Finally find an artist who goes beyond the oversimplification of the rule of thirds and the golden triangle, to add many other factors that go into a pleasing composition. This doesn't make it any easier at first blush, but I find it a relief that someone gives voice to what I find to be a complex goal. I expect this understanding of composition will result in better art.

Probably a reincarnation of J. Vermeer.

Too many details distract the eye. It amazes me in order to replicate detail you have to include the shortcomings of the human eye.

The painter makes the face of the model oval but she has high cheekbones and the face is not so narrowly oval. At least so it looks to me.

You can learn how to paint and draw well by yourself by trial error and if you dont mind taking longer time to discover the tricks. In school they present the tricks in a shorter period of time and can answer questions you may have to accomplish a certain technique.

She just has the gift and has learnt technique to realise her gift. She gets the mood and likeness of the person very quickly

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Thank you, Very nice !!!!

These are indeed masterful paintings but I don't get a sense of this being art

I was startled when the guy blinked, I thought it was a picture 😂

Yes!

I’ll die before I let a British painter tell me how to paint colorfully 😭😭😭😭

Please tell me her name. Ruth what?

Thank you so so much for this wonderful video, your explainations about why you do what you did are very helpful!

If I had an art teacher like you and I believed them when I was first learning to use oil paint, I would have never continued painting. There are actually much easier ways to do this, that in my opinion are far superior to what you are doing here. To me this is trying to do something in a more simple fashion that actually makes the actual work a hell of a lot harder and more complicated than it needs to be. And that poor model looks like she's suffering. 👎

Your advice is spot on.

I love this video - super inspiring to Watch your alla prima process 🧡🧡🧡

Very beautifull classical portrait painting ❤❤❤

And as far as I know Winton does not use any true dye paints. Actually as far as modern oil paints go, it is kind of hard to find any dye colors. Grumbacher Pre-tested does have some dye colors according to the ingredients list. From my experiences with these colors so long as you are careful not to use an acrylic over them, and keep them out of direct sunlight they ought to be okay. That being said most of the Grumbacher oil painter are really fine to use.

Calling colors that are named as hues as in Winton paints dyes is extremely misleading. They are dyes only in the sense that the dyes have been permanently attached to a specific kind of pigment which are specifically used for that property. This is called a lake color and they act extremely differently from dyes. I'm not going to write a book here on what the differences are, but thinking of them as true dyes it is very misleading and will lead you down a rabbit hole you don't need to go down.

Good luck on trying to find out exactly what is in a lot of mediums, because each of the manufacturers consider, quite correctly, this kind of information to be proprietary. You should be able to find out enough to help you figure out what to do, but one of the best ways to find out what to do, and this gentleman here does have a lot of good advice, is to experiment. If you can do a few paintings just to experiment with and put them under conditions which will stress the paint films. And it can take a little time to figure out what is going on.

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thanks sir

Thanks for this great video that offers essential insights that I never considered before. You have changed my fear of painting into one of hope.

Videos like this are stupid. Everyone is different and some people do need art school, and may be some don't. But to claim that you don't need art school is dumb. There's a trend in social and youtube that 'tells' people what they should or shouldn't do. It's dangerous and the person making the video is usually unqualified to speak for large groups of population.

This is awesome! Thank you!

Fantastic work STUPENDOUS!

I like your technique

This is so useful. Really appreciate you sharing your skills

Excellent demo. Thank you for sharing

Perhaps the people in the old masters paintings had crooked eyes… and they actually painted the portrait accurately. Your method is fantastic, but saying the old masters got it wrong. 🤷‍♀️

why a live model? why? use a photo, live model is for 1600

Wonderful content, new subscriber :)

Another mistake is making the flesh too white or too light giving the skin color an ugly chalky appearance.

You make what appeared to be too complicated for me to learn, much easier now to understand. I'm still afraid to start a portrait painting, but not as afraid as yesterday! Thanks for your great videos. Your words are as concise as the economical brush strokes that you place on your canvas.

Fabulous demonstration! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent.

Thank you for this educational video, and sharing your knowledge of painting. a great video!

Youre amazingly talented, keep fumbling

Don't looknlike her.

Cut the music please it's distracting.Thanks

thank you!

wow

Lovely painting but as for likeness, there are problems but all paintings have problems. She is very talented but there are things I find distracting like how she made her face thinner than it is and how she de-emphasised the strong and longer jawline which is a main feature in her face, and how she made her chin look bigger than it actually is and how she downplayed the red tones in her skin and how her cheekbones are not as severe as they are in the painting. Her eyes are closer together than appears in the painting as well. The model has more flesh on her bones which softens her appearance. There are more issues but it still resembles the sitter even with all those altered interpretations. The artist has managed to pull off a portrait without seeming to care about certain aspects of her facial features. Clever.

So very useful! So many landmarks you pointed out that I recognised but have never realised the significance of until now. Thank you Alex, for such an informative video. Simon

Fabulous! Thanks!

Thank you for this great tutorial!

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Alex, you are doing a very meaningful and educational work here, at least to me. I have to work, thus can only make time studying and practicing painting by myself. It's very helpful to have found your channel. "Simplify Drawing and Painting" means holding on to the essentials that matters the most, maybe 80%?

Hi Alex this is the best explanation I have ever come across, and I am going to try this exercise, I am so grateful for your kindness in explaing this subject in such a skilful way. Regards Peg