You pack so much information into your videos. I feel like I don’t need to look elsewhere, it’s all here in your great library of instructional videos. Thank you Dianne for your generous sharing of your years of experience.
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I am so delighted to discovered Dianne Mize! I never learned art theory, although I have been painting over 50 years as an amateur. I have never heard of a Notan, so this is just amazing to me.
I’m also wanting to start from the beginning. Makes total sense. And in trying to figure out how to order DVDs by the whole series. Im directed to Amazon. But my Amazon site doesn’t have a series whole set. I get directed to the world series Haaaha. So still will do QTs and keep trying for a set of lessons from the earliest time. 😄
Thank you so much. You have broaden my art technique by a light year. You explain very well and I've learn to look at painting not as pictures but areas of light and shadow something I had a hard time comprehending. Tks
I'm delighted. What I've discovered is that when we switch our attention to the light and shadow and what's happening within those areas in shadow and not in shadow, we begin to see other things, too, that otherwise we might not have noticed.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing these videos Dianne. It's so lovely to see someone focusing on composition, colour, and technique. As a beginner it's so helpful, much more so than watching a professional do a completed painting and wondering "how on earth did they do that???". There's so much that goes on underneath the surface of their brains and it's great to learn about it! Hi from Australia 😁
Part of the classical french school was to paint colour studies ( les ebauches )before an etude (scaled down version of the final pic ) to sort out any final problems before doing the final work. Thumbnail _sketch_color study_ etude_final work. So, notan fits quite nicely into this scheme. Preparing for your final presentation ,helps you save a lot of time and paint and frustration by doing these preliminary exercises.
Thank you! I learned a lot. I am not good with shadows and the way you started the painting is so awesome. I will definitely use this and continue to watch your videos.
I never heard the term Notan either until tonight, but understood the value lessons you’re teaching. I loved the outcome, it was interesting to watch how it began then came together. I just found you tonight, trying to start again painting after many years of not, and couldn’t recall a proper way to add clouds to an image I had painted without a background of the sky...which I don’t think I’ll ever do that again, lesson learned. But seeing how many lessons you have here, I am very eager to get comfy and do some learning, again! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent with those needing help!
Thanks, Lisa. My purpose for these is to help fill in the gaps and give clarity to issues people don't understand. Enjoy your rediscovering journey with painting!
Wow, this was a great lesson on NoTan. I was hoping someone would actually show a step by step guide when using NoTan as they paint. This lesson has improved my painting to a higher level. It helped me to break down a picture by shadow and build upon shadows. I did before but knowing the theory of what I was doing make me understand what and why I was doing which in turn made it easier to break down the picture before painting it. The shadow board you created has helped me to organize my shadowing too! Thank you for a job well done! I look forward to learning more from you.
Just amazing, I am becoming addicted to watching and listening to you, learning all time. Thank you so much for sharing your great expertise and experience.
Thanks, Dianne. I'm new to this since I just picked up my brushes after a forty year lull. Am enjoying it so much. Your explanations of Notan were extremely helpful.
Great Video Dianne. You are truly amazing. I have watched some of your videos but now I will go back to the beginning. Thanks so much for what you do to help others with your knowledge and wisdom. Blessings and be safe.
I watched this 3 or so years ago. Loved it then and even more now because this time I observed your brush work and methods of paint application. I was reminded how important Notan and composition are to the foundation of any work. Ultimately we are responsible for our own limits we put on ourselves. Thank you again Dianne.....
As I paint every day putting my efforts to make my painting better. 'no 10' is new addition to my knowledge, though I do under painting technique but I could understand it better. Thankyou so much ❤️
I am truly , honestly amazed at your videos. After watching a few of your later videos, where I have learned things about neutrals and brushes and etc, ( I have never heard before! ) I decided to start at Tip 1. and go thru one by one. I am telling every home learned artist I know about your videos. These tips are mind blowing to me. I have been sketching for years but most of my paintings never looked right. I would repaint over the canvas or scrap them. Now after watching a small few of your videos, I understand why. Like I said, I am amazed! You are amazing! Thank you and You Tube for these videos.
Miss Diane, You are certainly, a master teacher! What you teach about in words, you make come alive in demonstration. That is what teaching is all about ! Thank you very kindly, Jimi
This is the very best tutorial of Artwork I have come across , being a lifelong artist in the industrial world, at 60 I’m just now starting to put it on canvas, on every surface I can find. Thank You so very much for being a Teacher with patience and meaningful dialogue.
