Beyond "How To" Paint Ep.1 : Feeling disoriented and intimidated | Where to start...
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !
Dont start with technique, start with intention. I had to pause the video here because that's the single best advice I've ever heard. I know a lot of people here applaud you and thank you for your videos but I truly hope you know that you are.... having trouble phrasing this... you are wise in ways i dont think you realize. The wisdom you are imparting is .... comforting that extends beyond paint and graphite. It is making so many people happy. I just wanted to point out the gravity of your efforts. Thank you so much for this
Thank you for this series! This is exactly what i need at this stage. I learned how to paint and how to draw since a very young age. People back then always comment on how "talented" or "gifted" i was, and that destroyed me. After I didn't get into Art school, I gave up drawing completely. All the supplies sits in my closet collecting dust. And now I am 26 years old, its been 10 years since I actually completed any art work. I have already came to a resolution with myself about how I am actually just a regular person who happens to slightly better than a complete beginner at drawing, nothing more. Now I just want to get back into painting and drawing as a hobby, because just like reading, its beneficial for the mind. But after picking up my pencils, i dont know where to start. For once i realized that drawing is not like driving, you can actually forget how. So i watched beginner videos, but have an incredibly hard time follow through with all of them. I know i have to accept that at this stage, nothing good will come out of me for a few tries. Your video helps me tremendously with my mentality. Thank you for that
If this helps in any way, I had wanted to be an artist after high school, and was told I was pretty gifted at the time as well, but was also told I should go into something more practical, so I went to college for Graphic Design. Which I hated. I stopped making art for maybe 20 years, figuring there was no point. Around the time I turned 40, my aunt gave me two boxes of art supplies that had come from my grandfather, and one day I just picked them up and started again. And I was terrible. At first. I beat myself up a lot. But I kept going. Now I'm 43 and my work is in galleries and I'm doing commissions. I just needed to practice and to fill in some gaps in my knowledge and to try some new things as I felt inspired to. The practice gave me confidence and it didn't take long to get back on the horse. Try starting with painting or drawing the things around you. I started drawing and painting photos I took of my daughter. Random items on my desk. Things like that. I'm glad I didn't give up. Don't give up. :)
@@rachelpieters784 Thank you for your story! That is really powerful. I am really happy for you for how far you have came. I will take your advice and try getting back into it
@@gzheng7921 Awesome! I hope you do and I wish you all the best! :)
G Zheng, me pasó algo parecido. De hecho me bloqueé por muchos años luego de exhibir unos trabajos frente al público. 26 años son muy buenos para retomar, yo lo estoy haciendo ahora con los años inversos -62-. Para mi la clave es aceptarse como artista, como estudiante y sobre todo disfrutar el trabajo! Qué mejor actividad podríamos elegir! Podrías empezar de muchas maneras: estudiando técnicas, teoría del color, probando qué te resulta más familiar -paisaje, retrato, abstracto-, haciendo ejercicios de dibujo, de composición. Hay muchas puertas por donde entrar y luego lo irás aplicando cuando llegue la inspiración. Exitos!
I’m over 60 and have very recently started to paint, the last time was at school. I loved art, I wasn’t good but I do have some talent for creating. I’m just glad I’ve started now as it’s giving me a lot of joy and peace . I wish you all the best in your life’s journey, just try and do what comes to you naturally. You can have a career and still do your art.
Pure poetic truth here, not just meaningless truisms. Thank you Florent.
I applaud you for making this video, you could have easily dismissed this question. And I applaud the person who inspired the video for being so open and vulnerable when asking the question. This really really hit home for me. The tone the, words chosen, it was exactly what I needed. Bravo.
True. "Don't start with technique, start with intentions". That's very deep. Have a dream, visualize, and then proceed. I hope when people are listing quotes said by you, you are remembered with this one!
Thank you for making this video. Without sounding too sappy ... this video might have changed my artistic career trying to move forward .. my frustrations and loss of focus have been addressed.... I had to watch this numerous times and each time I did I grasped something new. I have somehow lost my inspiration and hope to the point of wanting to pack it all in due to "not knowing where to go next". The worst part is you don't know why you're experiencing these emotions but you were able to put the words to my grief and my fears... my art is my life...not sure if you are a God Believing man... but I have to say.. God Bless you for sharing this... It has Blessed me deeply.
