Making a Living as an Artist & more - Ep.4 Oil Painting Q&A with Mark Carder
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- If you have a question for me, post it in the comments below. I'll answer as many as I can on next Thursday's episode. Here are links to each question answered in this video:
00:04 - a talk on making a living as a realist painter with advice for artists at the start of their careers
13:44 - What is your favourite painting you've made?
14:09 - I don't care to learn without the method, I just want to make money. Will people consider me a "cheater" if I match colors for an entire career? Did you use the "method" for all the portraits on markcarder.com?
17:27 - a question about color terms (like value, tone, etc)
18:41 - How do I paint layered intricate patterns with Geneva paint?
20:07 - What is your opinion on standing versus sitting while painting? Do you ever use a mahlstick or cane?
21:11 - Would you paint from a print that has been "amped up" with filters in Photoshop?
23:54 - Does the fluidity of Geneva paint still allow for brush strokes to show in paintings?
25:08 - What sort of black do you use for painting your easel and color checker?
Every now and then you stumble upon a UA-cam host that makes you realize how lucky we are to have such an amazing tool at our disposal.
It's people like you Mark that make the Internet invaluable to people like myself who are willing to put in the hours it takes to find quality learning material.
Thank's a million for being so generous in sharing your knowledge.
You rule man,
GOD Bless !
What a beautiful, levelheaded and honest video. I am very impressed with the level of humility and wisdom you put forth in this video, it has been such a helpful video.
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I loved your humble presentation. Now that you’ve become a great painter, in my opinion you’ve fully embraced the noblest of careers, teaching.
At Last here is a Man who knows what he is talking about.
amen! concentrate on quality, finish, making a fine piece. each piece is ones last, put in the hours, the work. know your competition.
Hello Mark. I love anything you do, because you're dedicated to authenticity, on both a personal and professional level. There are no bells and whistles, or ego. - So I was amused when you touched on this at the beginning of this video. Lol. Youth, huh! I bought your first dvd when it first came out, and watched it every night for a year, to learn by osmosis, before attempting my first oil painting ('Asian Still Life'), which I posted to your site. I couldn't believe the comments and encouragement I received! I moved house after that, and can't paint with oils (smell) where I am, unfortunately. But I feel like I've come home, watching your dvds. Thankyou for your generosity in these videos.
Thanks for the time u spend making these videos. It really helps
Hi Mark. Thank you again for a great video. I have been following you for some years now since your first DVD. I know that whilst you also make money from your teaching, I have been inspired by the fact that you so freely share such a comprehensive and valuable range of information, that those who may not be able to afford to pay can still learn to paint. Have you always been this way or have you had experiences in your life that has made you so wonderfully generous?
brzpicnic Thank you for the kind words. I will get into this in a future episode (how and why I decided to open up about my methods etc).
Excellent advice and tips! Early in my career as an artist I approached a few really good art gallaries and although they liked my work, they said it needed a bit more time. Two years later I approached a couple of other great galleries and they couldn't get enough of my work. One of my first paintings at the gallery sold as they were hanging it on the wall and completely sold out of everything I had within a few days, constantly asking for more paintings. I had found my style and honed it with tremendous amounts of practice, as Mark suggests.
Russell Fine Arts i'm curious to see your work, do you have a website?
Thank you Mark, for all your work on this channel, and all your sincere words. Life changing.
I enjoy these talks so very much. They make so much sense and it just really feels like one is having a casual heart to heart discussion between artists.
Mark, thank you for your time. Really look forward to Thursday's
It's very kind of you to share your early experiences, and failures.
Mark, thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and expertise in this and many other videos. What you share is so valuable. God bless you and your beautiful family.
Thank you Mark I feel empowered to move forward now.
you always have the best and most honest advice, thank you.
Thank you so much for these videos, Mark!!
Thanks for your contribution to the ART world. Appreciate your help in getting artists how to level up
Thankyou so much for this video! I'm grateful to have even come across it, I acknowledge you as a mentor.
This is fantastic advice. I think almost all new creatives think their work is far better than it actually is. It definitely happened to me too
Such great episodes! It's a reservoir of knowledge and experience. Thanks for sharing with the public. Very noble and selfless! Look forward to Thursday's. I have been using Geneva paints, and they are absolutely unmatched and fantastic. Very potent, lustrous, smooth but capable of broad/versatile brushwork. Highly recommend all to buy! Warning: you wouldn't like any other paints 😃
Thank you......I have painted and taught botanical for many years. In my earlier life I had mostly painted and found myself missing it. I started to feel stagnant and uninspired by the boundaries of botanical art. I decided to return to oils and plein air last year....I feel like a kid again returning to oils and expanding myself again. Your videos are so helpful in learning and inspiration...thanks so much.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and wisdom so generously!
