Zorn Palette course: 4 - Modelling the Features

Zorn Palette course: 4 - Modelling the Features
In the fourth video of this course, Peter talks through how to approach painting the important facial features.
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[@eleanyaotisijezreel7965]

What a great teacher you are, thank u

[@StanleyKubick1]

you're a great communicator and teacher. this is what you should focus on. more tutorial series

[@ameliedad3670]

these videos are pure gold

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

Thank you so much. New videos coming on my channel very soon!

[@rsa4510]

Absolutely fabulous video series. Theres nothing quite like this that I've seen anywhere else. I love portraiture too. I really like the way you paint. I learned a lot. Liked and subscribed.

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

That's brilliant news, so pleased to hear you are learning from these. Thanks for the support

[@TessMArt]

Outstanding tutorial. One of the best I have ever seen around here. congratulations for your mastery. I like and sub.

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

Thank you Linda

[@coviedogs]

You make it look so easy!

[@heliobrito2425]

Great series. i must say though that for demonstration purposes the open palette approach is very confusing. It enphasizes the painter experience but jeopardizes the comprehension. A systematic approach with closed palette would , in my humble opinion, improve the message even further. Anyhow, It is a great work.

[@coviedogs]

Haha "a mm out, pftt" love it ans so true!

[@yematosan8837]

Vary good proses sir , it's helpful.👍

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

Many thanks, so pleased you find it helpful.

[@HerrSommerjunge]

I must confess: I do have trouble taking the 'paint what you see not what you think' when the head in the painting is turned in a different angle than the reference. That said, I enjoy painting what I think …

[@joshmiller2803]

Super Cool

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

Thank you so much. New videos coming on my channel very soon!

[@davidkihlberg6231]

Love your work, but i think you are using to much gray color. The orginal pic has almost no gray at all.

[@KpxUrz5745]

Here's the problem with the so-called Zorn palette. While it can be helpful to a student to try working within defined limitations, the limitations can also produce rather expected results. In this case I find the painting too pasty and silvery gray. I have another problem with the peripheral paint handling here, meaning the loose washy strokes surrounding the main subject. These loose strokes are meant to convey a certain semblance of accident, or facile artistry (which seems to impress the "incognoscenti"), but which I find unimpressive and somewhat too "pretty". My preference is to set aside rules (such as implied by Zorn's palette), and focus on psychological analysis of the subject, personal color sense, and good composition. As for the most exquisitely beautiful and innocuous peripheral loose brush marks or deliberate avoidance of "finish", I suggest a look at Picasso, from early to late works. He did this better than anyone else.

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

You are absolutely right, Picasso was indeed a very talented Artist. Thank you for sharing your opinion - isn't it great that Art is so subjective and that we are all drawn to different things.

[@skybluepink41]

It must be so wonderful to be a cognoscenti!

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@skybluepink41 You can be too, if you spend uninterrupted multiple decades of intense study of art history and the art of painting, along with decades of museum studies, perhaps maintain a personal art library of 750 to 1000 good art books, and spend countless thousands of hours in studio work drawing and painting.

[@_ClericalError_]

​@KpxUrz5745 One would expect that years of study and mastery would also cultivate a certain degree of humility and manners, but apparently not.

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@_ClericalError_ I'm sure to you "manners" means totally avoiding using a critical eye on youtube, and totally going along with this form of Vanity Press where only oohs and ahhs and gushing amateur compliments are expected and acceptable. In other words, we should all "get stupid" if we wish to comment on youtube. I don't see any rule stating that educated persons may not speak here.

[@davidchen248]

you are No zorn

[@beanstaIkjack]

Sometimes when I'm painting I get sick of music and want company so I find a demo to put on while I paint.

[@peterkeeganartist3135]

Glad I could help - thank you for choosing to have me on in the background