This is probably (in my opinion) the most important landscape tutorial that you've done. To include problem solving, decision making and seeing a process through to the conclusion really establishes a system that supports success. Thank you.
I think this is one of the BEST videos you’ve made yet. Your sketches are little gems on their own! You put a lot of helpful ideas here which are very good. The composition methodology is very helpful too. One of the masters said something like - nature is perfect, but things are never in the perfect spot. Editing and rearranging is always needed. I just got a sketchbook like that but don’t know why - now I do! Thanks for posting these videos. And yes, a podcast is a great idea!
This was by far the most useful video you’ve provided us! By going over several iterations of of the aspects of light/dark, the path your eye takes, and the “star” value of the elements gave us the questions we should be asking ourselves. Outstanding video!
Really interesting to hear you talk they the whole process. I would’ve been tempted to put the fence and tree in the foreground too. I liked your finished product though and it’s cool to see how all your thumbnails and color studies lended to that final effect. Dude to be honest it would be really cool if you started a podcast. Would love to listen to that and I feel like the art space is wide open right now. Go for it!
Would love a podcast but not if it meant fewer videos. Your videos keep me plodding forward. Paint Coach couldn’t be a better name. But I do love listening to podcasts while I paint so …
Brilliant! Have used brown Kraft paper for sketching in gouache before but never tried it with oils. Doesn't the oil in the oil paint eventually soak through the paper?
Another excellent and inspirational video. I would prefer you continuing just videos as opposed to a podcast. And I'd love to hear your wine painting/teaching story.
This was so thorough and informative! I loved how you showed the whole trial-and-error process. It helps me not feel so alone when things don't work out the first time ☺️ I gotta get me some of those kraft paper pads 👍
I would like to have a tutorial where you are seen making your colors and tones on your palette while you paint a landscape or a portrait. These kinds of videos are not often shown. I love following you! Thank you! I learned to paint thanks to two artists-paintings on RUclips and you are one of them. France
Chris, I'm glad I'm not the only person who has aggressed a canvas, haha. I might suggest using the remains of old Amazon boxes as a handy sketch pad as well. Just add a bit of white gesso and bam! Instant practice material. I will have to start doing this multi version of workup for a painting. You really reduce potential errors
I think no on the podcast. Your videos are great now and you know how to talk the process in detail because you remember what it's like. Doing a podcast may stretch your mind thin and take away from your video helpfulness quality. I'm here regardless though.
one of the ways to save a canvas with deformations and not throw it away. This is to write something very pasty on it, without sparing paint, then no deformations of the fibers will appear;)
Hi Chris I have just found your channel, I was watching a video from 2 years ago about only using the 3 primary colours and white, how many colours can you make just using these colours please, regards from the UK
I'm sorry you got fired from teaching on wine and paint nights I revolt from wherever it was that was like that that's crazy talk who who in there Insanity would let you go on a wine and paint night???!!!!
This video went to a whole new level. Thank you so much for going deeper into your process. Seeing how you work out your painting is so incredibly helpful, and hearing you discuss it here makes me think a podcast would be great. I would definitely subscribe.
Chris, thanks so much for all the advice, great demo and awesome coaching. Very interesting the sketches you painted to help you see better the entire composition. Great video! Also, thanks for the link to purchase the toned sketchbook. Blessings and take care.
This video is everything I needed tonight. Last weekend i did a plein air event and crashed and burned. This video is everything i forgot to do! Thanks
Hey! A loyal paint coach online student here. I’m in for the podcast man! I’d love to hear some of these stories. Even if it’s a 20-30 minute talk similar to the coffee talks. I’m all for it!
This was a great video. It helped so much going through your process and constant re-evaluations. It really paid off in the final painting. I love how you changed the values and kept changing and simplifying the basic shapes to support the point of interest you had selected. I personally need to go further in working out these problems. After all, why settle for mediocre when you can achieve a really good one with a little more thought?. Thank you!
Just came to your videos about three days ago Chris; by accident I must say. In most cases, I have found Internet 'how to paint' style shows, either not very good or unhelpful, despite the talented artists who exhibited their techniques and in most cases skill by the finished products. And so, I have avoided most deliberately and against my better judgement, after all these years, clicked on one of yours. For these past three days, I could not get enough of them, as they have rekindled my desire to oil paint, like no one else. I am totally self taught, picking up titbits of ideas when I have seen others and usually being irritated with myself that I had not done more in my life with painting. I used to by the occasional art books, but to be truthful never paid attention to what those books were trying to teach, being more interested in the pictures, which has always been the key to me. Now you have given me the desire to get a grip on my paintings (which periodically have been exhibited in different parts of the world - now I know it has been by sheer luck). Thank you, for I can see what has to be improved, and there is so much to do. Vince (UK)
Try spraying the back of the canvas with water and gently pressing that area of the canvas the next time it happens. I used that method when my canvas is getting loose from brushing hard sometimes. Thank You for another painting Tips 😁
Great video again Chris. I'm following a lot of the tips you give to try and improve my own landscape painting. However I want to know the story behind why you got fired from the wine and paint nights!
love this video, I could watch and listen to you all day. Oh and thanks for the reference book by Edgar Payne. Just purchased mine last week and it's been soooo helpful to me on understanding composition. Very good information on what to do and what not to do.
