10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Oil Painting
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- Ten things I wish I knew before I started oil painting :
0:00 Surface is fundamental
2:28 Let it dry
4:52 Don't go too fluid
6:35 Let paint dry however it wants
7:21 Simplicity is key
8:41 Technique isn't more important than the subject
10:25 Study with subjects that motivate you
11:42 Cover the surface first, think later
13:55 Prioritize fun
16:07 You can't paint like someone else
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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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'Failed paintings' are just really colourful underpaintings.
Thank you so much... yes ..be yourself
So true! These days I feel my best are often paintings painted over a 'failed' painting. It was also a revelation to learn the most expensive painting in the world was in fact thought to be painted over another! .......Bought at auction in 2017 for $450,312,500, 'Salvator Mundi' (Latin for ''Saviour of the World'') is a painting attributed in whole or in part to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1499-1510.[n 1] Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included in Luke Syson's major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 2011-12.[2] Christie's claimed just after selling the work that most leading scholars consider it to be an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by other specialists, some of whom posit that he only contributed certain elements.
@@harksta229 many of the 'old master' paintings were only partially done by the person they are attribulated to. Some were outright stolen. Look up Artemisia Gentileschi. According to art historians many works attribulated to her father were mainly done by her. Pax
And all underpaintings are failed painting in my case haha i come to expect any first layer is bad no matter how hard i try yet the second works well....so i just go for sketch composition
Not so much a failure, more of a lesson ?
"There are a lot of ugly stages before a painting is finished." That one took me much too long to understand. Excellent video, thank you!!
I always call it the "awkward teenage phase". Sometimes I push through and it turns out well and other times I paint over it. :)
I've mastered the ugly stage.
Oh my gosh yes!!! I’ve never done a painting where i didn’t have at least ONE ( usually many more) “ I hate this! I’ve made a mess of it”) sessions! Tortured artist’s, that’s what we are!! 😄🎨
@@jcepri YES!! Me too!!
Before we learn to walk as babies, were we bad? Look at that crawling baby, he really sucks at walking. No. We were learning. We need to stop with this destructive, self deprecating attitude. Art isn't about "winning" or "failing" it's about finding flow and enjoying the wonderful feeling of being creative.
"If you fail, you are going to learn alot more than by NOT doing it." Thank you, Florent.
You're welcome ! Have fun painting ! 😊😊😊
It's part of the process of becoming a painter.
Yes, we don’t learn from that which we do well ... we only learn from our mistakes.
When painting, be YOURSELF because nobody can do it better (there's only ONE you 😔). God made only one "you"🖌️🎨🖼️
I don't know what to do. I've Avoided art allllllll my life, because I don't know whAt to do with the mountains of paintings which were left behind since someone decided they wanted many+++--- left me the rest.
Some unfinished. Last summer, I FINALLY REPENTED and decided it was a sin NOT to use what was given to me. Now in 70's and just starting. To me, painting needs to be functional -- Will it become fun then?
Any tips please?
"Nobody care about the final results, except you." This is HELL DAMN freaking TRUE. When I understood that, I fell so free about the process. Thank Florent !
This is not true to me, all ppl surrounding me kept caring my final results while I don’t ever care
Just your mother but she`s just being polite
@@szewing0923 well it’s your painting..does it really matter if they care?
@@brindha6008 ya, I think i should care less of what the others think of my painting
@@szewing0923 yes! Now I like that mindset! 💪
Man, you just appeared on the horizon like Moses with Ten Commandments and delivered me out of woods! It is advice every painter, and any creative person needs. Thank you.
So true Mohammad very helpful
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Best comment ever!
Truer words never spoken!
@@dennisp1104 Relax, Buddy.
Read my post once again. I am NOT referring to the ten commandments. I am referring to 'the way' Moses 'appeared on the horizon' with much-needed Ten commandments.
Chill. Breathe in. Breath out. And Do some painting. All is fine.
“You are allowed to start”. This morning, I start. Thank you, thank you.
how is it going?
