Your teaching skill in painting is a gift to the young artists.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Always nice to hear!

@user-fu6wb3so7u

3 жыл бұрын

and inspiration to budding artists...

@yerimimyloves9128

Жыл бұрын

​@@lustenhouwer sir thank you so much i am now studying how to paint and u help me a lot

@Sairozpaint

2 ай бұрын

Thank you❤

@ValerieBrooks-xc2es

Ай бұрын

And to this older artist!😊

Pearls. Absolute pearls of wisdom: “Will power and energy sometimes are enemies.” “The simpler the display, the more powerful the impression.”

@dmonteiroarte

4 жыл бұрын

Yessss,,, that´s all truth...

@user-fu6wb3so7u

3 жыл бұрын

Very precisely said...

@chilee1668

3 жыл бұрын

郭文贵

Thank you so much for this! Your detailed comments help me tremendously!

@lustenhouwer

2 ай бұрын

You are welcome

I’ve learned so much from these videos. Also have drooled so much throughout so many of these videos. I love you Ben

@rachelwise9637

4 жыл бұрын

thats funny, i was thinking about you watching this video.. then there you are. lol

@slewp

4 жыл бұрын

rdubs love me some good painting videos

@MrRantelo

4 жыл бұрын

I love to see you here. Never stop being humble. It's great of you :)

@satoshibitcoinsaki6532

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your videos too!!

You are the only artist I watch on KZread. I’ve recommended your videos to all my Oil Pastel Artist group members. The way you emphasize simplifying the details , the planes , the colors is priceless. I write down all your words of wisdom and save them. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing wisdom.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Carol. I am glad it is helpful.

You are a master! Beautiful guitar music too!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Dit maakt me al zo blij! ik ga echt alles volgen dat je hier hebt geplaats, dan hoop ik met veel oefenen toch beter te worden dan wat ik tot nu heb gedaan. dank je wel Ben.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Geen dank.

I keep going back and forth, squinting at the original image and as you paint, seeing the tones coming in. Very cool

@lustenhouwer

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

A masterful and painterly rendering, as you moved through the facial tones , I swear she came to life and moved a bit , anyone else see that?

Ben, I SO appreciate that you are posting these short instructional videos. Thank you so very much.Connie from Israel

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Absolutely fantastic lesson.... if only painting was TAUGHT like this in Tertiary settings.... I did printmaking after deciding that the “teaching” on offer was non existent! Thanks!!!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

15:44, "The simpler the display, the more powerful impression"!! Very well put, sir! This works not only in paintings but in all aspect of arts and all aspects of life! A genuine philosophy!

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

I live by the wisdom of others.

Thanks for being so thoughtful and teaching this. It is so helpful. I'm taking notes. This is what a portrait painter really needs to know. You are the best.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Janet.

Thank you, Master! I am so happy I stumbled on this precious video by pure accident! All my Admiration!!!

Great video and instructions Ben. Thanks and you stay safe too!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

I don’t know and have never heard of this man how come he feels like a dear friend already. Maybe because he put so much experience into so little time. A like is not enough Thank you !

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for your kind words

Besides the wonderful painting and instructions, beautiful background music too.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Спасибо,что не жадничаете и делитесь своими знаниями!

"It never can be too red" finally someone that gets it🖤🖤🖤🖤🖍️

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

yes!

I was student in school of art and I think you are the best teacher I never met !

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

This is pure magic. I love your approach and your simple and calm explanations!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Thank you so much. The tutorial, the music, the advice.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

While others are charging $ for classes, you are teaching us for free. Thank you so much, sir.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

And look for more to come. Thank you.

@lovelyvarma1460

4 жыл бұрын

, absolutely, sir!

Great tutorial and thanks from New Zealand. Comments made about simplicity of the painting are so important …..I need to remember that!

@lustenhouwer

Ай бұрын

Thank you Joan

I love this man's work! So simple and beautiful.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

You are a truly amazing and knowledgeable artist! Love your videos in every way especially your wisdom to see and overcome artist’s block. Stay safe and can’t wait to see your future update! ❤️

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

The music you put in the background is so calming and reflective of your process. Thank you.

@lustenhouwer

4 ай бұрын

My cousin is the musician. I am glad he made this music especially for my videos.