I Agree with the previous comment. What a wonderful teacher and artist you are. I am so grateful for the kindness you have shown by sharing your knowledge.
The color and value accuracy that you've achieved by the end is really impressive. When I squint and compare the photo and the painting, the two really do have a profound likeness. What a fine video. Thanks so much for the lesson!
I loved this lesson. Dianne made so much sense to do this technique. I loved her comment on not making a copy of the photo, that she is not a camera, that art is meant to be a representation of the photo.... thank you so much for this lesson. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
+Tracey Lowe - nee Menzies Thank you, Tracey. Dianne and I have talked about the fact that if you want it to look like a photo to just take a photograph. She feels that the final painting should come from within. Roger SauteeLive.com
“My purpose for doing these is to make art theory come alive…to be more expressive in our work…”. I have been watching your videos practically non-stop since I found your channel a few days ago while I go about my daily routine. In my opinion, you consistently accomplish exactly that with each and every video. I have not picked up a brush in 3 years because I’ve had to downsize and move so many times. Now I’m finally settled and am totally energized. Over the past few days my studio is organized, paint brushes and paint tubes cleaned (thanks for that quick tip). I love your common sense, the tips you share that demonstrate your understanding that a lot of people are on tight budgets, your smile laugh and sense of humour. Your students must have loved you. I loved my job as much as you must have loved yours and I’m so grateful to have a hobby (one of a few but my absolute favourite) that brings so much joy and makes every day an exciting one. I had two mentors along the way but most of what I’ve learned has been through trial and error. In the past few days I have learned and finally assimilated so many concepts that I’ve struggled with since I first picked up a brush. That’s all on you❤️. Thanks
Dear Dianne, this is sooo educational. I never come up with that myself. You opened a very important door for many...you have opened my eyes in any case and i always thank you for that.You are the best learning experience in my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing everyting and God bless...
I have an artist friend who had a stroke affecting his vision. Now he can only see in black and white with no depth perception. I can't begin to imagine what that is like. Thanks to you I ordered a copy of Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design. As he liked to paint with angles and shapes I think this book will help energize him into painting again.
You actually cover subjects that nobody else is talking about I’ve never heard of no tan but I’ve always been her to work your darks in first worked from dark to light for values. Very fascinating thank you for the video
I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. You remind me so much of my first art teacher who died 2 years ago. I’m excited to work my way through your content.
Thank you for all the illuminating videos. As an experiment I took a screengrab of your example painting from the beginning. I then saved it as a 2 color gif with photoshop. It was very similar to your NoTan study!
Thank you for sharing these relevant informational videos. I learn so much every time. I will try and buy the books recommend in your tutorial. Hopefully I will create paintings that other people will appreciate.
That demo was beyond the call of duty for a free tip...but thank you so much. Watching an orderly progression for painting is a lesson that I could have used several years ago when I first took up this painting process. (I was long in the tooth...but a strong desire to learn and achieve)
Wowwwww Thank you so very much...I have a better understanding about the princples of color values and to have fun with the techniques of brush strokes! Your time is appreciated! LOL....excellent teacher!
As a watercolour beginner I struggled so much with values and shadows. So I used to use my image editing software to accentuate the shadow areas in monochrome and that's how I painted my reference images. I never knew until today that this is something artists are used to! :-) I feel like I'm in the right path, for the first time in my life. About something.
Yes you certainly make art come to life in the form of your wonderful personality in paint 🎨 to express yourself in paint and not be a camera 📸 is very true, i do not want to be a camera either🙂🌸💐thanks again💕
Thank you very much for your teaching. Now I understand the use of Notan. May I conclude that we can use value 10-9 plus 1-2 in the front of seen, value 8- 7 plus 3-5 in the middle, and value 6 plus 5 in the long distance of seen respectly in shade and light areas?
