Why Oil Painting is So Hard - and how to make it easier
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In this video I explain what makes oil painting so difficult.
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Not only a high quality free tutorial but also without any adverts... what a breath of fresh air, thank you!
this teaching method is nothing short of brilliant. My bucket list includes these classes.
I got tired of color picking on my digital art (even quit oil painting because color mixing was very difficult, always comes out gray and muddy) and thought that I should learn color theory, and I found your channel. I have spent hours and hours watching and re-watching your tutorials, and I can say that my colors and values have improved A LOT. Thank you, Sir!
I really love your method! I'm in the process of gearing up for oils but in the meantime, I'm doing gouache and I can apply the same theory to it. Color matching the value first, and then the hue, using your colour chart, covering the canvas slowly and surely. Wow! How well that works! I'm a professional VFX artist so my eye is well trained in subtle colour variances but I am still learning how to match colours while mixing paint efficiently. I've traced over my reference material in photoshop, transferred it on my paper canvas over a light table so proportions are solid. Using my reference material on a 1 to 1 scale on my laptop while I paint.
Excited to start in oils soon!
I remember learning this concept in art school and thinking about how it's a good analogy for life. Allow me to articulate:
Positive and negative space are equally important, they define each other as the yin yang (this is the relation to a meta life lesson). Therefore, you must care for the object and its surroundings.
It is the hallmark of the amateur to neglect the surroundings of their subject and focus all their effort on the positive without considering the negative space.
Great concise video, thank you for the reminder 🙏
I’m a new artist in the process of learning and experimenting and your videos are an excellent source of knowledge and experience... Thank you for sharing this information!
I appreciate your kind heart about caring for part of a family from Ukraine, especially that you wasn't afraid to put a reminder about it in an artistic channel.
Please don't mind some strange ill comments here from strange people. Maybe they're russians or just a bit stupid.
Anyway, you showed your big heart and it's incredibly pleasant to see this support even from an oil painter master from Texas. It shows that my country, Ukraine is facing the evil not alone, the whole civilized world are with us.
I am horrified from the comments here. All my support for the Ukraine, we live in Germany, I know the governemment here could do better to help... we normal people are trying to hel the refugees, most of the germans are against the brutal agressor.
@@muhlenstedt Thanks for this words, I appreciate it! Vielen Dank fuer eure Hilfe!
I'm very well informed, and all war is unfortunate... But the Russians are the good guys. Their victory will benefit many Nations controlled by the Neoliberal World Order. (Forced Vx..., Grate res E.T is something we should oppose)
@@jamesmonroe3043 "I'm very well informed" and speaking nothing but nonsense... Well said!
P.S. Ther win will benefit just genocide enjoyers
@@jamesmonroe3043 An economy like the russian, dominated by oligarchs and with the governemmt censurating information is not an alternative to the neoliberal world. Besides, nothing justifies invading Ucranie to get ressources of mineral exploration and agricultural prodution and to have free acess to the Black Sea.Good guys do not have killing civils, bombing houses, schools and hospitals as war strategy.Good guys do not destroy to dominate.
I wanna say Thank you so much Mark.You make me from a person who can't and don't understand oil paint can finally make it.🤩😍🥰
I remember my first try at this method, I worked hard trying to get all the colors in the right places, and nothing looked right, but I filled the canvas.
Then I stepped back for a moment, and when I returned my eyes adjusted and magically it looked like realism.
The method works very well.
SO HAPPY to see and listen to you again in the current time.
Relieved to see you are back.
You are a sweet person
Mark! Glad to see you back! You're my go-to guy for figuring out what what I'm doing wrong. Are you still planning on doing live student videos?
Mark, I’ve been watching your channel all week. I went to Cooper Union and I wish you had been my painting teacher. It occurred to me this week that maybe the reason I never really got excited about painting is that I wasn’t actually taught how to. It was mostly just… “make whatever and we’ll talk about it - maybe you’ll figure something out eventually.” Thank you for pulling me out of a funk and getting me excited to make work again. The amount of great information you’ve shared on this channel over the years is incredibly generous and I’m happy to know that teachers like you exist. Happy Holidays from Philadelphia
Moved to Austin recently from Alaska. Glad to be here with fellow artist, and one of my teachers, Mark C.
