#30 How To Use Underpainting | Oil Painting Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- In this oil painting tutorial I'll show you how to use underpainting to start a landscape painting. You'll see my technique for sketching and blocking-in a painting using underpainting.
I'm a professional landscape artist with over 20 years of experience in oil painting. My TH-cam Channel is dedicated to helping people learn how to paint in oils. I really believe that everyone can learn how to paint!
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I appreciate your painting. I stopped painting 20 years ago. I'm wanting to give another go. watching you paint give me inspiration. thx
Greetings from Seattle, Washington!
Well, Mr. Smith, you’ve managed to trump all other instructional videos on TH-cam, as far as I’m concerned. Isn’t it amazing to think that I’m sitting in my home, across the globe, watching your lessons on my favorite subject of landscape, water reflection, tree details, lighting and all aspects of nature. All possible due to you’re gift of sharing them with the world!
Thank you for inviting us into your studio and for teaching me the value of old, beat-up paint brushes and keeping it real with humor!
You’re a treasure!
Thanks!
As an instructional video for beginners it does not get much better than this. Thanks.
I have stared painting after a watercolour course at last I have found something I love. Your videos have taught me so much in a short time I paint every day and think your paintings are inspirational. Rose.
Thank you for showing how it's done. it make sense, it makes easier to paint. can't wait for next step.
Michael you work realistically, very nice !!!
Super! Super! Super!
Your method with acrylic paint as background made me understand many things and I'm looking forward to running the application of oil paint on the base of acrylic ... See you see it in action on this next step ...
Michael - I have just now found your TH-cam channel and I am entranced. I do wildlife with the amount of detail you put into your landscapes. I have always painted landscapes loosely but now I see the error of my ways!! Am looking forward to your next vid!!
Michael, thanks for another very useful tutorial !!
Hyperrealism is not my personal favorite style but it's great that you show the process, the thinking, the mixing. keep it up, great watch.
Your method of acrylic underpainting is a great way to start a work in oil. Some people simply use a monochrome acrylic palette, perhaps burnt umber white and black, and work on the drawing and tonal values. I'm interested in the way you use a fuller acrylic palette to create an acrylic base that contains a closer match to the actual colours as well as the tones. I'm going to try it. I really enjoy your videos and can't wait to see how this painting develops in oil. Many thanks for sharing your expertise.
Thank you Michael this was very useful and informative. And a special thank you for sharing how to make the brush.
Génial !! J'ai reçu les pinceaux 😍 ! Je vais enfin pouvoir m'éclater!
Merci Michael ☺
I've only recently found your videos, and would just like to say thanks for letting people see your methods and techniques right down to your materials and preparations.
Can't wait to have a go, although I realise I will never get to your standard.
Learning consistently through your painting, brilliant!
Works of a great Master! I am very grateful to teach step by step to all the public, I hope to be able to paint like you, some day, I know that it is with a lot of practice but if you can, thanks again and always have a happy year, THANKS, TEACHER
Great blocking-in video. Thanks Michael.
Thank you for this tutorial, and all the others you have done. I am learning a great deal from watching you work. I think it would also be helpful if several times during the demonstration you showed your source photo for a few seconds. It would help in keeping track of why you are doing what you are doing as you move from area to area. Thank you again.
You tutorials makes a lot of improvements in my painting career...Thanks
I started out with oils in the beginning of my endeavors to paint and went to acrylics till now. I didn't know about this technique so I'm excited to try it. Thank you!
Love it, so detailed with so little effort.
So sorry this has happened. I love your videos and look forward to all you do in the future!
You’re my new fav channel out there❤️❤️
Es usted un excelente artista, gracias por compartir sus conocimientos.
I love your instructional videos! They are incredibly helpful to a beginning painter like me. I use them as a reference when I am "stuck" in creating a certain effect or in learining the process for my work. If possible, it would be great if you could tell us the colors you are using as you go along.
Si es verdad por favor
Hi michael, just found the second part of the last video i was watching. Great job as always.
I really admire you!
Aprendendo muito com sua experiência, para mim é uma maneira de relaxar e agradecer por tudo, quando me vejo diante de uma tela. Então aprender é fundamental. Obrigada de coração,
e de alma.
gracias por dejarnos apreciar tu trabajo..que gran artista eres.!
Very good.
Best painter ever
Wonderful! This is exactly what I needed to see & to hear! I was wondering how you went about using acrylic paint as your foundational layer & now I have a pretty good idea of how to go about it. This is pretty much the same process that I've been over the years accustomed to using for my mixed media work of watercolor & colored pencils &/or colored markers &/or inks. It helps to see & hear that this is so.
