Can't believe I went to art high school for 5 years and they haven't even once mentioned why our paintings looked flat and "plastic". We didn't have any understanding of why our paintings looked too bright and here I can actually see why and what mistakes we were doing. What a collective waste of money, paint and canvas... Thank you so much for this video!
You are an amazing painter and instructor. There are thousands of people out there in the world who could become high quality painters but fail to become so because of shoddy instruction. I have learned so much in the last week thanks to you.
It is not often that i come across something or someone that seems very honest. On your RUclips site you have this quote ¨ My name is Mark Carder. My goal is to eventually cover all essential instruction for painting realism in oil so that anyone can learn to paint for free. ¨ I have now seen a few videos or explanation of your artwork and style, you share so much information and don t ask in return, you have high values, thank you i will keep listen and learn from your experience. I am totally new at learning the basics of painting.
I found you whilst on furlough in Scotland. I've been Painting for 5 year's, trying to develop a style. I cannot thank you enough for inspiring me. I have learnt so much from the way you teach Mark. I'm struggling but I'll get there 👍😁
i love how humble you sound about being not sure of yourself. when i draw and paint, i also feel the same way. then suddenly everything seems to come together and end up beautiful but as you said, as an artist there are times that i am not sure or lost and change it then end up with something else.
Watching you paint very slowly, and listening to you describe what your doing and thinking is like a meditation! So soothing. Especially in this hard time of Covid 19. Thank you Mark!
Love this painting. The range of greens, umber. Very calming but eye catching. I like how you can see the softness of the seed heads and see the coolness of the hard glass. Awesome, as always. Nice to hear you critique yourself like I do myself! If I actually created a vase of flowers into reality, I would still find a fault, lol.
Your lessons, and seeing you painting slow like this, seeing the way that you hold the brush really helped to improve a lot my digital paintings. Thank you, keep it up with the good work.
So good! 37:00 mins is the awesome articulation of ever painters anxiety... love your work and your natural clear delivery. I am always recommending you to students. Keep up the great work!
I love the way the background is now and at 37:25 in the video. You are amazing!!! Thank you so much, I appreciate what you do and how you explain everything. Thank you.
Mark, you are so amazing. I always wanted to view the masters work on their canvas. I do believe that watching you carefully mixing the colors, drawing the image, and building the painting using each careful stroke, demonstrates how the work was done then. Great demo, great video. Thanks
Thanks Mark. I just watched this for the second time and I'm really surprised at how much you taught in this video. I think the voice over explanation is an excellent teaching method. I am always hungry to know what is going on in a painter's mind, or what his rationale is or what principle he has learned from experience. Very valuable to me. Thanks again.
Bravo, Mark! I love this painting. Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise with us. I so enjoyed watching your process, and hearing your thoughts as you painted it.
I'm a professed Liquin addict and have struggled with wet-in-wet for years, but after seeing all your videos (and purchasing two) I'm going to have to go all in. Love the tip about using your brush tip to do your signature. Now I can stop using detail brushes that hold their point for 10 minutes.
Thank you for another great, informative lesson! This put words to what I experienced when I took an art course that lasted for a couple of months and just a few weeks before it ended I fell and broke my right arm and I'm right handed. I'm stubborn and decided to use my left hand instead - and the self portrait I draw was the best I've ever drawn.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, for sharing your knowledge and experience, it really helps. I have started to paint with oils thanks to all your advice and I am really looking forward to trying your paints. Thank you for everything and I look forward to watching more of your content.
I loved this video by the very natural way you speak about what you’re doing you’ve trigger my desire to paint again you reminded me of the satisfaction I get when the image starts to manifest, when a stroke becomes a suggestion But when you finish is all a whole concert of Color and paint strokes executed to create the artist view THANK YOU!
Mark, thank you again for sharing so much valuable information. This was excellent, as are all your demos and videos. So wonderful and educational to watch a Master at work. Thx again
I really enjoyed to look at your way of painting and here it was very obvious how you maintained a certain abstraction - the way you made the brushstrokes
I liked the painting even more in the very early stages with just a raw feeling of light and shape - as a kind of in-between pure abstraction and a transformation process halv way into the still life - and just wonderfully demonstrated wet in wet style that I love
I really love this type of video. I love seeing how things are built-up and how they develop. Its really nice to hear your thoughts and see the little choices you make. I can recognize so many instances where I would have approached it differently or made a different stroke; being a complete novice, this insight into your process has helped me trmendously!
Oh boy for me this , its like I could just live here watching your paintings come together . and I can say from experience over many years that your making this look way too easy , sadly it isn't or not in my case anyways. however you have picked me up of the deck and me going to go and find all my paints and brushes , and follow your teaching method cus I feel like I might just be able to improve some with your approach thanks for all your brilliant instruction.
