Do Not Handicap Yourself When Painting in Oil - Artist Advice

[@n___p_]

You have an incredible gift for explaining things in direct, efficient and helpful ways

[@painterlybrushes4035]

Amazing artist that is featured

[@Playitagaindian]

Raymond’s artwork is outstanding!

[@redangrybird7564]

Thanks Mark, you have no idea how much I owe you artistically. Take care. ✌ 🙂👍

[@ioniangreen]

Thank you for bringing to my attention the fabulous work of Raymond Bolinas.

[@PeterChorao]

Fantastic cityscapes by Raymond!

[@vrpark6029]

Mark Im a huge fan of your work and your wife´s!. Im an amateur a painter from Chile and you´ve helped me improved so much, so thank you for your dedication and effort making these videos and please keep doing them because you don´t know how much people enjoys them..huge hugs from Chile

[@svahas]

You are one of the best! Man, there is so much to learn, before you even get started! Anyway, it is good to have these videos and to try and keep all these things in mind.

[@jeffhreid]

Raymond’s paintings are very impressive. Thanks for sharing them

[@SJ-ih9rw]

Great tips, I am guilty of a few of them. Fabulous paintings by the feature artist!

[@LayMeInTheRiver]

Would love to hear your opinion/take on Michaël Borremans’ portraits. I personally love how the brushstrokes are always visible in his paintings. The subject matter and composition always grab my attention.

[@maple5703]

Thanks for the great tips! Hopper’s work is truly amazing!

[@jrodjohn]

Always very useful I need to get the studio light set up correct. When I see my work in a different environment I realise this washed out finish as a result

[@saf1640]

Same scale.. great tip! Continue watching..

[@jaym3064]

Bonilla’s work is stunning! Who would ever want to paint photo realism while instead being immersed in his world! I absolutely love how he divided the canvas just about in half using warm to cool colors going left to right. It’s subtle within the composition. Just brilliant.

[@alexzioek9680]

This is truly helpful channel with loads of seriously good information.

[@maldoori238]

Good advice Mark I put my studio easel on the wall and what a difference! Thank you for sharing your wonderful skills and knowledge.

[@MariaRevArt]

Thanks for the tips Mark. I especially appreciate the ones about the photos.

[@Bubleone1]

Hello MAX,, I ''stumbled'' across your video channel yesterday and have watched your work with great interest, thank you for spending so much time sharing your knowledge, I am very grateful for what you share.

[@jeffhreid]

Excellent information Mark. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@perpardorf1040]

Spot on👍

[@praytoskate1]

Thank you so much mark! You are one of the best teachers on KZbin, and an incredible painter!

[@arhodes2866]

Thank you

[@alexandrayakovleva1438]

Raymond's work is truly great! I am very impressed! Thank you, Mark, for this video!

[@bettyelbers7468]

Thank you so much for all your good advice. Dank je wel!

[@RobertF-]

Amazing episode of Draw Mix Paint. Always learn a lot. Great tips. And Raymond's paintings are incredible. Genius idea to feature artists at the end.

[@mariacoy1482]

Great information!! Thank you

[@ericswires8534]

Rosemary brushes are the best!

[@PaintingWithSamir]

I have learned a lot from you. I started my channel recently. I hope you will look at my works sometimes. thank you for everything. 🎨

[@ike780]

I am terrible. I paint sitting on my couch watching tv. Often out of my lap under overhead ceiling fan light, surrounded by white walls. I can only get better.

[@lyceum4177]

Delete tell lies and vision programming, first of all, lol. I got rid of tv 6 years ago, quite refreshing.

[@veaudor]

Don't knock painting while watching TV. It helps me not overthink what I'm doing, while being able to focus on the abstraction of drawing, on the shapes and angles, and not necessarily what the subject really looks like.. until maybe the end. Works for me. Really.

[@lyceum4177]

@@veaudor oh, I will absolutely knock watching a tv. It's utter and complete mind control for the mASSES. Social engineering at it's best.

[@beckyg9831]

At least you are painting! I haven't painted in months. It's better to paint anywhere than not at all.

[@desleykakoulidisgallaway3382]

legend !!

