New Student Orientation - Watts Atelier of the Arts

[@charlesabboud1613]

That was just SO interesting, I love how articulate Jeff Watts is, he's a phenomenal painter and draughtsman, but he's just as phenomenal at explaining himself, there are very few people, especially in the arts, who are that generous in their disclosure of what they truly know .

[@O0Salmon0O]

This is a very engrossing presentation. Regardless of the subject matter this is the style of instructor that everyone benefits from. Imagine all of the things that you would be exposed to during the time spent in a classroom with such a knowledgeable, experienced, energetic, articulate and encouraging person.

[@namthan95]

awesome speaker, he can go on for hours without stopping. I'm really glad that there's an online course since i live in australia

[@thepimpartist]

This is great - I love playing it in the background during long painting sessions! Please record more of these, Jeff!

[@SulaMoon]

Aaahh... It always hurt me a bit to be born on the wrong place. No ateliers around - and MAN how I'd like to attend to one. Thank you for sharing this! So inspirational/instructional.

[@7700Purplexity]

These days good is different enough .... I love that

[@neguinlk]

Guys don't use flixzone, it's probably a scam,I have seen dozens of this same type of comments in other videos

[@2Chonky2Furious]

God I love this. Soon as I save enough, I'm signing up for the online class. I would love to take the classes in person, right now that's impossible, but maybe someday!

[@elijahmelendez9864]

Gosh you can tell by the way he talks he is a perfectionist and a true prophet . He likes to teach not for the money for the love.

[@ovolonsnell]

Wow, what an engaging and inspiring speech! Makes me want to take an art course again. I'm really considering taking one of your online classes. Thank you Jeff Watts for sharing your great wealth of information and artistic advice with us.

[@MrDindjemek]

When he said that about Bridgeman 41:40 I got so relieved. I just can't seem to copy his drawings.

[@missmarieart]

best video on youtube. Jeff seems like the best dude ever

[@paulcallahan4279]

I love to watch this over and over and learn something new everytime. I'm a part of the online school and enjoying It.

[@ianh1010]

Have been trying to track down some of the recommended books. Alla Prima seemed to get the largest endorsement so I went with that first. Wanted to mention here that Alla Prima II has been released which is the original book and contents + additional material added since it was first released. A month away from a new art space and looking forward to signing in to online studies.'See' you soon.

[@MrChartrand]

A new space is going to be a good spot to start it all up!

[@tuncer1234]

Did you ever take the lessons?

[@_trismegistus]

Thanks for sharing, excellent presentation and discussion! Really enjoying getting snippets of the school.

[@skgb75]

Wow incredible insightful and relateable. There is so much content in this video just a joy to hear. An enormous help and inspiration!

[@attilamityok7652]

I love and agree with everything you're saying, this is why I am increasingly becoming more interested in atelier because it seems to really focus on art fundamentals like edge, value, shape and continued practice rather than worrying about graduating from art school with a blurry understanding of the basics, or at the least a sloppy foundation. I'm loving the online drawing class so far by the way 8D

[@pedrosilvaferreira2562]

One of the best "Art Ateliers" in the World.

[@utubecomment21]

My only real regret is that I really wanted to learn in this type of way. I thought when I got to university I would. That really wasn't the case. But there seems to be a distinct lack of any real teaching of this kind in secular institutions, but the sad truth is that I've learned more from KZbin videos than I ever have in 'ALL' my time at school, college and university combined!! I would love to go for the full online course, but for funds. Got to pay off a large student loan. Just wish I could see what I actually got for my money .. but I can't!

[@jmmacb03]

+utubecomment21 If I had heard this man speak while in my youth, I'd have probably worked for Disney, as was my childhood dream. I am 59, could live 'til I am 90, so I have lots of time to become a fine artist! I hope you youngsters do not give up!

[@utubecomment21]

jmmacb03 My point is that we are qualifying people who simply aren't qualified to pass on such knowledge and understanding because they themselves don't know. This was borne out especially in my fine art degree, when i felt it was strange that they seemed to skip even the basic fundamentals of Art ... drawing, Then one day I google'd the work of my tutors and quickly realised, not only was their work total garbage, but they themselves couldn't draw with any great competency! Yet each of my tutors had slips of papers saying (effectively) 'You are competent enough as artist, and to teach art' This wasn't the case!

