Rembrandt's Late Style: Materials and Techniques

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[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaXTd5KviLithQ. Recommended video!!

[@jimqartworks]

it seems link is not working

[@DavidHoehn1]

I’ve seen old paintings without cracks because of the hard substrate it was painted on, ie. copper, marble, wood panel, etc. It’s the flexible substrates like canvas that breathes or swells and moves over time with moisture that causes cracking.

[@Thedaybegins]

Hello Luis I’ve been enjoying your videos and have done a few on Rembrandt my hero as yours I imagine ! Could we imagine doing a video of a conversation together about late self portraits he did ? All best amd keep up the good work !

[@pogogogo9002]

Just watched a video where someone mixed egg, vinegar, clove oil & walnut oil into an almost mayonnaise consistency to mix with paint which creates a beautiful impasto mix.

[@manakineu]

I am glad I found your channel - very interesting and insightful information! I find the use of fillers in both grounds and mediums particularly interesting at the moment and this definitely helps to get started on some experiments.

[@lifedrawinggroup5035]

Great videos, Thank you! The Rembrandt you referred to at the beginning is at the Uffizi in Florence, saw it recently! It's incredible!

[@pldb1981]

What are the rations of rabit glue and water. What is a binder for sand and chalk, what are proportions. There must be something that gives flexibility, oil ,chalk and sand its not enought to not fall apart

[@juanlaso1494]

Es posible que no fuese arena de playa, si no arena de sílice que se utiliza para hacer esmaltes en la cerámica y qué se muele según la necesidad.

[@momentarilylapse]

I am intrigued! I wonder if something like Golden Pumice/Pastel Ground would work well as an alternative. It's basically acrylic ground with sand. Thanks for sharing your process!

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thanks for commenting! It sounds like the golden ground could be a modern alternative to Rembrandt’s quartz ground. Thanks for sharing.

[@annedeoedipus7849]

This information is great. I live at a beach so I’m going to try this.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you for commenting Anne. Best regards.

[@magdalenaholt4594]

Me, too!

[@neoaureus]

This is the best video on grounds ! I love using texture .... i hate super fine base... rougher the better. Im so happy to see this...wow

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for commenting and visiting my channel.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

issuu.com/amantesdelapintura/docs/rembrandt_technique_grounds___/1?ff Technical bulletin.

[@utherpendragon7513]

Hi, thank you so mutch for your videos! So great work!! Can you tell me - you glued the canvas with rabbit skin glue. What ist the relationship to glue and water? And the second ground layer (grayish) only pigments or is chalk in the ground been used from the masters?

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Uther: Thank you for your feedback. I use a proportion of 1 part glue to 14 parts water. The second grayish ground has only 10 percent chalk.

[@fedup745]

And arsenic!

[@ArtbyJasonABell]

...I love that your sharing your research on these techniques with us. Highly appreciated 👍🏾😎 ...one question , is the glazes on top of the lead white done in specific/particular areas depending on the color? For example yellow glaze on the forehead, red on the cheeks, etc

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

You can glaze with different colors depending on the areas you want to accent or create more contrast.

[@jimqartworks]

hi, can you do a insight about Giovanni Battista Tiepolo? his grounds and pigments? thanks

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Sounds like a great idea for a future video. Thank you!!! I love Tiepolo.👍🏼

[@jimqartworks]

@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist thanks, me too! Keep safe

[@uufflakke07]

Art In TheMaking by the National Gallery London and The Painter At Work by Ernst van de Wetering are highly informative books when it comes to Rembrandt's painting techniques. On the other hand The Painter At Work is more than 20 years old. Since then research development and new techniques have evolved quickly. Some information is somewhat outdated. It is interesting to read that Ernst van de Wetering and his Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) criticized the National Gallery results. And in the book Art In The Making they comment on the findings of the RRP.

[@lisengel2498]

I really apreciate the link to the articles you use- its so inspiring to Reading the articles and find the painting talked about on Googles Arts and Culture. 🙏so much for your sharing these techniques. 🎶❤️🎵

[@vmaxm2122]

Thank you very much for the interesting lesson and the important information!.

[@cuentamedenuevo7399]

No me canso de ver sus videos, Maestro. Ya es como la cuarta vez que veo éste, nada más por el gusto de disfrutar. 🤓La veladura del minuto 43 es una preciosidad. 👌

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Muchas Gracias por todo tu apoyo Bren!! Me alegra saber que disfrutas el contenido de mi canal. 🙏🏻

[@stephenspiteri_zunkus]

I saw a documentary once that Caravaggio used the same ground but didn’t let it dry. He painted the lights in lead white directly on it, working it into the ground to achieve some gradations. This will then be set aside to dry and then he would apply his darks, let those dry and then start glazing the colours in.

[@louielouie4187]

I really admire you, I'm greatful to have found your channel thank you for sharing such unique information

[@indanthrone]

Thanks, I processed my sand from the Southern tip of Africa, where ships of the Dutch East India Company would pass, run by merchants who would be able to afford to commission a Rembrandt painting

[@madArt1981]

Awesome content. As always you provide invaluable useful info. Thank you so much

[@paulinehall531]

I am very new to art, art history and painting . I have been struggling with painting in Rembrandt style. You have really opened my eyes and helped me to understand and answered my questions and indeed stabilised my confidence. Thank-you so much -

[@etienne7774]

Everyone misses his most important painting ingredient. Also, you have some good info but it will be profitable if you can make condensed 20 minute versions.

