I’m an art teacher and your videos are very helpful, painting teachers today do not actually show you how to paint or give you insight into their technical process. So I appreciate your videos
I experienced this too. Many artists don't want to tell their secrets because they are afraid that the student gets better as him! Mark is very different. ♥
Wow, I looked at your website, and I didn't realize that you have a full course for FREE! I've been researching different courses, prepared to purchase a course, so THANK YOU for your dedication to art and painting for all.
Although I paint in a completely different way, I always enjoy Mark's videos because he is so consistent & what he says absolutely makes sense of his method. I'm not particularly interested in learning the method but it prompts me to try to be more consistent & logical about how I go about painting my own way. Thanks, Mark - keep them coming & I will keep on watching & appreciating!"
I’m dedicating a large portion of my Coronavirus quarantine stay-cation to trying your course and honing my skills. Thanks so much for putting this out there!
Am going review each lesson on DPM site, and start back painting using Mark's methods/processes, without skipping steps. I know I can do it. Just need help, and Mark has provided all the help I need. Thank you so much Mark for giving us the gift of your lessons. In life, there is no greater gift than to give to others! Thanks again
Your method is extremely thorough! After watching this video, I decided to check out your entire method, by visiting your website. I must say, as a beginner, your method is very easy to understand and very detailed. I can do this! Thank you for providing these free courses to us!!! We greatly appreciate them!!!
You are great. Thank you. Makes so much sense, but trying your method at81 will be a problem as my memory is a bit dodgy but I am going to have a damned good try. And practice as I love painting in oils. Kind regards
I am just stunned and uplifted by your wonderful, over-the-top generosity! From your website and videos, you have provided so much information that I am a bit overwhelmed but so excited! Incredible amount of useful information! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Mark! :)
Very well said....There is no one way to get there. But your method is a GREAT way to go. I am in the chop suey stage of trying to incorporate most of what you teach. The blending before covering the canvas is the Achilles' tendon in my way. Thanks for all your efforts!
Marc your method works like magic. I'm on my fifth painting, and my family and friends are stunned. They can't believe I haven't been painting for years. Your paints are a dream, I won't use anything else. I get really hung up on busy overlapping patterns like foliage, or trees or a nest. I'll be following your method to a tee, but as soon as I start trying to paint these types of patterns, I find myself going rogue, and all your training goes out the window. Can you address the method for painting complicated, overlapping things like this? Thank you for sharing your gifts--it's changed my life.
I believe Mark would answer this question with: 1) don't paint lines or try to overdefine every leaf. Just check the values and color and put them where they belong. 2) Sargent painted this kind of stuff very boldly, and the result is even more realistic than a 1600 painting in which the artist tried to overdefine things. The first thing to make a painting look more "cartoony" is to represent things with lines... you don't need it. Just value, value, value.... "Value is king" (Mark Carder). I think it's this video: ua-cam.com/video/9TgidtvyupQ/v-deo.html
Mark, you described my painting habits accurately in this video. I've had a lot of success with your method, but I keep going back and trying one of the old masters methods, that is painting a grisaille, and then attempting to use many glaze layers to try to achieve that luminescent, modeled(sculpted?) appearance. Obviously the direct, realism approach yields a faster painting, and I've finished many more paintings using your style. In fact my grisaille paintings sometimes fail, in my opinion because no one has laid out the steps so clearly as you have about realism. Have you ever tried this other style, and could you talk a bit about comparisons, pros and cons, or instances where a grisaille might be a solid choice for a painting? I wish that someone out there had spent as much time detailing the craft as you have with your method. I share your youtube channel with individuals looking for advice all the time, I really believe in it. Thanks so much for the time you put into it.
I find your videos very helpful and practical and they cut through a lot of the nonsense that is talked about learning to paint. The tutorials about making easels etc are fantastic as they help me to save heaps of money in setting up a studio. I would be described as being poor I guess and you have made me realise that it's not too difficult to get on with the business of creating art. You are truly inspirational and I love your channel.
Hi Mark, The video I've watched has hit the spot for me. I move from one method to the next in an attempt to paint well, but keep coming back to this continuous blending that I do. I have watched most of your videos but I'm going to go back and start at the beginning...so watch this space
Ok, Mr. Carder, you've given me some courage, I'm going to try your method. I've had all the supplies for some time but have been frozen with fear of failure. I've watched a few of your videos and you are an inspiring and 'makes sense' teacher.......now if I can only pay attention and learn. thank you
Thanks MARK for the fantastic effort that you put into your video`s. I have just started using YOUR method of painting and it has turned me from a 2 bit painter to semi pro painter, And that when i am working away it seems that those great MASTERS Thats YOU included of course, are peering over my shoulders and guiding ME.!!!