One of the things that struck me was at the end how my eyes got stuck on the water in the best way. I've been to places like this and this brought immediate memories of how incredibly beautiful the color of those lakes can be. My eyes then followed the composition the way you intended but I had to laugh a little when I realized how a memory or the emotions a viewer brings to the painting can change everything. Overall a FANTASTIC video and I cannot believe how much I learned and how packed my little brain got with ideas and frankly respect. I've always considered landscapes lovely but a bit boring but I will be appreciating them more from now on. And what a fun added bonus that besides all the technical learning, I also got that emotional learning I mentioned in the beginning! All around one of the best things I've watched on RUclips as a whole. 10/10
Hi Chris: Do you use glazing towards the end of your paintings to create a harmonized look if you have a lot of colours going on? I just heard about it recently and tried it today on part of an acrylic 6 x 6 painting I am working on. Apparently you can glaze sections of your painting, and leave others alone. I have read that the old masters used glazing all the time.
Thanks for great tutorial, one thing bothers me only and I wonder are these sketches made with acrylics or oils? If you use acrylics do you have some difference with colours value when original painting you are making with oils?
Without having seen the previous comments, I really wanted to drop a note to say this was the best instructional video I think you have put out!!! Others seem to agree! Great job and thank you for your insights. I struggle with being a slave to my reference photos.
Podcast? Your not only easy on the eyes, you have lots of interesting things to say. I would definitely listen to your podcast! Your video was excellent- hard to believe its free😃
This is probably (in my opinion) the most important landscape tutorial that you've done. To include problem solving, decision making and seeing a process through to the conclusion really establishes a system that supports success. Thank you.
Thanks! I really appreciate that!
I agree. It's very helpful seeing your thought process as it teaches me what I need to do as well.
I agree too!
Yes you should start a pod cast. I think it would be very interesting.
Agreed! There aren't enough consistent art/painting podcasts out there. And I wish there was. I say please go for it Chris!
RIGHT
I agree!!!!!
I think this is one of the BEST videos you’ve made yet. Your sketches are little gems on their own! You put a lot of helpful ideas here which are very good. The composition methodology is very helpful too. One of the masters said something like - nature is perfect, but things are never in the perfect spot. Editing and rearranging is always needed.
I just got a sketchbook like that but don’t know why - now I do! Thanks for posting these videos. And yes, a podcast is a great idea!
Did you Prime your canvas in that painting?pls answer🙏
Podcast!!! Would love to hear your opinions on digital art such as procreate…etc :)
Thanks
This was by far the most useful video you’ve provided us! By going over several iterations of of the aspects of light/dark, the path your eye takes, and the “star” value of the elements gave us the questions we should be asking ourselves. Outstanding video!
Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Really interesting to hear you talk they the whole process. I would’ve been tempted to put the fence and tree in the foreground too. I liked your finished product though and it’s cool to see how all your thumbnails and color studies lended to that final effect. Dude to be honest it would be really cool if you started a podcast. Would love to listen to that and I feel like the art space is wide open right now. Go for it!
YES! Start a podcast!🤣
Would love a podcast but not if it meant fewer videos. Your videos keep me plodding forward. Paint Coach couldn’t be a better name. But I do love listening to podcasts while I paint so …
Brilliant! Have used brown Kraft paper for sketching in gouache before but never tried it with oils. Doesn't the oil in the oil paint eventually soak through the paper?
Today i starded oil painting thnx for your vdo❤️
i will absolutely love to listen to your podcast, you should definitely start a podcast
"I could also do the story about how I got fired from teaching wine and paint nights. Should I start a podca-"
YES
Another excellent and inspirational video. I would prefer you continuing just videos as opposed to a podcast. And I'd love to hear your wine painting/teaching story.
dude you should totally start a podcast!
Just the audio and not the visual? No, I don't like podcasts. Painting is a visual skill.