I would add this. The light in the room where you are creating the art matters. After you cover the canvas fully with color, take the painting off the easel, and look at it in different lighting. Verify that the overall painting key is not too dark or too light.
Alright mate - you just made me get out 3 unfinished paintings and I'm looking at them now like unruly children.
lol. that is exactly what they are!
I have way more than 3!! lol
I have a huge one and it has been sitting staring at me for a year!
That's the spirit!
This man is is down to earth with his teaching. He is also a great speaker. He is truthful and sincere and you can tell his teachings are thru trial and error. Most successful men and women are successful by learning thru their mistakes. Very well done my friend.
A good thing: walk away, yes! Walk away and then periodically return and just glance at it.... pretend it's not yours, what is off? Walk away again. Get your mind and your eyes on totally other stuff. Go back and forth until you see things anew and/or feel more open to moving forward.
What's funny is, all the stuff you said about using a good surface, not adding too much medium, keeping your process simple, is all stuff that will actually make it more archival, too!
Indeed ! Oil and pigments on a good surface is the way to go ! 👍
Be yourself first and be true to who you are. The only artist that you should compete with is the artist you were yesterday. If you are open to learning something along the way, the only failure is when you don’t do it. Thank you for your valuable teachings.
True, true. X
You sound like my mother, ahh such days
I love this!! Thanks for sharing!! Brings me great peace to know that the only person I can strive to be is the artist who grows and learn from my mistakes and better than I was the day before.
i compete with musicians, it's a much greater challenge. but never, ever, with living artists.
'The best painting style is the one representing your personality'. This is the one of the best pointers I learned from this video.
Eeeps! I try painting to ESCAPE my personality, not immortalize it! :)
@@palominox64 hahahahaha sometime I do hahahaha
"Appreciate oils drying time" - excellent quote that will stay with me - great video Sir.
What I wished I knew about painting before I started is everything I’ve learned from watching your videos.
Hi its 440pm here in jackson michigan. I wanted to say thank you i appreciate every video that you put on here. You have given me more courage to start serious painting again. I am a self taught artist and i get extreamly discouraged with the outcomes of my paintings, when i feel that way i sit , breathe, and i start watching your videos all over again and that keeps me going as an artist and my love for painting. Sometimes i feel that im not good enough but again i watch your videos and gives me a differsnt way and more motavation to keep going. So thank you your awesome keep being ypu.
I wish I knew that the " art teacher" my dad sent me to, was an idiot. He told a 10-year-old girl she had no talent and that it could not be taught. He crushed me and my dream. I never picked up a paint brush again. Flash to 60+, now learning and doing much better than I ever thought I could and having fun doing it. I totally get what you said about it being about you, what you love, what your vision is, not anyone else's. Thank you for this list, it is a great learning tool.
Don't be a painter your not suppose to be.
I love your advice and you gave me the confidence to move forward as a beginner trying different techniques! Thank you!❤
I started 8 days ago (after a decade of fear of failure!) and I love it!
I wish I had known how simple it truly is to paint with such fluid and opaque paint.
"You can't paint like someone else"......I really needed to hear that. Thank you
Excellent advice. I would only add that always use a mirror, even in the sketch phase, to make sure it's balanced. I've regretted using a mirror too late in the process.
This is really excellent advice. You can see joy and passion in your face when you talk about this. Thank you for sharing ❤
I've actually never posted a comment on any kind of form or video but I was so incredibly excited about what you had to say in this video it is not even funny. I'm 68 years young and I'm just learning how to oil paint and how to draw. I spent $2,000 to take a painting course to learn how to paint in one year and was so overwhelmed and bog down by all the rules and anyway I was overwhelmed. So through your video I felt like I was released from a cage. What started out as being a fun retirement Hobby turned into a burden and yet I refused to give up, I went for several weeks without painting at all because it was so anxiety-producing. So I just want to thank you I'm so grateful for your videos and I will be joining your patreon and I look forward to having this return to a very fun fulfilling Adventure.
