I think I could learn so much in just one day of lessons with you, than I’ve learned in 2 years from all combined videos of others. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Meester Ben Lustenhouwer. Ik ben blij dat ik steeds kan genieten van je fijne en belangrijke tips. Zo ook nu weer spelen met licht en donker contrasten. Dank je wel.
Ben, I got amazed about the first example you show us. The brunet women on a red dress. Congratulations, it´s a lovely pleasent work! God Bless you! And thank you for the tutorial!
I'm a self taught watercolorist. Two years now. I think I had a leg up on painting because I am a professional hair stylist/colorist. The color wheel is everything.
Thank you so much for your generosity in these videos. I agree with the earlier poster saying you are like a teacher I never got to learn from in art school! Thank you, thank you!
Very good video! I agree that the division between warm and cool colors is somewhat arbitrary. As you pointed out, there are warm and cool greens in your trees. 👍
You are the art teacher I never got to have in school 🙏 more invaluable information thank you Ben. I love your color wheel split.... I have never been fully comfortable defining yellow-greens as cool! 😁 and thank you for the clarification on cool and warm shadows!! 😎🙏 Oh, and p.s what an amazing view from your garden!!👌 you are a treasure Ben 😉
I literally can not wait for the next video, I really find your content very much entertaining and educational for someone as a beginner as me with portrait painting!
Thank you Ben. Everyone should listen to this five times then go practice it five times. You just explained something in five minutes it took me years to understand and I still make mistakes with it. So much in this , lighting, inside -outside, background.i recently toned a canvas in yellow not thinking that it would show on cool side. . I did the drawing, then the underpainting then the painting and the yellow was still present. Nice painting but not what I wanted and now starting over.
Thank you for the explanation. The eyedropper over the various regions demonstration helped me. Also, the warm light cool shadow was not something I ever thought about. Now I am having somewhat of a shift in how I think about light and shadows and will try to apply it to my drawing/painting.
You, Sir, have such wonderful eyes for values and colors, and composition of course! I do feel, Sargent lives a second life in YOU! I do paintings myself, yet I read and thus learn of it as much as I should be painting... But I think I am beginning to grasp some of its quintessence.Anyway, I am not interested to have any a day a gallery showing my paintings, or sell any of them, but I would show you some of my paintings to have a strong and honest critique about them. Thank you so much!
Ben, those landscapes at the end are so beautiful! Please spend some time doing videos on those. We are not all portrait painters!! But thanks for your generosity!
Ben Lustenhouwer You are an inspiration for me. I love portraits and I started studying painting a year ago. one day i want to paint a beautiful portrait of my daughter (3 years old). congratulations on your work and thanks for the videos. they are a breath for me .
This is very helpful- I need a lot of help with warm/cool vs. dark/light- I could use more of these examples, even more depth and slower- I am reviewing this several times- thank you so much!
This is exactly what I'm working on at the moment, particularly in my landscapes. But I just can't get it right. So hard to apply, the right amount, right intensity of warmth or cool. Thanks for emphasizing the importance of this principle.
Just looking at a few of your videos and I'm not sure I've understood properly. You've said that a warm light produces cold shadows, but does the warm light produce warm highlights ? So if I paint an outdoor scene with strong bright sunshine the light would be yellowish and the shadows would be cool, with a bluish tint. The highlights would also be warm, like the strong sunshine. Have I got that right ? And then if I paint a portrait of a young lady, illuminated by a ceiling light that is a cold bluish light, then that would produce warm shadows but cold highlights. Have I got that right ? You said use crimson & white under the eye and on the cheeks and forehead for cool highlights So now here in Thailand we have lamps that are either "cool daylight" or "warm daylight" I personally look dreadful illuminated by a "cool daylight" lamp. I look much better under a "warm daylight" lamp So I produce a painting that's done using your method and it's purchased by the client and he takes it home and looks at it on his wall illuminated by a "warm daylight" lamp where does that leave the artist and the client. Do I tell him to change the lamp in his house ? Quite frankly I paint under a "warm daylight" bulb and it looks OK to me. I suspect that someone with extremely good colour vision will be able to look at any painting and see the colour isn't right. My clients don't seem to be in the least bothered about the colours I use up to now. No doubt there'll be one in the future that will complain. But as you know there's always somebody who isn't happy. Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
A Rule of Thumb is not Law and Order. First let me show what Wikipedia understands by Rule of Thumb: a broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory. So take this rule as a hint. In a face exposed under sunset light you will indeed see that the warm light source gives warm highlights. Usually, any light source indoors is cooler than the shadows it produces. The contrast of cool lights against a warmer environment is a just very useful effect in a portrait. Best. Ben
@@lustenhouwer Thank you Ben for your very quick reply. I'm most grateful to you. I now understand completely Warm light, gives warm highlights but cold shadows Cool light, typically indoors gives cool highlights and warm shadows. Got it now ! Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
First let me say, you are a wonderfully talented man. And I am learning quite a lot. I have a question. For some reason my portraits have a chalky look. What in the world am I doing. Or adding to make it look that way. Thank you for your videos.
