the internet is amazing, all these resources for free! thank you so much for sharing with the world :)

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, I'm glad my work can help others.

@angelagertisser7508

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@lauramowgli5859

3 жыл бұрын

☺❤🙏

1. Neglect the Values 2. Avoid Trying to Find the Right Color - try to put it in its context (try, compare, adjust). Start w the darkest parts of the painting 3. Avoid mixing the colors on the canvas - work as much as possible on the pallet. 4. Not stepping back enough to assess and look 5. Not enough or Too much paint

After painting a few years, I've made every mistake here, lol. This was a wonderful tutorial, bravo! I really hope a new artist will discipline themselves to following this tutorial. Many canvasses will be saved.

Absolutely correct, I've been painting for years and I discovered all this the hard way

Very good advice on all points. If you're a painter, beginner or advanced, reading the comments, do an experiment where he talks about getting all the right values in a simple still life with a grisaille underpainting, and then use colors over it that you know are wrong but still the right value. You'll be surprised how well it pulls together when you step back, even though the colors are abstracted. Starting your work with the darkest values, as he says, is also good advice because dark values are scary and we doubt ourselves. Learn to trust what you see in values and not what you "know" and the rest of the painting falls into place.

This video was a real eye opener. I was like “oh I already keep values as a priority” on tip 1 but when I continued I realized Ive been doing every thing wrong and this video helped a lot! I was so frustrated with painting and I almost never get inspired but I think this video kind of gave me an inspiration to paint more.. Thanks!

I would say one of the best things you can do to a painting your struggling with. Is first ask another artist to give feedback... And if you still want more... Give up on the painting. Take a break for like a week. When you come back you will find you have a different mindset, different inspirations, and fresh eyes. It can make a world of differance to your work and help you see your own mistakes and help you learn.

@marcblur9055

4 жыл бұрын

Also, hold your painting in front of a mirror or upsidedown. Reversing what you see will bring out a lot of what you'll want to correct.

I knew about a lot of those but the one for checking values using the reflection in your black phone screen was a new one and I really liked that idea. Thank you for sharing!

You had me at get coffee 😯 im listening

A very good tutorial. I only wish that you had given examples for No 2: "Try, Compare, Adjust". I think a beginner might be a bit flummoxed without some demonstration.

The beauty of your program videos and your KZread videos is that one, you keep the subject matter simplified, two, you impart your experience and knowledge into the videos, three, your dedication of improvement on each video is so self evident. Well done my friend, keep up the great work.

These are literally my favorite videos ever, they're so chill and helpful and they give me hope when I'm stuck and feel like I'm not improving 😂 thank you for making these!!

Wow, aren't you just Wonderful! Your channel is definitely the most informative.. easy to follow and and answers my questions when I'm struggling.

Your paintings are beautiful. I want to thank you for teaching, helping others to try to paint too. You are an excellent teacher. I really appreciate your interesting, instructive tutorials!

I can't believe I haven't thought about using a dropper for the solvent, thanks for that.

Great video for beginners. These tips will avoid a great deal of frustration for them. Thank you!

Learning about oil, after decades of gouache, pen & ink, is daunting. This is so good I'm going to look for it again.

I've learnt so much from your videos, they are helping me become a better artist! Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge with us, you're awesome!

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I can help ! :)

I concur with the mistakes mentioned. Thanks for the reminders!

Excellent thank you for what you do. As an artist myself, I also take the opportunity to learn as much as I can. An artist can be a teacher and always a student. Keep safe.

As a long time photographer I find taking a a photo of it really helps. I love looking at it in black and white because it is easier for me draw what. I know where shadow and light are to create depth. I love black pastel and charcoal for that reason. I am about to try oil paint for the first time.Love your videos!

I would have picked the exact same 5 points. Especially your point on values and also viewing from a distance. Great advice as always

Thank you for sharing your tips, Florent! You are a true professional

I find it very useful to work with a mirror behind me which quickly enables me to view it from a distance . Thank you for sharing your knowledge 👍 keep up the good work

I’ve been doing art for a while and still had trouble with values, thank you because your explanation was just GREAT!! It had a better understanding in my eyes than when in art school and my instructor’s explanation was just uncomprehending to me.