Florent, I’ve been struggling with this feeling for so many years now, without knowing what to do.
Everyone telling me the same thing, “just start”, and I feeling awful after every pointless start. I’ll definitely start today with your approach, because now, I don’t want to give up this journey ever again!
I recently discovered you channel and it’s been soooo helpful! Thank you so much for sharing all this content with us!
I like your approach to tell something useful while showing the real time work. It's better than useless music backgrounds in my opinion. I just got oil paint two days ago, and rather excited than intimidated. I "paint" virtually, but shortly after starting got the urge to try the real canvas, but I've been resisting that urge for 2 years. So, I gave up, and bought supplies, wasted two canvas already, but still I'm not intimidated, nor disappointed. My special thanks for this video, now I know that the background is hue for the skin tone, and what direction I should move from it.
So good to hear your artist voice.
Thank you for all the kindness about remembering us how selective we should be, all the time. Because we can have inspirational masters, than deal with the technics we need it in order to understand plastically theire language..but we always start another line of decisions when we must abandom the way of them, sometimes is very difficult to understand where is the line when our individual patterns and our intentions are constructed.
Thank you Florent! This discussion was very, very helpful. I am sure that there are so many of us that feel stuck...aimless. I didn't really see how I was scattering my focus until you mentioned choosing something to emulate from our favourite artists. This helps...you suddenly realize you have too many varied and unrelated "likes" when it comes to art. Narrowing the focus to 5 and then choosing from that pool allows you to evaluate what it is you are wanting to represent in your own work. My five included a landscape master, a botanical master, an illustration master, and two old world masters! I suddenly saw the problem was that I had expectations that would look DREADFUL if you put them all together! This is something I had never considered... The separateness of my own preferences may be one of the main problems with knowing where to begin. I think most people want to be able to draw "everything" but you would never expect that from any other hobby, or profession. Even actors, singers and dancers must make a style choice. It feels so simple and yet it really is profound to think about. I so enjoy your points of view and opinions and I have experienced many of the "technical" arguments in past classes. I agree, it does make you wonder what is "not" being said! Thank you for helping the lost and misguided...and taking time away from your own life to enrich and clear paths for us! You are more important and special than you can know! Thank you again, and can't wait until next lesson! Have a wonderful week ahead and stay well!!! 👏🎨🖌️🖼️🤗
It's unbelievably easy to get caught up in looking at tutorials, etc One will say do not trace, others say nothiing wrong at all with that. Others get incredibly complex with skin color mixes. Others use 3 primaries. Some great artists of the past didn't have accurate skin tones. I don't know why I still , after years, feel bad about tracing for example. Their are many videos telling you how some of the greatest artist's use tracing techniques.
Love this series! Makes one really THINK about the why's and wherefores an individual faces in doing art. (I wouldn't be so bold as to call myself an "artist," as I rarely occasionally do pick up a brush nowadays.)
Bonjour Florent, c'est une excellente méthodologie que vous proposez là : Se mettre à la portée de tous est tellement difficile ! Vous êtes un grand professeur car ce qui vous intéresse c'est la réussite de vos élèves ou de ceux qui ont besoin d'apprendre. Je suis très impatiente de la suite de la série. mille mercis pour cette video.
I just find your channel now. I like both the painting and the thoughts and the way you are painting. You have my respect. Well done for your work.
Thank you for making this video. I learn so much about art from you, more than i did in artschool. I believe this series will be a big success. wish you all the luck!
We have a lot in common,like Caravaggio,and the kindles.So i think i will have to go in a same directions . THANK a lot!
I love this topic🤩
Thank you for the beaconed path you offer to us, Florent, and for the test of the top 5 of Great Masters and famous artists (We have two in common : Vinci and Waterhouse) I keep in my mind that "a creative journey is a permanent revolution" and of course that "intentions" must take precedence before technique ... Nice video indeed
I paint miniature figures and busts (model kits) and I have to say that this short bit of advice in your video is excellent. We get massively caught up in technique that it gets confusing and overly complicated.
Thank you.
