I ALMOST GAVE UP! alla prima OIL PAINTING DEMO

[@ThomMinnickArt]

Wow, when i saw that big block of green in the corner. All i could think was “how is he going to pull this one off” This is way better as a painting then it was a photograph. Congratulations you knocked this one out of the park.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Thomas!

[@martimajor4766]

Love the scene. Love how you addressed the mass of trees/foliage on the left. Everything works. I would be so happy with this.

[@mogalcat3091]

I can totally understand you getting discouraged with this one. I got tired just looking at those first few minutes. Glad you stuck with it. I love the final result. Really inspiring!

[@J904-v6j]

Beautiful painting, Michael. The tree mass on the left sure looked a daunting challenge. But you stuck with it, and made all the right calls. End result was subtle and very natural.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! 😊

[@heathercaldera1475]

Love that you share your struggles. The end result works! I’m fascinated by water reflections. I’m always watching different painters and how they approach that. Great video!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Heather! Yes, I love water reflections as well.

[@leighcutting9747]

Wow - great painting! I like how you can continue to see the water through the trees and the feel of distance. Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts and struggles through the painting process!!!

[@katharinamjaggi328]

I enjoy how you used practically half the canvas for the green trees and made it work.

[@SJ-ih9rw]

Great painting! I think when we push through the hard dilemmas it's always a breakthrough of sorts. I too also spend a lot of time looking at other artist's work because I think that's how we grow, learning from others.

[@tarmavaughan7578]

Love the scene and that you didn’t go too far in detail with the pines on the left. Enjoyed your process.

[@karenschultze8390]

Thanks for the pic of photo while you are painting. Helps alot. Like the voice over too. Love the end product!

[@sumayyamakada3561]

Like father like dauhter, emma is talented like her dad❤️ Keep it up, love your work 👏

[@beachlife2968]

It's your honesty that makes you so appealing because we can all relate to it

[@chamberlainpaintings]

😊

[@viviandibrell849]

This was so helpful to see that even someone as experienced and accomplished as yourself still struggles. I am a beginner to oils coming from watercolor. Glad I found you on KZbin!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I try to push myself into uncomfortable territory. When you struggle, you grow!

[@jeff77hatt]

I've recently discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying it. Your way of framing I will be adopting because I have always added strips of thin pine around paintings at the three quarters finished stage as what I call 'studio frames', which are temporary but really help when it comes to seeing the crux of the matter at that crucial stage before finishing with them. But I have been undecided about how to go about proper framing of them. I think that the problem that you have had with this painting is that the blue of the water, or rather the reflected light of the sky above, has always been just too high in value across the whole lake. And I think this why you have struggled so much with the rocks below the surface which look now as if they are the reflections of the underside of the pine, but not rocks. To find the correct blue I would be inclined to mask off the whole lake with a sheet of paper and then concentrate upon finding the correct hue and value of blue through the sky holes only. Jeff

[@josephrichardson7366]

HaHa my parents just stayed here recently and were telling me how beautiful this area is for painting. Great video!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@brianestill]

Wow I think you handled all of those complicates problems great! The simplicity on the left kind of accentuates the focus on the center and background, sort of like what the tilt shift edit tool does. Great job!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Brian! That's a good point about the simplicity on the left. I'm thinking about that sort of thing a lot more lately. Trying to make decisions that direct the eye to the areas that I want to feature. I miss painting with you! Hopefully we'll get to painting again sometime soon.

[@brianestill]

@@chamberlainpaintings yea for sure! I've been working on a few acrylic portrait commissions, but after that I'm planning to get back on track with oils, so I'll reach out when that happens! Been fun to see your process evolve through KZbin though haha. Keep up the amazing work!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

@@brianestill Thanks! Sounds good. 😊👍

[@MelinaEspinoza]

That perseverance is so important to have while creating. Love that you push yourself in uncomfortable places and continue to challenge yourself. You simplified the subject matter so damn well! ☺️🤘

[@kimlanoue2033]

I absolutely LOVE IT! It may grow on you more since it was such a huge project. I like to do glazing for that depth that you’re trying to create. Layers and layers of colors thinned with linseed oil or galkid. Try it. Makes it really shine!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Kim! I've been meaning to experiment with glazing. I'll give it a try!

[@johnhoffmanpaintings8512]

I agree with Thomas you got that block of green sorted nicely. well done.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@lalat7260]

Thank you for the video,I am struggling to find my style and improve and I watch all your videos. Love this painting!

[@raibarker6792]

Enjoyed you're thought process with this painting, reminded me of my visit to Siera Nevada, painting lovely feel

[@BarbrajoanOriginals]

You ? Give up?. No, no, I have complete faith that you will work it out. And you DID!! It’s a good one Michael and seeing through the water is very effective. Thanks for taking me along on your journeys. The destination is always worth it. Barbra Joan.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Barbara Joan! Like I said, I don't often feel like giving up but this was a tough one. Glad you have faith in me! 😊

[@PleinAirAdventureswithTezDower]

Turned out good, I would like to see you tackle a large painting plein air oneday, That would be fun to watch 🎨👍

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I'm game! How big are you thinking Tez?

