Thankyou Len for your generous free tuition. I started painting several years ago, after not painting since secondary school. I've wasted so much money ( that I could not afford) on art lessons and still felt frustrated after them, feeling dissatisfied that I didn't learn anything. I thought it was me being a poor student. I now realise it was more the teaching methods than my inability. I'm now painting more confidently, due to your thorough teaching method. It is so thorough, you explain and show everything in detail, in simple understandable terms. You are so generous, unpretentious (compliment), and down to earth, and to think I almost didn't watch your first video I came across as all I saw for several moments was a blue screen. I'm so glad I sat and watched that blue screen as what I saw was magic to my eyes and ears. I'm now a "Len Hend groupy". A BIG THANKYOU again.
This is a complete look at all aspects of painting. I have learned so much today from your lessons and plan to go back to this video often to take notes on the sections I need help with. You take your time demonstrating techniques making it most enjoyable. This video is a gold mine of information ! Thanks for producing it for the public. Thank Ian Harris for telling me about you. I am sharing this video so my painting friends can discover you also. All the best to you !
Thank you Len. You have taught me so much. If I had been shown this in the two years I took art in high school, I would not have waited forty years to buy art supplies. I have always thought that I would love to paint and that I might be OK at it. Thanks to you I now believe that I can paint something worth looking at. Thank you...
The only video tutorial required for beginners. Easy to follow. Excellent tips on brush strokes, how to load paint on brushes, perspectives, tones and what not. Fortunately I found Mr. Len and this video during the time I was depressed about my painting skills. Thank God and Thank you Mr. Len. You saved me.
This has got to be the best Introduction to Painting Video I have ever seen. Nothing is left to chance and everything Explained to a tee. I started Painting a little over a year ago and was so frustrated with Videos that would stop and or leave out the most Important parts. Then I found Lens Videos and before I knew it I was Painting ! I got lens Lessons through Download. Easy and very inexpensive. This is the place to start if you ask me . Give it a go.
I admire you're style, you're paintings, you're explanations about the procedure in every painting (video)... Mr.Len ...Big thanks for free classes that some of us can't afford to pay...
As a beginner I have found this video to be most helpful in learning about all the aspects of painting. I have started a note book wth all the information you have given. I thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Len, I have watched this tutorial with great interest and love your beautiful paintings, I am from the UK and we don't have gum trees over here, but I do like the look of them. I have picked up many tips as I watch your videos. so Thank You very much for sharing your skills.
Thanks for this! I started painting a few years ago and just recently started painting custom work at dirt cheap prices for practice. My clients love my work, but the tone and perspective portions helped me to better understand what always seemed a little "off" to me in my pieces. I look forward to improving my skills with this new understanding! Maybe some day I'll even sell my work at market prices! Haha Thanks, again for these free veteran tips!
Len. Thank you. You have a mind of true artist. With the years you developed usefull merhods. I very appreciate for sharing it with other peoples that want the basic of painting and canot affored it. Thank you.
Thank you for your time in explaining how to paint and prepare for a painting.. l will be using this quite allot.. very easy to follow and to understand. l have learned to follow the rules of landscape perspective the brushes to use and the colours but most importantly the whole concept of the horizon lines and face our work towards the centre of your paintings and using the points to measure the correct dimensions to have the straight line through from point A to B.. and using dark to light and Iight to dark.. allot of practicing blending techniques and using the brushes to work the paint. Will be seeing you often.👍😊👩🏻🎨
i really really appreciate your lessons thanks so much ! i wish there were some videos in hd i have hard time seeing some things some days worse then others but all the same i love the video lessons :)
It is not good - you should use it soon or it will go hard. Tubes don't last forever and some colors and brands break up quicker than others. I would put the tube in a small plastic bag - maybe 2 or 3 inside each other .
Ty for this video Len !! Len look in to open broadcaster software for live streaming,its free and you will have more control of sound and vid, and can do twitch or Y tube ! ty again Teacher.
