Paint Shapes, Not Things - Demonstration Video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2021
- This week I am adding a 20 minute video of my blocking in a 20" x 20" canvas shape by shape.
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This is probably the best how to start painting tutorial. I always feel intimidated when I look for a subject by the amount of details that I forget that painting is more about shape and light then tiny details, at least at the start. You go from simple to complex, not the other way around. Thank you for diminishing my beginner anxiety level!
It's people like Ian Roberts that make TH-cam such a valuable teaching and learning resource. Thank you Ian.
Thanks so much Paul. I really appreciate your letting me know you are enjoying the videos.
I can't believe how much I am learning about my watercolour work through watching your tutorials in oil paints. The two mediums couldn't be more different but so many of the principles you show us can apply to all mediums. The improvement in my composition is really making me feel good about what I am doing. Thank you so much Ian. You are a wonderful and generous teacher.
Of course oil and watercolor have their own dictates about how to apply paint. But beneath that as you point out is the composition, the design, the big value masses. Those are the same challenges for each. Glad you are enjoying the videos.
I agree! I've recently taken up watercolor again after not painting for too long. I'm browsing around for tutorial videos to brush up on my skills (pun intended), and found this one. There's a lot to learn from this video that applies to any kind of painting medium.
I also learned alot from this for my digital painting skills! I see now that Charcoal drawings, oil, water colour, digital is basically all the same! Amazing!
I’ve also been doing watercolors for a little over a year. I just stumbled upon your videos and this is helping my mind conceptualize how to do the details in a painting! I see how color blocking makes everything come together. You make it look so easy. I will be trying this painting myself with watercolors. Thank you so much and I’m excited to see your other videos!
Right!!
Thanks for this demo. I’m working on “blocking in” and my paintings are improving. I find that my paintings often go through an “ugly”stage. And, because of your demos I am learning to work through this to some level of success. I too live in Ontario and a lemon tree would be spectacular.
Hi Sue, I suppose all paintings go through the initial enthusiasm stage, all vision, then as they proceed reality starts to creep in and the vision starts taking a hit (the ugly stage), then you just bear down and pull it together and it doesn't really match the glory of the initial vision, but it works.
Hey fellow ontarian :D
I’m not an artist in any way but I still found this video enjoyable. Your voice is so calming
Brilliant! Can't thank you enough for simplifying things which takes the mystery away and makes painting so much easier.
Really happy you find the videos helpful and making painting easier. Thanks for letting me know. Best wishes.
Magnificent demonstration 👍
Just witnessing the creative process, it's the most interesting thing to me.
Mot my style. I learned a long, long time ago that painting shape, not things, not only didn't help, it hurt, and I don't think anyone actually does this. I don't care how many shapes you think you're pointing, you still have to paint things exactly as they are, and in the same way I paint them.
you can't paint things however you want you are the artist
Amazing! Love it!
Love your illustration
I love the colors.
Stunning
wow beauty in the simplicity!
Amazing!!! Thank you for this great video. So simple yet so effective.
Thank you Ian!
Absolutely magical...I enjoyed watching the transformation. Beautiful.
Thanks for sharing your expertise.😊
Great explanation and painting. Thank you.
incredible, love your descriptions of the process. makes me think of painting differently
Amazing tutorial! Can see how you do this very clearly! Thank you very much!
explained and demonstrated clearly!
Brilliant thanks for the step by step instructions.
Love your videos! So I informative and beautiful!
This was an eye opener! Great video.
Love this. THanks.
Delightful! 😍
That was a very engrossing and instructive demonstration. Thank you for your expertise and especially for your sincerity.
Thank you For sharing. Great video
I learned a lot from this long demo, yes, please continue!
Gosh, this was useful. Thank you. I’m going to follow your lessons now. You are a wonderful teacher.
THIS IS AMAZING!! thanks for the lessons, a beatutiful work and an amazing technique
Thank you for knowing and thank you for sharing. Tuesdays would be incomplete without your videos.
I am so grateful for this!
Glad I could help Mason
This was so helpful ! Wow...I love how you did this so clearly...reducing it to the simplest forms.
Merci Ian pour votre démonstration et vos bons conseils.
Awesome teacher, thank you, Ian.
Glad I could help Beth
Thank you very much for this tutorial that simplifies painting. It's very inspiring. Thank you
This is a painter. 💯 Thanks for the demonstration.
This lesson is like anatomy of painting to me thank you Alan.
Brilliant demonstration. Thankfully I can watch it again because there is so much information on how to paint a complex scene and keep it simple.
Bless your heart.
You are an amazing teacher.
Thank you.
Simply amazing to watch each element morph from some shapes into a picture showing so much without great details. Brilliantly done. Thanks for doing this for us all.
Yes thank you, this is very helpful.
Thank you the method of art; so clear, straightforward and honest. That's what I get from you.
I really appreciate your knowledge about Art.
I love it. I'm so glad I found this channel. Thank you!
Glad you enjoy it Rudolf.
Well done Ian, and thank you for the narration as you worked through it. I'm attempting the transition from the world of graphite, where everything so detail oriented and hyper-focused on realism, so a tutorial like this is both a mind-blowing from that change of perspective and a great resource. I really like what you said about "drawing with the brush," as I've found myself saying the same things on some of my initial projects. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this video Ian!!
