I'm an art teacher ...retired early .... I lost my ability to paint and draw years ago. Just watching you has made me pull out one of my old paintings .... ....I've the urge to finish it and sell it , if I can. I just couldnt face it before... Sometimes when art is your livelihood , ...its hard to be in the mood when you arrive home exhausted,...lol. Your techniques are beautiful and so smooth .... ...with stunning detail.. . Antonis , thank you for letting us peep over your shoulder.... ...whilst mastering the master of all masters , Da Vinci 💚💚💚
I was allowed to see this picture in the original and I was so mesmerized that I could hardly leave the room. I have never seen anything like it. It was as if it was out of this world. Translucent, mystical, I can't describe it
Thank you for the validation of my own oil painting techniques. Many years ago, I had a college professor criticize me for "drawing" my paint on the canvas. Watching your video until the end validated my using small strokes with a fine tipped brush, painting in several layers-dark to light, using the color loaded in my brush to paint several areas at the same time, and now I know I have been using the dry brush sfumato technique for blending realism. Thank you for rebuilding my confidence and giving us a master class in portraiture!
What if in the future they find a portrait, and analyzed it, and it turnes out the artist used the brush in a sketching\drawing fashion, building up the painting to a beautiful masterpiece?
But you were painting on canvas (with oil or acrylics). The technique used here is optimal for tempera and it's fizical limitations. Oil and acrylics gives you the polisibility to easier transitions and trabslucent glazes it would be a pity to not use the oils or acrylics to their full ability. It is not wrong how you wanted to paint, but not the best aproach, and more time consuming.
My take on these people is unhealthy jealousy that doesn’t motivate to improve, illiterate mongrels or people who are not interested in such content and don’t know they can click “don’t recommend”
Although I do not know why the video had any thumbs down, since this is an amazing painting video, as an artist I can assume some may come from painting a Leo study with zero Leo method, Maybe. Leonardo painted in a great many layers of glazes. Much of the time not adding paint at all. Just glazing so many layers it gradually darkened while seemingly capturing and trapping light between the layers. It's as if Leo painted in a watercolor technique but with oils and tempera. Which is so almost impossible even his contemporaries were stunned by it. Tempera dries so fast is hard to blend and shade into soft edges of appear as though there is no edge at all. Not only could Leo do it, he did it so well his contemporaries called it Leo's smoke. Because he could make it appear so soft it was like a smoke passing over the painting then fading away. Da Vinci painted with such thin layers that even today with the greatest imagery technology the world has ever seen, we still can't see a single brush in da Vinci's paintings. That's how amazing he was. This artist did an amazing job. Absolutely no doubt about it. However, maybe the thumbs down come from Leo snobs whom judge merely based on technique and not result. Before we go out of our way looking to be offended maybe we can try to understand what others might be thinking. Of course all this is just could be and maybe, but it's the only way I can rationalize there being a thumbs down.
I really appreciate how you are willing to tell us your thought process and vulnerabilities. As very much a “beginner” in painting, it helps remind me I’m not alone and that even great painters have similar worries as I do. Thank you. Much love from Lake Cumberland Kentucky USA!
Never saw a more talented person on youtube, i refer to painting. You really have a clear and orthodox mind, cause what you create is not only a reproduction, is light and beauty.
I'm so amazed by your talent! I'm 49 and just this year decided to teach myself how to paint. I'm doing landscapes with acrylics, which still look cartoonish to me.; my goal is to eventually learn oil painting and portraits.... Though I very much struggle with techniques and theories since I've never taken any kind of art lessons. It will be a long road, I'm sure, but seeing you recreate this beauty is inspiring. Thank you.
@@CreedM8 I have completed around 60 paintings, mostly studies, and if I should say so myself, I'm improving more and more, though portraits are still really hard! Check back in another couple years 😄
I have not painted in years, but this absolutely got me back to picking up a brush. You are so soothing and calm, but also so full of knowledge. Thank you 🙏
Here are some research-based facts on this painting. The wood panel is from walnut wood. He isulated the absorbent gesso with a lead white grinded in oil or tempera grassa (sort of imprimatura)- a practice that was starting to emerge because of the oil painting need of less absorbent surface. He made changes to the drawing (always changing his mind) which he enforced with brush and dark color. The shadows are painted first, in thin paint. Then the lights. The background was overpainted black by a later hand. The ermine is painted with no white, just with progresivve darker glazes of transparent paint over a brown base color-a very simple technique used in watercolor and ink drawing. The woman is holding a ermine animal in her hand-an allusion to the nickname of her lover, the duke of Milan, who was called "the white ermine".