[@wendyroddick1263]

Mark is right Raymond's work is under priced .His paintings/impression of “Light invasion”. Is a space we all have been, a feeling between real, frozen and breathing shallow. The images stay in your mind like film negatives. A memory, that can’t be erased. Amazing

[@studiosinger]

Thanks to your videos I’m an artist “in theory”. I can do it all in my mind.

[@louhautdavid6451]

Fantastic discovery! I'm wondering if Bonilla's working from his own photographs. I think he would be a great photographer too, because he sublimes the commonplace. It's a source of inspiration for me, as I'm switching between the two disciplines.

[@TMB247]

My "Studio" has a 7' ceiling, I can't move Light all I can do is move is where I paint or Reflectors (I do have lots of Natural Light (Big Windows) 90deg from Sun (so it is about the same Season to Season). I do appreciate all of your instruction and I will strive to control Light with what I have and what I can control. I learn so much from you

[@UncleTerry]

I have the same problem. I live in a small mobile home with 7ft ceiling in the bedrooms (Room size 13 foot by 10 foot) with just one ceiling light. What I did was to remove the ceiling light fixture and put in a three angled light fixture (with three lights at about 5000 k each for good day light) witch the angle of each fixture can be easily moved to get a 45% angle shinning down on my canvas. I then hung two long dowel rods with a blackout curtain on them across the room behind me. this blocked out any glare from my small window. I even painted the room black to cut down on any other glare I might get .www.amazon.com/Westinghouse-FBA_6632600-66326-00-Three-Light-Multi-Directional/dp/B00002N5CL/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2ZLVS6FKC3SR3&keywords=three+light+fixtures&qid=1580426705&sprefix=three+light+fixtures%2Caps%2C260&sr=8-7

[@Lenaxxom]

thank u very much

[@nataliesharples4014]

Thank you Mark I used to paint in my youth..self taught..no I internet back then..I have recently returned to painting and discovered you....ooh I could have done great things with you in my pocket at the touch of a button every time I had a question😀and all for free... Feeling very inspired by you.. learnt so much .

[@orchidjewels48]

I just put new bulbs where I paint because of what you said earlier. I use photographic bulbs. I started using laminated photos, also.

[@cre8509]

Wonderful paintings. And your haircut looks great!

[@jtpaar1732]

I enjoyed this helpful video and the introduction to Mr. Bonilla's artwork! After checking out his website, I'm very impressed with his artistic skill, particularly the play on light and shadows which brings so much life to what may otherwise be considered a mundane scene. Excellent talent and skill and I wish him much success! Thanks for the great video, Mark, and for continuing to be one of the reasons I keep coming back to KZbin!

[@loenabelle]

I think i disagree on the working from a print rather than a monitor. You can correct me on this, but when you print you lose quality and you work with less already. While that wider range on monitors still let’s me make more choices about what in that range I want to take to the painting.

[@johannebeerbaum1546]

IN a perfect world it would be ideal to be able to afford everything you say....I am not saying anything is incorrect, only that some of us have issues with affordability.....for instance, I would adore being able to buy one of your easels.....

[@DrWhom]

I think he has a video on how to build one yourself

[@abhijitbhattacharyya6478]

Hellow Sir, Please help me.I know you have a great talent.so please.solve my problem.nowadays orders are coming very scanty.Now camera is in everyone s hand.Nobody of my area want to spend much on portraits.This is the real story behind our city where I born and brought up.People spend here on making fasionable flat only.They have no emotion for their parents or loved ones.How to excell in such society? And almost all those artists are being produced they are becoming babysitters ,and teaching to draw vegetables toys ....This much is the nessessity of painting and Aesthetics.How would I get orders here.Otherwise I will have to follow them to be another baby-sitter amount them.Please understand my situation.

[@sameehakhaliq8327]

I work in porch outside. Cold

[@woodsstuffmx]

thank you very much information about painting and sharing from Mr. Bonilla artwork

[@ismarosales58]

Que hermosas pinturas, que maestría del color , la sombra y la luz me han impresionado, muchas gracias por compartir.

[@skopas]

...Hopper didn't paint so much detail. Details aren't important. He didn't paint what he saw, rather painted the idea the scene conveyed on him. His paintings have a sense of animation. Different then realism.