I know you wrote your comment about 2 years ago and you might have already worked out an approach in your painting already but, I'd like to comment just in case anyone else has the same question. The value scale is not prescriptive because painting isn't photography. It's about balance and harmony between light and dark in how you compose your painting. Diane said in the video that using a Value of 10 may appear in her painting as a black hole. That is because we only see what is "in shadow" relative to what is "not in shadow" by how light falls on the various surfaces. A value 10 would be almost an absence of light - almost 100% darkness relative to the other parts of the picture, and if you replay the video and look at her reference photograph, even the shadow has some light. That is why Dianne wasn't using black to paint the shadows. So in these terms, the extreme values of 1 to 2 and 9 to 10 are like the goalposts in soccer/football. Nothing in nature is 100 percent white/light or 100 percent black/dark, but falls in between those two extremes because our eyes cannot see those. The best chance to score is to use values between those extremes, and to move between values as dictated by what you see.
Thank you for this... I learned a ton from this. Your arrangement of your pallet colors was brilliant. One thing to note is that your idea of notan is very different from others... You used a paint brush and put the clouds in lighter than the boat. A purist notan would use a single color marker, and would have put no dark in the sky, and the notan would have been done much smaller and never turned into the painting... With your concept of notan, you've blocked-in your painting... (I.e. no separate notan drawing was done) Blocking like this appears to be common too, but not usually referred to as notan.. Awesome and again thank you.
Thanks. One thing to note here--the notan serves only as a guiding pattern for where shadows and areas not in shadow belong. The original notan used only the two values - one light and one dark - for the total design. I'm not doing that, but am using the notan concept to indicate only the fact of light and shadow. That's what I'm doing in the first step after the placement of the drawing, so I start with a notan and build.
mwill6611 Thanks, mwill6611. This video is online at three different locations and has proven to be very popular. Our goal is to provide clear and concise information to the art world in an unpretentious manner. - Roger (producer at SauteeLive)
What a wonderful lesson. I’ve never really explored notan before but intend to do so now. I want to do watercolour painting so, presumably, the same thing applies, only working from light to dark. Now looking forward to doing tonal studies. PS. I love your accent!
I recently watched a video on informing your composition through the use of notan. This particular artist emphasizes that notan is about shape and pattern! I’m too much of a newbie to even think abt disagreeing; however; I prefer the way you taught it as shadow and not shadow because this I can easily discern-form and shape are still somewhat elusive to me, so just wanted to say thanks again-simple and to the point!!
In eastern art, the original notan was about the pattern of light and dark. In the Western world of realistic painting, that concept translate easily to light including areas in light (not in shadow) and areas in dark in shadow. Within that area of light and shadow, we find our world of form and shape. FYI - there is every reason to believe that the notan concept goes back for at least two thousand years or at least for as long as the yin-yang symbol has been used.
A great drawing implement to use for a tonal drawing, notans, is a really cheap Pentel brush pen. They are supposed to be filled with water to use with watercolours, possibly supposed to be for kids. Fill it with a dark mix of watercolour pigment and it ends up as being a really nice refillable brush in a colour of your own choice. I bought a set of 3 pens for £10 so cost effective compared to felt tips. Fantastic drawing tool for sketch books. Thanks for the vids, really helpful.
Thank you very much you have been more help then anyone iv seen on UA-cam iv been asking god to show me someone who could texh me how to paint a picture thanks
Great interpretation !! I will try and look at things and pictures in another way which will help me to interpret better what I see. I watched various videos which refer to colour.I find them so useful. I am going to start watching your videos from the very beginning . What about acrylics that get dry so quickly ?
Your question about acrylics drying so quickly reminds me of when I was an art student at UGA back in the 60s. In those days, the powers-that-be in the visual art world thought acrylics would replace oils, so we were required to use only acrylics in our painting classes. All my experience had been with oils, so the first thing I had to learn was how to adjust my skills to the quick drying qualities of acrylics. There are several things you can do: (1) You can keep at hand a find mist sprayer fill water and periodically give your palette and painting a fine-mist spray, (2) You can use a retardant, (3) Though expensive to do so, you can move to the open acrylics which are slower drying.
I really enjoyed this. Notan is new to me. I've just been messing with abstract art lately, but this makes me want to try a still life following this procedure you showed. I wonder if I can use acrylics instead, though. And would you suggest I add a medium to slow the drying of my acrylic paint? Thanks very much.
Certainly, you can use acrylics when working with the notan principle. You can even use watercolor by setting the notan in a light wash of ultramarine blue. The notan can be dry when you start the painting so unless you need a drier to keep your acrylic paint open while working, it's not necessary.
thanks for this helpful video, i am also wondering whether or not it is possible to study or even perform our paintings with oil on a A4 paper sheet? Since canvas is quite expensive in all the countries for long term applications of us, i would like to know that can we apply the oils on paper?