Another informative ,educative topic
Thanks Sir ✏️🖌️🎨📝
If I may add to the "learning the wrong way" advice: just because you learn something "the wrong way" for one thing doesn't mean it's wrong for everything. Knowledge gained in the "wrong way" can be repurposed and be the right way for something.
I'll invent an example of using a special bristle brush, fan brush or super fine liner brush to paint hair/fur: one could say the "wrong" way might be to use the liner brush to paint every individual strand because it's inefficient with time and effort compared to other brushes. However, the skill and knowledge gained from "doing it wrong" can prove to be super useful when you need to use a fine liner to paint long and fine strokes in a way that the other brushes can't. Even if creating something doesn't teach you something new, it affirms what you already know.
I suppose the fear of learning g something wrong though is the stress of breaking the bad habit. It can be difficult, but I still stand behind that telling yourself the knowledge is being repurposed rather than thrown away allows your brain to be more accepting of the "correct" information rather than clinging to what it knows and being skeptical of the new information.
Hi thanks for your insights and great advice. I definitely have a couple of problems that snowball into one. I studied design way back in the 90s (I have a BDes), but I really wanted to do fine art/painting but didn’t feel good enough, whatever that means. I have been drawing and using watercolour paints on and off for years, but just over a year ago I decided to stop running away from what I wanted to do and took up oil painting with the help of many You Tube tutorials. Earlier this year I kind of did what you advised in this video and began looking into various painters, analysing what I liked. PP Rubens came out on top as the style of painterly magician that I would most like to be like (wouldn’t we all 😆). The problem is, my natural style just doesn’t seem to bend that way and I can’t tell if it’s hours, weeks, years of practice needed or if indeed, no amount of practice will take me anywhere close to the vision in my head. I’m not talking about talent or skill, because even though the end results don’t meet my hopes, I can see that some of them have evidence of some level of skill. Now we mix in distraction from other artists, on Instagram, FB, YT, art sites or just art books in general. I go off on tangents because I’m impressed by a piece of work or style of work and think “aha! I think I’d like to make a piece of work in that style/similar composition/lighting” etc. The end result is nearly always dissatisfaction, because of course I’m not the other artist, I’m me. I have a fear of figure drawing (stemming from art school because I always felt incompetent) and probably for this reason I sit more comfortably with still life (and receive most praise for my still life painting), and yet it’s figures I really want to be good at, sometimes it all seems like trying to catch clouds in a net. I imagine I’m definitely not alone with these problems.
I hope you are having a lovely festive season. Take care. Val
My work is on Instagram
@valerie_hannan_artist if it helps to have a reference 👍🏻
About recognition in Art World. Two years ago i have made a exposition ( before the Pandemic) in a Comercial Center in a space specifically to artists.I presented paintings recurring to realism, portraits and a few landscapes...and receive in the book of visits ... insults! even like that , i don´t give up !
Don't hesitate to aim high :
Me picks Caravaggio, Titian and Rembrandt 😅😅
Oh my god Florent, we have the same top 5 ahah. Insane video and topic, thanx alot for inspiration !
I cannot even begin to express how much I adore your videos! They are heartwarming, educational, uplifting and always, without fail, leave me invigorated and full of ideas to try out! Thank you so much, Florent!
Thank you, Florent, that was very cool! Got a LOT out of the investigation you recommended...in ways was surprised at what I found. Kind of you to want to help...✌
Thanks for this video, Florent.
Ohhh thank you so so much for this video. I felt so insure if art making would be the thing for me to do as I felt so directionless.. and now its like an elephant lifted its heavy foot off my chest. Very very helpful. Please continue these series. It’s a fresh breath of air 🙏
I love this with all my heart❤and so happy you've started the serie!
What are you using as a palette 🎨? How did you adhere it? Same goes for adherence to your Easel? Please let me know how and materials used. This has nothing to do with beginners intimidation. Yeah I am hahahaha 😂 I want to start this where you exactly start at. Wonderful inspiration, if nothing else. Thank-you
This was very insightful and helpful, thank you for making a great video :) this was very good advice
I can relate to what are you saying, very true... Caravaggio is my favorite painter, Rublev and Rembrandt as well.
