Thanks for watching. Be sure to download your “Painterly Edges Resource Guide” so you can paint along with me here: mailchi.mp/fda88d4e3b62/painterly-edges
This video changed everything for me. I wasn’t a “tight “ painter to begin. I set up my still life and painted. Then I cried. My painting was the best painting of an apple I’ve ever done. Thank you. Now I need to do this with my landscape painting. I’m forever grateful ❤
I have always been more attracted to a painterly style like the Impressionism. When I paint I have a tendency to lean toward a more linear style. I need to loosen up my painting. I will definitely try this exercise. It was brillantly demonstrated Alain. Now I understand how to achieve it. You are a great teacher.
This is exactly what I needed. I have so much trouble trying to "let go" and get loose with my painting, and your descriptions of 'broken edges', 'push and pull' and letting the apple spill over makes so much sense! I can't wait to try this - thank you for being so generous with your knowledge and talent. ❤
The most beautiful effect is the light dat is just jumping over the hole painting The Apple is talking with the background now Thank you for teaching me I am just starting with pastel I love your work Greetings from Holland
The presentation of "Painterly Edges" is absolutely wonderful. Yet, I know that it needs a lot of practice to master it, to change the style from linear to painterly. Thank you for teaching us this vibrantly alive technique.
Wow! I was having a hard time to understand about these edges. Thank you so much! I have a severe hand disability and soft pastel is my passion now because I can paint with my two fingers instead using a brush. I will try this apple. Thank you for your explanation and tutorial :)
Fantastic! This is the very best demo of the painterly approach that I have ever seen! Broken lines, soft edges, pushing, pulling, playfulness.... so many wonderful tips to explain what it means to be "loose." Thank you for sharing your gifts with us! I would LOVE to attend a workshop! You are an amazing teacher!
Thanks Mike for sending me a link to this video. It is the first of his I have seen; I am a fan!. Fantastic explanation and so clear! I've never heard it explained better.
This was a wonderful video. I can't wait to try it! The painterly technique is a great exploration of freedom with color, as it were. I really enjoyed this. Thank you!
Thank you, Alain. I often have trouble allowing some freedom into my paintings by a looser style. I was amazed to see there is actually a base method to painting looser.
Alain, Thank you! I struggled with my first try and eventually ended up with a regular linear drawing. I tried again and kept listening to the video while I worked and did much better the 2nd time.
Your generosity and kindness is as fresh as your painting. Here I am, 3 years after you first posted this and I'm excited. "Painterly" is what I want to be. Thank you Alain. Hope to see you real soon in your online landscape course.
Thank you Alain. This is the best video I have seen on how to produce a "painterly" look. I always find it difficult to break away from "realistic" renderings of a subject. This has given me a clear idea on how to produce looser paintings. Many thanks!
Thank you Alain. I enjoy watching you paint and always come away with new ideas. With respect, I’d like to mention that it will be even more helpful to watch you paint with the camera closer to your support rather than from behind your back and increased distance. Thank you for considering this when filming future demos.
WOW!!! You are an excellent artist!!! Your apple looks exactly like a PHOTO!! And the painterly apple you do is so beautiful. I searched "painterly", cuz I've heard people using term, and didn't know what it was. Found your channel. I love when I find a channel I've never seen, that is so good, and a great resource for learning. It can take months to find good channels about a subject. So much to scan thru. I'm just starting painting, so I love to learn helpful information. You are a good teacher, and your videos are interesting and fun to watch. Thank you for the video. I'm excited to watch more of them. Austin,TX USA
I imagine that many impressionist painters began working this way back when this "school" of thought actually started! Break the edge, get the feeling of the thing! Its essence is NOT its shape! I watch you make marks on I remember a film I watched in school when Monet (I think it was him, if I remember correctly) let someone film him painting. working from the shoulder! You capture this quite well! Thanks for showing us how an accomplished artist works in Pastel! This is the impressionist style! You really have a view and you allow us to see how you do this! Thank You!
Bonjour Alain, Merci pour votre démonstration. Je venais juste de réaliser 2 belles pommes mais je vais essayer de lâcher le côté rigoureux et réaliste. Vos explications aident à lâcher prise et c'est tout à fait ce que je recherche. Au plaisir😍🤩
Not only are your videos informative and captivating to watch for the art instruction.But as an art content maker myself I know I can learn a lot about instruction speaking and description through watching these. imo you are one of the best my freind, easily..