Oil painted directly on paper will cause the paper to rot, but you can gesso the paper and prevent that. The downside is that paper probably won't hold up in time. A better route would be to get a roll of primed cotton canvas, such as Fredrix style 70, and cut sheets from it as you need them. You can tape the sheets to a board, then later stretch the painting on stretcher strips, if you choose.
Maria, I begin by discovering the notan in my sketchbook, then plot it on the canvas like I'm doing here so that I can use it as a guide for building the painting.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I am trying to interpret this information versus your other block in videos which are in color? Not sure what type of start to use and why?
Hi Dianne, If using watercolours, would we make the notan with a light "mother colour" wash? I'm wondering how to apply this technique to watercolours which are transparent. Clearly we couldn't paint in blue and then try to put the gold over the top, so wondering how to apply the notan to watercolour painting? Also, if we put in the shadows in watercolour, that is working from dark to light, especially demonstrate in the sky. How can we do that in watercolour?
Kathy, you are on the right track. For a subject like this in watercolor, the notan can be set in a very light wash of ultramarine blue, wet on damp or wet on dry, then allowing it to thoroughly dry. From here, you can easily build the painting general to specific.
You pack so much information into your videos. I feel like I don’t need to look elsewhere, it’s all here in your great library of instructional videos. Thank you Dianne for your generous sharing of your years of experience.
It's a pleasure to do these. Thanks for watching!
I have watched this Quick Tip 2 or 3 times, and every time I see or hear something new! Your teaching is so thorough and amazing! Thank you. 😊
Thanks, Linda. My pleasure.
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I am so delighted to discovered Dianne Mize! I never learned art theory, although I have been painting over 50 years as an amateur. I have never heard of a Notan, so this is just amazing to me.
Well, I hope you are enjoying the journey.
One of the best explanations of notan, thank you 🙏🏾 ✨
My pleasure!
I love all your videos and tips. I decided to start watching them from the beginning. Thanks for all of them.
It's a pleasure to do these.
I’m also wanting to start from the beginning. Makes total sense. And in trying to figure out how to order DVDs by the whole series. Im directed to Amazon. But my Amazon site doesn’t have a series whole set. I get directed to the world series Haaaha. So still will do QTs and keep trying for a set of lessons from the earliest time. 😄
Thank you so much. You have broaden my art technique by a light year. You explain very well and I've learn to look at painting not as pictures but areas of light and shadow something I had a hard time comprehending. Tks
I'm delighted. What I've discovered is that when we switch our attention to the light and shadow and what's happening within those areas in shadow and not in shadow, we begin to see other things, too, that otherwise we might not have noticed.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing these videos Dianne. It's so lovely to see someone focusing on composition, colour, and technique. As a beginner it's so helpful, much more so than watching a professional do a completed painting and wondering "how on earth did they do that???". There's so much that goes on underneath the surface of their brains and it's great to learn about it! Hi from Australia 😁
Thanks, Gill. One reason I chose to focus the website lessons on composing paintings is that nobody else was doing that. And it is so needed!
Thank you for presenting this concept so clearly, I am going to try it.
Part of the classical french school was to paint colour studies ( les ebauches )before an etude (scaled down version of the final pic ) to sort out any final problems before doing the final work.
Thumbnail _sketch_color study_ etude_final work. So, notan fits quite nicely into this scheme. Preparing for your final presentation ,helps you save a lot of time and paint and frustration by doing these preliminary exercises.
Thanks for adding this, Paul. Yes.
Thank you! I learned a lot. I am not good with shadows and the way you started the painting is so awesome. I will definitely use this and continue to watch your videos.
thank you for taking the time, making these tutorials for us to learn from. I am looking forward to moving onward with you.
I never heard the term Notan either until tonight, but understood the value lessons you’re teaching. I loved the outcome, it was interesting to watch how it began then came together. I just found you tonight, trying to start again painting after many years of not, and couldn’t recall a proper way to add clouds to an image I had painted without a background of the sky...which I don’t think I’ll ever do that again, lesson learned. But seeing how many lessons you have here, I am very eager to get comfy and do some learning, again! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent with those needing help!
Thanks, Lisa. My purpose for these is to help fill in the gaps and give clarity to issues people don't understand. Enjoy your rediscovering journey with painting!