Another great video. Very happy to have found this channel, thank you for all your videos and advice.
Love the talk on ego, getting into galleries and wanting to be a great painter. A teacher once said to me ' no matter how good you think you are, there is always someone better'.
I just want to say much I appreciate your ability to talk so clearly and unhurriedly as you share all these great ideas. I am a 63-year-old artist who I spend my professional career as a color matcher and designer for interiors and exteriors of mostly very high-end homes
So been an artist for 50 years and I'm just now wanting to do it full-time career
I'm having shows and have sold the number of pieces but I like you didn't want to play the game that the artworld plays which is basically a fashion show with a bit of " emperors New clothes " thrown in
I love Picasso and Marcel Duchamp Mark Rothko etc. but I also love Sargent ,Rembrandt , Velasquez In just the past couple years I decided to use my expertise as a color matcher/ designer to influence my latest work ,mostly abstract. I am learning things from your videos so surprised I didn't know - you're doing a great job and I appreciate your knowledge, approach and understated affect
For me the biggest question lately is "I think this is really good, I've never seen anything like it before .... I wonder if it's any good
That and "is it finished" :-)
I loved your videos! So honest! what we need from the art world.
Hi Mark, I am living this feeling as a beginner in trying to sell a few paintings . I have been painting since 1970 but coming to Australia 37 years ago. I had to do other jobs and being an artist was not the way to feed my young family but my heart was stuck on continuing to paint after I retire. You really bring the confidence in me and it’s very encouraging based on your honesty . I can’t thank you enough Mark. 🏆😇Jose from Australia
I am enjoying your videos. I am learning, again, to see color differently. Thank you for sharing your years of information.
About the cheating thing, i think its related to the idea of the genius borned in the romanticism. But, if you think in Leonardo or durero, they both used a big ammount of tools and devices to draw acuretly and in proportion, so, let them talk, and work.
Absolutely true. Love the very best work advice... It is also a tremendous compliment for family and friends to choose to hang my work in their homes. Winning awards and selling to strangers and getting commissions has been great as well. Finally realized that painting intuitively primarily from memory and feeling is more important to me than painting the same thing over and over and over as some of the most financially successful artists are doing.
Art informs art.....Good Art never happens in a vacuum! I heartily agree!!!!
thank you for taking your time to make videos for us.
really inspiring and honest talk,thanks ,Im a huge Sargent fan as well.
Thank you for this very inspiring talk about quality and the evaluation from heart and from professional galleries. And I really smiled when you mentioned that some kind of realism is not quite as dependent on the support of a good gallery as any other modern style. Follow your heart, work seriously from what you really like - as always very inspiring - thank you for all your sharing
WOW! What a great, honest, insightful talk. I have been waiting for someone to articulate this reality. Thanks, very helpful.
to add to this. make it yours. be amazing and an expert at your style. make your voice unique and beautiful.
I have seen multiple artists in videos using their brush as a “color checker”, so there are definitely more artists than just Mr. Carder who have done that and probably still do.
Great inspiration here!! I think you have to see your favourites in real time to really appreciate them - those painters' prints simply do not do them justice! Especially when a 5' x 7' portrait is reduced to a 5'x7' colour book plate. Also, older prints simply do not show the colour or brush stroke (newer prints may). Thanks again - your paints are amazing!!
Thank you for your honest advice!
Excellent advice. Many thanks
Tremendous video, from San Antonio, thanks!
C.A.N.I - Constant And Neverending Improvement!
we can relate ourself and get motivation ... if you show your works.. when you was young around 21- 23 of age
Wonderful , inspiring demonstration and great information! Thank you thank you!!!
Really appreciate your shared knowledge and candor.
Towards achieving 100% perfection.
Very inspiring..... I will follow your words. it's worth of hearing again and agin...thank you Sir.
I really wish we could see some examples of your early work that you talk about. It'd be helpful to see the difference between your early work and that turning point you speak of. Great advice all the same.
If the face-to-face classes were cheaper than 5000, I'm sure he would be the best teacher you can have in terms of knowledge and technique
Mark, would you care to comment on the digression (or progression, if you like) of Rembrandt's work as he matured and aged as a painter?
Thank you for info on how to be painted like masters.
Very humbling advice. Thanks so much. This helps for us artists just beginning to launch our career
thank you mark for this and all your videos
I can be so easily distracted by all these online art marketing classes and sites that teach about all the social media, They speak of the power of the internet as such that it allows you to not work with galleries.
The one thing i have found that they never talk about is the quality of your work. They basically say its mostly about the marketing , and the stories behind the art.