I am a new artist who has fallen for oils. Thank you so very much for the huge set of resources. I am on a daily paint routine, doing my first serious landscape, but made some (perhaps fatal) errors in my underpainting. I am going to let it dry completely. Keep at the painting for a couple weeks, and move on, but I can certainly start another 2 paintings and rotate them if they are not a la prima. Very excited to see what you have in store for this older lady.
Mark, really appreciate you and your channel, I've been a life long artist but was always intimidated by oil paint, your videos have been invaluable in helping me learn some basics and some really great tips and tricks and now in less than 2 months i'm already painting with oils like i've been doing it forever. I'll be buying Geneva paints as soon as my current tubes run out.
All my life I've used the haphazard method of learning. I love to cook, but my "style" has been deviant from the beginning, and I seldom write down recipes. However, I can see the value in actually following a lesson plan step by step, so I've decided to take your advice and spend the next year or two doing your method. I really appreciate how in all your videos you jump right into it and never take 10 minutes to say something that only requires 2 minutes. So today I begin.
Thank you Sir for your generosity, i was fascinated by the oil painting world , tried very hard to learn it, but failed, so i was painting water color , not good also, but just to fulfill my love to painting, till i had internet and began to watch painting videos, then i find your videos, at once i notice a progress in my water color paintings, so i knew that you are the one who i was looking for, you can't imagine how happy i am. Sir, till now i didn't find the video which show how to prepare the canvas, i bought the cloth and prepare the wooden frame, then how can i prepare the cloth, urgently need your help,thank you sir, i really appreciate your efforts, i wish if i was in Houston , i was never going to leave you, not for a minute, till i learn painting.
ok, I discovered your videos , watched how you painted and started on an old painting - It was so much fun. I am planning on doing it step by step after I get my shadow box and all the tools ready
I also do freehand drawing. But when I already have a digital copy of what I'm going to draw, I would project that over the canves and do the pencil work (charcoal). This saves a lot of time without using the divider. If it is portrait, I first flip horizontal and then rotate clockwise. Otherwise only flip vertically before projecting with a large (4.5 inch) lense on a stand, from monitor on max brightness behind it. It also works for a scenary or subjects well lit if you have a portable camera obscura you can go inside.
I really enjoy your series of videos although I don't paint in your alla prima style (a more old fashioned layered approach and not necessarily aspiring to the realism you demonstrate). As a teacher myself (music, not art!) I appreciate your consistency and thorough explanations and the message of this video is applicable for all.
I have a question, Mark. Who are your favorite contemporary artists? Are you familiar with Jeremy Lipking, Adrian Gottlieb or the great wet-on-wet artist, Yuehua He. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience and techniques. I actually went to Art School in London in the 80s and came out with zero knowledge on how to mix and apply paint. I gave up painting in the interim, mostly drawing and sketching and doing water colour and gouache but I'm trying to get focussed and want to return to painting. I probably wouldn't have given up if they'd actually taught us these techniques but modern art schools tend not to be about actual skills and more about (what I call therapuetical) expression. Waste of time. People buy art based on wether they think it looks nice or will look nice on their wall or will make them look in the know and intellectual. So you might as well paint something that will appeal to these in the hope that you'll actually sell it, if you do actually want to sell it. I'm just at the beginning of all this again, so I am clearing out my space (luckily I have one to call my own) and I have some paints generaously donated. Your videos are excellent and remind me a lot of the attitude of Betty Edwards' books on Colour and Drawing. Thanks again.