And your somewhat nonchalance about this stage & process is strangely encouraging.
Thanks again, Michael, & the Lord Jesus bless you!
Thankyou so much
Brilliant work as always. I could watch these all day. Soooo informative. I might ask, could you start posting your reference photos along with the videos so that we might follow along and give them a go?
Keep painting and posting.
Michael do you still do lessons? I’m so sorry to hear about your bad experience but I love your work...it’s of real value. Don’t give up.
Hi. Finally I found what I was looking. Thank you.
Thank u so much Mike,very helpful vid.
super
beautiful.
I love the way you paint. It would be so helpful to hear what brushes you are using as you go along. I am learinig so much from you!
Please, (a) what material did you prepare at the beginning of this video? (b) why don't you use an alkyd resin or liquin in the first approach instead of acrylic paint? Thank you for your attention and thank you very much for giving us such instructive videos.
Thank u so much! U r truley talented! ❤️
Would it be possible to show the reference photo as you paint? Your work is amazing
Awesome ☘️
Nice
Fantastic, Michael. I really like these videos where you talk through your thought processes. It's highly informative and interesting to listen to you talk.
Can I ask a question please on blocking-in? Even though you say you are just trying to cover the whiteness of the panel and that you aren't particularly concerned about getting the colours correct, are you aiming to nail the values? How important is it in your mind to get the values correct at this stage?
Thanks Michael. And i'm looking forward to the oils next.
Hi. Finally I found what I was looking. Thank you.
Rick White, good question, for which I see that MJS hasn't gotten back around to answering for you as yet (which reminds me I have a few of those to answer elsewhere myself). But, if I may, I'm going to suggest that, though the precision of a particular acrylic colour being used as foundation & guide as to form, dimensions, & placement unto the surface isn't a huge concern (to MJS) at this juncture, insofar as the foundation is going to be entirely painted over with oil paint (per MJS), values most likely are not dealt with quite so nonchalantly & must be a primary concern & determiner of what acrylic colours are selected initially for establishing a foundation. This would be my reasonable guess.
It certainly will be my intention to have this as my protocol when I embark upon painting acrylic-&-oil art pieces, a protocol which is not too unlike my personally familiar practice of using watercolour paint &/or watercolour pencils to lay down a foundation for my subsequent work in coloured pencils &/or markers &/or inks.
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Michael the process that you are applying on the wood panel the same process can be applied on cotton & linen canvas right you first directly go & block in with the acrylics an then apply oil with little amount of liquin rather than applying turpentine at first as a base coat right. i hope the sentencing of my words aren't too complex or confusing by nature
Have you tried raw umber and ultramarine blue to make a dark base? Covers well. Love your videos, thanks for doing them!
Thanks for sharing..
thats really interresting, thanks for sharing
pintas muy bonito me gusta mucho
Thank you for showing how it's done.I always see it happily. Can I ask a question Who take a photograph to describe ?
Hi Mike- can we see the water being finished on this one. I feel like I'm reading a book and the last chapters is missing. You are inspirational to me by the way - I have learned so much from you that others were unable to impart. Thanks in anticipation.
Super супер
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Excelente, saludos desde México
Love your work, Michael! Tell me, do you feel it is important to spray a fixative on the sketch prior to blocking it in or do you feel doing so is unnecessary?
Hi Michael, any chance of doing a video just on mixing greens for trees and grass for us mere mortals?
Micheal, what would be the major disadvantage of continuing the painting in acrylic instead of oil? I know it's very commoneto do underpaintin in acrylic and then do the finishing layers of detail and refining in oil, but it seems to me that the majority of what you do could be done in acrylic as well, or is that simply out of the question? The reason I ask is because I want to switch over to using acrylic as my wife complains about the smell of oil and the various mediums I use with it. I figured acrylic and water would do the trick but am I being overly optimistic?
Two questions.... After you block it in with acrylic, do you just go over it with oil paint or do you need to varnish the acrylic first? When doing a large body of water or sky, can i use clear gel over the acrylic for blending or will clear gel lift the acrylic?
Another Day, Another Fabulous Oil Painting....Love it! Hey Michael, Can you tell us what brushes you use? The brand and material? I have to order most of my supplies online because there are no art stores which means, I don't get to fell them up, play with them or get any snappin' action going on before I buy. I use Simply Simmons and I like them for most things but not all things.
good job
Thanks you... 😍
Have you ever used a wet pallet with your acrylics?.
