Zimou Tan | Art | 150 minutes Alla Prima Portrait Painting demo. 

This doesn't detract from the point that I enjoyed watching you paint.

There's something so soothing about watching an artist work. Thanks for the video!

Art is the food for the soul, that's why.

a great demonstration of how wonderful artistic techniques are

Absolutely stunning portrait!

Marvelous music and paint, thank you...

Well done Zimou, I have been looking at videos from life all day and you are the best artist I've seen, I'm sure you could paint a tree or a rock as easily as a face. Both require accurate representation.

Gracias por hacer publica la realización de sus trabajos!!! lo he disfrutado y he aprendido mucho!

Let's just say, it takes thousand of hours to be a professional, ten thousand hours to be an expert, and hundred of hours to be a master.

wow amazing left & right hand drawing ...like it...

Yeah, I think I’m just going to give up painting. This video is incredible. You’re extremely talented, and I have realised that I’m simply too old to pick up any level of skill even approaching this. Thanks for such a great video. Your blending and modelling is superb.

At first minutes i thought it is watercolour)) Awesome artwork!

Excellent tutorial as well the Victorian theme music🎨

wait, whoa, wait - what???? you're ambidextrous or what the hell?????? fantastic, man! bloody brilliant!

very nice. You never lose the drawing.

Nice work. Rough, yet detailed.

You are welcome. Here is my palette: Alizarin Crimson Burnt Sienna Cadmium Red Cadmium Yellow Limon Yellow Viridian Green French Ultramarine Yellow Ochre Titanium White Cerulean Blue

Great video, thanks for sharing!! Im learning how to use oils and this video really helps.

Brilliant!Amazing work.

awesome.two hands going on together.amazing man

Simply amazing. This is very encouraging.

Everyone has their own preference what the artwork should look like, there's no right or wrong, every steps are enjoyable steps, and it was the way I felt it should be done at the time.

absolutely amazing...

reminds me of mariano fortuny. exelent work and thanks for sharing :)

AWESOME!

This is just...SO very beautiful. A lot of helpful information and inspiration to be found in this video. Brilliant, thank you!

AMAZING.

i love this work...

excelente video, muy buena tecnica

EXCELENTE TRABAJO , MUCHAS GRACIAS

얼굴구조의 깊은이해 없이는 도저히 표현할수없는 높은 경지입니다 .훌륭합니다.

Thank you, Very good teacher!.

Thank you. It was done on canvas board. For brushes, I just pick up whatever brushes I have and paint.

Thanks for the demo.Very nice one.

Thank you for your suggestion, I have tried out many different mediums, I am still prefers refined linseed oil.

Thank you very much.... Impressive.

Good work!

I love it

Thank you, you humbled me.

您真的好厲害，感覺您應該年紀不大所以不敢稱呼您大師，看你明帶、中間帶、暗帶，上完一輪又一輪，每上完一輪，顏色就調整得更豐富，每上完一輪又更增加立體的塑型，同時又更加寫實的細度。雖然說跟你用的顏料、畫筆都有關係，又或者是我見識太少，但是我真的很少看到直接畫法的畫家這樣子厲害的。

Thank you, and likewise.

Great job!

amazing job

great job, I'm horrible at painting. But, after watching Bob Ross...I feel like I can do it, lol. "Happy little trees"

awsome!! i only can say awsome! ;)

Thank you.

Zimou tan My name is Daniel mooij and i love to paint portraits.......i never went to artschool, but can feel i have talent for painting....but if i look at your fast 130 minutes oil study i feel like i miss something i would love to learn......hope you can have contact with me thanks for all the youtube movies i watch them to much.......you are a master! all the best for you daniel mooij

very good!!!!

@iiaart Wet-on-wet painting goes right back to the origins of oil painting, and was used by several of the best Early Netherlandish painters in parts of their pictures, such as Jan van Eyck in the Arnolfini portrait, and Rogier van der Weyden.[2] In traditional painting methods new layers were applied to most parts of a painting only after allowing the previous layer to completely dry. This drying process could vary from several days to several weeks, depending on the thickness of the layer.

I have explained my palette with some of my demos many times, you might have to take a few minutes to find the info. Thank you once again for your support.

