Good job. Lots of work to pull all those skin tones together.
@CarolH2O2 күн бұрын
I have a few oil paintings from 1988 to 1989 where I only used a bit of turpentine or nothing at all added to the paint and they look the same today as they did back then.
@rachelkilbane42004 күн бұрын
Excellent tutorial. Im off the paint eggs. Hopefully the coloirs wont end up scrambled.
@tinigart2735 күн бұрын
I know that as a watercolor painter such videos mostly don't apply to my art, but I love watching them so much. So informative, in-depth, well articulated, and most importantly - no gatekeeping whatsoever. Thank you Alex, your insights are precious, all the best to you!
@siphiwesithole71865 күн бұрын
best guide online
@patd.38366 күн бұрын
Nice Ty 🎉
@chriseneim16 күн бұрын
Ok so this was cool 100 years ago when there were no cameras but just like cds and dvd and movie theaters they are no longer needed and then we have you taking hours to do an average painting and absolutely over explaining it making my ears bleed. Seriously you just spoke every second of the video. Do you you like hearing your voice? Cause I don’t and I’m sure everyone else would agree. Zip it and use a camera put the portrait dream away it’s not your thing
@citadelofwinds15646 күн бұрын
This has been an extremely useful video. I am so glad I found this channel and I like the philosophy of keeping things simple.
@annhalouise37107 күн бұрын
🤭😂😂😂 I am a hippy!!! what's the story? I love all nature lovers
@rawanelsaadi25207 күн бұрын
You are beyond amazing!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you very much!
@soarpurpose7 күн бұрын
The limited palette works well
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Yes, I reckon it's very good for flesh colours and quite easy to use.
@soarpurpose7 күн бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting yes could focus on the tones more
@fifthavenue85057 күн бұрын
Thank you for the excellent lesson. "Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age." (Wikipedia) would have reckoned you were giving away his secrets!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Glad you found this helpful!
@northernnews60607 күн бұрын
some peoples eyes are crooked......
@GasAcrilico7 күн бұрын
Un saluto da Sicilia
@CherubsCloudCo.9 күн бұрын
This is the clearest most helpful lesson ever!! Thank you for your content
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
@Michael-mh4vr10 күн бұрын
Brilliant
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you Michael!
@homayounazarnoush569910 күн бұрын
You are awesome 👏
@homayounazarnoush569910 күн бұрын
You are a great artist because you can analyze every aspect like a scientist and after that everything is easy to copy, not everyone able to do that.👍💯
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you very much! Glad you think so.
@hanthonypiano10 күн бұрын
You're left handed. Also you got a nice voice. Great portrait.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you! And you like my voice? That's funny, ecause more than one comment on this video has said they find my voice annoying?
@hanthonypiano6 күн бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting your voice is paced and you enunciate your words so for people who are in a rush or want quick tips, or are the type to speed up a video, they'd be more likely to find it annoying. Me personally I don't like having to watch a vid more than once if i can help it, so your voice cadence and clarity suits me perfectly fine.
@markw.244111 күн бұрын
Thank you for these essential aids in making progress in portrait painting. So happy I found this video!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you Mark, I'm glad you did too.
11 күн бұрын
Amazing
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@davemalt245111 күн бұрын
Was unreal watching you do this. I would that I could. You are very talented indeed, thanks for sharing your skills and knowledge.😎🇦🇺🦘
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you very much Dave! If you keep practicing enough you will.
@louisemackay101611 күн бұрын
I watch your videos on my tv for larger screen.This is so informative and clear instruction.The best I have come across.Thank you
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting7 күн бұрын
Thank you Louise! I'm very glad you think so.
@louisemackay101612 күн бұрын
Love this video so helpful and clear instructions and no faffing about.Thank you
@soarpurpose13 күн бұрын
Unfortunately I don't have much space for painting & lighting. I usually paint at night. I find "daylight" lamps too cool. I try go for neutral light & a mixture of warm & cool.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting13 күн бұрын
The Bi colour LED lamps I talk about in this video are great for that and there are some quite affordable options available these days. Also as well as daylight bulbs, there are also "cool light" bulbs which are around 4000K?
@soarpurpose13 күн бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting yes I have an LED light at around 4000K which I find better than 5000K
@LouisAmateurArt13 күн бұрын
Thank you Alex! As always, I learned a great amount from this video. As you imply, taking the mundane and making it beautiful is a valuable skill in itself. All the best!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting13 күн бұрын
Thank you Louis!
@poerava14 күн бұрын
Wow. That’s. A beautiful painting
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting14 күн бұрын
Thank you! Glad you like it.
@eslammohamedaziz300714 күн бұрын
This is true creativity, thank you, my teacher 👏🙏
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting14 күн бұрын
You're welcome! Glad you like it.
@tommyoptions442114 күн бұрын
Oh my god, Andrew moved! That isn’t a photograph!!!
