PLEIN AIR oil painting PLEASURE POINT santa cruz

[@rayvila7761]

Bustin' good thanks Ray Vila...

[@carlstoveland]

Great painting. I enjoy hearing you talk through your process while you work.

[@jeremylukeStudio]

Incredible work, in an hour non the less

[@joycesumara416]

Fabulous work! I so look forward to your postings. Thank you for giving us inspiration.

[@brandoncornwell52]

Fantastic painting. I love it. I love the 11 x 14 canvas for plein air work. It beats all- the 8 x 10 an 9 x 12 feel claustrophobic and constrained, in my opinion. I envy your location- I’m in southern az, so it’s kind of like a giant beach, but with a bunch of cactuses and zero water. Love these paintings of yours, with your impressionistic, painterly style. You have a love of light and color that Monet and Pisarro would have appreciated. I know I do. You are a wizard handling those substantial flat and filbert brushes vigorously conjuring magic on your canvas!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Brandon!

[@smkelleystudio]

Always a pleasure to watch you paint, Michael. The energy in your brushstrokes definitely bring out the energy of the waves in the scene.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Shawn!

[@helenrichards7866]

Loving your composition, colour mixing and explanation, thank you so very much

[@joycebutler3494]

Nice to see you painting at the beach again. Love the painting.!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Joyce!

[@ariahmyles]

Still amazes me to see you turn some loose and care free brush strokes into such a convincing painting. well done my friend

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Ariah!

[@mporte84]

This is a glorious painting. It's uplifting to watch the colors light up, with the sound of the Pleasure Point surf all around you. The "shape" of the Pacific Ocean is illuminated like a zen riddle. If you do go back and make those touch-ups, you can also look at leveling out the horizon. Please, oh please, don't paint over it. ever.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Mary!

[@mrfoo12emily]

thank you! I am inspired to get my old crummy paintings out and paint over them! :)

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Yes, do it!!

[@annlgs7303]

Michael - I smile the entire time I watch your videos. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful painting!

[@lyndaguenther8897]

Nice! Thanks!

[@theeyeofday]

This is the actual dream

[@roberthale2268]

Great job. I've been plein air painting for about 15 years and I learned something from watching you.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Robert!

[@sannefridolin]

Early morning inspiration!

[@gracemcdonald7644]

Great painting - love watching your videos!!

[@barbarabrown7960]

"Creating luminosity..." Much easier said than done. Thank you yet again, Michael, for sharing your process with us.

[@lm2487]

Love the colors and beautiful & subtle value changes!

[@jamesmeyers6603]

I loved watching this video. Great painting. Painting over the old painting worked great.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks James!

[@sylhayes8152]

I have learnt so much about mixing colours, especially using complementaries... thank you for your truly great videos

[@boomsticken701]

i used to live and surf there in the 80s, while your there, should of went over by Felton, there is a forest park there and paint some redwood trees

[@ellapears6647]

I normally watch these before I go to sleep as I find it so calming, but now I have this uncontrollable urge to go paint en plein air! So addictive!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Oh good! Hope you get out and give it a try!

[@margaretsmilligan9393]

Another beauty, always great composition

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks!

[@Krise343]

You seem to have a new camera? Yes? The picture is very clear and a bit more vibrant. Beautiful work you’ve shared today. Makes me miss Santa Cruz for sure.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! No, it's the same old camera! It's covered in paint, and falling apart, but it still works. It's a Canon G7X mark ii for those who are curious.

[@BarbieBud]

Nice!

[@joywhitley3141]

"Play around, have a good time!" 😎

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Yes!

[@joywhitley3141]

@@chamberlainpaintings ☺️

[@Anonymoi]

Nice! I like the look of that sanded panel even before you started painting. 🙂 I don’t know if this really needs to be said, but I suppose for the sake of clarity - your use of Liquin is in a painting completed in a single session, wet on wet. In that case you don’t really need to observe the fat over lean rule. Liquin is considered a “fat” medium and will dry more flexible than does a linseed oil mixture. If someone were working on a painting over several sessions they’d typically want less Liquin in the early layers and more in the later layers. (In practice, I don’t think it makes a huge difference if you’re just doing some touch-ups over a dry painting and your touch-up paint is reasonably “fat,” but you wouldn’t want a far more flexible layer underneath another layer which will dry more rigid/brittle.) I know you know this, I’m just mentioning it in case someone took away from the video “more Liquin in early layers, less in later layers” as a rule.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Yes, I agree it doesn't matter when painting wet on wet. Also it doesn't really matter when painting on panels because there isn't the expanding and contracting you get with canvas. Thanks for your thoughts!

[@Anonymoi]

@@chamberlainpaintings Oh, interesting point about painting on a panel. I have to do more reading about that since there are other factors related to the paint itself expanding or contracting and possible delamination with layering of alkyd mediums in particular. But, I think I’m talking about extremes now and in normal practice over a normal span of time (not hundreds of years) the majority of experienced artists probably wouldn’t have a big problem.

[@Dennis-Hare]

Pretty. Thank you for sharing.

