Lesson 27 / Choosing subjects to Paint

[@maydeopriti]

This is a great video! I have just started painting again and i must say i love this series! Very helpful- thank you for this !

[@osiak6185]

Mr. Miller your videos are huge help, thank you so much for this!

[@ivansegarra1531]

So glad you're back. Straight forward and extremely helpful!

[@tommorris2446]

Great to see another exciting and informative video Mr Miller!!!

[@Wal48]

I’ve watched all your videos from lesson one and I can’t tell you how helpful it has been. I love your repetition of the point you are making to hammer it home! so many videos skip along so quickly and it’s easy to miss points being made. So valuable going back to basics, even though I’ve been painting for a while, and re-establish what is critical to a successful image. It has brought about improvements in my work and I thank you for doing these wonderful lessons and sharing your knowledge.

[@Stanleylestermiller]

So glad to hear your thoughts Alison, thank you.

[@jdlang6839]

So glad to see another video from you! I've learned so much from you and am so interested in light and shadow and portraits. This is just what I've been practicing...how to draw and then paint the shadow shapes which is sort of like negative painting. It's helping me see better. I still have difficulty seeing values in color. Black and white and shades of grey are much easier. You are an excellent instructor, are inspirational and some day I hope to be in one of your classes. Please add more videos lessons on KZbin! Thank you Stan!

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Glad the lesson is helpful JD.

[@DrPhilologist]

@@Stanleylestermiller They are always helpful. You a terrific artist and an equally great teacher.

[@majrminer]

@@Stanleylestermiller Agree, Stan. Excellent instruction. What made you decide to get into instruction? Regardless of why, we can all agree we appreciate what you post.

[@daniahamweih5929]

Thank u so much for your efforts! You make everything more simple and understandable. Sending Much respect!

[@Jalapenoguitar]

Piano is even harder when the music is upside down :)

[@sakulrai5422]

lol

[@zarneywhoop]

My thought, too. Screws up the key signature incredibly.

[@judyh3017]

Great lesson! I never wanted to try painting faces before, as I’m just learning to paint. But after watching this video, I really want to try. Your lessons are the best I’ve found on YT! Thanks, Stan!

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Glad the lesson is helpful, thank you.

[@JohnQuest2]

New Stan Miller videos?! Im pretty much stuck at home right now so new videos from a qualified watercolor instructor is such a Godsend. Thank you so much Stan! Please feel free to make more :-D

[@markdonovan1540]

This is so helpful, thank you for being such a brilliant teacher. I've never tried a portrait, apart from some very 2 dimensional sketches that usually look quite ghostly! Having watched this video, I can see how your method will work with a bit of practice. I've taken various photos of people and have often thought about painting the faces, but I've not known where to start until now. First, I'll need to start with simple black and white images and practise the basics many times. Slowly, slowly, bit by bit...

[@Stanleylestermiller]

So glad my lessons are helpful!

[@ramonawray2166]

Great lessons, I wish you were using acrylics but I have learned some valuable tips as a beginner.

[@juanmora4991]

Thank you Mr. Miller...

[@Lisapizza789]

Thank you. This is awesome!

[@HeangDrawingEasy]

So great and amazing my father.

[@pathikbiswasvisualart]

Very helpful thanks for sharing.

[@cassanova9322]

Can you please make a video on how to paint flesh tones? I can never get it right for the life of me...especially fair skin tones.

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Lesson 7 shows you how to use red, yellow and blue to paint flesh tones.

[@cassanova9322]

@@Stanleylestermiller do you use black straight out of the tube?

[@ciacciom]

Excellent, honest tutorial!

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Thank you.

[@ibdense]

Always great stuff. I have recommended your videos to so many of my friends of different skill levels. The concept of value is perhaps the hardest in painting. Quick question, if I may. In one of your earlier videos you indicated that you would share how to turn a photo into one of the limited value gray scale images that use so often. Did you do that and I missed it? Of is it something we still have to look forward to? Thanks for your generosity in sharing your knowledge. Dennis

[@thomasbyg4795]

Never sure if you are ment to build from light to darks...or dark to lights adding more and more complexity layer upon layer......?

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Whatever works. I do all of that, sometimes, light to dark, sometimes dark to light, sometimes many layers, sometimes just one layer. They all work.

[@debbieborden7651]

Fantastic!

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Thank you.

[@itsEffingKristine]

more portrait tutorials please! :)

[@evamaria9603]

Funny when people need to be explained what is possible and what is impossible like this 😄

[@ronnipaints6128]

That white paint your using I suspect is white Gouache.

[@Stanleylestermiller]

I usually use titanium white, watercolor. Watercolor white and qouache white, essentially identical.

[@lieutenantnitewolf3337]

I just subscribed

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Thank you!

[@laghlaaziz4967]

👍👍👍❤❤👌

[@albikapllani2119]

Amazing

[@Stanleylestermiller]

So glad the lesson is helpful.

[@Chaiyotartist]

very good

[@cliffordhosking8614]

Great series Stan - but I better even you can't play Rachmaninov upside down!

[@Stanleylestermiller]

Oh, I can play Rachmaninov upside down (I memorize the music). As soon as I posted the video I realized my mistake...still makes the point, even more so. : )

[@cliffordhosking8614]

Stan Miller - What you stand on your

[@cliffordhosking8614]

head?

[@DPoly]

This is an exercise of holding a brush and apply some color at the paper , elementary school. Tracing the photos? Are you serious? Are you calling that painting?

[@DrPhilologist]

Θα σε συμβούλευα να ρίξεις μια ματιά στα έργα του (ίσως να μαθαινες ότι είναι ένας από τους πιο καταξιωμένους ακουαρελιστες εν ζωή), ίσως να προσπαθούσες να σκεφτείς σε ποιους απευθύνεται με αυτό το βίντεο, να φανταζόσουν ότι οι άνθρωποι αρχίζουν από την αλφάβητο πριν καταλήξουν να γράφουν δοκίμια κλπ. Αλλά λογικά δεν έχει κανένα νόημα να το κάνεις γιατί εσύ ξέρεις καλύτερα άρα και δικαιουσαι να προσβάλεις και να μειώνεις. Μπράβο σου, είσαι ο καλύτερος. Έχεις φιλότιμο και τσαμπουκα, λέξεις που δεν μεταφράζονται άλλωστε και σε καθιστούν φύσει ανώτερο όλων των υπολοίπων. Να σου πω, όποιον βλέπεις στο δρόμο φτύνε τον κι όλας, δεν του αξίζει να σε μολύνει με την παρουσία του.

[@Natsuxc74]

He did say its for the ones who can't draw and couldn't have the time to learn it or only as a hobby dude..