Great video man. One thing to add from my days in grad school, the Hudson River School landscape painters (Cole, Durand, etc.) didn't have access to Ult blue as it was still ridiculously expensive. They used Prussian blue mostly. I find it much tougher to work with personally, nearly as bad as Thalo. A very gifted Prof of mine and an exceedingly skilled landscape painter shared with us his "shortcut" for getting these naturally-desaturated greens. Try mixing some greens with a high quality Ivory Black (now Bone Black) and your yellows (Cad Light, Lemon or Medium). It's a surprising little hack that I suspect other historical painters used before French Ult Blue became so affordable.
For distant greens I like mixing cerulean blue with yellow ochre or cerulean and cadmium yellow with a little bit of cadmium red light. Sometimes I'll gray greens with burnt umber. A lot of interesting greens can be made using black as a base.
Thanks for the report. I've lived in California all my life, most of it has been in N. CA. I can't tell you how many times I have seen it do the complete opposite from what the weather forecast tells. As the old saying goes..Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it, or something like that.
I think I might be going mad over your clips. Your paintings are just so good just not really "there" yet. Colors are spot on I think but composition and flow are so... subpar! They look like a really well done photograph but lack the ingenuity a painting can achieve. (All that being said, I myself am nowhere near capable painting at your level)
Great video man. One thing to add from my days in grad school, the Hudson River School landscape painters (Cole, Durand, etc.) didn't have access to Ult blue as it was still ridiculously expensive. They used Prussian blue mostly. I find it much tougher to work with personally, nearly as bad as Thalo. A very gifted Prof of mine and an exceedingly skilled landscape painter shared with us his "shortcut" for getting these naturally-desaturated greens. Try mixing some greens with a high quality Ivory Black (now Bone Black) and your yellows (Cad Light, Lemon or Medium). It's a surprising little hack that I suspect other historical painters used before French Ult Blue became so affordable.
For distant greens I like mixing cerulean blue with yellow ochre or cerulean and cadmium yellow with a little bit of cadmium red light. Sometimes I'll gray greens with burnt umber. A lot of interesting greens can be made using black as a base.
Thanks Sam. Beautiful work ❤
Truly helpful thank you Sam! Your video has perfect timing
Perfect timing for this to come up! I've been struggling all morning with exactly this!
Good tips for getting better in landscape painting 🖼️
Demonstrating your skill and talent very well indeed Sam, lovely.
Beautiful painting excellent explanation.
Gorgeous! 😍
owww,. so gorgeous variety of greens :)
Thanks Sam. Well explained. Thanks.
another gem, well done
Excellent work
No not the exact rendition but unmistakably, in part, the Three Sisters. Wonderful work to go along with wonderful memories.
Very useful video and discussion. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Thanks for the report.
I've lived in California all my life, most of it has been in N. CA. I can't tell you how many times I have seen it do the complete opposite from what the weather forecast tells.
As the old saying goes..Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it, or something like that.
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I think I might be going mad over your clips. Your paintings are just so good just not really "there" yet. Colors are spot on I think but composition and flow are so... subpar! They look like a really well done photograph but lack the ingenuity a painting can achieve. (All that being said, I myself am nowhere near capable painting at your level)
A very helpful and excellent video as well as a lovely painting. Thank you for doing this.