PAINTING LAB - Painting's Hidden Technique

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  • Опубліковано 18 січ 2025

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  • @larrymisiak915
    @larrymisiak915 Рік тому +2

    So, here I am looking at one of your earliest videos. Don't know if you go back and look at these comments or not. I think I have looked at a wide range of your videos. You have made a multitude of comparator videos. I have made one comparator painting. I've switched to a 2" circular mirror, and ready to try again, having stabilizing my stalk. Life interrupts the time it takes to do art. In this "hidden technique" video, I learned new appreciation of oils, that ability to rub out, erase, soften lights and darks. It does seem critical to this comparator use, more than I thought. So now I have to study up on oil, and see if my limited studio/painting space, small house, indoors with small rooms, which serve several purposes. Seeing this early video, and having seen others up to the Feb. 23, 2023 one, your teaching, and philosophy is consistently the same. Also, it appears that all your artists, young and old, use oil. I can see that I may not have the same success with gouache as I had planned to do. I'll be looking forward to your next, more current video. Larry Misiak, Houston, Texas

    • @paintinglabofficial
      @paintinglabofficial  Рік тому

      Hello again Larry, we are loving your very fair and encouraging comments. I think it is probably time for me to demonstrate acrylic technique and you are right abput his bias toward oils. Please dont thinl that this means other mediums are not appropriate. The mirror is really a seeing and understanding tool. The rest, including choice of medium does not change and is up to you. Best Wishes, Tomas

    • @larrymisiak915
      @larrymisiak915 Рік тому

      @@paintinglabofficial Encouraging reply. Thank you. My high school classmate, a skilled artist, mural painter, among his many other talents and intellectual pursuits, arrives today for a short visit. Hope to talk with him about you and your work, and of course show him my comparator mirror!. Love your “seeing and understanding” comment. Larry

  • @robertkennedy3817
    @robertkennedy3817 5 років тому

    Very informative

  • @portervillelouis
    @portervillelouis 5 років тому

    Tim Jenison, and I have e changed emails , in past years, after his movie came out in 2013. I consider Tim a friend and I admire him greatly. Your experiments are of interest. Kids will love use of your teaching method and simple equipment. Tim used. Equipment that is more elaborate. The movie left out much of HOW he painted his Vermeer copy. IN YOUR CASE HERE- your final finished painting has the pope facing the viewers left ..while Velazquez original has the Pope facing the viewers right. THAT IS the first defect of your method. THE SECOND defect is exposing children to hazardous fumes of turpentine spirit...even with an open window nearby.
    YES I REALIZE you are experimenting, seeking information for assisting children who are challenged by initial correct drawing/ placement. BUT SINCE you do have a photograph for YOUR EXAMPLE...why not jus5 make things very very very easy for the kids and rub chalk on the reverse of the black and white photo...and do a TRANSFER of the image to the canvas. Then you can teach the children about use of a simple dry VALUE SCALE ( showing variations from black to white ) ...to COMPARE ( it’s what Tims idea was created for,,to allow Tim to use his “COMPARATOR” MIRROR ...to COMPARE AND MATCH colors and values);
    The kids can have fun comparing values or colors and to PAINT..
    thank you
    Louis Velasquez www.calcitesunoil.com

    • @paintinglabofficial
      @paintinglabofficial  5 років тому +1

      Hi Louis. Thanks for this comment. I think you make a VERY good point about my use of white spirit. I am trying to adapt my process to be completely non toxic. As I see it this is fundamentally important. The reversal of images in the mirror is not really so much of a problem as my project is really about learning the basics of paint handling in an altogether new way. Never the less I wouldn't say that what you have said is wrong in any way. Many thanks. T

    • @seanfaherty
      @seanfaherty 8 місяців тому

      low odor paint thinner has made things a lot nicer for artists of all ages.
      And my Granny got me to use turpentine because that's all there was in those days. Not dead yet.

    • @portervillelouis
      @portervillelouis 8 місяців тому

      @@seanfaherty NOT DEAD YET?????
      Think of the health of your lungs, the health of your blood , the health of others in the studio … there is no need to be exposed to hazardous fumes AT ALL. Do it for your loved ones who love you . I offer ARTISTS A COMPLETELY SAFE NON TOXIC METHOD
      . So simple . Used by Rembrandt himself. His problem was using poisonous lead white . Such a tragedy. Stay safe. Blessings from the creator of the universe and that ain’t Jesus !

    • @seanfaherty
      @seanfaherty 8 місяців тому

      @@portervillelouis no need but the amount of harm from VOCs 45 years ago is negligible.
      I use odourless now but that evil smell of turpentine always brings me back to painting with granny.
      And they say Jesus is just one aspect of the creator, just like Krishna, just like the Great Sprit.
      Don’t go outta your way to cause shit just because you don’t believe what others believe.
      I find your method impressive.
      Do you have a link for more information?

  • @portervillelouis
    @portervillelouis 5 років тому

    NO SOLVENTS OIL PAINTING
    HI my friend
    You can use this simple method
    1. Make a simple emulsion of linseed oil and egg glair ( to make glair use only egg white. Beat with a spoon to froth. Put froth in jar. Let distill to clear liquid
    2. Mix 3 spoons oil and 2 spoons glair . Shake well to mix . That’s the emulsion. The glair in the oil , insures adhesion and no dripping of the oil
    3. Apply the emulsion all over the support surface. Do not apply with a brush. Apply only an ultra thin film. Remove excess with paper towel. Now rub with hand only. Until you feel resistance to the rub.
    4. Now apply your umber oil paint as you show in your video - DO NOT THIN THE OIL PAINT - now to improve your oil paint do this
    5. Mix 1 part oil with 3 parts calcium carbonate chalk - DO NOT add more oil- now mix first- it takes a minute or three- once mixed , now grind with pressure- that’s how you make CSO
    6. Now mix 50/50 with tube oil paint- when CSO is mixed with tube oil paint it makes CSO OIL PAINT
    7. this creates oil paint the way the old masters used it. The calcium carbonate is powdered stone- it has no tinting strength - 98% transparent in oil-
    8. The calcium carbonate also stops oil paint from dripping or spreading
    9. THAT IS HOW TO OIL PAINT WITHOUT SOLVENTS- once the layer is dry- apply a new OIL OUT with the emulsion- by hand only - remove excess with a towel- run to ultra thin film- now apply your new oil paint layer with CSO OIL PAINTS

    • @larrymisiak915
      @larrymisiak915 Рік тому +1

      Thanks. Have to study this. Looks like I have to be a chemist. Seems messy, but I’m sure it works. Watercolor is so “clean.”