Hello I’m thinking about switching to your paint but I don’t paint realism is Geneva a good paint impressionist. I like bright colors is there any bright colors I should buy to go along with your line of paints. Thanks your a good teacher
Mark Carder is definitely one of the greatest realistic-style oil painters of the XXI. century, although I couldn’t agree with him entirely. His method is perfectly good for beginners at wet-on-wet. It is fast, easy and you don’t need to think at all. Just what the people wants today: to learn something FAST and EFFECTIVE, WITHOUT EFFORT, and GUARANTEED SUCCESS in no time! Today’s result-oriented society is forcing the individual to produce only one thing, but that one thing must be perfect. That is how you end up being a close-minded, mass productive, boring manufactory of paintings. I am a hobby painter, I never wanted to be a celebrated artist, nor do I ever wanted to become an artist at all. What I want is to discover the boundaries of oil painting, explore and enjoy expressions through painting. To me stucking at one method means only ‘one way of perspective’ which I find extremely boring. My way of learning is to listen to artists in every style, try their method, explore the beauty of the technique they can teach and build into my own style and improve my own way. Truly this takes more time and more effort also there is the disappointment of the first failures of experiments, but this way I can continue to build my own art instead of being a copy of another artist. I definitely do recommend his courses not just for beginners and I do agree you have to learn step by step at the very beginning. At any level, following his course from the start till the end won’t do any harm. BUT those who already learned the basics of perspective, values of dark and light, proportions I insist to experiment. Try his method, but once you have learned what you can, pick what you have found useful and take a step forward and explore other methods, other styles, other artist and other perspectives! Painting is so much fun, explore it on your own, don’t be a copycat!
Hey, Mark, I'd love to try your method, but I already have many oil paints I hate to waste. Can I use them and still follow your method? I know, I'm already making excuses. It's just that it's a lot of money...
Does your method work for water-soluble oil paints? I tried two of your online tutorials and I was failing miserably while using my water-soluble oil until I switched to acrylics and succeeded in no time. Since my goal is to master direct painting in oil, I need to know if I should keep exploring the WS oils or switch to regular ones to succeed? Thank you
Vi Br: any luck with the WS oils? I'm trying to switch over from using acrylics to oils and am now starting to use WS oils (Cobra), which are really nice to be able to mix with water and easily clean the brushes with water. I would suspect Mark would say you need to use Geneva paints if you were to follow his method correctly, but they are a bit too expensive for my budget.
Oh dear. I use acrylic paints because I live in a small apartment. I do not want the chemicals of oil paints and the clean up of acrylics is much easier. I am not planning on becoming a Great Artist. I only want to get better and mostly, just enjoy the process of feeling creative. I guess that I will continue to learn what I can but understand that my choice of paint will be a disappointment to you.
Talent is a human word to describe something that we don't understand how it was done. A well known artist once said (I don't remember his name) "Their are millions of Talented ditch diggers in the world, I'd rather be an painter."
This sounds like a problem I had in a Finance class in college. I was 40 when I took the class and several kids I studied with were having trouble with a particular problem. We talked it over one day and they stated that they couldn't get the answer. They were a little taken aback when I said that I couldn't figure it out either the first 15 times I tried it but eventually learned how to do it. Painting is the same idea- you can't skip the steps and think you're gonna arrive at the answer by magic.
To echo the "people lose confidence" observation. Ira Glass' Advice to Creatives addresses this quandary. When you start creating your taste can tell what you're doing is not that good. All creatives go through this. The only cure is to do a lot of work. Expect to take a long time to be able to create at the quality level your taste approves of, even years. A wonderful video of the text: vimeo.com/24715531 His essential advice in a one page graphic. i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/94/e7/6b94e7f9afd46c7f22cf3da0d677f9e4.jpg A page with (the first 20 seconds or so of the video are terrible, bear with it) www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-daniel-sax/ This piece is actually a small segment from an interview with Glass. Your favorite search engine can reveal many other transformations of this advice.
Fam. I do not care. I have no desire, I have no intention of painting like you do. Or anyone else for that matter. This is my first week of using oil paint, but not of using paint. I have methods i developed myself in other mediums. And i would strongly encourage other budding artists to try many methods and mix and mash parts and pieces freely. I will take small bits of style from everywhere and test them out. And all this experimentation is what leads to a painting that reflects me in its most free spirit.
@@rosered103 It's a real challenge to find confidence in oneself. When no one wants to come off as self-absorbed and to many people are quick to judge. I hope you one day find yourself able to be proud of the wonderful things you accomplish. As hard as it is to.