. I have wasted time and money on some of that and ended up terribly confused, hopeless and frustrated.
so i am trying to heed your advice which I think is refreshing and truthful.
I'll keep working on the quality of my art. I am planning to order you easel soon.
The geneva paint is great. I can never go back to any other paint.
Thanks for all you do.
Nancy Curran
thank you mark for the fantastic advice Ron M c Knight Ireland
Great episode Mark. Thanks!
Thank you for your honestly.
thnx for advice all the respect
Thank you ❤️
What happened to beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My personal opinion is you should be true to yourself in your art( after all most of us do it out of love & expressing our selves). If it sells it sells otherwise it is just a job & competition. I don't need a gallery to tell me what I think is good or not.
The most clever comment i 've read so far. Art is not a competition to sell more. Be true to yourself and don't give a shit abut people who lives from the art of others like critics. Enjoy painting and express yourself through it. That's all.
Those paintings like vermeer and Rembrandt do seem like all's they were after was color photos like he said in Tim's vermeer they, didn't have cameras at the time so I think they used camera obscure and what ever tech they had at the time to get it as perfect as possible. Probly why Van Goh's look simple he was more freestyle.
Great stuff love it
Thanks so much for this!
Nice work Mark
hello mark, the lilac colour you mixed in one of your demos amazes me as you only had a warm red and french ultramarine plus white ,in my landscape painting i can,t get bye without my rose madder i love what your paints look like ,their richness of colour as well as the gloss ,and i would love a price list.thanks for all the imformation
Thanks for this
Me: Your work is amazing.
Questions:
1. As an academically uneducated, but passionate painter, and working to be a better painter... Have you reached the Sargent's level?
2. Would J. S. Sargent paint for the same motivations or reasons you have And,
3. How would Sargent paint today, if he were to learn from you?
4. Again, your work is amazing, and your presentations are very important to all of us. Often I paint using your UA-cam examples on the background.
Thank you. You are inspiring.
thanks for your videos
Hello Mark! Do you have eny tips on Tonalism? how to start a painting,colors and composition. Thank you!
Man galleries here in Australia wont take your work unless you're some crazy weird abstract/contemporary art. Had a panel of gallery owners/artists tell me that what I paint is not art and that I should go and learn what real art is.
You know what's funny is that I have never even heard of Sargent before I started watching your videos. At least not that I remember.
You are a genius. Your videos are ocean of knowledge..I try to paint whatever little I can inspired by ur videos...but RA debilities have severely impacted my movements. Still I watch & try to imbibe. Thank you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate your time and advice. I just came across you. Your work is amazing! I feel like your advice has changed my viewpoint about the standard I need to reach and I can see how this would impact my future as an artist, thank you Mark! I feel I need to see what other current professional artists are painting. What is the best way to find these artist. At formal school and university I studied about artist who were already dead, not current pros. By the way my work is similar in style to William Turner in style and similar theme (forces of nature). Back to my question who or where do you suggest I look at for current professional artists? Also Mark you made a point of what sells at the time, where do you feel you find this out,
Very impressive.
The public needs to be told what they like.
Dear Mark, thanks for all from just an amatør in Denmark its mean a lot.😌❤️what you say.
One way of looking at it is that the Gallery takes 50% of the selling price but the 50% you get is 100% more than the nothing you would get otherwise if someone didn't facilitate the sale. Maybe you can get to a point of being known and sought for quickly.
I am aspired by Jean Leon Gerome.. the era he painted his masterpiece at is really amazing.. maybe because I'm a middle eastern. I replicate famous artist paintings specially Orientalism and Realism.. it is really hard to paint like them or near them. To be a painter you have to mimic some famous painter and his school of art.. later you may find your own style then go to galleries and show your works. Thanks for this video.. its really aspiring novice painters like me to look forward.
Check out Eugene Delacroix's work! His paintings of North Africa are so sensual, in every sense!
Is it necessary for painters to become famous? i mean what if the person just want to paint and sell without attention, is it possible ? for someone who doesn't enjoy attention and praising is it possible to sell paintings without all the fuzz around it? and what is the alternatives for someone wants a career without having a boss and do things normally without flashiness. Thanks
Would any professional artist please answer this question^
I guess no one knows the answer.
Hmm. I would think there have been many artists how became famous without that primary goal. Perhaps Edward Hopper?
I feel like artists need not become “famous” but there is something to be said about gaining a bit of praise for the work to be able to make sales. Also, I think it’s important to be able to talk to people about your work in a consise way.
So I guess you don’t need to have fame, but you do have to put your toe out there. Hope that makes sense
As Daniel Greene told the class
“don’t become enamored with you own work”
im just painting and drawing to fill my house with pleasnt art that makes me happy.
a great video
Great comments and truly honest. Thanks also for the technical tips.
