I've tried and failed repeatedly with oils. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone do alla prima that made any sense whatsoever. I've got the urge to give it another go! Thank you!
I like to kid around sometimes, but I wanted to compliment you on your ability to teach oil painting. I think outstanding is the right word. You are easy to follow, and understand. I think a lot of teachers tend to spout off what they know, rather than actually teach somebody something. You are a teacher-truly.
This is a comment from a Brazilian student. I'm watching your videos and learning a lot from your classes, I don't understand sometimes hahaha but your classes are great. I will work hard. Thanks!
Your generous sharing of both your talent and your experience is so very much appreciated. You obviously are a very kind person. I intend to take advantage of all your informative lessons with much anticipation. You are a wonderfully talented artist. Many thanks.
I just want to say that I really appreciate you being here on youtube. i've learned a lot from these episodes, and your other videos of course. Not easy to find someone as helpful as you online, thank you Mark!
A lot of what Mark says reminds me of my painting professor at College. He always told us that all painting is really an abstraction of what we see in reality. Thanks for the videos.
Love all your educational videos showing us how to but I love this so much, watching your process is just lovely, your recent landscapes were so calming and enjoyable too I’ve watched them many times even though I don’t do landscapes. Please if you can consider doing more of these demo’s. I’ve not painted in a long time since I lost my baby boy but watching you paint brings back some joy in me. ❤
Thanks for your time and effort in doing these videos. Yours were the videos that gave me the confidence and basics to start painting a few years ago and now I am hooked. I re-watch (if that is a word) your videos from time to time and seem to learn a little something each time.
Mark, great tutorial! Alla prima is my preferred style and this tutorial was clear, educational and helpful. It helps me overcome my reluctancy to use oils.
This was really a great learning. I actually placed my cell phone upon my canvas and started painting looking at the photo and your demonstration. I can now compare the three. Takes time to understand what I am looking at.
my teacher taught just like this in college but not as good with the color mixing advice and color checking. the limited palette is the most helpful advice i ever had. i used to jump all over the place and get lost.
I get so much out of your lessons ! It's fantastic. In a world full of rubbish, your instruction and insight stands out as meaningful & inspirational. I have a constant struggle with dust in studio, so have made a section of studio into a drying area with plastic drop sheets, so it's sealed of from dust etc. Wondering what you do to stop dust settling on wet paint, and if you no what Sargent did or any other masters past or present? I don't find facing them against wall that great an option. Thanks Dustin Stahle
Dustin Stahle The facing-them-against-the-wall method works fine for me, and when I'm actually painting, using a vertical easel instead of a tilted-back easel makes a big difference. If I'm doing work that creates dust in my studio (like wood work), I would do that in a sealed-off section like you mention.
Just a note to say thanks! I am an art student who is enjoying your art instruction very much. I hope to see many more. You are generous with information that is not found anywhere. Thanks again!
Muchisimas gracias, estos videos son buenisimos. I just got my first Old Holland Oil paint set and I am so ready to start painting after I have seem this video.
Nice. I have only dabbled in oil painting (many decades ago) but I want to start oil painting again. I know you said that you don't normally do all the paint mixing on the palette -ahead of time - as you did with this painting ... but as someone who has recently dabbled in digital painting, I think how you pre-mixed the various colors on your palette here is pretty cool. It reminds me of my recent digital painting (of a beautiful green pear!). I used a photo image of a beautiful green pear as a reference image and, working in Photoshop, I used the ink dropper tool to create a digital palette for myself. Created a layer, traced the pear, and then used my digital palette and a PShop paint brush to paint it. It came out nicely. I'm now going to paint the beautiful green pear in oil ... starting with only basic colors on the palette. Because that's part of the joy of painting in oil. And even though I only dabbled, decades ago, I was always Alla Prima. I like to be able to be intuitive and spontaneous... but I need time, too. I could never understand why anyone would want to work with fast-drying acrylics.
I really love alla prima paiting methode its the real painting or the real art because Photorealistic paintings it looks like photos however alla prima u can feel the art on those paintings , thank you for charing your time with us and im really looking to see some tips from you in How to paint in alla prima, thx.