I started out totally confused and thought it was pointless but am now a complete convert with a lightbulb clicked on in my noggin! Thank you so much
Great! Have fun with it.
Yours videos are so skilful, enjoyable and rewarding. MUCH appreciated and Thank You.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Wow, this was a great lesson on NoTan. I was hoping someone would actually show a step by step guide when using NoTan as they paint. This lesson has improved my painting to a higher level. It helped me to break down a picture by shadow and build upon shadows. I did before but knowing the theory of what I was doing make me understand what and why I was doing which in turn made it easier to break down the picture before painting it. The shadow board you created has helped me to organize my shadowing too! Thank you for a job well done! I look forward to learning more from you.
Wow this was a whole lesson. Thank you. I’ll rewatch several times.
That's what I love about UA-cam -- you can watch as often as you like. Thanks.
I'm going back and watching every episode from the very first. I love your instruction! I really learn a lot. Ty. Ty. Ty.
Thanks.
Very useful lesson .Thank you Mrs Mize. I understand better with you and I follow you all your lessons.
βικυ πιτσιου Thanks. I enjoy doing these lessons.
That was wonderful, Dianne. Very helpful!! Thank you very much!
So glad you enjoyed it.
Diane, I've watched quite a few of your videos and this has to be one of the best for beginner painters. Excellent.
Thanks so much 😊
Just amazing, I am becoming addicted to watching and listening to you, learning all time. Thank you so much for sharing your great expertise and experience.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Thanks, Dianne. I'm new to this since I just picked up my brushes after a forty year lull. Am enjoying it so much. Your explanations of Notan were extremely helpful.
+Sher Wolf Thanks, Sher. I'm delighted to share this.
Thanks, Dianne, your presentation makes notan very understandable.
Thanks.
Great Video Dianne. You are truly amazing. I have watched some of your videos but now I will go back to the beginning. Thanks so much for what you do to help others with your knowledge and wisdom. Blessings and be safe.
Thank you. It's a pleasure to do these.
You are such a terrific teacher! And so talented. Thank you for sharing. Will give this a try.
Thanks. I hope you find working with notan helpful.
I watched this 3 or so years ago. Loved it then and even more now because this time I observed your brush work and methods of paint application. I was reminded how important Notan and composition are to the foundation of any work. Ultimately we are responsible for our own limits we put on ourselves. Thank you again Dianne.....
Thanks, Candace. Isn't it a fun thing that the more we learn, the more meaningful principles become.
As I paint every day putting my efforts to make my painting better. 'no 10' is new addition to my knowledge, though I do under painting technique but I could understand it better.
Thankyou so much ❤️
Wonderful! Have fun with this.
I am truly , honestly amazed at your videos. After watching a few of your later videos, where I have learned things about neutrals and brushes and etc, ( I have never heard before! ) I decided to start at Tip 1. and go thru one by one. I am telling every home learned artist I know about your videos. These tips are mind blowing to me. I have been sketching for years but most of my paintings never looked right. I would repaint over the canvas or scrap them. Now after watching a small few of your videos, I understand why.
Like I said, I am amazed! You are amazing! Thank you and You Tube for these videos.
Thanks for that, Donna.
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Miss Diane, You are certainly, a master teacher! What you teach about in words, you make come alive in demonstration. That is what teaching is all about ! Thank you very kindly, Jimi
Thanks, Jimi.
This is the very best tutorial of Artwork I have come across , being a lifelong artist in the industrial world, at 60 I’m just now starting to put it on canvas, on every surface I can find. Thank You so very much for being a Teacher with patience and meaningful dialogue.
Thanks. I enjoy sharing the painting process. May yours continue to flourish.
very interesting and something I love to explore - thanks Dianne
Always a pleasure.
I Agree with the previous comment. What a wonderful teacher and artist you are. I am so grateful for the kindness you have shown by sharing your knowledge.
Thank you, Carole. I am delighted to do these.
fascinating, informative and very interesting Dianne - thank you for all you hard work - truly appreciated. Thanks. Caz
My pleasure.
The color and value accuracy that you've achieved by the end is really impressive. When I squint and compare the photo and the painting, the two really do have a profound likeness. What a fine video. Thanks so much for the lesson!
Thanks.
