I’m in my late 50’s and struggled to get a degree in art while starting a family, after child #3 I decided SOMEONE was going to have to raise them lol, so my husband worked and I stayed home taking care giving up my dream of a degree. Life became so hectic I packed up my supplies and didn’t produce anything for many years. Lately I’ve taken those supplies out and decided I’d just ‘use’ them up and in the process discovered my love for just creating something, most of it looks pretty bad but I don’t care. Finding teachers like you on utube is giving me a better education about my materials and techniques then I ever got in school and I’m regaining the skills I once had so thank you for freely sharing your wonderful knowledge with me.

Hi Mark! Thanks for everything. I have a question: how do you accept/process payment from customers, and/or what do you recommend? I've been exploring payment processors, bank transfers, etc. and would love advice from someone with more experience under their belt. Thanks!

Very nice ❤

Thank you😊 Your explanation was very easy to understand and very thorough. I’ve been so nervous to use it one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is very informative. I feel I can focus too much on my colors, and even as a primarily abstract painter, I can use these tips to insinuate form in some sense.

Oh, Emily, what an inspiration you are for me! Watching Mark paint; he has so much experience and hardly ever has to wonder what to do next or how to make a correction. Watching you focus and explain what you are feeling as you create problems that you have to fix and then you letting perfectionism go so you can continue having fun is a great reminder for me. Enjoy the process!! Let me know if you made more of these. I'd love to see them!

I'm inspired...thank you!

The simplicity of this colour wheel is what speaks to me as a beginner.

Thanks a bunch. "The whole point of this exercise is to finish with a very ugly painting that you hate, but your values are right" this line is a life saver.

Greetings. How do I give a proper quotation for painting that it won't be much on the side of the client and a lost on my part?

Please tell us about the woman with the hat.

Hello to all who love drawing, I hope you will visit my page and give me your opinion about my paintings and encourage me with a positive comment, please, and I hope that the owner of the channel will remove my comment.

I have learned patience. I am grateful through you.

If you can find time to watch tv, you can find time to paint.

'When i was painting portraits' Proceeds to show hyper realistic paintings that look like the photograph...

So glad I found you here. Thank you for your unselfish sharing of your time and talent!

I wish I could purchase the set of colors, unfortunately when the total bill comes to 294$ for the essential kit. do you recommend any other brand? I hate that I'm asking this, but I cant seem to find your paint anywhere but the website however the price is not at all affordable especially shipping to Canada.

Very encouraging colour mixing teaching ! So precious and SIMPLE - all great ingrediants of a good teacher ! Much appreciated 👍👍 Thank you !

New subscriber sir from philippines..

I tried making brush dip myself and was happy with how it worked but the cost per ounce is better on Geneva so i bought 2 bottles and a canvas stain. I will come back to share how the bottled stuff works.

I love to watch you paint, it's magic to see the painting come together. I often wonder what it would be like to sit nearby and watch someone like Sargent or Sorolla paint and listen as he would talk about painting. Thank you for your powerful teaching and allowing us the opportunity to watch a master at work.

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as someone who always has to teach and explain your strategy is SPOT ON. You explain and show the possible mistakes and the WHYS not just the HOWS, So many people only the teach the correct method. You need to see and understand the mistakes

This video and work flow is amazing thank you so much for this

Ah yes the painter’s curse. I thought I was unique in not satisfied with my work! Thanks sir

Thanks for your advice

Wow… thanks a lot for this

I just got another fu cool

Adding white to adjust the value spoil the painting, white blocks everything, painting becomes dull, there are other ways to adjust the values

Thank you for the wonderful videos! When you do it it looks so easy haha! Can you please make a video some day about brushwork?

I hope you start making these again! Lost mine in the mess of a stressful move in 2020. I could make one, of course, but I like the way you make these tools very much Mark. Cheers

Thank for the video! A question..is it really silly to use an acrylic varnish on an oil painting? I have tried it and it seems to work well, however what I am not so sure about is the long term performance of it. as I said it does protect and brings the colours out a lot, but also is a lot cheaper, considering for example varnishing larger paintings.... any thoughts ?

Wow, this painting video has really opened my mind up. This makes such logical sense. I am artistic but never understood proper art skills. Now about to learn. This video is clever in how it explains colour. Thank you so much.

Gracias maestro

What a wonderful easel pity I live over the seas. And especially the American dollar going up to the roof at the moment.

