John Wellington Skin Tones and Underpainting Master Class
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2024
- Join esteemed artist John Wellington in this exclusive master class, where you'll learn how to paint realistic skin tones and create timeless underpaintings. John guides you through the process, showing you how to capture the depth, warmth, and subtlety of skin using traditional methods while exploring his signature Tusc & Pine Limited Portrait Set.
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Bio: John Wellington was born on January 8, 1961 in Santa Monica, California. He has lived in France, Italy, and New York City where he currently resides. John received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983 and his MFA at The New York Academy of Art in 1990.
John Wellington has taught traditional painting techniques at The New York Academy of Art and privately in his atelier for two decades. He also lectures and teaches painting workshops across the county and runs an en plein air workshop in Paris every summer. His paintings have been in numerous exhibitions and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Paris. He has shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Arnot Museum in New York. John has painted alongside of the Prince of Wales and is in his private collection as well as other prominent collections in the US, Asia and Europe.
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Very interesting. I eagerly await to see how the high colours appear when painted over the underpainting.
Interesting video. As a 73 year old professional artist myself, I am aware of the information presented here. However, I think one cannot get enough of the basics. I am currently working on the most ambitious project of my career. This client, very wealthy, collects Greek and Roman artifacts and art. He shops at Sotheby's, Chrisites and around the world. That should tell you something. He commissioned me to paint murals on two of ceilings, not counting the fifteen other paintings over the last eight years. For the murals I chose the Greek mythological story of Perseus in the style of the Renaissance artists as a compliment to his collection. Even though my preference is modern, I was educated in the classical techniques early on. The reason I gave this much background is because your video may have caused me to reconsider the underpainting, which is the phase I'm in now. Instead of lead, "flake white", similar to Carravaggio's high lights, I think you inspired me to tint the white a pale viridian green. With glazes and pinkesh flesh tone highlights, I'm anticipating an improvement over my original plan. Thanks for the videos. I look forward to more. I will research your background further, when I get time. Looks interesting. Thanks again. Van
Ceilings? I hope you get well paid for this job. It sounds like they can afford it! Good luck to you.
@@enaid54 Thanks John. While I would prefer modern art, it's more creative, I must take commissions to pay the bills. There is a reason this kind of art was only paid for by royalty, the popes and the wealthy. I'm 2 years in and long way to go.
@@vanmartin9665 having done many murals over the years as well, none as complex when compared to your project! Two years in…ceilings…classical style and imagery…😳you must really identify with and appreciate The Sistine Chapel’s visual feast far more than most. Additionally, not that you are ‘frail’, empathy and appreciation that Michelangelo was older (and arthritic😩) when he accomplished his masterpiece.
I’m a youthful 63 as of 11/1, and so admire your energy and dedication. If possible, love to see the outcome.
PS: love & was captivated with Greek mythology as a teen. If you possessed Mercury’s flight capabilities, ceiling work would be less intense☺️
We agree! It never hurts to have a reminder of the basics! Sometimes just stopping and taking a moment to go back to the foundations of painting can solve so many problems you are having in a painting!
As for the current project, that sounds epic! We'd love for you to share when it is complete, if you are allowed to!
Thank you for sharing.
Greek mythology story of Perseus; It would be delightful to experience your finished work!
ETA🌹
Fantastic videos, I really appreciate you sharing these. I hope that we can see the progress on this unknown portrait - the semi transparent layers and then the glazing. 🙏🏽
I am a watercolor artist and I enjoy watching your videos. I believe I can learn something from other mediums as well. Of course I’d love to see you demonstrate watercolor! Thank you
Plz proceed with next stages of colour and onto the initial glaze colours.
Very informative lecture! Would love to see the flesh tones applied!
We have the painting saved for that exact reason! Hopefully we can get John back soon!
Please moreof this painting being finished! Amazing knowledge!
We've got it saved for that very reason! Hopefully John can come back and finish it soon!
I’d love to see the completion with color added. And of course, anything that you have to teach how to do a mouth. Which I have tremendous trouble with. Also getting the eyes to look where I want them is another problem I often have.
Thanks so much John! Yes, please do a video on both that you mentioned; the glazing and finish of this, and Van Gogh color/painting demo would be wonderful. Love your art too! Thanks for being uniquely you (not you know who)..appreciate your knowledge, viewpoints and analogy’s. And your humor is a brilliant spark..
Thank you very much!