Thanks - I have had things working okay but sometimes I get them wrong as I film high quality at the same time for dvds and with 3 cameras and sound recorders it gets complicated.
Hi John - sorry, can't help you much - I'm in Thailand and have some cheap bristle brushes here but I don't read Thai and the brand is not important - nylon brushes seem to be taking over - I like the nylon brushes for water and sky etc. but I will need to adjust my foliage painting techniques as the nylon are too neat
Thanks for sharing Len! Here is the first painting lesson: Monochrome exercise imgur.com/gallery/3zQWf9y Second exercise: i.imgur.com/OvIe16y.jpg Third exercise: imgur.com/gallery/du3T5tB I was getting frustrated with a current piece, this was a great way to get me back into the right frame of mind.
I found the advises you gave on composition to be informing, but isn't it also very important to break those same rules? surely, if everyone always follow the same rules of composition all pictures end up looking more or less the same? I grant your point about the old masters knew very well where to put light, shadows, object etc. but to me, the old masters are really quite dull and I cannot really tell them apart from each other. by breaking the rules one could tell something else than just showing a pretty landscape. sure, you probably won't sell it to the masses and you'll die a poor artist, but... when Degas put a great big staircase in front of his dancers, or half cuts them out of the frame, and put them in awkward places, he makes it seem like a moment, like a snap-shot of life itself. when Monet puts a great big church in the top left of the frame and the horizon awkwardly in the middle, it might be unpleasant for the eye to watch but his point is not about the landscape. when Munch scatter people around the room in chairs or standing without any seeming thought on composition and without any light source or shadows, he paints how he remembers it and not how it aught to have been. it become real in a heart-breaking way which he could never have done if he had followed the rules. Caspar David Friedrich put things in the middle pointing upwards to show God's greatness through/in nature - as if you were in church looking up at the altar. but then you have Ohara Koson who showed emptiness through a lack of focus on the particular object he was painting in contrast to Friedrich. in contrast to Friedrich's worship of something final or absolute found in nature, Koson didn't worship anything but instead meditated and what he found in nature was gentle and subtle and no-where, and natural. not something put in specific places in the composition to elevate them. both breaks to some extent the rules to show something spiritual. in some of Hammershoi's paintings he will have the model on the end of the painting looking out, it creates a sort of emptiness in the painting as the eyes is drawn out but yet the emptiness of the room remains. it becomes almost mysterious. I don't know, maybe I'm not explaining myself very well, and maybe I'm not finding the best examples. all of these surely understand the rules of composition very well and only occasionally breaks them on purpose to tell something specific. but that's exactly it, I'm worried if everyone follows the same rules in landscape paintings we'll just end up with decorative art telling nothing except showing a pretty landscape. so in short I agree with everything you say about composition and I see you have a greater understand than me on the subject, but shouldn't you _also_ tell how important it is to break those same rules whenever you feel it's right? knowing the rules is important, but you put it like you cannot break the rules. what would Friedrich be without God? Koson be without emptiness? Hammarshoi be without something lacking? Munch be without the quality of a memory? Monet and Degas without the moment? they all achieved it by breaking the rules, in my eyes. I cannot think of a single great classical painter who achieves the same, not Rembrandt, not da Vinci, not Vermeer. to me those are just decorations in comparison. more skilled in many ways but they often all just look the same as the other painters of that time. but maybe that's just my opinion.
Nabium - you are possibly right but I do not have time to try and teach every variation of a subject and I doubt if my students would hang around for long if I tried.
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Thankyou Len for your generous free tuition. I started painting several years ago, after not painting since secondary school. I've wasted so much money ( that I could not afford) on art lessons and still felt frustrated after them, feeling dissatisfied that I didn't learn anything. I thought it was me being a poor student. I now realise it was more the teaching methods than my inability. I'm now painting more confidently, due to your thorough teaching method. It is so thorough, you explain and show everything in detail, in simple understandable terms. You are so generous, unpretentious (compliment), and down to earth, and to think I almost didn't watch your first video I came across as all I saw for several moments was a blue screen. I'm so glad I sat and watched that blue screen as what I saw was magic to my eyes and ears. I'm now a "Len Hend groupy". A BIG THANKYOU again.
