Re-uploaded with better music. This is Iain McCaig painting a live portrait at the Illustration Master Class in June 2013. It's at 2x speed and sorry for the wobbly camera.
I've just read a few of the comments below. There's just no pleasing some people! This content is great, to see a superb artist and story teller like Mr McCaig in action is special and inspirational. Thank you very much!
If I was sitting behind him in this class... I don't know if I would just drop everything I was doing, and just stare at his work; or if I would just head to the trash can and dump all my art supplies, going "I'll never be that good!!", lol!
Ive watched this video severap times, have it saved to a playlist, so i can continue to reffer ro it as i teach myself watercolor painting. Been painting for about 4 years, and 2 years at learning portraits. Thr past month ive gone back to monochromatic painting, thinking of underpainting. . Guess now ive gotta take a shot at nickep azo yellow monochromatic painting. See where that take a me. The video is treasure, many thanks for taking and uploading it for thr world. The model is inspiring in her beauty! Many thanks for everyone involved!
Thanks for uploading this video - what a privilege to be able to watch someone who really knows what they are doing. Wow! what a nice piece of work - I love how he captures the glow - very cool post for learning
His method of establishing his lighting and contrast of the model, starting with one color tone, and the results help builds the lightest to darkest is amazing! I think its more difficult to to start with a blob of dark paint, then build your way to lightest.. In my figure drawings, guess I always been trying to find my own method in starting with watercolor paint (cause you're afraid to mess up and all) but THIS... THIS METHOD WILL DO :)
Beautiful! I was holding my breath when he applied the final darkest tone on chin/cheek area. Because it was already awesome the way I see it. *gasp* But it turned out much more awesome!
That's wonderful, it's such a privilege to watch the master at work! Thank you very much for recording, oh and great choice for the music, one of my favorite OSTs :) And dumb people, just stop complaining about the quality, shaking and music. She didn't have to record, and we can see very clearly what he is doing. And for lowering the shaking effect just slow down the video and turn off the sound. Just search for solutions before complaining. Thanks again Michelle!
Thanks for sharing Michelle! Any chance you could upload the real time video as well? Never mind if the sound isn't too great but I'd love to see it at a slower pace, and maybe people wouldn't complain as much about the wobbling (not that I'm complaining, I understand it's not easy, I've been there). Anyway, thanks a lot for the upload!
If you watch it at .5 speed playback, you will get something close to real time though some quality is lost. I don't mind the shaking at all at this speed as it feels like how painting feels (jerking around to get a diff brush, new towel, at the palette, etc) and focusing on the painting feels pretty natural. Hopefully I can trick my mind into thinking this is how I can paint this way for the next time I do a portrait : D
Papa..Papado.. Papadopo~ulos. *Papadopoulos!* There, I said it! That's quite a name there. Anyway, that was interesting. Thanks for uploading, Mrs. Snuffleupagus.
I want to watch the whole video but it's just a bit too shaky…I am feeling kinda dizzy….will have to watch it with regular breaks. Yet I too find this inspiring and feel like pulling out traditional methods.
men I like this Artist but camera men or women need some potassium to be able to stand still ,,no vitamins at all ...cant hold the cam ?? put your hand on something and the people enjoy the Artist work )), thx
RU-vid/Google has a way of "re-rendering this" to remove the camera shake. (You can revert it if it's not to your liking). It does usually crop in, but it might help. To get to it, choose to edit this video and look for the "stabilization" tool.
Iain will be teaching a course online at schoolism(dot)com - if you're interested. He's creating the course at the moment but will be online (I think) later in the year.
Love the artist but he needs to get a better camera man. Who ever taped this must have the jitters, he/she couldn't keep their hand still. It was difficult to focus on the video because of it.
I got to learn so much with just this one video! I had recently learned about this method for digital art, but had no idea this was obviously done in traditional art first🥲😭. It really is now established for me to start by building up the values and then add the colour layers
I gotta ask, maybe someone knows the answer - when I try to paint with watercolors in this way going over the same area with brush strokes over and over in order to create smooth edges etc, I usually end up with shredded paper pulp, even with quality watercolor paper. I wonder what he uses. I know that tools don't make the artist but I think paper is quite important with watercolors.
All artists I like use 100% cotton. Most use coldpressed because it's very smooth. at least 300grams. they all seem to use arches paper. very expensive.
@@Astharia it's hot press for smooth paper. Cold pressed for grainy paper. Portraits are usually on hot pressed 100 percent cotton paper, if you dry between washes the paper wont peel , and not to scrub the paper but blot and dab to pull up pigments.
Alejandro Villada He was using an Acquarello Watercolor pad which is bound on 2 sides to it doesn't bend. I tried it out and it is some great watercolor paper!
allluckyseven I probably do but it was close to 2 hours worth of video, so that's why I sped it up. It would probably take days to upload that much based on how long it took to upload even this one.
ive never done traditional painting and this video makes me want to!! nice choice of music by the way! so if this is 2x speed that means it was a 30 min session?
I hear ya! I became a lot more interested in traditional painting during this workshop. The session was about 2 hours if I remember correctly. There was a 15 min break half way through.
gotcha. yeah i aimed on going this year myself, especially since i just graduated as an illustration major. but next year seems better for me to shoot for. Just 5 minutes with Iain is all i need to learn from him
