This video was incredibly helpful! I painted the loveliest little landscape full of shadow and light after trying out your color palette and techniques, thank you so much!
Yes! Moreover, it explains why my colors get muddy. Dark/cool and light/warm is really a lightbulb for me. I paint with acrylic but the concept should be the same. Thank you! I love your videos.
You're not only the best but also the most generous Art teacher on TH-cam. Your Art keeps a lot from the 19th and early 20th centuries's spirit... and skills. You changed a life, litterally. Thank you so much !
Clear, straightforward, and to the point. Thanks, Ian. A thought on simplifying. My biggest difficulty is breaking away from the subconscious tendency to be a copyist of a scene instead of an interpreter. I try to keep in mind that my goal is not to document, it's to create from the raw materials I see.
That is a huge piece, and a huge shift mentally. It is a right brain shift I think to thinking in terms of design and not subject. When you look through the lens of design then everything is there to support that rather than supporting all the details.
I come from a photography and graphic design background and I really struggle to be spontaneous and simplify when painting. It’s such a difficult mental shift; my wife keeps telling me to stop when I’ve “roughed” in a painting but I usually don’t and then overwork. It’s a constant battle between mass and detail. Your tutorials are helping me a lot in my struggle. 👍
Ian, I so appreciate these demos...you are very generous with your time and expertise. Thank you for showing how you mix colors because it is incredibly informative and helpful.
I love the effect of warm next to cool! Thank you for showing how. Love how you simplify and your explanation is so clear. always looking forward to your next tutorial. Most appreciated 🙂
I liked how you mixed the two cool Colors/darker values side by side on your palette. Then the same for the lighter value/warm colors. So it helped to keep them respectively close in value. Now to translate to watercolors for myself. I have so much to learn!! Thank you .
Dear Ian, I’m on your drawing course now, but on the same time it is so useful to review all your Tuesday videos! Makes a good repetition- “the mother of skill” (Swedish expression) 😉/ Such good education! /Thank you/🎨🖼
Thanks for showing us your colour palette which really helps me learn more about colours. Hopefully you can make more videos on mixing colours etc…. Thanks!
Great video. Thank you Ian for giving us the keys to enter the world of values and color temperature. I learned so much this time and I am going to translate to watercolor. Be well.
Yes it really did. I always have had such a chaotic experience with planning because I didn't know about keeping contrast constant. This is the missing key for me.
Hi Ian, Hope you are fine? Thanks so much for sharing these videos they are super helpful and brings back so much of what you taught during the great workshops I attended with you in Provence! This is great for practising and seeing …….mixing greens really helped me ! Many thanks , Mira
Yes, always informative. I enjoy watching painting demos. May sound odd, yet when looking at a photo of a painting there is that first impression. If it grabs my attention, even if it doesn't sometimes, I love to figuratively zoom in and study the brush strokes, the dabs, their direction. Essentially the hand of the artist. Then I imagine their exact process. The when of the how. Oh, and my copy of Mastering Composition just arrived. Looking forward to diving into it.
I discovered that color can show depth if you are trying to show a distance between front and background. Lighter greens and darker greens and shadows.
So grateful for your teachings and thrilled at your talent and skill. I wonder if it's "ok" sometimes to allow the unpainted canvas to be an area of strong light? I was trying painting something the other night and liked what in my mind's eye looked like a wonderful bolt of light on the subject, without painting the area.
Generally, do we want both cool and warm colours in one picture? Could you talk about how to paint a ‘cool’ as well as a ‘warm’ picture if hat might be what we want? I will meanwhile look around at pictures to see if I can tell. Thanks for your brilliant videos. Kate
I don't know where he finds shards of light. Becomes obvious when he paints rays of sunlight. I am becoming more focused when doing my own photos for painting. Thank you Ian
Normally on small canvases I'd have a light toned surface. I think because I was not really thinking of the demo as a painting in its own right I just started. On large canvases I'll paint the whole thing in quickly with thin washes as the underpainting.
