I don't have a lot of knowledge on classical painting and which painter did what and when, but from an outsider's view, this is incredible. I'll have to keep this video in mind for my own paintings. Gorgeous brush strokes, too!! All the little fine lines in the hair!!!! I hope this painting made you proud.
I like the Botticelli technique. I have a lot of scheduled drawings and I have started about 40 portraits. Most are 75% finished. I like the medium of tempera. It was the first medium that I used! That and crayon.
Bonjour Anthony, Quelle magnifique leçon vous nous offrez! Vous m'apportez un éclairage technique comparable à la lumière que vous mettez dans votre réalisation. Depuis plusieurs années je tâtonne en solitaire dans ma pratique de la tempera à l'oeuf et je suis émerveillée par votre enseignement du chemin technique si généreusement partagé La langue anglaise dans laquelle vous vous exprimez est pour moi une barrière mais j'ai déjà regardé trois fois votre démonstration avec le plus grand intérêt. J'aurais aimé voir votre palette en même temps mais c'est déjà pour moi une révélation visuelle, d'ailleurs partagée par mon mari qui lui ne peint pourtant pas. Un grand merci. J'aimerais être votre élève !!! Matheolia
Beautiful demonstration and explanation of the painting techniques peppered with interesting anecdotes. Thank you! Botticelli is one of my absolute favorites, and your reverence for him comes through in this tutorial.
I think he would be pissed to see someone able to do this painting as good. It means that his painting are easy to paint. The ultimate insult to the artist. It's a good thing it's from a different era.
Your story with the bully teacher, good you did not listen to him! Some teachers don't share their knowledge today because they don't have any, lol! You, on the other hand, are very helpful as a teacher, thank you!
Hello, I am a painter from China and although I don't understand the language you use, I really enjoy your painting process and your beautiful work. I often watch your videos and I have two questions for you: 1) How long does it take for a layer to dry; 2) What are your most used colours? I sincerely hope you can reply.
Could you mention the pigments you used for the verdaccio and skin tones? Recently Botticellis' works have been attributed to tempera Grassa rather than pure egg tempera.
Καλησπέρα. Φανταστική δουλειά!!! Παρακολουθώ το κανάλι σας και είμαι γοητευμένη από τη δουλειά σας! Άρχισα πρόσφατα να δουλεύω με αυγοτέμπερα και θα ήθελα να σας ρωτήσω αν υπάρχει τρόπος να επιβραδύνω το στέγνωμα του χρώματος την ώρα της εργασίας για πιο απαλό σβήσιμο των χρωμάτων. Ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων.
could you tell us about your brushes you use? And which is the ratio of egg/water you used for the background. Also I'd like to suggest a video about how to handle the palette. Thanks.
You can buy gum arabic (powder or crystals) and some basic pigments and do your own watercolors (look for videos online to see how it is done). Once you do it once, it's very easy. Use them while still wet, freshly made.They will be thicker than comercial watercolors (which are extrafine because of machine grinding but do not have much covering power). They will be almost like egg tempera and you can paint them thinner or thicker. Look for the "dry brush" technique as well, it's important for this kind of work.
I'm totally fascinated by your technique. I have been a painter for 15 years, but I have always struggled with techniques. Acrylic does not allow me to make fine transitions. Can I mix acrylic with egg to finish the painting I have been doing with acrylic paints from the beginning?
I wonder what you mean by fine transitions? What are you trying to accomplish? I have never had any problems with acrylic not blending or being easy to use. It is also the easiest medium to paint over compared to tempera and oil. Maybe an acrylic medium will help you? There are glazing mediums for acrylics that make the paint more transparent and mediums to slow down the drying time which both help with blending. Water helps too if you don't want to use a medium. It can be mixed in acrylic to glaze and blend. Matte mediums gives more of a tempera finish btw, without the need of using eggs. I don't think eggs are good with acrylic.
@@nonalolagirl I am thinking of subtle transitions between similar shades and values of light and shadow. in the meantime i bought a glazing medium and a drying medium for slow down drying. When I reach a certain level what i can do with acrylic, i keep doing with oil paints. It is much easier for me to achieve that more sophisticated look and stronger color intensity with oil. I avoid oil paints because of the smell, but I plan to buy white spirit and slowly switch to oil painting.
