Routines and Practices
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Extended discussion of various things for a beginner to aim at and practice and of importance of daily regularity in doing so.
In Response to
Ilya
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Promised pages:
Analysis Paralysis and Some Ideas for Ilya
Read, fill up your tank. Leave the gas station. Drive 'til the tank is empty. Read again until you feel the tank is running over. Don't let it get too full and you begin doubting yourself. Then drive again. Remember it's a marathon, a cross country race. In self-education this self=awareness is huge. We think we can learn it and just go practice it but we can't. We are bound to a trial and error evolution. We need - and are open to - insight at our gradually clearer points of ineffectiveness. We have set a course and mustn't wander from it even though where we are trying to get will become clearer and better paths will show themselves. Books are like maps or even clues in a scavenger hunt. People around you today with shallow knowledge, your neighbors who haven't been where you are trying to go, are of minimal value. Even the greats are only approximating, approaching, the ideal but you will need to consult them. You will learn who not to listen to.
You will learn that nature is the 'source' from which all our knowledge proceeds. Work with it, keep close to it, draw and paint from the source. Consultation with the masters who see it provides insights about how to see and about what you must see but nature itself is the thing: drink with love from that source and gradually the masters are no longer the thing. Just a reference point.
` Drawing anything you see before you as an object is fine and so is setting up an object, well silhouetted and clear as in cast drawing. Use at different times pencil, chalks, charcoals trying to get familiar with what they are best used for. For this draw using long lines with a goal of articulating the beauty of the silhouette and then the graduation of the values to produce the sense of form. Draw to simply get more glib at getting your proportions to ring true, at understanding and achieving the general movement, thrust, gesture of the thing.
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🤣"Caution is kind of a dangerous word." I love this kind of irony!
Me, too.
Thanks for the video Mr. Ingbretson. I didn't mind the hour at all. This is one I listened to as I painted. Some videos I have to save to take notes and focus on. Some good analogies there. Take care.
Pleasure, Chuck.
Paul, I found your gas tank analogy in today's video particularly useful.
Thank you, as always, for your generosity in sharing your scholarship and your enthusiasm. Both are highly motivating.
Great, on all points
pure gold at 36:01!!!! So so well articulated - Bravo sir
Very valuable to hear your thoughts on this all!
I notice that I actually already know quite a bit, but you have confirmed a number of things for me that make me more confident. Besides that, the inspiration I get here is priceless!! Many thanks and blessings!!!
Thanks for this!!!! John....Ron... Close enough!
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That's so kind of you to go so in depth, Paul! Thank you!!
Don't mean to be superficial with other things so push me on other points as you wish.
This video is a gem 💎 I’m grateful to have this resource. Thank you 😊
You're most welcome!
Thank you for mentioning “Pots and Pans Studies in Still Life Painting” this Harvard Press book is available as a free Google .pdf download. There are also used copies available. I’m enjoying it. I value your book recommendations / comments. You help me discover resources that aren’t discussed frequently. And the books are good! Thank you. The work you do with your channel is so appreciated and needed.
There are good useful books out there, for sure.
Thank you Paul for doing what you're doing for us. After painting for the last 22 years I'm learning just how much I don't know.
Socrates, Degas, Walter Brennan
This is one of my favourite chats you have done so far. We all need a kick in the butt to keep going every once in a while. I needed it today, I tell ya! I am saving this video to a playlist for when I need that motivation again. The analogy of filling your gas tank and not going back to the gas station until uou need to fill up again made me laugh, but omg it's so true! I feel like I hang out at the gas station sometimes. Thank you again Paul and Mr Producer! I like the longer format videos, I can put it on and listen while I'm working on stuff in the studio.
Glad to hear it had that effect, Jaz. Hope you are prospering in your efforts
Excellent talk, a real treasure trove, thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it, Richard
Hi Paul
Always a pleasure to watch your videos,they can never be to long.
Always interesting and helpful information,I enjoy the conversation and a fresh pair of eyes to see in a clearer way another way to look! not see but look.
Thanks again
Sheila
Pleased and, as always, thanks Sheila
Wow I was really needing to hear this advice! Especially the part about the athlete not being allowed in the room and feeling incompetent.. I just stumbled upon this video and subscribed. Lucky morning.
cool!
Thank you so much, wise words..
Welcome, Sasha
im so glad i found your channel!
Me, too. :)
I finally watched it thoroughly to make notes and I want to thank you again Paul, Mister Producer and Every single one in the comment section - this little community is giving me more than just tips and tricks ;)
So glad. And of course you're so welcome.
im always pleased with the cinematography in these videos
Mr. Producer can hear you. I really like his work, too.
I look at Paul...these books and this lamp... Let me paint the portrait.
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I find it extremely difficult to find the balance between the physical, letting nature be the narrator, and the metaphysical, and how far to allow the latter to invade nature, overstating ,or exaggerating for effect. As you have stated the importance of not naming anything. I think to take that idea to a logical conclusion must also mean not naming yourself thereby letting the idea of you or of "the painter" go. Since I've found your videos I must admit I feel more at peace and relaxed with the daily quest. Thanks Paul.
Very pleased at that last point, Kingsley.
Mr. Ingbretson, thank you for sharing your experience, insight, and humor with us! It is invaluable the impact you're having. My deep appreciation to you! I have a question about the squinting eye method. It doesn't seem to work for me. Are there any other methods that are known to help discern values? Again, I thank you for your efforts here on RUclips.
Some people use several pieces of smoked glass allowing only the strongest effects to show. Remove one and you will see the next level of effects and so on. Seems to me someone said there was a place to buy these. Once you have done it you will likely be able just using your eyes to reveal the same information
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Sir, you may want to put something in the video’s title to give us a clue as to the general topic..
Try to usually. This one wandered a bit.
I may just be an epic artist. but this video is epic.
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the best athletes know how to play. In a sport everyone wins in a way because the point is to have a good time not to be the best. I know few artists who think this way.
Hmmm!
my advice is to get rid of fear and to "copy" the masters and the nature, and GET RID OF ANY FEARS
What’s the “charcoal drawing primer”?
Email me ingbretson_studio@yahoo.com and I will send it. Just a studio document of how to set up to draw.
28:52 What is the name of the book? Pots and pens?
Yes, "Pots and Pans"
@@PaulIngbretson Thank you, sir! 🙂
Learn foundations , your perspective, color, Anatomy ,composition , perspective, light and shade, copy and study masters, draw and paint from life… know your materials and how to
Use them , then art history, narrative and your own interests , try to create a piece of art on your own where you apply all of it… rinse and repeat
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Why every one explains every thing and not talking about him self 🤷♂️
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I really think that should be "praimerr" and not "primmer", but then I have grammar nazi tendencies. I guess they spill over onto pronounciation...
The Oxford English Dictionary says ‘prime -er” is the UK pronunciation and “prim-er” is the US version. In the US there is an aural distinction between the stuff you put under a final coat of paint (“prime-er”) and an introductory text book ( “prim-er”)
Exactly, thanks, James