This was a great video, Ian, but I have a question not about value or temperament, but about your brush! In all of your videos you make such wonderful marks with your brush, but it looks (to me) like a scruffy old brush that I would probably throw out! 😬 Is it a filbert? Bristle, I presume. But is it old and worn? And what size? Hope,this isn’t too much off topic!
Great demo Ian. It was an aha moment when you talked about how the number of value level changes should be consistent between the two areas. I sometimes struggle with whether shadows should be cool or warm. I usually want to make them cool but then think about the cool light (daytime)/warm shadows and warm light (cloudy or dawn/dusk)/cool shadows theory. Do you subscribe to that?
Hi Julie, I think if you are talking sunlight whether it is cloudless or overcast it is warm. Since the sun is warm. So for me there would be a range of warm to cool as I describe in the video. You get warm shadows indoors when the light is coming from a north window, so the light is cool (blue sky without the sunlight) and then you get the opposite in the shadow, so the shadow is warm. Does that make sense?
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Interesting. Sunlight being warm and therefore cool shadows was my intuition then I read that a clear, bright day was actually cool (eg like cool white), while sunset/dawn/cloudy are warm. So confusing!
Hi Ian, Thank you for the wonderful video. To clarify, do you mean that there will be a consistent value interval from light to dark in a scene in different areas? In the video you stated that there was 3 degree of change from shadow to light in both the trees and beach areas. That is the first I have heard this. Does it apply to only plein air? Thank you
It is a great help. But I have to do a dull grey day with rain. A purple anorak. Hood up. A sandy coloured dog and a cerulean blue back door. Two hopeful little figures- the dog and the owner, looking up at the back door waiting for it to open. Backs to the viewer. Not only am I having trouble getting value masses but also temperature changes. Nightmare.
Hi, i love you vidéo and I have been watching almost all of them since I discovered your wonderful work., 5 days ago. I would like to ask you what type of support do you use for your paintings. Is it a special paper or another material? Thanks
I knew because of that particular scene and that it was a demo with only one idea to express I used a somewhat limited palette. But that the basic one for landscape.
Hi Ian, From one person who speaks with hands to another: please don’t worry about “claw” hands. You do you! Complainers need to pay more attention to the material. But, can you do something about your nose? (Totally kidding). Thanks for all you do.
And by the way can you possibly critique any of my work? I’ve been painting for a couple months now and I would just like to know what my strengths and weaknesses are . Please and thank you !
Hi Allen, I am not doing any teaching right now. Just these weekly videos which I hope will help you see the fundamentals and apply them. If I start doing critiques again sometime down the line I'll announce it on one of the videos so you'll know. Good luck and best wishes.
Love the video. Yes, it does help, and thank you for doing this. I just finished reading your book "Creative Authenticity". The most inspiring book I have read on my journey to creativity.
Hi Ian, I found your by accident and I love the way you explain temperature. You make it seem so easy. I’ve been working getting the values right. Seeing shapes first instead of details and the mixing of colors is an ongoing challenge for me. But with a lot of practice I am able to loosen up and let my right brain do the talking. Thank you so much for these wonderful tutorials.
Ian, thank you so much! Your videos are so helpful. I binge-watch them! Although I have an artist block, watching the process of painting inspires me to continue my own journey. Art is one of the few things that make my eyes sparkle
For me, watching your deft mixing of colours on the glass palette was helpful and fascinating. The knowledgeable mixing demonstrated your lifelong experience with colour, a treat to watch.
Hi Lyn, I suppose it's a bit like watching a guitar player finger picking. On the one hand it looks so easy and effortless, on the other, you realize maybe it's not (at least my hours of practice have led me to think that). Best wishes to you and Chip, ian
Its so inspirational to see how different the colours you use are from your reference image and yet your paintings are still realistic and stunning! I find myself worrying too much about matching hues exactly that I lose the "feeling" of the subject
Your skill is superb but what stikes me above all is how you take an unremarkable photo and make a great image! I need to revisit my many blah travel photos to see if they have potential using your instruction. Thank you.
