Love you John Lisondra! You are a beautiful artist and I also love the sound of your voice - you sound very relaxed which helps me tremendously. Thank you so much! Bless you
Al principio me costaron, pero al fin conseguí más realismo en mis piedras, gracias por tus enseñanzas y consejos, me divierto muchísimo y me hace muy bien al alma pintar y relajarme. Te admiro John! Bendiciones!!!
If I hadn't seen you do that from the rough sketch, I could never believe it!! I work so hard to make my painting realistic, I am hoping I can use your ideas to do much much better. Thank you.
Hi, this is amazing. I’ve just done a painting incorporating this technique and I can’t believe my own painting. It looks very realistic. Thank you for these videos.. I’m currently looking back on lots of your past stuff!
I did this painting and hated it so I did another and hated it too. I went to bed frustrated. When I woke up the next morning and walked by it I was astounded! It was the most beautiful thing. It was like you came over and fixed it overnight. They looked so life-like, like someone arranged rocks on the page. Thank you so much for sharing your God-given gift with the world. I can't wait to do more!!
Another great video. I appreciate How you list your supplies at the beginning of the show. Your use of just basic colors makes It such that we don't have to buy a lot of different colors in order to practice. thank you.
Thank you John. I find rocks very difficult but your tutorial has showed me how paint them easily. It’s very important for beginners. Thank you. Sharon
Hi Jim,ive commented on some of your other tutorials, im also an artist and like you i started early,at 14 like you!,its great that you teach things like this,as background can sometimes make or break the illusion of the painting depending on the style, i mostly paint in oil,and your tutorials for acrylic are great, i get a great deal of pleasure applying your techniques and getting great results, ive started painting mostly in acrylics and your tutorials are some of the best in youtube,,and im saying this as a professional artist of 20 years this year!kudos to you my friend!
I love how you create details to make things come alive and realistic. You're a great and admired teacher Mr John M. Lisondra. I love your paintings. Thank you so much for teaching us.
Terrific lesson! I enjoy your simple use of a limited palette. Thank you for posting this lesson. I need to go see how I painted my rocks on surf paintings I made recently. I look forward to seeing your other videos!
OH my word! Those rocks look like living things. Utterly beautiful. I am a very raw beginner and I find rocks very challenging. But this video has helped a lot. Thank you and I’ve subscribed.
“Follow and enjoy the moment!” I think that will be my new mantra for the year! 2019 Am doing a sea scene, including a rocky edge and started in blocking, then got stuck. Then this thought came to me, “JM will know what to do! “ Whew! Also, thanks for encouraging us to create our own art work. I usually try to make it my own even if following a video. One person, who shall remain nameless, who does tutorials complained about people selling the art work they did with the tutorials. I stopped following that person because I thought that was really arrogant. Mainly because no one will do them exactly like that person. If you looked at the paintings I do with you, you would never know that it was the same painting, because it’s not. I change up things, add some things take a technique or two and use it for some other painting. I learn from many sources, and different teachers, and make up some of my own stuff. It’s all good , but I am not trying to rip anyone off. I don’t think most of us here are trying to copy and sell. We want to learn some good techniques and find our own style. There’s enough love, money and buyers for everyone. No need for fear. Thanks for being here! 😇 Shalom from SC, USA
hello Trisha... thank you very much for this comment... Yes, I actually encourage everyone to make their own, doing that they can discover the uniqueness of their style. My tutorials were just guides and for learning also. And for me it's fine if someone is selling their works copied from my tutorials. They can do whatever they want, sell it or even give it away, it's their works now. And I can't actually control it. Thank you for opening this kind of issue Trisha... :) God bless you and have a good day :)
Bonjour, c'est vraiment magnifique ! On dirait une photo, tellement c'est réaliste! J'aime les verts rouges que vous ajoutez. Merci, je vais essayer de m'en approcher... thank you so much ! Isabelle
thank you so much for sharing. I am painting a mountain lion sunning herself on some huge rocks and I was stuck on them, they were looking like gray lumpy blobs. You are helping me a ton. Again thank you.
