Top 4 Priorities for Artist - Oil Painting Advice
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- In this video I discuss the top 4 priorities every artist should know.
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1. Subject matter
2. Lighting
3. Composition
4. How well its painted
Thank you Mark.
for number four, it's really focus. Focusing on what you are doing rather than just letting it happen.
Reminds me of something I hear photographers say: The amateur worries about his equipement, the professional cares about composition, while the master is concerned with the lighting.
In that case, I'm master. And yet, my paintings are utter crap.
Great advice, the reason great paintings are so compelling is because the image you see has passed through a brain, not just through a pair of eyes or a lense.
Very well stated, can I shamelessly steal and quote this statement?
an absolute gem of an advice is when you said paint as if what you are painting is the last painting you'll make
Very well said, I most definitely agree, we should be aiming for a masterpiece every time.
Sometimes you do the best when you don’t expect too much :)
@@wincenty8220 Very true man💯
Hopper's narrative, use of light and shadow and composition was always on point, which is why he is also one of my top artists. 👌 thank you.
Yes, strive to paint a masterpiece, but do not expect it. The expectation that the painting HAS to be a masterpiece is what often stops people from completing a work or learning from their mistakes. Our mistakes are our best teacher.
"Perfection is the enemy of good." - Voltair
Like the ambassadors. What a subject, a visual puzzle! Paint anamorphic!
I can't understand English well, but I still watching because in my country is no youtuber like this..
I'm indonesian
Well, if it's any comfort, I bet your English is a thousand times better than my Indonesian lol
thank you hachi
You are so right about choosing the subject matter. I would never be happy painting if I am not in love with the subject matter.
I am a color addict so for me it's the colors of a painting that get my attention first and compel me to take a closer look. Then on closer inspection I take note of the style in which it's painted and then the subject matter after that.
My mind must be similar to yours! I love colour, and always start my art work with the colour I need to see right then. Then style, mood and after that, subject matter.
Totally agree. Great to see you back again. Miss your videos so always good to see a new one
Very good advices
YES! I can spend days getting a still life setup exactly as I like, and even then I have sometimes ended up not wanting to paint it. I don't know if my paintings move anyone, but I like them and that's all that seems to matter in deciding whether to paint the subject or not.
That's all that should matter anyway;-)
Mark, I had to do a double take when I saw the thumbnail. That James Guthrie painting is in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh about 10 minutes walk away from me! I love that painting so much!! Not to mention the Lady Agnew portrait by Sargent is there too. I forget sometimes how lucky I am to have such beautiful works of art so close to me.
Thank you.
I guess having that great art by you is a slight consolation for the winters you have to bear up there in Scotland. Haha
Oh, I feel a kind of good envy of you... that painting is marvelous. Have lots of inspiration by your museum visits.
I love Ed Hopper's work too. His value contrasts are what appeal most to me.
Mark you are 100% correct. Thanks for the reminder. Keep well and thanks for the videos.
Its a year ago I was here and now I paint with your very special oil colors and I have truly fallen in love with them - they are just so beautifull so I would add finding materials that make your heart sing and your soul go on adventure finding treasures you did not know you wanted to paint. Your paint has literally changed my style of painting and I am just more and more in love with them - for me they inspired me and added to the joy of painting
I couldn't agree more. For example, for those paintings that I never finish it's always because I realize at some point in the painting process that the composition or subject matter is simply not interesting. No matter how well I paint it, it just is not going to be appealing. In contrast, I have painted well-composed and interesting subject matter less than my best but these paintings often become the most popular. In short, your insights into the painting endeavour are bang on Mark (as always).
Thanks for the great advise . Love your teaching and your sharing your knowledge.
That explains why there are so many painters out there and just a few stand out. It totally makes sense Mark.
I like your videos because of your relax informative talk as you speak to yourself or to an old friend, I look forward to be a new painting youtuber to show my paintings and how to paint realism paintings. Your videos inspire me much, thanks for your efforts.
I slightly disagree with the message or making the mindset be concerned with "masterpieces". I've found that some of my best work has come about when I "let go" of that pressure and let my subconcious kind of take me on a journey. I think progress can come from exploration and lack of fear rather than concious striving to "improve".
yeah. my best painting came from that headspace. i finished it in 2hs. when i took months to do one. i still look at it wonder how i did to let go the mind and connect with unconscious
There has to be both. I have done the same, but it is STRONGLY suggested that you switch between letting whatever hit the canvas and actually focusing step by step. If you don't do this, you could find yourself 10 years later doing the same thing or not improving because of that. I've done it before.
That's a pretty interesting comment. I think there should be a balance though. You have to push yourself to improve and get out of your comfort zone , but at the same time that idea should not be daunting. No effort spent on your art is a waste of time or is a failure- even if it doesn't come out as intended. I think it comes down to feeling comfortable enough with yourself as an artist to explore all possibilities.
