Can't believe I went to art high school for 5 years and they haven't even once mentioned why our paintings looked flat and "plastic". We didn't have any understanding of why our paintings looked too bright and here I can actually see why and what mistakes we were doing. What a collective waste of money, paint and canvas... Thank you so much for this video!
You are an amazing painter and instructor. There are thousands of people out there in the world who could become high quality painters but fail to become so because of shoddy instruction. I have learned so much in the last week thanks to you.
i love how humble you sound about being not sure of yourself. when i draw and paint, i also feel the same way. then suddenly everything seems to come together and end up beautiful but as you said, as an artist there are times that i am not sure or lost and change it then end up with something else.
I found you whilst on furlough in Scotland. I've been Painting for 5 year's, trying to develop a style. I cannot thank you enough for inspiring me. I have learnt so much from the way you teach Mark. I'm struggling but I'll get there 👍😁
Watching you paint very slowly, and listening to you describe what your doing and thinking is like a meditation! So soothing. Especially in this hard time of Covid 19. Thank you Mark!
Your lessons, and seeing you painting slow like this, seeing the way that you hold the brush really helped to improve a lot my digital paintings. Thank you, keep it up with the good work.
Love this painting. The range of greens, umber. Very calming but eye catching. I like how you can see the softness of the seed heads and see the coolness of the hard glass. Awesome, as always. Nice to hear you critique yourself like I do myself! If I actually created a vase of flowers into reality, I would still find a fault, lol.
Thanks Mark. I just watched this for the second time and I'm really surprised at how much you taught in this video. I think the voice over explanation is an excellent teaching method. I am always hungry to know what is going on in a painter's mind, or what his rationale is or what principle he has learned from experience. Very valuable to me. Thanks again.
I'm a professed Liquin addict and have struggled with wet-in-wet for years, but after seeing all your videos (and purchasing two) I'm going to have to go all in. Love the tip about using your brush tip to do your signature. Now I can stop using detail brushes that hold their point for 10 minutes.
Bravo, Mark! I love this painting. Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise with us. I so enjoyed watching your process, and hearing your thoughts as you painted it.
Mark, you are so amazing. I always wanted to view the masters work on their canvas. I do believe that watching you carefully mixing the colors, drawing the image, and building the painting using each careful stroke, demonstrates how the work was done then. Great demo, great video. Thanks
So good! 37:00 mins is the awesome articulation of ever painters anxiety... love your work and your natural clear delivery. I am always recommending you to students. Keep up the great work!
I really enjoyed to look at your way of painting and here it was very obvious how you maintained a certain abstraction - the way you made the brushstrokes
Mark, thank you again for sharing so much valuable information. This was excellent, as are all your demos and videos. So wonderful and educational to watch a Master at work. Thx again
I really love this type of video. I love seeing how things are built-up and how they develop. Its really nice to hear your thoughts and see the little choices you make. I can recognize so many instances where I would have approached it differently or made a different stroke; being a complete novice, this insight into your process has helped me trmendously!
I love the way the background is now and at 37:25 in the video. You are amazing!!! Thank you so much, I appreciate what you do and how you explain everything. Thank you.
Thank you for another great, informative lesson! This put words to what I experienced when I took an art course that lasted for a couple of months and just a few weeks before it ended I fell and broke my right arm and I'm right handed. I'm stubborn and decided to use my left hand instead - and the self portrait I draw was the best I've ever drawn.
This is a magnificent piece I so much enjoyed watching you paint and learnt from you comments. What would you do with the rich palate after you finished?you have so much paint there.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, for sharing your knowledge and experience, it really helps. I have started to paint with oils thanks to all your advice and I am really looking forward to trying your paints. Thank you for everything and I look forward to watching more of your content.
I loved this video by the very natural way you speak about what you’re doing you’ve trigger my desire to paint again you reminded me of the satisfaction I get when the image starts to manifest, when a stroke becomes a suggestion But when you finish is all a whole concert of Color and paint strokes executed to create the artist view THANK YOU!
I liked the painting even more in the very early stages with just a raw feeling of light and shape - as a kind of in-between pure abstraction and a transformation process halv way into the still life - and just wonderfully demonstrated wet in wet style that I love
Oh boy for me this , its like I could just live here watching your paintings come together . and I can say from experience over many years that your making this look way too easy , sadly it isn't or not in my case anyways. however you have picked me up of the deck and me going to go and find all my paints and brushes , and follow your teaching method cus I feel like I might just be able to improve some with your approach thanks for all your brilliant instruction.
Very beautiful work, Mark. Maybe the reason you were unhappy with the background may be the almost horizontal line in the fabric about half way up the painting, just above the grass on the left hand side. I know my eye goes to it right away.
I think that overpainting is a problem everybody has. (Along with losing focus of the importance of values, which you emphasis effectively.) There has been several occasions when I had wished I had left a part of the painting alone - on my level. I try to remind myself to step back and take some time before changing something. Great lesson. Thanks.
Mark, again thank you for everything you do. My first painting is finally on its way. I am delighted with what I am seeing emerge on my canvas....I now know I can do this and all because I followed your method!!! I got busy and the paint has dried a bit. I am using Geneva paints....do I have to worry about the fat over lean rule with your paints?
+Lina Draney The "fat over lean" rule should be followed for any oil paint, so yes. Just add a drop of linseed oil to any puddle of paint you are going to be using over a layer of paint that has already dried.
do i have to use medium or it a optional to oil painting. I have gamsol in my house i don't want any more dangerous chemical inside of my house. So is medium a optional choice. I'm a beginner just so you know :) I love how you paint with brush stroke that what i'm planning to do instead of blending it smooth.
When you were talking about painting transparency, actually, many artists do successfully get accurate colors and values by combining transparent brushstrokes over opaque ones, as many artists use a thinning medium over their blank canvas, creating a lighter color than it would be otherwise. So actually, not everything on an oil painting ends up being completely opaque all the time.
Maybe hes using just a tiny bit of oil, you dont need any special medium other than linseed oil for oils, you could do a mix of turpentine and linseed oil for glazes or velaturas tho
Hi Mark, do you prepare your canvases and bord by yourself and if yes then I hope you show us how to do it and I want to ask you about the color on them..I have noticed that you don't paint on while canvas , bord.. Can you please explain to us why and what to do to have the same color on our canvases.. Thank you so much!!
Hi Mark! I have been missing your videos, Great jobb, thanks! Hope that I can order your from yousoon! ...shipping too Sweden/ Europe? pls. Had a lot of problem finding some ingrediens in Europe. It´s never the same ...