@@kafa82 Ohh that is fascinating! Because am the opposite lol. I started off with water mixable oil paints and then decided to mostly use acrylics in school because the drying time is so much more convenient. By the time I learned proper oil techniques, I couldn't do them on my own outside of class because I'm surrounded by acrylics. I am a master with acrylics. I find it harder to transition my technique from acrylics to oil because with acrylics you don't really need layers. It's easy to work from one or two layers and get amazing transitions and blending with less efforts. It's like a shortcut and maybe that's why you are struggling. You are using it like oil but it was created to remove many steps in the painting process. The only thing I can't do with acrylics is get very realistic effects because oil is just so effervescent! It's like bringing life to a picture. Even those who use acrylics to do photorealism still don't capture that light and life. Since the masters started with tempera before oil, I find these layering techniques so useful on learning how best to make those oil transitions. They literally used tempera techniques when they first started using oil and all of the things they added to oil to speed the drying process is meant to replicate tempera. But I would never apply these techniques to the acrylic ones that I've mastered. Although, I will admit it can work well for acrylics if you are working from a black and white reference photo. Using those base tones and building the color up with these glazing techniques really helps you fake a realistic and natural color without ever seeing it in the original reference
thank you for your generosity! your videos are incredible! I started to do this mastercopy, but my proplasmos seems too dark and not very green like yours. I used yellow ocher, yellow raw umber and some green. Do you suggest me to add cadmium yellow? another question: when you start to darken the shadow, do you add something to your proplasmos? like black or dark umber? thank you so much.
Hello! I’m making my way through your videos and really enjoying them 😁 I have 2 questions if that’s ok? 1. Do you think it’s feasible to mix up Verdaccio (colour), in acrylic paint and use that to prime a linen canvas instead of egg tempura? And 2. Is there a part 2 of the Mona Lisa video where you take it to completion? I’m quite keen to try Mona Lisa, I’ve not tried any Leonardo master copies or studies, because it’s quite daunting 😂 Thanks, also thank you for the videos, I expect it’s a lot of work on top of the actual painting. Valerie
Thank you so much Valerie. Let me answer. 1 Yes but you cannot paint with egg tempera on that. You can paint with acrylic, or oil. If you want to oai t with egg tempera the (preferably) wood board, or the lines has to be prepared with rabbit skin glue gesso. 2 I plan to upload part 2 of mona Lisa video at some point in the future! Thank you for asking Stay creative!!
I didn't understand how you dilute the paint, just water or water and egg yolk mixture? If so how to you prepare the mixture? Do you use commercial paints or you make them yourself?
Great work once again!! Thank you so much for sharing! If you mind answering a question, have you taken lessons of western painting besides iconography?
An obtusely hard critique from an instructor with the obvious intention of discouraging a talented young artist often has a lot of personal projection in it. They are often bitter that their own career will never progress much further, to see a student as a threat highlights exactly why they never did achieve more.
Botticelli would be proud
Thank you sooo much!!
Thanks!
Many thanks! I think you're the best egg tempera teacher on internet for sure.
I don't have a lot of knowledge on classical painting and which painter did what and when, but from an outsider's view, this is incredible. I'll have to keep this video in mind for my own paintings. Gorgeous brush strokes, too!! All the little fine lines in the hair!!!! I hope this painting made you proud.
This is one of your best videos IMHO. Invaluable instruction and such a beautiful result. Thank you!
I like the Botticelli technique. I have a lot of scheduled drawings and I have started about 40 portraits. Most are 75% finished. I like the medium of tempera. It was the first medium that I used! That and crayon.
❤thank you so much for sharing your passionate knowledge❤
so awesome
Excelente trabajo
Thank you so much
Bonjour Anthony,
Quelle magnifique leçon vous nous offrez! Vous m'apportez un éclairage technique comparable à la lumière que vous mettez dans votre réalisation. Depuis plusieurs années je tâtonne en solitaire dans ma pratique de la tempera à l'oeuf et je suis émerveillée par votre enseignement du chemin technique si généreusement partagé
La langue anglaise dans laquelle vous vous exprimez est pour moi une barrière mais j'ai déjà regardé trois fois votre démonstration avec le plus grand intérêt. J'aurais aimé voir votre palette en même temps mais c'est déjà pour moi une révélation visuelle, d'ailleurs partagée par mon mari qui lui ne peint pourtant pas.
Un grand merci. J'aimerais être votre élève !!!
Matheolia
Beautiful demonstration and explanation of the painting techniques peppered with interesting anecdotes. Thank you! Botticelli is one of my absolute favorites, and your reverence for him comes through in this tutorial.
Good painting imformation.
the best educational and detailed video I've ever seen ! Thank you million times!
What a wonderful painting. I really enjoyed watching this.
Υπέροχο πορτρέτο!!Συγχαρητήρια!!
What a lovely man and superb artist.
He is also an excellent teacher who sees so much about the history of at and masters of art. Thank you so much.
