STOP Copying Photos If You Want Artistic Growth/Looser Oil Paintings

[@ChelseaLang]

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[@cindyenglert.az51]

Thank you so much for this painting demo. OI love watching you paint -I always learn something new about portrait painting.

[@westfieldartworks8188]

Sargent would study his model from 10 feet back, mix his colors on his hand held palette based on what he was seeing from the 10 foot mark, then walk up to his canvass and lay in the tones, then walk back to his 10 foot distance to study his canvas against the model to see how what he had just done, looked. He said when painting a portrait, the approximate distance he would walk while painting that portrait was approximately 4 miles.

[@Lacaracola2301]

Thank you so much for sharing, this is just what I needed, I've found out one of my biggest problems when painting portraits.

[@Frothy_Mead]

Joel w/ the impeccable mustache.

[@ceceliakrieg5824]

Thanks, Chelsea. Such sound advice.

[@thedurochersofficial]

So Funny Chelsea, i just wrote in my painting journal how I've been painting the fine details IN ORDER to get the likeness (better). You say in this brand new video, "Don't listen to that little voice in your head that you need to paint the fine details to get the likeness!!" Hahaha. You got me! Well, somel back story. I've been trying to paint two portraits a day from photo's obviously to increase my block in ability and capturing a likeness and trying to work quickly and keep it loose. I was shooting for that 1.5 hour mark each. Was ending up at 3-5 hours each. Hit a slump and did two kinda muddy ones back to back so I regrouped for a day. Came back and did just one, spending 5-6 hours dialing things in and got a great likeness and made a "pretty painting". Did one the next day with about the same results. So, I told myself "this must be a better strategy for me," more time that is. Then I found your video today and was just laughing and reaffirming that I need to strengthen the block in. Side note, I am glad that i found you on here and I find your content instructive and your voice and tone and rate of speaking very soothing as I have listened to several while painting. Thanks and keep up the good work. Further side note, I've been painting celebrity photos as we all know who these people are and having some fun texting the finished pics to my kids around the country and seeing if they know who they are. This has added a fun social element to my "cloister mode" of painting for 7-14 hours a day! It has also allowed for some fun conversations as well as discussions about what films they played in etc. Regards.

[@tomremeny]

This is my favourite painting of yours, such solid incredible painting skills, amazing job and thanks for the great tips to consider!! Thanks Chelsea!!

[@TheHushedsilence]

A lot of great advice, Im also a big advocate of drawing your photo references at least once. I can't say it's universal, but Ive found I change things based on personal preference and suddenly it's no longer a 1:1 recreation when I go to paint it.

[@davidbrodiehoward]

I had to keep my glasses on because my vision is so bad. I do use big brushes. I appreciated moving the paints and canvas away. It helped me to get a better perspective for sure.

[@rajunarkar]

Thank you.

[@theresbob8878]

Stop with the bull about beautiful traditional materials. I'm 82 and you can check the wiki for octogenarian artists.