Hello from Northern Michigan. Just wanted to say thank you for this series of videos I can’t call them demos, because they are educational gems. Wonderful nuggets of your wisdom and experience. I look forward to coming to your studio someday and purchasing an original. Cheers to you and thank you
Thank you so much for your kind words, Harry. I sure appreciate that. I would love to meet you in person. Thank you also for your interest in my original artwork. If you like, shoot me an email at Tmbonita@gmail.com. And request to be on my email list where I announce the release of new paintings and new painting workshops. Thank you again, sincerely, Todd.
I have been painting for many years without really knowing many of the principals taught in this series. Over the past year or so I have watched hundreds of tutorials, and paid for a couple of courses, and like the other commenter, I feel maybe they have set me up to some extent, but your teaching method and explanation is as good as any I have ever seen. And your paintings are excellent. You definitely deserve a large audience. Thanks for doing this.
wow! what a really nice thing to say. thank you so much Bruce. I appreciate that!! If you ever have a question, feel free to reach out. I feel we are all this together trying to crack the codes to good drawing and painting. paint well my friend.
Alright when I see this I like a lot how the trees the and sky is painted, and I would've liked to include the smaller bright patches in the foreground, maybe even play with the viewer by making him guess if they're small puddles of reflecting rain water (when these patches are frosted bits on the uneven harvested crop field) and with the intent of adding that detail to draw interest I would've probably painted the front side of the house in less detail and made it purposefully darker to heighten the frosty contrast and bleakness.
Thank you Julian. I love everything about your reply and appreciate your feedback. I also love the sport of talking about art and paintings…we can learn so much. There is a great learning opportunity in your comments. If we gave this photo reference to ten Painters, they would have ten different interpretations of it. That’s a good thing. “Viva La Differánce!!”. These differences are what make us individual, visual poets. Academic principle #3: “Decide what the painting is about before you begin”…”The what informs the how”…or how you will paint it. You have articulated well what you are interested in this picture and articulated how you would execute it. Bravo. This is the job of the visual poet. For me, I was more interested in the cottage and its relationship to the atmospheric perspective of the trees. For the trees to be appear soft and dimensionally behind the house, I juxtaposed their relative cool color, soft edges and lack of detail, volume and texture by creating hard edges, warm colors and relatively higher details on the cottage…POP! The cottage comes forward and the trees recede with a feeling of atmosphere. Viola!
I have watched your series of videos on this particular painting leading to its completion. I learned a ton. Maybe so many of the other videos I’ve watched on TH-cam helped lay the ground work of my understanding, but your series conceptually really tied a number of things together for me. Thank you for your generosity in helping other artists just make better, more meaningful work no matter what their skill level or aspirations.
Very informative. Love your approach and description of the process. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain your method. You mentioned in the second video when applying single colours that you would explain the mixing of colours for the finished painting. Is there anywhere I could find out how to do this, regarding your painting? Thanks again, your a fab tutor.
Hi Kelvin, Thanks so much for the kind words, I’m glad to hear you are finding something of value in these videos. I have another video called opaque color. You will find useful in answering your questions about mixing. Happy painting on your journey, my friend.
Just came across your videos. Very systematic explanation of the fundamentals. Better than most of tutorial videos I have run across. good job!
Thank you for taking the time to say that. You’re very kind. I’m glad you found something of value in them. Happy painting to you Allen.
Hello from Northern Michigan. Just wanted to say thank you for this series of videos I can’t call them demos, because they are educational gems. Wonderful nuggets of your wisdom and experience. I look forward to coming to your studio someday and purchasing an original. Cheers to you and thank you
Thank you so much for your kind words, Harry. I sure appreciate that. I would love to meet you in person. Thank you also for your interest in my original artwork. If you like, shoot me an email at Tmbonita@gmail.com. And request to be on my email list where I announce the release of new paintings and new painting workshops. Thank you again, sincerely, Todd.
I have been painting for many years without really knowing many of the principals taught in this series. Over the past year or so I have watched hundreds of tutorials, and paid for a couple of courses, and like the other commenter, I feel maybe they have set me up to some extent, but your teaching method and explanation is as good as any I have ever seen. And your paintings are excellent. You definitely deserve a large audience. Thanks for doing this.
wow! what a really nice thing to say. thank you so much Bruce. I appreciate that!! If you ever have a question, feel free to reach out. I feel we are all this together trying to crack the codes to good drawing and painting. paint well my friend.
Alright when I see this I like a lot how the trees the and sky is painted, and I would've liked to include the smaller bright patches in the foreground, maybe even play with the viewer by making him guess if they're small puddles of reflecting rain water (when these patches are frosted bits on the uneven harvested crop field) and with the intent of adding that detail to draw interest I would've probably painted the front side of the house in less detail and made it purposefully darker to heighten the frosty contrast and bleakness.
But hey, it's a nice painting and I learned something! :) Thank you
Thank you Julian. I love everything about your reply and appreciate your feedback. I also love the sport of talking about art and paintings…we can learn so much.
There is a great learning opportunity in your comments.
If we gave this photo reference to ten Painters, they would have ten different interpretations of it. That’s a good thing. “Viva La Differánce!!”. These differences are what make us individual, visual poets.
Academic principle #3: “Decide what the painting is about before you begin”…”The what informs the how”…or how you will paint it.
You have articulated well what you are interested in this picture and articulated how you would execute it. Bravo. This is the job of the visual poet.
For me, I was more interested in the cottage and its relationship to the atmospheric perspective of the trees. For the trees to be appear soft and dimensionally behind the house, I juxtaposed their relative cool color, soft edges and lack of detail, volume and texture by creating hard edges, warm colors and relatively higher details on the cottage…POP! The cottage comes forward and the trees recede with a feeling of atmosphere.
Viola!
Todd -- Thank you for this outstanding series of videos. Your process makes SO much good sense, I can't wait to adopt it in my daily studio practice.
Amazing! You are a great teacher, please continue.
Thank you for saying that Janie. I hope you found it valuable.
Great series. Thanks for sharing. Hope to see more.
Thank you Steve!
I appreciate you leaving a comment!
I have watched your series of videos on this particular painting leading to its completion. I learned a ton. Maybe so many of the other videos I’ve watched on TH-cam helped lay the ground work of my understanding, but your series conceptually really tied a number of things together for me. Thank you for your generosity in helping other artists just make better, more meaningful work no matter what their skill level or aspirations.
You are so sweet to say that thank you.
Wonderful lessons here, thanks
I cannot believe you use a paint brush clip for a pallet knife holder! I use one for the exact same thing! Mine is yellow though.
Very informative. Love your approach and description of the process. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain your method.
You mentioned in the second video when applying single colours that you would explain the mixing of colours for the finished painting. Is there anywhere I could find out how to do this, regarding your painting? Thanks again, your a fab tutor.
Hi Kelvin,
Thanks so much for the kind words, I’m glad to hear you are finding something of value in these videos. I have another video called opaque color. You will find useful in answering your questions about mixing. Happy painting on your journey, my friend.
Amazing !
WOWWW