Friday, Week 15: Fer - Four Color Earth Palette, Oil on Linen (24/04/2020)
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2020
- We finish off this 4 color earth palette week with an Infanta-ish Fer. We ran out of synthetic sheets so we bid them farewell, you were good to us Yupo! So we're going back to old faithful, pre-primed linen, until we run out of that, and we'll start painting on... dishes! Schnabel week! Today Fer is a somewhat strange homage to my oldest faithful - Rembrandt. I say strange because I've noticed that, especially when I don't tone my canvas, no opaque light paint can compete with the brightness of the white of the priming filtering thru the paint. So traditionally, especially when referring to baroque sculptural paint, our lightest light would also mean our heaviest bodied paint applied in an impasto manner. That is how we've represented the three-dimensionality of form for centuries, and that is still how many of us choose to speak about volume. But I noticed that by scraping paint I was getting a better sensation of light rather than by adding paint, especially in an alla prima painting. And that is what's wonderful about painting. To enjoy and respect a Rembrandt does not imply that we have to do the impossible, which is to paint like Rembrandt. Actually... let me take that back. You know who paints like Rembrandt? Rembrandt. In the 17th century. We cannot, and I cannot understand why we would choose to, replicate every single on of the variables that existed at the time our favorite painter was alive, just so we can paint like her. It's impossible and absurd to spend such amount of energy into recreating something unique. Painting's lessons are timeless, but particular feats of painting belong to specific times and places under the direction of extraordinary people. Our way of celebrating those actions is to try and understand how our lives can be impacted for the better by those fascinating works of art. But not by attempting to paint like any of them. The best way we can keep a tradition alive is by simply being our own honest selves.
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Very interesting talk about light, and the different ways of painting it.... The idea of Windows being taxed, and the tiny windows that almost dictated the lighting conditions for an artist just blew me away! Thank you!
Thanks again for a great session. Your work is a true gift to all of us in lockdown. Watching you paint and listening to your commentary is nourishing. Loved watching this one grow from scratch ... children are difficult to paint, their features are so subtle and soft. It is a real treat to watch your mixing moves, esp now that you included the palette, observing how you go around and around building her up, almost like a sculptor. Solid gratitude from Cape Town, South Africa !
I feel like I should watch all of these painting sessions twice: once for the "revealing" of the painted image and the things you talk, and the next for taking notes of the color choices and the way you for example sculpt the form in the paintings you make. Now I think I'm too slow to really grasp all that I would wish to, since there is all this information and it's all so intruguing :)
I adored seeing this very limited palette, this was once again super inspiring week and something I got so, so, so much out of. Thank you so much!
Thank you for keeping me company during this lonely hard time !
Molto bene 🥳
“Life finds a way through painting and it finds away to affect your painting and it is up to us if we believe that those limitations or those variables that life is putting in our way are going to break us or that we’re going to use them and we’re going to say, this is the light I have available, this is the space that I have available...fine. This is what I’m going to paint.
It’s going to speak of a moment of my life that was affected by these variables.
It’s totally totally fine.”
(12:58) ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful ending for a great week.
Darn, I have to wait for the weekend to be over before I GET to see another painting. Window taxing was most interesting too. THANKS
Beautiful painting and beautiful model! It's nice seeing you paint on canvas for a change. What a great week 👍
Greetings fron Athens of Greece! Keep up the excelent and inspiring painting you do! We thank you!
Hermoso retrato. Gracias, de nuevo. Cada vez que veo que subieron un video, casi que no puedo creer cómo es posible tener un acceso tan fácil a un contenido tan valioso. Abrazo!
Great painting and wise words. Thanks.
Incredible as usual! I love these videos!! You rock
Fantastic work, great week 👍
Lovely painting. Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and process. I find these videos very helpful and thought- provoking.
I love this painting.
Gracias
this is a treat...glorious
So good
Super ! Ten times as informative with the palette showing ! ... hmm, now if we could just see the model once or twice..
If it ain't Baroque don't fix it. LOL
I´m so sorry Nicolas, but which oils are you using, thanks! :)
As in brand you mean? Oh it's Soo unimportant, but the white is Michael Harding's titanium white no. 3, Louvre yellow ochre and ivory black, and winsor Newton Terra rosa
Buena el nico saludeme que estoy de. Cumpleaños hoy
Haroooold, feliz cumpleeeee