"Bravura brushwork", that's a word often used in observing Sargent's paintings, beginning with some of his earliest work! That's what you said, in effect, paint with Confidence. I like your work because of that style. Very nice!!! Oh, and if painting a pear, be sure to consume the "model" when done, then no one will ever see if it looks like it or not! LOL :D
hi ...you are so excellent painter..i just wanna ask that :is it okay or safe to painting on oil inside the house when its winter that all windows are close.?what safe materials or mediums ,or thinners to be used?Thanks.
Please, can you tell me which brand and model is the camera you use to record? Can someone read the brand of the camera that appears fleetingly at minute 11:43? Thank you
Mark, could you please explain why and how to tone (stain) canvas properly before painting for example, a very sunny bright day with light blue sky and sunlit landscape painting. Also, are there any cases, when toning is not recommended? Thanks.
Could you talk about brushes? What do you look for when purchasing? Is there a favorite manufacturer and why? How do you decide which brush to use for a given stroke.
I notice that you hold the brush far down the handle rather than high up and anchoring your pinky on the canvas. Can you speak about this? Does it make a difference to the final result?
Everything comes together , and becomes a nice painting. (hopefully), but in my opinion color can inform the viewer as much as execution. Just spouting off from my experience. Great stuff sir.
Thank you for your stimulating videos. I also like your detailed explanation of the subject. I have quite a few paintings hanging on the walls. How often should I clean them and with what material so they have a fresh look all the time. The environment is quite clean and not much dust.
New to Oil painting After painting dirty how would I polish to look more like the photo in this simple setting .Have something a little more intricate that I will paint dirty then need to polish some areas -
I just stumbled upon your work and DVDs today while searching on line for solid tutorials on setting up an artist studio.This is a terrific pear painting. Love the bold, sensual brushwork. Do you ever scumble to softly diffuse edges within the shadows? When I look at an actual pear I'm not able to focus my attention equally along the edge on the shadow side. This would be an interesting philosophical discussion: how we see as humans, versus cameras. I suppose people all see things differently based on their optic nerves. Everyone is wired differently in terms of their "rods and cones." Your approach is cool, and very similar to many contemporary photo and hyper-realists in terms of color isolation. My hunch is that a good portion of classical naturalist painting is rooted in "optical color mixing", which mirrors nature. When one really studies the underlying aesthetic of a Velasquez or a Sargent edge manipulation seems to be a big component. Notice the dissolving edges at the bottom of this Sargent piece: uploads4.wikiart.org/images/john-singer-sargent/gondolier-1905.jpg I'm seeing the same thing taking place within this Velasquez -- there appears to be scumbled, broken brushstrokes breaking through the form of the hair and figure. In my eyes this piece mirrors how we see the world as humans, which is profoundly different from the camera. iamled.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/juan_pareja.jpg
That for me was a very useful video. Actually I am trying to get a more painterly look in my pictures and am thinking a lot about brushwork etc. But as always what counts is getting value and color right and then put it in the right place - and then leave it.
great demo! Thank you. I have very much a tendency to smooth out all rough brush strokes but would love to paint alla prima. Do you have an advice for me?
Can you do a video on what are some ways to sign your work? I have succumbed to just using my initials because my name is too long but would prefer to write out my full name. I tried to sign my painting using the other end of one of my brushes but that doesn't come out readable. Thank you in advance.
MARK, would you advise using oil paints with either turpentine or mineral spirits to paint WITHOUT a medium until closer to the end of the finish painting? Thank you!
When painting glass objects from life and similar, small changes in head position can cause large changes in reflections and colors. Do you have any tips for maintaining the exact same viewing position?
I've tried and failed repeatedly with oils. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone do alla prima that made any sense whatsoever. I've got the urge to give it another go! Thank you!
Instablaster
I like to kid around sometimes, but I wanted to compliment you on your ability to teach oil painting. I think outstanding is the right word. You are easy to follow, and understand. I think a lot of teachers tend to spout off what they know, rather than actually teach somebody something. You are a teacher-truly.
