Thanks for watching. Be sure to download your “Painterly Edges Resource Guide” so you can paint along with me here: mailchi.mp/fda88d4e3b62/painterly-edges
This video changed everything for me. I wasn’t a “tight “ painter to begin. I set up my still life and painted. Then I cried. My painting was the best painting of an apple I’ve ever done. Thank you. Now I need to do this with my landscape painting. I’m forever grateful ❤
I have always been more attracted to a painterly style like the Impressionism. When I paint I have a tendency to lean toward a more linear style. I need to loosen up my painting. I will definitely try this exercise. It was brillantly demonstrated Alain. Now I understand how to achieve it. You are a great teacher.
This is exactly what I needed. I have so much trouble trying to "let go" and get loose with my painting, and your descriptions of 'broken edges', 'push and pull' and letting the apple spill over makes so much sense! I can't wait to try this - thank you for being so generous with your knowledge and talent. ❤
The most beautiful effect is the light dat is just jumping over the hole painting The Apple is talking with the background now Thank you for teaching me I am just starting with pastel I love your work Greetings from Holland
Your generosity and kindness is as fresh as your painting. Here I am, 3 years after you first posted this and I'm excited. "Painterly" is what I want to be. Thank you Alain. Hope to see you real soon in your online landscape course.
This was a wonderful video. I can't wait to try it! The painterly technique is a great exploration of freedom with color, as it were. I really enjoyed this. Thank you!
Bonjour Alain, Merci pour votre démonstration. Je venais juste de réaliser 2 belles pommes mais je vais essayer de lâcher le côté rigoureux et réaliste. Vos explications aident à lâcher prise et c'est tout à fait ce que je recherche. Au plaisir😍🤩
WOW!!! You are an excellent artist!!! Your apple looks exactly like a PHOTO!! And the painterly apple you do is so beautiful. I searched "painterly", cuz I've heard people using term, and didn't know what it was. Found your channel. I love when I find a channel I've never seen, that is so good, and a great resource for learning. It can take months to find good channels about a subject. So much to scan thru. I'm just starting painting, so I love to learn helpful information. You are a good teacher, and your videos are interesting and fun to watch. Thank you for the video. I'm excited to watch more of them. Austin,TX USA
Not only are your videos informative and captivating to watch for the art instruction.But as an art content maker myself I know I can learn a lot about instruction speaking and description through watching these. imo you are one of the best my freind, easily..
The presentation of "Painterly Edges" is absolutely wonderful. Yet, I know that it needs a lot of practice to master it, to change the style from linear to painterly. Thank you for teaching us this vibrantly alive technique.
Fantastic! This is the very best demo of the painterly approach that I have ever seen! Broken lines, soft edges, pushing, pulling, playfulness.... so many wonderful tips to explain what it means to be "loose." Thank you for sharing your gifts with us! I would LOVE to attend a workshop! You are an amazing teacher!
Thanks Mike for sending me a link to this video. It is the first of his I have seen; I am a fan!. Fantastic explanation and so clear! I've never heard it explained better.
Thank you, Alain. I often have trouble allowing some freedom into my paintings by a looser style. I was amazed to see there is actually a base method to painting looser.
Alain, Thank you! I struggled with my first try and eventually ended up with a regular linear drawing. I tried again and kept listening to the video while I worked and did much better the 2nd time.
My checklist: Buy some pastels!!! I can hardly wait to try some pastels and give myself a break from charcoal for about a month. Great video demonstration and tips. Stay Blessed my friend.
Thank you Alain. I enjoy watching you paint and always come away with new ideas. With respect, I’d like to mention that it will be even more helpful to watch you paint with the camera closer to your support rather than from behind your back and increased distance. Thank you for considering this when filming future demos.
Thank you Alain. This is the best video I have seen on how to produce a "painterly" look. I always find it difficult to break away from "realistic" renderings of a subject. This has given me a clear idea on how to produce looser paintings. Many thanks!
I imagine that many impressionist painters began working this way back when this "school" of thought actually started! Break the edge, get the feeling of the thing! Its essence is NOT its shape! I watch you make marks on I remember a film I watched in school when Monet (I think it was him, if I remember correctly) let someone film him painting. working from the shoulder! You capture this quite well! Thanks for showing us how an accomplished artist works in Pastel! This is the impressionist style! You really have a view and you allow us to see how you do this! Thank You!