This was a revelation to me! I paint with watercolours and am constantly trying to lose up so have decided to give soft pastels a try. I read lots of books and watch many videos but no one has described and demonstrated this painterly technique so well! I am very grateful for this video, it was really brilliant. You explain it all so well. Thank you! 🙏
You take me completely out of my comfort zone. I like the result so much that I will follow your advice and get out of my barriers. And it's been a long time since I want to thank you for your generosity. You are a fantastic teacher.
I learned so much from this wonderfully clear and concise teaching method. The second and third times really has started to assist me to integrate these concepts. Thank you Alain! So fantastic. 👌💖
I follow a lot of online teachers but recently have found myself more on your videos because I really enjoy the freedom in this style. i’ve done many “apples” in the linear style but have never felt the joyful exuberance and energy that the non linear apple painting offers. This is not a simple apple. This is much more challenging. I thought I was progressing very well until I watched this video and realized “I don’t think I can find this looseness” and still have a recognizable image. Nonetheless I am going to try until I can break free of the constraints of linear painting and the urge to make it “just so” that this style says is okay to ignore in favor of the apt use of color and marks. Much harder for me. Back to apples.
Thanks Alain for sharing your process of loose, impressionistic style. I love and strive for this effect in my paintings...not always achieving same. A lot of artists l loved to follow now have changed over to Patreon and charge for their tutorials which means l can’t watch them any more. Thankyou for still freely sharing your talent with us and God bless 🙏🏻, l am off to paint a loose apple 🍎
This has to be the classic demonstration of how to achieve a painterly effect. This is an inspiring video and thank you for sharing with us all. Thank you to the photographer who does a great job as well.
Christine May thank you so much for the encouragement! And my wife, Mirjam. Is the video director and editor who brings these lessons to life for you. She will really enjoy the acknowledgement! All the best.
Loved the pace, and the commentary, just the right amount of information. I think you are doing a great job with the video to let people know about your technique and your talent! Keep up the good work!
one of the most inspiring things I've learned in the past few years ... I've always been bewitched by the painterly beauty found in impressionist works and others ... now it feels like I am one step closer to understanding the explanation underlying that beauty.
This is such a useful video Alain. Thank you. It’s very beneficial taking a single “simple” subject like an apple and focusing on technique, rather than trying to create an entire scene.
When you first started i thought it looked like it was going to be too abstract for my taste. But, as you continued with the broken and found edges, I began to understand what you were doing and loved it! Thank you for making me understand the benefit of broken edges!!!
Fantastic tutorial I can't stop watching your videos.Pastel is my favourite you really inspire me thank you very much, I will try to paint more often,this style of paintings I really like.
This was inspirational. I have virtually no experience with pastels, but will apply this information to my watercoloring. Just so much richness with every little flick of color. Thank you!
Boy Alain...this is an excellent demo! Especially because you did the tighter version first so we could see the difference and hear your thought process throughout the painting to better understand why a looser technique might be advantageous. More, more, more 😊
A virtual apple for the teacher comes to you. Thanks once more for your generosity in sharing your technique, knowledge and philosophy. When I revisit your video lessons I pick up things I missed the first time. It is wonderful to have this sort of access to them. I am keeping an eye on your workshop schedule. P.S. I love the music in the background.
Thank you. I have been stuck and uninspired for so long this was an incredible boost. I was painting in my minds eye while watching this tutorial the entire time and thinking “I get this!”. You opened up the world of pastels to me a medium I was adverse to and think it will greatly help my painting. I am a beginner and now plan to crossover to pastels to work on some basics and the techniques in your video then transfer back to painting. You make pastels look so easy clean simple with much of the same techniques used in painting. Thank you for such a clean straightforward informative fun video with enjoyable perfectly spaced helpful background music. Thank you thank you.
Caryn, it is so encouraging to read your review and find that you were so inspired by the video, and motivated to try your hand at pastel! Indeed, it is a painting medium that is immediate and exciting. I hope you'll give it a try! I wish you all the best in your progress as an artist!
I love your painterly style and prefer that over saying loose because sometimes there are those requests to be a "tightwad". Thank you for breaking your pastels I buy the unsellable ones from a US company. You recently did a portrait and I really took note. I come from a watercolor history in which my preference is impressionistic. Thank you for your tutorials. I have been doing my mileage pastel painting between wc and color pencils. What a great example!