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You do not need to purchase anything, those are more in depth videos. The course is completely free and nowhere does it say you need to purchase anything. I have three videos that give all the core material and they are free to watch. They are "how to Paint in Oil" How to Draw in Proportion" and "how to mix colors". All completely free to watch. In addition I have a very long list of free videos - complete list is here: www.drawmixpaint.com/ So you do not need to purchase a single thing from me in order to do the course. I only sell three videos (which you do not need to purchase), but have hundreds of videos that are free to watch.
hello, im sorry because i do thank you very very much and appreciate all you did for us.so i really want to thank you very much!!! i did try your metod for the first time and i really happy with the resoult.i learnd so much after so long and nowi have hope.i am so happy and i start to belive in myself.i actually paint in watercolor .(i cant paint in oil because i live in a very small place) but i i work from a photo and change bit your system and it worked! my photo was not in a good quality so the colors are not the best but i will be better.now after i did it i realized that im using very clean colors and i need to breake them .i can tell you much more but im sure you are busy.but i have to let you understand how much i thank you!! wow you are the best ,and you do it for free!!! thank you very much.i wish you will make more videos it is so important for me to learn how to paint and understand colors.thank you thank you thank you !sorry for my bad english ,i am from israel,i love the american people .you are the best in everything !
I heartily disagree with this. The beginning time is absolutely when you should experiment! You should absolutely try different methods and mix and match and see what happens! That’s how you get to learn your materials and what works the best for you. If I tried your method for a year, then I’ll only know the things you’ve taught. Learning otherwise is going to be super hard after that. I’d rather learn from a hodge podge of different artists, from a hodge podge of different techniques, from a hodge podge of different materials. That’s a much better way to learn than just relying on one way for so long. Is your technique successful? I bet it is for tons of people! I also bet it doesn’t mesh for others, because people’s brains work differently. What works for you may not work for me. You mentioned alla prima while you were talking; while that’s a fine technique, maybe others find that they prefer carving and sculpting over many layers. That’s fine too! But if they do what you’re saying and stick to one method for a year? By the time they get to what actually works for them, they’ve wasted a bunch of time. You can get knowledge by doing one thing over and over again, but that’s also a recipe for insanity. I’m sure your method is lovely. I’m sure it works for many people. But you sound a lot like your promising 100% success and it just doesn’t work like that.
my God you talk a lot but because you repeat yourself i cant understand what u mean. Also lead white isn't dangerous to us but to the people that make it. As long as you don't eat i you will be fine.
I’m an art teacher and your videos are very helpful, painting teachers today do not actually show you how to paint or give you insight into their technical process. So I appreciate your videos
I experienced this too. Many artists don't want to tell their secrets because they are afraid that the student gets better as him! Mark is very different. ♥
Wow, I looked at your website, and I didn't realize that you have a full course for FREE! I've been researching different courses, prepared to purchase a course, so THANK YOU for your dedication to art and painting for all.
Mark is a legend. My only fear is if he _moves on_ his website will go.
Where is that course, please? I could not find it and really wanted to follow his steps. Thx
Although I paint in a completely different way, I always enjoy Mark's videos because he is so consistent & what he says absolutely makes sense of his method. I'm not particularly interested in learning the method but it prompts me to try to be more consistent & logical about how I go about painting my own way. Thanks, Mark - keep them coming & I will keep on watching & appreciating!"
I paint only one painting with his method and people that saw my first painting are very impressed. Thanks Mark
Marks method has helped me improve 💯...i was stuck in certain ways of painting. This helped alot
I've been following you for 3 years now and I can see a huge difference in the way I see .Thank you
I’m dedicating a large portion of my Coronavirus quarantine stay-cation to trying your course and honing my skills. Thanks so much for putting this out there!
How's it working for you?
Am going review each lesson on DPM site, and start back painting using Mark's methods/processes, without skipping steps. I know I can do it. Just need help, and Mark has provided all the help I need. Thank you so much Mark for giving us the gift of your lessons. In life, there is no greater gift than to give to others! Thanks again
Your method is extremely thorough! After watching this video, I decided to check out your entire method, by visiting your website. I must say, as a beginner, your method is very easy to understand and very detailed. I can do this! Thank you for providing these free courses to us!!! We greatly appreciate them!!!
You are great. Thank you. Makes so much sense, but trying your method at81 will be a problem as my memory is a bit dodgy but I am going to have a damned good try. And practice as I love painting in oils. Kind regards
+kath jackson Keep it up Kath!
This is so cute. Keep going you are good and don't worry about details.
kath jackson How did it go!?
