The DaVinci Technique - Sfumato
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In this video I paint the Renaissance portrait Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo Da Vinci. I try to decode his process of painting, and explain the findings of my study as thoroughly as possible. This is an invitation for all to try a study painting of the great Da Vinci without fear. I hope you will find the video useful and informative and that it will motivate you to be more in your studio.
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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
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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
Eww
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 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!
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.
@@user-vz2po5sc4e Calling a person an "illiterate mongrel" might even be unhealthier.
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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.
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.
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 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
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 🙏
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 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!
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!
Thank you for the excellent lesson of such beautiful work .
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 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.
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!!
Thank you for a great video. Especially insightful were your insights into practice, creativity and painting. You brought me back to my early art school days and some discussions I had with a teacher who encouraged me to look at the wide scope of art history to get more of an insight into what we human are capable of or could be capable of creating. Now I need to get some oil paints and a decent easel, it's been years since I used oil but I do miss it. Learning by doing is very true.
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.
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.
Well done… ‘watched the whole thing, had it playing while I worked on a painting.
Thank you for sharing your skills. I thoroughly enjoyed learning the blending techniques.
Great tutorial. Love yr depth of building up type layers. Beautifully painted 💕
Amazing work, thank you for sharing also the systematic way you blended the palette colours. Very soothing to watch 😊
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.
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!
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!
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 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'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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Lovely work! Listening to your thought process throughout the lesson was most enlightening. 🙏🏽✨thank you
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.
So beautiful! I made it all the way to the end, and I want to thank you for posting this. Such wonderful work, sharing your painting experience with us! 💖💖
I watched you make this portrait come to life in one sitting. Will watch again and again. Bravo !
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.
Thank you for sharing you observations and thoughts to the old master's techniques.
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!!!
Thanking you, you are very refreshing and I love your calm approach and your modesty.
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.
seeing your creative process is so soothing and nice, I watched the entirety of the video and the progress from a plain color to such depth is amazing.
What a wonderful lesson! I watched through to the end and enjoyed every minute of it. I love the fact that you were able to employ your egg tempera technique when building the layers. I'm currently working on a modern version of Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring and will try your brush work method. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video to teach us the beauty of the Old Masters.
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 just found you today and I am astonished by your talent and the beauty of your work, it's perfection! Thankyou.
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!
Eres maravilloso profesor, gracias por pasar tu conocimiento realmente hermoso, lo disfruté y aprendí mucho gracias
Thank you so much. I've been struggling with appropriate undercoat and how to build up flesh tones. Not any more. I understand the process after so many years of trying so hard and getting nowhere. Thank you so much.
I watched the whole video (and many of your other videos). I listen and watch while I work. Very soothing and relaxing. Keep it up!
Thank you soo much for sharing this with me
Absolutely beautiful and enlightening.
Amazing! Totally natural! . Thanks for the video.
I enjoyed every minute of this whole video! I feel greatly inspired to try this. Thank you for sharing this.
I watched the entire video in one session. Thanks a lot for the explaintations and suggestions.
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!
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!!
Fascinating to watch you work. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!!
I am so grateful for the work you were doing. I have been doing some Egg Temprera work, and it’s refreshing to see a skilled Egg Temprera artist exploring a new medium.
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 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.
This was so educational! Just loved it! Da Vinci has always been one of my favourites growing up.
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!
It’s beautiful & I listened and watched all you did a great teaching of painting & your calm voice caused me to rest 😊
Phantastic. Masterfull copy. With student grade paints. Really blows my minds. Awesome
Here till the end. I watched over the last 3 days while I drew. Really great work. Thanks
Wow, this video was utterly incredible! I feel like I have learned so much, I am astounded! ⏰️ you're so sweet thinking people wouldn't want to watch to the end and how much you appreciate the people who do! I love that and it makes me even more glad I watched the whole thing! I feel super inspired to tackle more tricky things even though I'm really early in my learning journey!
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 ❤️❤️
Thank you for this demo! ♥️
Your voice and rhythm of speaking is fantastic for painting along with (some might even say it brings on MSR). And your technique is great. You whole video has a nice intimate feel. Thank You!
Antonios, you have come very close, the result is mind-blowing. I take this as a challenge and will attempt to do my own study of this classical piece. Thanks for the idea.
Wonderful way to show, how the divine can be done relatively simply, thanks!!!
This is fantastic! Bravo! Graci! I'm inspired by your experiential method, and will certainly try this based on your wonderful guidance and advice here.
Thanks for sharing , great painting, brings light into my soul and gives me the strenght to keep on drawing and painting 👍
Fabulous, I learned so much. Thank you so much for sharing you skill and knowledge.
Thank you so much Marcia!! I appreciate your support!!
I watched the whole thing and it was very enjoyable and informative. Thank you for the info on sfumato - blending!
🎨🎶🖌️...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!!!💜🖌️🎨✨
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.😊
Absolutely incredible. Sort of new to painting and have only done landscapes. My next project is Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earing. This will help tremendously. Thank you so very much. I'll be back for more and yes, I did watch it all the way through.
I don't know what's more inspiring your technique, commentary or your admission that there are moments of self doubt.
Watched it from beginning to end , I don’t even paint but loved it Xx thank you for sharing this .
So beautiful, you Are an inspiration!
I was a pleasure to watch you work.
Absolutely delightful. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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 for the good tutorial, I have watched it all the way. It is great to see almost "for real" how a painter like Da Vinci might have worked. I am a bit into music and painting, not practicing enough both of them though. I think that learning or reading about art and music history is very important, as much as making music or art. In your painting, what is interesting is to see the work done layers by layers, in a progressive way. Thank you again.
Amazing experience, beautiful painting. Thank you so much 💓
A wonderful tutorial, really amazing technique and inspiring conversational delivery.A gem and a classic. I look forward to more in this style. Miles Burrows
Gracias por compartir tu trabajo, nunca habia visto pintar oleo y me ha encantado. Gracias
I’m so grateful to see the mixing of your colors, this for me, looks very much like the mixing process one would use for iconography. As you have mentioned in your demonstration when you were mixing the flesh tones, you speak of first light second light etc.
I assume Moore paint was used than that which you have demonstrated the development of your color palette. But thank you so much for showing the project progression of color within this demonstration.
It is refreshing to see the set up process as this is often not shared with the viewers.
Thank you for your work, you are a force to be reckoned with.
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!
Your personality, generosity and skills are simply wonderful! Thanks, from the U.K. 🤩🥳👌🏾
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 actually stayed till the end..and found it very beneficial techniques on blending..much appreciate!!!!!🥰🥰🥰
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😊
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!
I have seen this painting before ,but I never appreciated it until I saw you paint this study
God bless Andre Revutsky, Syracuse NY
So beautiful!
watched it from start to finish and I found it mesmerising. excellent work, excellent presentation, excellent subject. bravo!