Magnificent portrait 💗

Student grade works great for studies, but I feel paying customer should get the best possible materials for, what is, an expensive object.

Asmongold????

Looks like Rick Rubin!

Oh man, that is so damn close to what he looks like. I get a little jealous when I see someone with this level of skill.

Fantastic! Did you make an only session or various between drying? Thank you

Thanks Sir Alex for this very informative Video you share I would watch it over and over again 👍

Came for the brushes, but rewatched for the self portrait…nice!

Thank's for help! can i ask you how long did it really take you to paint this?

You mean there’s a non-Bob-Ross use of the fan brush? Who knew.

Why not just use gray gesso in the beginning?

Isn't painting with others who are willing to pass along their skills, "art school"?

Great teaching 😊

That model is beautiful.

I find this information informative explained thoroughly and Alex's demo the best learning tool because I'm a visual learner.thanks Alex.

I struggle so hard w this. I can draw the individual features fine like love drawing eyes, sometimes love noses, fine w lips but and getting lost in the little details, but putting the whole face together??? proportionally and capturing the likeness is such a struggle. Idk why I can't seem to piece it together into a face. Even when I just try to make a blob head w shadows I struggle w getting the shape right. I wonder if I have a bit of facial blindness or just tend to tunnel vision instead of being able to see the big picture

Aurora?

excellent!! thank you!!

Velazquez = 17th century

The alla prima technique allows you to learn to model the shape with very quick strokes.

Please include an audio track in Brazilian Portuguese. Your videos are very good.

I know some one I put in business with my art. I taught him everything he knows and not what I know. I'm self taught no art school and he has an art degree and is claiming he taught himself the art I taught him. And he is still in business with my art. But he is stuck on what he knows. But I keep learning myself something new. Because it's my art. I'm self taught. Students don't believe I didn't go to college to learn my art.

Pure gold! Thank you from Austria 🇦🇹

Hi Alex, thank you so much for making this video about lighting. I find it quite difficult to get satisfactory lighting in my studio. I would like to buy an easel lamp like yours. May I ask you what the name of the lamp is and where I can buy one? And also what type of bulb it is?

Hi Alex, What happened with your Patreon channel?

It was art school, but not in a traditional sense.

01:26 I think you meant to say, "Using a lemonted pallet" 😅

6:57 dark color over light = mix; light color over dark = hard edge. Why?

I'm that artist who uses all kinds of concoctions. My work may not last the test of time, but I'm okay with that.

What a fabulous piece of painting. A real joy to watch Andy paint. Thank you both.

Tittled: "bad hair day"😊

lovely workmanship, seeing how he lays colour on colour, his remarks as commented on earlier are insightful, and parts of the portrait look like Alex, but generally the portrait looks likes someone's sexual fantasy and nothing like Alex.

Excellent. Is there a reason why you don't use the transparent lead white.? I find titanium to be very dense and chalky. This is from 2 years ago so I don't expect you will answer.

Hats off to Rosey for being so patient and still. 😊 The lighting is perfect and the model has very refined features. That is important. Thank you for this lesson.

Fabulous

I feel that adding oil isn't a problem- as long as you wait for that layer to fully dry between layers. I sometimes wait a full year between layers. The very least I wait is two weeks, when I am working the fat over lean. If there are more layers than I allow for "fattening" the oil, time is the only way to thicken the new layer- allowing the oil to compact itself, fully curing out, and this means the movement has settled, and the crosslinks have formed to a hard-set state. The new layer will not need to be as fat as before due to this fact. If you work in thinner layers, this only takes several months, waiting a year or more will mean you need to prep the surface for the new layer to take over the old layer, wet sanding using pumice, or steel wool is necessary. A light oiling out also will help the new layers and adhere over the old broken surface you have prepared.

I don't think that the Master's were so jaded to think that a medium "recipe" was the key, as much as knowing how to purify the oil to begin with- which is a far more important part of their art- usually, a Master had a workshop that did this- either his family or others would be schooled in the process of refining the linseed oil. They refined their process of refinement over the years to great effect- The recipes could be figured out- it was the preparations of each that mattered, having a clarified linseed oil was far better and more useful.

I tried art school maybe back in 2018, dropped out the second semester. The experience was nothing less than traumatizing. The environment is suffocating. Those people operate on social pressure more than technique.

I don't recall the basics ever being presented so clearly, and so simply. Amazing how painting a white cup and onion has suddenly become an exciting challenge. Not boring at all. Thank you.

Me either, never went to take classes I just do it

In my opinion the portrait look is very much Alex. - And yes, there's been some masculinization going on that perhaps is more evident here in the painting than when we otherwise meet Alex in his videos, but I find it very similar to him, and I won't buy into finding it to be an exaggeration. It's an aspect of him - and as much Alex, just not (most importantly) the way he usually presents himself.

I think the reward could be endorphines showing up whenever you like your work in the process. That's very motivating, (particularly if you have ad(h)d like me).