Demonstration Video: How to Mix Subtle Greens
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- So many viewers (100,000 and counting) watched my last demonstration video from two weeks ago, I decided to do another. I elaborate on the video from last week on mixing greens and add not just the long form demonstration but show in advance how I am thinking about color mixing.
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I think that “long demos” are not good, they are FANTÁSTIC!!! Thank you so much!
OK Roberto, fantastic is good. Thanks for letting me know.
This is so great for those of us who need instruction , but unable to participate in in-person classes.
Mr Roberts if i can ask you how do u attach your canvas to the easel board?
AGREE
Love your videos and the fact you display the ref photo and explain the colors being mixed to achieve end results, in addition to the technique used while painting. These videos are at the top of the ones most helpful. You stick to the point and don’t stray from the subject matter. Most helpful demonstrations! Thank you!
Yes, I would greatly appreciate a long-form demo once a month, Ian. Really helpful, and thank you very much.
I agree with the longer demos at least once a month - they are quite helpful. I often think that the 6-7 minute videos are a little too short - they seem more of introductions to topics. (I didn't want to scroll all the way down to the end to type this comment.) OH! Now I see I could have made my comment at the beginning, but I don't know where it would end up in the listing of comments.
Thanks so much Susan.
Hi Donald, thanks on your feedback on the length. It's true 6-8 minutes means crafting something pretty tightly on topic and letting all kinds of related ideas hung. I suppose until another later one. At the same time I hardly ever have time to watch something a good deal longer. What's that line about public speaking, close while they still want more. Not sure. All the best.
Yes, a longer demo is always appreciated! Thanks so much for this, Ian. I thought the color wheel explanation was a great reminder for me when mixing colors.
Glad you enjoyed you enjoyed the longer video Mary. All the very best to you.
Long demos are great, anytime, lovely to see you painting and explaining.
Thank you Albertina.
Love this demo! I would like to see something similar on sky’s/clouds.
Thanks Kate. Will do one on clouds. Be a few weeks.
I loved how you showed all the different greens, but Kate is right: one on clouds/sky's and even water, waves, sea I would love to see.Thank you Ian for showing these wonderfull demo's
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Demos are always nice but it's quite likely way more work for you. Thank you for posting for free for all of us who want to learn but not necessarily can afford classes.👌❤️
Thanks so much for your appreciation. Means a lot Jola.
Action speaks louder than words , More demos please , Love your teaching style Thanks Ian.
Oh, my gosh! An excellent tutorial! Demonstrating while explaining is so helpful. Thank you Ian.
I agree. I've learned so much about mixing color simply by watching!
Ian, I've enjoyed watching your long demos. I learned a lot from you. Hope you'll produce more long demos. Thank you so much!
Yes, a long demo is a great idea. Thank you for your time in making these.
Thank you!
I too love the longer demos. It gives me more detailed information which is super helpful!
Thank you!
I will watch everything you do, too! So glad to have found you!
Thanks Mary. You are great!
Mastering composition is my go to reference book, I’m really appreciating your videos both short and long. This video was so helpful Thank you Ian👍🏼
Thanks Norm.
I was enthralled with your way of mixing greens! I need to watch this over several times, hope I can save this! I noticed the composition , vertical , horizontal and diagonal , is Always on the right side of the canvas. Do yo , or can you put the vertical on the left, etc.? I don't see why not!
According to Stefan Baumann, in western cultures, because we write from left to right, our eyes are comfortable going into the painting from the left and then rest on the right, other cultures such as Arabic who write from right to left have the opposite degree of comfort. It’s a natural progression from cultural training.
If you watch last week, he showed how he came to that layout.
Edward Potthast 1859-1927 did many paintings with his vertical on the left hand side and was very successful with that composition.
Well, in next week's video the main center of interest is way on the left. Just to make the point, that I think it just depends on my reference material.
I noticed that because I’m left handed I have a tendency to put my focal point on the right hand side of my compositions. I have to be very careful because I also want to do the same with how the eye will enter a canvas.
Thank you for doing this demo on greens. I was stuck with too few greens in my current painting.
What a gift your free instructional videos are for many of us. Would love to watch some over and over but actually find it challenging just to keep up your impressive weekly publishing schedule.
I would like to see more demos, particularly on color mixing, although this is not good for my budget.
Thanks Janene.
This was so helpful, not only for the mixing of greens but the relaxed process. Thank you!
That's great Sheryl. Thanks for telling me.
I concur that the longer demo is very helpful and watching the process of color mixing helps get us out of the "fearful" closet! Great teaching!
I’d love to see longer demos. I found your channel a few weeks ago and have been enjoying your video instruction and learning a lot. Thank you!