[@gustavoalvarez2587]

thank you for the knowledge, greetings from chile

[@kyb3er]

When you talk about "eye level" do you mean the horizon line in the painting should be at eye level? At any position, a portion of the painting is going to be above eye level and part of it will be below eye level. It seems impractical to continually raise or lower the painting so the current brush stroke is at eye level.

[@UncleTerry]

I believe Mark means your eyes should be directly looking at the center of your canvas. This is what I do and it makes painting very comfortable to me. I never have to raise are lower the canvas when I set up this way. hope this helped.

[@Dale_Blackburn]

But what is "good" light? Can you give some examples. I feel like i have very bad lights yeah. I have 2 yellow room lamps. Like long pixar light lol.

[@shellyszuch7144]

what are good quality paint/

[@jaym3064]

Can I add that if a photo is not possible, and painting from a computer screen as reference, make sure the display is set to CMYK rather than RGB.

[@mcaputto]

Any suggestions on a printer for reference photos?

[@muaythaiplaylist]

Just wanted to say thank you. Your videos are always to the point and clear. I love that you have a great teachers mindset and always make sure to stay on track and keep the viewer focused. Thank you, your channel is now among my favorites educational resources.

[@stevesloan5935]

Those are all great tips on "reducing the friction". Sometimes it's easy to forget one or two elements of this. I like that you are featuring other artists as well. I'm curious as to your thoughts on working in a very large format, say 6 x 8 feet like Andrew Tischler commonly does? Thanks for such excellent videos!

[@Bonita.ch1]

HI MARK.. WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS ON MDF BOARDS? IVE BEEN PAINTING ON THOSE FOR A WHILE . THANK YOU FOR THE VIDS!! 🌺

[@brenlefe]

Thank you for your tutorials. What is your opinion on painting on boards vs. canvas for beginners

[@tamer84hatoum]

how could you evaluate the paintings from imagination not copying from a photo or still life ?

[@KpxUrz5745]

Sincerely spoken, but I find so many faults with this advice.

[@maryellenhill4121]

Any recommendations for 35mm digital camera for creating my own reference photos? Thx.

[@julieismert4874]

Tips make a lot of sense, thank you

[@tangents6299]

That was awesome, thanks for all the info. The artist is wonderful!

[@tedburke8187]

Mark and watched all your videos and I want to thank you for all your great advice because you have made me a much better painter thank you thank you thank you

[@Guez_art]

Wow, Raymond's work is AMAZING! the colors and the mood are on point!

[@radosvetazhelyazkovafinear9905]

Bravo, Raymond !!!

[@damienkearns3654]

Amazing advice, the best. Thank you.

[@jeffhreid]

Basically the reference just off the canvas and the same size as how you’re painting is sight size.

[@ericbrooksby]

Mark, Thank you. I hope you know how much your video's help.

[@VincentConard]

Imagine being a student in this man’s private class!

[@gc1572]

Thank you!

[@elpetr2738]

thank you Mark for your informative and inspirational video :)

[@melcryarfineart]

Thanks Mark. Great video!

[@markclark7178]

I use a old color correct Luxo lamp . It seems fine

[@claireonlinex]

so nice how you feature other artists love this channel so much

[@alannciooo]

the painter featured was painting with a photo refference? or imagination just

[@defdac]

The easiest way to see if an artist paints from photos is looking at the brightest highlights. They will always be white, which they (almost) never are in real life. Always use exposure bracketing, auto or manual, when taking photos. Especially in high contrast situations. The lowest exposed photo should alway have the brightest highlights off white. Also always use sunlight as white balance so you get the real colours of a scene. Those ending paintings was definitely caught with sunlight white balance and very underexposed. After a while you will see the true colours of light without your eyes fooling you. Seeing the true colours of clouds is a good starting point - compare your mobile phone full auto shot of clouds with how they actually look. Hint: They are, like snow, never ever white.

[@DrWhom]

what

[@defdac]

@@DrWhom short version: white balance distorts colours, especially in auto mode. Artist painting blindly from photos always blows out highlights to white as their reference photo does. That is the main reason artists nags about painting from life instead of photos. To some extent studio lighting do the same, but if the artist like apples lighted by d65 high cri light and want to depict that instead of any type of natural light with a beautiful tint, go ahead.

