I paint a landscape with oil paint. I also discuss abstract brushwork and more. For more free videos on painting in oil visit drawmixpaint.com For more about the paint that I use visit: genevafineart.com
I have learned more in such a short time from this guy that I did in my school days. Thank you for putting the time in to teach us all. Greetings from. Scotland
Your taste in oil paintings is like mine. Your favorite artists and paintings are exactly in line with mine. That makes your videos particularly interesting and valuable to me. I understand what you are saying and teaching. I feel I could execute because your teaching is so clear and effective. Every day I get closer to investing in materials. Good job.
I can see the JSS influence in this piece. Nicely done! And thank you so much for taking the time to show how this is done and the thought process behind it. I learn more from your presentations than from any other I've ever seen.
This is a wonderful video lesson. And listening to Mark talking is almost hypnotic. Puts me in a somewhat altered state, and makes me want to do this same painting with his work flow. THANKS! 😊
Stuart Davies is the master of this type of landscape painting, the fun I have learned from watching him make these in 1 hour or less, is be free and let the paint direct you. Perhaps I am glad I am getting a 10 fold education in oil painting...all of the best of our youtube oil paint artists are so skilled in their 'way', for you it's realism (Your amazing)...nothing wrong with that! For myself, I am personally painting from my mind and as the paint flows, I have created great skys and land that goes on for days.... for my assignments, I am doing PB&J sandwiches with glasses of milk, staged with light and 'boring'...but I am learning, and I find my nitch will be in my imagination....
Just seen this video. Wonderfully informative, thank you. This is an ‘artist’s painting’, we admire the execution, the technique, the colour harmony. Many might say (my wife) who would want to hang that up, there are no figures, buildings, etc…? I would, I love it.
Gorgeous painting! Shows what colors can be achieved without color! At a point at about 24 min. it looked like a flooded field with the underpainting ground showing through as muddy water. Very nice effect, but you went on, as I probably would have too. I'm too chicken sometimes to leave a big patch unpainted even if it looks good at the moment!
Thank you for the extremely valuable information and channel. I was trained in the grey tone underpainting /over glaze method. Since then I have learned you're method and I find it seems much easier and creates a similar finished painting from the looks of it. I have 3 painted canvases in grey tones. My question is should I mix all my colors like you describe, and put them on opaque or can I thin them and paint the values in the appropriate places and still have the underpainting come thru or should I just paint right over top of my grey tones and consider the painting of the grisaille time lost? What would be your best approach at fixing this situation correctly and not wasting all the hundreds of hours I spent underpainting? Thank You for you're generous and helpul information, you are a fantastic artist .Alvin Nelson
Binge watching your video's ... I notice your stroke is looser than a few years ago.. indeed a bit more abstract absolutely beautiful! I stopped painting a decade ago.. I was bored with it and stuck in my ways.. Did a decade of digital art but again back to basics so i landed on your youtube chanel to refresh my technique etc etc.. Watching for days now... Thank you so much.. I will post my first painting in Corona times on your forum ;-)
Painting dark to light makes a MASSIVE difference-I always painted light to dark, which left me fighting with the medium and not having the darks be dark enough, what a milky MESS! Thanks so much for all your wonderful videos Mark-what a HUGE help they are! And I LOVE your foundation stain-I use it in all my paintings now.
Excellent video. I love all your videos. Can you do a quick portrait demo from start to finish ? Alot of your viewers only do portraits in oil and we would love to see how you put it together. Thanks man.
Occasionally, I beleive it's good to get out of our or my comfort zone ... (image coming out of your head or not). As far as I'm concerned, I reserve this practice for pencil, drawing, the sketch but for the oil painting, I need a plan ;-) Thank you for your excellent advice and expertise.
Thank you for sharing your process. Interesting that you didn't begin with thumbnails, planning of shapes and values. I really enjoy the developement as you go, so to speak. How large is that painting ? I ask because I have such a hard time painting large, I get lost or overwhelmed. Cheers
Just started oil painting after spending some time with acrylics and watercolours, and feel that your channel/website will be a great source for helping me to understand oil painting. On this painting when you start off with black, is this a black you have mixed or a proprietary brand of black?