Such a great job explaining your intentions. Really helpful for those trying to progress on their art journey.
Thank you for all your wonderful videos. So inspiring, instructive, and practical!
And yes, personally I love the longer demos 👍
Hi Ian ,
The long format really works for me. I particularly like the way you laid out the overall strategies of color mixing before going into the details. It would be nice to you can teach another one like this for yellow/orange and brown family. Thank you so much. I have learned a lot from you.
Anita
Glad you liked it and that is a good suggestion for the browns. I'll have to find an image that works for that. Thank you.
Enjoyed the video, I just wonder how often you change brushes to keep from getting too muddy.
I clean them a lot.
I just discovered you ... I wish I had discovered you a couple of years ago when I started painting! Yes please, more long demos!!!
I will definitely be watching your long-form demos, repeatedly, and taking notes.
Thank you.
Tank you, Ian long démo with pour explination its excellent
I really loved your comments on controlling the edges subservient to the overall goal of the composition. I think that is so often overlooked when you really need a chorus of techniques harmonizing towards one goal. Color, texture, shape and composition all singing together. Thanks for this great demonstration! This is one I’ll watch multiple times! Keep it up! Great work.
Thanks so much Danny and I really need to do another one on edges.
Thank you for teaching me the construction of different greens. Love your demonstration. Thank you!
I watched it three times in a row--so all that great info will sink in! It simplifies my process and makes sense. Please continue with at least one full demo a month; thank you soooo much!
Thanks for the feedback Joyce. Best wishes.
Longer demos are great!! You add more tips with more time teaching. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.
Yes to long demos and also for the short version before,one to have a general idea and the other going deep. These videos are so well done and helpful, thank you very much.
Thank you for the feedback.
Yes, the long format video is a great idea. Thank you. Working from a “puddle” is now part of my process; it makes my compositions so much more consistent. Looking forward to next Tuesday.
That's great Sue. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, the puddle makes so much sense. My problem is never knowing how much paint to start with and never wanting to put enough for fear of wasting it.☺
Excellent discussion on greens! Would love to see more of these long videos.
The demonstration was well done. I would really appreciate the long version once a month. I especially appreciate the 🎨 demonstration before the painting. Thank you.
Thanks Colette.
Two years too late, but it’s a beautiful painting!
I would love longer demos on a regular basis. They really help.
Thank you Sarah.
I love the long demos--I find greens challenging so your video really made color clearer. Thank you.
Demos make all the difference in the world as part of the learning process. I can learn theory all day long but when I SEE it being done then learning becomes even more enhanced.
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much, this demo was very informative. I'm curious about your lack of use of medium. can you comment?
Hi Michael, if the painting is smaller, 10 x 12 say, I just use lots of paint. And a smooth canvas. (Which I didn't use in the coming week's video and you'll see all the little holes left by the brush on the coarser canvas surface. But normally lots of paint and small canvas. On a big canvas I will sometime use mineral spirits to block in large shapes just to get the canvas covered.
Fascinating demo. I loved the color explanations and demo as you developed this painting. i would love more like it. I think im beginning ton understand the temp aspect of colors in painting.
This study/demo was very helpful. I would enjoy a monthly demonstration-your offering to do so is very generous.
thanks so much. Glad you enjoy it
Really appreciate the long demo.
Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into your lessons. They are truely an inspiration. The long demos are so helpful as you become aware of the way you analyse each colour choice and placement altering as you proceed to achieve rhythm and focus while still staying true to your original photo. Your mastery towards the end of what needs to be emphasised and what reduced to lead you into the scene are truely masterful. This is helping us all stay sane in difficult times.
A longer demo of actual painting is very helpful
That was brilliant, but particularly because you add so much understanding with your fluent commentary. Also well edited for time so that it stays interesting all the way through. Thank you so much. Please keep the demos coming
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Yes please on long-form demos!! Thank you for all you do!!
Yes to the Long form demos.... thank you for sharing your talent.
Could you please do a cityscape once?
Your videos AMAZAING AND SO IMPORTANT JUST IN 20 MINUTES!!! THANK YOUUU SO MUCH!!!✨️🌹✨️❤️✨️☀️✨️🎨✨️🎶✨️
What about happy little squirrel? Does he live there? On that happy little tree? :)
Thanks Norm. Best wishes.
Yes, we haven't seen a new full demo for a long time, please at least once a month to light up in the winter south world with your more demos!😃
I'm so glad it was helpful.
