@@tomhighsmith yep. Ever check the impact that Aristotle’s “Poetics” had in dramatic writing from Shakespeare through Tarantino right up to today? We built on the shoulders of the greats of yesterday.
I tried explaining color value and temperature to my 5th graders last week. I got through to many of them luckily. But some put up a fight. We practiced squinting until the colors became indistinguishable and then opened them for a big surprise.
WOW! You are AMAZING!! If only I had the true talent that you have. Thank you for the informative video; I look forward to watching and learning more. Best, Julie Louisiana, United States
You won’t have to remember this if you paint flesh. You need red , yellow and blue. Black (or raw umber) and white. THATS IT. DONT GET CONFUSED. He is giving you twenty years of study. No one will remember all this.
One thing on most youtube videos that makes them difficult to digest is, that the authors cut out any pause in the narration, so that the overall effect is one of a constant stream of words, with no punctuation. I don't know why they do that. It would be easier to understand a complicated subject, if it was told with the natural flow of sentences preserved.
Just remember most flesh is basically orange with white added to lighten it or brown added to it to darken it. He's just making his own orange and brown from the primaries. This is good because if he wants the orange or the brown to have more red he uses more of the alizarin crimson. If he wants it to have more yellow he uses more of the yellow. If he wants it to have more of the blue he uses more of the blue. That's all he's doing. For a neutral orange you can buy out of the tube you can use Raw Sienna. If you want it more yellow use Yellow Ochre. If you want it more red use Burnt Sienna. More dark brown Burnt Umber. More greenish tan Raw Umber. Even more red Indian Red. More violet Turkish Red. Etc. But if you use the primaries like he is doing you can make these colors yourself. That's why it's an exercise. You don't have to remember it. Just practice it and you'll do fine.
100% the best channel on here, the demos help so much to see your process! So good at really simplifying all the jargon around oil painting, thank you :)
The thing is, flesh is not always the obvious colors of flesh. But you have to look harder to see the cobalt blue or the cadmium or green in the overall painting....sometimes blue or cadmium red, whatever, used as flesh, will set the flesh colors off and stand out like magic realism....
Alex, great video. Is was really cool to see a palette like a more chromativ version of the Zorn palette. What are those lighter handled brushes you're using? I'm currently using badger brushes for the features, but I'm curious.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Could you share where you get your plaster casts? Decent ones seem impossible to locate anywhere in the UK via Google. Thanks!
I only have a couple of casts, one I found in an antique shop here in the UK (the bust of Joan of Arc). I have a Torso that a sculpture friend made for me from a mould they already had and another Torso from a company in the EU, www.decorarconarte.com though they have become more expensive since Brexit.
Thank you for the new video! I'm a big fan of your channel. This portrait tutorial was fantastic! I struggle with color mixing flesh tones and this was extremely helpful.
Monsol color theory. Hue, value, chroma. Hues : purple, red, yellow, blue, green. 5 total. Value: black (darkest) white (lightest) Chroma: the strength or purity of the color. Other words: intensity, saturation. A color is more chromatic the further away is from grey. Exercise to learn about mixing colors and chroma. Work with a limited paletted of really intense colors: Yellow : cadmium lemon. Red: Azarim crimsom . Blue: ultramarine blue. White: titanium white. Cadmiun red is another red color that is warm, but to make it cooler you would need to use blue or white, and that would desaturated it. But most colors in nature are desaturated, like the lemon.
your videos are very helpfull as always thank you Alex ✌️✌️ i am new to the art world an i always seek others experience to take a step to become a full time artist can you make how to paint transition between color and value using brush strokes only without blending and the business part of art and your plan and strategy to make a leaving out of your art can you help please 🙏🙏
Thank you very much! Here is a video I made about painting edges in which I talk about blendig etc. ruclips.net/video/Sm9hCGY6k6k/видео.html I'm probably not the best person to ask about career developement as an artist. I'm going to be honest, you need a f*ck of a lot of determination, because making a living from your art can be incredibly difficult. The only advice I can really give is keep painting and improving, enter your work into competitions, find ways to show your work and meet people, in person and online. Opportunities will come. If anything it has become easier to reach an audience in recent years because social media, so we're not so reliant on galleries anymore.