Nice work - love how you handled the foreground - my only beef is I think the trees are too black and your dark green should've been a little lighter, and more prevalent - even a grey sky imparts quite a bit of light on all canopies.
Thanks for making all these videos. I have a question. Unfortunately, when I went to art school, we focused a lot on 'content' rather than technique. Despite the technique and skill of realism, can you talk about your approach to content, or its underlying meaning. For instance, you speak a lot of being attracted to melancholy in paintings, and though that is partially made in technique, a lot is in subject matter. In other words, can you talk about the process of making art from a psychological level?
I enjoy your instrctional maternal,as I've been watching quite a few, however, I have a question for you : would you consider yourself more of a tonalist rather than a colorist? It seems that many times you use very muted (dirty colors) even when you use "bright" colors.
Beautiful painting, as usual! But I was wondering, I never really see you use a palette knife for mixing your colors. Is there a particular reason for that?
Photos are references after all. Painting directly from a photo somehow makes your painting less 'yours'. The important thing is to put a little bit of yourself and your emotions in paintings you create.
I've watched a lot of your videos and am moving into the world of oil painting, I'm progressing and I like the look of the Geneva paint for certain situations but I'm worried about the versatility of it without having the ability to control the consistency of the medium to create texture. I noticed you mentioned scratching for this purpose but how would you create texture and interest with the Geneva paint in other ways?
I mostly love landscape paintings beacuse the reason i love is to understand nature cuz there is no rules the pattern of nature is random thank you for the lovely video
your painting are beautiful. I notice your painting don’t have much color. Makes me wonder if I am putting too much Color in my art work. I love your paints though.
The camera sees differently and artistic license is needed to turn photographs into great paintings. Since the eye and the camera see differently. I am a photographer and a painter, both are art; but they aren’t as interchangeable as it may seem. Thanks!
What I have still trouble with is seeing the palette of colours you mix for the painting prior to starting to apply colours; I can get several colours but not anywhere near as many colours as you create; So the more you mix - the more colours you use? Is this just an 'experienced eye' that you have developed?
Interesting take on the need for a source or not. Definitely, I think you need years of practice to get the landscape out of your head feel. I think the errors you may run into doing it with no photo reference is you may use the wrong trees, wrong water colors from multiple landscapes together. Hope you like my channel on landscape painting as well!
I remember painting a landscape from my imagination and a local farmer said you know your fields make no sense. I didn’t consider that I was creating a working landscape. The fields I created lacked the purpose. Nature has been moulded by centuries of human interference.
I find these paintings adequate but rather bland. Yes, understatement has its place, but personally I seek to add more variety, more excitement and interest to the landscape.
Some good info on his videos but it’s so interesting to me that this landscape is like everything about this you tuber: the setting, visuals, and personality. Dark, bleak, and lacking joy. I get depressed every time I watch one of his videos. Start with your blacks……
Nah, Bob Ross only paints what I would consider 'magic realism' but without a surrealistic twist in subject. I actually don't think Bob Ross landscape paintings are that realistic or great at all. I like how the Hudson river artists paint landscapes a lot, but even those sometimes border on the fantastical. In a technical sense those are way better than Ross's though. I do love Bob Ross for his enthusiasm for painting, don't get me wrong. Definitely an important artist in that sense.
In my opinion they aren't really that great, they lack atmosphere and the composition isn't that great. They are just a bit boring to be honest, but then again, didn't he mainly work in acrylics?
Yeah, my bad. Actually looked at some of his videos this month and saw he painted in oil. The finished paintings are definitely good, but I definitely still wouldn't call him the best landscape painter, everything just seems sort of cropped into the painting. There's this guy on RU-vid that also paints in 30 minutes. The paintings when he finishes though... God it's like watching a tool assisted speedrun watching him paint. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dhXFsDmEsss.html It's like you cut to the 20 minute mark and you're thinking "okay where's the part where he timelapses 3 hours?" And he does cut a bit from time to time but he shows everything in real time and that only takes 20 minutes.
WHO holds a paintbrush like this? I am a professional painter and all t hose I know hold it like I do- like a pencil with a mahl stick. Holding it this way illustrated here one has no control really. KMW