I listened with a few glances as I painted. On your made up face, heard it as "The Rule of Astaire" dropped everything in shock and awe. Rule of the stare. Fabulous. Ha. I thank you so much for your tutorials 💓
You won't forget it now! 🤣 Thanks for watching!
Yes please John I would like to see all those demos you mentioned! I have enjoyed your demos and find them very informative.
We can't wait to have John back to do the demos either!
I think I’d like to try the middle canvas that you had is that sold at Jerry’s?
Thank you for the great demo. I want to continue to see all your techniques.
Thanks for watching! We definitely have more to come!
Love these demos and would love to see the color added
Thanks, always enjoy your tutorials. Look forward to your eyeball demo.
Stay tuned! We have so many more lessons we would like to do with John and as long as you all keep liking, and watching, we will get them in the works!
Love your videos. I feel like I’m back in college. 😻
Thats how we all felt when we were filming it! It was awesome!
I appreciate the really informative lessons and relaxed presentation style. I would love to see a demonstration and explanation of glazing techniques. Thankyou.
Great suggestion! We'll add it to the list when we are brainstorming for next time!
I would love to see you class on Van Gogh painting and the eye ball demonstration. I enjoy your classes very much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
We're so glad you enjoy the classes! We're definitely making plans for some of those future demos!
Gracias very much, MAESTRO
Love your videos, keep making them
That's the plan! As long as you all keep wanting them, we will keep making them!
Awesome tutorial 👌 thank you
Thanks so much for watching!
WOW I found you in my feeds, thank you so much amazing lesson. Cheers from Australia 🦘
Well to be truthful with ya your drawing turned out way better then mine but it was fun and a good exercise and I just love your style you captured the essence of the Boston whaler so uniquely and yet it has a cartoon feeling to it well I won’t keep ya to long your a great artist hope you have a good day and keep up the good work young lady c ya
Excellent lesson. I learned lots and will try each element of the instruction.
Thank you 🇨🇦 Vancouver island.
Ps..My challenge is always the second eye particularly in the 3/4 view.
Eyes are tricky, especially that second one!
Excellent demo, but on comparing the colours on three different canvases backgrounds you have referred to the colours on the white canvas as bright and light but infarct any colour you placed on the white background (white canvas) it will look darker comparing the same colour on the other two canvases.
All the colours you have places on the three canvases from left to right they look lighter then darker and then more darker on the white canvas.
That is why generally artists toning their white canvas to get rid the whiteness before painting.
only recently I have been using more of Raw Sienna & Burnt Sienna and found them excellent for portrait painting.
Thanks for sharing.
From Brazil, I would like to see the flesh tones and glazings . Thank you very much for this great video.
Thanks for watching! We definitely are hoping to get John back in the studio to finish the painting!
Awesome tutorial!
He's so good right??
❤ these videos thank you
We're so glad you enjoyed it!
Love viridian,you can make such great tones out of it!!!
We agree and Tusc & Pine makes such great one!
Thank you for this demonstration it is amazing and so clearly showen, so I would like to learn how to paint pirtrets and figurs like old masters and how to use mediums, and glasing too. Could you send the name of medium you use for this demo. All the very best, Suzana
wow! Thank you thank you
Thank you , excellent tutorial
You are welcome! So glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed your presentation. Would it be possible to give more info on the materials you speek about during the video ie. the pad available for testing the range of your paint colors or the clear gesso you mentioned. I'm looking forward to your next video.
Hi Beverly, we're happy to provide any information you would like! The pad for testing your paint is called the Painter's Color Diary and is available in both original and watercolor paper, and in full and travel sizes! We love them and use them for everything! You should see how many we have laying around the studio! You can find them here: www.jerrysartarama.com/hg-art-concepts-painter-color-diary
The clear gesso he is referring to is how the Senso Linen Panels come primed. (You can find them here: www.jerrysartarama.com/senso-linen-all-media-panels) The clear gesso lets the linen color and texture shine through, adding another level to your painting!
Is there anything else you had questions about? Brushes? Paints? We're happy to chat art supplies all day long!
I ordered the T&P portrait set! Can’t wait to use these oils!
Yay! We can't wait to see what you create with them!
Looking forward to whatever is next.
We have lots more coming! Thanks for watching!
These paints are EXPENSIVE!