You are so welcome Diana
Beautiful greens...that bane of my existence....help!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I have learned a lot.
What a great detail tutorial on blocking and painting. I loved the way you blocked and demonstrated how the painting to developed. Excellent!!! Thank you Ian!!!
I found this video memorizing. I was interrupted twice while watching, but instantly glued to it again as I continued. Very nice!
Gorgeous painting and fab lesson,thank you. ❤️
Glad you liked it Cathy
I am loving all your demonstration videos. Thank you so much
You are most welcome Lyn.
Great Demo with detailing of light n shadow in landscape
Very helpful, indeed! Thank you so much for these videos!
You're very welcome Selma.
Just enjoy watching another left-handed artist paint!
Having just watched your 'only rule' video, it is really good to see this principle beautifully mastered.
Thank you.
Thanks again Ian! Love Tuesday inspiration/instruction.👍🏼
You are most welcome Joe.
Brilliant THANK YOU SO MUCH
👍 Thank you Ian, I look forward to Tuesday so much
Thanks for letting me know. With best wishes.
Just stunning!
Thank you!
This is exactly the style I’m aiming forZ this was very helpful!
This has been a great education. Thank you.
Very good idea to painting by blocking the shapes thanks for teachings
Excellent video - am so glad I found it. Many thanks Ian for posting.
Thanks so much
Thanks for all your detailed instruction.
You are welcome Kathleen.
This is so packed jammed full of fantastic information, thank you so much for sharing!
Makes me really happy to hear it. Thank you Leslie
Super instructive, Ian. Thank you so much. Love your style.
Thanks so much for letting me know Martha. Best wishes.
such a great picture in such a short time. but as one great painter said, there's a lifetime of experience. very inspiring Ian, thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing your excellent teaching videos. 🙌🤩 And your left handedness is appreciated. 😄
Well that was a great video! I don't know what drew me to this but as a digital artist and not a traditional one I learned so much from this ... Thanks and Cheers from Nova Scotia
Thank you so much for a very informative video. I love how you make it look so easy pulling it all together. beautiful
Glad you liked it Gwen. I think the more the design works the easier the painting process is.
I'm curently an art student and your videos are really helping me grasp basic painting concepts, keep up the great content!
Beautiful painting!
Everything about the way you break this down is amazing thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Just found you on YTube and have watched a couple of videos. Your tutorials are wonderful. I love your method of instruction and love your amazing style of art. Thank you so much! 🎨👌🖼
Beautiful painting. Thank you for your excellent videos. I have really appreciated your book as well.
Thank you very much Andy. I appreciate you telling me.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Sir,
Great video, thanks!
Wonderful. Thank you so much for this, it makes so much sense. You articulate it so well and break it down into easy to follow steps. Beautiful painting too!
Thanks so much. Best wishes
This is a very helpful demo, thank you.
I love it! I have now use for my fuzzy landscape photographs. Thank you Ian.
Delighted you enjoyed it Chona
Lovely painting, and very helpful to show how to simplify - something I'm struggling with at the moment. I was also delighted to hear you mention one of my favourite artists, Fairfield Porter! I love his work.
Thank you ! Great minds always simply things and make it seem easier.
Delighted you enjoyed it Jo
Thanks for reminding me of my beginnings and the fun along. So I'm not too far along with what I learned from trying , watercolor and your example. :)
I am so happy that I found your channel a few days ago. I love (yes love :) ) the way you describe and explain things!!! I'm currently learning/using watercolor, but I have painted with oils in the past. I really I enjoy both and I may return to oils some day because I love the texture and the sculpting quality of oil paint. For now the challenge of watercolor has me engrossed and I find many of your demos applicable to any medium/applicable to the creation of art. I've watched many YT channels where I learn a little and then I move away from that artist and find someone else. On yours though, I keep watching more and more of your demos. You're a great teacher and I thank you for sharing your experience and love of creating :)
I love how you just get right into it. I've always been intimidated by painting but this video pretty much destroyed any hang ups I have. I guess I've been approaching it as though I have to get everything down all at once but this method seems so much easier.
Great video! Thank you!
This is a beautiful painting, Ian, and the longer edition is very helpful. Thank you!!
Hi Sandy, glad you found the longer one helpful. See you Saturday. All the best.
Thank you so much for this magnific tutorial. Very helpful, making me see painting in different and easier way. 😊👍👍
Really glad you found it helpful Delia.
Really love this. I was fascinated by how the shapes all came together .
Glad you liked it Sally
Thank you, always informative and helpful.
Glad it was helpful Lynn.
I absolutely love this painting! Thank you for sharing this. As always you add tools to the painting tool box of technique that are so helpful. ❤️
Hi Joyce, happy you found it helpful. All the best.
One of the best of yours I have seen. Thanks so much love his color palette too. So harmonic
Thanks so much. Glad you liked it.
Really appreciated seeing the process here. You also are inspiring me to try to paint larger than I normally do! I really enjoyed this painting. Thanks for sharing your wisdom here!
Thanks so much Danny. Glad you are enjoying it
Thank you for such an amazing and helpful demo!
Delighted you enjoyed it Ariel
excellent tutorial on shapes. Very helpful, thank you!
You're very welcome John.
I enjoy learning so much in your videos. Ill never be a professional artist but, I do enjoy painting and your instruction is encouraging. Thank you.