[@markparkey1218]

( standing mid - ground right some may see , in green transparencies, creativity’s mother nature, she looks toward a sunbeam, background upper left from sky to sea 13:26 ,behind her green apparel she grants a real shadow , admiring your artistic creativity, mid-ground right, near the base of the tree). Beautiful painting Michael ❤️🙂

[@DenisPombriant]

This is just amazing. I watch and think this is headed for a bad ending but by the end everything is in its place, the painting holds together and I am in awe.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Denis!

[@geoffreybarker3729]

I like your paintings and your attitude to painting a lot it's very gestural and similar to my own approach. I had to laugh a little when you said the water was freezing dud you say 58 degrees that's hot tub weather where I live in the North East of England uk.. The temperature of the North Sea temperature now is about 12 degrees in July. I was out yesterday paintings waves and I did learn a lot from your videos so thank you. From Geoff North East England UK

[@andrewrea2799]

Another great video Michael. Another great painting.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Andrew!

[@agneslam9261]

👋👋👋👋

[@theeenillie]

😮love the painting 🖼 😍

[@markparkey1218]

- 💭 mmmm --> 1:05 vid time , sanded canvas , upper right mid-ground, “” creativity speaks, perhaps a story beginning, “” see the minds eye(s) of mother earth focused, yet also in “” Her Immensity “” -> mid-upper background , two shaded , neigh transparent eyes that see the whole world, ( where might the vastness of different focused thought take us, from sanded creativity’s hand, story, perhaps) 💭

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks for your poetic observations Mark!

[@markparkey1218]

@@chamberlainpaintings - just made 3 pages of notes and time references , very absorbing , 8:32 bristle dances across the sky, by 9:15 you are “” tuning the sea, sky, horizon and whitewater verbal instruction ❤️

[@chamberlainpaintings]

@@markparkey1218 Thanks!

[@meredith7236]

Lovely

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Meredith

[@harryjamessmithmusic7762]

Brilliant painting, sir! I love it. Looks really great! Also amazing spot and awesome ocean. Some brave people were even surfing in this freezing water... Well, personally , I would prefer some kind of Hawaiian warm water, you know. Have a wonderful day! Greetings from the EU!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Olda! Yes, Hawaiian water would be nice.

[@harryjamessmithmusic7762]

@@chamberlainpaintings Cheers!

[@59jaguar]

Good one Michael!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks Roger!

[@aliciawoodward2289]

Enjoy watching your videos! I never use dioxizene (spelling) purple but can see how it might be really good for landscape painting. Do you always have it on your palette? Could you address if not here but a future video your thoughts/benefits on this color? What brand do you prefer in this color because I might buy a tube to experiment with. Thank you!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I just discussed this on my Patreon! 😀 I use Utrecht brand but any brand of artist grade paint should be fine. Dioxazine purple is helpful whenever you need a clean, saturated purple. I find it helpful for tinting whitewater. It's also a convenient way to tone down yellow. I have small tube since I don't use it in every painting.

[@miriamtong8808]

Good morning Michael. Beautiful spot to paint! I was really drawn to the texture of your sanded panel. Have you ever done the “artsy” kind of thing with having bigger areas of the sanded panel showing through? Kind of like a collage? Otherwise, enjoyable as always 👍🏽

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thank Miriam! No, I haven't tried that. I have left smaller areas uncovered when it works for the painting. It's often nice having some of the colors from the old painting showing through.

[@DDartlover8888]

Great painting. Question: doesn’t using more Liquin in the first layer contradict “fat over lean”?

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks! Liquin is not an oil, it's an alkyd resin. It dries fast and flexible. So the fat over lean rule doesn't apply. If you thin the early stages of your painting with odorless mineral spirits or turpentine you're breaking down the binder in the paint, decreasing it's ability to adhere to a panel gessoed with acrylic gesso. Unfortunately I've had the paint flake or easily scratch off. Using Liquin in the early stages has solved this problem. This isn't really a problem when using canvas since the thinned paint usually soaks into the canvas.

[@henriquejanuario881]

thanks for the video! Why you leave old paint in the palete? could'nt be better if you clean it for the next paintings? Peace!

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I leave the unused paint on the palette for the next painting. I do clean the mixing area after each painting.

[@theeenillie]

Yesss post more 🤍💯

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Once a week is about all I can handle 😂

[@fleedc7721]

do you usually hold your phone while filming😁😁 i love thissss

[@chamberlainpaintings]

I'm filming with a Canon G7X mark ii. Yes, i hold it in my hand. Glad you like :)

[@sadiaawanartist]

Very nice.

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Thanks :)

[@markparkey1218]

Michael - 12:42 appx

[@markparkey1218]

Good Morning Michael 🙂 0:02 😁😄😎

[@chamberlainpaintings]

Good morning Mark!

[@markparkey1218]

@@chamberlainpaintings yes , gotta do stuff and etc, thanks Michael 🙂

[@elevenhorses]

Today is the poppy fest in Thousand Oaks. I want to paint poppies. You should paint poppies. We shd paint poppies. :)

[@ariahmyles]

shout out to Thousand Oaks

[@theeenillie]

Here before I get baptized 😊🤍

[@jerrykeeton6607]

Very nice .