Hi @grghkllb3875, thanks for your comment! We completely understand that cost is an important factor when choosing a paint. Professional paint lines might seem pricey at first glance, but they are worth the investment. Our Tusc & Pine paints are pigment packed, which means you get more bang for your buck! A tube of professional oil paint will last longer and go further, than one with more fillers. You will also get higher quality pigments, which means easier, faster, and cleaner color mixing and more vibrant, saturated glazes. Skilled artisans utilize state of the art mills and the newest technology to carefully make the colors in small batches based on each pigment's unique properties. This high-tech process ensures that every batch of paint is consistent and perfectly formulated every time. The result is a paint that is a little more expensive up front, but definitely worth it in the long run!
Thanks John!
Thanks so much for watching!
Although I only work now using (NOVA) acrylic paints; the techniques in this video work very well for me. (Haven't used oil paints sense graduating high school). Thanks for this video, John; it really helped. Would love to see a video of you actually applying the color palette to a figure.
We're so glad the techniques translated for you! Color theory really is applicable to any medium!
Thank u so much I would love to c portrait in colour and glazing
Thanks for watching! We definitely will let John know you all want to see it finished!
I want to see the next painting.
Stay tuned! 😉
Awesomeness. Is Van Gogh episode online?
When you use your watercolor brushes for oils, are you able to use them for watercolor again? If yes, how do you clean your watercolor brushes after you use them with oils? Thank you.
Hi @JoyJohnson-t1v we always recommend keeping your brushes to one medium, just to avoid any interactions! So in this case, especially since oil and water don't play nicely together, it's a safer bet to have one set for oil painting, another for watercolor, and not cross contaminating the two.
@@JerrysArtarama Thank you for the clarification. Glad I didn't jump in and use my watercolor brushes for oil.
Great, thanks again. Now you've got me wondering if I'm really watching Jeff Bezos paint? 🤔
Ha! Wouldn't that be something!
Could please someone write down the italian term John uses when blending at around 1h04? Baddigendo or something like that. Thank you!
What is the bando brush you used for blending?
Robyn, they are our Hamburg Premier Brushes! They are a blend of natural and synthetic hair, which makes them perfect for the technique John is describing. You can find them here: www.jerrysartarama.com/hamburg-premier-brushes
Can’t get those paints where we are
Your next video should really be adding the umber etc tones to this same face; and then doing it to a whole separate body of a figure; just to give a complete demo....
We've got the painting saved in the studio for this exact thing!
They all look the same to me, does that mean that my vision is lacking something that yours don’t?
'So long as you're not wearing makeup'. Makeup is the same. Its nbd
Please stop, and breath deep..are you listening? Here you are claiming as most lightest colors those placed to the white canvas. Is just the opposite!! Please think about and redo the video!
Actually in the grey canvas I perceive the colors as the most lightest of them all. To properly show the perception of a sample color, it must be placed isolated, in order to see the surrounding efect. Not at the edge, and even worse, in contact to the next sample,
I do not see the point placing the adjective "master" in the video title. Leave it and still is good title.
Not yet reached the first half of the video, and I am afraid you proceed the video arguing viridian green is a good choice for underpainting flesh colors...
As a lifelong painter, I strongly disagree with this overly limited palette. And I remain unimpressed by the demonstration, which does not really convey the purpose of any underpainting. Lastly, I strongly disagree with any preference to wear gloves while painting! And guess what? I'm not an internet troll! I'm just a pretty talented artist who sees bad form here.
Sure, Jan
Every artist has their personal palette preference, this is just one option! What is your preferred palette? Tusc and Pine has 96 colors to create any palette you would like!
As far as the gloves go, we have to respectfully disagree. It's up to each artist to decide what works for them, but we always err on the side of safety. Certain oil paints and many of their solvents (like turpentine or mineral spirits) can contain harmful chemicals such as lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals, especially in certain colors. Prolonged exposure to these substances, even in small amounts, can be harmful to you or your skin. Wearing gloves helps protect your skin from these potentially toxic materials. We want all our artists to be around and making art for a long time to come and, to us, safe practices are a big part of that!
@@JerrysArtarama I have enough great colors to last a lifetime. I did take a look at the line of Tusc&Pine which I had never heard of. I found this line of oil paints to be remarkably overpriced. Back to the issue of artists wearing gloves to do paintings, sorry, I just can't take seriously any paintings done by someone who wears gloves. To me it shows that they are not really devoted and immersed in the art. No, I don't believe painting with no gloves necessarily means they will get ANY deleterious chemicals into their bodily system.