Why don’t you paint your base color over every thing except the sky and then add your lighter values over the top? I am trying to relearn painting… I used to be able to paint and was ok for a beginner until I had surgery. I think the anesthesia changed my way of seeing.
Nope! Not 'useful and engaging'! Looks like 3rd grade finger-painting! If we want to see a perfect style of oil landscape painting we go to 'Michael James Smith'!
Thank you! All the positive things that have been said are true. I spend a lot of time on your videos because they teach so much! What programme do you use to put the grid on to your reference pictures?
I do not have option to look at the picture like a deer or bear I do from memory. I may look a while at a picture but it not in front of me as I do the art.I must try think of it looks. But I rather would look at same time a picture. someone thinks that copying. a horse is same as fraud . It is not a bear a bear and a horse is a horse. I do animals so not be accused as a copier as I am not doing that I am learning the animal and just like to show for fun.
shades of a same color can show hill inclines or round like a ball or rocks or a horse's chest. I on paper draw only ink so if I make a mistake I learn to fix or hide it. you can not erase it. Only art persons see the mistakes anyways.
Great video and painting! Again Ian thank you, thank you , thank you. the teaching on value shift between shadow and lit areas of the same object was great , but the game changer is the fact that the shift should stay the same throughout the whole picture plane , thanks again Craig
Nice. Just wish you didnt jump ahead and skip explaining how exactly you got there. When you jumped ahead you made more modfications to the painting which you did not acknowledge to us
Does this help clarify how to use color temperature?
Hi... Your way of Simplifying what you see visually, is Phenomenal Artistry. Thank You. Cape Town.
You are the BEST teacher, Ian. Love watching your videos!!!
Very clear and simplified. Thank you.
This video was incredibly helpful! I painted the loveliest little landscape full of shadow and light after trying out your color palette and techniques, thank you so much!
Yes! Moreover, it explains why my colors get muddy. Dark/cool and light/warm is really a lightbulb for me. I paint with acrylic but the concept should be the same. Thank you! I love your videos.
You're not only the best but also the most generous Art teacher on TH-cam. Your Art keeps a lot from the 19th and early 20th centuries's spirit... and skills.
You changed a life, litterally. Thank you so much !
composition -> value -> temperature
That was a powerful lesson. Thank you.
Clear, straightforward, and to the point. Thanks, Ian. A thought on simplifying. My biggest difficulty is breaking away from the subconscious tendency to be a copyist of a scene instead of an interpreter. I try to keep in mind that my goal is not to document, it's to create from the raw materials I see.
That is a huge piece, and a huge shift mentally. It is a right brain shift I think to thinking in terms of design and not subject. When you look through the lens of design then everything is there to support that rather than supporting all the details.
I come from a photography and graphic design background and I really struggle to be spontaneous and simplify when painting. It’s such a difficult mental shift; my wife keeps telling me to stop when I’ve “roughed” in a painting but I usually don’t and then overwork. It’s a constant battle between mass and detail. Your tutorials are helping me a lot in my struggle. 👍
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition jjkĺ
Ian, I so appreciate these demos...you are very generous with your time and expertise. Thank you for showing how you mix colors because it is incredibly informative and helpful.
You are welcome Emily. Best wishes, Ian.
A valuable demonstration about the use of color temperature and color mixing. Great stuff.
I love the effect of warm next to cool! Thank you for showing how. Love how you simplify and your explanation is so clear. always looking forward to your next tutorial. Most appreciated 🙂
I liked how you mixed the two cool
Colors/darker values side by side on your palette. Then the same for the lighter value/warm colors. So it helped to keep them respectively close in value. Now to translate to watercolors for myself. I have so much to learn!! Thank you .
Glad you found it helpful at least conceptually. Now to watercolors!
Thank you, this is such a practical demonstration of temperature as well as value. Really helpful!
So good to see you mixing the Colors! Thank you!
Dear Ian, I’m on your drawing course now, but on the same time it is so useful to review all your Tuesday videos!