This is a comment from a Brazilian student. I'm watching your videos and learning a lot from your classes, I don't understand sometimes hahaha but your classes are great. I will work hard. Thanks!
Your generous sharing of both your talent and your experience is so very much appreciated. You obviously are a very kind person. I intend to take advantage of all your informative lessons with much anticipation. You are a wonderfully talented artist. Many thanks.
I just want to say that I really appreciate you being here on youtube. i've learned a lot from these episodes, and your other videos of course. Not easy to find someone as helpful as you online, thank you Mark!
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A lot of what Mark says reminds me of my painting professor at College. He always told us that all painting is really an abstraction of what we see in reality. Thanks for the videos.
You are amazing, such a generous teacher! Thank you a lot! I'm learning a lot with you. Best regards from Portugal :)
This tutorial is so soothing to watch and listen. I feel calm and sleepy. By the way, beautiful painting.
Love all your educational videos showing us how to but I love this so much, watching your process is just lovely, your recent landscapes were so calming and enjoyable too I’ve watched them many times even though I don’t do landscapes. Please if you can consider doing more of these demo’s. I’ve not painted in a long time since I lost my baby boy but watching you paint brings back some joy in me. ❤
Your knowledge is invaluable, thank you so much for sharing your videos.
Thanks for your time and effort in doing these videos. Yours were the videos that gave me the confidence and basics to start painting a few years ago and now I am hooked. I re-watch (if that is a word) your videos from time to time and seem to learn a little something each time.
Your video has done tremendous meaning to me. Thanks for that Mr Carder . Best regards from Korea
Mark I watch a lot of your stuff. its amazing and thank you for putting it all out there free. you cover everything.
The time you put into these videos is so much appreciated. The pear demonstration answered my next question. Thanks again!
You are by far the best teacher on youtube. Love it
I have really enjoyed the way you deliver your lessons. I learn with every video I watch
Mark, great tutorial! Alla prima is my preferred style and this tutorial was clear, educational and helpful. It helps me overcome my reluctancy to use oils.
great demonstration with the brush strokes and great advice on approaching galleries. Thanks.
This was really a great learning. I actually placed my cell phone upon my canvas and started painting looking at the photo and your demonstration. I can now compare the three. Takes time to understand what I am looking at.
very nice demonstration. i really like your attitude and patience.
It's just a sheer pleasure to listen to Mark...
Great demonstration Mark. Thanks as always for sharing in such an honest and credible manner.
Really enjoyed this and seeing how you build up value in the color. Adds such depth and volume.
Very good example of this technique. Appreciated.
I'm really finding your videos helpful and informative. You're a super teacher - thank-you!
Love these videos. I've watched 4 of yours so far and will be watching more, following your method. I'm excited!
Thank you very much for explaining very clearly, I am really learning through watching this video.
Thank you so much for your apperence here on youtube. Great presentation and skills! 🌞
Lots of important information. Thanks for the instruction.
my teacher taught just like this in college but not as good with the color mixing advice and color checking.
the limited palette is the most helpful advice i ever had. i used to jump all over the place and get lost.
I get so much out of your lessons !
It's fantastic. In a world full of rubbish, your instruction and insight stands out as meaningful & inspirational.
I have a constant struggle with dust in studio, so have made a section of studio into a drying area with plastic drop sheets, so it's sealed of from dust etc.
Wondering what you do to stop dust settling on wet paint, and if you no what Sargent did or any other masters past or present?
I don't find facing them against wall that great an option.
Thanks
Dustin Stahle
Dustin Stahle The facing-them-against-the-wall method works fine for me, and when I'm actually painting, using a vertical easel instead of a tilted-back easel makes a big difference. If I'm doing work that creates dust in my studio (like wood work), I would do that in a sealed-off section like you mention.
Thanks Mark. I look forward to your future lessons as always they are inspiring!
Always like to come back and review what you've done.
Thanks for the videos, and for answering my questions in previous videos, and in text.
Great stuff.