Que importante es estimado Maestro los subtítulos en Español para los que no sabemos Inglés Lo saludo gratamente con las gracias de siempre por su generosidad de su tiempo y su enorme talento.///Si bien Estudie Teoría del color , al ver su explicación sobre el tema ,es magistral y sumamente fresca.Gracias.
OMG,you explain everything so well, I am a newbie at painting and I am learning from you so much....if it is not very boring for you, could you do some Colour theory for newbies?!Anyway , I thank you for your videos!
Question for Ben: Do warm skin tones transition into neutral grey, before turning into cool skin tone shadows? I once saw a tutorial discussing this, but have since lost the link and forgotten the principles. Could you respond?
To be honest I cannot give you the "right" answer. Some say that there "must" be a gray transition and others want a bright powerful transition. Anyhow, where warm turns into cool usually is where the core shadow is. That is the darkest part of the transition and this shadow is important because it gives shape to the volomes. It depends on your own interpretation. Try and see the result.
It's more intellectual stimulating to figure out what light a shadow sees. The shadow from a warm light bulb from the center of the room lighting an object by a northern light window a sunny day will only see the light from the blue sky, hence the shadow is blue.
I think I could learn so much in just one day of lessons with you, than I’ve learned in 2 years from all combined videos of others. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Great to hear!
The theory you are explaining is not something we usually get from other videos ! Thank you so much and keep guiding us ! Love from India 🇮🇳
My pleasure!
How is it that you provide clean, cogent explanations for such messy, complex concepts? So thrilled to have discovered you.
Meester Ben Lustenhouwer. Ik ben blij dat ik steeds kan genieten van je fijne en belangrijke tips. Zo ook nu weer spelen met licht en donker contrasten. Dank je wel.
Your videos bring me peace and inspiration, thank you!
Ben, I got amazed about the first example you show us. The brunet women on a red dress. Congratulations, it´s a lovely pleasent work!
God Bless you!
And thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you very much!
@@lustenhouwer My pleasure! You deserve it! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Every artist should watch this. Great work!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !
Thank you Ben. I appreciate your skill and sharing of knowledge.
My pleasure!
Thank you for the tip. From now on, I'll look at nature for color combination ideas. Great Video.
Thank you
Wow! In painting it's not often that someone can tell me a whole world of information in just two sentences. Great soul! Thank you!🙏👍
Thank you
Your videos are so clear and your paintings are striking. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
Ben, thank you for sharing your knowledge...
It is my pleasure
wow, what a view from your home!!
I'm a self taught watercolorist. Two years now. I think I had a leg up on painting because I am a professional hair stylist/colorist. The color wheel is everything.
Thank you. Another extremely useful tutorial. In every of your videos I discover so much new knowledge.
So nice of you
You explain the things are in a way we can understand thank you, you're a wonderful mentor. Cheers from Tasmania!
Wow, thank you!
Your welcome, I hope that one day I can paint beautiful portraits also, the first will be my mum. Cheers from Tasmania!
Yes...this is one of the strongest contrasts there is - even sometimes stronger than simply dark and bright :-)
It really is!
I love your work. Thanks for the video.
You are welcome
Thank you so much for your generosity in these videos. I agree with the earlier poster saying you are like a teacher I never got to learn from in art school! Thank you, thank you!
So nice to hear. Thank you.
Lección magistral!!! como todos tus vídeos!!!
wow,SO helpful Ben, thank. you! I fond my way to you through another big fan!
Thank you.
Sir BEN LUSTENHOUWER thanks a lot for the necessary information given adding more information to my study and the support from your videos
It's my pleasure
Very good video! I agree that the division between warm and cool colors is somewhat arbitrary. As you pointed out, there are warm and cool greens in your trees. 👍
Incredible explanation!! So useful, thank you!
Thank you
You are the art teacher I never got to have in school 🙏 more invaluable information thank you Ben. I love your color wheel split.... I have never been fully comfortable defining yellow-greens as cool! 😁 and thank you for the clarification on cool and warm shadows!! 😎🙏 Oh, and p.s what an amazing view from your garden!!👌 you are a treasure Ben 😉
Thank you Mary.