I’m very New to painting, and I get really nervous when I start to paint, and I start to rush everything because I want to see the end result to see ”if I am any good at this” XD Sometimes, most of the times, I can even feel my heart beating so fast. Recently I’ve been able to calm myself and enjoy painting, but it took a while :)
Try a layered approach, methodical and relaxing.. Fun is important, methodical painting for the win
Painting is like meditation. Meditation is good to train your mind to focus and ignore the noise
I just wish I knew how enjoyable painting was. I had a fear of oil, actually, a fear of all paints. Then I decided to give it a shot and haven't look back. I look at techniques other painters use, if I like the outcome, I will continue to use it, If not, I'll set it aside and maybe try again later. It's frustrating and relaxing and still have a lot to learn. Your videos have been an inspiration to me, whether mentally or technically. Thank you
Oil paint is the most forgiving compared to acrylic and water colours. Oil paint is perfect for beginners and nobody really talks about this.
@@bio-plasmictoad5311 I couldn’t agree more. After several years of watercolor ( which I adore) I got into oils. I almost felt guilty about how quick and easy it was in comparison! Make a boo boo in watercolor? It’s a big deal…..make one in oils?….no problem, just paint over it!
@@Bindismom absolutely, it's totally different. I do love watercolor though even though I'm a oil painter at hart.
I think the most important thing when you first learn oil painting is finding a good art teacher. Not always easy as there are many bad teachers out there. One who is good at teaching you to mix the correct colours and tones. Once you are confident enough then you can go out on your own. But you need to learn the basics of colour mixing and getting the tones right first.
"Feel the paint under your brush" So true. I'm going to put this on a piece of paper and hang it on my wall. Thanks for all the great tips.
I would maybe add getting out of your own way. I set so many assumptions in stone that I would exhaust myself trying to conform to them instead of just having conversations with the piece as it tells me what it needs. Thinking of it as work instead of an adventure. My first impressions are like the first marks. They are just placeholders for what comes next. I'm glad you tried all these things so you didn't wonder about them while following rules and not understanding why!
Thank you. #10 is the best advice. I have been struggling with the pressure people tell me. Loosen up your paintings. I can not. I love detail and realism. Thank you, thank you!!!!!!!
I am with you, let’s keep the details, it’s our personality! 😋
I’ll second that one - but the problem usually comes from jumping in too early on the details. Some famous artist wittily said that you're not supposed to sniff the painting anyway, but enjoy from a bit of distance. :)
Great advice for a beginner oil painter such as myself.
Thank you Florent!
You're very welcome!
Beside the valuable information that you deliver you have a nice personality, Thank you for everything.
As an older painter, I think this is all good advice that will be mostly ignored, because it's part of the process you will go through as an artist. You need the experience to learn it all. (aka youth is wasted on the young) But I did enjoy the video.
I was almost in tears listening to you - your passion and the way you compared the painting to music and writing really spoke to me.
I’ll be sharing this as its brilliant.. Thank You .. Every child should be taught art this way.. Be yourself.. Don’t be influenced by an art teacher who doesn’t respect your individuality.. Explore your own world, who inspires you and who you want to learn from.. I love to learn from J.M.W. Turner. He was brave and the world didn’t understand him yet he had fun and enjoyed his art.. Humanity needs to have fun and painting in oil is amazing.. I taught a class of 7 year olds to paint in oil.. It was Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee.. The children all painted The Queen in Oil .. If a child can paint in oil so can anyone.. I taught them to paint, keeping their colours clean, using a pallet knife.. Using a very little medium and a different brush for every colour.. The results were pure colours with a child’s imagination.. Oil is the most flexible medium, which is why it’s so popular.. And yes … Take time.. Life is happier in the slower lane sometimes! ..
Point 10 for me was the most important. I do tend to want to paint like somebody I see on TH-cam. Never works. I end up painting like me anyhow.
There are many ten things I wish videos, but rarely are they so honest. Thank you Florent.
"Your job as an artist is to make giant sweeping mistakes" - best advice I ever received from my professor.
