & write muy twiliught images & senarios with my newfound style, SECTIONALISM, - a way tell my story with "
chaptures" - TNX 4 your "tips" along my journey...
Delighted you found it helpful.
Another home run, Ian. What a great synopsis on composition, design and simplification. Once again, “shapes, not things.”
Brilliant. Thank you very much for sharing 🙏
So much makes sense that did not gel before! Your explanations are down to earth and easy to follow.
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.
hey ian,thank you verry mutch .i learn everry day to paint in to manny manny ways to understand ,what we humenbean are.but evvery day i paint,i cams closer to understand hau manny things i not can.but the biggest problem in painting is the time.it is verry hart to understand .thank you
WOW! What an eye opener, thank you sooo much!
great book great video thank you Ian
your videos are very relaxing and helpful while also still being very engaging
very very helpful, very engaging..... thank you. I am just a beginner.....thank you, in humility.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for another great video! Very informative!
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Grateful. Painter or teacher? I say Master. Very masterful.
Fantastic demonstration and lesson! Thank you Ian. Well wishes for you and yours. 🧡🧡🧡
You are very welcome
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.
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!
Brillient video. Thank you. I wonder how you deal with this subject if ever you respond to urbane landscape??
I find living in the city (LA) I tend to want to paint the country. Not for any good reason really. Just what attracts me.
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 always benefit from your videos but this one is fabulous for me!
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!
What a pity that the book Mastering Composition has never been published in Russia. Now, thanks to our president, the book cannot be ordered from Amazon :(
sorry to hear that. It was printed in Chinese at one point I think. But basically just English. Best wishes.
NIIIICE! so painterly and fresh!
This one ,I really liked and as a watercoor artist, what a exciting one to try out
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.
The finished work is very beautiful ❤
Hi Ian, great video, thanks! Quick question - was this done in acrylic or oil? I've always thought you painted in Oil but when you said that at the start of the 2nd day that the painting was dry... well, if it's oil, how did you get it to be dry in one day? I paint with watercolour but am venturing into acrylic's and into oils. My oils often take a good 5 days to be totally dry. Would you please clarify, if you have a chance.
HI Janet, glad you enjoyed the video. By next day I meant the next time I painted. So yes I paint in oils and i would have waited 2 days, meaning paint layer one Tuesday say, I painted again on it Thursday and it was dry to the touch. I put it out in the sun in LA if that seems fast.
Thank you! Like.
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!
Wonderful ❤ loved how you explained the entire process. Many thanks
Delighted you found it useful.
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
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
Another wonderful video! So helpful.
Thank you so much for your lesson. Beautiful
Fantastic advice. Thank you!
Great stuff. Thanks! Do you usually go back and add more detail or do you consider this finished?
This one was pretty much finished after the second pass. I'll look at it and make a mark here and a mark there sometimes if an edge feels too strong but it isn't about more detail.
Hugely inspiring! thank you
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
I think you is just fantastik skilld painter😊
Great video, Ian. Your painting came out really nice. I so enjoy and learn from all you offer in these videos. Stay well. g
Thanks Gayle
Your lessons are very helpful. Thank you!
This is a super helpful video. For a start it reminds me to stop agonizing over detail. Your book is amazing also.!!
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous ! Thank you so much! Loooove it!
Oops audio is not ok, very distant. By the way, I enjoyed your book very much.
It's true the audio was echoey this time. I didn't notice it until too late. Glad you enjoyed the book.
Great! I enjoyed it very much.
When you are painting on loose canvas like that, how do you go about putting it on a frame afterwards? Or do you even use a frame at all? Because I would imagine that a painted loose canvas that is then stretched would cause the paint to crack
I leave enough canvas that I can stretch it if I want and then stretched it can be framed easily. If you fold the canvas obviously it will crease the painting and ruin it. But as long as you don't the stretching isn't so rigorous that it will damage or crack the paint suface.