Thank you for the videos sir.
I love your method and I am applying it in my painting all the time. I learned a lot from you my idol!😍❤
Thank you Mark, you are the best! Also I am loving the color checker! :)
Mark, thanks for giving me the opportunity to help. This is the best way to use your reach and for art to make a difference.
Mark, I am so thankful for the wealth of info you share with us. I would never have attempted oil painting in 2019 if not for you. I am eternally grateful. I’ve even sold many pieces, and I know those works of art are sincerely cherished. How nice to know my art has added happiness to many! ‘Wonderful to see you again.
I thank GOD you're back...its been a long time...we miss your videos....from the Philippines
thank you for sharing. Its so hard not to judge along the process but Im learning
Thank you for the video and helping Ukraine💛💙
I didn't know you live in Austin. I was just thinking while watching one of your other videos that you remind me of my uncle who also lives in Austin and is also an artist. How funny.
Thank you for another great video, Mark. And also thank you for helping people, who had their lives torn apart through no fault of their own.
Love you Sir ...you have been a real blessing.
I am so glad to see you back!!
Amazing tip. May Allah keep all of humanity in peace.
I see it, but only because I not only watched all your videos, but then bought some of your paint, and started making amazing paintings. I did a portrait of my wife, and a landscape. Now I see things differently
great as always!
I've learned so much! Thanks! Started on acrylic offerings and now it seems I can't paint with anything but oils!!! Hope to do some commerce with you soon You're a blessing to many. I can't keep lighthouse paintings caught up, everyone loves lighthouses. They are big sellers: I'm a realism kinda guy. Thx again!
Thank you Mark for all you do. Appreciated here.
Hey man glad to see you. I haven’t seen your vids for like a year! I really enjoy your channel. Good on you for Ukraine support.
I still don’t own any of your products. But I hope to soon. I’m returning to painting after not for several years.
I think I got this technique down after reading Ian Robert's. I try to color match regions after laying down a super thin sketch, and then follow up by modifying colors and setting in some artistic contrast so it doesn't look too much like the reference.
Could you please do a video on the best way to remove paint from a section you need to redo if simply painting over isn't a good option?
Hello there,
First of all, how you are helping the young lady from the Ukraine.
Second, When I finally create my masterpiece, I will dedicate it to you Sir.
I have watched so many tutorials you wouldn’t believe.
Then I found you. I just keep studying your techniques, and I will complete something beautiful.
Just the way you explain color thero
Color theory is right up my alley. I thank you very much for sharing your talent and instruction.
I have been so busy at work that I haven’t even painted! I must get back to it!
i like your videos they are very good and you are relly good painter
great to see you back. thank you for this video
I just ordered a set of paints and the dip!! So excited! I wish I could afford your color checker, I feel like it would be so helpful!! I am trying the testing of color on my photo but dang I’m mixing and mixing and mixing lol
Good discussion of the problems inherent in our ability to see, or rather to understand HOW we see, that is to say, how our brains interpret visual information.
Another problem involves photography, although this has improved with the rise of HDR (or made everything even worse!). The point is: the camera lens (even the best of them) and the digital sensor (again, even the best) doesn't see values well. In fact the camera tends to exaggerate overall contrast.
For example, in the above video, the light coming through the windows is nearly white and the area between them nearly black, but if we were in the room in the same position as the camera, we could see all kinds of values and colors outside on the neighboring wall and what's really going on behind the instructor.
Even the values in his face are exaggerated by the camera, the shadow side being made darker and the lighter a bit lighter than we would see it.
One can verify this phenomenon very simply--compare your smartphone screen to the subject when taking a picture. So, for painting, those who are using photographs for reference might want to keep this in mind.
Old timers knew these weaknesses of photography. Dodging and burning was normal darkroom practice--knock down the highlights and bring up the shadows. Anselm Adams did this.
This isn't to say that photography deceives. It tells a lot of truth.
The reality is that our eyes aren't just lenses, they're very, very sophisticated ones. Our eyes are capable of doing what no man made lens can--perceive INTENSITY of light ALONG WITH color.