I actually cried the other day over my first oil painting. How ridiculous! I need to lighten the hell up. Thanks, Florent.
0:00 right it took me twenty years to find out that the old masters put a piece of wood underneath the canvas and applied at least three thin chalk ground layers with an iron spatula and fine sandpaper until the canvas was completely smooth and no cloth fabric visible.
I love the last point. Just do it. Just jump in. Play in the goo. Have fun. Thank you. Now I am less afraid to begin again, after laying off for a couple years.
Paint like yourself. Yes! Thank you, Florent!
Your comments are not only important for beginners, but also for those of us who have been painting for many years. I was particularly struck by your point about technique not being more important than subject - we can all get obsessed by technical questions; if you want to pursue them, by all means do; but they shouldn't be your primary focus. Very useful video, thank you.
Aww thanks for the tip about boards with gesso. I mostly use canvases or pads of mixed media paper but would like to do some large works - I put too much pressure on myself with canvases because they cost more and it is never my best work 😅 my tip is to know when to stop as I am a massive over-blender, but if not take photos along the way, so at least you know in retrospect that you should have stopped, and maybe you can go back 😅
I loved this so much. I love your view on art. You have a heart of a poet. I was wishing and waiting for your new video. I needed this. Thank you. Great value as always
Thank you so much 😀 Glad you like my videos 🙏
Hi Florentino. I have been oil painting for years however watching this video was such a good reminder of some important basics that can get lost in the myriad of information we receive. You reminded me that it’s okay to keep it simple. That simple does not mean my art is of lesser quality. Thank you.
If you are not strong enough to reject all comments and criticism, put a lock on the studio door. Criticism seems to come almost entirely from those who produce nothing, and never have produced anything. Andrew Wyeth would never show anybody anything he was working on, like it or hate it their comments will affect you and push you away from painting like YOU. Thank you Florent, I needed to hear and absorb all of what this video says at some stage.
Thankyou - needed to hear that last bit about doing what feels natural and not forcing 👍
Glad it was helpful! 👍
"The best painting is the one whom match with ur personality",Uff what an Inspirational comment...i'm agree with you Mr.Farges, Tks a lot.
I was giving up, not good enough ...
You put me on track again.
Thank you so much !!!
The best paintings have mistakes in them.
More pure gold 🙏❤️. Thank you for your generosity and your honesty Florent. #10 is literally priceless. I’ve wasted about 13 years wrestling with digital painting (from a traditional background) and only recently had the epiphany that the digital medium is just not me. More importantly, I realize that I am just fine with that. I have gone back to what feels comfortable for me which is working with traditional tools. Let’s just say that #10 really resonated with me 🙂
The last tip is the most important one. I really need it to be my self and paint however I feel like.
you cant paint like somebody else... brilliant and so true.
I'm just about to dive in with oil having only painted with watercolours and some acrylics up to now. I'm a novice but you have already helped me to know where to start. Thank you.
Thank you, I’m halfway (should say “was”) through sorting all the things you were saying! Now thrown all that out and have fun. Funny how we make things complicated when all you want is to enjoy. 😂😂😂😂
I have to be honest and honestly it feels great to say this. You explain it so well, so even if can understand what you are explaining. I always love to draw, and was decent at drawing people's faces, but I always wanted to paint with oil colors. For the last 35 years i have been a sign painter. I have been lettering with enamel based paints and have done so,even portraits with them that came out decent. So when I tied my hand at oil painting, I thought it would be basically be the same technique. It wasn't, so I watched many hours of differant artists, and still I didn't click. Feeling miserable after painting for hours, only to then whip off hours of work, I found your videos and it honestly made sense to me. It finally clicked! It's only been a few days, but I look at everything in a differant light, and have been painting with more direction. I know I'm a beginer and my paintings will be awful compared to someone who has been doing it for years apon years, but I love painting, am learning new techniques and it's so exciting, even to fail. I am very sure to that one day in the future I will be doing decent potraits that I am proud of. Practice and time. Thank you very much I am very grateful for your videos. GOD BLESS EVERYONE
You are a wise, wise man! 😊
Number 8 is pretty universal and is analogous to the writing version: Write drunk, edit sober.