Thanks to whoever may have seen my long comment :p
I just came to this realization and I’m still in student mode. You’re so right
The masterpiece mindset is ego driven nonsense
Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you ! 🙏
Thankyou for your passion and willingness to help others
Thanks Mark. Great advice.
I agree very much with your message and very strong to begin with your first example with Popper - very strong demonstration of what this is about,
I call the " subject matter" musicality, atmosphere , the Lights, the rhythms, the attunement -
and how you paint is maybe more about movement and tactility - and not l about how well you painted it.
Good advice! Always enjoy listening to your videos.
Great approach. I always learn great new ideas and approaches on this channel. Your contribution is much appreciated. 🙂
Yes, I think it is as you have said and I confess I forget that, paying so much attention on how I paint
I agree completely with what you brought up during the video on how important subject-manner n composition is to one's art. especially when you start a new piece how does it" grabs you "n won't let you go .. sure brush stroke is important just as one color is in relation to another n how they complement each other... I'll find myself sometimes getting halfway through a piece and loose my enthusiasm and I force myself to continue and at the end be amazed just how well it actually turns out.i personally want to thank you for everything you do for the community, kudos to you Mr. Carder.
Sir you are a Great Teacher... I actually believe I can do it
Just want you to know Mr. Carder that your words “keep it abstract, don’t blend” are always in my head when painting. I believe I’m better for it so thank you sir!
Thank you, I needed this.
Thanks for the advice!
I feel utterly grateful.
Wonderful advice.
Very importantly & concise.
Nice to hear someone say that technical skill is not the B all and end all in painting.
I wish I were one of your private students 🥺 your advices are priceless
Love that painting on the thumbnail!
lovely advice thank you
Hi Mark, I am big fan of yours! You always gave no nonsense, straight forward advise. I am wondering any chance for Emily to demonstrate painting, especially how to fix mistake? Also, could you demonstrate how to paint a vase of flowers? Not sure how to color check flowers given that the color is “ all over the place” - thank you
This is really good advice.
Thank you!
Agree
Thanks a lot! Very helpful
I needed to hear this.
Great advice. Thanks.
Thanks For Your Help an Time
Spot. On.
Good video! Indeed, always look for that extra something in the subject you've never seen before. Working with plein-air artists, I'll always say: "Don't just paint what's there: open up and paint what's not there...". Be more than just what you see.
Great advice
Thank you
I love your videos! I wish you produced more, and more often. I get so excited when I get a notification for one of your videos. Is there anyway you could do a portrait demonstration?
You can download an 8 hour portrait demo from drawmixpaint.com; I recently did it.
@@kyb3er I don't have $100 unfortunately, but I would definitely purchase it if I could.
@@MrRalvsx Watch all the videos from his channel, you won't need anything else, perhaps checking his website too.
I realized I should choose from my many ideas, subjects that other people would like first.
this explains why i feel the way i do about this really good photo realistic artist, extremely good paintings, look exactly like photos but because subject matter is completely put in last place, i find there art not nearly as endearing, to me its incredible that its possible to be photo realistic but if you want to make something worth more than the WOW factor of skills it needs to have a good subject for it to being painted in the first place. in other words a painting needs to have a heart of its own
I love the Hind’s daughter, such a wonderful painting!
Thanks for sharing, are there any guiding rules for lighting and mood?
welcome back
thank you for the video :)
Timely, concise and knowledgeable advice. It’s almost the same advice I just received from a very respected Art Gallery owner just last week when I showed my work to him. He said my skill at handling the paint is very good and my ability to reproduce images is very good but I need a theme. He suggested that the most beautiful painted images in the world are not compelling if they’re not saying anything (beyond look at this pretty image). It poses a dilemma for me because, not being a shallow person, I have strong political and cultural opinions (that I’d love to express in my paintings) which I find difficult to articulate in paintings without hitting one over the head with my opinions. Does anyone have method they employ to express their (lets call them philosophical) ideas in a subtle manner or even tricky way?
Ilya Repin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin) had a wonderful way of what we would nowadays call social commentary or engagement without "hitting his audience over the head" - absent any concrete tricks I can give you, I'd suggest you look at his work. Repin is just an example among many of course, he is the one that came to mind reading your question.
Caravaggio is one of my favorite artist of all time
Always learn from you ..thank you Mark..😀
Thank u...
Respect
This guy really knows what he is talking about.
Very important to focus on qualities that make a painting attractive: 1) The subject- matter is superimportant, because it for me is the very essense of the heart feeling of a painting, 2) lighting is for me the color composition and it is also the tonal quality
Solid advice, and not just for oil painting. But it kind of assumes you are allready at a certain level of skill, and producing work with a commercial goal. In the proces of getting there priorities might be different.
Hello Mark, What is your opinion about atelier art school now a day? If I have a chance to go there should I go ? It takes 3 years and very far from my home. I live in Thailand but a school located in Italy.