Thank you - your happiness is my reward
This is a complete look at all aspects of painting. I have learned so much today from your lessons and plan to go back to this video often to take notes on the sections I need help with. You take your time demonstrating techniques making it most enjoyable. This video is a gold mine of information ! Thanks for producing it for the public. Thank Ian Harris for telling me about you. I am sharing this video so my painting friends can discover you also. All the best to you !
Thank you Anne
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Thank you Len. You have taught me so much. If I had been shown this in the two years I took art in high school, I would not have waited forty years to buy art supplies. I have always thought that I would love to paint and that I might be OK at it. Thanks to you I now believe that I can paint something worth looking at. Thank you...
Thanks Clive - enjoy
The only video tutorial required for beginners. Easy to follow. Excellent tips on brush strokes, how to load paint on brushes, perspectives, tones and what not. Fortunately I found Mr. Len and this video during the time I was depressed about my painting skills. Thank God and Thank you Mr. Len. You saved me.
Same here,he is a gift
Likewise for me too. I gained so much knowledge and most importantly motivation to pick up the brush again after many years. Forever grateful.
You are the most generous giving and talented artist in our time. Thank you for sharing this outstanding video!!
Dear Len, thank you so much for teaching us. I find your videos simple to understand and with amazing depth. Thank you for being generous!
This has got to be the best Introduction to Painting Video I have ever seen. Nothing is left to chance and everything Explained to a tee. I started Painting a little over a year ago and was so frustrated with Videos that would stop and or leave out the most Important parts. Then I found Lens Videos and before I knew it I was Painting ! I got lens Lessons through Download. Easy and very inexpensive. This is the place to start if you ask me . Give it a go.
Sharing is loving, you are the most loving person on earth. Thanks for your generosity.
You are one of the best teacher that I have ever seen. Thanks for all your vidio.
I admire you're style, you're paintings, you're explanations about the procedure in every painting (video)... Mr.Len ...Big thanks for free classes that some of us can't afford to pay...
'some of us can't afford to pay' - I remember being that way
As a beginner I have found this video to be most helpful in learning about all the aspects of painting. I have started a note book wth all the information you have given. I thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for sharing these videos Len. You've helped me to relax and get more enjoyment from my painting.
All the best mate.
I ADORE YOU DEAR LEN! THANK YOU!
Thanks
Down and dirty, my best painting I learned from you and got tremendous compliments. Thanks friend.
Len, I have watched this tutorial with great interest and love your beautiful paintings, I am from the UK and we don't have gum trees over here, but I do like the look of them. I have picked up many tips as I watch your videos. so Thank You very much for sharing your skills.
Thanks Douglas - 12 dvds on their way to UK I see - cheers.
Thanks for this! I started painting a few years ago and just recently started painting custom work at dirt cheap prices for practice. My clients love my work, but the tone and perspective portions helped me to better understand what always seemed a little "off" to me in my pieces. I look forward to improving my skills with this new understanding! Maybe some day I'll even sell my work at market prices! Haha Thanks, again for these free veteran tips!
Thanks Nicole - good luck - check out my website for finer tips.
Hi Len what an enjoyable dvd I learnt a lot watching it many thanks I am looking forward to watching the next one
Thank you Di
Thank you for this video..I really like the monotone paintings and really want to try them...I really love Burnt Umber as a colour too.
thanks so much for the brush strokes tips ,i find it most helpful when others just skip to tell you the brush or colors they are using .
You are awesome, sir. I'm getting myself the full set for Christmas
Brendan - please order soon as delivery can take time
Just ordered, but no rush... Christmas will start as soon as it gets here!