Yes, snagged by the title, I was also surprised this video has little *actual understanding of Leonardo’s method. (Outlining, zero glazing, opaque). Sorry: Thanks for some facts in the comments! Tho this guy is talented, also rather absent of insight
Lead white is so good to have, but also takes so long to set up properly before proceeding. Thank you for the trivia, it's invaluable to know methods of painting as to make others' work easier
I've read that the real background contained a door and a window from which the lady is looking at (and it's also the reason why half of her face is so bright). I wonder why they covered the original background with a dark color and if it's not possible to clean it.
I just finished watching your very illuminating tutorial from start to finish and wasn't bored for one second. I guess it's because I've been using the sfumato technique throughout my entire career with mainly pastels and graphite. I just love the subtlety of diminishing values that seem to caress over a surface without the visual interference of brushstrokes or sketchy drawing marks. For me, the smooth transition from light to dark, especially when the form seems like it's being swallowed by the darkness, is like falling into a deep mysterious void. Your work is flawless and I applaud your tenacity and humility at the same time. I could watch this video over and over again and still learn so much!
I love that you told us not to worry if we overwork our paintings - I love your voice and yes- I confess to falling asleep somewhere in the middle! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge so generously😊❤️
I watched all the way thru - if anyone falls asleep, it's only because you have a lovely, deep, soothing voice! It's very calming. This has always been one of my favorite paintings, and you did it justice. I think Da Vinci would be proud! Btw, i really enjoy your sense of humor!
I’m an apprentice to an artist right now and he showed me this kind of technique, he told me to be confident with my painting and that mistakes may pop up but those mistakes are what make you a better artist, new sub 🙏🏼 and I really enjoyed your painting it fill me with emotion
C'est le meilleur cours de peinture au monde que je trouve extrêmement pédagogique ! Léonard de Vinci vous remercierai de l'avoir si bien expliqué... Gratitude pour votre talent et votre générosité, j'ai regardé l'intégralité de votre vidéo et le temps m'a paru très rapide !🖼️🖌️🎨
This is truly a step by step process, not watching the whole thing you miss very important methods, and techniques. What you are saying and doing is very important. Beautiful painting.
I have discovered sfumato technique, 20 years ago, when I worked on my own paintings, before I actually learned Leonardo himself used it. It's actually a very intuitive and natural way to go when you try to mask your brushstrokes and blend colors without visible transitions.
Thankyou so much! I've learned more about renaissance painting in the last 2 plus hours than I have in 47 years on this planet. I didn't fall asleep once! Stay safe and keep painting. Wx
Bonjour j ai regarder la vidéo en deux fois et oui je me suis endormie car il était tard. Mais quel bonheur de la retrouver ce soir ! Un grand merci pour votre travail et votre humour !
I was confused about the technique, hearing differents opinions but never watching a real procedure, execution. It was really amazing, beautiful. Thanks a lot for this lesson.
@PaintingtheLight 🙏Thank you.from the bottom of my heart Antonis for such a classy video & your expert techniques ...never seen anybody doing this kind of beautiful & humble video. 🙏 Appreciated very much ,inspite of you feeling not so well due to winter,you made this long plus two hours video.Take care n stay healthy & blessed always🙏
I am amazed by this video and yes, I watched right up to the end. I learnt so much about sfumato, painting the eyes, nose and mouth. Much more than what I learnt in the past year. Most students painting portraits will benefit a great deal from watching this video. I look forward to watching this again and others to come. Thank you.
The last hour or so I could not discern any differences that your additions were making to the painting so finely were you working. I was truly amazed. Thank you.
Beautiful final result. I have been a graphic designer for 10 years and I am just starting out exploring painting, and watching this was very insightful, thank you.
I’m not one for clock photographs but I assure you I watched all of your devoted pursuit of near perfection. You are an inspiration and your warmth and self aware sense of humour are greatly appreciated, but most of all thank you for a really beautiful piece of art. Sincerely, Simon.
Thank you for sharing your painting methods. I appreciated the ending where you expressed your feelings with the shadows and the effects it has on the overall appearance and how you had to choose. - A painter's dilemma not wanting to finish - always seeing a change that would show another element of beauty. This video is worth watching to the end.
I watched from start to finish all 2 hours 14 minutes and 55 seconds. It was fascinating and educational. I want to rewatch and do the painting along with you. Your injected interludes of laugh made me want to stay. Beautiful study. Thank you for sharing.
I was captured by your approach. Under your spell I was enthralled to see the delicate skin tones emerge. I will humbly attempt, in your company, to paint. Thank you for your generous lesson. I did not sleep.😊
Great!! I am a painter too and I agree that while working in some these pictures from the old masters we have be in a very positive state of mind, never worriyng with the aftermaths. A study is always a study and makes increase the knowledge.
Wonderful, graceful portrait! I love the old masters, especially the sfumato technique. Da Vinci would have loved your study! I so enjoyed your free tutorial, so thankful Achieved with a minimum of colours, the lady's skin looks so delicate, beautiful.