bonjour, John, vos tutoriel sont simplement formidables. Non seulement vous peignez d'une manière remarquable, mais vos explications sont d'une simplicité et d'une clarté remarquable. l'art d'être grand et simple ! Du coup, si on suit pas à pas vos tutoriels, même si on arrive qu'à la moitié du quart de vos réalisations, ça tient quand même la route, la toile réalisée est en tout cas "montrable" . Certes, à la différence de vous lorsque vous peignez (on sent que la toile est déjà entièrement dans votre tête), on se demande parfois, au milieu de ces aplats de couleur vers quoi on va.... Mais si on s'en tient à ce que vous nous montrez, sans rien ajouter ni enlever, même si on ne comprend pas exactement ce que l'on fait, la magie opère et lorsqu'on ajoute la "petite touche de blanc" finale, tout est là, lumineux, riche et plein de finesse... Bravo Monsieur le Professeur ! ps (serait-il possible d'avoir quelques sous titres en français, pour les temps de séchage ? Pour le reste, le fait de voir votre palette et ainsi d'accéder à la fois aux mélanges et à la texture des couleurs est une indication précieuse, ainsi que vos gestes pour expliquer d'où vient la lumière et comment donner de la profondeur et jouant sur les tonalités) Très cordialement,
Hi John, I’m typing while I’m watching you painting rocks. The rock on the top, looks like a person with yellow long hair. It has two eyes and a long nose and it also has shoulders. Anyway, I’ve never seen such beautiful rocks. Thank you for this lesson,
What kind of painting pallet are you using, and seems like acrylic paints dry out fast. What can you use to help it last longer? Do you use a Retarder or something to help the paint not to dry out so quickly. Love watching your paint. I gat the City Lights a try, but are not the same colors because I don't have all the paints you used, but still came out nice. I received quite a few compliments on the painting I did for the City Lights Painting I did from others I shared it with. Thank you! I am just barely beginning to paint so have to learn how to blend the paint so it looks smooth and also so the colors will come out the same close to what the Artists shows. Thank you for having tutorials so we can all learn from Artists' like you. Have a wonderful day!
Uauuuuu!!!! Pintura perfeita, já me inscrevi. Não te conhecia, só agora você apareceu pra mim. Eu pinto tecidos mas me inspiro muito em telas. Obrigada pelos ensinamentos.
Fantastic rocks they look so real I feel I could walk on them- thank you for your wonderful work, I only hope I can do as good as you but that is a LONG way off, cheers from Australia .
If anything.. painting is a test of patience.. I watch you and admire.
Love you John Lisondra! You are a beautiful artist and I also love the sound of your voice - you sound very relaxed which helps me tremendously. Thank you so much! Bless you
Al principio me costaron, pero al fin conseguí más realismo en mis piedras, gracias por tus enseñanzas y consejos, me divierto muchísimo y me hace muy bien al alma pintar y relajarme. Te admiro John! Bendiciones!!!
Thank you John for sharing your artistic talent. You have such a relaxed presence .
If I hadn't seen you do that from the rough sketch, I could never believe it!! I work so hard to make my painting realistic, I am hoping I can use your ideas to do much much better. Thank you.
Hi, this is amazing. I’ve just done a painting incorporating this technique and I can’t believe my own painting. It looks very realistic. Thank you for these videos.. I’m currently looking back on lots of your past stuff!
I did this painting and hated it so I did another and hated it too. I went to bed frustrated. When I woke up the next morning and walked by it I was astounded! It was the most beautiful thing. It was like you came over and fixed it overnight. They looked so life-like, like someone arranged rocks on the page. Thank you so much for sharing your God-given gift with the world. I can't wait to do more!!
very much welcome Hannah. I know that you could do it too... well done.. :)
I am the same way. I sometimes have to start a painting three times. Some days it goes great, other days I can’t paint at all.