Supposedly not, but Michael Harding which is the brand that I use claims that his is ok? There are more permanent versions available though, like Alizarin Claret by Michael Harding or Permanent Alizarin by Winsor and Newton?
I find this palette can be quite challenging, but it is a great learning tool. The zorn palette makes it a lot easier for mixing flesh tones, though it is quite limited for mixing darker colours, so I like to include Ultramarine, Alizarine and Transparent oxide red.
Alex, I don't paint nearly enough to be any good but your superbly presented videos are for me the best encouragement to be found on RUclips, thank you. Please keep up the good work. One question though, at one point in this video you say that adding white to neat ultramarine from the tube increases its intensity, but that statement seems to me to be incompatible with the situation, if that is taken to the extreme, when intensity will obviously be reduced if so much white has been added that there is no chroma or intensity left. As I understand it just because pure ultramarine has a very dark tone does not mean it has low intensity, it is just difficult for us to perceive that intensity.
That's very a good question. Generally, adding white will cause a colour to loose its intensity. But with some dark transparent pigments, like ultramarine, or alizarin when you add a little white it becomes a much brighter colour. In its pure form ultramarine is intense, but only in relation to other dark mixtures. It's very dark so you might use it to add more intense notes to really dark shadows.
Thank you very much Stephen! Yes I do. Though that doesn't mean I always finish a painting in one day. Rather it means in one process, starting by blocking in the larger shapes then refining and eventually adding details. With a larger painting you can refining the whole thing in one go but you work a section at a time. Even so, you continually have to keep reassing each section and comparing with the whole, so they may need repainting. I will have to make a video about the process of doing a longer painting at some point?
The way I found most useful was to take the three primaries and white, and I also added burnt umber to help with the darks, and I chose a colour chart from one of the companies and spent an afternoon mixing colours to match the chart. It was a real eye opener how many colours I could make and it was a great experience which made me feel more confident in colour mixing. I still have the swatches I made for reference with notes of the colours used in order of the quantity of colour needed.
Mixing colour charts is definitely a very useful exercise, but I reckon I learned more about intensity and matching the relationships between different colours by using combinations of the 3 primaries?
Fantastic demo and super clear explanation about colours as always! I’m learning so much watching your channel! Question, what colours brand do you use? They seem so fluid and buttery, or do you just use more?
Thank you Maurizio! I mainly use Michael Harding, as it's the most widely available professional quality brand here in the UK. But I also mix plenty of paint in order to acheive that consistency.
I agree.17th century painters didn't have acces to cadmiums etc. they would have had vermilion and more nuetral earth pigments so probably quite similar to the Zorn palette. The Zorn palett makes it much easier for mixing flesh colours i.e. portraits and figures, but it's not so good for mixing brighter colours. This palette allows you to mix a much wider array of colours, but its harder to mix greys and neutrals.
Super helpful!! I wish it were a little calmer in the voiceover, I feel like I’m being talked at by someone who’s stressed out. The content is so great though. Thanks for helping me wrap my brain around this!!
The Zorn palette is a different limited palette for the one I use in this video. It doesn't use Cadmium, it uses Yellow ochre instead. Though is still uses version of the three primaries red, yellow and blue. Cadmium Red light or Vermilion, Yellow ochre and Ivory black.
These METHODS were what we were taught at school in the seventies!!!!
70 AD
@@tomhighsmith yep. Ever check the impact that Aristotle’s “Poetics” had in dramatic writing from Shakespeare through Tarantino right up to today? We built on the shoulders of the greats of yesterday.
You are the best sir
Thank you!
Thanks that was very helpful. The process is always easier to follow when the result looks so good.
Thank you very much! Glad it was helpful.