[@ThomiBMcIntyre]

Thank you - in the early 90s I argued that he glazed over impasto, but had no research to back me up. Really appreciate all these technical conversations

[@moltchanoph]

So, you are mixing sand, linseed oil, and brown ochre without any glue? No glue at all? Thanks for the remarkable unique material. Your videos are a treasure. They don't teach this in college.

[@jimmychoo1857]

Luis, thank You very much! But I didn’t get what have You added to the sand, what was the liquid-oil?

[@maxkoch3232]

Uh

[@enriqueguisadotriay2144]

Hola Luis, mi nombre es Enrique, soy un gran fanatico de Rembrandt y a los 10 años reproducía a Lápiz el cuadro Danae y a lo largo de los años a partir de esa edad lo he repetido en varias ocasiones, hoy tengo la oportunidad de cumplir mi sueño de hacerle una copia al óleo y me gustaría si usted pudiera claro, darme algunos consejos, cómo paleta a usar y la preparación del lienzo o sea la base que el usó o usaba en general para sus cuadros y claro de ser posible darme su opinión sobre un cuadro del círculo de Rembrandt que hice, hombre con yelmo de oro!

[@ozymandiascakehole3586]

If you ever need any dutch beach sand just hit me up.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thanks for writing! Wow! What a proposal. I might have to take you up on that one. It would be interesting to find out the quartz content of the local sand in the Netherlands. Thanks for writing! 🙏🙏

[@ozymandiascakehole3586]

​@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist I'll try to contact you via your website so you will have my email just in case!

[@irmafranco2227]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Im interested in learning the techniques of sorolla sergeant and Bougherau

[@stephenrose1343]

Thank you Luis, your videos are informative and authoritative. I have never tried a quartz ground, but I'm tempted to. I use pumice for the canvas, but I find cuttlefish bone, the kind you buy in pet shops for caged birds, gentler for finishing grounds and gesso panels.Also cutting back areas of an oil painting, that you want to paint over. The dust residue can be easily brushed off.

[@magdalenaholt4594]

Beautiful, sensitive documentary. Absolutely fascinating. I am still stunned by some of what you shared, thank you. It also meant so much for me to catch a glimpse of Puerto Rico, an island with a privileged place in my heart. Thank you.

[@jimqartworks]

wow, Iove the grounds, amazing, you can make a product and sell online, maybe different earth colors, amazing, I was thinking... can we use this as our main "paint" to do the portraits? maybe changing the ratio of sand and pigments? or do a triple milled sand with pigments and oil? thanks

[@Kitieification]

This was very interesting. I wish I had the time to try it out. What interested me is the mixture of the sand with pigment. I am terrible at stretching linen the corners are always puckered. especially if they are on larger stretcher bars.

[@fierellenamek]

Thank you so much for this, it's ever so enriching as always.

[@pchabanowich]

Rembrandt to end a year - I cannot resist beginning the new year with him as well. Your research and experimentation are invaluable. About 30 years ago, I tried mixing sand into a latex paint for a certain portion of a wall for the desired textured effects, and it was amazing, though I did not study the process, so it was hilariously lumpy, but it held promise. All the best in 2024.🤩

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you for commenting. Best wishes!

[@lisengel2498]

And its still a very important difference in styles and techniques - the polished and the textured , tactile surface. And Them the Colors uset in the Middle Agnes are just so beautifull. I really appreciate this 🎶💜🎵🦄

[@erikhamann]

Rembrandt is 17th century. The Middle Ages end around the year 1500.

[@bendiatho]

Thanks for this -- you talk about things that I have a real interest in!

[@lisajanebraun6455]

These videos are soooo intersting. I love Rembrandt and love what you do and share, thank you :)

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you for sharing your feedback! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@gracieladosantos7806]

Excelente información !!! . Gracias !!!.

[@steveburley5041]

inspired by your videos.....thank you for sharing, SB Australia

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

I appreciate your comments Steve. Thank you for visiting my channel. Best regards!

[@shengpengsong4873]

Hi, thank you so much for your great videos! Could you let me know where you got that linen canvas? Does it have any special name? I really want to try it myself.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Shengpeng: Thank you for your feedback! I get my linen canvas from 👉🏻www.dickblick.com/items/blick-unprimed-belgian-linen-canvas-type-215-medium-rough-84-x-50-yds-roll/

[@toddsnyder3318]

Interesting. Love your research into the techniques of the old masters. Very informative !

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you for your feedback Todd!! Best regards.

[@aldobalding]

Well done Bill, informative video !

