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I love how you show your approach to finding a subject and then how you compose it and the adjustments you make to get it right. Most painting tutorials skip right over this part, and start right into paint application. I find getting the composition right the most important thing for getting started and ultimate success, and would love to see more of this. I would also like to see if you make any changes later. Your capturing of light and atmosphere is beautiful.
Thanks! I do my best to show the whole process. Glad you’re enjoying watching the preliminary adjustments. It’s harder to include the later adjustments because they often take place much later.
Thank you again for an excellent, AUTHENTIC video! Love that you show us the scrub outs when you want to adjust your composition, your kind way of making gentle suggestions to Tad, and your bravery with being loose. Wonderful scenery
I really like the problem solving. Particularly with the lack of shadows on the cliff. Your instinct to frame it with the strong foreground darks really does emanate a sense of light. Next challenge: Painting while swinging! Talk about keeping loose.
I feel with this painting you have created a wonderful feeling of light, vibrancy and atmosphere. The base colour in the tree certainly helps to achieve that and I like the way you carefully considered the sky holes. Also that’s an interesting brave colour you used in the foreground which makes a wonderful contrast. I’m glad you didn’t over work it because, as you say, it looks great as it is.
Thank you for including your palette work and brush loading approach especially given I feel a lot of your painting magic happens on your palette. Please keep the inspiration flowing. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video Mike...thank you. The painting turned out great. I love hearing your explanations on why you're doing what you're doing. I'm learning a lot. I'm also thoroughly enjoying travelling up and down the California coast through your videos. So good to see parts of San Francisco and LA too. I've only ever visited Texas (from the UK) to visit my son who lives in Houston. I've always had such a romanticised view of California...a teenager in the 60's...the Beach Boys, hippies etc. So it's great to actually see the places I've heard of, and read about. Thanks very much.
What draws my eye and makes the painting so cohesive is the orangey-brown "reflection" on the right side of the trees. Without it it would just be a tree in the shadows. I can visualize standing on that cliff. Thanks
The trees had a lot of warm reflected light in the shadows that didn't show up on camera. I feel like adding red to my block in really helps create illumination in the dark areas.
Your so blessed with so many plein air buddies 🙏 I cant get one. Feedback is good, I love them helping me with their experience or even a bystanders view on what they see in my painting 🎨👍
@@chamberlainpaintings Thx Mike, I will be painting alongside kangaroos soon (Im moving on a farm inland next month😁) Yeah it must be great having art friends 🎨 Yeah my Wife is my biggest critic 😁 Happy painting🎨👍
beautifully done!! I think you should leave the painting the way it is, I love the scenery hanging out on a swing which I think is awesome! I see you Tad!!!🍻
Awesome! I have been watching your work for some time as an amature beginner plein air painter in Oz and I realy like your instructional supportive style and the way you promote plein air oil painting for everyone. Keep up the great work mate, I am now a patreon. Cheers Bert from Australia.
I see you moving more towards an abstract rendition . Growing as an artist is important and that’s what I see you doing. Giving your thoughts on this from composition to the reasons for your brushstrokes was much appreciated. Thanks Michael. Tallahassee
Long time viewer first time commenting. Love the color in this piece. So vibrant with the cool blues and purple at the bottom in the foreground. Great sense of warmth on the cliff against the cool ocean. Love it.
-(michael , to me the contrast of saturated color imparts a “” secure feeling”” on me, as though it’s “” natural to love”” a beautiful painting, just as much as a song )- -( btw I love your songs too)- ❤️
Bravo on the paintings, you two! I always feel intimidated when my reference lacks any shadows. I feel like I won’t be able to achieve actual depth in the piece. Good on you both for creating beautiful pieces even when the reference lacked shadows!
Thanks Spencer! Yeah, I wasn't sure having the dark foreground would work, but I think it did! I'm definitely going to experiment more with that sort of composition when there's a lack of shadows.
What a great result! Wow! Really nice looking warm energetic painting! I love the composition, the color and the brushwork, oh, and the positive atmosphere, and so much air to breathe...the power of ocean, uh...Hm, I love everything about this video, thank you so much for sharing it with us! Cheers from Ukraine, Lviv.
Mr Chamberlain Vidéo au top de ce magnifique tableau , avec cette prise de vue de la palette pour comprendre votre technique de peinture . Cordialement
Great choice of composition I thought. A little darker in the foreground for mine to really accentuate that light on the cliffs and sea. That might just be the position of the painting under the lighting in your studio though. In any event I’m being picky and it’s a great painting which I’d have hanging on my wall any day. Cheers Michael 👍
Looking at this in January 23: yes very interesting variations in the water and in the shadows. Even in the trees. That makes it really pleasant to look at
A painting, I am learning, can be set up to provide places for the viewer's eyes to travel around, and pause and rest, and continue moving again, gaining either small additions of either joy or confusion at each stop : / Laying out the eye rest areas and how bright or dark they are is important, and you make choices in this session that purposefully includes this. Urban midwesterners have the challenge of scarcity of vistas and lack of anything but level ground though, so I like it when artists also take the mundane and show eye-interest-beauty in it.
Yes, so true. When painting in an area with level ground I often focus on the sky, or I’ll keep the horizon high an look for interesting shadow patterns on the ground.
I do the same thing, when I think I'm close to finishing but am worried about over-painting it. I have several places in the house where I hang work and can see it daily. I call it having a staring contest with the painting to see who blinks first.
Great work and great commentary. You did some really nice sky holes in the trees!! I see more grays in the trees along with the warm back lite parts, and some more variation in those foreground shadows. What do you think about that? I’d love to know your decision making on those areas-and please, I’m NOT criticizing, just wanting to learn.
Thanks Sherrie! I'm using the scenery as inspiration, not doing an exact copy of what I'm seeing. I hope that makes sense. I didn't want to break up the dark value in the foreground so I eliminated the bits of light. I didn't want to create a lot of obvious visual interest in that area because I wanted the eye to pass over to the water and the cliffs in the distance. The eye can then wander back to the dark area in the foreground and notice the subtle temperature shifts. 😊
@@ronschlorff7089 I believe "rules of thirds" is the wrong term. It should be called "guides of thirds". Sometimes stuff looks better if it is off the thirds. And there are no rules :)
Lovely paintings! What’s was the temperature there that day? It was cracking me up to see you guys all bundled up. I’m sure it’s much warmer there than it is here in Missouri!
I love getting feedback from other painters and tha'ts why I usually paint with my buddy Bunny!! fresh eyes always helps!!..Why don't you two do thumbnail sketches first...?? It resolves a lot of those issues before I start painting!!
