The stuff they did way back when was amazing, one of the best things we can learn from them is mixing colors and layering colors to get our desired affects, i mixed some of my own colors when i first took up oil painting as i lived in the deep wood on a mountain in kentucky and while digging a trench i discovered multiple layers of different colored clay which i tryed to make pliable clay with and eventually thought i could dry it crush it and make different piments mixed with linseed oil and actaully got a couple paints that worked well on the old farm impliment parts i was painting on was a fun experiment but much easier to buy consistant paints at the ol art store

We must research his apprentices and paint mixers. Each person must have also brought his own little secrets. Also the people who.sold him the pigments..but I agree it's the Binder. A pallett is a mixing board. It's tool you can save the original shade of color you started out with. As the light fades in the room, as the day progresses, the color appears very different. I also imagine that he applied every color we see here in layers. As if he were building up.his colors and shadows as he went along. Picture a system of retouching a painting that never ends..

I don't think I've ever seen this one before. Great so far! Wonderful Documentary

They should look at them again since this video looks 30 yrs old

Image these goofballs trying to figure out a Bob Ross Painting. It must have taken him years to make this masterpiece and he probably made his paint by beating elements together with rocks

It bugs me they took samples of his work for their greedy purposes. People are so annoying they have to research everything and usually get it all wrong. We are a dumb species

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What paper are you using and what grade/number of charcoal pencils did you use, especially for the initial block-in?

Imagine if the mass production of paint tubes in the later 19th century and their consistancy had not been intruduced to the art world.... The myriad of different techniques that would have subsequently been created which now, alas, have not. Then again, plein air painting probably wouldnt have reached the heights it did.

amazing how many monkeys are paid to 'reveal' the obvious and the trivial

Very interesting.

wonderful. thank you

I read the title as Rembrandt and His Pants, which would be a much different video, I'm sure.

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I think he mixed in feces

I think he mixed in feces

What is not mentioned or considered, is that Rembrandt did not paint like a figourative painter does today, which is to paint wet into wet like an impressionast. Instead Rembrandt would paint, and then let it dry and then scumble and glaze over the top of his dried work, let that dry completely and then do another layer over the top again. This is how he built his impasto areas and textures. At every stage he got it right, and then let it dry, and then painted another layer into the dried paint. I am however fascintated to learn about the filler that he used, chalk or ground sand. I did not know that.

"Rembrandt must have prepared different portions of paint of varying thicknesses". Everyone who has ever painted in oil collectively says: "Duh?".

Temperature also affects oil paint viscosity. I watched a plein air painter paint a cityscape, as a snow storm started. The paint got thicker as the snow came down faster and faster, and as the temperature dropped. Near the end of the painting, the painter had to string out the paint onto the canvas, or glop it on. The painting really did look like a city in a blizzard. I dont know how he did it. I've bundled up, and tried painting during just a light fluffy snow, and could only manage maybe 45 minutes, or an hour tops.

Does anyone know what his friends called him? Like did he have a nickname or short version of Rembrandt? Remi?

Camel/Cow fed on mango leaves Mg,Ca[C19H15O10]2nH2O urine yellow dye colour …Indian Yellow

I read “Rembrandt and his pants” 😧

shame the visual quality of this video is exceptionally poor

Amazing work.

It would be interesting to make an exact copy using some modern techniques. For instance, the surface could be laser scanned to create a topographical duplicate file that could be fed into a CnC machine. The machine would need to be extremely accurate and work in 5 dimensions to capture the textures. Application of color would be very tricky. A high resolution printer would apply it and many trial examples would need to be created until the three dimensional coverage could be achieved. Then I suspect that a final clear coating would need to be applied but it must duplicate different sheens across the surface. What a fun project this would be.

Next, we analyze the works of Ernest Hemingway by studying his typewriter.

Rembrandt and his Pants

Have you considered that if he were alive today he would not want his methods revealed. If it was something he was happy to share with the world he would have written it. So, out of respect for this great man why not let the mystery continue and let us enjoy his illusion without revealing his secret. I don’t know many magicians who like their magic revealed to the world.