This is a magnificent piece I so much enjoyed watching you paint and learnt from you comments. What would you do with the rich palate after you finished?you have so much paint there.
Very beautiful work, Mark. Maybe the reason you were unhappy with the background may be the almost horizontal line in the fabric about half way up the painting, just above the grass on the left hand side. I know my eye goes to it right away.
I think that overpainting is a problem everybody has. (Along with losing focus of the importance of values, which you emphasis effectively.) There has been several occasions when I had wished I had left a part of the painting alone - on my level. I try to remind myself to step back and take some time before changing something. Great lesson. Thanks.
When you were talking about painting transparency, actually, many artists do successfully get accurate colors and values by combining transparent brushstrokes over opaque ones, as many artists use a thinning medium over their blank canvas, creating a lighter color than it would be otherwise. So actually, not everything on an oil painting ends up being completely opaque all the time.
Wow, I thought that was very difficult grass to paint, i said to myself ( he put himself in a big trouble, how he will get out of that trouble, i was never going to choose such grass), but you could paint it so easily and beautifully, wonderful really, you gave me courage to choose difficult stuff to try to paint, i will never fear again never. i guess you were advising not to blend , when shall we blend colors !, and is sharp edges always not good !
I know you like to keep it pretty abstract. However, if I may suggest. I think with the background texture it seems it has a few significantly defined shapes within it. In other words, I can see some larger triangular shapes in there that you might have been able to block in during the preliminary drawing, and then loosely fill in the rest of the space around them. I think that would have giving the background a bit more depth. Anyway, this is an exceptional still life. Loved this video, and learning so much from them!
Mark, again thank you for everything you do. My first painting is finally on its way. I am delighted with what I am seeing emerge on my canvas....I now know I can do this and all because I followed your method!!! I got busy and the paint has dried a bit. I am using Geneva paints....do I have to worry about the fat over lean rule with your paints?
+Lina Draney The "fat over lean" rule should be followed for any oil paint, so yes. Just add a drop of linseed oil to any puddle of paint you are going to be using over a layer of paint that has already dried.
Hi Mark! I have been missing your videos, Great jobb, thanks! Hope that I can order your from yousoon! ...shipping too Sweden/ Europe? pls. Had a lot of problem finding some ingrediens in Europe. It´s never the same ...
Can't believe I went to art high school for 5 years and they haven't even once mentioned why our paintings looked flat and "plastic". We didn't have any understanding of why our paintings looked too bright and here I can actually see why and what mistakes we were doing. What a collective waste of money, paint and canvas... Thank you so much for this video!
i hope people will realize that you have given us the most precious gift of your TIME. thank you!
Mike Voulo so true!
An accomplished artist makes the hard look easy - your artwork is truly an indication that you know what you are doing.
You are an amazing painter and instructor. There are thousands of people out there in the world who could become high quality painters but fail to become so because of shoddy instruction. I have learned so much in the last week thanks to you.
By far my most favorite artist. You are talented. You are extremely helpful and informative and straight to the point! I love your videos!
indeed
Right, concise, precise, no B.S. And thanks to the gods, no "not my cup of tea" background music to add nothing to the information conveyed!
Hmmm talented in the way he painted hes own subjects
Thanks so much for these demonstrations. Real time, not sped up. Very much appreciated.
Yay! I'm so happy you've posted a new video Mark!
It is not often that i come across something or someone that seems very honest. On your RUclips site you have this quote ¨ My name is Mark Carder. My goal is to eventually cover all essential instruction for painting realism in oil so that anyone can learn to paint for free. ¨ I have now seen a few videos or explanation of your artwork and style, you share so much information and don t ask in return, you have high values, thank you i will keep listen and learn from your experience. I am totally new at learning the basics of painting.
I love the teaching of this guy. So valuable! I think he deserves many more subscribers.
I found you whilst on furlough in Scotland. I've been Painting for 5 year's, trying to develop a style. I cannot thank you enough for inspiring me. I have learnt so much from the way you teach Mark. I'm struggling but I'll get there 👍😁
i love how humble you sound about being not sure of yourself. when i draw and paint, i also feel the same way. then suddenly everything seems to come together and end up beautiful but as you said, as an artist there are times that i am not sure or lost and change it then end up with something else.
Watching you paint very slowly, and listening to you describe what your doing and thinking is like a meditation! So soothing. Especially in this hard time of Covid 19. Thank you Mark!