I'm learning more from this than from years of browsing other lessons 😁👍
Yes to the monthly demo. I'm always interested in other painters' process. Personally, I've found Phthalo green to quite an assertive color and I like Viridian green better. Seems fairly close to Phthalo, but easier for me to control. Lately I've gone to mixing my greens from scratch using Cadmium yellow pale, Yellow Ochre and Ultramarine blue. I'm also experimenting with replacing Alizarin Crimson with Transparent Red Iron Oxide.
Phthalo just has more wheels so to speak. Get a big mass of color that has gone too neutral you can easily pull it back to green with phthalo where viridian you'd have to clean the brush and start again. But you are right, Phthalo can be a toxic color if you are not careful.
Yes a long demo once a month would be much appreciated
I would love to see a long demo. Always struggle with greens.
Yes me also. I sruggle with mixing greens.
It's just a wonderful time, a quality time with mr. Roberts, think you alot!!!!!❤
Really enjoyed this
Great talk about moving the eye and building in shapes. Wonderful color mixing demo. Thank you.
Well done Ian. This was my 2nd video and greatly appreciate your sharing the painting process and how you use your colors and complimentary color approach!
FRED LANG
Wonderful! The demo for Shapes and green mixing concepts very helpful! Along with talking thru and seeing the mixing as you go was very beneficial!
Thank you!
Thank you for this excellent blow-by-blow of how you create a harmonized palette of multi-temp. greens. I hope to apply this to my feeble attempts to bring life to the abundance of greens in our mountains which lull me into a state of bilious paralysis. Either that, or I render a leaf-by-leaf jigsaw. Using PG7 sparingly as an add-in only is genius. You call this long? I want more!
Thankyou so much for fantastic videos. You have explained minor things in a very detailed way which helps a lot. Color mixing is extremely important. You have explained it in simple way so its easy to grasp. I have recently learned about your videos and trying to watch all of them. Waiting to learn more.🙏👌😁
This is another fabulous demo! A friend sent me a link to one of your demos and I have been hooked, ever since. I am trying to catch up, not wanting to miss a single episode! You could say that I am "hooked": rod, line & sinker! LOL
I have been trying for years to paint faster,...more effectively. Though I love oil painting, the process just seemed so long and tedious but your method seems so much more direct & beautiful. By the way, I love your bright colours!
I learned oil painting from an old master who was 93 yrs old when she started teaching me, but she was "frustrated by her slow output" (an amazing- one 18" x 24" per week) and stiff style.
I really like the way you explain, clearly & simply, throughout the videos even while painting! and you post your reference images in the frame, as well as showing us your palette! To me, it is as though you are showing us a glimpse into your painting soul! Thank you for sharing! You share so well (in quality and content)!
Brilliant Thankyou, I’m a watercolour it’s new to oils and just discovered you on RUclips, Thankyou for fantastic demo
I think I’m on the right track. This video confirms my paint mixing is okay. Sometimes my paint appears “muddy” but abstracted, that’s how it really looks as tertiaries. And then the fresh greens work even better. Thanks for this video!
I agree, the longer demo's give a more complete picture, excuse the pun. Watching your colour mixing complete with your voice over narrative, is so helpful.
I really enjoy and benefit from your demo's. Thank you.
I liked the demo-would have liked a quick review of the palette hues first. Had to grab your book and check page 84-85. This was mixing greens I think. I hadn't thought of using chrom ox grn before-good to know. Thanks these demos.
Dear Sir, I wanted to ask you for a virtual summer drawing course. I will be on vacation starting in July and ending in September. Oh, I should have added, could it please be for beginners( non artist?. I can actually draw a little🙃 The way we start in grade school🤣🤣😂. When I watch your videos I think for a few minutes that I can do it. You are also the only artist on RUclips that I can listen to for more than two minutes. I can actually listen to you all day. Thank you for all your free content. I do truly appreciate you.
I'm painting in acrylic but I love the way you show details of whatever it is you're subject is. Love the tuesday emails. That GREEN demo was excellent. Thanks
This demo was wonderful! I have just discovered you via The Paint Coach. I struggle with greens and your demo was just what I needed. Thank You!
One thing I’m confused about is how to keep the residual paint on the brush from ruining the little blobs of color. Maybe it’s editing but you don’t appear to rinse your brush. Every time you grab a little yellow ochre for example you’re also leaving a smear of dark green. (Haha this is probably a “cleanliness” hang-up I have and the antidote is probably to “get messy!” ) Maybe I should try finger painting. 😬
This is one of the better art demos I have seen. It was incredibly helpful. Thank you.
Yep sounds like a great idea, Ian.
Thanks for this video too - subtlety is such a difficult thing to get right, and something I'd like to really be able to get a good handle on. Currently struggling with a hill in the middle distance of my current painting. Finding it really tough to find the balance of the right amount of detail/variation, and the right hue - like how blued out should it be when its local colour is warm, its receiving direct sunlight, but is as I say middle distance? One moment it's too grey, the next too saturated, the next too much detail - ack! The subtlety in this ONE HILL is really pushing me.