Makes a good repetition- “the mother of skill” (Swedish expression) 😉/ Such good education! /Thank you/🎨🖼
Ian, Just found your videos! I’ve used your book, Mastering Composition, for years. Love you presentation. Thank you!
Hi Candace, I am delighted you have found the videos. Welcome!
wow this has been tremendously helpful! lightbulb moment for me for sure. thank you for sharing! I love those grays.
I love your demos .especially this one; I always keep watching shadows and their influence on surrounding colours!
This was awesome!!!! So glad I found your channel!
Thanks for showing us your colour palette which really helps me learn more about colours. Hopefully you can make more videos on mixing colours etc…. Thanks!
Great lesson
Wonderful tutorial Highly recommend those video's
Brilliant, such a gift, I’ve been trying to figure out the relationship between tone and temperature for ages. Thank you 😁
That came together beautifully. Thank you.
So nice!
Glad you like it!
you are my favourite art teacher
Great lesson!, Thank you so much for your time and interesting information. It is very helpful and reassuring to see your demo.
Great video. Thank you Ian for giving us the keys to enter the world of values and color temperature. I learned so much this time and I am going to translate to watercolor. Be well.
Really glad you found it helpful Hannah.
Yes it really did. I always have had such a chaotic experience with planning because I didn't know about keeping contrast constant. This is the missing key for me.
Yes! This tip about constant contrast was very helpful!
Hi Ian,
Hope you are fine?
Thanks so much for sharing these videos they are super helpful and brings back so much of what you taught during the great workshops I attended with you in Provence! This is great for practising and seeing …….mixing greens really helped me ! Many thanks , Mira
Extremely helpful and engaging, Ian - thanks so much!
Great Joani. Glad you liked it.
I loved it, Mr. Magician👏👏👏
Yes, always informative.
I enjoy watching painting demos.
May sound odd, yet when looking at a photo of a painting there is that first impression. If it grabs my attention, even if it doesn't sometimes, I love to figuratively zoom in and study the brush strokes, the dabs, their direction. Essentially the hand of the artist. Then I imagine their exact process. The when of the how.
Oh, and my copy of Mastering Composition just arrived. Looking forward to diving into it.
Thanks Brenda (painted lady was brenda right), enjoy the book. Best wishes, Ian.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Yes, that's me.
Thanks very much for another great tutorial. Really inspiring.
I discovered that color can show depth if you are trying to show a distance between front and background. Lighter greens and darker greens and shadows.
very nice, very inspirational!
Fabulous thankypi so much
Thank you.
Clearly explained
Thanks!!
Thank you for the reminder Ian!!!
Hi Mary, so nice to hear from you. Yes reminders. Could use them on most of life's little challenges. All the best to you.
sir where do you find such great images to paint i searching everywhere on internet but not got any like yours
great video lesson!
Glad you liked it!
Nice.
Really helpful thanks Ian
Great demo....nicely simplified.
Thanks Ramona
Yes thank you. I bought your book years ago but this is better for me
Great video! Demo and commentary very useful
Thanks Robin. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you again. Great lesson, again. (My second one.)
Beautiful thank you! 🔥✏🎨
Im making some animations , ALL your devices are great to plan animation !!!
So grateful for your teachings and thrilled at your talent and skill.
I wonder if it's "ok" sometimes to allow the unpainted canvas to be an area of strong light? I was trying painting something the other night and liked what in my mind's eye looked like a wonderful bolt of light on the subject, without painting the area.
Thank you! Very clear.
Great Pat. Glad it was helpful.
Thank you bery helpful tku
Generally, do we want both cool and warm colours in one picture? Could you talk about how to paint a ‘cool’ as well as a ‘warm’ picture if hat might be what we want? I will meanwhile look around at pictures to see if I can tell. Thanks for your brilliant videos. Kate
I don't know where he finds shards of light. Becomes obvious when he paints rays of sunlight. I am becoming more focused when doing my own photos for painting. Thank you Ian
Delighted that you found it helpful.
That was amazing. Thanks a lot
You are welcome!