Love this painting. The range of greens, umber. Very calming but eye catching. I like how you can see the softness of the seed heads and see the coolness of the hard glass. Awesome, as always. Nice to hear you critique yourself like I do myself! If I actually created a vase of flowers into reality, I would still find a fault, lol.
Your lessons, and seeing you painting slow like this, seeing the way that you hold the brush really helped to improve a lot my digital paintings. Thank you, keep it up with the good work.
Love it !! I love the “abstraction”. I didn’t know what that style was called but have wanted to learn. Thank you, thank you thank you !!
So good! 37:00 mins is the awesome articulation of ever painters anxiety... love your work and your natural clear delivery. I am always recommending you to students. Keep up the great work!
Your style is different than mine, but, man, do I ever love to watch you paint! You are one heck of a talented artist.
Gorgeous painting. Made my day! Loved the video. Thank you
I love the way the background is now and at 37:25 in the video. You are amazing!!! Thank you so much, I appreciate what you do and how you explain everything. Thank you.
Wow, what an excellent lesson. I really like the final background a lot. The colors are rich and the lighting looks amazing.
I could watch and listen to your descriptions all day. The ideas you offer remind me of the book, "The art Spirit." Great videos.
You give unbelievably useful guidance
Mark, you are so amazing. I always wanted to view the masters work on their canvas. I do believe that watching you carefully mixing the colors, drawing the image, and building the painting using each careful stroke, demonstrates how the work was done then. Great demo, great video. Thanks
Very good information....I can see how I have made mistakes right from the start....thank you for sharing your experience with us
I think you're quite humble in the fact that you never mention your "painterly" aspect, which is gloriously present.
Great technical demonstration Mark. The verbal nuggets are very helpful. The challenge of painting well something borderline ugly.
Thanks Mark. I just watched this for the second time and I'm really surprised at how much you taught in this video. I think the voice over explanation is an excellent teaching method. I am always hungry to know what is going on in a painter's mind, or what his rationale is or what principle he has learned from experience. Very valuable to me. Thanks again.
Bravo, Mark! I love this painting. Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise with us. I so enjoyed watching your process, and hearing your thoughts as you painted it.
Thank you again Mark what a fantastic year of learning for me.
I'm a professed Liquin addict and have struggled with wet-in-wet for years, but after seeing all your videos (and purchasing two) I'm going to have to go all in. Love the tip about using your brush tip to do your signature. Now I can stop using detail brushes that hold their point for 10 minutes.
pushing around dark brown and black for hours. Welcome to being a painter! lol Thank you so much for this
Thank you for another great, informative lesson! This put words to what I experienced when I took an art course that lasted for a couple of months and just a few weeks before it ended I fell and broke my right arm and I'm right handed. I'm stubborn and decided to use my left hand instead - and the self portrait I draw was the best I've ever drawn.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, for sharing your knowledge and experience, it really helps. I have started to paint with oils thanks to all your advice and I am really looking forward to trying your paints. Thank you for everything and I look forward to watching more of your content.
I appreciate your instruction. Thank you for sharing your knowledge from experience.
I really appreciate this, very helpful. I’ve been doubting my instincts, but I guess I’m on the right track! Thanks so much!
Will you do more painting demonstrations ? I watched them all, It's so satisfying !!
Fantastic, forty three minutes of pure visual joy.
I looooooove it! The background is perfect. First time I've watched you....won't be the last....amazing artist!
I loved this video by the very natural way you speak about what you’re doing you’ve trigger my desire to paint again you reminded me of the satisfaction I get when the image starts to manifest, when a stroke becomes a suggestion But when you finish is all a whole concert of Color and paint strokes executed to create the artist view THANK YOU!
Mark, thank you again for sharing so much valuable information. This was excellent, as are all your demos and videos. So wonderful and educational to watch a Master at work. Thx again
Dude your a great teacher, and I love your description of maintaining abstraction.
I really enjoyed to look at your way of painting and here it was very obvious how you maintained a certain abstraction - the way you made the brushstrokes
Thanks for all the instructions. Great teacher and great artist.
I liked the painting even more in the very early stages with just a raw feeling of light and shape - as a kind of in-between pure abstraction and a transformation process halv way into the still life - and just wonderfully demonstrated wet in wet style that I love
I love watching your painting processes... fascinating to watch!
That background ended up perfect. This is georgous
I really love this type of video. I love seeing how things are built-up and how they develop. Its really nice to hear your thoughts and see the little choices you make. I can recognize so many instances where I would have approached it differently or made a different stroke; being a complete novice, this insight into your process has helped me trmendously!
Lush and magical. Love your honest approach and comments. Best ever!
great job. your word choice in describing your process etc. is great for me. Thank you.
Thank you sir for sharing the beautiful demo.