Maybe rather than focussing on the color, keep the color about what you would expect but reduce the amount of information. Make it simpler, flatter so we are forced to see it as further back.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thanks for the advice - I'll give that a go and see what I can do! :)
Longer videos on specific topics would be great! How about one on creating color harmony in a fall scene without getting gaudy. What color for sky with orange reds, i.e.: greenish, deep blue, etc., etc...
Very helpful video. I have been struggling way too much ( trial and error) to get my landscape colors and values correct. This answers a whole bunch of questions I had...thank you.
Really enjoyed this demo, which I've watched a number of times, and you talking us through your colour mixes of greens, which as we know are notoriously difficult to get right.
Hi Ian - I’m an amateur and paint in watercolour, but your advice and examples on composition and colour are really valuable - thank you and more demos please!
Hi Robert, I'm glad as a watercolor painter you find the videos helpful. That is good to know. All the best.
YES SIR! To the long demo! Simplification is my issue! always gotten hung up on details because it had to look just like what I was trying to interpret ! Thank you!
I only found you on RUclips two days ago! Am I ever glad I did!! 🌟😊 Your teaching style is exquisite. I am learning from you already. Yes I would like to see demos.
I especially loved this video, I just started landscapes and have big problems with green colors. So this will be very helpful. Thanks a lot. Of course a large video about any subject would be appreciated!
Even though I'm a watercolor painter I still benefited from the demo. Thanks for the knowledge.
Excellent tuition showing the mixing of colours and applying the shades of paint. Thank you
I have so much trouble with paint and mixing green to get value.
Thank you, your videos are excellent and your voice is calming with instructions.
I’m just starting to paint, and I’ve read about the problem of creating mud. In this video and others, you often mix any number of pigments together without any apparent concern about creating mud. How do you avoid it? Thanks.
I love this video. 2/16/23. Looking for more longer videos since this one was filmed and not seeing any 25 minutes videos are more.
I have subscribed and just love your videos love love love
Thank you very much. I followed along and made a copy. Learned a lot about mixing greens. My end result when compared with yours demonstrates how much experience and talent you have!
Hi, I just subscribed! Really need help with my greens. What can I substitute for the purple? 🙏. I too would love your long demos once a month , how can I get a reminder re date and time , thank you!
Hi Ian, Ive just started watching your videos. They are all so helpful without any waffle! i really feel I can move forward with the advice you have given. Many Thanks Bill
Just found your videos online and I love what I watched today! WHAT a treat! Thanks so much!
This video is very helpful. I always have my colors too saturated, mostly because I am scared of using white. It seems like every time I introduce white, my painting goes down hill, and that is probably because I am too saturated at the beginning. Huge, huge help to me to see you mix in the white! Thank you!
A long demo is a GREAT idea. Truly enjoyed this demonstration! I really need to develop my palette of colors, I use way too many. Thank you!
Gosh it really helped to see the palette and the colors being subtly adjusted as you painted. Great I hope you do more like this.
I am assuming this technique works in Acrylics as well? Can you advise what brush you use, it looked like a very soft filbert? I loved this tutorial demonstration!
Thanks from someone who has about a year under his belt.
A”carnet” With tear-off paper-sheets.... it should be..../🌺
Hi, it’s my second comment today, I’m a new member. Curious about your use of mediums. I love the way your paints flow, what medium did you use here? Thanks
This demo was most helpful. Although I am a novice using acrylics I have learned a lot in this 25 minute video. More Please!
So many things to learn from your demos. Thanks so much for your time and sharing your knowledge! Cheers from Mexico!
That was very interesting and instructive, enjoyed learning how to soften the edges and blend tonal values.
Long demo's are good but I reckon once in a while for issues that warent that much attention so one a month would be plenty hey.
The shorter demos hold your attention but more suited to specific targeted issues? Food for thougt.
Great work, realy enjoying this learning Ian, well done 😉 Bert in Oz
IAN, I LOVE YOUR LONGER DEMONSTRATIONS. THOUGH I HAVE TO SAY, YOU REALLY PACK A GREAT AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IN YOUR SHORT VIDEOS AS WELL! SOME DAYS I LOOK FOR LONGER DEMO'S OTHER TIMES, TIME IS SHORT HERE & I JUST NEED A QUICK "FIX" I AM GRATEFUL YOU OFFER BOTH! :-)
It is a lovely Idea, With a long demonstration! I do return to your videos. The repetition is the mother of knowledge or skills, I think the proverb was?/Thank you🌺