So, for example, we see a highway at night, cars with red, yellow and white lights everywhere. The white headlights are the brightest, right? Not necessarily. A reddish brake light up close is giving us more light than a faraway headlight. It is more intense, despite the "fact" that red is darker than white in value.
A painter might claim--you're not really seeing "white" light, but some tone of gray. This is only true in PAINTING, where white is the highest key "color," that is the lightest possible value capable of representing light.
Herein lies a truth: pigments in oil aren't reality, they're stand-ins. They have to represent all that our eyes are capable of seeing.
So, if we think of painting as ANALOGOUS to seeing, having related but DIFFERENT rules, we're on to something.
Hope this gets someone out there thinking. What God has created is truly amazing:
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out."
Thanks....
A very helpful reminder, thank you!
Very helpful Mark, just like all of your videos. Thanks
Nice to have You back))
Mark when and why did you replace cadmium yellow with “bismuth” yellow? I’m surprised you didn’t address the change in a video
Excellent observation
I find the best way to gauge color is the same way you gauge form: close one eye. For color, blur your focus a little and look at the spot you're working on. You'll see the colors a they are. Put the color where it goes. Move on to the next color.
Happy New Year to you and those you love, Mark.
Brilliant wisdom, knowledge and reassurance, thank you.
Was so dismayed to find your paints are no longer sent to us here in the UK, what would you recommend we do, please?
Without going into a woe is me, I am advised I don't have a lot of 'waiting' time.
I'm planning to prove them wrong, of course.
Frida Kahlo and all that!
Off topic: I know Sargent is a painter you mention often because of his "loose" brushstrokes and style. There's a video of paintings by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida that show some remarkable impressions with little detail. With the exception of portraits, their style seems very close. I'm not an expert by any means.
I agree. Many years ago, I saw an exhibit of his work and have admired Sorolla's work ever since. The group of women sewing the sail in dappled light is a favorite. I don't see how your comment is off topic.
good luck to all emmigrants from ukraine
Thank you. Very helpful 😍
Thanks for the video. Really Interesting
Por favor, es posible tenerlo en español?
Trust the process
Thank you!
It takes time and natural artists do exist and I'm one of them , to say any different would be simply blowing sunshine up ones @#$% it starts with sketching and drawing ability and color comes next , being on the spectrum is a great advantage to art .
Superb!
If you can help out his neighbor in Austin with the sponsorship of the Young Ukrainian family please do. My friend is also sponsoring a gal and child (same scenario) and the United States Gov. requires the following, or they can’t come over, and that’s a tall requirement . Quote: “I had to guarantee 100% of all costs for two years. That’s travel to the US. While here I must provide food shelter medical care (100% coverage), education like college or trade school and housing. 100% of their needs. “
What happen with the Cadmium Red that you were selling? I've been waiting for months
you mention you had students that had no experience you were going to teach as a "project". did that ever happen??. I would love to see the before and afters
Could you do a video on temperature ?
My biggest challenge!
Hi, can flaxseed oil sold in grocery stores for human ingestion be used as a working substitute for artist quality linseed oil?
Hi. Since the earth is observably level contained and motionless then should all horizons be .... horizontal ?
do you have any advice for painting from imagination? is it something you pick up from doing enough still lifes?
When will geneva start shipping in Europe again?
I have a question. How do you get your cool and warm colors with your palette? I like to work with temperature when painting and I have added a warm and cool to my primary colors but I see you don’t do that .
Anyone who has enough space to home a family escaping war should seriously consider helping people out. It would be gratefully appreciated and a great service to a people fighting the brave fight for freedom
Anyone who can provide a temporary home for Ukrainians families escaping war is doing tremendous service to freedom and the right to live a decent life on the principles we all hold dear in the west. Thankyou to all of them
Is there any way to utilize this technique referencing from a digital screen?
If you get a clear piece of plastic and put that on top of the digital screen then you can put on small dabs of paint, check the color, then remove and clean the paint off the plastic.
@@RobertF- ok, I will definitely try this
Mark I wanted to ask I have brushes and I can't seem to remove paint got any strong ideas? Oil paint!
If you use acetone that should help get the dried up oil paint out of the brushes.
@@RobertF- Thanx Robert!