I loved this lesson. Dianne made so much sense to do this technique. I loved her comment on not making a copy of the photo, that she is not a camera, that art is meant to be a representation of the photo.... thank you so much for this lesson. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
+Tracey Lowe - nee Menzies Thank you, Tracey. Dianne and I have talked about the fact that if you want it to look like a photo to just take a photograph. She feels that the final painting should come from within.
Roger
SauteeLive.com
“My purpose for doing these is to make art theory come alive…to be more expressive in our work…”. I have been watching your videos practically non-stop since I found your channel a few days ago while I go about my daily routine. In my opinion, you consistently accomplish exactly that with each and every video. I have not picked up a brush in 3 years because I’ve had to downsize and move so many times. Now I’m finally settled and am totally energized. Over the past few days my studio is organized, paint brushes and paint tubes cleaned (thanks for that quick tip). I love your common sense, the tips you share that demonstrate your understanding that a lot of people are on tight budgets, your smile laugh and sense of humour. Your students must have loved you. I loved my job as much as you must have loved yours and I’m so grateful to have a hobby (one of a few but my absolute favourite) that brings so much joy and makes every day an exciting one. I had two mentors along the way but most of what I’ve learned has been through trial and error. In the past few days I have learned and finally assimilated so many concepts that I’ve struggled with since I first picked up a brush. That’s all on you❤️. Thanks
Wow! I am humbled! Thanks for sharing all that.
Great video. Thanks for making such a quality video on the subject
It's a pleasure.
Dear Dianne I’am thankfull with your sound lessons!
Thanks, Ada.
Dear Dianne, this is sooo educational. I never come up with that myself. You opened a very important door for many...you have opened my eyes in any case and i always thank you for that.You are the best learning experience in my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing everyting and God bless...
Thank you Ruud. I am delighted.
Wow! What a good study - and such valuable insight. Thank you so much for your sharing.
Thanks for all your comments.
I am very happy that found you here. Thank you so much.
Welcome! Enjoy the Tips!
I have an artist friend who had a stroke affecting his vision. Now he can only see in black and white with no depth perception. I can't begin to imagine what that is like. Thanks to you I ordered a copy of Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design. As he liked to paint with angles and shapes I think this book will help energize him into painting again.
Great! Let me know how this works.
You actually cover subjects that nobody else is talking about I’ve never heard of no tan but I’ve always been her to work your darks in first worked from dark to light for values. Very fascinating thank you for the video
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. You remind me so much of my first art teacher who died 2 years ago. I’m excited to work my way through your content.
Have fun with it, Isabelle.
Hurray for composition. I love this video and all theory based videos. You have made Covid so much more fun.
That is so good to know! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for all the illuminating videos. As an experiment I took a screengrab of your example painting from the beginning. I then saved it as a 2 color gif with photoshop. It was very similar to your NoTan study!
Not surprising!
You're amazing! Such a natural at both art, and teaching painting.
Thanks.
Thank you for your informative tutorial, your teaching is so good! I am moved to give this a go, most appreciated 🙂
Enjoy the journey!
You are the best ever,always explained so well.I’m nearly 70 self taught for the last 4 years,you are so helpful.Thankyou so much 👩🏻🎨
Wonderful! Thanks for that.
Thank you for sharing these relevant informational videos. I learn so much every time.
I will try and buy the books recommend in your tutorial. Hopefully I will create paintings that other people will appreciate.
I'm delighted you enjoy these.
Thank you for a wonderful Video. Beautifully explained & demonstrated. Very useful in improving the paintings..
My pleasure 😊 Thanks for watching.
Instrucciones muy valiosas para quienes no tienen una experiencia de muchos años. gracias Sra. Dianne Mize
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Great entrance through thr woods to introduce this. It sets a frame of creativity which wooded scenrd always do.
It's our signature intro to all our full length video tutorials.
So much knowledge and so much to learn. Thank you
My pleasure.
Your video are the best! I'm so thankful !!! Thank you
😊
Really god bless you ma'am, I'm so thankful your channel got recommended to me❤️
My pleasure 😊 And thanks to the person who recommended this channel to you.
This is a fantastic lesson. Thank you!
My pleasure. I hope you give the notan concept a try.
Hi Dianne, I enjoy your videos very much.. I have learnt a lot.. Thanks
You are so welcome!
As always very good and informative teaching of important basic steps of good painting practice.
Thanks.
