My Favorite Realism & more - Ep.19 Oil Painting Q&A with Mark Carder
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- If you have a question for me, post it in the comments below. I'll answer as many as I can in the next episode. Here are links to each question answered in this video:
00:04 - a close look at some of my favorite realist paintings by artists like Arthur Streeton, James Jebusa Shannon, and more
13:53 - What type of brushes and how many brushes do I need to start portrait painting?
14:54 - I know you can generally mix any color with a limited palette like the Geneva Essential Palette, but would you discourage mixing Geneva paints with other brands? For example, can I use a pre-mixed tube of Payne's Gray?
15:48 - Can I use baby oil as a brush dip?
17:35 - What do you think about studying anatomy to help with illustrating a particular scene?
18:38 - If I am using Geneva paints, what medium should I use to adhere to the "fat over lean" rule?
20:16 - Cadmium Yellow is so costly. Why not use lemon yellow or something similar?
21:46 - Do you think certain colors are easier to paint than others? I find it hard to see details when painting really dark colors and even more when trying to add highlights to dark colors.
Thanks for being there and giving a map for me as I am retired and have waited years to be able do my art again It was my first love.
Each videos i watch is a adventure, has a novice that had decide to only listen and follow your advices to learn this new challenge. Thank you so much.
Whau Shannon’s painting seemed to have a magic that made me immediately love them - his way of making the colors and maybe especially the skin and the White just glow - I think it looked very impressionistic and the brushstrokes seemed just fabulous 🙏🧡
It's always amazing how important value is in a painting. I bet that once these works had their values in place the artists could have stopped at any point and they would still be beautiful. The mind can fill in any missing details once the big idea is in place.
Another great video. There's so much here for those who care to look, think and study.
This kind of art makes my heart flutter. I absolutely love the picture with the baby. This is what I’m striving for. Love this. Thank you
I really appreciate enjoy these videos. Always interesting to hear someone else’s opinions
So happy you like Streeton, Mark! (us Aussies pronounce it "Stretton.") I too think he is marvellous. Conder and Withers are also similar. On the first pic of Streeton I like the way the foreground trees are fuzzy, yet the right middle ground is relatively sharp, which gives a peculiar depth. I once lived on the street next to the last Streeton, Hoddle St, Melbourne!
You have no idea how much I appreciate your videos!
Thanks for good work, nice explanation, and a valuable content!
Love it.
Thank you for your videos I really love the lessons you give at the beginning.
I like the Filbert brushes too..and I enjoyed looking at the paintings you like. I understand now about not over working the painting and when you step back, it looks so complete.
Do you have any more videos where you discuss other oil paintings? It's fascinating to hear an artist talk about other paintings, and introduce different painters. George Beverley Hale had these great books where he discussed drawings and paintings, anatomy and so forth, most helpful. Cheers!
I particularly enjoy your comments about some of your favorite paintings. Thanks for your videos.
Your videos are inspiring me. Thank you!
So glad you mentioned prefering 'effortless' paintings. I realised it explains one of my reactions to certain paintings - I find the hyper-real virtuoso style slightly irritating as if the painter is showing off and expecting me to be impressed and whilst I respect the techincal skill, it often interferes with enjoying the art on a more personal level. I think of detailed paintings of rearing horses for example, and whilst I know it must be tricky to paint, I think a camera can capture these tricky moments, what I want the artist to do is capture movement, or love, or atmosphere, for example.
I'm sorry I had a 🤯 when watching some of your other vids my brother. You are a fine movie maker and art Historian. You have Valuable experience and nice information with us Alhumdulila thanks.
Love the Streeton paintings and wonderful to see you commenting on them. The blue / gold captures the feel of Australian light.
This was fantastic. Loved the part where you show your fav. artist's works. It felt like you & I were strolling along in the art museum together!
Thanks Mark, I love your videos . Thanks for all you do!
Fabulous! Thank you. It's always so interesting to study good painters.
So glad you put this up. It'd be my dream to paint like Répin.
Awesome! Finally it's here! Thx Mark
A number of years ago I purchased , I believe your first set of CD's . Although my style is very different then yours I have found your studio set up is really a great way to paint. thank you it has served me well.
Yes! I’m with you 100% on the facets of great realism. You’ve presented them very well. Thank you.
You helped me a lot, a real masterpiece of a man you are by yourself. thnkyou!
Thanks Mark so much interesting and helpful information really great
you have a great way of keeping things clear-your videos are excellent.
It is great video and helps understand a lot!! Thank You!
Thank you very much for this little "gallery". I enjoyed every painting.
So glad you have found one of Australia's finest in Arthur Streeton. I have for many years traveled through the parts of Australia he has painted and can assure you he has captured the (light) of these area's perfectly..Hopefully one day you may visit Australia's beautiful Sydney harbour its surrounds and the (blue mountains) I'm sure this area would inspire you further. Best Regards MW
Mark, thank you. I love your videos!
Great works of Art. Beautiful.
Thanx for the video and thanx explaining about the yellow.
I really love theese videos with a strong focus on painterly qualities. Thank you so much for sharing ... and here are some of my notes (in process):
1) Effortless 2) jumpled colour not overly blended 3) full size of a detail is an artwork in itself - abstract quality and I get a strong impression of energy moving and color as tone, rhythm and harmony vibratory quality - for me this is what makes the painting resonate with life 4).
Arthur Streeton
Your all videos are great helpful to me..Thank you so much
Great video as always. The fat over lean rule always made me nervous about oils. I use golden open acrylics as i prefer a faster dry time. Going to look into the Geneva paints for sure !
I love your style ! Your advice is constructive in a non scholarly way, easy to apply
Great paintings! Thanks for sharing
Thank-you, as always, for sharing your expertise.
Thanks so much! I have exactly the same tast. I love to paint like this....
Amazing coincidence......I visited the Metropolitan Museum over the weekend. That very Rembrandt is hanging downstairs in the Dutch Painter's Gallery. Seeing Rembrandt paintings in person will make anyone understand why he is regarded as the best portrait artist. Photos of his works dont do them justice. The brush work is amazing. The gold chain around the subject's neck sparkles. Breath taking. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the intro to Streeton - he reminds me of tom thomson, brush-stroke-wise, but for subject matter. Particularly liked that last one. I am self-taught so don't know all the talented artists. Search for thomsons "path behind Mowat lodge" for similar brushwork....I saw it live recently and from 60 ft it's a photograph, from 10 feet it's a painting, and from one foot the brushwork is amazing!
These paintings are gorgeous.
Arthur Street in and the other Australian impressionists of his day, often painted on 9x5" cigar box lids en plein air. There are a number of 9x5" competitions here in Australia in their honour.
*Streeton
Hi Mark, If you like Streeton and his brushwork , check out his picture '' the purple noon's transparent might '' . For like brushwork see any of Tom Roberts ; in fact check out the whole of the Heidelburg school around the turn of the C19 and C20. For really turgid brushwork, look up Ivor Hele who came a bit later__ war artist (ww2) and portraitist and excellent draughtsman. Also with good brushwork is George Washington Lambert__check out his ''sergeant of the light horse '' around the 1920s. One thing I observed about these guys is that they could all draw well. Cheers.
Hi Mark, I've watched a few of your videos now on what you like in realism but find your own work a lot different from what you like, yours has a more "finished" look from what I've seen on your site. I just find it interesting how what you like in others conflicts with what you do in your own work, maybe I'm wrong and just need to dig a little deeper into what you have done.
Gah! I’ve been binging these videos and loving them! One problem is that he mentioned an artist in one video that I can’t find. It was the artist who painted that school bus half in shadow that he really liked. The artist also did one of a cafe with a vibrant green coffee machine. Anyone know?
Stratton is so recognisably AUSSIE!!! Love him!!!
Stratton, yes ✌😷 💚 🇦🇺
Mark, thanks again for all you are teaching us.
I have a question about spotlighting for paintings hanging in a home. I have a fairly dark living room and have two large paintings hung in there which really need more lighting. I'm asking for some lights to be installed especially to illuminate those two or three paintings. I think that LED (super white/blue) lights are sometimes ghastly on paintings cause they make them look cold, or artificially white. I think I want to have them installed in my ceiling which is only 8 feet high, but still better that a little clip-on light that crowds the canvas, don't you think? I'd be very interested in anything you can share about how to light displayed paintings in a home setting.
Thanks again. Anita.
I also love the paintings you have shown above. But I would have described the style in some as expressionism which brings me to the question, what is the difference between realism and expressionism?
I use the Geneva Paints and love them. But would you consider making the white at least a half size larger. At this time I use twice as much white as all the other colors. Thanks for all your input - you share some important information. Chuck Akers
I think actually your concept of 'realism' means representational art, including impressionism works. Anyway I've got many useful information from your videos, thanks.
I'm not the same person I was before I saw this video. That painting from Ilya Repin changed me.
I worked with some vary good artists in the billboard trade. One in particular, paints rather loosely, as you have described. His name is Jerry Boyd, if you care to look him up.
I enjoy the same characteristics in my realism. Hate blending. Robert Henri, Euan Uglow, Fairfield Porter guys like that that just lay the color down with a deft touch
Dear Mark Carder Your postings and website have great insights , conversation and stimulating ways of approach. Thank you. In you r video of favorite paingtings of realism, the first painting from Arthur Streeton drew me to his "signature" (of all things) Really interested me to ask how such small, but lively brushstrokes , yet precise,are placed in this. Sounds naieve? Sorry . But I struggle with such small size lettersor even tree twigs that skinny that way. I wonder & desire is to still give it a punch that stays lively enough to add,as ifI have aballpen in my hand, rather then take away from the painting of course. I am talking about the relationship between paint and type of brush or technique applying the paint so precise yet fullyet long strokes without loosing vitality. Love to hear some feedback on this subject if you can .Thanks Maarten T
Hi Mark !
Have you read Robert Schmid's 'Alla Prima' book ?
If so, what do you think about it ?
One of the very best art instruction books ever
hi! does it matter if we mix colour with a brush or a pallete knife? ? thanks
That person with the black lab issue- I bet he is working from a beautiful picture, but it could be that it's just too small. Ya got to have a big enough picture (especially with a black lab) so you do not have lean over to get a better look. It's very hard to mix proper colors that way. Sometimes if I can't figure out the the detail colors, I just use my own. Use the reference only for shapes, but don't chain yourself into using EXACT colors. Make colors that please you. -Like I said I'm talking about the light details, and dark greys etc. Find a color that works better than what you see in the photo. GREAT VIDEO !!!
6:35 is truly deft painting. He loaded his brush with 2 colors and used single strokes to capture gradients.
What do you think of water mixable paints?
Hi Mark thanks for doing these videos and all the demo vids as well. My question is, when will Geneva paints be available to purchase from Australia? I'm sure there are many artist's who would love to try these paints. I have used the slow dry medium and when it works it's great, but finding good clean clove oil isn't easy.
+damien venditti We are about to start EU sales and hopefully not to long before we sell in Australia as well.
Why is it that sometimes when I try to get the darkest dark as in the folds of a dark cloth the dark looks great when I put it on but when it dries it has changed into a dingy middle tone?
It's a shame the loose detail isn't commercially successful now, you really have to keep things sharp.
LOL, I know. It's a whole other world. Take painting like that to your customer, and he'll be like ;"Oh, your not finished yet".
Mike Hubbard definetly
Hi, Mark! I am really really courious what do you think, what is your honest opinion about Bob Ross paintings?Thank you for you informative videos!
I have a question that hopefully you can answer! Frequently I find myself needing to paint bright vibrant yellow over a dark background, but the paint never covers the way I need it to and ends up muddy becauseit is so transluscent. How do I get around this problem?
My question is; if I paint multiple layers in same day, I can use distilled turpentine with oil paint in first layer ?
king Sargent! ♥
Hello, im having hard times photographing my work ,i allways have have glimms, and looks worce ,ive noticed since univercity that photography shows deffects of paintings,some even used camera phone to correct their mistakes..du you have some advices to make an painting look good on an camera especially im interested in weak cammeras from smartphones. thank you
Mark, Have you used turps to thin Lacuer as a finish coat?
Can you tell me which white is best for oils?
what is the trick behind painting abstraction in realism ? like if youre painting from a photograph, how do you maintain a loose stroke and abstraction while copying what you see ?
I'm using Geneva paint jars, I find that colors are so thin even after stirring thoroughly they are almost milky. Is it due to the v hot climate in which I live ( India's dessert state, Haryna)
Those evening paintings by streeton have to be painted fast. The light changes so quickly at that time of day
In connection with my former question about home lighting for display, I'm wondering about the Kelvin rating I should be looking for. I've got 5000 in my little studio, but Solux and other seem to offer a lot of 3500 K as their standard for home display use. ???
+Anita Davis ...3500K is too warm ...4800K to 5500K is the range you are looking for a '' daylight '' look. If your paintings are in the red-yellow range, you may be able to get away with something lower than 4800K
I sell my paintings to clients who are often far away. it's a lot to make them wait for the painting to dry for a couple weeks. but i could never keep them for months in order to varnish them. i thought it would be easy for them to varnish them using a spray varnish. What do you think of spray varnishes??
+scott hague It is actually much harder to apply a varnish evenly with spray. I did that when I first started and always had slightly spotty results. If you keep them in a very spot, they will dry in one week. I mean 110F warm.
Do you have a specific printer that you would recommend for printing photos? Thanks!
Do you also paint in acrylic or watercolor?
Por favor, ¿puedes subir vídeos con traducción en español?
what palette would you recommend for painting from a black and white photograph? If I use ivory black and titanium white the whole picture has a purple tone to it I don't like....
+Sam Angrignon ...you could make a fast -drying black with burnt umber and Prussian blue and then add flake/lead white to create the greys. If the ''black'' is too blue or too brown , you just change the ratios to suit yourself. Also , ivory black is too oily to be used in a grisaille underpainting if that is your idea.
What is the best way to clean brushes ? What causes the painting to crack?
+Menna Yasser ...the best way to clean them is not to . The old masters would not clean their brushes because they would leave them in oil and just wipe them off with a rag before using them. Put them in a tray and tilt it at a small angle to leave the bristles in the oil that you will pour in. The bristles will stay flat and not bend as they do when you leave them in a jar. As for cracking , there are many reasons too numerous to list but cracking is usually caused by poor technique by artists who don't know what they are doing.
+Alba Whiteman thnx for help 👍🏻
Got the impression from watching the episode on cleaning brushes that your brush dip doesn't work well with synthetic brushes. Is it so?
+Frank Morton ...if you want to paint regularly , you don't wash your brushes__ just leave them in a tray of oil tilted at a slight angle from the horizontal.
Anyone know of the Irish artistd Sir John Lavery?
Check Marks' painting of George W. Bush which he painted for Union League of Philadelphia. Does it look effortlessly painted? Does it look super photoreal? Does it look like it took him six months to paint it? Does it have jumbled color?
Other paints are available.
Beatrice Townsend
Hello teacher
Can you add turkish subtitles?😊
how does an artist make money? where can I sell my paintings?
look at the work of Emile Claus and be baffeled
But many of these paintings are impressionistic? Right?
Mark my ex brother in law show is painting in a New York gallery and they are very ugly. How is this possible.
+Sebastien Lajoie ...art is a business and obviously the gallery thinks that it can sell the pics to people who have more dollars than sense.
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I am so lost, isn't most of this impressionism?
"Dirty" makes me think about dirty windows and dirty laundry, etc. With all of your life revolving around creating beauty on a canvas, why would you want to refer to your colors as "dirty" all of the time. I know what you mean by dirty, but what is wrong with just saying "muted"? It sort of hurts my brain every time you say dirty color when you don't really mean dirty, you mean muted. Same goes for paint "ugly". It's just a scratch on a record. It's loose, it's open, or whatever, but you don't really mean ugly so why ever say it? Just some thoughts. ps.. I DO appreciate every single one of your vids and I'm learning a lot from them. I love your work and I plan on trying your Geneva paints as soon as I can save up the money. But please consider talking true to every word. The subconscious mind does not really like being confused. THANKS!
STFU, if you know what he means what's your problem? Your widdle bwain is hoyting? Awww..
How we express ourselves with language is as varied unique and textured as the different ways an artist can use his brush. If his audience can at least grasp the main intended meaning then he has succeeded in communicating something to us. The use of a particular word that may have an unexpected connotation for some only gives his utterances a more interesting shape and possibly hints at a deeper subtext or meaning within meaning.
Let us not Gestapo a person's deliverance based on our own ideas of how something should be described or to ensure we are pleased with ourselves that we comprehend comfortably lest we constrict his informative flow. Maybe "dirty" or "ugly" invoke in him feelings you would rather not confront or his use of these words holds more meaning than you are prepared to allow for. You are asking him to conform to your sensibilities which will only result in less colorful or shapely information.
that hand dont look good, sorry! xD