This Is Why I Fell In Love With Painting

[@marshadavis-riley5754]

Your enthusiasm for your craft is infectious. I adore the calm in the colors in this painting. Thank you.

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thank you so much!

[@shawnawhite8318]

Colley, I've enjoyed your paintings, but just discovered your KZbin videos. Love them! Your teaching is so calming and instructional for an amateur like myself. Such practical suggestions, obviously born of decades of experience, and yet presented in a refreshing humble way that is easy to grasp. Thank you!

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thanks Shawna, lovely to hear that; plenty more video to come.

[@sherrierichard2848]

You really got the bright sunlight effect so well! Carving the cow (negative shaping)is always a good idea and really demonstrated well. Thank!

[@teresasiesmaa4606]

So beautiful and peaceful, love it 😊

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thanks.

[@rosano-pinturaemtela2729]

Excelente! Magnifico! Parabens!

[@ladym6738]

Enjoyed thoughtful commentary. Well thought out. Lovely to watch image being revealed. Till next time…

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thanks.

[@ManiDProductions]

Great video, straight to the point, thank you very much!

[@colleywhissonartist]

Glad you enjoyed.

[@motlba]

Such a simple and beautiful landscape. Thank you for this summarized and well explained demo.

[@colleywhissonartist]

Glad to share it, and thanks for watching.

[@paulkefalas663]

Hey mate I just want to ask a question on making the darks opaque. A lot of dark pigments I find are transparent and I find it difficult to lay in the darks as opaque as the lights (I use cad yellow, titanium white, cad orange, AS red, yellow ochre, cobalt blue, french ultramarine and AS pilbra red (transparent)). I've seen artists on Instagram doing alla prima, lay in the darks and they look as opaque as the lights. How is this achieved? I lay in my darks and basically every time I must work on other aspects of my painting and then go over them with the same colour to achieve the opacity I want. I don't use any medium besides gamsol and use it well I assume (not wet just enough to make it run better than from the tube. I don't use it in the darks due to the transparency.) I also prime MDF the same way as you instructed in one of your videos (helped amazingly).

[@colleywhissonartist]

It normally takes 2 coats to get the paint thick enough, I do the first coat thin and then the second coat is much thicker, that’s how I get an opaque look.

[@kv_kw]

I've been following a few American artists like Joe Paquet, Bryan Mark T, Kyle Ma, Mark Boedges, and an artist named Colley Whisson, who I thought just another great American artist. A few weeks ago, I found this channel. I actually didn't know you were from my home state. Thank you so much for recording these lessons. I hope I will get a chance to see you in Albion in Oct.

[@colleywhissonartist]

Looking forward to meeting you, thanks for watching.

[@margaretsmilligan9393]

I love this painting , thank you so much for this fab video, another triumph

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thanks Margaret.

[@curly379]

Tha shadow on the hay bales from the shed post is my favourite part.😊

[@rjsongwriter]

Honestly, I'd like to see a little more warmth on the parts of the hay bails in light. Other than that, it's another nice one from you. I enjoyed the video, as I always do.

[@colleywhissonartist]

Thanks.