[@jmmacb03]

+utubecomment21 Reading your comment kinda "sealed the deal" as far as me thinking along the lines of starting a "formal" art education. (Btw- I just clicked on a video about how to varnish your work and a woman with a graduate degree said she had never been taught it a thing about it!) Good luck, Grateful to have KZbin.

[@MarkWhippy]

Very true. I went to Art school for 2 years, most of the teachers are more like critics rather than teachers. They can tell you what to draw or paint, but they can't teach you how to do it. They do something anyone can do, be a critic. And thats only because they went to the school as well where they were also taught next to nothing. My skills have improved a great deal thanks to the Watts online program. There were some valuable things I did learn from art school, it taught me how to think outside of the box in terms of ideas for art, but there is a lot more I needed to learn.

[@GwynethSleuth]

This is so true, I had the same problem and was surprised because I was a more "senior" student and thought the new students would be getting instruction from scratch (so to speak) but, no. Painting class was the same thing. I had no art in high school so I started at the bottom of a college course, and didn't realize I should know more than my own attempts over the years. Disappointing, but I just tried harder. I have Jeff Watts' videos and that has been more of an education than 2 years in late college.

[@manossparakis8117]

your students are so lucky having a mentor like you

[@Halasaar]

Is there a second part to this didn't seem like he was done? lol

[@LtDipstick]

Any advice or recommendations for visionaries? thinks to look to if you dont want to see a vision horrifically bastardized by a corporate selling point?

[@ToddSchumacher]

Makes me want to be in that classroom environment again. Very cool.

[@randalllaue4042]

The pandemic ruined live drawing...

[@nancyspicer6046]

I have so much to learn and I feel like I just started. I need to develop that seriousness in art. I haven't checked out your online school but that may be the ticket. I cannot do this art on my own I need instruction. Thanks for this video.

[@jamesdown5064]

So how has it been going for you? 9 months later

[@nancyspicer6046]

It has been going good I have found my own style, and I work on it every day. thanks for asking.

[@jamesdown5064]

Nancy Spicer Oh wow, could you link some of it? I would love to see. I am personally just starting my journey

[@elsagrace3893]

Nancy Spicer it seems to me that the highly honed skills of art should be in place first before evolving into a personal style. I don't understand how "personal style" became such a buzz word among students.

[@joecoz26]

I really want to take his classes he sounds like he is a very good teacher. In one of his other videos, I think it was the intro to Figure Phase I. He had a figure manikin that was made with boxes and I can not seem to find it anywhere. It is not the one where you can find at your local art store. It is the other one. If anybody knows where I can buy it. It would be much appreciated.

[@O0Salmon0O]

@Joe Zoc I would be happy to search for the manikin if you can pin point the video where you saw it. I looked through several and did not see it. It was not in the Figure Phase I or II videos.

[@nomadiccoyote]

If you are talking about the one I think you are talking about(which I'm pretty sure you are), he said that they made it, so you unfortunately can't buy it.

[@FlyWithLove]

Inspiring content, Im hoping in the future to attend to Watts Atelier

[@vengadorsky]

can anybody list the books he mentioned? Cant undertand when he says the titles or names, and cant see the book properly?

[@nickmpogiatziou2133]

What charcoal pencil do you use jeff congrats for sharing yiur at with and let us know great things to apply in our art wort

[@ducokniepstra8217]

I wish I could study at watts. I wish I could one day become a teacher there. I'm currently trying to self teach the abstractions and it's difficult and I don't know what I'm doing and with every step forward I feel like I'm taking 2 steps back. I've been to a few different art schools and I never stay long because the way they teach is so geared towards contemporary abstract. I wish I could learn from people who were once were I am and learned what they wanted to learn, so that I can too.

[@Althmash]

how is it going with you now my friend.

[@artfacekillah]

suddenly i feel the urge to draw!