Enjoy your videos, Ian. This lesson showed you mixing the colors with your brush. Do you usually mix with a brush vs palette knife?
I always mix with a brush. I find mixing with a palette knife too slow.
When does your next month long drawing with critiques session begin.
I learn so much from your demos, but I wondered why you don't do an undercoat before starting your painting.
Normally on small canvases I'd have a light toned surface. I think because I was not really thinking of the demo as a painting in its own right I just started. On large canvases I'll paint the whole thing in quickly with thin washes as the underpainting.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thanks!!!!
Very simple and informative Gottobe a figure or two
This was a great video, Ian, but I have a question not about value or temperament, but about your brush! In all of your videos you make such wonderful marks with your brush, but it looks (to me) like a scruffy old brush that I would probably throw out! 😬 Is it a filbert? Bristle, I presume. But is it old and worn? And what size? Hope,this isn’t too much off topic!
Great demo Ian. It was an aha moment when you talked about how the number of value level changes should be consistent between the two areas. I sometimes struggle with whether shadows should be cool or warm. I usually want to make them cool but then think about the cool light (daytime)/warm shadows and warm light (cloudy or dawn/dusk)/cool shadows theory. Do you subscribe to that?
Hi Julie, I think if you are talking sunlight whether it is cloudless or overcast it is warm. Since the sun is warm. So for me there would be a range of warm to cool as I describe in the video. You get warm shadows indoors when the light is coming from a north window, so the light is cool (blue sky without the sunlight) and then you get the opposite in the shadow, so the shadow is warm. Does that make sense?
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Interesting. Sunlight being warm and therefore cool shadows was my intuition then I read that a clear, bright day was actually cool (eg like cool white), while sunset/dawn/cloudy are warm. So confusing!
Hi Ian, Thank you for the wonderful video. To clarify, do you mean that there will be a consistent value interval from light to dark in a scene in different areas? In the video you stated that there was 3 degree of change from shadow to light in both the trees and beach areas. That is the first I have heard this. Does it apply to only plein air? Thank you
It is a great help. But I have to do a dull grey day with rain. A purple anorak. Hood up. A sandy coloured dog and a cerulean blue back door. Two hopeful little figures- the dog and the owner, looking up at the back door waiting for it to open. Backs to the viewer. Not only am I having trouble getting value masses but also temperature changes. Nightmare.
V nice sir
I noticed that the value of the sky is a bit darker than the sun struck land mass. Could you comment on this?
roses are red, violets are blue, your shadows are grayish dark green and your sky is saturated blue hue.
Hi, i love you vidéo and I have been watching almost all of them since I discovered your wonderful work., 5 days ago. I would like to ask you what type of support do you use for your paintings. Is it a special paper or another material? Thanks
I feel like you're not spending a ton of money on your paint brushes. Is that true or are you using less expensive brushes for your demos only?
Beautiful ! do you use sometimes others colors but not thoses of the nature ? and how would that be ?
I knew because of that particular scene and that it was a demo with only one idea to express I used a somewhat limited palette. But that the basic one for landscape.
More on Color choices. Sometimes you don't paint what you see. The colors you pick may be more vibrant
That’s where artistic license comes into play. Value is much more important than the colour used.
I’ve learned so much…subbed with notifications on! Thank you 🙏
Hi Ian, From one person who speaks with hands to another: please don’t worry about “claw” hands. You do you! Complainers need to pay more attention to the material. But, can you do something about your nose? (Totally kidding). Thanks for all you do.
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And by the way can you possibly critique any of my work? I’ve been painting for a couple months now and I would just like to know what my strengths and weaknesses are . Please and thank you !
Hi Allen, I am not doing any teaching right now. Just these weekly videos which I hope will help you see the fundamentals and apply them. If I start doing critiques again sometime down the line I'll announce it on one of the videos so you'll know. Good luck and best wishes.
Are you serious? 30 by 24 inches? That is as large as a table. I listened several times. But I guess it should be 13 by 24 inches.