You're an amazing teacher, thank you so much!

Hi Florent! These are some great tips. I’m just learning to oil paint and this has helped a lot. Thank you for these videos!

Thank you for your videos. I really get a lot out of them. In the current video, I really appreciate point number 4 - stepping back from the painting. Often when I paint, I am so close to the painting and focused on one detail I forget the entire painting. Focusing on a detail is important but it must be tempered. One way I have found to be useful to balance is to take a cell phone photograph. It is like using the reverse mirror (tailored for the modern age). At a stopping point, I take a photo of the work with my cell phone. Granted, modern cell phone cameras enhance the colors way more than looking at it with the naked eye. Never the less, this lets me see my work in a different contextual setting. Often I find that the obsessing over the most minute details, while important, can stop. I have done enough. Learning when to stop is crucial. It is so very hard for artists.

this answered many questions i didnt even know i had, thank you

Number 4 is so important!!! I learned this around 15 years old. Always step back and see how your work looks from farther away. It makes a load of a difference and you can point out where something needs adjusting, etc

Thank you Sir,for this videos it helps me to improve my artwork,and thank you for the technique.God Bless

Oh My God! Where were you Florent? Thanks for being here and so generously creative.

Amazing advice, you're the best! Thank you!!!

This was so, very, helpful!!! Thank you for your clear explanations!

This is the best video I saw this year. Thank you!❤️

Thank you for sharing this, I've been struggeling for so long!!

I am a beginner, and definitely guilty of all of these! Thank you for a great, super helpful video!:)

Your explanations are so clear and helpful!

I am always amazed about how much painting and hair styling have in common. From color value, to stepping away from the piece and looking at a distance.

Been wanting to learn how to oil paint might start w your lessons! Thanks

You explain so well - THANK YOU!

He is great for beginner like me in oil painting. The 5 mistakes he listed here completely were what I went through the last 3 months. I also made a major mistake of using wrong surface.. I am following him from now on!!!!

Thank you . One day Im going to try painting. Really inspired right now by the work of Hannah Van Bart.

Wow these tips were AMAZING thank u!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻😍😍 i really think these tips were for all mediums

That dropper in the paint was kinda what I’ve been looking for. Cool

You are one of the best I have seen - thanks!

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ! ;)

Thank you for these tips. They are definitely helpful. I only wish you would sell prints of your artwork. There is an evocative, reflective quality to them that is beautiful.

Fantastic video, Florent! I love your work and your videos!!

very, very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you very much for your counsels. I appreciate it.

Thank you so much! I am struggling with oil as a beginner, I use acrylic mostly and finding oil very difficult

Very good advise! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your video's!!!!! Love them.

Thank you for those useful tips.

Paintings are an optical illusion' you don't see the illusion yourself until you walk away and come back to it. Standing back and looking, looking at the painting in a mirror (so see a 'different' painting, and walking away (even for 30 seconds) then looking back...all good habits. Great video as ever, just wish you had thought of a mistake that I haven't made at some time...but then mistakes are a great way to learn. Thanks.

Thanks for such great tips!

Thank you so much! This is very helpful. 😀

awesome videos thx! love to know what you listen to when you paint!

Perfect thank you...just what i needed🖒

Tons of great information. For beginner or advanced.

A HUGE THANK YOU!!!

OMG! Amazing content. You got a new subscriber

I have never seen glass as palete for colours, that is brilliant idea. It is easier to clean it as on wooden palette.

So helpful 😍

Thank you so much for this video! It is very informative! :D

Florent your videos are fantastic, your advice so useful, thank you for sharing your vast knowledge. You are an incredibly talented and skilled artist, I just love your work. ❤️

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :)

@BlueKungFu

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlorentFargesarts You're very welcome Florent, it's you who deserves the thanks. 🙏

Thanks, it helps me a lot!