Another great video. I appreciate How you list your supplies at the beginning of the show. Your use of just basic colors makes It such that we don't have to buy a lot of different colors in order to practice. thank you.
Gracias Sr. Lisondra por regalarnos su talento y técnica. Lo admiro.
Thank you John. I find rocks very difficult but your tutorial has showed me how paint them easily. It’s very important for beginners. Thank you.
Sharon
You are so kind to share your amazing talent with us and your tutorials are so very informative. Thank you!
Hi Jim,ive commented on some of your other tutorials, im also an artist and like you i started early,at 14 like you!,its great that you teach things like this,as background can sometimes make or break the illusion of the painting depending on the style, i mostly paint in oil,and your tutorials for acrylic are great, i get a great deal of pleasure applying your techniques and getting great results, ive started painting mostly in acrylics and your tutorials are some of the best in youtube,,and im saying this as a professional artist of 20 years this year!kudos to you my friend!
Bravo thank you for sharing your hard work
I love how you create details to make things come alive and realistic. You're a great and admired teacher Mr John M. Lisondra. I love your paintings. Thank you so much for teaching us.
you're welcome Debby and thank you ;)
Debby Huddleston very nice
Terrific lesson! I enjoy your simple use of a limited palette. Thank you for posting this lesson. I need to go see how I painted my rocks on surf paintings I made recently. I look forward to seeing your other videos!
Best tutorials I have ever come across. You are a fantastic teacher
Amazing! I thought rocks were just shades of grey! You make it look so easy. Can't wait to try your technique with color! Thanks.
Thank you so much for teaching us! I am so thankful for your channel. I'm getting much better at painting and it's so much fun.
Fabulous and wonderful tutorial. Thank you for your patience because I’m sure you paint slowly for us beginners.
you're welcome Syvie and thank you :)
Now I see I need more colours in my rocks! Thank you!
OH my word! Those rocks look like living things. Utterly beautiful. I am a very raw beginner and I find rocks very challenging. But this video has helped a lot. Thank you and I’ve subscribed.
Absolutely amazing. so good to watch you paint thankyou I am just starting to use acyclic so it was very helpful
Very well done. You have been an inspiration JM. You are very talented.
Thank you so much for this tutorial on rock. This really helps me with the shadows and colours and differentiate rocks from one another.
very much welcome :)
“Follow and enjoy the moment!”
I think that will be my new mantra for the year! 2019
Am doing a sea scene, including a rocky edge and started in blocking, then got stuck.
Then this thought came to me, “JM will know what to do! “
Whew!
Also, thanks for encouraging us to create our own art work. I usually try to make it my own even if following a video.
One person, who shall remain nameless, who does tutorials complained about people selling the art work they did with the tutorials. I stopped following that person because I thought that was really arrogant. Mainly because no one will do them exactly like that person. If you looked at the paintings I do with you, you would never know that it was the same painting, because it’s not. I change up things, add some things take a technique or two and use it for some other painting.
I learn from many sources, and different teachers, and make up some of my own stuff. It’s all good , but I am not trying to rip anyone off. I don’t think most of us here are trying to copy and sell. We want to learn some good techniques and find our own style.
There’s enough love, money and buyers for everyone. No need for fear.
Thanks for being here! 😇
Shalom from SC, USA
hello Trisha... thank you very much for this comment... Yes, I actually encourage everyone to make their own, doing that they can discover the uniqueness of their style. My tutorials were just guides and for learning also. And for me it's fine if someone is selling their works copied from my tutorials. They can do whatever they want, sell it or even give it away, it's their works now. And I can't actually control it. Thank you for opening this kind of issue Trisha... :) God bless you and have a good day :)
Thanks so much. I have been struggling with rocks for awhile now. I learned some great techniques from this video.
so thats how to paint rocks....thank you so much JM
you're welcome :)
You are doing a wonderful tutorials....thank you very much you are an amazing teacher 👍
Have loved this instruction for rocks. I can concentrate on this item
This man is an amazing painter.