Alain, thank you for another portion of excitement and inspiration! Thank you for your subject choice - I truly love the fruit theme! 😊 And thank you for this brilliant approach - it doesn't just loosen up the edges of the subject but breaks up the frames of linear thinking! Would just love to see more fruit paintings, too! 👍👍👍
Thank you for this informative easy to follow video. I watched once and now have just watched again and painted along - and been pretty happy with what I've managed to achieve. I've always admired the painterly style but this is the first time it's been explained to me some of the ways (and whys) of creating it.
the painterly pear and apple are wonderful studies and really well presented / articulated - trying to adapt them to learning acrylic, a whole other beast - thanks so much for sharing @AlainPicard :D
Love the apple and your edge lesson. I really like the soft soothing quality of your voice and your curly wavy white hair that goes well with your young looking face!
I am a tight painter, striving to loosen up. And I've been using apples to test colors and brands and surfaces for years. This has been marvelous. I'll be having some fun very soon.
@@AlainPicard I have been teased, playfully, about the 1000 apples I have painted. I was even given a pair of glass apple earrings. Again, I have gotten more from the little video than I expected. Thank you.
Such a beautiful guide! I've always had trouble understanding the expressive, painterly style but this video helped clear up a lot of my confusion and misunderstanding. And it was a joy to watch! Thanks so much
Alain, Great as usual. I am really impressed with how much information for free to the budding artists out here. I am super excited that I am finialy am going to be able to take one of your courses next spring. SO, I will practice my drawing and go over as many of your videos as possible to get ready!!!!!!!!!!!:)))))))))
I love your enthusiasm and teaching style. For me the loose painterly style just speaks to me. I want juicy strokes, I want to know it's a painting and feel some of the emotion that the artist feels while painting it. While I appreciate realism it is too photo like to me. Thank you for freely sharing your knowledge. Like others have said while I would love to support on Patreon that is just not something I am able to do.
Thank you you have given me the confidence to paint in this manner, my brain finds very beautiful. Your stroke style would help stay away from the coloring in mode. Thank you again
A great video, and a great teaching approach. Not only a talented artist, but also a talented teacher! Thank you for this technique, I found it extremely inspiring. I wish I could paint like that.
Thanks Alain! I needed this. Just finished a very detailed painting and I'm craving to do a painterly loose painting like the one you did. Gorgeous and so helpful!!
My checklist: Buy some pastels!!! I can hardly wait to try some pastels and give myself a break from charcoal for about a month. Great video demonstration and tips. Stay Blessed my friend.
Such a helpful video! Perfect timing since I wanted to start working on some small still life studies with a more painterly style. Thanks so much, Alain!
You have broken this technique down so well! Looking forward to painting this process myself! There may be hope for me yet, to break out into this loose, painterly style. Thanks so much!
I always wanted to know how to do this so thank you for this wonderful video. Also, I just watched your video about backgrounds for portraits and I learned to do this nice blue/green which is cool against the warmer subject being the 🍎 in this case. Good to know how to blur the edges. I’m so happy about this video I’m going to watch the 🍐 pear video of yours next.
Love the enthusiasm and the demo. I think I now understand how to lose those edges in order to achieve more painterly 'edges' now :) Thank you for sharing, Alain.
Oh my gosh, how hard this will be for me! I have always wanted to be much more loose with my drawing/painting but find it very difficult. My college art professor use to tell me I would work my medium to death! I really didn't like him for this and as a result have struggled for many years... I will be trying this... and trying again and again until i get it! Thank you for a great tutorial :-)
Alain! This is my most favorite video of yours I've watched so far! I learned SO much, especially about edges, hard & soft and how they translate within an image. Thank you for your sharing & generosity :)
Amazing video, I loved it. This is just what I’m trying to achieve so thank you show showing me how to be loose, as I really struggle with that. I have so many ideas now with the broken edges and putting specks of colour in the ‘wrong’ places, love it
I have always wanted to get that painterly look but never had anyone explain what I can do to achieve it. I loved your explanation of it in such a simple example. Thank you so much.
Alain Picard More fruit still lives please! A Pear would be AMAZING! I do love the loose edges and painterly strokes also they’re so interesting and fun...I’m currently using this video as a major staple for my pastel education so thank you for that, Allin. I can’t wait for the Pear video! 🙏🙏🙏 Blessings
Thank you for this wonderful video-I will be watching it again. I am finding that working in a more painterly way helps me be more courageous in expressing myself because I can always adjust toward refinement or looseness-an approach which I recently discovered in my own practice which you have now confirmed! Thanks again for sharing this gift!
