Plein Air Landscape Painting - "In the Footsteps of Gustave Courbet"

I have been painting at the Source of the Loue, Ouhans, France ! What an amazing place, breathtaking sight ! It's a spot that was painted several times by Gustave Courbet in the nineteenth century. I used my time there to record footage for the newest addition to my oil painting course, I couldn't vlog the whole thing as I was recording for my course, so I'll use some extracts from it in this video. Enjoy !
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About me (bio) :
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !

[@marymiller6942]

I use to paint plein air and then I spilled all my water color tins in the sand at the beach, and then a month later I was painting on a rock in Colorado, and ALL my oil paints slid off the rock down the mountain, a very tragic day of painting indeed, but I loved this video and should probably get myself a proper set up!!

[@tthomas184]

Time to remember ...You have to crack some eggs to make an omelet. Sometimes a lot of them!

[@beccagee5905]

I've learned more from painting en Plein Air than I ever imagined. Yes I made mistakes when I began; but when I saw those mistakes, I acknowledge them, and studied the study to figured out how to correct the mistakes. The next time I went out to paint, I was prepared with one more tool in my kit to use. I really enjoy your videos. Now seeing your reaction to painting nature, I see a kindred spirit. Beautiful Plein Air study!!!

[@tasmairevandikar3294]

This is a one of a kind episode of yours, Florent Sir. Truly, this episode is different from the other episodes of all your series, until now and even this episode is as beautiful as your other episodes are. Truly, an amazing episode and beautiful painting, dear Florent Sir🙏🙏.

[@ArtHistorywithAlder]

Incredible! Amazing to watch this process and learn about Courbet and Realism all at the same time. Awesome video

[@marvineric323]

I love your pochade box❤

[@cherylnathanodette]

A superb post and love the history lesson also. It's wonderful to hear this History as well as see your wonderful art thank you.

[@volkerpaffenholz4157]

Hello Florent. I learned a lot of these video. You had quite new Tipps which Ididn't knew before. Thank you.

[@bgastein]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[@chashere2621]

Thank you Florent, your open honest thoughts will make a change in the art wold well done.

[@PleinAirAdventureswithTezDower]

Greetings from Sydney Australia, Beautiful work. You caught the essence of the place 🎨👍

[@averyjoycelynbarakudablock4139]

wowW0w ` Truly a remarkable work, this production! You have given us so much here. Already so fulfilled with the unfolding demo juxtaposed with historic footage, the lilting cadence of your voice while, really, supplying us with So Much valuable information and personal perpective (!) and THEN, whew, that knockout long pan commencing at the cave's mouth at m 13. I really can't get over how stunningly your intentions transform into such perfection. So much complexity here, and you interplay each element with the mastery of a symphonic conductor. Well, I'm already overly wordy here, trying to avoid pop parlance but I really do have ti ssy it. > I'm blown away

[@1Thedairy]

I like the way you took your time to draw the cave before you applied the values. It shows how important it is to get that right. I loved the outcome. It’s a beautiful painting that wants me to keep looking at it. Thank you for sharing.

[@FC-sc9yc]

So grateful I found you! OMG, I started drawing and painting a few years ago having had not a single lesson. I painted approximately 600 paintings - most pretty bad but I didn’t know it , thank God. My paintings were sort of like emotional vomiting on canvas and it oddly worked somehow. I mean not all of them but some the beauty of the lesson I just watched which was the 10 rules of or 10 most important things. I can’t remember the title for a beginner and I was saying, the beauty gave me permission to horrible but to have fun. I had that in the beginning and now I’m stressing about the fact that I don’t know anything. I have no idea what I’m doing and I approach every effort every charcoal on paper or paint on a canvas with anxiety I truly am awful. So I thank you for giving me permission to liberate some of my eros and anxiety about what I don’t know. And you remind me that practice practice practice is really the way. But I do think now some techniques. Some actual knowledge would be helpful and that’s where you come in. You’re absolutely charming and wonderful and you make things sound accessible so I’m glad I found you even though, everyone else did. That’s all. I’ll look forward to the next lesson. I hope to get my innocence back while learning some of the skill that’s necessary to actually execute what I want. Mostly- thank you thank you thank you.