Truly love your lessons. You are an inspiration to me. Thank you!
you're welcome Christina :)
I love how you did the rocks. I am going to try to do this after watching your video. You are so great to do these video's. Thank you so much.
John, you rock! You can paint anything. I love your work. I was struggling with rocks lately and you helped me so much. Thank you!
You are so welcome...
Thank you. Love to watch you paint.👍
you're welcome Stumpy
Thank you for this rock painting video please do alot more of these basic lessons.
I was struggling with rocks. This helped me so much. Thank you.
you're welcome and thank you deborah :)
Awesome painting tutorial. I've watched many tutorials on rocks painting, but your's the best. Continue sharing your skills with us and be blessed.
thank you Sulo ;)
Bonjour, c'est vraiment magnifique ! On dirait une photo, tellement c'est réaliste! J'aime les verts rouges que vous ajoutez. Merci, je vais essayer de m'en approcher... thank you so much ! Isabelle
Thank you😀
Your English is fantastic thanks for this video and all that you do. I learned how to paint from your channel. Thanks again. Love from Scotland xxx
So hard to paint rocks yours are beautiful thanks for sharing 🌺
You are so talented, thank you for sharing with us!
I learned so much from this tutorial. You are a fantastic teacher!
Best rock video I've seen! Thank you so much
Thank you very much for sharing us beautiful painting, I have done just incredible 😊
I haven't seen this one. Once it started to come together, it put tears in my eyes. So beautiful. This has to be a favorite.
thank you so much for sharing. I am painting a mountain lion sunning herself on some huge rocks and I was stuck on them, they were looking like gray lumpy blobs. You are helping me a ton. Again thank you.
bonjour, John, vos tutoriel sont simplement formidables. Non seulement vous peignez d'une manière remarquable, mais vos explications sont d'une simplicité et d'une clarté remarquable. l'art d'être grand et simple ! Du coup, si on suit pas à pas vos tutoriels, même si on arrive qu'à la moitié du quart de vos réalisations, ça tient quand même la route, la toile réalisée est en tout cas "montrable" . Certes, à la différence de vous lorsque vous peignez (on sent que la toile est déjà entièrement dans votre tête), on se demande parfois, au milieu de ces aplats de couleur vers quoi on va.... Mais si on s'en tient à ce que vous nous montrez, sans rien ajouter ni enlever, même si on ne comprend pas exactement ce que l'on fait, la magie opère et lorsqu'on ajoute la "petite touche de blanc" finale, tout est là, lumineux, riche et plein de finesse... Bravo Monsieur le Professeur !
ps (serait-il possible d'avoir quelques sous titres en français, pour les temps de séchage ? Pour le reste, le fait de voir votre palette et ainsi d'accéder à la fois aux mélanges et à la texture des couleurs est une indication précieuse, ainsi que vos gestes pour expliquer d'où vient la lumière et comment donner de la profondeur et jouant sur les tonalités)
Très cordialement,
I like very much.You are an incredible painting man.Good teacher.
Hi John, I’m typing while I’m watching you painting rocks. The rock on the top, looks like a person with yellow long hair. It has two eyes and a long nose and it also has shoulders. Anyway, I’ve never seen such beautiful rocks. Thank you for this lesson,
I'm constantly following your channel
You always give me the motivation to draw
thank you Sella :)
thanks for your patience and art video. thanks
Good teaching style. Showed the mixing also. Keep posting
Beautiful painting John with a great utorial, I had not seen this one before and still I am learning from you, as I do in every video.Thank You.
Excellent demo. Its good that you don't edit your videos (unlike some other artists) so we can see the complete process.
thank you Robert :)
You are a fantastic tutor! Thanks you so very much!
Thank you! you are a wonderful instructor.
