Estremoz Castle

[@adm58]

Thanks for this Mark. Very interesting and inspiring. Good to see your other new videos too.

[@franciscodiazherrera9854]

Thanks for showing us this live session. One of the best and clearest l've seen so far.

[@1antti]

Great work Marc! Thanks for filming the whole process.

[@nicolaspotoskie9761]

Those white buildings practically match the value of the sky! What a great painting!

[@daleshawn1910]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing this. I learn so much from watching you paint.

[@to6941]

That’s a fabulous tutorial I really enjoyed watching it slowly and elegantly come together

[@sheilabyrne9857]

Beautiful painting. You make it look so easy , which it isn't 😊

[@nean12350]

I see you still have your multitude of brushes. that must be the secret... haha. Fascinating to watch how you develop the motif working section after section and relating the forms and edges to each other. masterful! Love the work you did here. So wonderful to see the different seasons and times of day using the same Motif. like Monet

[@robertfrancis4733]

Always enjoy your patience and thought out approach. Great to see and hear you painting a demo, thanks again.

[@robertpage320]

Thanks for taking the time to share this. As always, extremely helpful info. I'm in the Algarve and have been to the cliff tops today to take some photos for painting. But like you I also suffer from vertigo and while I love the views I don't care much for the heights. ps. I hope you find time to make some more videos like this.

[@cristinasalesluis3075]

Marvelous painting, such a beautiful spring light! Loved to see you paint Marc! Thank you.

[@mjjames2442]

I’m very interested in your pallet and the way you manage your mediums and paints carefully in a small space. I would love to see a video on pallet Management plein aire painting That could be used in the studio as well. I think many beginners would find it useful particularly tend to mix too much paint in the beginning.

[@RicardoMartinez-hj1xv]

Thank you for producing these videos. Seeing at the same time the scene, the palette and the painting is great.

[@lindsayschroder7073]

Thank you for the lesson that so helpful without irritating background commentating. You're the best during the process.

[@stephanieshigematsu3940]

This is wonderful! Please do more

[@ameyachavan6636]

i used computers and air brush before painting :D.....so humble... love your work..

[@m00ftak]

Great video! Love this format

[@paintcoach]

I really enjoyed this. When using that sight size method do you ever have to move elements of the scene for a better composition or do you just spend a lot of time walking around to find an already well composed scene?

[@MarcDalessio]

Both. It depends on the view. Sometimes I move things, but I usually walk a ton, and move very small distances at the end, to get exactly the view I want.

[@debranorton6434]

I was trained in sight size method for still life and portrait, and still use it today. But it's been difficult for me to make it work for landscape painting, I think because what I'm painting is either too close or too far away to get the size I want. Any ideas on how to deal with that? I can definitely relate to your cow comments, we're on our first year of raising a few beef cattle, they are definitely nosy! And they will do a taste test on anything they come across. We learned the hard way to not leave the keys in the tractor when the cows are around! Fortunately the miscreant didn't swallow it. I enjoy your videos and was pleasantly surprised to find three new ones this morning! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge.

[@MarcDalessio]

Moving your head closer and further from the canvas is the trick to using sight-size outside. And not picking huge views with a small panel, or small views with a big canvas.

[@josephinejamison8180]

Great video, loved your video on mixing greens. I can't use oil paint anymore because of allergies so I am using acrylics, hope I can accomplish well done paintings. Looks like some of your canvases have a color ground first, how do you decide on the color

[@MarcDalessio]

I use the brighter orange grounds for sunny days. It works well with the blues.

[@ednaperkinson8529]

Lovely to watch.

[@dermic]

Bless you

[@bh9090bh9090]

So many great tips and info in these videos. Thank you so much. The 2 cups on your pallete is one solvent and one oil? and you combine them for use as a medium? The paint flows so nicely.

[@MarcDalessio]

Solvent (spike oil) and medium (sun-thickened linseed oil and Canada balsam - there is a video here with the recipe). Yes, they get combined in various amounts depending the stage of the painting.

[@harrymoore546]

Thank you, Marc

[@goldenstreet8256]

That was awesome, thank you! You were holding so many brushes but did you only use about 4 or 5?

[@MarcDalessio]

I carry a lot of brushes as I never wash them, and when I need a clean brush for a clean color I'll grab a new one. For a backlit painting though, you only need a few brushes as the shadows all merge together.

[@goldenstreet8256]

@@MarcDalessio I don't wash my brushes either. I put them in a tall jar with some linseed or walnut oil and a few drops of clove oil. Thanks again for all the time you take for these videos.

[@RT-wl6tq]

I have a lot of questions..from why do you set your canvas to the left looking over your painting shoulder? to why does your canvas seem higher than your eye line? You're breaking all the rules ive been taught as a beginner...lol....we need more of these videos

[@MarcDalessio]

The canvas is setup for the camera. If the painting is a bit high it's because I'm using sight-size and looking up. Hope that helps.

[@peterberndt1256]

Thanks, Marc. Really well done. Question: your paint seems very fluid. Is that fluidity only from your medium or is there added turpentine? I guess the paint is already setting up.

[@deaconseptember2002]

Marc, perhaps you can answer a question that's always puzzled me about large amounts of paint on a palette when painting 'en plein air': doesn't your paint reservoir dry up quickly? How do you conserve the paint? Do you add medium to the palette paints out of the tube so they dry slowly on the palette?

[@MarcDalessio]

Good quality cadmiums will last for a week or more on the palette. The blues dry really fast, so I only put out small dollops of those. I also stick the whole palette in the freezer overnight in warm weather.

[@shahart2547]

Very good

[@Crutchley-Mack]

What blues are you using here?

[@MarcDalessio]

Ultramarine, cobalt, and cerulean.

[@denyfirmansyah3317]

Thanx for the lesson

[@peterberndt1256]

Congratulations.