Think every artist should define their idea of "success" early in their career.
I need to visit the Bham museum , Im from Tuscaloosa!!
please sir... it really helps a lot
Could you go into detail on having a deliberate brushstroke? I'm familiar with the term, but don't actually understand what it means. Can you give examples of weak versus deliberate brushstrokes?
Mark,
Thank you for sharing. I originally painted dark values then moving to light, no matter where they fell on the canvas. However, I now am finding myself painting from the Top Left corner to the Bottom Right. Curious as to how you typically paint. Is it from colors, values, left to right, top to bottom, just wondering how you cover your canvas. Thanks, Josh
Could you please discuss the type of canvas you use. Do you need to buy super expensive cross bar with deep wood and a lot of canvas on the back fram for stretching if needed. Thank You. You are so informative. Blessings to ya.
Hello Mark, thanks so much for your videos! Regarding the 5000k lighting you recommend for the studio, why is that important if I'm going to hang my finished paintings in a room that uses soft white lighting? Won't the colors look a bit off?
What have you found to be the best way to store your oil paintings? I tend to paint mostly on panels, and haven't framed most of them. I feel like stacking them in any way is not good at all. I'm also limited on space but I'm open to any ideas or advice for storing these properly without damaging them.
Place baking paper between them- on each painted side.
I have vision only in one eye. No depth perception. I think I’m unique in having to adjust, be more diligent, more precise.
With that said I have no idea what advantages or disadvantages this gives me in seeing.
I just did a portrait of a woman who ran a big gallery in New York. She went to art school in Italy. She’s seen my process on line. It’s a good test when it’s delivered and she actually sees it. I decided to do the portrait to see what her take is on my work.
I will never be on your level based on work I’ve seen what you’ve done in the last few years.
I know this is your business. You in my opinion give more than you may get .
I have not used your oils. I will now only because I trust what you say. Thank you.
Hi Mark! I have a question concerning your videos for purchase on the DMP website. Are the 3 videos the exact same videos you had available a while back? I see the subject matter is the same, but is there more content in these? I ask because I purchased all 3 back when they were available cheaper (although I certainly don't blame you for raising the price, given how much info you provide) and I just want to make sure I'm not missing out on anything with the newer priced videos. Thanks for all you do, I have learned so much!
John Thompson Thanks John! Yes, same content as before, just without the discounted price we initially had.
i wanted to ask how can someone remedy a burnt umber that tends towards grey if thats what is available.i was hoping we could add burnt sienna to shift it towards the brown.please what can you recommend on this.thanks for the videos
Hi really look forward to Thursday, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I'm an acrylics artist that would like to venture into oils. The only thing that stops me is the toxicity of solvents and brush cleaners. So my questions are.............What do you clean your brushes with? Is spike lavender a good option?
Wendy Matenga I'm not really familiar with spike lavender, but I will look into it. I don't clean my brushes much (I've talked about this in a few videos), but if I were to clean them for long-term storage, I would use mineral spirits, but outdoors or somewhere with very good airflow. For short-term storage, dipping the brushes in poppy oil with a bit of clove oil mixed works great. Now that I have the Geneva paint I never have to deal with solvents.
Draw Mix Paint thanks for that. looking forward to when you add international shipping as I am from new zealand.
Good day, I've been trying to work with your "limited color" palette and the color checker. I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to color mixing, and having watched your short promo video on portrait painting, I see a whole different palette being used. I would very much like to work with your color matching method and color checker, but cannot find an introductory video utilizing the latter. Any advice? Thank you very much, I'm enjoying your videos. Phillip Fourie
Do you prefer using specific type of brush in specific subject? Or you use any types of brushes? What is/are the best brush in oil painting specially in portrait and figures?
hey dude thanks for the vids they really help alot by the way ,i just wanted ask a quick question if that's alright,I don't know if you've seen this movie were a novice paints a virmeer using a mirror and it comes out better than the original ,well i find portraits easier when the photo is upside down do you know why this is?
octojoe I know why it is easier. It is a basic theory based on the human brain's ability to recognize symbols- Let me explain- with an image upright, your brain recognizes the symbol of an object, such as an eye, and instead of painting what you see, you paint what you think the symbol for an eye is. With the image upside down, it damages the ability to recognize symbols, and instead you see shapes. Therefore, copying exactly the shapes you see makes the portrait more accurate.
Have you ever considered making a video on artist residencies?
So many people without drawing skills are using projection to work large and they are selling their work. It's not what I want to do but it's frustrating that they get away with this and don't mention it anywhere in their blurb for the piece. They take reference photos, shut themselves away and hey presto there it is
I am awed by your info. How do I start from #1 and how to do faces please.