If Sandro Botticelli was alive he would approve this painting 👍
Oh Joshua you are so generous!!!! Thank you so much! Stay creative!
I think he would be pissed to see someone able to do this painting as good.
It means that his painting are easy to paint.
The ultimate insult to the artist. It's a good thing it's from a different era.
You're very underrated for a really good artist
Thanks, nice to see you again. My friend.
Your skill are unique in the world. You are the Michaelanglo of 21 century. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you once again for such an informative tutorial! I enjoyed watching it and learned much! It is greatly appreciated!
Thank you Leo!!!
Thank you, this technique endured well into the 1800s as well
Just found you and your inspirational tutorials!
Thank you for sharing .
The transformation using this technique is magical!🎨🖌️❤️
So Beautiful. thank you for teaching
Amazing work Antonis!!! Thank You!!!!
beautiful portrait, beautiful technique
Thank you so much!!! All the best to you!!
Your story with the bully teacher, good you did not listen to him! Some teachers don't share their knowledge today because they don't have any, lol! You, on the other hand, are very helpful as a teacher, thank you!
Such a great video!
You’re an absolute boss! Thanks again for another superb demo
Thank you so much for this video. Your work is amazing and i’ve learned a lot. Greetings from Chile.
These videos are really helpfull and informative!! Thank you for posting them :)
Hello, I am a painter from China and although I don't understand the language you use, I really enjoy your painting process and your beautiful work. I often watch your videos and I have two questions for you: 1) How long does it take for a layer to dry; 2) What are your most used colours? I sincerely hope you can reply.
Thank you sir! I have learned a lot from your videos!
What a generous and wonderful video! Thank you, you are very gifted ⭐🙂❤🙏🏼
YOU ARE A MASTER...
Love your work it's so amazing
Beautiful.
Thank you!!!
One of your best demos. I would like to know the colours that you uses if possible. But very well done.
Beautiful, thank you
Gorgeous, very helpful, thank you very much 💗
really very good !
Masterful work! 👏🏻
Could you mention the pigments you used for the verdaccio and skin tones?
Recently Botticellis' works have been attributed to tempera Grassa rather than pure egg tempera.
Grazie, grazie!! Molto bello!!!
amazing 🌼
Bravo Andones !!
Thank you so much!!!! Be creative!!
Very cool.. I want to learn this method from you.. but how do I apply layers of color? Do you let it dry and then apply another layer??
Καλησπέρα. Φανταστική δουλειά!!! Παρακολουθώ το κανάλι σας και είμαι γοητευμένη από τη δουλειά σας!
Άρχισα πρόσφατα να δουλεύω με αυγοτέμπερα και θα ήθελα να σας ρωτήσω αν υπάρχει τρόπος να επιβραδύνω το στέγνωμα του χρώματος την ώρα της εργασίας για πιο απαλό σβήσιμο των χρωμάτων.
Ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων.
could you tell us about your brushes you use? And which is the ratio of egg/water you used for the background. Also I'd like to suggest a video about how to handle the palette. Thanks.
hello antonis. I love your videos, and is iconography with water colors possible? and if it is can you please please do a tutorial.
You can buy gum arabic (powder or crystals) and some basic pigments and do your own watercolors (look for videos online to see how it is done). Once you do it once, it's very easy. Use them while still wet, freshly made.They will be thicker than comercial watercolors (which are extrafine because of machine grinding but do not have much covering power). They will be almost like egg tempera and you can paint them thinner or thicker. Look for the "dry brush" technique as well, it's important for this kind of work.
I'm totally fascinated by your technique. I have been a painter for 15 years, but I have always struggled with techniques. Acrylic does not allow me to make fine transitions. Can I mix acrylic with egg to finish the painting I have been doing with acrylic paints from the beginning?
I wonder what you mean by fine transitions? What are you trying to accomplish?
I have never had any problems with acrylic not blending or being easy to use. It is also the easiest medium to paint over compared to tempera and oil. Maybe an acrylic medium will help you? There are glazing mediums for acrylics that make the paint more transparent and mediums to slow down the drying time which both help with blending. Water helps too if you don't want to use a medium. It can be mixed in acrylic to glaze and blend.
Matte mediums gives more of a tempera finish btw, without the need of using eggs. I don't think eggs are good with acrylic.
@@nonalolagirl I am thinking of subtle transitions between similar shades and values of light and shadow. in the meantime i bought a glazing medium and a drying medium for slow down drying. When I reach a certain level
what i can do with acrylic, i keep doing with oil paints. It is much easier for me to achieve that more sophisticated look and stronger color intensity with oil. I avoid oil paints because of the smell, but I plan to buy white spirit and slowly switch to oil painting.