This was so thorough and informative! I loved how you showed the whole trial-and-error process. It helps me not feel so alone when things don't work out the first time ☺️ I gotta get me some of those kraft paper pads 👍
I would like to have a tutorial where you are seen making your colors and tones on your palette while you paint a landscape or a portrait. These kinds of videos are not often shown. I love following you! Thank you! I learned to paint thanks to two artists-paintings on RUclips and you are one of them. France
Chris, I'm glad I'm not the only person who has aggressed a canvas, haha. I might suggest using the remains of old Amazon boxes as a handy sketch pad as well. Just add a bit of white gesso and bam! Instant practice material. I will have to start doing this multi version of workup for a painting. You really reduce potential errors
super thorough and helpful! also I would love to hear the wine and paint night story
I worked at a sip and wine place too and was fired lmao, make the podcast be interesting to hear why
I love watching you do these visually 👍😁🧑🏻🎨
I vote yes for the Podcast!
I think no on the podcast. Your videos are great now and you know how to talk the process in detail because you remember what it's like. Doing a podcast may stretch your mind thin and take away from your video helpfulness quality. I'm here regardless though.
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one of the ways to save a canvas with deformations and not throw it away. This is to write something very pasty on it, without sparing paint, then no deformations of the fibers will appear;)
Hi Chris I have just found your channel, I was watching a video from 2 years ago about only using the 3 primary colours and white, how many colours can you make just using these colours please, regards from the UK
Yes to podcast! I can listen while painting.
Hi Chris, I know that you like Rosemary brushes, but I am in the U.S. does Rosemary Brushes ship to U.S?
We need a Paint Coach Podcast! That's for the informative and relatable video!
what do you consider your style of painting to be? Impressionism or what? thanks love ur work
I'm all for a podcast! That sounds like a blast honestly.
I'm sorry you got fired from teaching on wine and paint nights I revolt from wherever it was that was like that that's crazy talk who who in there Insanity would let you go on a wine and paint night???!!!!
I never understand how people use sketchbooks for oils, wouldn't you not be able to turn the page for days because of drying time?
I recognize that barn from the Grand Tetons. I have multiple photos of it that I want to paint one day.
I'd listen to your podcast 👌
Hi coach I didn’t see a link for the sketchbook, can you please include? Thanks!
Nobody is as honest about their process as you are. Much appreciated- I learn a lot from your “mistakes”
Excellent advice in this video. Also I think you’d do an awesome podcast.
We need a podcast, because I need to know how you got fired from a paint & sip class 🤣
Do you have any videos that talk about entering expos or shows or anything like that?
This video went to a whole new level. Thank you so much for going deeper into your process. Seeing how you work out your painting is so incredibly helpful, and hearing you discuss it here makes me think a podcast would be great. I would definitely subscribe.
help, I'm definitely starting to get the hang of it. Just thought I'd share.
100% YES to the podcast! You'd be great!
Chris, thanks so much for all the advice, great demo and awesome coaching. Very interesting the sketches you painted to help you see better the entire composition. Great video! Also, thanks for the link to purchase the toned sketchbook. Blessings and take care.
Very helpful! Thank you! I love the tan paper used for experimenting in oils!
Please start a podcast! ❤️
please make a podcast!!
Your work is getting better. But so is your teaching. Yay.
Can I ask how long do ur paintings take to finish it? Do u do it in takes? Or do you do it in one day
I really like the fence, could you have left out the big light rock?
Great video! Would definitely listen to a podcast if you made one!
These guys are not good artists in their own right so how do they get the gaul to make $ teaching others they are a waste
Edgar Paynes book is worth every single penny.
Hey Chris, that's a great video , talking through the process. thanks
Yes start a podcast
I got E Payne’s book because of you. Thx so much
Thank you for this video 😊👍👍👍
All your studies are amazing little abstract pieces in their own right
What a wonderful idea, wine and paint nights lol.
Yes podcast! Or atleast more paint talks, something that I can listen to while painting ^^
Bravo! Thank you for the insight to your process! I enjoyed your video and your art is so beautiful.
This video is everything I needed tonight. Last weekend i did a plein air event and crashed and burned. This video is everything i forgot to do! Thanks
Hey! A loyal paint coach online student here. I’m in for the podcast man! I’d love to hear some of these stories. Even if it’s a 20-30 minute talk similar to the coffee talks. I’m all for it!
Nice painting,really takes you away to the place!
Yes def get a podcast going so we can listen when we paint.
Mucho 😍
Hey Chris you said to get in touch on Telegram channel but
I can't find you.
Anyone else hook me up to his Telegram please?
Thanks in advance!🙏😍
Would love to see you paint your quick sketches. Do you use acrylic for that?
A very good nuts-and-bolts lesson on how to construct a successful painting. I like your to the point method of explaining and illustrating things.
Great. Thank you for going through all the ups and downs of composition. I think I have more disasters by not planning enough.
This video absolutely slapped
This video was incredibly helpful for me. As a Wyoming painter it was great to see my neck of the woods being the subject of your painting. Thanks!
Such an informative video. Really helpful. Love the sketchbook idea.
excellent presentation...really nice when artists acknowledge and show how to correct 'mistakes' ...it makes the rest of us feel human!
This was a great video. It helped so much going through your process and constant re-evaluations. It really paid off in the final painting. I love how you changed the values and kept changing and simplifying the basic shapes to support the point of interest you had selected. I personally need to go further in working out these problems. After all, why settle for mediocre when you can achieve a really good one with a little more thought?. Thank you!
Really great video!😀❤️👍
Just came to your videos about three days ago Chris; by accident I must say. In most cases, I have found Internet 'how to paint' style shows, either not very good or unhelpful, despite the talented artists who exhibited their techniques and in most cases skill by the finished products. And so, I have avoided most deliberately and against my better judgement, after all these years, clicked on one of yours. For these past three days, I could not get enough of them, as they have rekindled my desire to oil paint, like no one else. I am totally self taught, picking up titbits of ideas when I have seen others and usually being irritated with myself that I had not done more in my life with painting. I used to by the occasional art books, but to be truthful never paid attention to what those books were trying to teach, being more interested in the pictures, which has always been the key to me.
Now you have given me the desire to get a grip on my paintings (which periodically have been exhibited in different parts of the world - now I know it has been by sheer luck). Thank you, for I can see what has to be improved, and there is so much to do. Vince (UK)
Yessss please make a podcast
Do the effing cast!
This was a great video, good and simple explanations.
Also, Chris is really handsome in my opinion.
:)
Try spraying the back of the canvas with water and gently pressing that area of the canvas the next time it happens. I used that method when my canvas is getting loose from brushing hard sometimes. Thank You for another painting Tips 😁
Personally I’d 10000% listen to your podcast lol. Or even just story time videos !
Great video again Chris. I'm following a lot of the tips you give to try and improve my own landscape painting. However I want to know the story behind why you got fired from the wine and paint nights!
Podcast!!!! Yes!
love this video, I could watch and listen to you all day. Oh and thanks for the reference book by Edgar Payne. Just purchased mine last week and it's been soooo helpful to me on understanding composition. Very good information on what to do and what not to do.
Hope you enjoy it!
One of the things that struck me was at the end how my eyes got stuck on the water in the best way. I've been to places like this and this brought immediate memories of how incredibly beautiful the color of those lakes can be. My eyes then followed the composition the way you intended but I had to laugh a little when I realized how a memory or the emotions a viewer brings to the painting can change everything.
Overall a FANTASTIC video and I cannot believe how much I learned and how packed my little brain got with ideas and frankly respect. I've always considered landscapes lovely but a bit boring but I will be appreciating them more from now on. And what a fun added bonus that besides all the technical learning, I also got that emotional learning I mentioned in the beginning! All around one of the best things I've watched on RUclips as a whole. 10/10
YES, YES, YES!!!
Enjoyed watching how you solved this. You ended up with a really cool painting!! Please make more videos like this.
Yes start a BC
You’re the best! Love your teaching style and your approach to painting in general. How great that you had a “d” in art. Einstein had a “c” in math.
Hi Chris: Do you use glazing towards the end of your paintings to create a harmonized look if you have a lot of colours going on? I just heard about it recently and tried it today on part of an acrylic 6 x 6 painting I am working on. Apparently you can glaze sections of your painting, and leave others alone. I have read that the old masters used glazing all the time.
Thanks for great tutorial, one thing bothers me only and I wonder are these sketches made with acrylics or oils? If you use acrylics do you have some difference with colours value when original painting you are making with oils?
Without having seen the previous comments, I really wanted to drop a note to say this was the best instructional video I think you have put out!!! Others seem to agree! Great job and thank you for your insights. I struggle with being a slave to my reference photos.
Podcast? Your not only easy on the eyes, you have lots of interesting things to say. I would definitely listen to your podcast! Your video was excellent- hard to believe its free😃
Yes, start a podcast. I want to know how you got fired, besides getting more of your wonderful teachings.
WONDERFUL video! So helpful. Thank you!
Do you know of anywhere to get the Kraft paper journal in Canada? I tried the link but they only ship within the US.
Fabulous clear discussion of your process. THANKS 😅
Yes
I immediately thought I would get rid of many of those trees obscuring the view of the water. Your painting turned out wonderful 😊
Of course you should start a podcast, you know we’re all artists listening while we paint!
A D in high school art AND fired from wine and paint night teaching? We need those stories.
This is great Chris! Love how you talk us through your thought process. Cheers