[@jmmacb03]

+Signor Roberto Me too! And I am not going to be in such a hurry to paint in oils ($$$). I will put some serious time learning properly so I don't develop sloppy, bad habits. I am so glad I lived long enough to experience the awesome tutorials on KZbin. Priceless education!

[@Meantime_Creations]

start with pencil and paper.

[@manoleioan6216]

6:09...To arrive at what you don't see you have to rely on synthetics (not intuition, but participation; not filing, but emotion and balance), opposed to academics or representations of external objects. This is the true abstraction or pure abstraction, but for this you have to forget or to surpass, to transcend, everything you achieved analytically, not renounce to it... not even to figurative complexity.

[@fairouzfares3881]

meeting a person like him is one of my dreams ! that's what I hate about my journey being a self taught leave you with poor connections .

[@kevenreis224]

Thank you Jeff, great video :)

[@khunthate]

did he addressed how he sharpens pencils? haven't noticed...

[@HeyHeey]

Well spoken love it, For the first time meeting Jeff Watts :D

[@jmmacb03]

+oshi bobo I can't believe how he talks while he paints in other videos. Left and Right brain firing away AND he isn't babbling-he is articulate and passionate. Respect ☮

[@AndreijKomaskij]

please, i'm italian and i don't understand english very well. can you tell me, please, the titles and authors of the books mentioned in the video? thanks.

[@Prof.SandraRegina]

+Andreij Epikureij , Title of the book, "Mastery, by George Leonard. Anatomy by Burne Hogarth, Bridgeman, George Bridgeman, Alla Prima

[@AndreijKomaskij]

+Sandra Regina Barbosa dos Santos thanks Sandra, you're very nice. i send you a kiss.

[@jmmacb03]

+Andreij Epikureij Thanks Sandra. I took out my pen and also wrote down (in no order): Suzanne Lyons (for inspiration), Richard Schmid, Eliot Goldfinger, Charles Bargue. He also mentions: Watts (?), John Singer Sargent, Mian Situ (Chinese) and Russian, "Ilya Repin" (ilya), and I am not sure, but I think he is referring to "Andrew Loomis" who has an anatomy book. Good luck from Toronto. ☮

[@jmmacb03]

+jmmacb03 I wasn't able to understand who he saw at the Spanish Prado Museum... Great stories >sigh

[@fenixway1]

jmmacb03 Joaquin Sorolla, a Spanish painter contemporary of Sargent.

[@randalllaue4042]

8 years ago!!!

[@jeffshepherd927]

When he says a drawing is "Calligraphic" or has calligraphy, what does he mean?

[@chriswhitehouse8982]

I was wondering the same thing! No clue...

[@robdog114]

That it has flow, subtly, and grace to it.

[@stuartnorth2479]

@@robdog114 thats exactly what he meant imo

[@Shioni16]

Amazing

[@khunthate]

Whats or who exactly is a draftsman?

[@jasper_of_puppets]

+Peter Gašperan Basically just a person who does drawings.

[@jmmacb03]

+Peter Gašperan Hehe, I was the first female Aerospace technologist at an aircraft company and they didn't know what to call me: draftsman, draughtsman (English sp.), draftswoman or drafter! I started out drawing electrical schematics and mechanical drawings. Sometimes a drafter, "drafts" out a drawing to specification & m/c tolerances from a designer's drawings or even napkin sketches. Sorry, I am not more help, it is a large field! from Toronto, ☮

[@davidguerra5237]

Awesome

[@7oOoR1410]

37:15 if you are looking for a very good advice :)

[@RideHanna]

Cool Guy, says how it is!

[@billnye8143]

To anyone reading this I tried college art classes they do not compare even close to an atelier

[@realmdudormir]

genius.

[@seriousmax]

Looks like Matthew Matthew McConaughey btw :)

[@puffidiq07]

what's the paper ?

[@dan6151]

I really really wish I had listened to this talk before I went to goddamned Art Center... what a waste for me

[@johnadams2063]

Being gay probably helps with all that getting in touch with his feelings and all. It seems too