Great idea to use a dropper to add the medium!

Great video, thanks!

Good recomendations bro, thanks

Also there is a soft look to painting on canvas and a harder texture and quality when painting on board and wood panels. Choose the painting surface based on the project

Very good! Thanks for sharing!!!

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Henrique :)

Thank you Florent, stepping back is helpful. The hardest thing for me is I get too detailed too early in the painting. It's hard to pace yourself

@fluffybrushespheiffer2410

4 жыл бұрын

I guess it comes with loads of practice.

another great tips of painting mate

Thank you!

Florent - so right - No' 4: standing too close to the canvas. Trying to get students to stand back and look at their work can be SO difficult but it's something I stress to them constantly.

Very true. Very useful.

Your paintings are awesome! You're so talented

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much !

@bio-plasmictoad5311

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget skilled as well, a talent you don't learn you just have the natural ability for it. Painting takes time to learn and with that become a better artist.

This is fantastic- I have been muddling value and chroma- your slide is so clear that the same value can have different chroma. I think also the habit of naming colours can confuse chroma as the different intesities are named different things and we think of the different chromas as colours/hues

@FlorentFargesarts

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Dannielle. Color naming and color theory is a gigantic mess, for sure! Everyone sees and names colors differently. But as painters, we have to learn to understand colors more in depth.

Wow wonderful, I am honored to see your painting. I will be watching videos frequently with sub..

This channel is so underrated.

I love your channel !

Hi. Thanks for the newbie tips, they are so helpful. What medium do you have in the dropper? Or is it a mixture of stand, linseed and OMS?

The picking and finding the color like a puzzle is exactly what I have been doing. Ugh.

@FlorentFargesarts

4 жыл бұрын

It's a common mistake, never hesitate to try a small color sample, even if you know it will be wrong... then look, compare and change if necessary. Oil paint can always be removed or covered so no worries. It also removes a lot of the "color anxiety", normal for beginners.

@spoononacouch2984

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! All the time and paint I have wasted..

Thank you for a great video, I shall be checking out more of your videos Can I just ask what was the beautiful piece of piano music? I’d love to listen to it in full! Thanks

To be honest I am just learning how to paint but I start by kind of sketching with a lot of dry brush in a light color. Sometimes white or grey. I then begin to paint “in” adding light or dark still basically sketching in paint and using mostly a dry brush. In this way I gradually build up the composition constantly refining and adding color, revising, refining and blending. I start sort of ambiguously and ending with decisive details.

I actually learnt french from your video previously.

Just subscribed, do you have a video on oiling out? I want to rework a painting after a long time.

Well it's ten o'clock at night but now I feel absolutely compelled. I must make coffee.

Do you know Daria Callie? She paint with oil and before start she do every colors on her pallette. So I think that maybe we can do it but I am a beginner so I don't really know.

Great thumbnail!!!

I have to say that I love your eyebrows. Thank you for the video too.

@BlueKungFu

4 жыл бұрын

He does have excellent eyebrows, I have always thought that! Along with huge talent, skill, incredible knowledge and that really lovely French accent.

@annabodhi38

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlueKungFu ~ Agreed! ❤️

Thank you for your video :) Does someone have the name of the music at the end please?

Great advice, and I also want to compliment you on your English. If I could speak your language as well as you speak mine I would be very proud.

Hy ! I really like your videos they are v helpful. Today I wanted to know about this certain problem, so I gessoed my canvas and let it dry for 36 hours then when I tried to put my undertone it started peeling off (the gesso). Can you help me with this one.. it is the first time that has happened 😓 How should I fix it ?

Just started the video...Man, your beard has such a pretty colour.

@Beinhartwie1chopper

4 жыл бұрын

Mathilda !

Great. 😊👍

question, what is the differ between value and chroma?

I have questions, how to clean the brush. It's really hard to clean brush after using oil painting

You make me want a coffee. Lol. I. Knew all five rules, but not follow them often.