Thanks for your feed back Chee Ho. I agree, I could have offered more about my palette but on the day there was no camera operator, just myself and a couple of students. I promise I will provide more of the palette. Cheers and happy painting
Thanks for your generous comments Victoria. As you can see from the demonstration I started out by mapping out the abstract patterns. From there it is careful observation and objective analysis of the subject. I would love to be able to reduce a subject to it's abstract. That's what's wonderful about painting, we all bring a different interpretation to the canvas.
This is a great tutorial on portrait making, l found it very interesting and loved watching you work. l am an abstract artist, one year of my Bachelor in Fine Arts, but feel quite inadequate in portrait. Great job
Great question tellytubbyremixx. The consistency of the paint will vary from canvas to canvas, brand of paint, brushes used and types of mediums. Best rule of thumb is to work fat over lean. Thin your paint with thiiners like turps for initial block in. Add medium only when you are ready to build. Keep consistency buttery and keep your work as soft as you can for ss long as you can. It takes much pravtice to control oil paint but this tip will help.
I work oil paint lean to fat. I want to keep the paint manageable whilst I am adjusting at the beginning so I keep the paint lean with just some turps to move it around. I will add a bit of oil when I start to build the painting up. Thanks for your comment
Thanks for your feed back @ fubarizationnation I value your comments so I can improve on my video presentations. Whilst you are correct, I begin by marking some placement lines to assist me to establish basic proportion, the title of the video "with out drawing" implies that I have not used a drawing which I simply colour in. You will notice that I block in masses more than draw a likeness. I hope this explains the title more. And thanks again for your feed back
I notice that you apply the paint very smoothly and it doesn't seem "caked on". I use medium with my paint but I have noticed that I cannot paint very smoothly or build lighter layers of paint over slightly darker layers. I see that you accomplish this quite well! How can I do this? Do you start out using solvents mixed with paint for the initial drawing and then build to using paint with medium? I am very new to oil painting so any help is much appreciated!!
LOL sagganuts! Best comment yet. But I think you have your countries mixed up a bit. Spinal Tap is a British film, I am Australian. Though I get where your going with it. Thanks for your comment and for watching. Cheers Jeff
Great Videos Jeffrey and great painting. Not many videos talk through the process. I have loads of questions to ask you! What colours are you using for mid dark (9.52) You mention Cad Orange? You say you usually have three values of dark and three of light, I would love to know the main colours you use.
Thanks philthepanic for watching my videos and your comments.There are 9 values that you will do well to learn and practice. Three of dark, three of mid and three of the lighter tones ranging from darkest dark to lightest light [pure white]. The mid tone in this range is what I continue to call the midtone throughout the video. The main colours for basic flesh tones are:Burnt Sienna and white for mid tones, you may select red instead pending on skin colour.Burnt Sienna, raw umber red or crimson for the darker tones. Adding white where you want opacity.I also use orange to warm up colours, especially the darker ones. Dark tones must give back a sensation of warm chromatic value.These are the basic colours for a portrait. Where I want a bit cooler I will add Ultramarine Blue, or a reddish cool, Indian red. This all depends on the skin type but these are the basic pigments I will always use.CheersJeff
Awesome. I gave up on Google + but thought I would give it another go. I have had a few page visits in the last couple of days. :) Nice of you to drop a hello! And thanks for the Subscribe. :)
hi frontraiderz and thanks for your comments. stay tuned. something exciting i am working on that may interest you. Virtual art class via skype or Facetime.
I am so watchful about how you hold the brush and pinpoint your detailed subject lines...and I'm so convinced that this is art!
Watching this step by step in real time with your explanations of colour has helped me no end! Thank you for posting!
great to see how you work and watch it all come together
Jeffrey, beautiful portrait video series, really enjoyed the process!
Thanks for your feed back Chee Ho. I agree, I could have offered more about my palette but on the day there was no camera operator, just myself and a couple of students. I promise I will provide more of the palette. Cheers and happy painting
You make it so easy especially the way you hold your paint brush :)
This was great! thank you very much for this informative video!
FANTASTIC!
Excelente técnica, bonito retrato, bem feito !!!
Thanks for your generous comments Victoria.