Thank you very much Antonis for this great and calm tutorial - really helpful for my own portrets to paint. I was happy to finally find a comprehensive and extensive manual... and of course I watched your video until the end, it felt like I was sitting next to you. Thanks a lot! Marleen.
Thank you for putting into words what is involved in painting using the sfumato method and painting in general. You pointed out details, such as only using six colors in your palette, that I would not have gleaned on my own. Your video study enhanced how I appreciate art. Thank you for sharing for skill and teaching.
Still here, almost done....every minute was fascinating...sometimes holding my breath. I learned so much and I think, gained some confidence from your efforts
I watched your presentation again and learnt much more this time, thank you keeping this video up. it is so well done. I also learnt to go back revisit art demonstrations over because you see more and more versus the first time. Great work.
I'm fascinated by how the early steps guide the later ones, how the direction of the brush strokes of the underpainting show the shape of the face well before you add any details. I wouldn't have thought of that if I didn't see you doing it!
Always fun to do a mastercopy from something you love and admire. Thank you very much from sharing how you did interprete the process. Very interesting. ❤️
I’m sure you know by now since you posted this two years ago. But in response to you saying that you felt you hadn’t found the right brushes or something. For these types of paintings you need to be using kolinsky sable not hog bristle, hog bristle is meant for leaving paint strokes visible. Kolinsky sable is for making it smooth and giving better control, also using various mixing mediums in small dabs may help you to achieve the top level control you are after.
It was fascinating to see you approach this painting in a way so similar to the creation of an icon, especially in the beginning. Seeing that method employed in the "building" of a painting makes it easier to imagine it possible that I might now have an approach to making a decent painting someday :) A very inspiring and informative video.
Καλησπέρα Δάσκαλε! Μας κακομαθαίνεις με υψηλή ποιότητα, σταθερή συχνότητα και εκτενή και άρτια βίντεο! Σε τούτη τη "συναλλαγή" μοιάζει οι "κερδισμένοι" να είμαστε εμείς, οι θεατές, αλλά θέλω να πιστεύω πως η δική σου "αμοιβή" ,παρότι εδώ δεν είναι οικονομική, έρχεται μέσα από τις προσευχές μας για εσένα και την ευγνωμοσύνη που μας εμπνέεις. Ώρα καλή!
Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing your working process. I only just started working with oil paints and am looking forward to try a portait study in oils!
I really enjoyed your class. What I liked the most were the tips not to use the black color and also the outline painting with dark colors to serve as a base and then the top layer a little more diluted. Of course, the hints of blue on the skin added up a lot. Thanks!
I just love the way you use SFUMATO to redo the painting. Leo did several paintings for the Medici family, it is an honor for me to watch you paint. I use SFUMATO quite often but slightly different than what you would do it. Love the (skin-tone) layering and everything else that you do. My major is Applied and Pure Mathematics-and-Engineering, I love Math-&-Science and Visual Arts. And, I love Leo's work. Thanks so much for sharing....my friend.
I had never before connected Leonardo's oil technique to the tempera technique taught to him by Verocchio. It seems so obvious from your demonstration. Very interesting and informative, thank you!
I watched the entire video. I really like everything you say and how you explain. I also had the entire time this feeling that you are very humble about your skill. You made it look so easy and you convinced me to give a chance to oil paint. Usually I paint with acrylics but they are so hard to blend and I don't know why I always felt intimidated by oil paint, I felt like oil paint it's for art masters 🙈 I'm self taught in art😊 your painting turned out amazing. You also have great knowledge of color theory. I learned new things just by watching this video. Thank you so much for putting this on youtube😊
🎨🎶🖌️...see my clock?🕑 At around the 2 hour mark in this video you commented about who might be still watching. I was watching and learning with wonderment and gracious respect for all you were saying and painting from start to end!!! So beautiful!!! I love your work, your talent, your gentle and nuturing voice and all you teach us!!! I am so grateful to you!!! This was a very inspiring experience for this old artist with 50 some years of painting, playing my classical guitar and writing. I needed to be inspired and you did that for me!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! And thank you again!!!💜🖌️🎨✨
Love your dedication and approach diving into exploring old master techniques. It would be great to see a split screen of your palette as you paint so we can also see which colors you are using. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this very valuable teaching. I watched it until the end and were so fascinated by the technique. I thought you did is tremendously well. Thank you again! I love it and found it very inspirational!