I can’t wait to try! I paint in linear style and want to loosen up as you say. It’s a difficult concept for me to achieve but will continue to try. You have demonstrated so clearly in this video. Thank you very much for your excellent advice and the time you take to teach.
Blesdbigod glad this video helped you! Sometimes we just need to see something one more time and it clicks, then we make progress in our work. Give it another try! I am rooting for you!
So helpful, thanks Allain. Such a wonderful tutorial, finally understand what it means to create lost and found edges in context of painterly painting. I look forward to enrolling in one of your workshops. Bravo!
Thanks for watching. Be sure to download your “Painterly Edges Resource Guide” so you can paint along with me here: mailchi.mp/fda88d4e3b62/painterly-edges
Thank you so much Alain! This is very helpful!
Wishing you and your lovely family all the best and happiness.
This video changed everything for me. I wasn’t a “tight “ painter to begin. I set up my still life and painted. Then I cried. My painting was the best painting of an apple I’ve ever done. Thank you. Now I need to do this with my landscape painting. I’m forever grateful ❤
way to go! That's wonderful, Kim, so glad it helped. Keep going!
For anyone trying to add dimension to an otherwise flat, two-dimensional painting style, this is the answer. Genius. ❤️
Glad you enjoy it, I hope it really helps you!
I have always been more attracted to a painterly style like the Impressionism. When I paint I have a tendency to lean toward a more linear style. I need to loosen up my painting. I will definitely try this exercise. It was brillantly demonstrated Alain. Now I understand how to achieve it. You are a great teacher.
I appreciate how there's nothing careless about this style. And finishing the painting is quite meticulously attentive and painterly. Thank you.
This is exactly what I needed. I have so much trouble trying to "let go" and get loose with my painting, and your descriptions of 'broken edges', 'push and pull' and letting the apple spill over makes so much sense! I can't wait to try this - thank you for being so generous with your knowledge and talent. ❤
The most beautiful effect is the light dat is just jumping over the hole painting
The Apple is talking with the background now
Thank you for teaching me
I am just starting with pastel
I love your work
Greetings from Holland
I love your friendly affirming manner on camera. It is fun, educational and therapeutic to watch your videos. Your generous heart shines.
Just lovely. Like you said in the video...fight the urge to blend. That is exactly what I want to do🤣😓
The presentation of "Painterly Edges" is absolutely wonderful. Yet, I know that it needs a lot of practice to master it, to change the style from linear to painterly. Thank you for teaching us this vibrantly alive technique.
Wow! I was having a hard time to understand about these edges. Thank you so much! I have a severe hand disability and soft pastel is my passion now because I can paint with my two fingers instead using a brush. I will try this apple. Thank you for your explanation and tutorial :)
That luscious apple is alive and breathing. Love your teaching method! Thank you
Fantastic! This is the very best demo of the painterly approach that I have ever seen! Broken lines, soft edges, pushing, pulling, playfulness.... so many wonderful tips to explain what it means to be "loose." Thank you for sharing your gifts with us! I would LOVE to attend a workshop! You are an amazing teacher!
Thanks Mike for sending me a link to this video. It is the first of his I have seen; I am a fan!. Fantastic explanation and so clear! I've never heard it explained better.
Superb tutorial! Comparing your two pictures, the "painterly" one is so much more interesting to view. I can't wait to try the technique. Thank you.
This was a wonderful video. I can't wait to try it! The painterly technique is a great exploration of freedom with color, as it were. I really enjoyed this. Thank you!
Thank you, Alain. I often have trouble allowing some freedom into my paintings by a looser style. I was amazed to see there is actually a base method to painting looser.
Alain, Thank you! I struggled with my first try and eventually ended up with a regular linear drawing. I tried again and kept listening to the video while I worked and did much better the 2nd time.
Your generosity and kindness is as fresh as your painting. Here I am, 3 years after you first posted this and I'm excited. "Painterly" is what I want to be. Thank you Alain. Hope to see you real soon in your online landscape course.
Wonderful, you will be a painterly artist, just keep exploring and practicing Vernona!
Thank you Alain. This is the best video I have seen on how to produce a "painterly" look. I always find it difficult to break away from "realistic" renderings of a subject. This has given me a clear idea on how to produce looser paintings. Many thanks!