As you can see from the demonstration I started out by mapping out the abstract patterns. From there it is careful observation and objective analysis of the subject. I would love to be able to reduce a subject to it's abstract. That's what's wonderful about painting, we all bring a different interpretation to the canvas.
Great stuff! Learned a lot. It will be even better if the palette of colors and color mixing were also shown.
This is a great tutorial on portrait making, l found it very interesting and loved watching you work. l am an abstract artist, one year of my Bachelor in Fine Arts, but feel quite inadequate in portrait. Great job
UA-cam Channel going nuts. Watch and share my videos with any body who is interested in art
Graet stuff ;) love the roughness of your paintings!
Great question tellytubbyremixx. The consistency of the paint will vary from canvas to canvas, brand of paint, brushes used and types of mediums. Best rule of thumb is to work fat over lean. Thin your paint with thiiners like turps for initial block in. Add medium only when you are ready to build. Keep consistency buttery and keep your work as soft as you can for ss long as you can. It takes much pravtice to control oil paint but this tip will help.
I work oil paint lean to fat. I want to keep the paint manageable whilst I am adjusting at the beginning so I keep the paint lean with just some turps to move it around. I will add a bit of oil when I start to build the painting up. Thanks for your comment
this is so great - learnt alot x
Thanks for your comment. I'm pleased that you have gained something from it. Happy Painting:)
Excellent!
Thanks for your comment Nannete
Love the conversation
great job !
Thanks for your feed back @ fubarizationnation
I value your comments so I can improve on my video presentations.
Whilst you are correct, I begin by marking some placement lines to assist me to establish basic proportion, the title of the video "with out drawing" implies that I have not used a drawing which I simply colour in.
You will notice that I block in masses more than draw a likeness.
I hope this explains the title more. And thanks again for your feed back
I notice that you apply the paint very smoothly and it doesn't seem "caked on". I use medium with my paint but I have noticed that I cannot paint very smoothly or build lighter layers of paint over slightly darker layers. I see that you accomplish this quite well! How can I do this? Do you start out using solvents mixed with paint for the initial drawing and then build to using paint with medium? I am very new to oil painting so any help is much appreciated!!
So helpful .. thank you
LOL sagganuts! Best comment yet.
But I think you have your countries mixed up a bit. Spinal Tap is a British film, I am Australian. Though I get where your going with it.
Thanks for your comment and for watching.
Cheers
Jeff
Thanks for your comment Patrick
Great Videos Jeffrey and great painting. Not many videos talk through the process. I have loads of questions to ask you! What colours are you using for mid dark (9.52) You mention Cad Orange? You say you usually have three values of dark and three of light, I would love to know the main colours you use.
Thanks philthepanic for watching my videos and your comments.There are 9 values that you will do well to learn and practice. Three of dark, three of mid and three of the lighter tones ranging from darkest dark to lightest light [pure white]. The mid tone in this range is what I continue to call the midtone throughout the video. The main colours for basic flesh tones are:Burnt Sienna and white for mid tones, you may select red instead pending on skin colour.Burnt Sienna, raw umber red or crimson for the darker tones. Adding white where you want opacity.I also use orange to warm up colours, especially the darker ones. Dark tones must give back a sensation of warm chromatic value.These are the basic colours for a portrait. Where I want a bit cooler I will add Ultramarine Blue, or a reddish cool, Indian red. This all depends on the skin type but these are the basic pigments I will always use.CheersJeff
Thank you Jeff, that is very informative and generous of you. I Really appreciate it.
Thanks for posting the video.
Found your video on Google Plus! Hello :)
its great
Awesome. I gave up on Google + but thought I would give it another go. I have had a few page visits in the last couple of days. :) Nice of you to drop a hello! And thanks for the Subscribe. :)
it's a shame I cannot come to Australia. I would love to learn this metho.
hi frontraiderz and thanks for your comments. stay tuned. something exciting i am working on that may interest you. Virtual art class via skype or Facetime.
Wonderful Patrick. I am thrilled that you got value from watching my video. Thank you
Прошу прощение, но хочу спросить - почему шуршит кисть, как по сухому? Без масла?
My Portrait demo on UA-cam soon to make 100,000 views
perfect
True!Nice work!....but it has drawing....its just that you used brush and oil and not pencil for the sketch....
That is how you hold a paintbrush
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The very first thing you did was start drawing.
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