Acetone won’t help much
The only product that really works is
Brush cleaner (methylene chloride)
And let them rest for a day
Only use it outdoors or in a well ventilated area
@@MaxMut. Thanx Max!
The windows behind you look like paintings!
The colors on the vase are not the same colors on the video, because apparently the camera compensates. I went to my HD screen and boxed my hands around each dot on the vase, and the dot on the whitest part of the vase is certainly not the same color as the other dots when I isolate the dot. It's the camera, because I'm sure your principle or theory is correct. It's not technically correct on the video, so that's confusing.
Boxing your hands is clearly the wrong technique for you. I grabbed screenshots (at 1080p) and took them into a painting program. Using the light dot, because you think that's a problem area, I zoomed in to the point of pixilation and then manually checked the RGB of side-by-side. I can confirm the colours are identical. I mean PRECISELY, MATHEMATICALLY identical. I know YT compression can screw things up, but not in this case. Not in 1080p that's for certain. I didn't check other resolutions.
@@darthkek1953 Great input. Thanks. When one looks at the video as an example of the same color, that is misleading, but I understand your point that in fact it is the same on the canvas. Showing actual contrast on the video is just confusing. Thanks again!!
Those windows make your scene look painted.
Never seen one of those little mics being mounted on glasses rather than your shirt lol
I'm on the other side of that, I know the difficulty that people are having in Ukraine and the refugees and I know where to donate if I'm going to, but I clicked on to hear some teaching on painting in oils. Not about anything else, I'm out!
This isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure.
The war in Ukraine is still a thing? Apparently this is where I get my news these days
Here we go again with Ukraine. If you cared about Ukraine where were you when the citizens have been crying help for the sex trafficking they been suffering for years?? Give me a break!
Unsubscribed
Hi, I'm from Ukraine and what we have nowadays is biggest shit we're fasing as a nation in at least 50 years, so what you're talking about?
Is it bad to try to help people who became a refugee? You just picking one problem and trying to tell that instead of caring about INNORMOUS problem a person should care about other stuff which has happened in the past? What's wrong with you?
Buh-bye.
goodbye, you won't be missed
That was such a Christian comment
Already billions of tax payers money going there, while there is poverty and high inflation in USA.
Come on, Mark. You know _nothing_ about the war in Ukraine. Stick to art, something you do know.
I donated to the Ukraine refugees at his neighbors because all I need to know is they’ve fled a war and are in need. Why are you casting shade on Mark’s attempt to help?
I highly respect Mark and I chalk it up to him being compassionate for his neighbor/friend, as I highly doubt he has any real understanding of the situation outside of what he’s been told by his neighbor and what he’s imbibed via the mainstream media. Most Americans have ZERO understanding of this war and what led to it, let alone any other aspect of that part of the world, so I am doing my best to be patient with those around me. I will say though that my patience is wearing thin, and seeing the same people who for years have selectively weaponized “ethnic/racial hatred” as the pinnacle of all evil, engage in the demonization of an entire ethnic culture/country(Russia)and it’s people….let’s just say that these individuals have greatly affirmed my assumptions about their personal moral character as well as the hollowness of their Neoliberal zealotry.
Russophobia is deeply ingrained in this country in an almost genetic capacity. The post-wwii lens by which the greater west has defined it’s identity was carved from the block of several great caricatures, but primarily from one of juxtaposition to the USSR. The war in Ukraine is directly related to this “great powers” conflict however I’m still discouraged by the speed with which so many normally decent western people jumped on the vilification of Russia with a rabid willfulness to totally overlook the egregious actions of not only the government of Ukraine, but also the scumbags in Washington who also have blood dripping from their hands. Most people however can’t be bothered to take a long hard self-reflective look at not only our own country’s complicity in this war, but also at their own selective moral outrage. Denying what has been happening since 2014 and then wailing hysterically about “Russian aggression” is a tell tale sign you have no real comprehension of the actual situation. Hopefully, as this operation wraps up, the objective reality will eek out from under the paper-thin rug from whence our utterly degenerate media/regime has tried to sweep it under, and the people in the west who are not irretrievably possessed ideologues will come to see that the reality in Ukraine is far more complicated than they’ve been led to believe. Integrity and reason seem to be in short supply these days, and even though I tend to be extremely Spenglerian about the dying west, I still try to have faith in the goodness of most people. Mark’s willingness to make a plea to help this young family should be a testament to that.