[@PleinAirAdventureswithTezDower]

@@chamberlainpaintings I just think with your audience most would really enjoy watching a large painting process like over a mitre. Just a suggestion Mike. I know personally I like watching large paintings get created. I would do some larger ones but the Wife wont let me 😁🎨(storage) 👍

[@BrendansReasons]

I can see where she get's her sense for detail

[@felixmakesart]

*gets. Why the random apostrophe? I don’t usually do this but it’s bugging me

[@allarahmcmullin3917]

Love this painting! I agree with another of your followers, your painting is more interesting than the photo! 😁💕

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! Glad you like 😊

[@Tizaheijting]

Great to see how you tackle obstacles and that you too have moments of doubt and the searching process of what to do. Also put a smile on my face when you mentioned Isaac Levitan. Had him pop-up (A collection of 437 paintings) some days ago and I'm still only at less than 25% of all his paintings. Absolutely awesome! What a shame to die so young. Keep up the great work and your honest way of showing us to continue on this journey on discovering nature and letting us becoming a more integral part of it through painting.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Patricia 😊

[@sallygruber2749]

Good job! I agree with RandomXs comment about the slight water reflection over the rocks. Happy Birthday Michael! Love the trees. What a challenge! Thank you for sharing! Love it!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Sally!

[@emrazum]

Can't wait to go camping up in that area once The Virus leaves us. I agree with the fact that suggesting those white branches really makes those left-side trees work.

[@KayInMaine]

You are a master painter!!!!! This painting is so beautiful.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Kay!

[@KayInMaine]

@@chamberlainpaintings You are so welcome! 😎

[@wdtpaints]

Very nice work!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@markparkey1218]

YES , it added alot !

[@hannahvalentini2643]

it looks really good!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@JeffChorney]

I agree with Thomas well done! Thanks for the tip on Levitan going to check it out.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Jeff!

[@markparkey1218]

MICHAEL. - ( at 11:29 to 11 : 30 into video you make a circular motion tree limb area, that motion in the video helps to show a spiral, like a vortex, similar to your motion you make as you critique , to me you captured time in the spiral, the water through the trees you spoke of, that’s the bottom “” of the time captured” , although not being a center , because the spiral isn’t exacting spheres, just wanted to tell you of that one mental flash, also i like the painting. ) Reflections off a transparency with shadow on and through it, with a top surface and a bottom. Many things in this painting.

[@markparkey1218]

MICHAEL - a favorite painting I like , this is the only painting I’ve ever seen with a “”time vortex” in it, hope all is well and going good. ; )

[@markparkey1218]

I think paintings say things, Sound, Emotion, beauty, movement, , dozen things each on these four words, you spoke to pushing, stretching yourself, viewing 200 to perhaps a 1000 different paintings sometimes per night, admiral pursuit. In your closing, at mark 12 : 41, listening to you with the crash of “ waves on the easel “ , is it just me ? I think you are getting there, you’ve touched what you’re pursuing, it tastes good, keep going.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Mark!

[@markparkey1218]

chamberlainpaintings ( michael, you’re very welcome, thank you for tolerating, I ramble, so hard to say 1 thing , when there’s 50 held to silence) ; )

[@kathyprince1608]

Good lesson for painting and life!

[@CedricWilliamsFineArt]

Beautiful work!!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@margaretsmilligan9393]

I love it , well done

[@joycebutler3494]

New and Complicated subject matter really does push the learning forward. Always fun to see how you resolve new problems.nice results.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Joyce! I agree. It's good to push yourself!

[@ARTYCOATY]

Beautiful painting‼︎ Masterpiece‼︎ 🎨✨✨✨

[@gracecolgan7522]

You are an amazing artist.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! 😊

[@lindsaywilliams8779]

I love your art tutorials which are the best I’ve found on You Tube. Your visuals and commentary are so useful. But even more, I love your finished work. Keep going with your instructive, honest and enthusiastic instruction. Lindsay W ( London)

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Lindsay!

[@d.2542]

Happy birthday micheal :)

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@hannahhollyart3318]

This is awesome! Keep going!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@gautambarua8260]

Lovely work as one would expect of a Chamberlain painting. That looks to be a gallery wrap canvas. Would you be putting it on a frame or send it off without.

[@pleinaire8698]

YES!! pushing thru the problems is ver good advice, Michael..! I have paintings that I left from years back..some of them now look fine years later...your Sierra painting turned out well..a different subject for you..I'm painting the eastern SIERRAs and love the polished Granite rocks.!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I gotta check out the eastern Sierra

[@francesemden06]

love this !!!

[@LeeAnnM]

So glad you kept going! The mass of trees really came out better that the photo (again) I’m really enjoying seeing that you struggle too. That sounds mean but it’s easier to see the problem solving that goes into each piece with the real time footage. Are you having another birthday?! Hope it’s great with MANY returns!!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! Yes, I just had a birthday on the 7th. 😊

[@mn5900]

You are amazing, thank you for all your work and all you share.i am impressed how you work in studio from photograph. How you deal with only having that amount of information that the photo offers and doing an amazing painting anyways, as if it was on location. Amazing. I learn a lot from you. You could talk more in the future about how to work from a photo, what are the pitfalls, how to deal with distortion in perspective, limited information etc, what mindset to keep when doing it.