[@defdac]

@@mazolab with multiple exposures and tone mapping you can get closer to what the eye sees though. Just avoid setting the white balance and thereby nullifying the color of the light - which is very important part of capturing realism.

[@heyyo1614]

Almost smell coffee from that painting...

[@lisalamphier1410]

Photo Holder? Why would I want to paint a photo? And I prefer to paint in dim light. The finished paintings show much better because they don't need special lighting to display. I say each to their own.

[@paulinehughes5325]

Thank you so very helpful Mark

[@xx-pg6pi]

Thank you 🙏🏻 I needed to watch this

[@MrMjp58]

Great, sensible advice.

[@gsp4305]

Nice haircut 😀

[@anthonyholmok4535]

Yeaaaah Go Ray that's my teacher!!!

[@TheLeahsKitchen]

I think I found my muse!

[@BADBRYZ]

Am I the only one staring at his computer... trying to figure out what programs he uses?

[@TomTremayne]

I love your videos but the point about the work being vertical is dumb. If you have it tilted slightly back, yes, at eye level, but tilted slightly back and you tilt your head & eyes accordingly, just say, 10 to 30 degrees max, then that's the same as having it vertical!?

[@Saym3n]

my favorite ! i love you man !

[@Hebrewrichard]

How the heck do we make them same scale while painting on canvas

[@DrawMixPaint]

There is a link in the description of this video titled scaling prints to paint from.

[@sydbarrett7511]

thank you so much

[@misaelortega653]

I would work from glossy photographs but my (fairly new) printer prints with saturated color and it has visible lines I think it's because I haven't used it in a while but I don't know how to fix the unbalanced colors.

[@redangrybird7564]

Don't print on office paper, buy glossy paper for printers. I bought mine at Kmart for few dollars.

[@misaelortega653]

@@redangrybird7564 I bought glossy paper as well but the printer isn't working well for reference pictures so I'm using a Samsung Tab s6

[@redangrybird7564]

@@misaelortega653 I used to paint from a laptop screen and always got the colours wrong. Perhaps you should print your photos in Kmart, large size, is not expensive and well worth it. I also always laminate my photos, so they do not get dirty with paint. Cheers. 🙂✌

[@MariaRevArt]

@@redangrybird7564 Never thought of printing my pictures out via a photo-printing machine. I need to try that.

[@redangrybird7564]

@@MariaRevArt Cheers 🙂👍

[@lisalovelylpa]

Good tips even for acrylic painters.

[@DrWhom]

"even"

[@corpseapple9619]

Many Thanks.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Thank you

[@youmarc11]

My brushes SUCK. I need better brushes!

[@DrWhom]

that is not why you are crap

[@youmarc11]

@@DrWhom Not really. I've sold A LOT more artwork for a lot more money than you probably ever will.

[@outtour2525]

Anyone give me some tips I can only paint in my very small room (it's smaller than a prison cell not even joking) I can't paint downstairs as my mum would cause a fuss, I get irritated as I feel clustered and cramped

[@markcooperartcomofficial]

Man sitting on a bench feeding pigeons...1 million dollars...lol.

[@artsiecrafty4164]

This all sounds great, but, it is not very realistic for me. I often find myself using photos or works in books that I copy. I was in a class, but THERE IS A LOCKDOWN GOING ON. They actually still have the class, but they have a mask mandate, including the model. Also, in a class, the expectation is to work quickly, while all the skills I’m developing take lots of time. So no classes. No calling anyone into my home because everybody is afraid of the covid monster. It is possible to send a photo to a lab to have them enlarge it for me but the costs are very high. If I move, I might be able to change the way my studio works, but I have to put my source material to MY RIGHT. I have nothing to place a photo right next to it on the right and no space on the left. I could g on and on,

[@darthkek1953]

My question about painting is what is a good work rate? Two coats in one afternoon?

[@murderballad1154]

another paint snob. student grade paint is fine people, use what you can afford not what someone tells you to use.♥

[@DrWhom]

yes and no while you are mastering your art, old coffee will do there is something to be said for learning the craft with poor materials as soon as you are good enough to sell, you need to consider quality, durability etc. for the pieces you put up for sale

[@murderballad1154]

i don't sell paintings i give them away.

[@101turk]

He explained the cheaper paints have less coverage that’s why they’re cheap!