Es un acto de mucha generosidad cuando un gran artista muestra como trabaja, para enriquecer a otros con sed de aprender, y no simplemente utilizando la plataforma para publicitarse. Por eso bendiciones! Por todos los artistas del mundo!!
A man of great humility, respect, and talent we are blessed that Razim made the effort to allow us to learn from this master for free. It has not gone unnoticed the effort and talent that was given us. Thank You very much Mr. Sandon and Razim.
Do you know why he has so many tube paints laid out on his palette? I’m more used to experts using a limited palette, and feel there must be a story behind his method.
@@jojojo8835 Reproducers usually use more base colors. They want to copy a specific color, they are not there to create their own color harmony (one of the reasons the originals are made with fewer colors)
Very helpful, I particularly appreciated the detailed explanations of why every decision was made. The slow, calm speaking voice also helped to focus more on the act of painting itself, rather than on the painter. He also seemed to exude humility and respect for the work that he was copying. I feel a lot of gratitude for this kind, grounded, unpretentious teacher.
Very precise and methodical, to paint so quickly at this level is very, very difficult and he make it look easy . Don't be deceived , this is tremendous stuff. He even looks like technician but not in a bad way.
Everytime I watch this teacher my fear of painting fades away. I really enjoy how he teaches. I don't have the money to go to art school yet but I'll be less fearful when I do. I am a artist but I draw and paint nature but I want to do portraits. Thanks
I've been to the MFA in Boston many times and there are several great Sargent paintings there. This one is incredibly arresting and powerful in person. His bold brushwork and simplicity let you know from far away that you are in the presence of a master. I find myself spending more time with it than any other.
I have been following this great painter and felt so fortunate to see him teaching the method of Sargent. Thank you Mr Sargent and Razim for uploading this video.
That was very interesting to view and hear Mr. Sanden comments while painting a reproduction of Sargent's Head of an Arab. It is a very good presentation of the process of painting a head all prima. Thank you Mr. Sanden.
very informative! You have an outstanding talent to both educate and explain your process as creating a wonderful portrait! Thank you for sharing your skill and knowledge!
Many thanks for providing this video...Mr. Sanden is a wonderful painter and also a great teacher...my thanks to him for sharing his knowledge and experience..they're very helpful.
I don't think the instructor, Mr. Sanden, claims that he can paint like Sargent or that he can teach anyone how to paint like Sargent.His point is that much can be learned by trying to copy the paintings of the masters.Perhaps Sargent didn't use these exact techniques, Still there is a lot to learn from watching the instructor; his observations of the original, how he mixes and applies paint, etc.This information might not seem profound to an advanced painter, but clearly it is valuable to many who are not so advanced.
Exactly. For me, a beginner, it was very usefull. Im painting a portrait, at this moment, and some tips were solutions to my questions. Thanks, from Brasil, and excuse me for my bad English....
thanks so much for these videos, i've never picked up a paint brush in my life and i'm obsessed with it as an art form. i will be beginning classes but it's great to have this info going in
I own something to this fantastic teacher-artist (or better, Artist-teacher)! For a begginer like me, it was an very important lesson. Thanks from Brazil, and wait for my works......hahahaha
this is great. for those of you who have negative things to say, please copy a Sargent on your channel and post it. Id love to see you beat this man's effort. you have to understand he is copying a master. youre going to lose some spontaneous emotions when copying something as close as possible. this is obvious.
But its far away from singer technique. To copy a masterpiece is not recommend. You can try the technique on live model other than try copy it, then it will be yor way to show your stroks, just the same as singer owned his thecnique.
Celine Haya I do not understand. your comment is a foolish comment imo. copying a masterpiece as best you can is part of academic painting. what academic school have you attended? they didn't condone going to museums and copying master works? Also this man is one of the most acclaimed portrait painters in the past 70 years. He has been commissioned to paint kings in Africa.
Every serious artist will find this utterly interesting and important. There is hardly any great painting master from the past who didn't spend many hours copying from previous masters. As an artist who has made copies before, there is much to learn from this kind of exercise, and few things work better to ones self improvement as an artist than this.
best way to paint a face is to take a photo of the face then enlarge that photo....wneh its done then make a grid ...horizental and vertical tiny squares...then copy the colr of each square....pretty ,uch like the child coloring books....i find this to be a good method to learn portrait.....the trick here is to get a perfect match color for each square....