Just a note to say thanks! I am an art student who is enjoying your art instruction very much. I hope to see many more. You are generous with information that is not found anywhere. Thanks again!
Muchisimas gracias, estos videos son buenisimos.
I just got my first Old Holland Oil paint set and I am so ready to start painting after I have seem this video.
Nice.
I have only dabbled in oil painting (many decades ago) but I want to start oil painting again.
I know you said that you don't normally do all the paint mixing on the palette -ahead of time - as you did with this painting ... but as someone who has recently dabbled in digital painting, I think how you pre-mixed the various colors on your palette here is pretty cool. It reminds me of my recent digital painting (of a beautiful green pear!). I used a photo image of a beautiful green pear as a reference image and, working in Photoshop, I used the ink dropper tool to create a digital palette for myself. Created a layer, traced the pear, and then used my digital palette and a PShop paint brush to paint it. It came out nicely.
I'm now going to paint the beautiful green pear in oil ... starting with only basic colors on the palette. Because that's part of the joy of painting in oil. And even though I only dabbled, decades ago, I was always Alla Prima. I like to be able to be intuitive and spontaneous... but I need time, too. I could never understand why anyone would want to work with fast-drying acrylics.
You are just fascinating to listen to. Thank you for sharing your expertise with the world.
Superb demonstration
Thank you master Carder!All your videos are so helpful.
Thank you for your instruction. I’m new to painting and this information is such a help to me. Bingeing on your videos.
What's your medium and are you wiping your brush clean on every change?
Thanks for Your insights Mark. As always, love hearing your thoughts on painting in oils. Thanks for your great advice.
Reeah.
What a great presentation.
Great tutorials! thank you..Greetings from the U.K.,
Good to see your channel active. I'd like to see more on alla prima. Unless I use Bob Ross paint, I have difficulty
Thank you for the demo. Simple and clear as usual !
Thank you so much! Big hugs from France.
What a great guy. Super video.
I really love alla prima paiting methode its the real painting or the real art because Photorealistic paintings it looks like photos however alla prima u can feel the art on those paintings , thank you for charing your time with us and im really looking to see some tips from you in How to paint in alla prima, thx.
I love it.
you didn't copy the shape and created a beautiful Pear !
beautyfull painting Sir. Thank you very much.
"Bravura brushwork", that's a word often used in observing Sargent's paintings, beginning with some of his earliest work! That's what you said, in effect, paint with Confidence. I like your work because of that style. Very nice!!! Oh, and if painting a pear, be sure to consume the "model" when done, then no one will ever see if it looks like it or not! LOL :D
So generous as always
Excelente, amigo, saludos desde Medellin Colombia, soy tu nuevo suscriptor
superb video .. such a delight
Thanks for the lesson 😊
I've did a similar pear and it turned out fine
You done a pear. It was turned out, real good.
Just playin
thanks for all your info and tips. greetings from argentina!
Love your videos and your art!
FANTASTIC!!! thanks teachers
Such a fantastic tutorial!!!
Wonderful work
What's a better focus, getting closer to precise hue or comparative shading within colors of the subject?
Exceptional video! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Wonderful demo! Thank-you!
hi ...you are so excellent painter..i just wanna ask that :is it okay or safe to painting on oil inside the house when its winter that all windows are close.?what safe materials or mediums ,or thinners to be used?Thanks.
Please, can you tell me which brand and model is the camera you use to record? Can someone read the brand of the camera that appears fleetingly at minute 11:43? Thank you
It's a Panasonic Lumix (that's as far as I can get). Since this video is quite old, the camera model will be replaced by newer ones I guess.
Mark, could you please explain why and how to tone (stain) canvas properly before painting for example, a very sunny bright day with light blue sky and sunlit landscape painting. Also, are there any cases, when toning is not recommended?
Thanks.
Could you talk about brushes? What do you look for when purchasing? Is there a favorite manufacturer and why? How do you decide which brush to use for a given stroke.
you are exellent, thanks for your instructions
I notice that you hold the brush far down the handle rather than high up and anchoring your pinky on the canvas. Can you speak about this? Does it make a difference to the final result?