I tried explaining color value and temperature to my 5th graders last week. I got through to many of them luckily. But some put up a fight. We practiced squinting until the colors became indistinguishable and then opened them for a big surprise.
Well done!
WOW! You are AMAZING!! If only I had the true talent that you have.
Thank you for the informative video; I look forward to watching and learning more.
Best,
Julie
Louisiana, United States
Thank you very much Julie! I'm glad you think so.
The best painting channel in tube!!🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank you very much!
That's true
Agreed!
It is very good indeed...
Really enjoyed your teaching techniques ,keep them coming. from America...❤.ty
Thank you! Will do!
Once again, an excellent lesson Alex.
Thank you Andy! Glad you think so.
Thanks so much. I love your videos!
Thank you ver much Ann!
Excellent tutorial. I will try this palette!
Thank you! It can be quite challenging sometimes, but I definitely reckon it's the best way to learn how mixing paint works.
Thank you
Again extremely brilliant video.
Thank you! Glad you think so
Loved this video 🩷
Excellent. Thanks.
How to choose different size of brush and shape for acrylic or oil work . Like what you use in your painting.
Excellent video tutorial. Thank you for simplifying a complicated subject.
Glad it was helpful!
I'll never remember all of that.
You won’t have to remember this if you paint flesh. You need red , yellow and blue. Black (or raw umber) and white. THATS IT.
DONT GET CONFUSED. He is giving you twenty years of study. No one will remember all this.
One thing on most youtube videos that makes them difficult to digest is, that the authors cut out any pause in the narration, so that the overall effect is one of a constant stream of words, with no punctuation. I don't know why they do that. It would be easier to understand a complicated subject, if it was told with the natural flow of sentences preserved.
Take notes! Pause video. Jeez.
Just remember most flesh is basically orange with white added to lighten it or brown added to it to darken it. He's just making his own orange and brown from the primaries. This is good because if he wants the orange or the brown to have more red he uses more of the alizarin crimson. If he wants it to have more yellow he uses more of the yellow. If he wants it to have more of the blue he uses more of the blue. That's all he's doing. For a neutral orange you can buy out of the tube you can use Raw Sienna. If you want it more yellow use Yellow Ochre. If you want it more red use Burnt Sienna. More dark brown Burnt Umber. More greenish tan Raw Umber. Even more red Indian Red. More violet Turkish Red. Etc. But if you use the primaries like he is doing you can make these colors yourself. That's why it's an exercise. You don't have to remember it. Just practice it and you'll do fine.
It’s not about memorization. You experience it and learn it through application. We aren’t taking a standardized test here. That’s for academics.
Truly the best painting teacher on youtube.
Thank you very much Paul!
I do enjoy watching you paint, Bob Ross.😅
100% the best channel on here, the demos help so much to see your process! So good at really simplifying all the jargon around oil painting, thank you :)
Thank you very much Lydia!
What the hell, this is harder than calculus. I give up.
I agree,the best channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for simplifying complicated things.
Thank you very much Frances! Glad you think so.
Absolutely phenomenal demonstration! Beautiful painting.
Thank you Amy!
The thing is, flesh is not always the obvious colors of flesh. But you have to look harder to see the cobalt blue or the cadmium or green in the overall painting....sometimes blue or cadmium red, whatever, used as flesh, will set the flesh colors off and stand out like magic realism....
a PAINTER IN ALL MEDIUMS 50 YRS+ AND 2 MINS IN GOT A HEADACHE!
you mean gradation when you say „gradiation“, don‘t you?
Alex, great video. Is was really cool to see a palette like a more chromativ version of the Zorn palette. What are those lighter handled brushes you're using? I'm currently using badger brushes for the features, but I'm curious.
Thank you! They're cheap hog brushes from Rosemary and co.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thanks for the answer.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Could you share where you get your plaster casts? Decent ones seem impossible to locate anywhere in the UK via Google. Thanks!