Most of them actually have parellels to other art forms!
yeah, the writing starts when the first draft is done!
I love mistakes! I made my paint too runny last time and it literally flowed off of my canvas onto my table 🤣 this dude's got a lot of insight
Oh well it was just today I told myself to stop trying to do wet on wet and do thinner layers that dry in between sessions. Ha ha. Now that I finally got the poppy seed oil to slow drying time. I have all other oils too. So fat over lean. Besides it gives a beginner a chance to do more painting because in my mind it’s kinda like doing three different paintings letting it dry in between. Not exactly but yeah.I concede. I need to do it the easier way for some time. Took me awhile! Felt like you were talking to me! On a couple other points too. Thanks as always.
I mostly paint this way now. Paint one until it's wet, and move on to another. I can paint wet on wet however. I've found that the type of brush you use, and how you hold it helps. A soft brush like a sable will blend the paint, which you may not want to happen. A boar bristle brush can be loaded up with paint, and held using the side of the brush to slide the paint on. You don't actually touch the brush to the surface, only the paint. Using the end on the other hand will remove the paint you are trying to cover. Starting thinner works best most of the time, unless you are painting from life.
@@beccagee5905 yes. a light touch helps a lot with wet on wet. I watched Carder do a horse head. Maybe he had done it before but he was careful where and how he put each application of paint and had the colors he wanted all pre mixed. He rarely went over the areas he’d applied paint already. Well he might have because there was fade out and back in so the video wouldn’t be all real time thus too long. It was a great horse head but reminded me of a kind of paint by numbers organization. I know I make a lot more work for myself by being less organized type but I’m a student so it will teach but yes I am going to the wet on dry process until I ever get a very satisfying color portrait! Be a a year or more and so...I might have a happy accident and I will account for there are always improvements that can be made but it’s important to know when it’s time to quit and leave it be and not worry over improvements too much. Or it would not be very fun ever. I think wet on wet for capturing likeness is indeed a challenge for experienced artists! Doing flowers and such would suit a student better while learning wet on wet. I’ve figured out quit a bit. I also read once the Painting Alla Prima 2 by ....hmmmmm but he loves burnt sienna and he doesn’t really do eyes. He’s great though! I don’t read many such books. It was recommended and expensive but I found it in pdf form for $9 so thought what the heck. Just doing and practicing is how I learn the best but it has really helped me following Farges two courses and I did the patron thing a few months too for a little extra explainations plus have seen nearly all his TH-cam posts. Learning for me is weird. Always has been but I get it in the end just what I call the hard way....mistakes and repeated mistakes as well! Dense? Not really. I have focus issues I think and worse now I’m 68. I’ll deal with it and keep on a going. It took me too long to get this committed....and I haven’t got my whole life in front of me anymore! Thank you about the hog bristle. I have just gotten some extra long kind of real quality I mean real hog and Chungking or something. Light touch. I had to remind myself that one dozen times! And your right....really really light some places....like paint sliding off description. But then there is me and my weird brain....I like stiffer paint! Ha ha. Just a contrarian I guess.
Thank you, this is a really wonderful list, particularly No.10. I’ve recently started a portrait oil painting class. I paint very realistically and have been frustrated that I’m not painting loose and impressionistically, like my classmates, as though I’m doing it wrong. I’m starting to understand that realistic is my happy place and to own it and stop looking at what everyone else is doing.
I love the "prioritize fun" section of this video. I began painting because I was drawn to it naturally. I loved it and I was relatively good at it at the beginning. But once I really started to focus on it, I wanted everything I did to be "great". I realized I was so tense while I was painting and only focusing on the outcome instead of having fun. BREATHE - your breath will show you if you are tense or not. Thanks for the video-always great content!
In my humble opinion when the painting process becomes an intense meditation for you, you have become a painter.Cheers from India.