So glad this video is helping you find that painterly quality, John, have fun experimenting with new techniques! All my best
Thank you Alain. I enjoy watching you paint and always come away with new ideas. With respect, I’d like to mention that it will be even more helpful to watch you paint with the camera closer to your support rather than from behind your back and increased distance. Thank you for considering this when filming future demos.
WOW!!! You are an excellent artist!!! Your apple looks exactly like a PHOTO!! And the painterly apple you do is so beautiful.
I searched "painterly", cuz I've heard people using term, and didn't know what it was. Found your channel. I love when I find a channel I've never seen, that is so good, and a great resource for learning. It can take months to find good channels about a subject. So much to scan thru.
I'm just starting painting, so I love to learn helpful information.
You are a good teacher, and your videos are interesting and fun to watch. Thank you for the video. I'm excited to watch more of them.
Austin,TX USA
I imagine that many impressionist painters began working this way back when this "school" of thought actually started! Break the edge, get the feeling of the thing! Its essence is NOT its shape! I watch you make marks on I remember a film I watched in school when Monet (I think it was him, if I remember correctly) let someone film him painting. working from the shoulder! You capture this quite well! Thanks for showing us how an accomplished artist works in Pastel! This is the impressionist style! You really have a view and you allow us to see how you do this! Thank You!
mjpete27 thanks for the encouragement, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Try it and see how you do!
Bonjour Alain, Merci pour votre démonstration. Je venais juste de réaliser 2 belles pommes mais je vais essayer de lâcher le côté rigoureux et réaliste. Vos explications aident à lâcher prise et c'est tout à fait ce que je recherche. Au plaisir😍🤩
I could watch and listen to you all day, I think I have said it about a dozen times, you are a great teacher
michael mc ewan thank you. It really never gets old to hear it! Keeps me motivated, all the best to you!
Love this open loose style. Feels so alive!
You, sir, are a modern day master. Your demonstration is awesome. You do inspire!
Karen Garland that is very kind, thank you! It’s a lowly apple but it is beautiful! Give it a try, I know you can paint one too!
I'm a complete beginner and found this fascinating and so very helpful. Thank you, Alain for sharing your expertise with us.
Not only are your videos informative and captivating to watch for the art instruction.But as an art content maker myself I know I can learn a lot about instruction speaking and description through watching these. imo you are one of the best my freind, easily..
thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement John, I appreciate it! All my best to you in your teaching and support of artists!
So helpful!. I worked on a still life this weekend and can't wait to go back and loosen it up!
This was a revelation to me! I paint with watercolours and am constantly trying to lose up so have decided to give soft pastels a try. I read lots of books and watch many videos but no one has described and demonstrated this painterly technique so well! I am very grateful for this video, it was really brilliant. You explain it all so well. Thank you! 🙏
Thanks for this loose apple demonstration. It is just what I needed for inspiration- although I'm an oil painter.
You take me completely out of my comfort zone. I like the result so much that I will follow your advice and get out of my barriers. And it's been a long time since I want to thank you for your generosity. You are a fantastic teacher.
Jocelyne Trahan that is very high praise, I am truly humbled. Thank you! I’m so excited for you, give it a try and be courageous! You can do it!
The apple is gorgeous, but, man oh man, are you the master of backgrounds! The new videos continue to excite, they are so well done. Great teamwork!
That's very kind Julie, thank you.
This just took my art to the next level. Everything I have wanted to do is right here in this video! Thank you so much Alain!🥰
Very clear straightforward instruction regarding a topic that can seem rather obtuse and unwieldy to many beginning / intermediate artists. Thanks!
I learned so much from this wonderfully clear and concise teaching method. The second and third times really has started to assist me to integrate these concepts. Thank you Alain! So fantastic. 👌💖
Did it! Love it! Posted about it! Hope my friends in the artist guild follow suit so we can all "loosen up!"
This way of painting is so exciting to me. Can't wait to take your online class Friday!
I follow a lot of online teachers but recently have found myself more on your videos because I really enjoy the freedom in this style. i’ve done many “apples” in the linear style but have never felt the joyful exuberance and energy that the non linear apple painting offers. This is not a simple apple. This is much more challenging. I thought I was progressing very well until I watched this video and realized “I don’t think I can find this looseness” and still have a recognizable image. Nonetheless I am going to try until I can break free of the constraints of linear painting and the urge to make it “just so” that this style says is okay to ignore in favor of the apt use of color and marks. Much harder for me. Back to apples.