Wonderful process, learning so much as a complete newbie!
Have fun with it.
you r just awesome thnk you so much for all the videos !!!
+Diego Sanhueza Thanks, Diego! We are coming up with new ideas every week.
very very useful, for a difficult topic. well done and thank you !
My pleasure.
Very instructive. Really appreciated your direction.
Thanks.
Good lesson on how to translate a Notan into color. Thanks!
Hi Diane i like it when you say that we artists are not copiers, but interpreters, so true
I think it's crucial. Thanks for that.
TANK YOU SOOOO MUCH AGAIN DIANNE. THIS IS NEW FOR ME...
My pleasure.
Love your tutorials!
Thanks.
Wowowowowow this is fascinating, and so helpful, thank you!
Thanks.
That demo was beyond the call of duty for a free tip...but thank you so much. Watching an orderly progression for painting is a lesson that I could have used several years ago when I first took up this painting process. (I was long in the tooth...but a strong desire to learn and achieve)
Thanks, Max. We did this one when were first began the full length lessons. I wanted folks to see how I go about teaching before paying for lessons.
Very informative lesson. Would like to see you show us this in watercolor. Thanks Dianne.
Mmmm. Not sure how we could work that into a Quick Tip, but I will give it some thought.
Wowwwww Thank you so very much...I have a better understanding about the princples of color values and to have fun with the techniques of brush strokes! Your time is appreciated! LOL....excellent teacher!
Thanks.
You are so kindly welcome!
As a watercolour beginner I struggled so much with values and shadows. So I used to use my image editing software to accentuate the shadow areas in monochrome and that's how I painted my reference images. I never knew until today that this is something artists are used to! :-) I feel like I'm in the right path, for the first time in my life. About something.
Wonderful! I am always delighted when my teaching helps give clarity.
Yes you certainly make art come to life in the form of your wonderful personality in paint 🎨 to express yourself in paint and not be a camera 📸 is very true, i do not want to be a camera either🙂🌸💐thanks again💕
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Thank you very much for your teaching. Now I understand the use of Notan. May I conclude that we can use value 10-9 plus 1-2 in the front of seen, value 8- 7 plus 3-5 in the middle, and value 6 plus 5 in the long distance of seen respectly in shade and light areas?
I know you wrote your comment about 2 years ago and you might have already worked out an approach in your painting already but, I'd like to comment just in case anyone else has the same question. The value scale is not prescriptive because painting isn't photography. It's about balance and harmony between light and dark in how you compose your painting. Diane said in the video that using a Value of 10 may appear in her painting as a black hole. That is because we only see what is "in shadow" relative to what is "not in shadow" by how light falls on the various surfaces. A value 10 would be almost an absence of light - almost 100% darkness relative to the other parts of the picture, and if you replay the video and look at her reference photograph, even the shadow has some light. That is why Dianne wasn't using black to paint the shadows. So in these terms, the extreme values of 1 to 2 and 9 to 10 are like the goalposts in soccer/football. Nothing in nature is 100 percent white/light or 100 percent black/dark, but falls in between those two extremes because our eyes cannot see those. The best chance to score is to use values between those extremes, and to move between values as dictated by what you see.
Thank you for this... I learned a ton from this. Your arrangement of your pallet colors was brilliant. One thing to note is that your idea of notan is very different from others... You used a paint brush and put the clouds in lighter than the boat. A purist notan would use a single color marker, and would have put no dark in the sky, and the notan would have been done much smaller and never turned into the painting... With your concept of notan, you've blocked-in your painting... (I.e. no separate notan drawing was done) Blocking like this appears to be common too, but not usually referred to as notan.. Awesome and again thank you.
Thanks. One thing to note here--the notan serves only as a guiding pattern for where shadows and areas not in shadow belong. The original notan used only the two values - one light and one dark - for the total design. I'm not doing that, but am using the notan concept to indicate only the fact of light and shadow. That's what I'm doing in the first step after the placement of the drawing, so I start with a notan and build.
Wonderful lesson...thanks so much!
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What a wonderful lesson. I’ve never really explored notan before but intend to do so now. I want to do watercolour painting so, presumably, the same thing applies, only working from light to dark. Now looking forward to doing tonal studies.
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Mary Whyte, ( www.marywhyte.com/ ) a contemporary watercolor painter, often lays in her in shadow areas with a very light wash of ultramarine blue.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thank you very much for that. Mary’s work is wonderful. Laying in the shadows never occurred to me.