@paulafonseca121215 күн бұрын
6 years of art school and such basic stuff ive been looking for everywhere is here. thank you so much. you have no idea how your videos have impacted me. ill paint again!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting15 күн бұрын
Thank you very much Paula! I'm glad you've found my videos helpful.
@garymcguire852915 күн бұрын
One little technical detail, you were scratching out the hairs in beard, with the end of the brush, NOT the back brush. Very enjoyable art video.
@kajwilstorp148316 күн бұрын
must ask do you like van gogh
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting15 күн бұрын
I'm not really into him, but out of the three, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne I probably like him the most? His portraits are really good.
@kajwilstorp148314 күн бұрын
always nice to talk to you alex agree with you@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
@christopherdacre81216 күн бұрын
Thanks for doing this video, it’s good to get a different perspective than just the ‘rule of thirds’ because there are so many fantastic paintings/pictures that don’t subscribe to that formula and yet work well as a composition. As with your other content this is really informative and practical, and is the type of advice which is incredibly helpful for student/developing artists, self included , and thanks again for sharing your experience
@user-hn2bo2pn7t17 күн бұрын
Amazing work , and amazingly helpful video on grisaille and monochromatic allaprima. Thx again Alex for you clear and to the point style of narrative.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting15 күн бұрын
Thank you. Glad it was helpful.
@vitus.verdegast18 күн бұрын
Hope you got through the pandemic, Alex. Please remember to hold your head straight up as you speak rather than tilting it to your left like that-- it gives me a crick in my neck to see it.
@dliessmgg21 күн бұрын
I think the rule of thirds is an approximation of dividing the image by the golden ratio. When your subject isn't thin as a line, it's close enough. How much there actually is behind the golden ratio, you decide.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting21 күн бұрын
I think artists have got to do the work and experiment to find designs that they really resonate with them. I'm sure it's possible to create following the golden ratio or not. There are succesful paintings where the main center of interest is right in the middle of the painting.
@manoleioan621621 күн бұрын
Thanks, Alex for revealing your points about composition! It is a very important topic that must accompany the entire practice of any artist working in an abstract or representational field. Making white and black thumbnails is fundamental to simplify color information and have access to nonchromatic information: direction, distance, and sense, or dynamics of a static image. There are infinite possibilities for shaping surfaces on a plane and mobile support, but there is only one way to unify them according to the visual attention of the working viewer. Geometric rules of sectioning don't help us make dynamic decisions. We relate our visual and lucrative experience to a special type of topology - based on visual-attentive principles. This is a dynamic-implied topology. His neural support is located at the cortical level (especially V5). This is why composition is so hard to explain because the visual information is highly synthesized and with various cortical distributions. The present theory of Bauhaus solves the dynamic problems of composition by using structural elements. The problem is that Kandinsky suggests them as lucrative and constructive primitives without any attentive resolution in the visual context. Any constructed convex surface or deconstructed portion of a concave surface is an elementary-shaped surface according to his dynamic compositional context. This is not an interpretation. The content of any surface is defined not only by color but also by the dynamic category of his compositional context. I develop this on my site: structuralvisualartresearch. Alex, I hope not to bother with the reference. Your presentations, techniques, and principles are always an inspiration to me.
@jcarolblair561422 күн бұрын
Beautiful portrait and much helpful instruction. Thank you!!
@astrorobinson371622 күн бұрын
Looks like you painted a weiner coming out of a paper bag. By my account, that’s not the best composition.
@matthewcrafter8722 күн бұрын
This would've been better over classical music. This guy's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Great painting
@massart0923 күн бұрын
I use oil just because paint is just expensive for me. with oil i can paint more area.
@bendunselman23 күн бұрын
I find the 'sausage' in the brown bag a little confusing. Another object or composition would have prevented that. Do like the use of the paletknife.
@original_pranxter24 күн бұрын
Feeling enspired after watching, good job. Gonna set up a still life table of my own
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting21 күн бұрын
Excellent! That's exactly why I made this video.
@nickrodis686224 күн бұрын
Salamat po
@suzanneaitken593924 күн бұрын
Off to the shops to buy a cabbage
@susanmerila495825 күн бұрын
I think it is very helpful to have over-lapping objects to unify a composition.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting21 күн бұрын
Definitely, particularly to create the appearance of depth. I probably should have mentioned that in theis video, but then there are many other things I could also have spoken about and made this a much longer video? The main thing is just to get students to start thinking about it more and to paint more still lives!
@richardwyant372825 күн бұрын
Very fascinating. It is like tool box that I really want to explore. It amusing me that there is a negative comment. It does not surprise me now! Yeah really exciting stuff that makes me want to paint more and more over to really explore putting things together in ways I find interesting. I am about a year into painting and I am selling portraits here and there but it is exciting to think about how to compose a painting that I want to produce to express something I see and interesting. Again Thank you so much for the work you put into this. Excellent job!