Definitely keep making these videos!!! I love brief analyses like this, it really helps me with the structure of the painting. Sometimes I go “why did he paint it like that” and just don’t get a well defined answer. Very informative & helpful, thank you ❤
This is something I've learned over the years. If I'm using a reference image, there's a point where I need to drop using it and go off of pure imagination or else I become too stiff and robotic trying to copy everything perfectly.
Also good for everyone to know that photos do not reference the subject correctly. Lights and darks are always more extreme in photos. Colors never capture what the eye can capture either. Good video!
Not that I didn’t like your other videos (I watch them pretty consistently) but this style of format gives such clarity from a bigger picture on process, showing the reference pic along side 4 stages of the painting in progress. I felt I got more out of it. Thanks!
Yes!!! Please keep making these types of videos!!! It helps so much to learn the "why" of decision making when creating art from a reference!! Thank you!
This is such an important topic that nobody really ever talks about, Thanks Coach!! I feel like this is a really specific thing that holds my work back a lot! Not trusting myself to make decisions, and make them confidently. And that lack of confidence to make decisions shows up most in my brushwork. Like I was "guessing" my way through with anything I wasn't sure of, even though I technically knew what to do. Simplification is my biggest weakness. This was so helpful to me, these videos are Invaluable. This applies to everything you paint I think, I can translate this directly to the problems I'm having in my portraits. Thanks Coach, this is why you are THE BEST
No. this is a good exercise. I like seeing the four stages of the painting and hearing how you decided what to include or exclude. I get lost in detail and need constant reminders to simplify. Please do more of these.
Yes! Please make more like this. It's exactly where I fall off into the weeds and can't explain what I'm missing. We're rural, and it's hard to find any instruction at all, so this is wonderful. Also, I can watch it as many times as I want without annoying you, lol.
Although I mainly work with acrylics, I'm diversifying into oils, oil pastels, colored pencils, and watercolors. I appreciate this tutorial method because its instruction is medium-neutral and fundamental. You sought my opinion, and I appreciate your revised format.
Absolutely make more of these videos, please! I struggle with simplification and choosing focal points, so this was really instructive and helpful. Thank you!
I’ve taken many art classes and you convinced me to start oils and I’m signed up for paint week and signing up for your courses. You’re a great teacher and communicator, thank you!
This was so helpful! I am new to painting and I find I learn so much better by observing people explain their process and see is relevant for me rather than being told what to do. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Thanks to you I have been working the concept that "you have to make some decisions" for awhile. I think it was especially spot on for me because my paintings are mostly special interest cars, shooting for photo realism. I had been avoiding landscape backgrounds . Then I signed up for your Landscape painting course and I'm happy with my improvements.
Chris is an excellent teacher. I only wish I had this type of technical guidance when I was an art student - many, many years ago. Thank you so much for all these valuable lessons!
Thank you Chris, I found this video to be very helpful for me. I’ve been struggling quite a bit with copying everything from reference photos and this helped clear things up for me. Cheers.
Interesting advice about average values/lightness and making things a little darker than you might imagine. There's a parallel in photography where it's always preferable to underexpose. That way the information is there and it's much easier to bring it out during processing. If you overexpose, you leave yourself nowhere to go.
Incredibly helpful, you changed the colors from the photo, *sky from blue to purple, foreground from gray to yellow orange… please keep walking us through with freeze frames, very helpful.
I'm so grateful for every video you post here because they are all super helpful and practical. I've recently finished your landscape course, after doing the fundamentals of oil painting and will be joining paint week for the second time! Thank you so much and love this video format, will paint that landscape tomorrow to practice!
Please make more of these videos! It’d be helpful if you can explore more of your colour choices in the piece as well, since the hue is a bit different but livelier than the photo!
Yes! Really loved it, this was very concise, clear and useful. I’ve had to step away from my paints for a few months, but looking forward to jumping back in with paint week and the Patreon tutorials I’ve let slip by. Thanks Chris, you’re an excellent teacher!
The last landscape I did. Was last weekend. It was better after I scraped it all off. That made me feel great. This week I did two paintings, both not the worst thing but last week’s sure did suck
Great Stuff, Coach! Your 4-stage approach (with its 4 visuals) is logical, workable and therefore not difficult to steadily progress from blank Canvas to finished creation. More please, when you can. Thanks very much - continuing to wish you well
Excellent, highly instructional, concise lesson! The format of the presentation is very helpful! Thank you very much for all your work- I’ve recently subscribed and appreciate your approach.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I find it so frustrating when an artist deviates from the reference without explaining why they made the choices they made. This is very helpful and I hope you’ll do more of these videos.
@@paintcoach You are not only very welcome, but I'm thinking to try your mid-September coaching, too. Because oil painting is a life-long study, I've avoided painting, but seeing this work and the simplicity of your approach gives me an inspiration to try again.
Very useful thanks. Understanding why you make a specific decision is so important. Applying a learned mechanical approach does not work when the subject changes, as it invariably does painting to painting.
Super solid. Hugely helpful format, info and presentation. Not sure if that is in the patreon section, as I'm new to it, but I'd love to see that in the landscape collection.
This was a big help, thanks. Those first steps are the ones which often confuse me, and stop me from progressing. This made lots of sense, and will make me stop and think next time I am painting. More like this? Yes please :) oooo, and I just signed up for Paint Week. Yay. I'm not on Facebook though. Looking forward to that! :)
Definitely keep making these videos!!! I love brief analyses like this, it really helps me with the structure of the painting. Sometimes I go “why did he paint it like that” and just don’t get a well defined answer. Very informative & helpful, thank you ❤
This is something I've learned over the years. If I'm using a reference image, there's a point where I need to drop using it and go off of pure imagination or else I become too stiff and robotic trying to copy everything perfectly.
Also good for everyone to know that photos do not reference the subject correctly. Lights and darks are always more extreme in photos. Colors never capture what the eye can capture either. Good video!
This format is extremely helpful! I vote “YES” to more of this approach. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
I really like how you used a slight change in warmth to make the scene much more pleasing without altering the reality of the landscape
Not that I didn’t like your other videos (I watch them pretty consistently) but this style of format gives such clarity from a bigger picture on process, showing the reference pic along side 4 stages of the painting in progress. I felt I got more out of it. Thanks!
Yes!!! Please keep making these types of videos!!! It helps so much to learn the "why" of decision making when creating art from a reference!! Thank you!
Yes! Continue with this style of video!
This is such an important topic that nobody really ever talks about, Thanks Coach!! I feel like this is a really specific thing that holds my work back a lot! Not trusting myself to make decisions, and make them confidently. And that lack of confidence to make decisions shows up most in my brushwork. Like I was "guessing" my way through with anything I wasn't sure of, even though I technically knew what to do. Simplification is my biggest weakness.
This was so helpful to me, these videos are Invaluable. This applies to everything you paint I think, I can translate this directly to the problems I'm having in my portraits. Thanks Coach, this is why you are THE BEST
No. this is a good exercise. I like seeing the four stages of the painting and hearing how you decided what to include or exclude. I get lost in detail and need constant reminders to simplify. Please do more of these.
Yes! Please make more like this. It's exactly where I fall off into the weeds and can't explain what I'm missing. We're rural, and it's hard to find any instruction at all, so this is wonderful. Also, I can watch it as many times as I want without annoying you, lol.
Although I mainly work with acrylics, I'm diversifying into oils, oil pastels, colored pencils, and watercolors. I appreciate this tutorial method because its instruction is medium-neutral and fundamental. You sought my opinion, and I appreciate your revised format.
Wonderful!
Absolutely make more of these videos, please! I struggle with simplification and choosing focal points, so this was really instructive and helpful. Thank you!
This video is incredibly helpful. Please make more of these!
I’ve taken many art classes and you convinced me to start oils and I’m signed up for paint week and signing up for your courses. You’re a great teacher and communicator, thank you!
This was so helpful! I am new to painting and I find I learn so much better by observing people explain their process and see is relevant for me rather than being told what to do. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Thanks to you I have been working the concept that "you have to make some decisions" for awhile. I think it was especially spot on for me because my paintings are mostly special interest cars, shooting for photo realism. I had been avoiding landscape backgrounds . Then I signed up for your Landscape painting course and I'm happy with my improvements.
Excellent video! More of these please. You are great, you have helped me in my painting probably more than any other teacher. Thank you.
Very helpful analytics! Nice to know a painting is not a “forgone conclusion” based on the photo-more of a guide and inspiration! Thanks!
Chris is an excellent teacher. I only wish I had this type of technical guidance when I was an art student - many, many years ago. Thank you so much for all these valuable lessons!
You're very welcome!
Thank you Chris, I found this video to be very helpful for me. I’ve been struggling quite a bit with copying everything from reference photos and this helped clear things up for me. Cheers.
The painting is so much nicer than reference.❤
I really, really like this tutorial! You’ve explained clearly the composition decisions that make or break a good painting. I needed this 👍🏼!
Thank you so much!
Interesting advice about average values/lightness and making things a little darker than you might imagine.
There's a parallel in photography where it's always preferable to underexpose. That way the information is there and it's much easier to bring it out during processing. If you overexpose, you leave yourself nowhere to go.
Like this format. Breaking the painting down into areas give an insight into what you’re thinking.
Chris, you're a great teacher. I love your process and how you explain the decisions you make as you go along. It's so helpful!
definitely make more of these! I really enjoyed it
More to come!
Learned so much about composition from you in the last few weeks then years of trying to put things together in my head... thanks man!
Love these videos...Yes, keep making them.
More to come!
Yup! I stumbled upon this video and was just the ticket! Very good!
Incredibly helpful, you changed the colors from the photo, *sky from blue to purple, foreground from gray to yellow orange… please keep walking us through with freeze frames, very helpful.
