Welcome to my channel! I'm a realist painter and teacher, living and working in the heart of the Cotswolds in the UK.
Here you'll find tutorial videos on all manner of topics related to painting, specifically oil painting: Still life set up ideas, flower painting tutorials, colour mixing videos - especially the Munsell colour system - and specific tutorials on how to paint silver, glass etc in oils.
Mostly though, I try to focus on the fundamentals of oil painting - the things that you need no matter what your subject: Composition, drawing, values edge handling and colour - all with oil painting.
I live stream painting from my studio occasionally (for free), usually just hwatever I happen to be working on at the time - most often flower painting in oils.
Although the live sessions are very informal, inevitably I end up teaching a bit as people ask questions. Feel to ask your own as we go along.
Subscribe to see live each stream and new tutorial videos as I upload them!
That was great, thank you. Just a quick question, because you've softened all the edges, would you then go into the background and soften all the brush strokes there as well?
No, I like the texture of the brush strokes, it gives the painting more life. On paintings of more than one session, I sand and scrape the first layer back and paint over it, so that some of it still shows through. Texture is life!
Thank you so much for this demo using the ChromaMagic. I bought the app and I used it for the value study but I wasn’t sure how to use it for the chroma. This was really helpful!
Thank you for this informative and inspiring tutorial. The results are wonderful. Takeaway: the setup and lighting are critical for a good still life! Most memorable quote: "You're not painting objects, you're painting light falling on objects"
I started doing this years ago using GIMP (the photoshop type app). My advice would be to always try and guess the colour first......guess the Hue......guess the Saturation.....guess the Value. And you'll be surprised at how quickly you learn to get it right.
Paul, I was watching your show yesterday and all of a sudden your video was showing on my TV! I had no idea I could watch you on tv! It was like watching you in real time! It was great! I just had to tell you that you are now a tv star! But I can’t figure out how to send you a copy of it! My phone is acting weird!
I’ve always been a bit skeptical about leading your eye around the painting. So glad to hear someone else feels the same. Since watching your channel I’ve been keeping an eye on my edges and found this makes a huge difference 👍🏻
Yes! Edges are very important, both compositionally and in showing form. Regarding "leading the eye", we actually don't look at paintings in that way at all. Anyone who doubts this can read about the Yarbus eye tracking experiments here: www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/images/Unexpected_visitor.pdf or in a more digestible format here: www.seattleartistleague.com/2016/10/05/tracking-the-gaze/. This study is also interesting since it includes abstract art: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170918/. It always amazes me how people will stubbornly stick to their ideas even with factual evidence that disproves them. It's sad, because spending time on things that don't make any difference to your work will slow your progress by taking time and energy away from working on the things that do - one of those being edge handling :)
Your painting looks amazing. Your student easel has served its purpose Yes 🙌I think you should buy a new easel a professional artist needs a professional easel 🤗.
Do you find different manufacturers of raw Umber are yellow green I have one schmincke mussini which is definitely not orange and if you add yellow or blue it becomes green but my Winsor and Newton raw Umber is more orange
As you are making beautiful paintings on the easel you have, I see little reason to buy another but I am a frugal Yankee from New England. Am I missing something about your easel?
Well I'll tell you one thing: I stick my panels to a board on my easel with blu tack. This morning I went into the studio to find the painting had fallen off the board and landed face down on the carpet. Now I'm regretting using all those staining, organic pigments! So maybe I should get one after all :)
@@PaulFoxton you can never have enough easels I have 8 most of which are too big now I don't have a studio (shed at the bottom of the garden) I now paint oils in my bedroom a meter from my bed yes I know not a great idea but I don't have anywhere else and my small easels are too small or I am literally sitting within 6 inches from the painting and I need the garden made accessible for me so I can get to my studio again
I just purchased Chroma Majic What a blessing, just can't say enough of this channel, Paul has taught me so much, and now this tool. I feel so blessed, regardless of my circumstances 🙏 I would like to thank Michelle also what an amazing learning tool
Thanks very much! I keep thinking I should make shorter videos, but the live sessions always end up being rather long. So I'm very happy that you used the word "consise" :)
I don't hear your stomach growling at all. Lol. Idk what you're talking about. 😅 watching from southern California 2 hours north of San Diego, 1 hour south of LA