This was a revelation to me! I paint with watercolours and am constantly trying to lose up so have decided to give soft pastels a try. I read lots of books and watch many videos but no one has described and demonstrated this painterly technique so well! I am very grateful for this video, it was really brilliant. You explain it all so well. Thank you! 🙏
I follow a lot of online teachers but recently have found myself more on your videos because I really enjoy the freedom in this style. i’ve done many “apples” in the linear style but have never felt the joyful exuberance and energy that the non linear apple painting offers. This is not a simple apple. This is much more challenging. I thought I was progressing very well until I watched this video and realized “I don’t think I can find this looseness” and still have a recognizable image. Nonetheless I am going to try until I can break free of the constraints of linear painting and the urge to make it “just so” that this style says is okay to ignore in favor of the apt use of color and marks. Much harder for me. Back to apples.
You take me completely out of my comfort zone. I like the result so much that I will follow your advice and get out of my barriers. And it's been a long time since I want to thank you for your generosity. You are a fantastic teacher.
This has to be the classic demonstration of how to achieve a painterly effect. This is an inspiring video and thank you for sharing with us all. Thank you to the photographer who does a great job as well.
Christine May thank you so much for the encouragement! And my wife, Mirjam. Is the video director and editor who brings these lessons to life for you. She will really enjoy the acknowledgement! All the best.
Oh my gosh, how hard this will be for me! I have always wanted to be much more loose with my drawing/painting but find it very difficult. My college art professor use to tell me I would work my medium to death! I really didn't like him for this and as a result have struggled for many years... I will be trying this... and trying again and again until i get it! Thank you for a great tutorial :-)
one of the most inspiring things I've learned in the past few years ... I've always been bewitched by the painterly beauty found in impressionist works and others ... now it feels like I am one step closer to understanding the explanation underlying that beauty.
I learned so much from this wonderfully clear and concise teaching method. The second and third times really has started to assist me to integrate these concepts. Thank you Alain! So fantastic. 👌💖
Thanks Alain for sharing your process of loose, impressionistic style. I love and strive for this effect in my paintings...not always achieving same. A lot of artists l loved to follow now have changed over to Patreon and charge for their tutorials which means l can’t watch them any more. Thankyou for still freely sharing your talent with us and God bless 🙏🏻, l am off to paint a loose apple 🍎
Loved the pace, and the commentary, just the right amount of information. I think you are doing a great job with the video to let people know about your technique and your talent! Keep up the good work!
Boy Alain...this is an excellent demo! Especially because you did the tighter version first so we could see the difference and hear your thought process throughout the painting to better understand why a looser technique might be advantageous. More, more, more 😊
This is such a useful video Alain. Thank you. It’s very beneficial taking a single “simple” subject like an apple and focusing on technique, rather than trying to create an entire scene.
When you first started i thought it looked like it was going to be too abstract for my taste. But, as you continued with the broken and found edges, I began to understand what you were doing and loved it! Thank you for making me understand the benefit of broken edges!!!
This was inspirational. I have virtually no experience with pastels, but will apply this information to my watercoloring. Just so much richness with every little flick of color. Thank you!
Fantastic tutorial I can't stop watching your videos.Pastel is my favourite you really inspire me thank you very much, I will try to paint more often,this style of paintings I really like.
I love your painterly style and prefer that over saying loose because sometimes there are those requests to be a "tightwad". Thank you for breaking your pastels I buy the unsellable ones from a US company. You recently did a portrait and I really took note. I come from a watercolor history in which my preference is impressionistic. Thank you for your tutorials. I have been doing my mileage pastel painting between wc and color pencils. What a great example!
Thank you. I have been stuck and uninspired for so long this was an incredible boost. I was painting in my minds eye while watching this tutorial the entire time and thinking “I get this!”. You opened up the world of pastels to me a medium I was adverse to and think it will greatly help my painting. I am a beginner and now plan to crossover to pastels to work on some basics and the techniques in your video then transfer back to painting. You make pastels look so easy clean simple with much of the same techniques used in painting. Thank you for such a clean straightforward informative fun video with enjoyable perfectly spaced helpful background music. Thank you thank you.
Caryn, it is so encouraging to read your review and find that you were so inspired by the video, and motivated to try your hand at pastel! Indeed, it is a painting medium that is immediate and exciting. I hope you'll give it a try! I wish you all the best in your progress as an artist!
I am a tight painter, striving to loosen up. And I've been using apples to test colors and brands and surfaces for years. This has been marvelous. I'll be having some fun very soon.
@@AlainPicard I have been teased, playfully, about the 1000 apples I have painted. I was even given a pair of glass apple earrings. Again, I have gotten more from the little video than I expected. Thank you.