This man is so outstanding, he gives us all the secrets of painting for free! I love him♥

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Torsten

Hello Ben, I never comment on KZread videos but I must say thank you. The amount of knowledge you pack into these videos is astounding and is inspiring me to try and take my painting to another level. I normally work from photos and so your advice on what to take and what to reject is priceless. I think any artist will smile at your advice to take a break - so many paintings damaged because of over concentration.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Cheers Ben, You're an inspiration.👍

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

Your portrait paintings are marvellous..I like your painting style and your videos are tutorials for me.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Beautiful painting 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Today I am starting a portrait having done a lot of them over the year and a half that I have been painting. This video is exactly what I needed as I have had a sense I am overdoing some of them. Thanks so much Ben for sharing your experience about that tendency. I will keep coming back to this clip and also explore your other offerings.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

It is my pleasure. Keep painting.

Very inspiring indeed! Maybe I eventually imrpove my portrait painting by learning such a good teacher

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

the way you talk, and the principles you share are very profound and memorable. Thank you very much for this amazing video.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Stunning!!! I wish I could paint 5% of this!!

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

Keep trying

Thanks Ben, another great video packed with inspiring information. I've been a professional artist for over 20 years and find your style of work and sensible informative videos a joy to watch. I lived in Holland for 3 years and I recognise your neat, methodical approach as part of your DNA ! Lovely work.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Thus us only your second video I have watched and the emotion I feel as I watch them come to life is amazing. The explanations are so simple and easy to understand. I am guilty of trying to put to much detail in my paintings. Thank you so much. Now. On to watch another.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Your picture is the best

WOW! This video is so informative. I took a full page of notes, because I don’t want to forget anything you said. I just subscribed and I’m about to watch your entire channel. Thank you! You filled in so many missing pieces in my portrait painting knowledge today.

@lustenhouwer

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Nice to hear Kristina. This week a new tutorial will be launched.

Thanks for sharing your process, talent, insight and skill...loved the music also!

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

It is my pleasure.

Thank you Ben. I feel I have reached a point in my art studies where my eye is pretty well trained and these extra insights you are freely giving are most appreciated. I still realize how much I need to learn and it's also exciting that the knowledge we desire is infinite and can never be reached unless we lived a thousand lifetimes. So I'll just do my best in this one. Stay safe. Warms and cools😱🤣

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

And beautifull music while painting

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

I love your videos and commentary.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

I am glad you liked it.

I am just practicing fine art painting, so much to learn. Nice to have the time to study and explore. Great video, thanks.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun!

I love your videos...such a calm, friendly voice, and very, very good info and skills. Has helped me a lot. ❤

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Дякую. Ви чудовий вчитель і світла людина.

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

Дякую

So beautiful Ben 👏👏

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

How timely! I've been struggling with a self portrait I've been doing while in pandemic lock-down, I will definitely be trying this, with no ivory black in the shadows. Thanks for the great video!

@friedricengravy6646

4 жыл бұрын

Angus Timmons If u need a shadow to look more transparent, glaze something warm such as yellow or orange or a brown containing either. Its amazing....immediately the solid heavy stone feel of a dark mark becomes a shadow u can look into & through. Especially on skin. ✌🏻

@angustimmons729

4 жыл бұрын

@@friedricengravy6646 I'll give this a try too on an older portrait that never felt right in the shadows. Thanks!

Thanks Ben, I learned much finer points here. Your suggestion of not going into too much of details in a portrait while working from a photo, makes sense, but hard for me what details to overlook and what to incorporate. I would love to try out different styles to get more depth in my portraits. Thanks.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you this is first time i really enjoyed watching videos of oil painting

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome 😊

@helaneshamma5602

4 жыл бұрын

@@lustenhouwer 🌻

This KZread Channel it is helpful for me😊

Thank you so much for the amazing videos. They are helping me a lot to learn painting. Greetings from Brazil. Stay well! Beware!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that!

When you softened her left cheek, that’s the moment for me when it really came together, and couple little touches around her eye and the crease in her smile and the highlight on her nose, the greenish brown background with pinkish highlights on her face, and especially the more blueish background in front of her face is brilliant!

@alfredlester161

3 жыл бұрын

Jj

Good new idea to put purple in hair lights..

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Try it

Such a lovely painting Ben. Congratulations!! Thank you for the great tutorial - I like the tip - if I´m strugling with a brown hue, work it towards red or greenish tint... :D Great! Also I´ll keep in mind to mix the lights and shadows separately to avoid to make milky shadows. Thank you and hugs from Brazil!!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Sir, I almost watch all of your tutorial. Easy analysis of sophisticated fact is fantastic when i watch you. thank you very much sir. stay safe....love from Bangladesh ♥

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

stay safe!

@SamirAbadeer

4 жыл бұрын

Good understanding makes you excel in painting : you use your mind to paint and this is the great Tutorial . Thank You

Brilliantly done. Thank you!

