Paint like Pierre Soulages - Painter of Black 

You are a Gift. You easily deconstruct work of Masters with such grace and ease and share your findings with the world. Thank you.

I think what I love most about your channel is the introduction of artist I never knew about. Thank you for opening my eyes to the endless possibilities.

This is such a wonderful video. Really opened my eyes to what I would otherwise dismiss as ‘just a black square’. Your open approach and creativity is always inspiring! Thank you so much

That was great Albert! I was half expecting you to melt all that chocolate and ice a cake with it at the end. 😀

Another fun video from Mr Albert! It is inspiring ! :) Thank you for sharing !

A really interesting video thanks . Who’d have thought black paintings had so many possibilities . I look forward to playing with black

Yes its truly fun to experiement - I love that and experience it as a kind of dancing, vibrating rhythms of color and light. And I just adore your installation of light in your painting place - my inspiration comes from meditative walking in Nature - often at sunrise, sunsetting, and always listening to the sounds 🎶💜🎵🦄🎨🙏

Thank you Mr Albert van der Zwart for the interesting video about how to paint like Pierre Soulages. Could you please make a video about how to paint like Nicolas de Staël ?

Hello Albert, i have recently discovered your youtube channel,im so glad as i love what you share and of course your work. Its so very interesting and have learnt much, so thankyou. 👍

I love you work I love your ideas you make me such a better artist continue with your great ideas

I love this video. Thank you.

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Thank you for another great video!

This artist appeared on my art world feeds recently. Maybe he is being promoted at the moment or it's just another interesting internet coincidence. Anyway, I am happy to be part of this thread and thanks Albert for being a ' connector' like a true artist! Have a splendid day!

I watched a documentary on Soulages just last night. He did use a lot of various mediums to create his artwork. I like that they are minimal, but interesting all the same. It's amazing that he could create so many artworks using just that technique. I discovered another artist that uses color but with a similar technique, Sally Gabori.

Thank you very much, I've been looking for this in weeks. The subtitles in portuguese helped a lot.

Greetings Albert. What a great lesson on Pierre Soulage. I can't have enough of his art. I myself occasionally paint black inspired by his work and that of Franz Klein. Besides brush work and thick oil paint, I learnt (from a documentary) that Soulage sometimes mixed resin with the oil paint that he used (resin is oil-based). The resin provided better reflectance and in some of his paintings you could see resin made light prominent to the extent that when you lay your eye on one of his pieces (that incorporated resin with oil) for the first time, you find yourself fixated on light as opposed to black. Regardless of the truth, I tried resin with acrylic. It worked to a certain extent (maybe because unlike resin, acrylic is water-based). I tried oil with resin, i got better results. Another documentary claimed that Soulage used way too many different blacks. I use different blacks on same all-black painting and was pleasantly surprised that Soulage could have used the same technique. An example of a blackhole black is that that was developed by the artist sculptor Anish Kapoor. His black reflects no light whatsoever. Its got a weird appeal, yet attractive. I saw some of his work in a museum in Napoli and was stunned by the effect. The trouble for me among others he owns the patent and refuses to avail the product to anybody else! go figure. I am sorry that I missed this episode. I discovered it today. Thanks again for the effort and time you put into these inspiring lessons Albert. Have a good night!

You are my inspiration, Thank you so much. It’s so Amazing 😊

Love your class Albert, as always. I wonder if I could do my self portrait all in black. 😃

Hey Albert, ik leer altijd and again zo veel van jou. That's wonderful! 😊 Lieve groetjes uit Alkmaar, Susy

Did that thick paint in the last experiment crack when it dried Albert? I've experimented with thick paint and that did happen. Maybe the gloss medium kept it a bit more flexible?

Good to see you have gotten heavy into the black paintings. I only make these types of minimalist abstract works, I work in all black or all white. Might I suggest wearing gloves (or just bare hands if you don't mind the cleanup) and fingerpainting in all black for some truly unique effects. Also try using two or more blacks, as in Mars, Ivory, Carbon, Lamp, Bone, etc.

And i was wrong - here is a link to a video of Soulages process. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TfinJkJltiI.html

Thank you, very nicely done, Albert! BTW, I've been watching the HBO series "Painting with John" (John Lurie) and wondering if you've been watching too, and if you will do a video on his work. I'd love to see your ideas and experiments on his unique style.

Can you please do a video on Benoit Sjoholm technique?

love these videos :) !!!

Your surname means from the black.Cool vid.

Pierre Soulages est un artiste français. :)

People think that this is simple to do. Not at all!