@@shayneswenson Why are you so convinced that Russian side of this story is trustworthy? Basically, you just pick a side based on your personal sympathies and antipathies. If you're not involved in any way, if you didn't communicate with actual Ukrainians, for example, then how can you know if there's any real russophobia that might've lead to the things that allegedly had been happening in the eastern Ukraine since 2014?
If you can understand Russian, you can look for the videos with interviews in Donbass that were made in the last 8 years. The streets aren't ruined, people aren't hiding somewhere, they're just living their lives. Look at Mariupol then and now, after Russian invasion (you can also look for the diaries of Mariupol people that managed to survive). Mind you, the battles were going on only in the small area near the Russian border, and the most active phase was in 2014. For the last couple of years, it was almost quiet there, there were less than 10 deaths in total last year or in the preceding one. By the way, many people from there fled deeper into Ukraine instead of leaving the country. Why would they, if they were allegedly persecuted here? And the rest of eastern Ukraine has been doing fine until February 24. As did the southern part (those two are the most Russian-speaking and some southern cities have been occupied by Russia this spring). And all the other cities here...
I live in Kyiv and I mostly speak Russian, and I've never got into trouble because of that. My father is from Russia, and the worst thing that ever happened to him is having to use Ukrainian when giving lectures in the university: it was a bit inconvenient to adapt when he just started. My acquaintances moved from Russia to Ukraine after 2014 and were never treated with hostility or something. Even after 2014 you can still hear Russian on TV and radio, buy books in Russian, watch a play in Russian in the theatre, learn Russian language and literature in some schools and universities, be served in Russian if you ask. There were blatantly pro-Russian parties in the parliament even a month into the literal war with Russia. Even the far-right nationalistic parties weren't represented there; almost no one votes for them. Zelensky has always been far from being a nationalist, having pretty moderate liberal-leaning views; Russian-speaking till the presidency. Even the Azov battalion initially was formed in Mariupol/Berdyansk, and many of its members speak Russian and might have Russian roots. It makes zero sense for them to discriminate against people that are just like them, basically their friends, family, or their neighbors... they all live in the localities that's been turned into rubble.
I don't why your sympathies lie with Russia -- maybe because you're actually from there or you have Russian roots, or you just simply support those who oppose the collective West that you despise... but how can you ignore the obvious, like the aggressive foreign policy of USSR and even modern Russia, or the history of its relationships with the neighboring countries? It's more about Russia vs former USSR colonies than Russia vs West. Look into the preceding wars where Russia was involved. There's lots of similarities. Russia is still a pretty machiavellian state. And you can still admire its culture, art, literature, certain personalities, and so on but why necessarrily support the actions of the government?
@@shayneswenson TH-cam: Col. Richard Black U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War
All paintings are difficult, incuding watercolor :://
Please, could you mention your support of censorship on your next video? It's fun getting to know you....
Why you didnt promote a single refugee from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ethiopia, Afganistan? They dont deserve the same?
Wrong skin colour, another religion, some westerners don’t consider us as civilized people.
@@muhlenstedt whole your message is a simple manipulation in style "what about you...". And still this is not an answer from Mark why exactly he choose to promote this family and not refugees from any other country.
@@megacloudhead For you is manipulation for me it is just a principle: before accusing or pointing the fingers to others, one should ask himself/herself if has the moral authority to do it . It is too easy to question or criticize, and it is just false when people judge without acting as better examples. To help people Mark does not need justifications. Beside this, you do not know if and what he did in the past for another refugee grupe. The Ucranie crisis is acute know, it is naturally that this stays in focus.
@@muhlenstedt Do you mean refugees from Ukrain is a "trendy thing" and other refugees doesn't suffer anymore? You see - this kind of manipulations works both way... I am just trying to say there is much more than Ukrainian refugees, and if Mark is so responsive, we will see other in next videos, right?
@@megacloudhead No, I do not mean that, I am just commenting that the press gives focuses to the latest crisis . I do not have any knowledge about Marks mind and soul, I can not say what moves him now and in the future.
thank you!