Love the video. Yes, it does help, and thank you for doing this. I just finished reading your book "Creative Authenticity". The most inspiring book I have read on my journey to creativity.
Glad you liked the video and of course the book. With best wishes on that journey, Ian.
Hi Ian,
I found your by accident and I love the way you explain temperature. You make it seem so easy. I’ve been working getting the values right. Seeing shapes first instead of details and the mixing of colors is an ongoing challenge for me. But with a lot of practice I am able to loosen up and let my right brain do the talking. Thank you so much for these wonderful tutorials.
Ian, thank you so much! Your videos are so helpful. I binge-watch them! Although I have an artist block, watching the process of painting inspires me to continue my own journey. Art is one of the few things that make my eyes sparkle
For me, watching your deft mixing of colours on the glass palette was helpful and fascinating. The knowledgeable mixing demonstrated your lifelong experience with colour, a treat to watch.
Hi Lyn, I suppose it's a bit like watching a guitar player finger picking. On the one hand it looks so easy and effortless, on the other, you realize maybe it's not (at least my hours of practice have led me to think that). Best wishes to you and Chip, ian
Its so inspirational to see how different the colours you use are from your reference image and yet your paintings are still realistic and stunning! I find myself worrying too much about matching hues exactly that I lose the "feeling" of the subject
It's so helpful to have colour temperature - warm light, cool shadows - demonstrated. You teach in such an engaging and clear way. Thank you!
Замечательно красиво... я прололжаю смотреть вашу живопись каждый день... вы прекрасный художник... Благодарю!!! ❤
Your skill is superb but what stikes me above all is how you take an unremarkable photo and make a great image! I need to revisit my many blah travel photos to see if they have potential using your instruction. Thank you.
I enjoy your Process.
Thank YOU MUCH
Why don’t you paint your base color over every thing except the sky and then add your lighter values over the top? I am trying to relearn painting… I used to be able to paint and was ok for a beginner until I had surgery. I think the anesthesia changed my way of seeing.
Nope! Not 'useful and engaging'! Looks like 3rd grade finger-painting! If we want to see a perfect style of oil landscape painting we go to 'Michael James Smith'!
Such an inspirational painter you are. Thanks so much for your video tutorials which I find are illuminating
I am so grateful for your videos. If I had a teacher like you in school it would make a massive difference. So I am studying with you now. Thank you
Delighted you are!
Thank you! All the positive things that have been said are true. I spend a lot of time on your videos because they teach so much! What programme do you use to put the grid on to your reference pictures?
I do not have option to look at the picture like a deer or bear I do from memory. I may look a while at a picture but it not in front of me as I do the art.I must try think of it looks. But I rather would look at same time a picture. someone thinks that copying. a horse is same as fraud . It is not a bear a bear and a horse is a horse. I do animals so not be accused as a copier as I am not doing that I am learning the animal and just like to show for fun.
shades of a same color can show hill inclines or round like a ball or rocks or a horse's chest. I on paper draw only ink so if I make a mistake I learn to fix or hide it. you can not erase it. Only art persons see the mistakes anyways.
so you call it Hot and cold colors? warm or cold. That how I was discovering how to do depth in art work.
Hola, puede ser subtitulo en español?
Nice analogies describing key techniques.
Wow!!! Finally I get it!!! Thank you for this concise lesson🙂
You are welcome Dawn!
Thank you, Ian. This is very helpful.
Hi Ian
Your teaching is so useful and unique.
Thanks a lot.
Farzad from south of Iran
Great video and painting! Again Ian thank you, thank you , thank you. the teaching on value shift between shadow and lit areas of the same object was great , but the game changer is the fact that the shift should stay the same throughout the whole picture plane , thanks again Craig
Delighted that you found it helpful.
How long do those brushes last? Lol
So helpful Thanks
Nice. Just wish you didnt jump ahead and skip explaining how exactly you got there. When you jumped ahead you made more modfications to the painting which you did not acknowledge to us
But I wholeheartedly appreciate you making these videos, you’re very generous Ian
It look nice....wow!