Beautiful! Thank you for this I enjoyed it a lot a d went out and worked on my front yard and came back in and watched the whole thing wonderful demonstration
It's interesting how you maintain your tempera brush technique in oils with short narrow strokes to build up tone and to blend. It's actually a very disciplined way to not over blend as is the temptation with oil medium. It's a shame that the techniques of the old masters is such a rare thing to find these days and discovering your channel by accident in my y/t feed was pure providence. I'm come from a protestant background but in the last year I have decided to move to the blessed tradition of eastern orthodoxy, where I hope to study and practice the liturgy and the art of Byzantine icon making more deeply. I've always had a love of the first millennium church and it feels right to embrace it fully now. Thank you for your wonderful tutorship and I am now subscribed. God bless you.
thank you so much for this... i know sometimes you doubt you are conveying your process effectively but i want to put your mind at rest.. You have no idea just helpful it is seeing the entire process from a technical perspective. Thank you Sir, continuez à faire du bon travail!
Thank you so much, of course I watched the whole video, this was truly a learning experience. I'm so impressed that you also teach, we surely need more like you. The arts is what gives the world peace for at least a moment.
Many thanks for sharing with us the "fumato" technique. Very good job. I watched it entirely as I need to improve my paintings, doing my own portrait. You are a very good teacher. Cheers!
Magnifico 👏 you truly are a master for me Leonardo playes a big role in the art world with his amazing technique "Sfumato" wich shaped the renaissance and baroque period i make a lot master copyes of him he rielly was the most skillful artist .
I arrived just to the end of your class. I thank you very much! It what fantastic to watch you painting. And will keep on following you. Dolores, from Buenos Aires. I want you to know that I am a photographer. And I paint. Have a good day!
Antonis, your channel is the most educational way to learn the classical style. Amazing work. Very inspiring and worth the try. I love your soothing voice and so clear. I truly appreciate the time, effort and knowledge along with your determination to spread good art. You are the best. I wish you much success. I will watch your video again with the sole purpose of painting along with you. I have been painting for a while and I love ro begin painting the eyes first. Beautiful work. Blessings, take care and be safe. Greetings from Champaign, Illinois, USA, but I’m originally from Peru.
This is the first time I watched you paint. I have to say I was totally enthralled! I did watch it from beginning to end in one sitting. It turned out absolutely beautiful! I have a sketch of a lady in pencil on my canvas. I will try this style in painting it. Thank you!
I'm an art teacher ...retired early ....
I lost my ability to paint and draw years ago.
Just watching you has made me pull out one of my old paintings ....
....I've the urge to finish it and sell it , if I can.
I just couldnt face it before...
Sometimes when art is your livelihood ,
...its hard to be in the mood when you arrive home exhausted,...lol.
Your techniques are beautiful and so smooth ....
...with stunning detail..
. Antonis , thank you for letting us peep over your shoulder....
...whilst mastering the master of all masters , Da Vinci
💚💚💚
I watched the entire video and I can't believe how many emotions watching somebody paint can give you. Amazing work and thank you for the tutorial
Thank you so much for this beautiful comment! I am glad if this was helpful to you!
Non solo ho visto il video dall'inizio alla fine ma l'ho visto più volte. Sei bravissimo!
I was allowed to see this picture in the original and I was so mesmerized that I could hardly leave the room. I have never seen anything like it. It was as if it was out of this world. Translucent, mystical, I can't describe it
Thank you for the validation of my own oil painting techniques. Many years ago, I had a college professor criticize me for "drawing" my paint on the canvas. Watching your video until the end validated my using small strokes with a fine tipped brush, painting in several layers-dark to light, using the color loaded in my brush to paint several areas at the same time, and now I know I have been using the dry brush sfumato technique for blending realism. Thank you for rebuilding my confidence and giving us a master class in portraiture!
What if in the future they find a portrait, and analyzed it, and it turnes out the artist used the brush in a sketching\drawing fashion, building up the painting to a beautiful masterpiece?
But you were painting on canvas (with oil or acrylics). The technique used here is optimal for tempera and it's fizical limitations. Oil and acrylics gives you the polisibility to easier transitions and trabslucent glazes it would be a pity to not use the oils or acrylics to their full ability. It is not wrong how you wanted to paint, but not the best aproach, and more time consuming.
How anyone can give this a negative thumbs down baffles me. The painter is sharing his hard earned skills. So to the thumbs down brigade I say jog on.
I suspect bad mental health may compel them to such demonstrations.
My take on these people is unhealthy jealousy that doesn’t motivate to improve, illiterate mongrels or people who are not interested in such content and don’t know they can click “don’t recommend”
Although I do not know why the video had any thumbs down, since this is an amazing painting video, as an artist I can assume some may come from painting a Leo study with zero Leo method, Maybe. Leonardo painted in a great many layers of glazes. Much of the time not adding paint at all. Just glazing so many layers it gradually darkened while seemingly capturing and trapping light between the layers. It's as if Leo painted in a watercolor technique but with oils and tempera. Which is so almost impossible even his contemporaries were stunned by it. Tempera dries so fast is hard to blend and shade into soft edges of appear as though there is no edge at all. Not only could Leo do it, he did it so well his contemporaries called it Leo's smoke. Because he could make it appear so soft it was like a smoke passing over the painting then fading away. Da Vinci painted with such thin layers that even today with the greatest imagery technology the world has ever seen, we still can't see a single brush in da Vinci's paintings. That's how amazing he was. This artist did an amazing job. Absolutely no doubt about it. However, maybe the thumbs down come from Leo snobs whom judge merely based on technique and not result. Before we go out of our way looking to be offended maybe we can try to understand what others might be thinking. Of course all this is just could be and maybe, but it's the only way I can rationalize there being a thumbs down.