When copying a master the point isn't to spend hours researching what exact pigment, or exact brush etc. they used. If this is your approach to learning you are really missing the key ingredients that will make you a master. The point of copying the masters is too tackle it and use whatever tools and abilities you have to try and match it with the same feel and bravado. It's through the process of using your own tools and abilities that you solve the problems the original artist had to solve.
Ojalá pudieras compartir los demás videos que esté maestro de maestros hizo acerca de como pintar con el espíritu técnico del maestro Sargent,realmente es genial en su método de enseñanza .......
This has been the best tutorial I had experienced with many teachers over many years. So kind of you to share this knowledge with us. What brushes do you use in General? Size in most larger paintings. Do you mix medium with your paints or straight from the tube? Thank you so much. I would like to come to one of your workshops if you do live workshops. I am from BC Canada
Only if you want to reproduce something that barely resembles an actual Sargent painting or only in subject matter. Not when you're looking to get the whole brushstroke work Sargent is famous for, because these videos do not teach that at all. There are documentaries out there with better explanations of how Sargent works, meaning careful brushstrokes (starting quite large) but only ever so many as required for the image to read from a distance, never using too much details. Neither this video, nor the other one that floats on the internet actually does a good job explaining the accuracy and looseness of Sargent's painting technique. In case of the Arab Head here, mr Sanden also failed to get the correct colour temperature throughout the entire painting and also did not emphasise the darks as much as Sargent did in the original. Even if the original looks a bit lighter than the photograph of the original, the reproduction definitely lacks proper contrast and has way too many smaller brushstrokes in comparison. Mr Sanden also likes to call this Sargent piece a study from Sargent for the Boston Public Library murals, but that's actually completely false. There is no similar Arab anywhere to be found on the murals. And it's both common sense and known that artists do studies if they intend to paint the same portrait bigger/more detailed or elsewhere, but by the time this painting was made Sargent hardly needed to study what seems to be a fairly average subject to someone of his caliber. I'm going to argue this Head of an Arab painting simply wasn't finished or should be considered more of a oil sketch (something Sargent did more often at the time he was in the Middle East and Africa, he even used translucent watercolour occasionally), than an actual study for something else. Look at paintings like Old Man with Dark Turban from the same time period or how about the small Man in Blue Turban oil sketch. John Singer Sargent did stuff like that more often, without it being a dedicated study for anything. To be completely honest, I think mr. Sanden is an commercial "fool" really only interested in selling his videos, without really showing us he actually studied and understands how Sargent worked. I even feel bad saying this, because mr Sanden his own original work is really quite amazing, the guy obviously can paint masterfully, but time and again modern artists pretend they paint like famous painter X or Y using their technique, when in reality they're simply using their own techniques to recreate a master painting. Seldom do I see people who focus on brushwork that actually is more in line with how the old masters worked.
I don't think Mr Sanden is trying to teach Sargent's brush work but rather an acceptable copy of his work. I think there was some valuable painting tips in this video.
40markava I agree there were valuable tips in the video either way. But I think there's a thin line to walk when it comes to claiming to explain someone's actual technique like this suggested and actually doing so. Or at least, it suggested it to me. I'm also a bit doubtful about his expertise as explained in the last bit of my previous comment (might be completely nonsensical to some, I know). But I can say I enjoyed every bit of the video regardless. I'm guessing when it concerns famous painters, there will always be people complaining though. Can't really do that right. Sorry lol :)
wonder what kind of paint he was using? It looks so soft and buttery and I dont see him adding any medium either. Love seeing which brushes he uses for different marks.
The thing with Sergeant he mixed the color very carefully and knew where to put it at the right place in a blunt way. So he didn’t do it haphazardly rather very carefully.
I wouldn't pay that much attention to the background. Sargent just smeared some paint in an almost lazy way. Anyway, very good work. P.S. I was right near this place at the Art Student's League a few hours ago.
You could have stopped painting and left it 'unfinished' at 10 stages - and the painting would still be more meaningful than 90% of the paintings I have ever seen.
I was wondering too, I think he is using a soft type of brushes too, maybe synthetic? and some high quality oil, paint is he not using some medium for the layers on top ?