Thank you for this helpful and amazing video. I really loved the painter's advice and supportive information. Yes, we need to paint to our personality and embrace it. You've inspired me! I will try.
You are wise beyond your years, young man. Thanks for this!
Great information, very valuable. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks
Okay, find yourself and find your style...... but what do you do in order to DO THAT?
My future self definitely appreciates my present self watching this video right as I'm starting to learn oil paints. 🙏 This was so helpful and comforting as a beginner artist going into the process! Thank you for this video, you can tell these are genuine, relevant insights to any artist. Much much appreciated!!
I guess I wish I knew more about mixing color and mediums. I have no lessons or training and am totally teaching myself as I go.
I have found the few times I painted in a group, that I didn’t like what others were doing and did not want to paint like them or the instructor so I learned that going solo was best for me. I have had pretty good luck as a novice, selling several pieces, winning some blue ribbons and receiving commissions for other pieces. I find commissions difficult because they aren’t always things I want to paint so it’s more “ effort” than “fun”.
I started with watercolor which I adore. It just came natural to me which was a huge surprise. I now love oils because they are so manipulative and I don’t have to worry about “saving the light”!! I’ve learned a lot from you and look forward to more of your tutorials.
I like that you stress being yourself and NOT trying to look like others….something I could never do!.
Thank you for the help you offer and give so well.👍👍🎨
Thank you it made me realise my technique is not wrong just my way and to be patient and let it dry.
You have no idea how this video set me free. Your advice on painting in the style who you are.
Paint who you truly are, it’s the only way!👍
I just paint like myself. This saying helps you when you think you messed up on your painting. It ease’s my mind. Relax-just paint. So, so helpful to me.
Your creative advice is spot on. I recently decided to pick up different media tools like color pencils, graphite pencils, acrylic inks and other mediums and I have six or seven paintings that are not comlpete in oil and acrylic. I usually come to a wall that stops me because of a technical problem that I feel I can't solve so I set the work aside because continuing on would surely be a failure and I don't want to ruin a decent idea. It's time to take a few daring chances and finish those...if I'm not satisfied at least I might learn what to keep and what to ignore on the next study and painting.
A great coaching video!
Thank you!
Paint detail if that is what draws you. My eye delights in detail and this is where I find beauty. Your advice to go with what we enjoy doing and naturally are attracted to, has lifted my day.
"the technique is not more important than the subject" - THIS
i'm taking a painting class right now as someone who's never properly learned how to paint and I'm struggling, but your videos are helping quite a lot!! thank you!!!
Wonderful way of explaining to be yourself while painting
As a beginner- I use the cheapest canvas pad ( not even stretch canvas) and practice often, will update to stretch canvas and high quality canvas as my skill progress- great advise as usual 💕- your passion is inspiring and it shines through 🥰
I don't paint but I used to write a lot. On style in point #10: **don't worry about having a style!** Too many people try to claim their own unique style, and, at least in writing, the result is tedious, stilted prose. Just as you can't force yourself into someone else's personality, you can't force a personality for yourself. Just keep writing (or in this case, painting), and a style will come naturally to you.
Very helpful- and strangely liberating-hearing permission to fail, especially since I have a tendency toward being hard on myself- thank you! Great tips!
Oh my goshhhhhh!!! It was like you were talking to me this morning!!!! Everything I'm going through!! Thanks for reminding me to be myself 💗💗💗 Just what I needed to hear
Excellent! Loved: "The best style is what matches with your personality", "You cannot force yourself out of your personality". Thank you!
Very good video. I love what you say about paint-like "You" not everyone else. Not all of us are Bob Ross! I love his style but I've already learned you don't start painting like a pro overnight. Also, losing the story of the picture comment! 100% right!!! I am different from others and I want people to see that beauty in my paintings. I don't want to be generic.
I wish my studio instructors were more like you. I've learned so much from your videos.
I’ve just spent the past week painting over my earliest paintings from ten years ago that just didn’t work and I am very happy with the results and as for mediums I just use the paint straight out of the tube .