Great as usual , the equipment holding the tablet looks interesting, hows it fastened..
Siempre usas acrílicos? Mike.
У меня все получилось, до листьев,....))
Michael could you please tell me what make rigger brush you use and the size for doing leaves on trees. Thanks Pam
Título em português, falta uma legenda em português
Hi Michael, Thanks for all the videos, in love with them. Is there anyway we can get the link for the original pics? I really would love to get this image if that is possible :-)
TFS Mairead in Ireland
Acrylic
New to this , but can you just oil paint straight onto the sketch without blocking in
bravoo!!!
hi micheal are u planning to release a dvd thanks
I know you are invested in oil technic, but I think you could stand to learn a few things about acrylics... (I do not mean that you aren't wise to acrylics, but as a veteran of painting on a budget) You are using artist colors (from tubes) and after the market began to divide their paints (dilute some for "student" grade, and charge double for the regular, and triple for "concentrate") ... the learning curve for using them became absurd for anyone trying to manage their consistency, even for 20 year artists that had experience! I turned to latex, from big box stores, and began to learn about that type of acrylic. (Latex isn't really latex, but acrylic) Turns out, if you buy Exterior Grade samples, tell the attendant to saturate the mixing color at 200% (or max the dye allotment of each dye in the mixing machine,) then you get a supersaturated jar of liquid acrylic which is more than ten tubes worth of color of that which you could get from any "artist" grade mixed paint! There are some drawbacks to this type of paint. First, the base is a premixed white, and if you dilute using water, the paint will begin to degrade into pastel white at some point. Use clear acrylic mediums to extend your mix. Second, The liquid colors in a jar might be harder to manage, so the shelf life may be shorter, but the cheap cost makes these more than worth it, I still have jars from 5 years ago, so they do last quite a long time... Also, you can get water based alkyds and mix them in samples the same way, if you can find a willing attendant to experiment with, its not part of their regular mixing protocols. The dyes in the machine are not acrylics, nor oil, but true dyes, more like that of what is used in screen printing colors, super saturated. There are 8 base color in the machine. Deep Green or hooker green, Magneta, Yellow, Bright Blue, Deep Purple or violet, Ultra Marine Blue, Bright Green, and Orange; (I do not count Black). For about 50 dollars, you can set yourself up with several overly saturated custom colors along side of all the machines base dye colors which will outlast anything you could get from an artist supply store.
Super
hi, thanks for this great video....can I continue with acrylic (I am using liquitex) as I am not familiar with oil paints
Michael, that material you use to draw and paint your works? Living in the City of Mexico. I like your tutorías, my age 75 years.
Tank you Michael, a hug.
Can i use this tecnique on portrait?
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A QUESTION, PLEASE, IS YOUR UNDERPAINTING WITH ACRILIC ? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATENTION.
have you seen the entire video ? he says it....
I notice you don’t color check to match the reference, is this something you do later or something that isn’t all that important? You are close enough I think and this is how I like to paint.
Another wonderful video Michael. I'm watching your, "How to paint foreground trees". Did you record the one 'in between'? With the background on the left of this picture? Hope, hope.
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Thank you so much for what you show us.
I'm a new viewer - is there a link to the oil over part to this video ?
PLEASE!!! Where are the videos that you did BETWEEN the blocking-in the background video and the video of doing the foreground trees? I can't find the ones where you finished the far hills/trees and did the midground and the skinny trees on the left bank of the creek. I desperately want to see those!
You have to join his art classes to see everything pertaining to this painting...
How do you make an accurate sketch?
Hi Michael, do you use the MDF panels only for tutorials or do you do actual paintings (commission) on MDF as well?
Wow! That's a surprise. Do you put Gesso on it first? Thank you!
Sir how much time it took to complete...
are you painting on mdf board?
Is there any possibility of the oil paint peeling off when painting on acrylic ?
Clayton Tyne
Painting oil on acrylic is okay, the peel off happens when u paint acrylics on top of oil.. Hope this helps.
Acryl in base and oil on it??!! I heard that will be crack in time on painting , can that be true ?!
pedro barnito if that would be true, of course he wouldn’t HAVE used it as he’s an expert in oil painting and acrylics as well
i COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF UNDER-PAINTING, NOBODY EVER MENTIONED IT DURING ANY TUTORING I ATTENDED WHEN A YOUTH.
You have a toll from god
ACRYLIC ????
what kind of music in the video???????????
And....now that I made that last comment, I see the photo up there, ....duh...
Really enjoy your video's, but find the music is too loud and sometimes in competition when you are speaking and painting.