Such a beautiful guide! I've always had trouble understanding the expressive, painterly style but this video helped clear up a lot of my confusion and misunderstanding. And it was a joy to watch! Thanks so much
Thank you for this informative easy to follow video. I watched once and now have just watched again and painted along - and been pretty happy with what I've managed to achieve. I've always admired the painterly style but this is the first time it's been explained to me some of the ways (and whys) of creating it.
Thank you you have given me the confidence to paint in this manner, my brain finds very beautiful. Your stroke style would help stay away from the coloring in mode. Thank you again
A virtual apple for the teacher comes to you. Thanks once more for your generosity in sharing your technique, knowledge and philosophy. When I revisit your video lessons I pick up things I missed the first time. It is wonderful to have this sort of access to them. I am keeping an eye on your workshop schedule. P.S. I love the music in the background.
the painterly pear and apple are wonderful studies and really well presented / articulated - trying to adapt them to learning acrylic, a whole other beast - thanks so much for sharing @AlainPicard :D
A great video, and a great teaching approach. Not only a talented artist, but also a talented teacher! Thank you for this technique, I found it extremely inspiring. I wish I could paint like that.
Love the apple and your edge lesson. I really like the soft soothing quality of your voice and your curly wavy white hair that goes well with your young looking face!
Alain, thank you for another portion of excitement and inspiration! Thank you for your subject choice - I truly love the fruit theme! 😊 And thank you for this brilliant approach - it doesn't just loosen up the edges of the subject but breaks up the frames of linear thinking! Would just love to see more fruit paintings, too! 👍👍👍
Love the enthusiasm and the demo. I think I now understand how to lose those edges in order to achieve more painterly 'edges' now :) Thank you for sharing, Alain.
Alain, Great as usual. I am really impressed with how much information for free to the budding artists out here. I am super excited that I am finialy am going to be able to take one of your courses next spring. SO, I will practice my drawing and go over as many of your videos as possible to get ready!!!!!!!!!!!:)))))))))
I love your enthusiasm and teaching style. For me the loose painterly style just speaks to me. I want juicy strokes, I want to know it's a painting and feel some of the emotion that the artist feels while painting it. While I appreciate realism it is too photo like to me. Thank you for freely sharing your knowledge. Like others have said while I would love to support on Patreon that is just not something I am able to do.
You have broken this technique down so well! Looking forward to painting this process myself! There may be hope for me yet, to break out into this loose, painterly style. Thanks so much!
Alain Picard More fruit still lives please! A Pear would be AMAZING! I do love the loose edges and painterly strokes also they’re so interesting and fun...I’m currently using this video as a major staple for my pastel education so thank you for that, Allin. I can’t wait for the Pear video! 🙏🙏🙏 Blessings
I always wanted to know how to do this so thank you for this wonderful video. Also, I just watched your video about backgrounds for portraits and I learned to do this nice blue/green which is cool against the warmer subject being the 🍎 in this case. Good to know how to blur the edges. I’m so happy about this video I’m going to watch the 🍐 pear video of yours next.
Alain! This is my most favorite video of yours I've watched so far! I learned SO much, especially about edges, hard & soft and how they translate within an image. Thank you for your sharing & generosity :)
Amazing video, I loved it. This is just what I’m trying to achieve so thank you show showing me how to be loose, as I really struggle with that. I have so many ideas now with the broken edges and putting specks of colour in the ‘wrong’ places, love it
I have always wanted to get that painterly look but never had anyone explain what I can do to achieve it. I loved your explanation of it in such a simple example. Thank you so much.
Thanks Alain! I needed this. Just finished a very detailed painting and I'm craving to do a painterly loose painting like the one you did. Gorgeous and so helpful!!
Such a helpful video! Perfect timing since I wanted to start working on some small still life studies with a more painterly style. Thanks so much, Alain!
your videos are awesome! This in particular made me want to try these lost and found edges! So creative and educational! You are ,really, a fantastic teacher!Thank you!
Thank you for this wonderful video-I will be watching it again. I am finding that working in a more painterly way helps me be more courageous in expressing myself because I can always adjust toward refinement or looseness-an approach which I recently discovered in my own practice which you have now confirmed! Thanks again for sharing this gift!
I LOVE when you said " to let the air out of the apple"! I laughed how you casually said it but I know just what you were referring to🙏🏻👍🏻😂🙌🏻! Great video even though I'm a landscape guy, great info