Good to see Rembrandt is still baffling the experts, astounding the pundits and dazzling the cognoscenti. As a mere fan I consider myself wowed.

trouble is Rembrandt did not paint most of his so called paintings, he had apprentices do it, I am a Dutchman

The "magic" you refer to is in the artist's consciousness. Analysing materials is interesting but will not inform,however minutely one looks, as to how he did it. This is a matter of the mind and experience. The use of silica was not for "economy" as she suggests. That suggestion is ludicrous.' It was used for its refractive index and body. It refracts light. It is like analyzing in the quantum levels.You know the electrons are there and even behave like objects but you can find them exactly. Same with Rembrandt. Even he was approximately exact and knew the quantum aspects of painting. Same with Leonardo and Turner.

It’s not magic it’s hard work. Who gives authority to an art historian about the craft of painting. They are not painters themselves so much bs in the art world! Don’t believe what these guys say , show me your paintings and I will trust you. They don’t know how to do it, that’s impasto Velazquez did the same thing. They are ocre sands in the world and of course will have quartz, this woman it’s an ignorant , in south Spain you find ochre yellow and red ochre in nature that’s how they use the power mix with oils, walnut oil. Not a clue how to paint. They need to read how to create oil paint there’s a treate. It depends if what to need to do if you need to dry fast you use sandarac oil. Waisting public money in stupid things. All the painters used the same colors. They didn’t measure or have the same temperatures.I know what Rembrandt used and you are not going to find out with a microscope. These people are dumb and not artists they say dumb things.

My own experience is that how long a mixed paint is left produces various viscosity and is controlled by time alone. Semi dry oil paint is almost sculptural like soft clay and will be thicker to use as a sculptural effect. Also a hit and miss effect creates its own roughness or happy surface,so examination of content makes no difference. It is all the same paint but of differing age.waiting untill the correct stiffness is achieved before applying as a texture finish as fit jewellery highlights ,thay are actually 3 dimensional mini sculptures to which paler colours can be added to lighten or darken.

Amazing work. Thank you

Rembrandt allowed paint to thicken on the palette before applying the paint. He rarely cleaned off the paint on the palette and he used this nearly dried paint to create beautiful surface textures. Cold wax was also used. I completely disagree with the assertion that he used different mixtures of mediums for different areas of the painting. It was all about dry vs. wet.

I’m imaging Rembrandt watching this manificent documentary. 😅

Nice to hear a narrator who can actually pronounce Dutch names.

This presentation and research methods, and final conclusions are astounding, and as a novice portrait painter, trying to capture some of the feelings and gestures of a few of his self-portraits, I have so much greater respect for his work, but as you said, even this opens us up to even more questions, this was so incredibly wonderful and helpful, especially when you specified that he worked with a limited pallet, thank you, MSG Leum

Megilp Megilp /məˈɡɪlp/ also known as Macgilp and McGuilpis is an oil painting medium consisting of a mixture of mastic varnish and an oil medium: such as walnut, linseed, safflower, poppy, or black oil (linseed oil) cooked with litharge or white lead. Earlier recipes may omit the mastic and substitute wax.[1]

What an absurd project, Art Garfunkel makes for a damn good Art Historian though.

Very Very Beautiful Drawing ;:, i will like To learn ;: , Thank you ;:,

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The paint is laid thet deep in small bumps that they cast shadows

i think to improve your videos you need to edit them but other than that this is good

Who the hell is the Artist!!

While it is instructional in some ways, it would be better as a “how to” if you dramatically slowed down the presentation and presented some commentary about the process you have chosen to use to make the portrait….at any rate, I do thank you for these…

If you were here, and reading this, you might well be very interested in a jolly terrific film called My Rembrandt: the story of how Jan Six saw a picture in an auction catalogue and strongly felt it was a Rembrandt. One of the persons in this here film, young here, is in the My Rembrandt film--years older. I streamed the film My Rembrandt on a platform called Kanopy, available through public libraries using one's library card #. An aside, I've been gazing at a Chagall picture of a loving couple--it is a sweet homage to the painting discussed in this video: the Jewish Bride of 1664. Thank you for reading and caring. Sweet wishes to you.

Didn't know !!! I know why they burn so much when I have spray water base paint !!!

Rembrandt looks like Rumpole!

Top! Sur ses premières peintures on comprend qu il était a la limite du caricaturiste!