Be cautious: I ordered Geniva paint, which included paid products and shipping. I received an email from the Geniva transportation company stating that there was an issue. I immediately contacted Geniva to inform them, and they responded that everything was fine and suggested it might be a scam. The entire order was returned to Geniva. Over the past nine days, I have sent ten emails, none of which received a response, including two directly addressed to Mr. Carder. I have no idea if I will receive a refund or if I have been scammed by this company. Their customer service is the worst. They do not provide a phone number. Please be aware. I will not rest until I get my refund. I have a strong dislike for people or companies that take advantage of our hard-earned money.

Be cautious: I ordered Geniva paint, which included paid products and shipping. I received an email from the Geniva transportation company stating that there was an issue. I immediately contacted Geniva to inform them, and they responded that everything was fine and suggested it might be a scam. The entire order was returned to Geniva. Over the past nine days, I have sent ten emails, none of which received a response, including two directly addressed to Mr. Carder. I have no idea if I will receive a refund or if I have been scammed by this company. Their customer service is the worst. They do not provide a phone number. Please be aware. I will not rest until I get my refund. I have a strong dislike for people or companies that take advantage of our hard-earned money.

Be cautious: I ordered Geniva paint, which included paid products and shipping. I received an email from the Geniva transportation company stating that there was an issue. I immediately contacted Geniva to inform them, and they responded that everything was fine and suggested it might be a scam. The entire order was returned to Geniva. Over the past nine days, I have sent ten emails, none of which received a response, including two directly addressed to Mr. Carder. I have no idea if I will receive a refund or if I have been scammed by this company. Their customer service is the worst. They do not provide a phone number. Please be aware. I will not rest until I get my refund. I have a strong dislike for people or companies that take advantage of our hard-earned money.

Be cautious: I ordered Geniva paint, which included paid products and shipping. I received an email from the Geniva transportation company stating that there was an issue. I immediately contacted Geniva to inform them, and they responded that everything was fine and suggested it might be a scam. The entire order was returned to Geniva. Over the past nine days, I have sent ten emails, none of which received a response, including two directly addressed to Mr. Carder. I have no idea if I will receive a refund or if I have been scammed by this company. Their customer service is the worst. They do not provide a phone number. Please be aware. I will not rest until I get my refund. I have a strong dislike for people or companies that take advantage of our hard-earned money.

I have learned a ton from watching your videos. Thank you for providing such quality content!

I love that you stick to your own opinion of AI as a great tool and don’t change it to please the haters. I totally agree that it’s a very exciting way to make better paintings. Thank you Mark!

Self acceptance is important for every painter It's therapeutic field for the love of art I found myself get frustrated for changing colors too long And i understand i shouldn't drowning myself from this specific situation❤

But what are the actual colours here? French Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson and…lemon yellow? What’s the yellow?

Very good Mark.

Every time I finish a painting I thank Mark Carder and Geneva paints

Question: Why does he use brown instead of black for his 5th color?

Thanks Mark! Guilty as charged I think I spent 20 mins this evening trying to fine tune one color for my next painting ha. Great reminder value > color

ammmm , ammm !

Be cautious: I ordered Geniva paint, which included paid products and shipping. I received an email from the Geniva transportation company stating that there was an issue. I immediately contacted Geniva to inform them, and they responded that everything was fine and suggested it might be a scam. The entire order was returned to Geniva. Over the past nine days, I have sent ten emails, none of which received a response, including two directly addressed to Mr. Carder. I have no idea if I will receive a refund or if I have been scammed by this company. Their customer service is the worst. They do not provide a phone number. Please be aware. I will not rest until I get my refund. I have a strong dislike for people or companies that take advantage of our hard-earned money.

So for those young aspiring artists out there who're use to drawing Anime figures (which is fine, Anime can be stunning), you really should take to heart the often stereotypical statement "First learn how to follow the rules...THEN learn from that how to break the rules." Mark and Draw Mix Paint is a gift with respect to that. There few (free) places where you can gain superb painting techniques on how to paint realism than here. His advice on "identify which is more subtle, the painting or the source" is invaluable, because although greats like Pablo Picasso and Dali might've not only broke the rule of "don't overdo subtlety," but also exaggerated it to a beautiful extreme. The difference is: Those artists before then could paint beautiful works of realism that rivals anything we can see in modern times...but after learning that, evolved beyond it. Learn the basics, and paint for realism. Become a future Dali later.