@@Akkad-t8q Calling a person an "illiterate mongrel" might even be unhealthier.
@@binarybotany3218 healthiness is not my strenght
OK so Da Vinci is alive, and he is on TH-cam :)
I really appreciate how you are willing to tell us your thought process and vulnerabilities. As very much a “beginner” in painting, it helps remind me I’m not alone and that even great painters have similar worries as I do. Thank you. Much love from Lake Cumberland Kentucky USA!
Never saw a more talented person on youtube, i refer to painting.
You really have a clear and orthodox mind, cause what you create is not only a reproduction, is light and beauty.
I'm so amazed by your talent! I'm 49 and just this year decided to teach myself how to paint. I'm doing landscapes with acrylics, which still look cartoonish to me.; my goal is to eventually learn oil painting and portraits.... Though I very much struggle with techniques and theories since I've never taken any kind of art lessons. It will be a long road, I'm sure, but seeing you recreate this beauty is inspiring. Thank you.
How’s the progress?
@@CreedM8 I have completed around 60 paintings, mostly studies, and if I should say so myself, I'm improving more and more, though portraits are still really hard! Check back in another couple years 😄
I don't know what's more inspiring your technique, commentary or your admission that there are moments of self doubt.
I have not painted in years, but this absolutely got me back to picking up a brush. You are so soothing and calm, but also so full of knowledge. Thank you 🙏
Here are some research-based facts on this painting. The wood panel is from walnut wood. He isulated the absorbent gesso with a lead white grinded in oil or tempera grassa (sort of imprimatura)- a practice that was starting to emerge because of the oil painting need of less absorbent surface. He made changes to the drawing (always changing his mind) which he enforced with brush and dark color. The shadows are painted first, in thin paint. Then the lights. The background was overpainted black by a later hand. The ermine is painted with no white, just with progresivve darker glazes of transparent paint over a brown base color-a very simple technique used in watercolor and ink drawing. The woman is holding a ermine animal in her hand-an allusion to the nickname of her lover, the duke of Milan, who was called "the white ermine".
This is an amazing comment!!! Tha k you so much for taking the time to share it!!!!! Stay healthy and creative!!!!!! 😊😊
Yes, snagged by the title, I was also surprised this video has little *actual understanding of Leonardo’s method. (Outlining, zero glazing, opaque). Sorry: Thanks for some facts in the comments! Tho this guy is talented, also rather absent of insight
Lead white is so good to have, but also takes so long to set up properly before proceeding. Thank you for the trivia, it's invaluable to know methods of painting as to make others' work easier
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I've read that the real background contained a door and a window from which the lady is looking at (and it's also the reason why half of her face is so bright). I wonder why they covered the original background with a dark color and if it's not possible to clean it.
I just finished watching your very illuminating tutorial from start to finish and wasn't bored for one second. I guess it's because I've been using the sfumato technique throughout my entire career with mainly pastels and graphite. I just love the subtlety of diminishing values that seem to caress over a surface without the visual interference of brushstrokes or sketchy drawing marks. For me, the smooth transition from light to dark, especially when the form seems like it's being swallowed by the darkness, is like falling into a deep mysterious void. Your work is flawless and I applaud your tenacity and humility at the same time. I could watch this video over and over again and still learn so much!
I love that you told us not to worry if we overwork our paintings - I love your voice and yes- I confess to falling asleep somewhere in the middle! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge so generously😊❤️
I watched all the way thru - if anyone falls asleep, it's only because you have a lovely, deep, soothing voice! It's very calming. This has always been one of my favorite paintings, and you did it justice. I think Da Vinci would be proud! Btw, i really enjoy your sense of humor!
Katheri e you are so supportive!!! Thank you sooo much!!!
I’m an apprentice to an artist right now and he showed me this kind of technique, he told me to be confident with my painting and that mistakes may pop up but those mistakes are what make you a better artist, new sub 🙏🏼 and I really enjoyed your painting it fill me with emotion
C'est le meilleur cours de peinture au monde que je trouve extrêmement pédagogique !
Léonard de Vinci vous remercierai de l'avoir si bien expliqué...
Gratitude pour votre talent et votre générosité, j'ai regardé l'intégralité de votre vidéo et le temps m'a paru très rapide !🖼️🖌️🎨
This is truly a step by step process, not watching the whole thing you miss very important methods, and techniques. What you are saying and doing is very important. Beautiful painting.