@wendyroseartist2178

11 ай бұрын

Omg, at 10:37 marker, that is what I’ve been fighting with! Yes!!

@lustenhouwer

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Wendy

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

@lustenhouwer

6 ай бұрын

it is my pleasure

Muchas gracias, Maestro, por compartir estas preciosas lecciones sobre el oficio de pintar. El talento innato se malgasta frecuentemente sin la práctica y el ejercicio continuado y el estudio razonado de la técnica pictórica. Has hecho con estos breves videos simples y accesibles unos conocimientos que han llevado una vida adquirir. Muy generoso por tu parte. Un saludo desde Granada!!!!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Gracias Alfonso

very timely. I just finished a painting where her shadows were a value of 5 or 6. As i painted the cool side her shadow value was wrong value. I then started in with the old trying to make her exactly like her likeness. I measured and remeasured and still . Then i said this is a painting not a photograph. Thank you , i think since i must have a tough time paying attention i will need to play your video before painting someone with a darker shadow. Another video with so many key points. Less is more less is more !!

Wonderful colors and work, great teaching gifts. Many thanks

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

I agree with "iam ME" in that the painting started to come together when you softened/blended the left cheek. It seemed that from that point on the portrait came more and more to life with each stroke of your brush...in that the foundation of the work was in place by that point and now it was time for you to put the nuances into play in order to lift the piece to life. At least that's how it appeared to me. Thank you Ben.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I try to show the best I can.

Thank you very much well I have just finished seeing one of the most instructive videos on the complexion and on the issue hot / cold lights cold / warm shadows which is a topic not easy to understand (at least for me) I wait for your next video on the topic..for now thanks thanks thanks..you are an excellent teacher!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Ben, Thank you so much for this great tutorial. Simplifying what many of us tend to make overly complex helps so much with the 'flow' of making paintings. I must say the idea of 'Phoning your mother in law' to take a break maybe pushing things too far! Haha... Thanks again and stay safe yourself. :)

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Man, you're great!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

nice to hear

great great great 🖌🖌🖌

I absolutely adore this master educator in painting. I wish I could take lessons in your classroom where you I can be corrected and guided by you. Some people are so great at what they do that they inspire you and bring out what your whole life think you didn't have. Kudos Mr. Lustenhouwer for the outstanding instructions.

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Youcef for your nice words.

Exquisite as a John Sargent painting. Thanks for showing shadows are warm.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Fantastic work and tutorial

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks

I have read Cellino Cellini and he said to find a teacher, so I will go to his laboratory, and I will never go away if he does not chase me away. But I think it will not be easy to find a Maestro like you. Great job.

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

Tak you Ignazio

Thanks for your beneficial and knowledge able vedio

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Maher287

Жыл бұрын

Seriously you are a great artist

Dank voor deze geweldige info. Hier kan ik wat mee.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Dank je Tiny

Yet again, Ben has given us a gift of secrets that took along career to gain. Thank You Ben!

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Christopher

Thank you. Wonderful instructive tips!

Excellent

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Thank you - you are an inspiration and you paint so softly.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Fantastic! Congratulations.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I sure enjoy your videos. Thank u!

@lustenhouwer

4 ай бұрын

You are welcome Kristie

Wow!!!

I thank you so much for this explaining...i'm learning with you, God bless you.

@lustenhouwer

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Maria

Thank you so much for showing us your painting skills and even letting us to your color pallet. I love watching your painting videos and applying what I learn from you to my paintings. You're awesome!! 👌

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter

Wow captivating

I learned so much about colors to use. No wonder my ultramarine blue in the shadows makes me unhappy. Thanks so much.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

17 minutes of sheer brilliance!

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Great, thanks for the reference photo

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Any time!

Brilliantly explained thank you 👍

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

So happy to have found you! Such a great teacher you are. Thank you so much.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

The GOAT.. many years ago I watched one of your video and it changed my painting career

Thanks for sharing...May Gbu

@lustenhouwer

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

You​ are the​ Best​ teacher​ for me​ and so​ many young arthesis.

@lustenhouwer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, nice to hear.

Fantastic video as always Ben. Thanks ever so much for sharing it with us. Stay safe.

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Thank you so much, you are so gifted but wear it very lightly. Every video I watch, I learn so much.

@lustenhouwer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Lucy

Call my mother in law!? 😂 Thank you maestro ! 👍🏻👏🏻. Love the tip about red in ear and dulling of black paint.

@lustenhouwer

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

💜 Thank you!

@lustenhouwer

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

Awesome!😁

Beautifully painted.

I love the way you draw and express the painting

love this!!!

Thanks for sharing this teaching Sir 💟🦉