It's in the mail now - cheers
I got the DVDs from Len was the best thing i ever did . I paint in this style now and love it. Thank you Len for all your teaching
Len thank you for this info will use this as a reference Its the first time someone has explained the best use of these colours
Len. Thank you. You have a mind of true artist. With the years you developed usefull merhods. I very appreciate for sharing it with other peoples that want the basic of painting and canot affored it. Thank you.
TY and looking forward to your next live stream !!
Thank You sooo much for sharing this.You make me very happy...this is gold for me! God bless you and your loveones...
Genius about the little bags ..I've just started oils and someone gave me loads of those bags ..👍😁
len that is so well taught i have watched a few video's on these subjects and they were so confusing thanks for making it easy to understand
Wonderful DVD.very helpful. Thanks a lot.
you are the right teacher...and a great teacher...Len....tk u.
Thank you for your time in explaining how to paint and prepare for a painting.. l will be using this quite allot.. very easy to follow and to understand. l have learned to follow the rules of landscape perspective the brushes to use and the colours but most importantly the whole concept of the horizon lines and face our work towards the centre of your paintings and using the points to measure the correct dimensions to have the straight line through from point A to B.. and using dark to light and Iight to dark.. allot of practicing blending techniques and using the brushes to work the paint. Will be seeing you often.👍😊👩🏻🎨
Fantastic thanks Len. Especially perspective explained so well. Cheers Rob
Very informative video Len. Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge to us budding artists xo
Love from the US Len!
i really really appreciate your lessons thanks so much ! i wish there were some videos in hd i have hard time seeing some things some days worse then others but all the same i love the video lessons :)
Thanks
Such great instruction. Thank you!
very usefull and helpfull DVD mr Len, Thanks very lot
Thank you so much!! I am having so much fun painting :)
gracias Len....viva el arte,..
I just Love your paintings, Tank you very much for sharing with us...
This is a great series of DVD’s
I think I’m going to watch this video a few times wonderful information, thanks Len
Great video Len. We have the same month and day for our birthday's.
Good one - mine is 1943 - long time ago - cheers and happy birthday for 22/8
I'm but a young lad of 1951!!! A happy BD to you for August.
Great explained and lots of tips I enjoyed. Thank you.
This video is amazing. Thank you very much for sharing. Keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!
i like your style thanks for your lesson
Very good so far! Where do I get info.on the whole series of dvds?
Try - Google - 'paint with len - shop' - can't put the link here, sorry.
thank you very much sir for outstanding tutorial
I am learning so much...
Len, you've gotta know the Earth is level !! 😎
Only if you believe it is level !
very good
my oil paints tubes is leaking out it's oil... can you please tell me how to control this???
It is not good - you should use it soon or it will go hard. Tubes don't last forever and some colors and brands break up quicker than others.
I would put the tube in a small plastic bag - maybe 2 or 3 inside each other .
Len Hend thank you...... I must use them.
Ty for this video Len !! Len look in to open broadcaster software for live streaming,its free and you will have more control of sound and vid, and can do twitch or Y tube ! ty again Teacher.
Thanks - I have had things working okay but sometimes I get them wrong as I film high quality at the same time for dvds and with 3 cameras and sound recorders it gets complicated.
Hi Len. Where can I buy your DVD’s? I looked on eBay for your name it’s not there. I love your videos so easy to follow. Thank you..
Thanks - google 'paintwithlen' and you will find them on my website.
A good tip is never to use any colour straight from the tube. Nature is not like that. Colours are much more muted and greyed down.
Much great info! Thank you!
Best ever. Thanks
Len, do you ever paint acrylic on paper. Do you approve or disapprove this method ?
Dave M ( QLD).
David - Acrylic on good quality paper can work but not wet on wet.
I always have used primed canvas.
Len Hend
Thanks Len, much appreciated.