There have been times when I had set out to do a painting by putting a drawing down first only to find the painting goes it’s own direction as I get frustrated with trying to be controlled with a framework so the way I paint is messy and loose and it’s me not someone else painting.
I let the paint tell the story because that is what painting is , telling the story that is within you and you’ll be surprised what shows up when you put paint to canvas
Thank you so much for your kind and honest advice! I’ve only done a handful of paintings quite a few years ago, but wanted to start again, and your advice left me feeling much more confident.
A contributing point in harmony with your point to have fun and which I have to remind myself off: try not to just make a technical painting, try to add things, little gems, things you love. A quirky or favorite colour, some off balance elements, just try to add things that 'll give you a pleasant feeling. Most of the time these appear in your brain as a hunch, they pop up, and normally you think "well, I shouldn't do this, because it's not what the object shows". And that's probably the thing you should definitely do. Because that's the stuff that makes your painting a unique painting, your own painting.
Thank you the ideas. I learned a lot and got a confirmation of myself being an artist. God bless!
To hear you speaking about my experiences is pretty weird😵💫 and
😲 very encouraging! 🙏🥳
Why I loved artist so much? Because artist are the most humble and soulful human on earth.
I just started oil painting, and I think it is a good idea to use sketchbooks for oil painting than canvases. For it makes me to think my painting as practice like many pencil sketches.
Thank you so much for this video. I really needed to hear it. I put so much pressure on myself and I’ve had so many upsetting comments from well meaning friends about my art and I constantly find myself trying to justify why I’m not perfect or I like things the way they are. It’s hard to keep going sometimes.
Thank you, Florent. You're No. ten tip was so true. I'm sure so many of us have been frustrated trying to achieve something we don't really believe in.
8:42 to 10:25 Was the part that I really needed to know and hear.
I'm constantly learning techniques but I have a problem with how to portray my emotions into the painting vs what I think that I should paint to learn.
I need to find a subject to do both.
I suppose any painting is learning not just study's.
Amazing video! The last one is absolutely THE BEST!
I agree with you about the surface. I'm a beginner and unfortunately I made a wrong choice when I bought surfaces. While I was working on my first painting, I felt disappointed and it discouraged me. Now I've heard from you How important surface is, and I noticed that it wasn't a fault because of me. Thank you:)
I LOVE THIS GUY. He makes perfect sense every step of the way!
I feel like I'm off to a great start ... you are a gem.
My first problem painting alla prima--was slipperiness!
I soon learned that after you clean your brush--dry it well on a rag! Or don't clean it in the brush cleaner every time, if you don't have to--just wipe the brush off. Don't unintentionally add excess thinner to your paint!
Also, if you lay down a tone that you are going to paint over, wet into wet--scrub the color onto the canvas with minimal thinner and rub it in with a dry rag. Plein air, I like to use a natural turpentine medium--turpentine flashes off more quickly than odourless mineral spirits and prevents slippery layers. (Generally regarded as too toxic to use indoors, nowadays).
I barely remember how much trouble I had with slippery layers now. I do remember the frustration, though!
Wow that was useful. I’m very grateful you made this video. Im almost 50 and I’ve never completed an oil painting. Recently our dear little 19 year old cat passed on . I’ve been staring at the nice picture I’ve drawn on the canvas for 2 weeks now. Have been gifted oil painting gear years ago and mi little Shelly has motivated me to try and go for it. She sat next to me at my drawing desk every day. You have made me relax about starting it, 🙏✨🙏✨🐾🐾✌️
Good advice,came from hard earned experience....painting is a thousand decision with you as the immediate master....enjoy the ride,the journey is the point not the destination...think of it as a lifetime persuit,a, way to live,a way to look at the world....enjoy the ride,move honestly and with focus ahead,develop a way to truly integrate this into your life....a hobby,a vocation,maybe a living,maybe a habit,a persuit,pursuit, adventure, it's a lifetime people...
I wish you were my painting teacher in Art School,
thank you so much 🙏
Number 9 is king! I always need to remember to have fun.