Florent! Thank you for this sage advice. You are an impeccable artist, and I feel fortunate to have found your TH-cam channel because you’re incredibly inspiring, and your point of view is most helpful. Thank you thank you thank you!! 🤩
Wonderfull 👏👏👏👏👏
Very good job
My friends who are reading this, may god bless your parents with 100 years of healthy and prosperous life ❤️
Nature Hacks and may God bless you as well.
Thank you for sharing Florent 😊
I really apreciate your really helpful advices. I struggle with the fear of destroying my "good inspirations".. I have ideas that passionate me but since I know that my level is not good enough I prefer to keep them for later, when I'll paint them better.. I hope I'll reach to get there one day...
Thank you for this
More please!
Wow! I am beyond impressed with your insights. Thank you so very much for sharing. I need this. i love it.
Thank you.
Thank you for these very inspiring words!!! I've been drawing for years and will finally start painting soon :) Thank you! Beautiful Painting!!!
Wow I, Like
For me inspiration is pretty rare, I usually start with a shape a color something. I create without knowing what its going to become I start by creating a new file (I do digital art but this counts for animation 3d graphic design etc ) - I only do digital, maybe someone can relate.
You're amazing.I will watch it until the end.~~♡★☆♡♥♥
I was doing well until i told a friend i would be creating 30 paintings for a show. He asked, what's your theme?
Theme? What theme!? Im just trying to create paintings... Now i have to write a book? I now have artists block😂😂😂
This is just what I need.
I get to a certain point then blow it, like I do the block out see the shapes anxiety sets in with the connection of planes of the face and the cool warm values relating to the planes also direction of light and how that determines the later.
Ar this point I am so anxious and my painting quickly becomes weird looking flat lifeless. Help please thank you in advance.
I have to know please, how do you come up with the scenes in your paintings normally? I find it so impossible to come up with something to paint. I want to paint people with emotions but I don’t have models. Can you suggest anything?🙏
Many places for inspiration, books, movies, people of our time, your local surroundings, fables & legends, dreams, music, everything around you is a subject worthy of your interpretation.
This video has so many skillshare type segways, my brain almost tricked me into thinking this was sponsored
Yikes! 5 artists I absolutely love? Too hard to answer. I'll come back in a year or two to answer this.
Very interesting talk! Unfortunately is a bit of "first the egg or the chicken" as you can surely getting inspired looking at other artists but you will only be able to "parroting" them in an hotchpotch which inevitably will not not look good. As well, as you rightly say, if you are only concentrated on technique you will end up making good works but with little content/meaning. I tend to believe that technique is still the beginning phase, and your style will develop with confidence step by step by seriously studying other artists works in a couple years at least. No need to spend 5 years drawing spheres in B+W - just kidding :p - but have met a bit too many people that without even knowing how to draw semi-decently have jumped in to making paintings. Results were poor and many had to go back to the pencils. Surround yourself with Art. Read, study and go visit museums and galleries if you have chances - something good will come up :)
Odd question: is there a reason you paint with the reference to the right of the piece? Doesn’t your hand get in the way of seeing the reference?
Maybe so that the reference is right next to the palette for color reference? I find you only need to glance at the reference every so often anyways, dont stare at it especially if you're not looking at what your hand is doing.
Hey à 17:37 y'a une coupure d'une bonne partie de ton travail ! C'est dommage j'étais vraiment focus sur ton taff 😂 l'as tu dans son intégralité ?
What or how did you make the tool you hook over the canvas ?
I absolutely love your work. But a serious question, is this not plagiarism? This is to get a better understanding in what I can and can’t use as a reference
You can copy anything you want, as long as you don't use the signing of the painter, then its plagiarism. Therfore you can use fucking everything as a reference, as long as you don't sell it. If you want to sell it, it becomes tricky, what is allowed and what not.
Where do you go to blow your portraits up so u can paint them???
Yours is even better...especially the nose...more 3 dimentional
Yeah, the highligt is brigther, therefore the nose seems more plastic, like he had plastic surgery after one of his bar fights, where he tended to kill people(How fucking realistic would that be!) If he had taped his nose, it would be even better, it would give the feeling that the surgery was a few days ago, but the highlight would disappear.
Why that skip in 17:37
What if you are my master?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Very happy 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️