Thanks Alain for sharing your process of loose, impressionistic style. I love and strive for this effect in my paintings...not always achieving same. A lot of artists l loved to follow now have changed over to Patreon and charge for their tutorials which means l can’t watch them any more. Thankyou for still freely sharing your talent with us and God bless 🙏🏻, l am off to paint a loose apple 🍎
Wow! Just found this video! Just what I was looking for, and it was here all along!!!!!! Thank you so much
This has to be the classic demonstration of how to achieve a painterly effect. This is an inspiring video and thank you for sharing with us all. Thank you to the photographer who does a great job as well.
Christine May thank you so much for the encouragement! And my wife, Mirjam. Is the video director and editor who brings these lessons to life for you. She will really enjoy the acknowledgement! All the best.
Another fantastic tutorial. Only you could make painting an apple so exciting to watch!!!! Thanks, Alain.
Leslie Miller thank you, that’s kind. Anything can be an interesting subject if we bring our curiosity and creativity to it!
This was very useful. It makes still life painting so much more exciting and fun. I can't wait to try this out! Thank you, Alain!
Michelle C. That is music to my ears! I am thrilled that you are inspired to try this technique. It really is a lot of fun!
Love this style. I am so tight when I paint. I'm always told to loosen up. I'm gonna give it a go. Thanks for the inspiration
You're very welcome Annis, thanks for appreciating! All the best
Loved the pace, and the commentary, just the right amount of information. I think you are doing a great job with the video to let people know about your technique and your talent! Keep up the good work!
one of the most inspiring things I've learned in the past few years ... I've always been bewitched by the painterly beauty found in impressionist works and others ... now it feels like I am one step closer to understanding the explanation underlying that beauty.
Wonderful! that's great news Arash
This lesson is useful for any medium! Thank you for making this concept so understandable, will pass it on.
awesome. Keep painting Diane!
This is such a useful video Alain. Thank you. It’s very beneficial taking a single “simple” subject like an apple and focusing on technique, rather than trying to create an entire scene.
Loved this, thank you so much. Certainly creates so much more excitement in the "painterly" example.
When you first started i thought it looked like it was going to be too abstract for my taste. But, as you continued with the broken and found edges, I began to understand what you were doing and loved it! Thank you for making me understand the benefit of broken edges!!!
Fantastic tutorial I can't stop watching your videos.Pastel is my favourite you really inspire me thank you very much, I will try to paint more often,this style of paintings I really like.
Hola. Gracias. Es la primera vez que veo pintar así el pastel. Me encantó. Ahora a practicar. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. Desde Argentina, saludos
This was inspirational. I have virtually no experience with pastels, but will apply this information to my watercoloring. Just so much richness with every little flick of color. Thank you!
Thanks Alain for this very helpful and interesting panterly video! You make it look so easy!!
Heidi-Maria de Gruchy aww thanks, lots of practice that’s all! You can do it too!
Boy Alain...this is an excellent demo! Especially because you did the tighter version first so we could see the difference and hear your thought process throughout the painting to better understand why a looser technique might be advantageous. More, more, more 😊
CSG22556 really glad you enjoyed the video and learned a lot! That’s exciting, keep painting and try your own painterly approach!
Wonderful I will try to paint my Apple… thank you for all those incredible advice !
Gorgeous....I love it. I've not tried pastels before....NOW I WILL. Thank you, the Video was great !!
That's music to my ears Jacqueline!
It always makes my day when you upload Alain.
A virtual apple for the teacher comes to you. Thanks once more for your generosity in sharing your technique, knowledge and philosophy. When I revisit your video lessons I pick up things I missed the first time. It is wonderful to have this sort of access to them. I am keeping an eye on your workshop schedule. P.S. I love the music in the background.
LOVED it! It IS exciting and I can't wait to create my own. Thanks Alain. I'm a new viewer, looking forward to watching many more of your videos.
I really enjoy your explanations and think you are a great teacher.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you. I have been stuck and uninspired for so long this was an incredible boost. I was painting in my minds eye while watching this tutorial the entire time and thinking “I get this!”. You opened up the world of pastels to me a medium I was adverse to and think it will greatly help my painting. I am a beginner and now plan to crossover to pastels to work on some basics and the techniques in your video then transfer back to painting. You make pastels look so easy clean simple with much of the same techniques used in painting. Thank you for such a clean straightforward informative fun video with enjoyable perfectly spaced helpful background music. Thank you thank you.