Oh boy for me this , its like I could just live here watching your paintings come together . and I can say from experience over many years that your making this look way too easy , sadly it isn't or not in my case anyways. however you have picked me up of the deck and me going to go and find all my paints and brushes , and follow your teaching method cus I feel like I might just be able to improve some with your approach thanks for all your brilliant instruction.
Keep Calm n Love the Fantastic Demo.
The end result was quite stunning.
Thank you mr.Mark for sharing this excellent video demonstration
I love watching/listening to your videos! I am truley appreciative.
Fantastic! I love watching your work, you've been inspiring.
This is a magnificent piece I so much enjoyed watching you paint and learnt from you comments. What would you do with the rich palate after you finished?you have so much paint there.
Thank you for the awesome video and all the hard work you put into them Mark!
I love this one. I think it’s a good lesson for shaggy dog fur too.
Beautiful, beautiful piece. I love the background you ended up with.
Very beautiful work, Mark. Maybe the reason you were unhappy with the background may be the almost horizontal line in the fabric about half way up the painting, just above the grass on the left hand side. I know my eye goes to it right away.
You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you. ❤️
Amazing! Have been missing your videos really bad. Looking forward for the new products in 2016
Thank's for the amazing class!
Very, beautiful painting.
nice one Mark , background spot on .
I think that overpainting is a problem everybody has. (Along with losing focus of the importance of values, which you emphasis effectively.) There has been several occasions when I had wished I had left a part of the painting alone - on my level. I try to remind myself to step back and take some time before changing something. Great lesson. Thanks.
I saw your video right after waking up ... thanks for that :)
I looove the way the background ended up
Fantastic demo.....thank you so much. I learned a lot.
Nice painting! Iearned a lot. Thank you!
Lovely palette! Very Zorn-esque!
I have been waiting for this for sooo long! Thanks, you are amazing :)
When you were talking about painting transparency, actually, many artists do successfully get accurate colors and values by combining transparent brushstrokes over opaque ones, as many artists use a thinning medium over their blank canvas, creating a lighter color than it would be otherwise. So actually, not everything on an oil painting ends up being completely opaque all the time.
Wow that's beautiful!
Amazing!Great demo!Thank you so much
Thank you, for teaching oil painting.
wow ! so helpful
thank you so much Mark for sharing this
Wow, I thought that was very difficult grass to paint, i said to myself ( he put himself in a big trouble, how he will get out of that trouble, i was never going to choose such grass), but you could paint it so easily and beautifully, wonderful really, you gave me courage to choose difficult stuff to try to paint, i will never fear again never. i guess you were advising not to blend , when shall we blend colors !, and is sharp edges always not good !
This is so helpful! Thank you.
great channel, work much appreciated
Also, the way you paint reminds me a lot of the way David Hockney paints.
As always great!
I like Vermmers camera obscura method. good way too get photographic quality and just fill in the colours... well kinda
Thanks a demo after all. A demo is worth a million words. Can I use this in acrylic?
I bet following his method, little blending, any medium would work well for this subject!
Thanks for sharing.❤️
Simply wow
At some point when he was painting the highlights on the vase I almost forgot to breathe :)
Excellent!!!
Great! Thanks for sharing!
amazing
I know you like to keep it pretty abstract. However, if I may suggest. I think with the background texture it seems it has a few significantly defined shapes within it. In other words, I can see some larger triangular shapes in there that you might have been able to block in during the preliminary drawing, and then loosely fill in the rest of the space around them. I think that would have giving the background a bit more depth. Anyway, this is an exceptional still life. Loved this video, and learning so much from them!
Mark, again thank you for everything you do. My first painting is finally on its way. I am delighted with what I am seeing emerge on my canvas....I now know I can do this and all because I followed your method!!!
I got busy and the paint has dried a bit. I am using Geneva paints....do I have to worry about the fat over lean rule with your paints?
+Lina Draney The "fat over lean" rule should be followed for any oil paint, so yes. Just add a drop of linseed oil to any puddle of paint you are going to be using over a layer of paint that has already dried.
excellent! Thanks Sir
I discovered that you always use silver-greenish mud colors for the background. Is there any special reason of it or are those your favorite colors?
Can you tell how long it take to paint that whole painting? Love your videos thanks for sharing that all
Hi Mark! I have been missing your videos, Great jobb, thanks! Hope that I can order your from yousoon! ...shipping too Sweden/ Europe? pls. Had a lot of problem finding some ingrediens in Europe. It´s never the same ...
Beautiful as usual Mark, do you have any plein aire videos ?
wonderful.
So your a Notan artist who just fills in the middle values after the black and then shed some light on the subject at the end?