Nice video
Plz make Geneva oil paint available on Amazon
You missed one the last one the 5th one is buy your geneva paint
It's truly great stuff.
Edward Hopper didn't mean to paint in a realistic way and that's one of the reasons his paintings became so well known and unique. They have a geometric-abstract flare that makes his paintings pop out with color, light, and simplicity.
Уважаемый Мастер, делайте, пожалуйста, субтитры, как это было в первых роликах. Мне тоже очень интересно послушать о чём говорит такой выдающийся художник.
Anyone know the painting @1:34 girl with cows? I like it.
I Love your channel and your paints. Very high quality product and recommend them to every artist. However, I disagree with you on how subject matter is more important then how well it is painted. A great realist artist can make any subject come to life on the way he paints it. If fact my personal belief that is his duty as a artis. Like a great musician can make any song sound beautiful.
Anybody can paint an apple. But, if there is no story, no meaning, no communication then what is the point. I can look at apples anywhere and I don't care how well you paint it. You could be the best painter in the world. That apple could glow, but, if there is no story then there is no communication. This is the "subject matter" which mark refers to. And Mark is right, the story is more important than the painting skill.
A child could create a great work of art.
How to be famous and happy as a painter?i asked to my master Polo the grey,old master in my town.
He answered me :
"Georges,little human being..my first advice:
Painting subject what you love is a good way to realize a good painting..BUT painting a subject that is a totally obsession for you will made a masterpiece !
Second advice :
Never take seriously the fact to please other people with your work ,gallery,art critics,etc..enjoy painting for yourself like a masturbation 's act ,only the moment and pleasure of create a painting is important..in future years,century we will be bones and dust,totally forgotten..
Last advice and the more important :
A artist is a explorator,you must discover your own lost paradize,that nobody before you have explore and to find it you have to travel into the deepest places of your imagination/brain/spirit and soul ! "
Last advice: Paint whatever you want, then get a job.
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I think Bob Ross was the BEST advice/teacher: .."just let go, enjoy...." HE was truly AMAZING! RIP Bob and ALL the beautiful skies now are painted by Bob Ross in Heaven.
He also painted his whole life and wasn't able to achieve that quality until later. He talked about it constantly during his shows.
I went through an Edward Hopper phase long ago, then the more time I had to think about it, the less interested in Hopper I became. I would not actually want to own a painting by Hopper. They are just not enjoyable to look at, and as Carder points out, they are not well painted.
Mark, would you contact me? I took your private class in June/July, 2019. I do not want to give my comment publicly. thank you Mary Jo Jacobson
The most important thing in any oil painting is 1. composition 2. light/ shadow ,3 colour , expressiveness and 3. canvas size, the bigger the better/ interesting. Subject matter is not so important. That is solely between the artist and himself only. If subject matter is supposed to be the most important thing than that's not 'art', that is photography/ illustration. Real art can take the most mundane and transform it into extraordinary via light, colour/ composition.
true, real art can take the most mundane, but it is an incorrect representation of what the artist does if you suggest that he or she can take _any_ subject matter and make it extraordinary
I do agree with you that when he or she succeeds in doing so, he or she has used light, colour, composition to convey a mood or an idea or whatever.
but what happens when an artist chooses a subject matter is that he or she intuits how the mundane can be transformed in the way you describe, so the artists matches their choice to their abilities and the scope they see for the subject
so choosing well is a matter of listening to that inner voice - I think this is Mark's point
your points 1 and 2 probably represent the opinion of many, but 3 seems odd - never before have a heard an art lover claim that all else being equal, bigger is better
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You need only enough technique to express what you have to say. A painter may have the greatest facility, but if he or she has no personal vision, then a great work of art is not produced, merely an illustration of reality. Or so l have always believed.
Was just thinking the other day,if the subject isn't appealing, it could be the best painted in the world but if the scene is boring l wouldn't like it.
but maybe the artist can find something in the scene that is profoundly moving and be able to convey that
do not ask me how he or she does that!
If a so-called 'artist' strives (only) to create paintings that faithfully mimic reality, a.k.a 'realism', that is not 'art', he is not an 'artist'. He is instead an illustrator/ sign/ billboard painter.. And those are a 'dime-a-dozen'. A real/true artist is a 'creative'. He is a conduit, a translator, an ambassador between the artsy, creative spirit and reality. None of his works should ever look like photo-realism, realistic unless he is doing field sketches, or pleine aire work studies..
plein air, not pleine aire
an aire is something like a lay-by, a picknick area or playground
I don't agree with this idea .two artists can paint the same object and one work could be worthless and the other one a master piece.
the other three points were also "priorities"...!
what Mark means is that you can be less accomplished on the other three "priorities" and still produce something that moves people
you (or I) are unlikely to be the one that produces a masterpiece! but your best chance is if you choose a subject matter that is true to yourself
also "subject matter" does not quite mean the same thing as "object(s) depicted" as you appear to believe - the nuance may have escaped you as English does not appear to be your mother tongue