Caryn, it is so encouraging to read your review and find that you were so inspired by the video, and motivated to try your hand at pastel! Indeed, it is a painting medium that is immediate and exciting. I hope you'll give it a try! I wish you all the best in your progress as an artist!
Very much enjoying the loose approach! Emphasis on mark-making and showing us lost and found edges is very helpful!!!
I love your painterly style and prefer that over saying loose because sometimes there are those requests to be a "tightwad". Thank you for breaking your pastels I buy the unsellable ones from a US company. You recently did a portrait and I really took note. I come from a watercolor history in which my preference is impressionistic. Thank you for your tutorials. I have been doing my mileage pastel painting between wc and color pencils. What a great example!
Alain, thank you for another portion of excitement and inspiration! Thank you for your subject choice - I truly love the fruit theme! 😊 And thank you for this brilliant approach - it doesn't just loosen up the edges of the subject but breaks up the frames of linear thinking! Would just love to see more fruit paintings, too! 👍👍👍
Thank you for this informative easy to follow video. I watched once and now have just watched again and painted along - and been pretty happy with what I've managed to achieve. I've always admired the painterly style but this is the first time it's been explained to me some of the ways (and whys) of creating it.
You have amazing talent and the ability to share it in a manner where budding artists understand. Thank you for your generosity.
diana pueppke aww that is very kind. So glad you found it helpful and I wish you all the best!
the painterly pear and apple are wonderful studies and really well presented / articulated - trying to adapt them to learning acrylic, a whole other beast - thanks so much for sharing @AlainPicard :D
Thank you Charlotte, that is kind. I hope your adaptation to acrylic is very successful! All the best to you.
Love the apple and your edge lesson. I really like the soft soothing quality of your voice and your curly wavy white hair that goes well with your young looking face!
Wonderful tutorial! This is exactly the direction I want my paintings to move into! Love! Thanks Alain for so generously sharing! Love from Greece!
I am a tight painter, striving to loosen up. And I've been using apples to test colors and brands and surfaces for years. This has been marvelous. I'll be having some fun very soon.
Donna Godlove wow, sounds like perfect timing! So glad you found this and hoping it will really help you pursue a more painterly result. All the best!
@@AlainPicard I have been teased, playfully, about the 1000 apples I have painted. I was even given a pair of glass apple earrings. Again, I have gotten more from the little video than I expected. Thank you.
Such a beautiful guide! I've always had trouble understanding the expressive, painterly style but this video helped clear up a lot of my confusion and misunderstanding. And it was a joy to watch! Thanks so much
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting me know David! Enjoy your own study apple study now.
Alain, Great as usual. I am really impressed with how much information for free to the budding artists out here. I am super excited that I am finialy am going to be able to take one of your courses next spring. SO, I will practice my drawing and go over as many of your videos as possible to get ready!!!!!!!!!!!:)))))))))
This was amazing to watch! I’m new to pastels and look forward to watching more of your lessons to learn.
I love your enthusiasm and teaching style. For me the loose painterly style just speaks to me. I want juicy strokes, I want to know it's a painting and feel some of the emotion that the artist feels while painting it. While I appreciate realism it is too photo like to me. Thank you for freely sharing your knowledge. Like others have said while I would love to support on Patreon that is just not something I am able to do.
Laura Senchuk thank you very much and you’re so welcome! I love this style too, and hope it helps you in your creative work!
Thank you you have given me the confidence to paint in this manner, my brain finds very beautiful. Your stroke style would help stay away from the coloring in mode. Thank you again
A great video, and a great teaching approach. Not only a talented artist, but also a talented teacher! Thank you for this technique, I found it extremely inspiring. I wish I could paint like that.
Konstantinos Papaioannou thank you so much. That means a lot! I hope it helps you paint more of what you are looking for!
Thanks Alain! I needed this. Just finished a very detailed painting and I'm craving to do a painterly loose painting like the one you did. Gorgeous and so helpful!!
Just watched this video! It’s wonderful and the apple is gorgeous!! I’m going to try this style with acrylic paints!
Hope you enjoy it! You can absolutely do this in acrylic!
My checklist:
Buy some pastels!!!