Love the way you teach, I never new so much about color, and I colored hair most my life, now I'm retired I finely understand it
I am just stunned and uplifted by your wonderful, over-the-top generosity! From your website and videos, you have provided so much information that I am a bit overwhelmed but so excited! Incredible amount of useful information! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Mark! :)
Very well said....There is no one way to get there. But your method is a GREAT way to go. I am in the chop suey stage of trying to incorporate most of what you teach. The blending before covering the canvas is the Achilles' tendon in my way. Thanks for all your efforts!
You taught me so much Mark...after following your lead I was able to branch off and find my own path... I am forever grateful!
Marc your method works like magic. I'm on my fifth painting, and my family and friends are stunned. They can't believe I haven't been painting for years. Your paints are a dream, I won't use anything else. I get really hung up on busy overlapping patterns like foliage, or trees or a nest. I'll be following your method to a tee, but as soon as I start trying to paint these types of patterns, I find myself going rogue, and all your training goes out the window. Can you address the method for painting complicated, overlapping things like this? Thank you for sharing your gifts--it's changed my life.
I believe Mark would answer this question with: 1) don't paint lines or try to overdefine every leaf. Just check the values and color and put them where they belong. 2) Sargent painted this kind of stuff very boldly, and the result is even more realistic than a 1600 painting in which the artist tried to overdefine things.
The first thing to make a painting look more "cartoony" is to represent things with lines... you don't need it. Just value, value, value.... "Value is king" (Mark Carder).
I think it's this video:
ua-cam.com/video/9TgidtvyupQ/v-deo.html
Mark, you described my painting habits accurately in this video. I've had a lot of success with your method, but I keep going back and trying one of the old masters methods, that is painting a grisaille, and then attempting to use many glaze layers to try to achieve that luminescent, modeled(sculpted?) appearance. Obviously the direct, realism approach yields a faster painting, and I've finished many more paintings using your style. In fact my grisaille paintings sometimes fail, in my opinion because no one has laid out the steps so clearly as you have about realism.
Have you ever tried this other style, and could you talk a bit about comparisons, pros and cons, or instances where a grisaille might be a solid choice for a painting?
I wish that someone out there had spent as much time detailing the craft as you have with your method.
I share your youtube channel with individuals looking for advice all the time, I really believe in it. Thanks so much for the time you put into it.
I find your videos very helpful and practical and they cut through a lot of the nonsense that is talked about learning to paint. The tutorials about making easels etc are fantastic as they help me to save heaps of money in setting up a studio. I would be described as being poor I guess and you have made me realise that it's not too difficult to get on with the business of creating art. You are truly inspirational and I love your channel.
Hi Mark, The video I've watched has hit the spot for me. I move from one method to the next in an attempt to paint well, but keep coming back to this continuous blending that I do. I have watched most of your videos but I'm going to go back and start at the beginning...so watch this space
I'm good at painting I just need to find
My own method . I might try your website think you for telling me about it. Have a good day.
Ok, Mr. Carder, you've given me some courage, I'm going to try your method. I've had all the supplies for some time but have been frozen with fear of failure. I've watched a few of your videos and you are an inspiring and 'makes sense' teacher.......now if I can only pay attention and learn. thank you
Mary Ross i also have that same fear but will give it a try. What is the worst it can happen right?
@@rubenfonseca801 Yes, me too. Have a set of Geneva paints sitting on the shelf for over a year now.
Thanks MARK for the fantastic effort that you put into your video`s. I have just started using YOUR method of painting and it has turned me from a 2 bit painter to semi pro painter, And that when i am working away it seems that those great MASTERS
Thats YOU included of course, are peering over my shoulders and guiding ME.!!!
I am a new artist who has fallen for oils. Thank you so very much for the huge set of resources. I am on a daily paint routine, doing my first serious landscape, but made some (perhaps fatal) errors in my underpainting. I am going to let it dry completely. Keep at the painting for a couple weeks, and move on, but I can certainly start another 2 paintings and rotate them if they are not a la prima. Very excited to see what you have in store for this older lady.
Mark, really appreciate you and your channel, I've been a life long artist but was always intimidated by oil paint, your videos have been invaluable in helping me learn some basics and some really great tips and tricks and now in less than 2 months i'm already painting with oils like i've been doing it forever. I'll be buying Geneva paints as soon as my current tubes run out.
+Parker Jackson also - your videos and voice are super relaxing to watch and listen to
I have been painting for 40 years, but I improved this week by watching your courses! WAW
All my life I've used the haphazard method of learning. I love to cook, but my "style" has been deviant from the beginning, and I seldom write down recipes. However, I can see the value in actually following a lesson plan step by step, so I've decided to take your advice and spend the next year or two doing your method. I really appreciate how in all your videos you jump right into it and never take 10 minutes to say something that only requires 2 minutes. So today I begin.
Thank you Sir for your generosity, i was fascinated by the oil painting world , tried very hard to learn it, but failed, so i was painting water color , not good also, but just to fulfill my love to painting, till i had internet and began to watch painting videos, then i find your videos, at once i notice a progress in my water color paintings, so i knew that you are the one who i was looking for, you can't imagine how happy i am. Sir, till now i didn't find the video which show how to prepare the canvas, i bought the cloth and prepare the wooden frame, then how can i prepare the cloth, urgently need your help,thank you sir, i really appreciate your efforts, i wish if i was in Houston , i was never going to leave you, not for a minute, till i learn painting.
Your method has got me on the road to the level of work I've been striving for. finished my first and working on my second one. Thank you!
ok, I discovered your videos , watched how you painted and started on an old painting - It was so much fun. I am planning on doing it step by step after I get my shadow box and all the tools ready
Glad to be starting over again using your method. Thank you Mark. Great videos, and you have great communication skills.
I also do freehand drawing. But when I already have a digital copy of what I'm going to draw, I would project that over the canves and do the pencil work (charcoal). This saves a lot of time without using the divider. If it is portrait, I first flip horizontal and then rotate clockwise. Otherwise only flip vertically before projecting with a large (4.5 inch) lense on a stand, from monitor on max brightness behind it. It also works for a scenary or subjects well lit if you have a portable camera obscura you can go inside.
Wow! I believe I found your course. Your lists are so detailed and helpful. Thank you so much.
Again, thank you, all your videos brings some things together o show how dedicated you are.
I really enjoy your series of videos although I don't paint in your alla prima style (a more old fashioned layered approach and not necessarily aspiring to the realism you demonstrate). As a teacher myself (music, not art!) I appreciate your consistency and thorough explanations and the message of this video is applicable for all.
Thanks, that was just what i needed and I don't think your videos are too long.
Been listening to your videos for hours!! So much great info. Thanks for what you do!!!
We'v made the color checker and the photo holder now I need to just start got my canvas ready
Thanks for your tutorials, Mr Carder. Keep up the great work.
Greetings from Norway
I always enjoy your ramblings! :)
Thank you! I've learned a lot from you and improved so much! I thought I would never paint better...
Carder is one of the most generous teachers anywhere.
Thank you for this channel been learning a lot,, just starting with my oil paint journey...
Love, love, love your Geneva Brush Dip.
I have a question, Mark. Who are your favorite contemporary artists? Are you familiar with Jeremy Lipking, Adrian Gottlieb or the great wet-on-wet artist, Yuehua He. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience and techniques. I actually went to Art School in London in the 80s and came out with zero knowledge on how to mix and apply paint. I gave up painting in the interim, mostly drawing and sketching and doing water colour and gouache but I'm trying to get focussed and want to return to painting. I probably wouldn't have given up if they'd actually taught us these techniques but modern art schools tend not to be about actual skills and more about (what I call therapuetical) expression. Waste of time. People buy art based on wether they think it looks nice or will look nice on their wall or will make them look in the know and intellectual. So you might as well paint something that will appeal to these in the hope that you'll actually sell it, if you do actually want to sell it.
I'm just at the beginning of all this again, so I am clearing out my space (luckily I have one to call my own) and I have some paints generaously donated. Your videos are excellent and remind me a lot of the attitude of Betty Edwards' books on Colour and Drawing.
Thanks again.
Thank you for your excellent videos, really good!
It's a shame in my country even I can not get GENEVA.
Thank you for your amazing teachings!! It helps me a greatly!❤️
Thank u sir... Ur videos helping me a lot...
Hello I’m thinking about switching to your paint but I don’t paint realism is Geneva a good paint impressionist. I like bright colors is there any bright colors I should buy to go along with your line of paints. Thanks your a good teacher
thank you so much for providing such great FREE resources!
I'm great thankful to you... your video highly improved my paintings... thank you so much
Mark you're a good master
Does your free course cover all things a beginner's need? I want to give it shot as my foundation.
Mark..... Is tat mic on your 👓?
Really cooooooolllllll idea 💡
What do you think about oil over acrylic?
could you do a demonstration of how to paint water. Lakes and sea per example.
+Sebastien Lajoie I'd like to see that too!
Sebastien Lajoie its the Sam as anything else. you match values and not overblend it. if you blend too much it looks like illustration.
Nicholas Fanzo its still an illustration even if you don't blend too much and it looks good overall
thanks a lot! I really need thad advice, thanks for your lessons !! God bless you.
Mark Carder is definitely one of the greatest realistic-style oil painters of the XXI. century, although I couldn’t agree with him entirely.
His method is perfectly good for beginners at wet-on-wet. It is fast, easy and you don’t need to think at all. Just what the people wants today: to learn something FAST and EFFECTIVE, WITHOUT EFFORT, and GUARANTEED SUCCESS in no time!
Today’s result-oriented society is forcing the individual to produce only one thing, but that one thing must be perfect. That is how you end up being a close-minded, mass productive, boring manufactory of paintings.
I am a hobby painter, I never wanted to be a celebrated artist, nor do I ever wanted to become an artist at all. What I want is to discover the boundaries of oil painting, explore and enjoy expressions through painting. To me stucking at one method means only ‘one way of perspective’ which I find extremely boring.
My way of learning is to listen to artists in every style, try their method, explore the beauty of the technique they can teach and build into my own style and improve my own way. Truly this takes more time and more effort also there is the disappointment of the first failures of experiments, but this way I can continue to build my own art instead of being a copy of another artist.
I definitely do recommend his courses not just for beginners and I do agree you have to learn step by step at the very beginning.
At any level, following his course from the start till the end won’t do any harm.
BUT those who already learned the basics of perspective, values of dark and light, proportions I insist to experiment. Try his method, but once you have learned what you can, pick what you have found useful and take a step forward and explore other methods, other styles, other artist and other perspectives!
Painting is so much fun, explore it on your own, don’t be a copycat!
Hey, Mark, I'd love to try your method, but I already have many oil paints I hate to waste. Can I use them and still follow your method? I know, I'm already making excuses. It's just that it's a lot of money...
Does your method work for water-soluble oil paints? I tried two of your online tutorials and I was failing miserably while using my water-soluble oil until I switched to acrylics and succeeded in no time. Since my goal is to master direct painting in oil, I need to know if I should keep exploring the WS oils or switch to regular ones to succeed? Thank you
Vi Br: any luck with the WS oils? I'm trying to switch over from using acrylics to oils and am now starting to use WS oils (Cobra), which are really nice to be able to mix with water and easily clean the brushes with water. I would suspect Mark would say you need to use Geneva paints if you were to follow his method correctly, but they are a bit too expensive for my budget.
love your videos!!
could you make a more in depth video in mediums,paninting in layers?
Thanks a lot :) I'm gonna start your course :) I've watched some of your videos here today :) Can't wait to start :)
Thank you - this made a lot of sense!
thank you so much sir.
I'm from Austin as well :)
Were can i find your method beside the UA-cam movies?
Thank you very much for sharing!
What do think of the studies in perception taught by Henry Hensche?
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Oh dear. I use acrylic paints because I live in a small apartment. I do not want the chemicals of oil paints and the clean up of acrylics is much easier. I am not planning on becoming a Great Artist. I only want to get better and mostly, just enjoy the process of feeling creative. I guess that I will continue to learn what I can but understand that my choice of paint will be a disappointment to you.
@dorenandsara, Same with me.
Form the tool
Sharpen the tool
Dissolve the tool
Thank you!
I'm confused I went to the website but I thought you said on this that it was free?
Talent is a human word to describe something that we don't understand how it was done. A well known artist once said (I don't remember his name) "Their are millions of Talented ditch diggers in the world, I'd rather be an painter."
If you try to be humble and listen to him, you might become the next phenomenal painter.
This sounds like a problem I had in a Finance class in college. I was 40 when I took the class and several kids I studied with were having trouble with a particular problem. We talked it over one day and they stated that they couldn't get the answer. They were a little taken aback when I said that I couldn't figure it out either the first 15 times I tried it but eventually learned how to do it. Painting is the same idea- you can't skip the steps and think you're gonna arrive at the answer by magic.
Mark is telling the truth.
To echo the "people lose confidence" observation. Ira Glass' Advice to Creatives addresses this quandary. When you start creating your taste can tell what you're doing is not that good. All creatives go through this. The only cure is to do a lot of work. Expect to take a long time to be able to create at the quality level your taste approves of, even years.
A wonderful video of the text:
vimeo.com/24715531
His essential advice in a one page graphic.
i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/94/e7/6b94e7f9afd46c7f22cf3da0d677f9e4.jpg
A page with
(the first 20 seconds or so of the video are terrible, bear with it)
www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-daniel-sax/
This piece is actually a small segment from an interview with Glass.
Your favorite search engine can reveal many other transformations of this advice.
post your favs from the forum in video one day :)
Yes, my problem is I jump from different video to video, like a squirrel :-)
good
I'd love to be your student
Fam. I do not care. I have no desire, I have no intention of painting like you do. Or anyone else for that matter. This is my first week of using oil paint, but not of using paint. I have methods i developed myself in other mediums. And i would strongly encourage other budding artists to try many methods and mix and mash parts and pieces freely.
I will take small bits of style from everywhere and test them out. And all this experimentation is what leads to a painting that reflects me in its most free spirit.
Arrogance without listening is a person's downfall.
@@rosered103 It's a real challenge to find confidence in oneself. When no one wants to come off as self-absorbed and to many people are quick to judge. I hope you one day find yourself able to be proud of the wonderful things you accomplish. As hard as it is to.
Just want to let you know that i got a warning browsing your web page. You can fix that by installing an SSL certificate so your page get a leading in front.
I found it, first look than ask..
En français esce possible ...
the painting featured was what made me click on:(
Frank frazetta ! I wish ha ha
"Still" using acrylic paint... LOL Biased?
Please repeat the same thing a couple more times. I don’t think we get it yet.
hello
you say many times in your videos that its all free of charge.but it cost $100 dollars.why is that?you can charge ofcours,but dont say its free.
You do not need to purchase anything, those are more in depth videos. The course is completely free and nowhere does it say you need to purchase anything. I have three videos that give all the core material and they are free to watch. They are "how to Paint in Oil" How to Draw in Proportion" and "how to mix colors". All completely free to watch. In addition I have a very long list of free videos - complete list is here: www.drawmixpaint.com/ So you do not need to purchase a single thing from me in order to do the course. I only sell three videos (which you do not need to purchase), but have hundreds of videos that are free to watch.
hello,
im sorry because i do thank you very very much and appreciate all you did for us.so i really want to thank you very much!!! i did try your metod for the first time and i really happy with the resoult.i learnd so much after so long and nowi have hope.i am so happy and i start to belive in myself.i actually paint in watercolor .(i cant paint in oil because i live in a very small place) but i i work from a photo and change bit your system and it worked! my photo was not in a good quality so the colors are not the best but i will be better.now after i did it i realized that im using very clean colors and i need to breake them .i can tell you much more but im sure you are busy.but i have to let you understand how much i thank you!! wow you are the best ,and you do it for free!!! thank you very much.i wish you will make more videos it is so important for me to learn how to paint and understand colors.thank you thank you thank you !sorry for my bad english ,i am from israel,i love the american people .you are the best in everything !
I heartily disagree with this. The beginning time is absolutely when you should experiment! You should absolutely try different methods and mix and match and see what happens! That’s how you get to learn your materials and what works the best for you. If I tried your method for a year, then I’ll only know the things you’ve taught. Learning otherwise is going to be super hard after that. I’d rather learn from a hodge podge of different artists, from a hodge podge of different techniques, from a hodge podge of different materials. That’s a much better way to learn than just relying on one way for so long.
Is your technique successful? I bet it is for tons of people! I also bet it doesn’t mesh for others, because people’s brains work differently. What works for you may not work for me. You mentioned alla prima while you were talking; while that’s a fine technique, maybe others find that they prefer carving and sculpting over many layers. That’s fine too! But if they do what you’re saying and stick to one method for a year? By the time they get to what actually works for them, they’ve wasted a bunch of time. You can get knowledge by doing one thing over and over again, but that’s also a recipe for insanity.
I’m sure your method is lovely. I’m sure it works for many people. But you sound a lot like your promising 100% success and it just doesn’t work like that.
my God you talk a lot but because you repeat yourself i cant understand what u mean. Also lead white isn't dangerous to us but to the people that make it. As long as you don't eat i you will be fine.