@@kafa82 Ohh that is fascinating! Because am the opposite lol. I started off with water mixable oil paints and then decided to mostly use acrylics in school because the drying time is so much more convenient. By the time I learned proper oil techniques, I couldn't do them on my own outside of class because I'm surrounded by acrylics. I am a master with acrylics.
I find it harder to transition my technique from acrylics to oil because with acrylics you don't really need layers. It's easy to work from one or two layers and get amazing transitions and blending with less efforts. It's like a shortcut and maybe that's why you are struggling. You are using it like oil but it was created to remove many steps in the painting process. The only thing I can't do with acrylics is get very realistic effects because oil is just so effervescent! It's like bringing life to a picture. Even those who use acrylics to do photorealism still don't capture that light and life.
Since the masters started with tempera before oil, I find these layering techniques so useful on learning how best to make those oil transitions. They literally used tempera techniques when they first started using oil and all of the things they added to oil to speed the drying process is meant to replicate tempera. But I would never apply these techniques to the acrylic ones that I've mastered. Although, I will admit it can work well for acrylics if you are working from a black and white reference photo. Using those base tones and building the color up with these glazing techniques really helps you fake a realistic and natural color without ever seeing it in the original reference
Beautiful. What size / type of brush is being used?
Congratulations . His painting was better than Botticelli's own.
thank you for your generosity! your videos are incredible! I started to do this mastercopy, but my proplasmos seems too dark and not very green like yours. I used yellow ocher, yellow raw umber and some green. Do you suggest me to add cadmium yellow? another question: when you start to darken the shadow, do you add something to your proplasmos? like black or dark umber? thank you so much.
Great job!
Thank you Erik!!
What kind of board is that??
Hello! I’m making my way through your videos and really enjoying them 😁 I have 2 questions if that’s ok?
1. Do you think it’s feasible to mix up Verdaccio (colour), in acrylic paint and use that to prime a linen canvas instead of egg tempura?
And
2. Is there a part 2 of the Mona Lisa video where you take it to completion?
I’m quite keen to try Mona Lisa, I’ve not tried any Leonardo master copies or studies, because it’s quite daunting 😂
Thanks, also thank you for the videos, I expect it’s a lot of work on top of the actual painting.
Valerie
Thank you so much Valerie. Let me answer.
1 Yes but you cannot paint with egg tempera on that. You can paint with acrylic, or oil. If you want to oai t with egg tempera the (preferably) wood board, or the lines has to be prepared with rabbit skin glue gesso.
2 I plan to upload part 2 of mona Lisa video at some point in the future! Thank you for asking
Stay creative!!
@@PaintingtheLight That’s great, thanks for your reply, I’ll look forward to Mona Lisa pt2 😁
thanks, I have one question? do you wait between layers to dry?
I didn't understand how you dilute the paint, just water or water and egg yolk mixture? If so how to you prepare the mixture? Do you use commercial paints or you make them yourself?
Thank You 😍
So can you use egg tempera mix with oils?
What medium did u use?
What is a vertasio? Is it an Underpainting?
Great work once again!! Thank you so much for sharing! If you mind answering a question, have you taken lessons of western painting besides iconography?
Thank you Kotis. I studied painting at the Athens school of Fine arts and the San Francisco State University. So yes! :)
The teachers critique was probably right but you didn't let that stop you from learning and improving
Great👍👍❤❤
Υπέροχο! Acrilik?
Αυγοτεμπερα
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0:15 botticelli 50:48 antonis
How many hours this take you?
Αround 7 hours
Ma perché dici verdazio? Si chiama "verdaccio"...Ps Comunque molto bello come esegui la tecnica! Bravo, bellissimo risultato! 👍🏻
👍👍👍
An obtusely hard critique from an instructor with the obvious intention of discouraging a talented young artist often has a lot of personal projection in it.
They are often bitter that their own career will never progress much further, to see a student as a threat highlights exactly why they never did achieve more.
!!! Like!
if it's amazing it's amazing so I've ever said sometimes a new art is better than the original ha ha
Give me oil paints any day. Jeez!
I'd be reproducing that with alla prima honestly. Modern times.. right?
Great video though
your video cannot be automatically translated
I prefer oil paint
Releituras das obras desses pintores antigos ficam inferiores demais das originais
You should learn the proper pronunciation of Botticelli and verdaccio.
Don’t paint like Botticelli paint like your self!
Buuuuuuhh ! 👎
What is your Instagram?? Plz tell me
Great job!
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