I only have a couple of casts, one I found in an antique shop here in the UK (the bust of Joan of Arc). I have a Torso that a sculpture friend made for me from a mould they already had and another Torso from a company in the EU, www.decorarconarte.com though they have become more expensive since Brexit.
Just white red ochre and umber is good enough
some artist add burnt umber to make blacks
Thank you for the new video! I'm a big fan of your channel. This portrait tutorial was fantastic! I struggle with color mixing flesh tones and this was extremely helpful.
Thank you very much Jacob! Glad it was helpful.
Holy shit That's the pallet I use. I thought it was just childish colour preference.
I feel a little better about that now
I find It quite tough for doing flesh, but for a limited palette it enables you to mix a much wider most colours.
Pep Guardiola with the painting lessons ❤️
Monsol color theory. Hue, value, chroma.
Hues : purple, red, yellow, blue, green. 5 total.
Value: black (darkest) white (lightest)
Chroma: the strength or purity of the color. Other words: intensity, saturation.
A color is more chromatic the further away is from grey.
Exercise to learn about mixing colors and chroma.
Work with a limited paletted of really intense colors:
Yellow : cadmium lemon.
Red: Azarim crimsom .
Blue: ultramarine blue.
White: titanium white.
Cadmiun red is another red color that is warm, but to make it cooler you would need to use blue or white, and that would desaturated it.
But most colors in nature are desaturated, like the lemon.
your videos are very helpfull as always thank you Alex ✌️✌️
i am new to the art world an i always seek others experience to take a step to become a full time artist
can you make how to paint transition between color and value using brush strokes only without blending
and the business part of art and your plan and strategy to make a leaving out of your art
can you help please 🙏🙏
Thank you very much! Here is a video I made about painting edges in which I talk about blendig etc.
ruclips.net/video/Sm9hCGY6k6k/видео.html
I'm probably not the best person to ask about career developement as an artist. I'm going to be honest, you need a f*ck of a lot of determination, because making a living from your art can be incredibly difficult. The only advice I can really give is keep painting and improving, enter your work into competitions, find ways to show your work and meet people, in person and online. Opportunities will come. If anything it has become easier to reach an audience in recent years because social media, so we're not so reliant on galleries anymore.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thank you very much 👍👍
can you make the business and marketing part of art ?????? please
i have try mix this color now its really nice thanks alex
Absolutely the best video on this topic around. Your channel is absolutely without equal mate 👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much Jon!
hello sir what brand of oil paint you use?
Michael Harding
Thank you Alex! Incredibly interesting and useful as ever!!
Thank you Louis! Glad you think so.
Experience is also important, made color chart, sometimes is not enough, made a note-color sketch, for those in advanced path .
Is Alizarin Crimsom fully Lightfast?
Supposedly not, but Michael Harding which is the brand that I use claims that his is ok? There are more permanent versions available though, like Alizarin Claret by Michael Harding or Permanent Alizarin by Winsor and Newton?
Is it the Quinacridone pigment a good replacement?
Outstanding
what is your favorit pallett zorn or this one in demo
I find this palette can be quite challenging, but it is a great learning tool. The zorn palette makes it a lot easier for mixing flesh tones, though it is quite limited for mixing darker colours, so I like to include Ultramarine, Alizarine and Transparent oxide red.
i like also ultra marine transsparent oxide red and white love it thanks to you its so nice for flesh tones @@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
My regards to Kristine/Christine.
Alex, I don't paint nearly enough to be any good but your superbly presented videos are for me the best encouragement to be found on RUclips, thank you. Please keep up the good work. One question though, at one point in this video you say that adding white to neat ultramarine from the tube increases its intensity, but that statement seems to me to be incompatible with the situation, if that is taken to the extreme, when intensity will obviously be reduced if so much white has been added that there is no chroma or intensity left. As I understand it just because pure ultramarine has a very dark tone does not mean it has low intensity, it is just difficult for us to perceive that intensity.