I'm so grateful for every video you post here because they are all super helpful and practical. I've recently finished your landscape course, after doing the fundamentals of oil painting and will be joining paint week for the second time! Thank you so much and love this video format, will paint that landscape tomorrow to practice!
Yes, please keep making these type videos! Very helpful.
Please make more of these videos! It’d be helpful if you can explore more of your colour choices in the piece as well, since the hue is a bit different but livelier than the photo!
I took notes while watching -- make more, please!
Yes! Really loved it, this was very concise, clear and useful. I’ve had to step away from my paints for a few months, but looking forward to jumping back in with paint week and the Patreon tutorials I’ve let slip by. Thanks Chris, you’re an excellent teacher!
Fabulous video! Such a great lesson in a short time frame. Easy to remember the main points. Thank you so much. I hope you make more of these.
Excellent! Yes to more in this format.
Excellent presentation with your interactive “pointers”. Stressing the importance of strong composition is a very helpful reminder when starting out.
The last landscape I did. Was last weekend.
It was better after I scraped it all off. That made me feel great.
This week I did two paintings, both not the worst thing but last week’s sure did suck
Yes! Keep making these types of videos, please.
Great Stuff, Coach! Your 4-stage approach (with its 4 visuals) is logical, workable and therefore not difficult to steadily progress from blank Canvas to finished creation. More please, when you can. Thanks very much - continuing to wish you well
Excellent, highly instructional, concise lesson! The format of the presentation is very helpful! Thank you very much for all your work- I’ve recently subscribed and appreciate your approach.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I find it so frustrating when an artist deviates from the reference without explaining why they made the choices they made. This is very helpful and I hope you’ll do more of these videos.
This is a brilliant tutorial! Fabulous! I also love this sweet little seascape.
Thanks so much! 😊
@@paintcoach You are not only very welcome, but I'm thinking to try your mid-September coaching, too. Because oil painting is a life-long study, I've avoided painting, but seeing this work and the simplicity of your approach gives me an inspiration to try again.
Very helpful. Making decisions about how the light source sort of translates itself into the various values can be tricky I think.
Thank you. It’s definitely very useful and it’s great to have a slight view of your vision.
Love, love, love this style of video!!! ❤ please do make more loke this!!!
Very useful thanks. Understanding why you make a specific decision is so important. Applying a learned mechanical approach does not work when the subject changes, as it invariably does painting to painting.
Excellent video. I definitely vote for more. Thank you.
Excellent video. I would happily watch more of these!
Love this type of video. It's very helpful 🙂
Would love to see more of these.
I like this style of painting and got lots of good info from the video! Thanks!
this is very helpful! please keep making more of these!
This type of video is very helpful. Please make more.
Yes, please! More videos like this! Thank you so much! Watching you, you really make painting seem so easy! ❣
More to come!
This is incredibly helpful and I would love to see more videos like this.
So insightful, more of these please…
Love this style. More please!
Yes! More of these please!
Love this format! I learned a lot.
Excellent format for a tutorial!
I really love this style of video, please keep it going🎉
I love this style of video.
This was massively helpful!! Loved it!!
Please do more of these
This video is great!!
Yes, it helps a lot, please keep on doing it.
Yes, more like this! Very helpful video
You got it!
Loved this, very helpful, thank you. Yes, please make more.
Found this very interesting and useful. Thank you
I love this video!!! ❤ I have so much to learn from you! Thank you for explaining so much of your process it's extremely helpful! Keep it up!
Awesome tutorial
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video! Keep them coming. I appreciate you!
I like this style 👍
Super solid. Hugely helpful format, info and presentation. Not sure if that is in the patreon section, as I'm new to it, but I'd love to see that in the landscape collection.
This was definitely helpful, thank you!
Thanks! Please make more
Yes. I like the format of this lesson, carry on
Absolutely helpful and instructive...please keep doing it!
Great way to teach, the video was awesome!
This was a big help, thanks. Those first steps are the ones which often confuse me, and stop me from progressing. This made lots of sense, and will make me stop and think next time I am painting. More like this? Yes please :)
oooo, and I just signed up for Paint Week. Yay. I'm not on Facebook though. Looking forward to that! :)
Really learned a lot from this video....please make more 😊
Yes this is a good video style. Great. Thank you so much and all the best.
Awesome thank you please keep posting like this. Thanks
Love this video-very helpful!
Love it. Please keep uploading ❤
yes to more of this!
Thanks for another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this- great advice for newbies! 🎉🎉🎉
This was so very helpful! Thank you!!!!
Thank you, Chris. Very informative
Yes!! Thanks, very helpful and inspirational!!
This was very helpful, love the video.
I found this really helpful!
Love the video!!! Thanks!
A valuable lesson, thanks much!!
Thank you so much. This method is very usefull. Please make more like this
Super helpful!
The photo is cool and the painting is warm colored.