Cool! It looks like rocks underwater
It looks misty
Bravo thank you for sharing your hard work
My pleasure!😊
Thank you very much
I paint with you on video and came very beautiful
Thanks again
I love watching you paint
Exelente profesor de pintura, saludos desde México...
de nada y gracias ... realmente lo aprecio
Looks so realistic, Thank you John for sharing!😊
👍👍👍🇿🇦
Very beautiful and interesting 👌
Thank you.
Thank you too 😊
Excellent! You are the best teacher.!!
thank you Consuelo :)
THANKS FOR LEAVING UP THIS VIDEO. I WAS STRUGGLING WITH RIVER ROCKS
I enjoy this man's tutorials soo much
thank you Sabrena
maestro aprendo mucho con usted , explica maravillozamente mil gracias por compartir sus conocimientos. kardea
muchas gracias :)
Thank you John for this tutorial. It was very, very helpful indeed. 😊
Glad to hear that!
What kind of painting pallet are you using, and seems like acrylic paints dry out fast. What can you use to help it last longer? Do you use a Retarder or something to help the paint not to dry out so quickly. Love watching your paint. I gat the City Lights a try, but are not the same colors because I don't have all the paints you used, but still came out nice. I received quite a few compliments on the painting I did for the City Lights Painting I did from others I shared it with. Thank you! I am just barely beginning to paint so have to learn how to blend the paint so it looks smooth and also so the colors will come out the same close to what the Artists shows. Thank you for having tutorials so we can all learn from Artists' like you. Have a wonderful day!
Awsome work you’re gifted
thank you Beverley :)
PRECIOSAS PIEDRAS,MIL GRACIAS POR SUS EXPLICACIONES.
Muy talentoso, arte a flor de piel gracias y bendiciones
Thank you for this lesson. I always learn a lot with you!!!
you're welcome Lucia
Jon, thanks for a great tutorial, I'm going to use these ideas for my rockpool. I see you have rocks with water too, so will catch that one now 🥰
Wonderful instruction,beautiful painting
Hi John..loving ur paintings and tutorials more and more each day.(sandhya from India..)
Uauuuuu!!!! Pintura perfeita, já me inscrevi. Não te conhecia, só agora você apareceu pra mim. Eu pinto tecidos mas me inspiro muito em telas. Obrigada pelos ensinamentos.
Thank you so much for sharing your awesome talent with us.
you're welcome Geri :)
Amazing how you did it WOW
You are a brilliant teacher. This is helping. Please teach how to do clean, transperant underwater stones top view.
Excellent video thank you is the canvas to be covered with 3coats of white acrylic before actually painting kindly reply
Hi to you John thank you I really enjoyed your video those rocks were brilliant
Very very nice really liked the rocks
Thanks you have helped me I have so much troubles with rocks
Fantastic rocks they look so real I feel I could walk on them- thank you for your wonderful work, I only hope I can do as good as you but that is a LONG way off, cheers from Australia .
thank you jo-ann... you can do it too :)
Hello Sir
Amazing result so real
You are really great artist and wonderful teacher
Please do make more and more videos
I am sure alot are waiting
Thank you so much for this video
Muy talentoso arte a flor de piel gracias y bendiciones
gracias Maria :)
Thanks for your tutorial.. Friends, i'am from indonesia..👍👍👍🙏
Wow!
Absolutely STUNNING! Your work is magical, and comes to life right before my eyes. I look forward to learning more from you! Thank you!
I can't get my rocks to look realistic. I'm going to use your video for inspiration and try again. Tfs.
don't give up Debra.. :)
thank you so much. i learn and enjoy your tutoring
Excellent video on rocks
Looks so real John ! Beautiful !
thank you Linda :)
Awesome painting
Fantastic painting well done
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for your lesson...I am a beginner.
I love you style
thanks for the video in real time
Très bon contrôle des couleurs dans l'apparence grise des rochers. J'aime!
Je vous remercie Andre
Hai.. your works all are nice in acrylic..