[@knowpatriot1]

I like it !

[@dylanperez6851]

Muy bueno, me gusta tu estilo.

[@donnabradford7556]

Love ya his painting!

[@martingimenez339]

The channel I usually watch is called LearnWtihTheMasters, maybe it's the same you watch. Man this painting you made could be my worst nightmare, all that greenery to the left...you really like to challenge yourself. As you can imagine I have a ton of pictures that I could use to paint a landscape, but I can't decide because I find them too challenging. I'll stick to paint figures and objects. Can't paint landscapes anymore, I don't know why maybe fear to fail. That's why I admire you, it's your ethics, hard work and challenges you get into. Its' like you are my painter alter ego, kind of like in the Fight Club but for real lol.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Martin! Yes, Learn with the Masters is the one I watch too. I wasn't interested in landscape painting when I first started. I thought it was boring. Plein air painting changed that for me. It made me realize how challenging it is! Thanks for your Fight Club analogy. I appreciate the compliment!

[@sandy411]

Wonderful, next level thinking,,

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Graham!

[@mindycarpenter8573]

Fantastic!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Mindy!

[@timothybarker9020]

I love your video love your painting style. I have gotten everything I need to start except the nerves to start. What advice can you give me to get up the will power I have used all other types of paint I just don't know why these oils are hard for me to start PLEASE HELP.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I think starting with a simple exercise could help. I’ll see if I can make a video with suggestions for starting 😊👍

[@timothybarker9020]

@@chamberlainpaintings that would be great thanks so much.

[@timothybarker9020]

Thanks that would be great thanks.

[@BrendansReasons]

14:52 I recognize that font

[@pktdbgnzwl]

Sometimes i just use the scene as a jumping off point and redesign the problem area to my liking, cuz hey we're artists we have license😄

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Yes we do!

[@stephensheehan2368]

Would be nice if you included the paint colors you use

[@chamberlainpaintings]

There's a PDF with all my supplies, including colors, on my Patreon page (link in description). 😊👍

[@P-A-X-]

Omg I would like to be your student ^^

[@KayInMaine]

Mike, you should really think about selling an exclusive online course. This artist (I think it was Dreama Tolle Perry) who would call into the podcast Artists Helping Artists (on Stitcher), was famous in her own right, and then she decided to sell a course for @ $400 and 5000 people bought the 9 hour course. She made like $2,000,000 very quickly! :D

[@mn5900]

Amazing

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@karlijnjeijsman3624]

beautiful!! keep up the great work :)

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@jonron4729]

👍👍👍

[@IBG000]

Hey I just want to commend you on how active you are on your channel. I feel like I’m taking a quarantine master class with you.

[@gildejesus3714]

Wow

[@anakelava2632]

Hiiii

[@randalanderson1861]

I think I know why this scene was so difficult for you. Normally to paint that much detail and shades, painters would go with multiple layers, small brushes and glazing. To paint this alla prima means you would have to think like a laser printer to make this work. More importantly, this isn't the type of painting you do. It looks like something off a calendar - kind of banal. Your normal work is more interesting than this!

[@artwithmycoffee]

I think this really worked out well. It has a great feel to it...the depth, the texture in your trees, the reflections, all work well. And I particularly like that you did include some of your struggle. It’s unfortunate when people can edit things on social media so much that it looks like things go perfectly all the time....it’s just not realistic. It’s good for us to be able to share in each other’s struggles (at least sometimes). We all go through them. So thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it and really like the painting! 😉👍

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! Being honest about the process has always been important to me for the reason you mention. 😊

[@robertohilariolopezgaray9383]

To direct, to right, it looks easy but it is not is nice

[@lauradumont-boyer1914]

Out of curiosity, among all the paintings that you do, what proportion of them do you actually really like/can be sold? Your "tips for young artists" videos made me realise just how many pieces one needs to produce to make a living out of painting!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

My studio paintings have a higher success rate. I'm happy with most of them. I'm happy with about 20% of my plein air paintings.

[@markparkey1218]

( just git here ) ( heh , me talking to myself..........)

[@filbertvancemartin8236]

Wait a damn minute hol on! R u sopposed to b emma chamberlain's papa??

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Supposed to be? 😂

[@filbertvancemartin8236]

@@chamberlainpaintings wait !! so tell me the truth are u emma chamberlain's dad or not lolllllll bcs a lot of people have the same name ya know

[@filbertvancemartin8236]

@@chamberlainpaintings OH MY LORD ANDJASHJDADJ YOU ARE EMMA'S POPS SAKMSJS MY DUMBASS JUST SEARCHED IT ON GUUGLE IM SO SORRY FOR BEING DISREPECTFUL ! FORGIVE MEEE

[@filbertvancemartin8236]

@@chamberlainpaintings HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY NDKAJJDKASDADK SEA YA

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!