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I recently watched a video on informing your composition through the use of notan. This particular artist emphasizes that notan is about shape and pattern! I’m too much of a newbie to even think abt disagreeing; however; I prefer the way you taught it as shadow and not shadow because this I can easily discern-form and shape are still somewhat elusive to me, so just wanted to say thanks again-simple and to the point!!
In eastern art, the original notan was about the pattern of light and dark. In the Western world of realistic painting, that concept translate easily to light including areas in light (not in shadow) and areas in dark in shadow. Within that area of light and shadow, we find our world of form and shape.
FYI - there is every reason to believe that the notan concept goes back for at least two thousand years or at least for as long as the yin-yang symbol has been used.
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A great drawing implement to use for a tonal drawing, notans, is a really cheap Pentel brush pen. They are supposed to be filled with water to use with watercolours, possibly supposed to be for kids. Fill it with a dark mix of watercolour pigment and it ends up as being a really nice refillable brush in a colour of your own choice. I bought a set of 3 pens for £10 so cost effective compared to felt tips. Fantastic drawing tool for sketch books. Thanks for the vids, really helpful.
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Thank you very much you have been more help then anyone iv seen on UA-cam iv been asking god to show me someone who could texh me how to paint a picture thanks
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I love your value strip. I believe you said it was included in your u tube? I didn't see it. Thanks, would love a copy of it>
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Thank you! Very helpful.
Great. Give it a try.
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Great interpretation !! I will try and look at things and pictures in another way which will help me to interpret better what I see. I watched various videos which refer to colour.I find them so useful. I am going to start watching your videos from the very beginning . What about acrylics that get dry so quickly ?
Your question about acrylics drying so quickly reminds me of when I was an art student at UGA back in the 60s. In those days, the powers-that-be in the visual art world thought acrylics would replace oils, so we were required to use only acrylics in our painting classes. All my experience had been with oils, so the first thing I had to learn was how to adjust my skills to the quick drying qualities of acrylics.
There are several things you can do: (1) You can keep at hand a find mist sprayer fill water and periodically give your palette and painting a fine-mist spray, (2) You can use a retardant, (3) Though expensive to do so, you can move to the open acrylics which are slower drying.
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I really enjoyed this. Notan is new to me. I've just been messing with abstract art lately, but this makes me want to try a still life following this procedure you showed. I wonder if I can use acrylics instead, though. And would you suggest I add a medium to slow the drying of my acrylic paint? Thanks very much.
Certainly, you can use acrylics when working with the notan principle. You can even use watercolor by setting the notan in a light wash of ultramarine blue. The notan can be dry when you start the painting so unless you need a drier to keep your acrylic paint open while working, it's not necessary.
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thanks for this helpful video, i am also wondering whether or not it is possible to study or even perform our paintings with oil on a A4 paper sheet? Since canvas is quite expensive in all the countries for long term applications of us, i would like to know that can we apply the oils on paper?
Oil painted directly on paper will cause the paper to rot, but you can gesso the paper and prevent that. The downside is that paper probably won't hold up in time. A better route would be to get a roll of primed cotton canvas, such as Fredrix style 70, and cut sheets from it as you need them. You can tape the sheets to a board, then later stretch the painting on stretcher strips, if you choose.
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Thanks. But actually, it's more principle than theory 😊
Do you use this each time? Or do you sometimes just work from the Notan drawing in your sketchbook? I like the value line in shadow and light!
Maria, I begin by discovering the notan in my sketchbook, then plot it on the canvas like I'm doing here so that I can use it as a guide for building the painting.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I am trying to interpret this information versus your other block in videos which are in color? Not sure what type of start to use and why?
Hi Dianne, If using watercolours, would we make the notan with a light "mother colour" wash? I'm wondering how to apply this technique to watercolours which are transparent. Clearly we couldn't paint in blue and then try to put the gold over the top, so wondering how to apply the notan to watercolour painting? Also, if we put in the shadows in watercolour, that is working from dark to light, especially demonstrate in the sky. How can we do that in watercolour?
Kathy, you are on the right track. For a subject like this in watercolor, the notan can be set in a very light wash of ultramarine blue, wet on damp or wet on dry, then allowing it to thoroughly dry. From here, you can easily build the painting general to specific.