Preview | How to Paint: The Grisaille Method with Jon deMartin 

I have been working at getting a handle on the Gresaille method for a while now and this is the first time I have really understood the technique behind it. From this short preview, I have also learned much about the importance of being economical with brush strokes. I look forward to watching your full-length DVD. Many thanks.

Glad you are enjoying this video. Will be on the lookout for more like this :)

Fantastic!! Thank you for sharing!!! Please share some more videos like this....

This is fabulous instruction. I’d love to see more by Jon Demartin.

thanks for the clear explanation

Inspiring work Jon.

Thanks for this video!

Amazing!

love this thank you

This is a helpful video for me thank you 🤗

excellent vid thank you and more please

maravilhosa técnica ! quero aprender mais...por favor faça mais videos ensinando essa técnica.. . !!! Obrigado !

Thanks for your help

awesome video thank you

True. Value is extremely important to create form. This is less so for many Impressionist paintings where color is used in place of value to create contrast. The contrast of saturated color surrounded by neutral colors will make an object stand out in much the same way that light and dark contrast does. Other form- creating contrasts are warm against cool color and the proximity of complementary colors. As an experiment, look at some landscapes by Monet in monochrome. The value contrast is minimal.

Thanks for the detailed, painstaking explanation of some parts and other loose concepts. One can´t learn all from just a video. It´s the same with college lessons or in your career, or in life. You never get everything step by step and have the possibility of asking further questions to fill your gaps. There´s no expecting baby food when you learn something. Just you have to get along by searching, biting from here and there; chewing the stuff you add by yourself. Don´t expect a wonder teacher that explains the whole of something, in a painstaking orderly way, and just sticking to the subject. 'Matrix' and other movies had mislead people badly by oversimplifying life and learning processes: you step into the first problem to solve by yourself and in a few days just give up one thing and start another: but the process goes on and on because of the false expectations embedded in your brain by the fast food-fast learning- fast moving- etc...movie reality instead of the real world. ''I want it all and I want it now" was meant to do the opposite.

Gorgeu! Thanks !!!

Hi Jon, what do you coat the canvas with before yu start your Grisaille. Isit coated with arylic umber?

Wonderful work and teaching. I have one question - if you have the time to answer, of course. I have undertaken similar tuition and was shown how to "mix in" the tones when finished to give a softer look. I do not remember the consistency of the medium to do this: would it be half oil and half turps? With this you rub the brush quickly from side to side on the canvas over the target area to blend in the tones. Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Are the 2 paintings to the right a self portrait of you?

Just inspirtional

Can i use raw umber

Do he have a web page and is his art work on DVD?

hello could you tell me what medium do you use? only turpentine?

Does a grisaille have to be painted with more solvent because of the fat over lean ruhe, when you want to come back painting over it?

Hey, Just wondering, what specific paint colours were used in the making of the grey grisaille painting of the man in the collared shirt in the background? Just ivory black and titanium white? Thank you

En français svp super

Türkçe altyazı gelirse çok mutlu olurum

skipped the mixing and medium part!!!

Is this available on DVD?

I love Grisaille videos. Ivy league schools make artists that regurgitate definitions of contextual meanings for light and shadows, and dance around the fact that grisaille is only a monochromatic painting with a warm color and cool color... and tell you about all their choices on a greyscale of one to ten. That being said, this is one of the tamer ones.

Hello there , could you please not skip the steps and show all the steps , for example you suddenly cut the video without showing how you were painting the White area of the head , please kindly show all the steps ... thanks .

You sound like David Schwimmer.

Well, sure skipped over a lot!

This method is very interesting, painting using various shades of only one color. My feeling is that trying to duplicate exact natural colors of an object or for a portrait is extremely boring and tedious and generally produces very boring art. Even if you duplicate the natural color exactly, so what? What does that prove only that you can mix colors well? Again, you match the natural color exactly, so what? You've successfully produced boring art.

Your hair is white though.

Frustrating - breaks and cuts

Why are Americans so insistent that the correct artistic word, TONE, should be called "value"? Tone is the correct word for differentiating between a colour's lightness or darkness. "Value" is a nonsensical word in this context since it means nothing to most artists outside America. Something's value is its monetary worth not its degree of lightness or shade.