Everything comes together , and becomes a nice painting. (hopefully), but in my opinion color can inform the viewer as much as execution. Just spouting off from my experience. Great stuff sir.
Excellent !
Thank you for your stimulating videos. I also like your detailed explanation of the subject. I have quite a few paintings hanging on the walls. How often should I clean them and with what material so they have a fresh look all the time. The environment is quite clean and not much dust.
New to Oil painting After painting dirty how would I polish to look more like the photo in this simple setting .Have something a little more intricate that I will paint dirty then need to polish some areas -
Mark, You are fab xxx
I just stumbled upon your work and DVDs today while searching on line for solid tutorials on setting up an artist studio.This is a terrific pear painting. Love the bold, sensual brushwork. Do you ever scumble to softly diffuse edges within the shadows? When I look at an actual pear I'm not able to focus my attention equally along the edge on the shadow side. This would be an interesting philosophical discussion: how we see as humans, versus cameras. I suppose people all see things differently based on their optic nerves. Everyone is wired differently in terms of their "rods and cones." Your approach is cool, and very similar to many contemporary photo and hyper-realists in terms of color isolation. My hunch is that a good portion of classical naturalist painting is rooted in "optical color mixing", which mirrors nature. When one really studies the underlying aesthetic of a Velasquez or a Sargent edge manipulation seems to be a big component. Notice the dissolving edges at the bottom of this Sargent piece: uploads4.wikiart.org/images/john-singer-sargent/gondolier-1905.jpg I'm seeing the same thing taking place within this Velasquez -- there appears to be scumbled, broken brushstrokes breaking through the form of the hair and figure. In my eyes this piece mirrors how we see the world as humans, which is profoundly different from the camera. iamled.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/juan_pareja.jpg
ComPEAR your values
Congrats on being a dad
you are a nuisance
I learnt a lot from that. Thank you. I was going to try a mango but it’s being dismembered for inclusion in a salsa.
Great demo
I have one of your original color checkers made out of stamped metal. Will the new one you are going to produce be like this?
That for me was a very useful video. Actually I am trying to get a more painterly look in my pictures and am thinking a lot about brushwork etc. But as always what counts is getting value and color right and then put it in the right place - and then leave it.
how do you get the oil paints so liquefied/fluid without diluting the color/pigments?
a tiny... tiny bit of liquin
When I try to do wet in wet, my brush strokes swipe or erase underlayer, so I'm often frustrated.
Would Sargent or other masters have pre mixed colors as well?
Thank you
Realy great help for a beginner
Mart
Mark how does the Geneva psints not make a dry film over the paints ? i would like to put my paint tubes over into pots.
great demo! Thank you. I have very much a tendency to smooth out all rough brush strokes but would love to paint alla prima. Do you have an advice for me?
OOohhhhh! Thank you for showing me a new place to clip the microphone! (';')( ';')... YOU are the MASTER!
+Frederick Dunn I always thought that was so clever haha
I bought your tutorial on portrait painting and learned a lot. I was just wondering how long it took to create such an impressive work of art
Ahhhhhhh, the bumpy pair. Great choice. I'm kidding, but seriously a great choice. I like it.
Is that a filbert or a flat brush? Just curious as to what number?
I will try wet on wet with plenty of noise thank you Mark
Can you do a video on what are some ways to sign your work? I have succumbed to just using my initials because my name is too long but would prefer to write out my full name. I tried to sign my painting using the other end of one of my brushes but that doesn't come out readable. Thank you in advance.
How's your paints so thin and oily?? Did you used linseed or any medium? And yes was that a paper or canvas?
what is the plastic sheet with the image on it?
MARK, would you advise using oil paints with either turpentine or mineral spirits to paint WITHOUT a medium until closer to the end of the finish painting? Thank you!
May I ask what you are mixing with your oil paint to allow it to be so thick?? It looks like acrylic at first glance.
Wow! Awesomeness. Thank you.
When painting glass objects from life and similar, small changes in head position can cause large changes in reflections and colors.
Do you have any tips for maintaining the exact same viewing position?