I stayed through it all and was mesmerized.
I have discovered sfumato technique, 20 years ago, when I worked on my own paintings, before I actually learned Leonardo himself used it. It's actually a very intuitive and natural way to go when you try to mask your brushstrokes and blend colors without visible transitions.
Me too! I always thought what I was doing was somehow wrong, but apparently I've been doing sfumato for years without knowing that's what I was doing.
Thankyou so much! I've learned more about renaissance painting in the last 2 plus hours than I have in 47 years on this planet. I didn't fall asleep once! Stay safe and keep painting. Wx
Will!!!! Thank you sooo much!!! Such an amazing comment.... I am humbled..... Thank you..
@@PaintingtheLight You deserve it
Clock ⏰ without any hesitation. Thank you for making this video available freely.
Bonjour j ai regarder la vidéo en deux fois et oui je me suis endormie car il était tard. Mais quel bonheur de la retrouver ce soir ! Un grand merci pour votre travail et votre humour !
We watched the entire video and loved every minute of it!
If I were a painter, I wish I were this Painting light dude. I especially like that he can make icons. That s just amazing👏
Thank you for the free tutorial, alot of people appreciate this and so do I. From Alvin.
I'm delighted to see a left-handed painter. I'm a lefty and it helps to see someone else's technique. I've learned from this. Thank you.
I was confused about the technique, hearing differents opinions but never watching a real procedure, execution. It was really amazing, beautiful. Thanks a lot for this lesson.
Congratulations teacher, I have seen tha full video.I thought is was magnificent. Greetings from Puerto Montt,Republic of Chile.
@PaintingtheLight 🙏Thank you.from the bottom of my heart Antonis for such a classy video & your expert techniques ...never seen anybody doing this kind of beautiful & humble video. 🙏 Appreciated very much ,inspite of you feeling not so well due to winter,you made this long plus two hours video.Take care n stay healthy & blessed always🙏
I am amazed by this video and yes, I watched right up to the end. I learnt so much about sfumato, painting the eyes, nose and mouth. Much more than what I learnt in the past year.
Most students painting portraits will benefit a great deal from watching this video. I look forward to watching this again and others to come. Thank you.
Thank you Gladys!! It's so rewarding to realize that these videos are helpful to people!! Thank you!!
The last hour or so I could not discern any differences that your additions were making to the painting so finely were you working. I was truly amazed. Thank you.
I have seen this painting before ,but I never appreciated it until I saw you paint this study
God bless Andre Revutsky, Syracuse NY
I couldnt paint an egg if my life depended on it but I watch this with amazement. Just wonderful!
The fact that this was done under 2 hours blows my mind lol
Τhank you!! It's sped up video though...it takes a little longer than that! :)
@@PaintingtheLight Did you allow for any drying time inbetween.
he said that he waited a couple of days for the first layer of paint to dry
The fact that there are 80 thumbs up on this comment blows my mind lol
God gave him this talent, i can see, and im glad that he paint beautiful things, not grotesque paintings like others.
Beautiful final result. I have been a graphic designer for 10 years and I am just starting out exploring painting, and watching this was very insightful, thank you.
I learned more from your video than all the others so please dont be nervous as you are a breath of fresh air and so natural.
🕒 I'm still here.
Excellent work 🎨🖌️
I’m not one for clock photographs but I assure you I watched all of your devoted pursuit of near perfection. You are an inspiration and your warmth and self aware sense of humour are greatly appreciated, but most of all thank you for a really beautiful piece of art. Sincerely, Simon.
I watched you make this portrait come to life in one sitting. Will watch again and again. Bravo !
Thank you for sharing your painting methods. I appreciated the ending where you expressed your feelings with the shadows and the effects it has on the overall appearance and how you had to choose. - A painter's dilemma not wanting to finish - always seeing a change that would show another element of beauty. This video is worth watching to the end.
Wonderful way to show, how the divine can be done relatively simply, thanks!!!
I watched from start to finish all 2 hours 14 minutes and 55 seconds. It was fascinating and educational. I want to rewatch and do the painting along with you. Your injected interludes of laugh made me want to stay. Beautiful study. Thank you for sharing.
Your personality, generosity and skills are simply wonderful! Thanks, from the U.K. 🤩🥳👌🏾
I saw until the end. Marvellous
I was captured by your approach. Under your spell I was enthralled to see the delicate skin tones emerge. I will humbly attempt, in your company, to paint. Thank you for your generous lesson. I did not sleep.😊
Well done… ‘watched the whole thing, had it playing while I worked on a painting.
Great!! I am a painter too and I agree that while working in some these pictures from the old masters we have be in a very positive state of mind, never worriyng with the aftermaths. A study is always a study and makes increase the knowledge.