I literally can not wait for the next video, I really find your content very much entertaining and educational for someone as a beginner as me with portrait painting!
Glad to hear it!
I only say thank you so so much !❤
You are welcome
Thank you Ben. Everyone should listen to this five times then go practice it five times. You just explained something in five minutes it took me years to understand and I still make mistakes with it. So much in this , lighting, inside -outside, background.i recently toned a canvas in yellow not thinking that it would show on cool side. . I did the drawing, then the underpainting then the painting and the yellow was still present.
Nice painting but not what I wanted and now starting over.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the explanation. The eyedropper over the various regions demonstration helped me. Also, the warm light cool shadow was not something I ever thought about. Now I am having somewhat of a shift in how I think about light and shadows and will try to apply it to my drawing/painting.
Glad it was helpful!
You, Sir, have such wonderful eyes for values and colors, and composition of course! I do feel, Sargent lives a second life in YOU! I do paintings myself, yet I read and thus learn of it as much as I should be painting... But I think I am beginning to grasp some of its quintessence.Anyway, I am not interested to have any a day a gallery showing my paintings, or sell any of them, but I would show you some of my paintings to have a strong and honest critique about them. Thank you so much!
Thank you very much!
I'd never know from observation that red light produces cool shadow, just from experience. Now he made me skip 5 years ahead, thanks a lot Mr. Ben!
that is a lovely painting
Gracias por sus consejos
De nada.
This is so useful. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Heel erg duidelijk uitgelegd Ben. Dank hiervoor, ik ga deze tips zeker gebruiken in mijn portretten.
Another great lesson! Thank so much 🤗
Tank you.
Very useful and well done video
Thanks a lot
You are a great artist! admire and respect
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
great explanation, Ben, thank you :)
Thank you.
Thank you for the video!
Very well explained.
You are welcome!
home baked science you remember me to my father ;) great!!!
Excelente! Very good!!🇧🇷
Ben, those landscapes at the end are so beautiful! Please spend some time doing videos on those. We are not all portrait painters!! But thanks for your generosity!
Noted!
Thank you
You're welcome
Man where do you live? Holy shmokes!!! It looks like heaven
fantastic. will be on the look out for this phenomenon:)
Thank you! So much useful information.
Thank you Barbara
Thanks sir for lessons
Always welcome
Thanks, that’s very helpful and I’m looking forward to trying it.
Have fun!
Thank you so much! it helps me understand better!
Glad it helped!
You are amazing. Good vibes from 🇧🇷
Wow, thank you!
Ben Lustenhouwer You are an inspiration for me. I love portraits and I started studying painting a year ago. one day i want to paint a beautiful portrait of my daughter (3 years old). congratulations on your work and thanks for the videos. they are a breath for me
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This is very helpful- I need a lot of help with warm/cool vs. dark/light- I could use more of these examples, even more depth and slower- I am reviewing this several times- thank you so much!
Thank you to let me know
Thanks.
You're welcome
Please God, let him stay with me for the next 30 years.
This comment makes me sad
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Hi Ben I am so grateful for your wonderful tutorials, I wonder if you would mind talking about backgrounds specifically.,liz
Great suggestion!
I love it. So amazing art work :)
Thank you very much!
Thank you, once again.
My pleasure!
Thank you!
Welcome!
Great lesson Ben! Thank you very much. I am becoming professional. You are welcome in Spain!
Muchas gracias.
Very nice video sir ,
Keep watching
This is exactly what I'm working on at the moment, particularly in my landscapes. But I just can't get it right. So hard to apply, the right amount, right intensity of warmth or cool. Thanks for emphasizing the importance of this principle.
❤
Thank you soo much!
This has helped me a great deal!
You're welcome!
Awesome ♥️
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing channel. Highest ratio of like/dislike.I am always on a left side.
Thank you so much for this video 😊
Just looking at a few of your videos and I'm not sure I've understood properly. You've said that a warm light produces cold shadows, but does the warm light produce warm highlights ?
So if I paint an outdoor scene with strong bright sunshine the light would be yellowish and the shadows would be cool, with a bluish tint. The highlights would also be warm, like the strong sunshine. Have I got that right ?