[@pogogogo9002]

I recently watched a documentary on Leonardo's Salvatore Mundi and the conservator mentioned powdered glass was used for paint body and drying.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Odin: Glass was a common additive for promoting fast drying during Leonardo’s time. This article is great. Thanks for commenting Odin and sharing. 👉🏻heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-020-00382-3

[@pogogogo9002]

@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist thank you for that article Luis, it was a great read. Furniture makers during that period also used pumice for sanding in addition to sharkskin and a particular abrasive reed variety.

[@HASTAELCORRAL]

Buen video, magnifica leccion técnica. Sabe usted Luis si se puede utilizar como carga inerte, en vez de arena de playa, polvo de piedra pomez mezclado con el aceite? Alguna vez lo experimentó? Gracias por su generosidad, le agradezco anticipadamente su respuesta.

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Saludos Francisco: Gracias por comentar. Nunca lo experimentado pero estoy casi seguro que puedes utilizar la piedra pómez para reemplazar la arena. Tendrás que molerla bastante fina para que no destruya tus pinceles. Muchos Saludos!

[@gracieladosantos7806]

Oh !!! Rembrandt !!! 👏👏👏

[@bodeaalex1142]

Thank you, Luis. Passionate and informed as ever. I have a kind question for you: there are, on youtube, quite a few informations and demonstrations about painters like Rembrandt and Rubens but no so many about earlier painters like Hieronymus Bosch. I am particularly interested in stages of his painting process- drawing transfer, underpainting, grisaille, glazing etc. I took a close look at primitive flemish painters in museums and I observed that in some places the color is applied more in the manner of iconographical tradition of egg tempera, with linear brushstrokes and cross hatching (even with Bruegel this approach seems to be visible). Do you know any video demonstration of how this primitives painted, or a written study? Thank you!

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Alex: If you visit The National Gallery Technical Bulletin’s website you will find the most accurate record of the materials and techniques of the masters. From early medieval painting up to the 19th century century. 👉🏻www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/technical-bulletin/technical-bulletin-volume-18.

[@bodeaalex1142]

@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist Thank you!

[@27_muhammadnaufalrifqi47]

Hi,Mr.luis What base do you use to grind sand ?

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Muhammad: Thank you for visiting my channel. I use a granite slab and muller to grind the sand to a fine a particle size.

[@borianastratieva2923]

thank you, you are an excellent teacher

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Boriana: I appreciate your feedback.🙏🏻

[@Ron-wf1tt]

Great video, learn every time. Tnx

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you Ron!! Happy New year...

[@Loenthall88]

Where does one go to obtain litharge?

[@oscareconome3033]

try ebay

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Christopher: You can find Litharge at www.naturalpigments.com.

[@Loenthall88]

@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist thank you.

[@henrikivioja2985]

Thank you Luis once again for the great informative video! I have two questions: 1. What was again the name of that stone that you used to smoothen the canvas? Can you use it to smoothen the ground? And where could I buy it, do they sell them in art stores? 2. I know that English oil color brand Michael Harding Oil Colors has a stack prosessed lead white, which is hand made. Do you have any opinion, is it worth using, if one doesn't want to make his own lead white? Why it's better to make it by yourself if manifacturer makes it by hand and doesn't use any fillers etc.? Thank you for your answers and knowledge, I appreciate them a lot 😊

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Hello Henri: Thank you for commenting! I use a pumice stone to sand the canvas. I highly recommend to buy the dry pigment and learn to prepare the Stack lead with linseed oil. The reason is that as you paint you can adjust the paste to your needs and touch. You can purchase ready made stack lead pigment from www.naturalpigments.com. I have used the Michael Harding stack lead and I did not like the feel of the paint. I am sure that is a good product, but after spending years making my own lead white I prefer to mull my own paint to give my paintings a personal touch.

[@henrikivioja2985]

Thank you for the answers! How would you organize the grinding process so that it's as safe as possible? I've heard that lead white is quite poisonous. I use lead white, but it's ready made so I don't have to deal with these powder. Should I make/buy some kind of fume cupboard for grinding?

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

@@henrikivioja2985 In my video about stack lead white I demonstrate a remarkable method used by the old masters to grind the lead paint wet. By wet grinding you avoid the risk of lead powder airborne all over your studio. I also use a lead certified respirator. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5ukd6p5dp6teJI 22:51. You can use a glass muller and slab to prepare the pigment with linseed oil. You can wet any lead white pigment because is not water soluble.

[@henrikivioja2985]

@@LuisBorreroVisualArtist Thank you Luis!

[@GaryYoung-eq1ph]

Rembrandt. Was a genius his impastos were great, another artist was great with impastos was van gough! another great artist NEVER used impastos AND used white grounds his name was Alma tadema!!!!!!

[@bryanmartin9420]

One of the BEST art videos I’ve ever watched! Thanks , your doing excellent work.

[@mrjones5182]

sand Quarts crystals might be reflecting light back in all directions in a buzz from the ground , in my fantasy it goes through Rembrant's impasto

[@matthiaswaite4798]

I so very much appreciate what you are doing here. I've spend years studying how the masters worked and you are filling in the missing pieces. Thank you

[@LuisBorreroVisualArtist]

Thank you for your comments Matthias! I appreciate your feedback.🙏🏻

[@jellevanderidder]

Hi Luis, excellent videos! Thanks a lot