[@FC-sc9yc]

Not “ Eros” I meant neurosis!

[@franceslazu1784]

Totally beautiful!!

[@hariklein]

This is one of my favorite videos of yours, Florent! I started painting outside with a clipboard recently and it's such a delight. Might invest in a pochade box now :)

[@nowellcabela5444]

wow amazing

[@WeThePpleForThePple]

Very inspiring, Florent

[@adm58]

Thanks Florent, very inspiring.

[@mikatinde5112]

Thank you for all the videos you Are making. I enjoy especially to hear you takling about creativity, thoughts and wiewpoints that you have. Very inspiring indeed❤

[@DannySabraArt]

Beautiful plein air piece! I love plein air painting. It was cool how you took us on a journey and the connection to Corbet was really fascinating! So cool you can see the same places those early 19th c painters painted!

[@shuvoarts.3314]

Great work 👍👍👍💚💚

[@roseannecampagna6056]

Excellent ❤

[@shahzadqurashi7728]

Awesome work!

[@DavidWoodArtist]

Nicely done! And you have a drone, nice touch

[@linegarneau7444]

Magnifique !

[@cynthiamarston2208]

Thank you!

[@gnorman8852]

Thank you for a wonderful instructional video & history lesson!

[@catherinecervas3726]

Great painting and video! Thank you for all you do 🎨💕

[@azimegultekin1408]

Thank you for this wonderfull lesson 🙏🙏🙏👍

[@uncleatelier8495]

You're really good at this.~~^^👍👍👍👍👍

[@cruisingwithoutsail6585]

Amazing

[@aaronmurray5952]

Woooow!

[@bettychilldres9860]

WOW... B.U.TI.FUL PAINTING!!

[@eves.2825]

Tres belle video! J’ai beaucoup aimé la lesson d’histoire au millieu. Merci :)

[@kemalikemali9367]

nice

[@stians.6912]

Superb! I admit that I'd be tempted to snap a few good photos and finish the painting back home, if time got short. :)

[@sheilachapmanart]

Why is there no paint on your pochade box?! Is it brand new?

[@artandfacts]

Une très belle vidéo avec un paysage époustouflant ! Faut-il faire une grande randonnée pour arriver sur ce site ?

[@helyettauguy8358]

Bonjour Florent, vos vidéos sont toujours excellentes! Un regret, tout de même, si les sous -titrages étaient en français ce serait plus facile pour moi et beaucoup d'autres. Encore merci pour la qualité de vos vidéos. H

[@gotaincat4376]

💜

[@mona2242]

I am thrilled to have found this. One question though, what medium did you use after the initial wash? Thanks!

[@asmi3424]

How did you make that black paper frame? Also amazing painting!!

[@zokotodosiev6650]

Regarts from Macedonia

[@MrSilva960]

Very well painted, had category ! do you live in France ? Try the places where Impressionists lived . Giverny by exemple, like Monet . along the Seine, Fontainebleau Forest. France is so beautiful with goo weather .

[@maggs131]

I love painting outdoors but my watercolors and acrylics do not. 😩 I may soon try oils for this reason alone

[@devyadav3273]

Oils are amazing. But Watercolors can be used for outdoors.

[@maggs131]

@@devyadav3273 I know but they dry really really fast

[@mike7gerald]

The people can intimidate me; especially if my painting is messy. I was afraid to have fun plein air painting.

[@pierrerouge8620]

Your English is very good 👍.... Did you learn through school or are you from Luxembourg?

[@markup6394]

I have a question regarding your pochade box: I have a similar one, but the mixing pane is of wood. What did you do with yours? Is it glass or some other material? - Thank you in advance.

[@felixoesinghaus]

I loved this! made me want to get outside and paint, although I definitely feel like using gouache is less of a hassle outside of a studio. Also interesting how the camera picked up so much blue in the water and it read much more grey in your painting

[@nisharanitoor4008]

Wow i thought you were only master in potrait making

[@samueladjei8599]

Can u do tutorial of how to paint landscaping

[@DawnStyleArt]

Why not take a picture?

[@DawnStyleArt]

Or video?

[@samueladjei8599]

Am Afraid to paint bro