Thank you Reinaldo for the nice Comment!!
Thank you for the excellent lesson of such beautiful work .
Wonderful, graceful portrait!
I love the old masters, especially the sfumato technique.
Da Vinci would have loved your study!
I so enjoyed your free tutorial, so thankful
Achieved with a minimum of colours, the lady's skin looks so delicate, beautiful.
Thanking you, you are very refreshing and I love your calm approach and your modesty.
Oh, that's where I learned it from. Totally forgot. Thank you, my highschool art teachers!
Thank you very much Antonis for this great and calm tutorial - really helpful for my own portrets to paint. I was happy to finally find a comprehensive and extensive manual... and of course I watched your video until the end, it felt like I was sitting next to you.
Thanks a lot!
Marleen.
Thank you for putting into words what is involved in painting using the sfumato method and painting in general. You pointed out details, such as only using six colors in your palette, that I would not have gleaned on my own. Your video study enhanced how I appreciate art. Thank you for sharing for skill and teaching.
Thank you so much ❤️❤️
Still here, almost done....every minute was fascinating...sometimes holding my breath. I learned so much and I think, gained some confidence from your efforts
Andrea thank YOU so much!!! Your comment is really rewarding to me...
I watched your presentation again and learnt much more this time, thank you keeping this video up. it is so well done. I also learnt to go back revisit art demonstrations over because you see more and more versus the first time. Great work.
PRECIOSO RETRATO......ENFINITAS GRACIAS ¡¡ POR ESTA MARAVILLA....QUE DIOS LE BENDIGA ................
I am blown away. Never have picked up a brush, always wanted to.
i am a photographer learning about light....this is inspiring. thank you
I'm fascinated by how the early steps guide the later ones, how the direction of the brush strokes of the underpainting show the shape of the face well before you add any details. I wouldn't have thought of that if I didn't see you doing it!
Thank you for sharing you observations and thoughts to the old master's techniques.
Always fun to do a mastercopy from something you love and admire. Thank you very much from sharing how you did interprete the process. Very interesting. ❤️
I watched the entire video in one session. Thanks a lot for the explaintations and suggestions.
I’m sure you know by now since you posted this two years ago. But in response to you saying that you felt you hadn’t found the right brushes or something. For these types of paintings you need to be using kolinsky sable not hog bristle, hog bristle is meant for leaving paint strokes visible. Kolinsky sable is for making it smooth and giving better control, also using various mixing mediums in small dabs may help you to achieve the top level control you are after.
It was fascinating to see you approach this painting in a way so similar to the creation of an icon, especially in the beginning. Seeing that method employed in the "building" of a painting makes it easier to imagine it possible that I might now have an approach to making a decent painting someday :) A very inspiring and informative video.
I hope you exceed your own expectations about your painting Mark!!! I want to see the progress!
Καλησπέρα Δάσκαλε!
Μας κακομαθαίνεις με υψηλή ποιότητα, σταθερή συχνότητα και εκτενή και άρτια βίντεο!
Σε τούτη τη "συναλλαγή" μοιάζει οι "κερδισμένοι" να είμαστε εμείς, οι θεατές, αλλά θέλω να πιστεύω πως η δική σου "αμοιβή" ,παρότι εδώ δεν είναι οικονομική, έρχεται μέσα από τις προσευχές μας για εσένα και την ευγνωμοσύνη που μας εμπνέεις.
Ώρα καλή!
Κυριακή σε ευχαριστώ πολύ!!!! Χαίρομαι πάρα πολύ αν σου ειναι χρήσιμα τα βίντεο
watched it from start to finish and I found it mesmerising. excellent work, excellent presentation, excellent subject. bravo!
I didn't watch the whole process but I enjoyed listening to the thoughts and feelings of the artist while they stroke their brush on the canvas :D
Here till the end. I watched over the last 3 days while I drew. Really great work. Thanks
Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing your working process. I only just started working with oil paints and am looking forward to try a portait study in oils!
I really enjoyed your class. What I liked the most were the tips not to use the black color and also the outline painting with dark colors to serve as a base and then the top layer a little more diluted. Of course, the hints of blue on the skin added up a lot. Thanks!
The attention to detail and stidyness of every stroke of your brush is amazing to watch. Your a through artist. Thank you for the lessons
I just love the way you use SFUMATO to redo the painting. Leo did several paintings for the Medici family, it is an honor for me to watch you paint. I use SFUMATO quite often but slightly different than what you would do it. Love the (skin-tone) layering and everything else that you do. My major is Applied and Pure Mathematics-and-Engineering, I love Math-&-Science and Visual Arts. And, I love Leo's work. Thanks so much for sharing....my friend.
I had never before connected Leonardo's oil technique to the tempera technique taught to him by Verocchio. It seems so obvious from your demonstration. Very interesting and informative, thank you!