And then if I paint a portrait of a young lady, illuminated by a ceiling light that is a cold bluish light, then that would produce warm shadows but cold highlights. Have I got that right ? You said use crimson & white under the eye and on the cheeks and forehead for cool highlights
So now here in Thailand we have lamps that are either "cool daylight" or "warm daylight" I personally look dreadful illuminated by a "cool daylight" lamp. I look much better under a "warm daylight" lamp
So I produce a painting that's done using your method and it's purchased by the client and he takes it home and looks at it on his wall illuminated by a "warm daylight" lamp where does that leave the artist and the client. Do I tell him to change the lamp in his house ?
Quite frankly I paint under a "warm daylight" bulb and it looks OK to me. I suspect that someone with extremely good colour vision will be able to look at any painting and see the colour isn't right. My clients don't seem to be in the least bothered about the colours I use up to now. No doubt there'll be one in the future that will complain. But as you know there's always somebody who isn't happy.
Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
A Rule of Thumb is not Law and Order. First let me show what Wikipedia understands by Rule of Thumb: a broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory.
So take this rule as a hint. In a face exposed under sunset light you will indeed see that the warm light source gives warm highlights.
Usually, any light source indoors is cooler than the shadows it produces. The contrast of cool lights against a warmer environment is a just very useful effect in a portrait. Best. Ben
@@lustenhouwer Thank you Ben for your very quick reply. I'm most grateful to you. I now understand completely Warm light, gives warm highlights but cold shadows
Cool light, typically indoors gives cool highlights and warm shadows. Got it now !
Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
woow where do you live, Italy Spain? Molto bello il paese!!!
Thank you that you share your knowledge and videos !!!
thank you.
배색 많이 배웁니다.. 감사 탱큐...~^!^
Thanks lot
welcome
Wow! The photo from your backyard is amazing!! Where do you live??
We live in Chelva, Spain.
Just thanks.
you are welcome
First let me say, you are a wonderfully talented man. And I am learning quite a lot. I have a question. For some reason my portraits have a chalky look. What in the world am I doing. Or adding to make it look that way. Thank you for your videos.
Thank you Rhonda. I cannot tell you without seeing. It could be that there is too much white in the colors.
Genius
Woooww 😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🎨
Que importante es estimado Maestro los subtítulos en Español para los que no sabemos Inglés Lo saludo gratamente con las gracias de siempre por su generosidad de su tiempo y su enorme talento.///Si bien Estudie Teoría del color , al ver su explicación sobre el tema ,es magistral y sumamente fresca.Gracias.
Gracias. los subtítulos no son perfectos, pero estoy en ello.
Un saludo.
👍 👍 👍
Wow
Thank you Ben, this is very helpful for us
Looking forward for your next video..
More to come!
Thanks that was helpful. Do you believe alizarin crimson is not archival?
I'm not sure
OMG,you explain everything so well, I am a newbie at painting and I am learning from you so much....if it is not very boring for you, could you do some Colour theory for newbies?!Anyway , I thank you for your videos!
Maybe I will in the future.
Sir, I still dont understand. How do you tell a gray color you're mixing is cool or warm, especially if they're so chalky...
Add more ochre to a gray and it gets warmer.
@@lustenhouwer thankyou sir
Thanks again for this interesting video. groet Bart Senders
Glad you enjoyed it
Can you do a video on how to paint a balding person. Or fluffy beard. Love your videos.
Good idea. later this year maybe.
Question for Ben: Do warm skin tones transition into neutral grey, before turning into cool skin tone shadows?
I once saw a tutorial discussing this, but have since lost the link and forgotten the principles. Could you respond?
To be honest I cannot give you the "right" answer. Some say that there "must" be a gray transition and others want a bright powerful transition. Anyhow, where warm turns into cool usually is where the core shadow is. That is the darkest part of the transition and this shadow is important because it gives shape to the volomes. It depends on your own interpretation. Try and see the result.
It's more intellectual stimulating to figure out what light a shadow sees. The shadow from a warm light bulb from the center of the room lighting an object by a northern light window a sunny day will only see the light from the blue sky, hence the shadow is blue.
Grazie mille, sarebbe possibile vedere in italiano la lezione dei colori, i contrasti caldi e freddi? Di nuovo, grazie di cuore.
Just added the Italian subtitles. Un saludo.
is that a dutch accent? good video btw
Yes I am dutch.
@@lustenhouwer awesome me too, I never understood what artists ment woth cool vs warm so this video was extremly helpfull! Keep it up
Hello
I'm from Afghanistan 🇦🇫
♥️🥰
Guru😇🙏🇳🇵.
Por favor mas tutoriales en español :(
Las últimas tienen subtítulos en Español..
Si señor, gracias
Dropping mad keys
Thank You!
Thanks