That's very a good question. Generally, adding white will cause a colour to loose its intensity. But with some dark transparent pigments, like ultramarine, or alizarin when you add a little white it becomes a much brighter colour. In its pure form ultramarine is intense, but only in relation to other dark mixtures. It's very dark so you might use it to add more intense notes to really dark shadows.
So good Alex! Thanks for sharing your expertise, I've learned so much from your videos.
Thank you very much Jamie! Glad they're helpful.
This might be the easiest to understand explanation I've seen yet, very useful thankyou. Do you always paint alla prima?
Thank you very much Stephen! Yes I do. Though that doesn't mean I always finish a painting in one day. Rather it means in one process, starting by blocking in the larger shapes then refining and eventually adding details. With a larger painting you can refining the whole thing in one go but you work a section at a time. Even so, you continually have to keep reassing each section and comparing with the whole, so they may need repainting. I will have to make a video about the process of doing a longer painting at some point?
Amazing ❤❤❤
Thank you!
Bravo, mæstro!!! An excellent demo. Thanks!
Thank you very much Paulus!
The way I found most useful was to take the three primaries and white, and I also added burnt umber to help with the darks, and I chose a colour chart from one of the companies and spent an afternoon mixing colours to match the chart. It was a real eye opener how many colours I could make and it was a great experience which made me feel more confident in colour mixing. I still have the swatches I made for reference with notes of the colours used in order of the quantity of colour needed.
Mixing colour charts is definitely a very useful exercise, but I reckon I learned more about intensity and matching the relationships between different colours by using combinations of the 3 primaries?
Thank you very much. Very Informative. Very useful tips
Glad this was helpful!
the greatest painting instruction of all time
I love the final result! There's something very captivating about it.
Thank you!
So awesome!!! Thank you for sharing
Beutiful
Thank you!
Christine's neck is probably still sore from that angle
Yeah, she worked hard for this one.
Fantastic demo and super clear explanation about colours as always! I’m learning so much watching your channel! Question, what colours brand do you use? They seem so fluid and buttery, or do you just use more?
Thank you Maurizio! I mainly use Michael Harding, as it's the most widely available professional quality brand here in the UK. But I also mix plenty of paint in order to acheive that consistency.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thank you Alex, I use Michael Hardings too mostly. I need not to be afraid to mix bigger piles then 😀
I find that the Zorn palette is better for making copies of 17th century paintings of the like of Velasquez
Do you agree?
I agree.17th century painters didn't have acces to cadmiums etc. they would have had vermilion and more nuetral earth pigments so probably quite similar to the Zorn palette. The Zorn palett makes it much easier for mixing flesh colours i.e. portraits and figures, but it's not so good for mixing brighter colours. This palette allows you to mix a much wider array of colours, but its harder to mix greys and neutrals.
Thanks Alex. You're the best!
thank you Alex :)
Great❤
👏👏👏As usual, top lecture and cool video!👍
Thank you Stefan!
Your videos are great it really helps ❤❤❤
Thank you very much!
Enormously helpful. Thank you.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
🙏🙏
Nice I 've been waiting for a new video.
Thank you Patricio!
Great tutorial thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
good video alex like it a lot
Thank you!
very good Alex :)
Thank you Svan! Glad you like it.
You are a great artist x
Thank you very much Kathleen!
Fantastic, as always
Thank you Suzanne!
Brilliant 👋👋👋
Thank you!
Super helpful!! I wish it were a little calmer in the voiceover, I feel like I’m being talked at by someone who’s stressed out. The content is so great though. Thanks for helping me wrap my brain around this!!
if you cam speek propor english;;;
where did anders zorn use cadmium yellow for and must ask can i be your friend on facebook
The Zorn palette is a different limited palette for the one I use in this video. It doesn't use Cadmium, it uses Yellow ochre instead. Though is still uses version of the three primaries red, yellow and blue. Cadmium Red light or Vermilion, Yellow ochre and Ivory black.
i like this limitited version for portrait @@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting