3 Great Tips to Cure Amateurish looking Paintings (OilPaintingWorkshop.com)

[@2chatify]

Daniel has so many helpful hints, and as one can see, he does beautiful work. I think he has so much good advice...I would certainly highly recommend him to anyone who wants to improve on his/her painting. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Daniel! I hope to purchase your videos soon!

[@DynamicTreasures]

very insightful ...your work has a powerful presence....you hit on so many topics that most do not cover...thank you Daniel~!

[@Heliflopters]

I love this! The part about asking "why," breaking everything down into pieces, and really examining them to understand painting...that's math! You are using a mathematical process to learn painting. Math is everywhere. Most people in my country won't even know what I'm talking about because they never get the chance to do real math in highschool. Math education has been reduced to learning specific problems to pass a standardized exam. Anyways, in conclusion, you are brilliant and inspiring.

[@makeshift_battlefield_music]

Daniel, this is the first video I've seen of yours, and within the first two minutes I already liked you. I had a similar experience in school- I studied design, and I don't have any complaints about those classes but my fine arts classes were very similar to what you described. I've yet to learn my own 'system' I don't paint representational work, mine are all abstracts, but I'm well on my way, and your video here is very inspiring, and its always good to consult someone with experience thanks!

[@AljumaiahM]

I love it when the Artist speak with faithfulness. Great words .Thank you

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

+Mohdan Mohdan You're welcome! Thanks for leaving a comment.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks Phoebe! I hope you find the other tips helpful as well, thanks again!

[@doveharp]

I appreciate this video. I have thought in the past that a pro will not use as many brush strokes to do something. I was painting from nature and quit, but finally realised that one must paint from the imagination or a vision. My painting lack many things that I forget, but change according to what I remember.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

@MandalaClare THANKS for your KIND WORDS about my DVDs I highly recommend Daniel's DVD lessons. His style of teaching fits perfectly with my style of learning. And his joy of painting is contagious. I've just finished lesson #5 and already am more authoritative with my brush strokes. My paintings are more 'painterly' AND I am having fun. I've been an artist for over 30 years. My friends and family are 'wowed' at the level this series has elevated me to. Thank you Dan! MandalaClare 1 month ago

[@hedgewitch59]

Teaching confidence to portray creative expression is a valuable talent. Its great to share. Thank you.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Julie Haines Thank you for your kind words

[@hedgewitch59]

They're deserved. Keep painting! :-)

[@Macwinks]

As I heard ur first few lines, I hit the the subscribe button, coz I smhow alrdy know, tht im gonna learn a lot from u. Nd u also talked abt tht stagnant period in an artists life. Very thnk u, for all the knowledge u shared sir.

[@jamesvfx]

this is really inspiring and helpful ! I'm a digital matte painter working for film and I teach matte painting masterclasses around the world , and I find this absolutely great tips ! for teachers and students ! I totally agree in everything you say

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you for sharing your insight Tammy. I would also want to thank you for appreciating the tip video. Take care

[@govcolin]

Great video, thank you sir. One thing I might add as to why instructors don't alway seem to have the right answers: it's because they don't. Like you said, different artist have solved the problem of art in countless ways, so there is indeed no "right" solution. The sense that I get from most instructors is that they project the sense that they know the "right" way, but never divulge enough to show that they actually don't. For that reason, they often come across as closed or guarded.

[@robhead22]

Perfect advice. Thank you!

[@lisengel2498]

This is a brilliant video and really the very best of basic advice for becoming a better artist -

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Hey Lis, It should be the general colors of the backgrounds of your paintings.

[@teddyoggin]

Feels like you are talking about my situation exactly. Thanks for this.

[@TownHouseFilms]

So insightful!

[@michaelparry1383]

This was a good video and good information. I would have enjoyed spending more time during this video viewing your paintings. Panning, close-ups, and pausing on the painting while explaining some of the techniques would have been great. I am pleased that you have found one of the answers and are doing what you can do to share it with others. Have a good day.

[@2chatify]

You're welcome, and you do absolutey beautiful work.

[@chock0holic]

your paintings are beautiful

[@mellowgirl11]

yes finally someone who UNDERSTANDS!!!!! thank you thank you thank you!

[@daletinafloyd8284]

Neat, the focused effort of learning to paint the way you want to paint...

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you!

[@RandyToroni]

Amazing dude! I Completely agree with you!!! I had to find all this out all by myself!!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

That means a lot jamesvfx! I appreciate that! Thanks again!!!

[@becha143]

I have all those mistakes. I really see them after I paint them .. that looks normal but I can;t prevent from doing them . So you helped me a lot.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

+Vesna Klajic Glad to know that my tip was helpful. Thanks for taking the time in leaving a comment. Happy painting!

[@becha143]

:)

[@4815162342222]

This is so good and helpful. Just like cyborg drackle, as soon as you started talking I hit subscribed. I'm only 16 so hopefully this will help me get better while I'm still learning. Thanks so much!!

[@gelandadunbar1182]

So true with what you were saying with art lessons. I have found that I have learn't so much more by watching youtube videos than what I have in art lessons. Art lessons that I have been to are more of a social event than a learning experience. Art teachers I agree don't want to share what they know as they feel threatened that a student may be better then them! I did art at school but that was just a waste of time. Thank you for your videos!

[@awesomeblessings]

Not ALL art teachers are that way! I always taught all that I knew, and so did my first teacher! Just to set this matter straight.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

yes that is true Joyce, I have had some amazing teachers and also some not so amazing...but I think most were doing their best to share what their understanding of painting was.

[@ritawarner6846]

Gelanda Dunbar

[@BoHorror]

Gelanda Dunbar false my art teacher helps much more sometimes it does feel like he's doing the painting for me but what I see is that if I go to classes with him more repetitively his advice starts to stick more

[@jjroseknows777]

GREAT 3 points! Thank you.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Glad to know you like it

[@sammariofan]

im 18 and thank you for this wonderful advice. i really hope i can implement this into my amaetur paintings.

[@artistkeith3]

This advice is great as long as you already paint or want to paint in a style that is similar to Dan's. If you're working in a style that isn't like this, don't fret. I don't think he's speaking to all artists, necessarily. There are many types of art where this advice doesn't quite fit. His heart is in the right place, however.

[@zibtihaj3213]

great. Sir can you tell me what is the role of drawing in painting (art in general)....like making drafts. So can you let us know 'how to cure amaturistic looking draft (sketch/drawing) ...what makes a drawing real high class etc ? thx

[@halfabee]

Listened to the first 21 seconds of your video. Precisely what I found out about art teachers. In the UK even spent a week at the Royal Drawing School cost a lot and all I was told once a day was what was wrong with my drawing.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts Paul

[@Hanliebez1]

EVERY workshop that I tried, I would just go to the first 3 classes. I would just get LOST somewhere.. I want to know about BRUSH strokes! Finally someone understands what I am feeling. I'm going to try this.. but I want to know about the framing too. Could you put that together too in the future?

[@ROSEISDAHLTROYEGREEN]

thank you..I felt that way so many times..thought it came to easy..!and left it apart..

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

+la mirada de rose green You're welcome! Thank you for taking the time in leaving a comment.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment Michael. I appreciate your words. Thanks again. If you have time, watch my other tip videos as well.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts keysignify. I appreciate you taking your time to leave a comment here. I understand, thanks for that insight as well. Take care

[@Dandelionfleur]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to use more paint and muddle on! ;)

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks for leaving a comment MegaDonzee

[@IneptSocially]

Are you filming this in part color and part black and white to show how values translate?

[@lowellhanson5800]

Great video Daniel! I definitely agree with many of the points that you raise, particularly with regard modern art education with respect to painting. I think another big problem with painters today is that many have surrendered most of their innate creative prowess and become devoted to the exercise of (photo)-hyperrealism. The general public (and even some beginning art students, which I've mentored a few) are lead to superficially believe that "better art" is art that looks exactly like the subject. When people say, "wow, you're work is getting so much better," I politely correct them and say, "what you mean to say is my work is getting more refined." I realize this is genera dependent as well, e.g., how would one provide critique for how "better" a minimalist is getting?

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

+Lowell Hanson Thanks for taking the time in sharing your thoughts I really appreciate it. Thanks again.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks Rachel, i appreciate that.

[@MountainDewAndVodka]

I suspected a lot of this and its good to have my suspicions confirmed

[@stephenmusquiz2197]

Absolutely love this smart and talented man ...very insightful ...wow...I very much would like to invest in your dvd's.......

[@ispi05]

hi, hmm i relate this to applying for passport. i lost passport onc and next time too. Yet second time it was first rejected,too dark photo... Yet i liked photo myself. The rejection was not safe,and caused me suppose to lose 2,000 pages of work over a decade. So when you kept saying too dark,etc. the rules. I don't know why losing an important legal document is very trying. Any thoughts or did i just hear the right thoughts. I know is a different subject yet it rings a bell.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks for leaving a comment ArtKitStore! Will be dropping by soon!

[@icecream4depression]

I wish I had the money for that! I love your ideas about art and what it is and isn't. I know I would enjoy your style of teaching.

[@youtubeapp8860]

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[@ciinnaquiinn3792]

you have great animation, adios, and drawings

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you for your kind words Lilianna. Advance Happy New Year!

[@markmace1824]

Wow sorry I caught this 11 years later . But ! Great ! I’ve thought the same thing after years wondering why the teachers didn’t explain this or that and I guess you’re the first one I’ve ever heard spit this out ! DAM ! Thank you ! Landscape artist painting on off for 24 years!

[@kwilhelm44]

AWESOME ADVICE!!!! My wife experienced the same info you shared about two and a half years ago. Her name is ESTHER ANNE WILHELM you can google it or see her youtube video's. Her art teacher saved her.

[@L.Be_31]

love this advice! and i love the naked lady in the background tooXD

[@kathysundprescher9569]

Plan on ordering your workshop. I'm not very good, just love to paint. Would like to do better.

[@learnerlearns]

can someone, ANYONE, PLEASE tell me what the three tips are?

[@Mary-mb3bu]

1. Preserve Integrity of Brushwork 2. Be Authoratative 3. Use More Paint Tips start at 6:54

[@learnerlearns]

Thank you Mary!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks for addressing the question Mary, it has been sometime since this comment thread was checked. It's been very busy here at the studio lately

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

Yeah, I have found what you say to be true .I was a member of an Art class for a few years where the tutor ( who was an exhibiting painter ) never took the trouble to actually demonstrate any processes of painting or even told us about things such as tonal values or colour mixing etc ! I suspected that he was unwilling to share his knowledge with us . I have learnt more from utube and books etc . We need better teachers !

[@ciinnaquiinn3792]

happy new year!!

[@rossbanks659]

Lilianna Vargas

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Happy New Year!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Happy New Year!

[@marilynhuston7011]

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[@yurilimit2]

great points!

[@charlsssoooo]

Sir, I love your philosophy, I have been arting for a while and the why has always been exxtremly important to me. I hate it when people tell me to "feel things" that works for some people but for me I need to know whats going on. Understand the theory if you will. I have always told people who ask me for tips I say "there is no rules, only tools"

[@anamarie8]

that painting @ 12:50 is BEAUTIFUL!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

+anamarie8 Thank you for taking the time in leaving a comment.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks Jorge

[@missartist123]

omg, you are my new favorite art person. Everything you said is exactly how I've felt. :D

[@Taichientaoyin]

yes to let the spirit free, the intuition free, the heart free

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you

[@dubblwide]

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[@MadMonique]

Looking forward to ordering the DVDs (beginner) but also interested to know ifyou would give a referral to the DVD on framing that you mention in this video. Thanks. M

[@Whoareyoupeople900]

can you please help me, 16 and i been drawing, since i was in elementary school, i wanna be a tattoo artist when i grow up but problem is, i can only draw cartoons, and i can draw from my mind, i have to look at a really out lined cartoon drawing then i can do it, i really want some advice from someone, thinking about my future scares me cause i dont know how to get where i wanna be, please help. :(

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Hi Kathy, thank you for your interest in my courses. You can view more info on my courses at my website. I look forward to working with you. Take care

[@2chatify]

Daniel, I am Allene! I just posted the message about your beautiful work, and I would recommend you to anyone!

[@iadanza]

I wish I can learn it!

[@JorgePerez-yn3ht]

such a wise man

[@theartist124]

If I have had around twenty painting/art classes in my life, 18 of them were awful and full of sh$%t! I like your points, I would add, "learn to be yourself!" Some people will never do that successfully, but that is far better than lying through your art (by faking it, or trying to paint like other people). You clearly know how color works, and when you do, it's easy to spot people who have no idea about this most basic element. Nice series, Subscribed!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

the artist Thank you for subscribing and for sharing your experiences

[@latination2013]

what brushes do you recommend for oil portraits?

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Artists can use pretty much what they are used to using or utilize what is mentioned below. I suggest bristle filberts. Filberts are kind of like using a flat and a round brush all in one. One will find they can get a lot of use out of them with out buying a whole bunch of brushes. To start I suggest numbers 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. If you are on a budget it's good to at least buy 2, 4, 6(or 8). Good brushes are Silver Grand Prix filberts or a less expensive version called pro stroke made by creative mark(you can get these at Jerry’s artarama or ASW supply online) and Royal Sable Langenickel model 5590 # 2, 8, 16, 44 if you can find them(check misterart.com the #2 and the #8 are the most important and cheapest too)….they recently quit making them…these are a mongoose hair brush that really holds the paint nicely…a good substitute is a extra long filbert made by pro stroke made by creative mark as mentioned above. Langnickel 5590: here is a link to a new company that is making them and everyone has switched to... www.rosemaryandco.com/oil-brushes/masters-choice/masters-choice-long-flats Series 279. Mongoose Long Flats

[@FredericWatts]

While there are no rules or one correct way, there IS however many things to keep in mind which will help enhance your work. Just trying to paint how you want is tough, most people have no idea what they want or why. Painting evokes many feelings, esp representational. Lack of gray for instance can give a painting a feeling of being tacky, tonal isolation and high contrast feelings of loneliness. When things contradict each other. Keep nature's methods in mind as well.

[@KennyHora]

. Excellent info !! .

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks for leaving a comment mellowgirl11! I appreciate that! Thanks!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you kwilhelm44! Thanks for leaving a comment! I hope this and other tips i have will be useful to you and your wife! Thank you!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks MountainDewAndVodka!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks

[@geligniteandlilies]

"Use more paint." I need this tattooed on the back of my hand. UGHHH. Great video.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks 2chatify! I appreciate that a lot! Check back here for more free oil painting tips soon! Thanks!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thank you brexander1! I hope these tips would be useful to you too! Thank you!

[@2chatify]

You're welcome!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks again 2chatify! I replied to your comment awhile back, Thanks again!

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks Ethel Glover! =)

[@tjshypersigil]

Thanks for the great video! Just wanted to say the extra camera angle and black and white clips are not necessary and are distracting. We don't need fancy editing to pay attention to your video lesson, we like what you have to say.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks yurilimit2!

[@chock0holic]

could you send me the same info please?

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks for leavinga comment sammariofan! I have this great tip video about the cure for amateurish paintings! As well as a PDF file for it! Thanks again! I hope that helps

[@RaniPriya78]

@MandalaClare Thanks for this review! I'm highly considering purchasing this as well.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

I think the name of that company was easyleaf, I don't even know if they're around anymore. Thanks for commenting.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

@artistkeith3 I totally agree with you there are no universal truths in art and any advice I give are my ideas for my art alone and how to get better at representational art similar to mine...thanks for sharing your ideas.

[@Aster-risque]

@brittanyS123 Practice, practice, practice! Try to draw everything you see--yes, including boring stilllifes. Nothing will look like you want it to in the beginning, but as you continue, and you self-critique yourself you will grow. Study other artists but don't copy. My favorite word of advice is: If you can draw/paint everything, you can draw/paint ANYTHING.

[@Frühobst]

I think most art teachers dont distinguish between composition and art. because in formal composition there are really principles, but in art not.

[@elliepfautz7109]

painting abstract available . I

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Hi Ellie, i don't have any abstract paintings available at the moment. Thanks for commenting. Take Care

[@floresfamily9580]

You're setting me free, however I don't want to stay with not liking my work...

[@Mr960silva]

The only rule that matters is that one, about taste where at least the painter as respect by the elements of nature, represent with racional interpretation. Art has 10 000 years of history, is the representation of Mankind, and what we do with our world.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Thanks a lot cyborg drackle! I appreciate that! I posted oil painting tips here, i hope each one helps you! Thanks again!

[@haru204]

Videographers are artists tooo!!!

[@Robotslovecake1]

i mean i never got the whole "learn how to draw or paint" like many of the comments mention there's no "right" way...if its not in you to paint the same way as another person then that's okay. You don't have to. If you think your paintings are crappy and you are not strong in that field stop painting then...simple as that. Everyone has there own individual style I would LOVE to paint like Andrew Salgado, but we are two different people, and I use acrylic and he uses oil, oh well! haha

[@acidzen]

If the shoulder height was the key thing, not only some great artists and even art movements would be out, the whole techniques like watercolors would never exist.

[@OilPaintingWorkshop]

Message sent James. Thanks

[@gregborton]

This is an AD trying to make you buy his 10 DVD's - got to make $, understood. It's well done!

[@annr.5125]

Well yes. If you look around and observe all sorts of art, {both famous and not so famous art} you'll see some is extremely unique and free, and often it's called "naive" or "self taught" and so on. Why did Grandma Moses,Basquiat and Picasso {for instance} get so famous ? Not because anyone told them how to paint,obviously. There are no rules.

[@connectedbody]

Yes, they don't want to give out their secrets

[@mmdillon1]

SUPERB info., but the way it was filmed is VERY distracting. The artist here is the one being filmed, not the one who's doing the filming.