I can hardly wait to try some pastels and give myself a break from charcoal for about a month.
Great video demonstration and tips.
Stay Blessed my friend.
sounds like a great plan Everett!
Such a helpful video! Perfect timing since I wanted to start working on some small still life studies with a more painterly style. Thanks so much, Alain!
You have broken this technique down so well! Looking forward to painting this process myself! There may be hope for me yet, to break out into this loose, painterly style. Thanks so much!
My kind of artistic energy and flow. That’s true art to me. Classical has always felt like a copy cat exercise rather than a deeper intuitive art.
this tutorial was excellent. Will try and work on the technique. Thank you Alain
You're very welcome Chalkline 1! Glad you enjoyed.
I've said it before, you are amazing.
Thank you so much, I'm looking forward to the fall online class. Thank you!
You are so encouraging Deby, thank you! It would be such a joy to encourage your growth in the fall course, can't wait to get started!
I always wanted to know how to do this so thank you for this wonderful video. Also, I just watched your video about backgrounds for portraits and I learned to do this nice blue/green which is cool against the warmer subject being the 🍎 in this case. Good to know how to blur the edges. I’m so happy about this video I’m going to watch the 🍐 pear video of yours next.
This is one of the most lessons I have learnt. Thank you so much
Love the enthusiasm and the demo. I think I now understand how to lose those edges in order to achieve more painterly 'edges' now :) Thank you for sharing, Alain.
You are very welcome Alpay, it's a real pleasure to share with you!
Oh my gosh, how hard this will be for me! I have always wanted to be much more loose with my drawing/painting but find it very difficult. My college art professor use to tell me I would work my medium to death! I really didn't like him for this and as a result have struggled for many years... I will be trying this... and trying again and again until i get it! Thank you for a great tutorial :-)
Alain! This is my most favorite video of yours I've watched so far! I learned SO much, especially about edges, hard & soft and how they translate within an image. Thank you for your sharing & generosity :)
Valerie McNall you are very welcome, that is so encouraging to hear!
Amazing video, I loved it. This is just what I’m trying to achieve so thank you show showing me how to be loose, as I really struggle with that. I have so many ideas now with the broken edges and putting specks of colour in the ‘wrong’ places, love it
Well I had my doubts when you started, but man oh man, what a beautiful outcome. Nice
Very beautiful! Thanks for this interesting guide
That apple is singing in the rain, love those marks!
Janette Meetze thanks I am glad you enjoyed it!
I have always wanted to get that painterly look but never had anyone explain what I can do to achieve it. I loved your explanation of it in such a simple example. Thank you so much.
Babs Haake thanks and I am really glad you enjoyed the video. I try to make it simple to understand and achieve. Give it a try!
Omg LOVE this! Please, more of these 🙏 Thank you Alain!!
Stephen Greico thanks, glad you liked it! More fruit paintings, or more loose edges!? All the best!
Alain Picard More fruit still lives please! A Pear would be AMAZING!
I do love the loose edges and painterly strokes also they’re so interesting and fun...I’m currently using this video as a major staple for my pastel education so thank you for that, Allin.
I can’t wait for the Pear video! 🙏🙏🙏
Blessings
Wonderful video and guide! I've been wanting to learn how to paint looser and this is the best teaching tool I've found so far. Thank you!
Roberta See awesome. So glad you found it and I am rooting for you! Keep going.
Thank you for this wonderful video-I will be watching it again. I am finding that working in a more painterly way helps me be more courageous in expressing myself because I can always adjust toward refinement or looseness-an approach which I recently discovered in my own practice which you have now confirmed! Thanks again for sharing this gift!
I can’t wait to try! I paint in linear style and want to loosen up as you say. It’s a difficult concept for me to achieve but will continue to try. You have demonstrated so clearly in this video. Thank you very much for your excellent advice and the time you take to teach.
Blesdbigod glad this video helped you! Sometimes we just need to see something one more time and it clicks, then we make progress in our work. Give it another try! I am rooting for you!
So helpful, thanks Allain. Such a wonderful tutorial, finally understand what it means to create lost and found edges in context of painterly painting. I look forward to enrolling in one of your workshops. Bravo!
Denise Grossman you’re welcome! So glad this was an illuminating lesson for you. Give it a try in your own work now!
Another great workout.. I mean tutorial.. :-) I really loved how you creatively loosened it up at the end!
Thanks so much, Katie. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!