Thank you

man this is like the most amazing painting technique i've ever seen .. what are you painting on ? and what brand brushes are you using ?

Good observations.

@iiaart Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. This technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried. It may also be referred to as 'direct painting' or the French term au premier coup (at first stroke).[1]

Your technique reminds me of the description of how Franz Hals painted.

super duper that was

Thank you!

Beautiful!

That was really Amazing !! very impressive.. love to see these kind of works... the skin tone was excellent! can I ask what colors u have used to bring those beautiful n glowing skin tone?? thanks for sharing u have magic in your hands.. I just love it....

Thank you for your encouragements. There's no age limits to do art, and build up the skills you need, more practices will help to build one closer step to your goal.

Zimou Tan is very very good teacher tenks. To loretta

Arigato gozaimashita.

This is my favorite piece of yours, it's simply brilliant. Makes me emotional. Combine this with the beautiful music in the background, splendid. However, I don't know what the music is called. Would you mind telling me?

Gut!

Because there's always a way to improve what you might have already done.

This painting is beautiful! It has such depth, and it was really neat to see the process! And I MUST know, what is this song?

Là, on sent la maîtrise ! CLAP CLAP CLAP !

@ReallyRedPanda I am happy you found what you are looking for in this video!

Great work, one question I have is do you prepare all your colours in advance, or do you mix new colours as you need them? Thanks

Great

is this painted wet on wet? or are there drying periods which we do not see because of the montage? great result btw

Mesmerizing. =)

nice!

so you use both your hands ??? thats wow !!

You are great with oil,

厉害

Thank you for the support!

i actually prefer the painting in its early stages than the finished state.

Thank you for your support. Once again, here is the colors I used for the palette. Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Limon Yellow, Viridian Green, French Ultramarine, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, and Cerulean Blue.

@eeejayem Thank you for your kind words, it was on canvas board. I am too curious why you think I am still in school?

Elementary question: how do you change colors? Just pick up a new one, or wash in between each color?

Such a strong yet delicate hand. It's what I am striving for in painting now, I believe I am almost there, but I am kind of intimidated by self portraiture. I think it has something to do with me not knowing for sure what I look like. I like your technique, keep it up, your work is beautiful!

Thank you for stopping by, the medium it was oil on canvas board.

I have been drawing since I was about 8, and painting in oil since 1998.

Yes.

beautiful. I noticed that someone else is also in the background working :)

tuyệt vời!

I change color by clean up the brush and load up fresh paints.

there are other things that can be used instead of linseed oil that dry pretty quick - at my school, we use a quick-drying medium by Umton (I live in central Europe, not sure what stuff you can get at your place) - but when I look at the bottle, it sais it contains Turpentine, Damar Resin and Stand Oil.... ask in your art shop for an equivalent, my painting is dry in less than an hour using this. or add some Sicative in your paints. Hope this was of some help to you...

@a2d3i It is on a regular canvas board.

Very impressive. Job well done! Do you mind if I ask who composed the music playing? Also, what kind of paint do you prefer for portraits?

thank u so much for sharing your work.. its really nice to see your workshop. can you give me some suggestions for oil medium? I also using linseed oil but it takes too much time for drying.. can you give me any tips? it will be very useful for me.. :) regards Rasna Cleetus

Work done using "alla prima" can be carried out in one or more sessions -depending of the type of paints used and their respective drying time- but it is mostly done in one session or "sitting" only.[3]

@danfloawe You are welcome, I am glad it gives you the help you need.

@iiaart Since the mid-19th century the use of commercially produced pigments in portable tubes has facilitated rapid and on-the-spot painting. Impressionists like Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, realists like John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri and George Bellows, and the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning have each in different ways exploited the potential for fluid energy in the application of oil paints.

:) Thank you :)

@sephirothcloud85 I see what you mean. :) Alla Prima painting require a lots of practice and understanding the subject from inside out to build and compose the structures.

wow! RESPECT your painting! what is your main brash??

Yes, it was fun to paint with both hands.

wow. well done. what are you using? oil/acrylic etc. (I'm learning to paint.or trying to learn)