Dave M (QLD)😎
the natural bristle house painting brush are hard to get ... what brand do you use and where do you get them?
Hi John - sorry, can't help you much - I'm in Thailand and have some cheap bristle brushes here but I don't read Thai and the brand is not important - nylon brushes seem to be taking over - I like the nylon brushes for water and sky etc. but I will need to adjust my foliage painting techniques as the nylon are too neat
Thanks Len ... Nylon are a bit of a problem to be sure. If I find a good bristle brush, ill post the info...
Thank you ❤
Thanks for sharing Len!
Here is the first painting lesson:
Monochrome exercise imgur.com/gallery/3zQWf9y
Second exercise:
i.imgur.com/OvIe16y.jpg
Third exercise:
imgur.com/gallery/du3T5tB
I was getting frustrated with a current piece, this was a great way to get me back into the right frame of mind.
A true master
Hi :)
Is that acrylic painting with? Is it an expensive paint you use?
It is acrylic - student quality - is not expensive - don't use runny paint.
Thank you, very nice pictures you paint :)
What brushes do you recommend?
It is too much to explain here - skip to the brushes section on the video
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I found the advises you gave on composition to be informing, but isn't it also very important to break those same rules? surely, if everyone always follow the same rules of composition all pictures end up looking more or less the same? I grant your point about the old masters knew very well where to put light, shadows, object etc. but to me, the old masters are really quite dull and I cannot really tell them apart from each other.
by breaking the rules one could tell something else than just showing a pretty landscape. sure, you probably won't sell it to the masses and you'll die a poor artist, but... when Degas put a great big staircase in front of his dancers, or half cuts them out of the frame, and put them in awkward places, he makes it seem like a moment, like a snap-shot of life itself. when Monet puts a great big church in the top left of the frame and the horizon awkwardly in the middle, it might be unpleasant for the eye to watch but his point is not about the landscape. when Munch scatter people around the room in chairs or standing without any seeming thought on composition and without any light source or shadows, he paints how he remembers it and not how it aught to have been. it become real in a heart-breaking way which he could never have done if he had followed the rules.
Caspar David Friedrich put things in the middle pointing upwards to show God's greatness through/in nature - as if you were in church looking up at the altar. but then you have Ohara Koson who showed emptiness through a lack of focus on the particular object he was painting in contrast to Friedrich. in contrast to Friedrich's worship of something final or absolute found in nature, Koson didn't worship anything but instead meditated and what he found in nature was gentle and subtle and no-where, and natural. not something put in specific places in the composition to elevate them. both breaks to some extent the rules to show something spiritual. in some of Hammershoi's paintings he will have the model on the end of the painting looking out, it creates a sort of emptiness in the painting as the eyes is drawn out but yet the emptiness of the room remains. it becomes almost mysterious.
I don't know, maybe I'm not explaining myself very well, and maybe I'm not finding the best examples. all of these surely understand the rules of composition very well and only occasionally breaks them on purpose to tell something specific. but that's exactly it, I'm worried if everyone follows the same rules in landscape paintings we'll just end up with decorative art telling nothing except showing a pretty landscape.
so in short I agree with everything you say about composition and I see you have a greater understand than me on the subject, but shouldn't you _also_ tell how important it is to break those same rules whenever you feel it's right? knowing the rules is important, but you put it like you cannot break the rules.
what would Friedrich be without God? Koson be without emptiness? Hammarshoi be without something lacking? Munch be without the quality of a memory? Monet and Degas without the moment? they all achieved it by breaking the rules, in my eyes. I cannot think of a single great classical painter who achieves the same, not Rembrandt, not da Vinci, not Vermeer. to me those are just decorations in comparison. more skilled in many ways but they often all just look the same as the other painters of that time. but maybe that's just my opinion.
Do you need a dokter or are you stoned???
Nabium - you are possibly right but I do not have time to try and teach every variation of a subject and I doubt if my students would hang around for long if I tried.
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