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All this time I've been wondering the secret to a great painting.... wow... I never thought of making a brush stroke.. revelatory.

Good luck to those who follow him .

Way too much room for inaccuracy

The audio seems like it's coming from an old radio, it really sets the mood. I like.

Great advice , thank you for posting.

I come back to this video about once a year. Happy 2023!

So true. That is why John Singer Sargent was the best Master ever.

RIP master. Miss you painfully…

this Peter is not the violinist?

I watched a couple of demos from Leffel but there he does exactly the opposite of what he is teaching here starting with very random uncontrolled and fiddly brushwork not at all coming from the shoulder with even pressure .....

Get the book _Brushwork Essentials_ by Mark Christopher Weber. I took a five-day David Leffel workshop in Taos, but it was the Weber book that was a life-changer for me.

A living legend. We don't even deserve to hear his voice. We're nothing. We're no where. We're lost without David Leffel. Thank you for enlightening our sad, frivolous little lives.

every stroke is important. give it life. is it a stroke of light which wants to be seen or is it a stroke of shadow which wants to be hidden. light keeps you warm shadow keeps you cool. your stroke becomes the atmosphere.

Best definition of a brush stroke, discipline your movement

A specific piece of business.

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Richard is awesome. Everyone go check out his KZbin channel. Tons of awesome info.

I usually paint with both types, blending or even, brushstrokes depending on the painting.

Hes like Dumbledore and Schmid is Gandalf of Painting🤗

not the smartest

I promise to paint specific brush strokes.

"In this clip from LAAFA's upcoming David Leffel video series" which video is this? Is there a DVD?

I don't know how to make a brush stroke! I can't do it!

can I download the video and share it to my instagram accredinig the artist and the L.A academy of art? since the links in Instagram are disabled ?

He doesnt say not to blend, he says to use a single stroke from the body for your initial lines, not to be staccato about it. In his short clip about edges he demonstrates edges by blending.

No one looked at the art

My friend come down. You are not highly creative. Still, you are great charcoal artist with good skills to capture 3d forms in your drawings.

Keep saying brushstrokes ....

Great Artist! Has his own technique. ( Not the only technique!) Yes, very close to Rembrandt's..but not Rembrandt's! You can learn alot from a painter like him. But why would you want to paint the same way? When you go to higher learning.. siminars, classes, schools.. you concentrate on different ways, techniques, color theories, etc. Hopefully it will help you in/ on your style. A artist should never put down another artist! Monet, Van Gogh, Wyeth, Letrec was always criticize and look at their status today. When I walk into a gallery, museum, someone's home and there is alot of art work around I am instantly drawn to what talks to me. What charged MY emotions. Not what is politically correct! Everybody has different likes, emotions, etc. No one can tell you what to like. What is not good! I am a realist painter with a impressionist style. Look at Richard Schmid, Casey Baugh, Michelle Dunnaway ....All "Super Great." Because they don't use a brush stroke the same way something is wrong? NO!!!!! This artist's wife is well known and she has a different style!

i wish Will have a youtube channel !

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There are quite a few critiques of the instruction he uses here. If you watch this guy paint, he obviously blends his colors both on the pallet and on the canvas. I would contend then that he is trying to help his students (probably not masters) think outside of their normal modality. Think of when you learned how to drive. Someone taught you how to hold the steering wheel, right? That may or may not be the way you hold it when you drive today, but it was helpful for you to learn that way before you go and experiment with other ways to hold a steering wheel. I think he's giving good instruction for people new to the medium of paint.

Yet when you see him paint he strokes and smoothes with his little brush ,when I paint ,one brush stroke is done with one brush then thrown down ,I hold twenty brushes in one hand ,I make kidney shape palette out of cardboard ,which rests on my arm ,so when it's too clogged with paint I make another ,when my brushes are all used , I clean them and start attack again ,I never paint from photographs ,and I think of something that makes me angry to use that energy ,I see every thing firstly as form ,Sky ,trees ,face, still life ,and I draw the shapes that make up that form and I simplify the canvas into two main shapes ,a vase of flowers on a cloth ,the vase and the cloth become one mass of paint ,colour and shapes the flowers and background become the other shape making just two shapes ,my paintings have energy and vibrancy ,To be an artist go to a real gallery and have a really good long look at how great artists paint ,it is the only way to understand ,never stop experimenting .

this silly old fool actually thinks he knows something new

It is said that no one can teach you how to paint, but only how they paint. I don't believe he means to demean other methods. He is trying to impart to those who are listening how he paints. I have been in the gallery in Taos that carries his works and when you see them you never forget them. Great artist but hard to decipher all his teaching psychology. Any of his artist critics would give their painting arm to be able to paint as he does. If you like how you paint then go for it.

I Wish to become a Comic Book Artist/Writer. Is LAAFA a Great School to Learn at to Know how to Draw for Comics?

Not sure I completely agree with all he has said, about what makes a good brush stroke, especially about the constant even pressure. There are many great painters whose brushstrokes, when it was appropriate, tapered or lessened is pressure to achieve an end result...you can't have a one brushstroke fits all mentality when painting.

Where has this guy been all my life?

This photo not learn please show me your draw i want learn

Soooooooooooooooo overrated. Hey all you Leffel fans, good news! Rumor has it he is now charging one thousand dollars a day. A three day workshop would be ONLY $ 3,000.00! What a steal! What a deal! Spaces are limited. [wink]

YEEEESS! Finally, Truth.

After watching this video 7 years ago, it changed the way I painted. Great artist

He is absolutely correct. I am going to Malibu in July to see his retrospective show. His instruction has proven invaluable to me.

very insightful and inspiring. this guy seems like a cool dude.

whay pencil is that tell me please!!!