I watched the entire video. I really like everything you say and how you explain. I also had the entire time this feeling that you are very humble about your skill. You made it look so easy and you convinced me to give a chance to oil paint. Usually I paint with acrylics but they are so hard to blend and I don't know why I always felt intimidated by oil paint, I felt like oil paint it's for art masters 🙈 I'm self taught in art😊 your painting turned out amazing. You also have great knowledge of color theory. I learned new things just by watching this video. Thank you so much for putting this on youtube😊
🎨🎶🖌️...see my clock?🕑 At around the 2 hour mark in this video you commented about who might be still watching. I was watching and learning with wonderment and gracious respect for all you were saying and painting from start to end!!! So beautiful!!! I love your work, your talent, your gentle and nuturing voice and all you teach us!!! I am so grateful to you!!!
This was a very inspiring experience for this old artist with 50 some years of painting, playing my classical guitar and writing.
I needed to be inspired and you did that for me!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
And thank you again!!!💜🖌️🎨✨
Love your dedication and approach diving into exploring old master techniques. It would be great to see a split screen of your palette as you paint so we can also see which colors you are using. Thank you.
I actually stayed till the end..and found it very beneficial techniques on blending..much appreciate!!!!!🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much for this very valuable teaching. I watched it until the end and were so fascinated by the technique. I thought you did is tremendously well. Thank you again! I love it and found it very inspirational!
Thank you for sharing your skills. I thoroughly enjoyed learning the blending techniques.
Watched it from beginning to end , I don’t even paint but loved it Xx thank you for sharing this .
Beautiful! Thank you for this I enjoyed it a lot a d went out and worked on my front yard and came back in and watched the whole thing wonderful demonstration
It's interesting how you maintain your tempera brush technique in oils with short narrow strokes to build up tone and to blend. It's actually a very disciplined way to not over blend as is the temptation with oil medium. It's a shame that the techniques of the old masters is such a rare thing to find these days and discovering your channel by accident in my y/t feed was pure providence.
I'm come from a protestant background but in the last year I have decided to move to the blessed tradition of eastern orthodoxy, where I hope to study and practice the liturgy and the art of Byzantine icon making more deeply. I've always had a love of the first millennium church and it feels right to embrace it fully now.
Thank you for your wonderful tutorship and I am now subscribed. God bless you.
This was so educational! Just loved it! Da Vinci has always been one of my favourites growing up.
Another amazing tutorial! Thank you for sharing! These are valuable tutorials...!
Thank you Leo!!!!
Phantastic. Masterfull copy. With student grade paints. Really blows my minds. Awesome
thank you so much for this... i know sometimes you doubt you are conveying your process effectively but i want to put your mind at rest.. You have no idea just helpful it is seeing the entire process from a technical perspective. Thank you Sir, continuez à faire du bon travail!
Thank you so much, of course I watched the whole video, this was truly a learning experience. I'm so impressed that you also teach, we surely need more like you. The arts is what gives the world peace for at least a moment.
Many thanks for sharing with us the "fumato" technique. Very good job. I watched it entirely as I need to improve my paintings, doing my own portrait. You are a very good teacher. Cheers!
In some sessions, I stayed to the end. Very well instructed, I learned much.
Thank you Michael!!
Magnifico 👏 you truly are a master for me Leonardo playes a big role in the art world with his amazing technique "Sfumato" wich shaped the renaissance and baroque period i make a lot master copyes of him he rielly was the most skillful artist .
Gention thank you sooo much!!!! Be healthy and creative
It’s beautiful & I listened and watched all you did a great teaching of painting & your calm voice caused me to rest 😊
At 1:04:50 You say that it is a level that you can not achieve but you do not realize that you are beyond that level, you are so talented ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I arrived just to the end of your class. I thank you very much! It what fantastic to watch you painting. And will keep on following you. Dolores, from Buenos Aires. I want you to know that I am a photographer. And I paint. Have a good day!
Great tutorial. Love yr depth of building up type layers. Beautifully painted 💕
Happy concentrating on your technical skill far longer than expected to watch. Thanks for all your giving this >
Absolutely delightful. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Antonis, your channel is the most educational way to learn the classical style. Amazing work. Very inspiring and worth the try. I love your soothing voice and so clear. I truly appreciate the time, effort and knowledge along with your determination to spread good art. You are the best. I wish you much success. I will watch your video again with the sole purpose of painting along with you. I have been painting for a while and I love ro begin painting the eyes first. Beautiful work. Blessings, take care and be safe. Greetings from Champaign, Illinois, USA, but I’m originally from Peru.
This is the first time I watched you paint. I have to say I was totally enthralled! I did watch it from beginning to end in one sitting. It turned out absolutely beautiful! I have a sketch of a lady in pencil on my canvas. I will try this style in painting it. Thank you!