i actually can’t believe this video is free because it is so informative and helpful. very grateful for this. you’re a wonderful teacher

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Sarah!

@mariaytinexposer

Жыл бұрын

7

@araceliguzman1967

3 ай бұрын

🙌🏽🕊️💯

My gosh. The few, deliberate, little brush strokes for the first eye from 12:08 to 12:30 brought that from color blocking to living person. 😲😍

@littleheath1666

3 жыл бұрын

More than a few brush strokes using more than one brush. Not as easy nor as simple as it seems.

@rickdeckard1075

Жыл бұрын

@@littleheath1666 no one said it "seemed simple"

@chompers11

Жыл бұрын

@@rickdeckard1075 anyone would infer that from the words "few and simple" at least anyone who hasn't tried painting ha

I come back to this video periodically, because it’s so masterfully done. It’s a joy to watch.

This was amazing to watch, I just started doing portraits and mixing colours has driven me crazy since day one, they never felt realistic and always took so much trial and error. Being colourblind doesn't help either hahah, but seeing how much you can get out of such a small palette really feels like an opportunity to simplify the whole process and get better results at the same time. Can't wait to try this, thanks for the video!

Great job with the execution and colour mix; the Zorn pallet is often hard to master. A very enjoyable video. Thanks.

Tremendous joy to see this well done tutorial, so clearly, efficiently and completely explained. I send it to pupils in art school, for online learning in this Covid period. Thank you Alex Tzavaras!

wonderful and exactly what I needed ! I've been gathering the "courage" to try a portrait after doing very forgiving landscapes, birds, still lives, etc. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts :)

@nancyklein7529

4 жыл бұрын

Very nice , with experience that I needed to see first hand .

So amazing how it turns into a realistic face! When you started on the eyes and added detail, just wow!🤩

This is a great tutorial. I can't believe I started out with 10+ colors in my palette in school. I've always struggled with value and color, so this extremely limited palette and method of blocking in is helpful.

Each stroke was so pretty!!! Thank you for the demonstration it was really nice of you to share your knowledge. Anyone would be really fortunate to have a portrait painted by you!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kathleen

Brilliant. Finally someone explaining how to do flesh tones! 👍

@sketchartist1964

4 жыл бұрын

There is never one way of doing it. Just paint what you see in front of you as best you can.

Just learned more about painting in 20 minutes than I did in 4 years of fine art school 🙄

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jodie, I didn't learn anything in art school either. Back when I went in the early 90's I didn't have the internet, so I thought the human race had forgotten how to draw and paint from and couldn't find any artists who did.

@jambalaya1779

4 жыл бұрын

Weird flex but ok

@anilaostwal6929

4 жыл бұрын

Same me too

@elton_zimmerman

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr, totally agreed

@DrWhom

4 жыл бұрын

I find comments of this nature tedious. Whenever a student said this to me, I knew they were just buttering me up for some infraction they figured they would be committing before too long. And it is simply unbelievable. Did you really spent 4 years in art school and fail to pick up the basics? Even if your teachers were useless and uninspiring, and you were lazy and focussed on the usual adolescent pastimes, even then if you harboured any interest in art at all, clips similar to this one (and don't get me wrong, it is good for what it is) were available back then. Are we to believe you spent 4 years in art school _and_ being innocent as regards the existence of the internet? Of course not. Now of course you are only trying to pay a compliment, but the "more than x years in y school" format is hackneyed and insulting.

I love your paintings man! I really appreciate the time you've put into this video and explaining exactly what is going on! Thank you!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Derek!

I haven’t painted anything since elementary school and here I am entirely entranced by this magic at 3am

@arunimavj8837

3 жыл бұрын

me at 2 am

@brookebabel6733

11 ай бұрын

Me three, at noon on a Thursday.

Wonderful demo. I’ve watched many times up to know finding very useful to improve my painting skills when working with limited palette. Thank you very much again Alex. All the best.

Who on earth and why disliked this awesome tutorial? Thank you so much, αγαπητέ Αλέξη!!!

Thnaks mate. Painting is totally overwhelm for me and it's hard to even start, this narrowed it down and was an inspiration.

Clear.accurate and well explained. Just like the style of portraiture this true teacher is generously sharing.THANKS

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Luis!

Remarkable painting using just 4 colours!? Your comments about what colours to buy otherwise resonates with me MASSIVELY! Thanks for a great video!

Thanks for this! I've just started trying to learn how to use oils/paint in general and this is info is invaluable. The blocking in, the minimal palette, getting overwhelmed by the details (yep, did that one already). Looking forward to watching your other videos.

I never comment but this deserves one! Wonderful video, exactly what I was missing. I have been making up the colours as I go along with no clue and the overwhelm shows in the end result of my portraits. The thought of using just four colours is very exciting and appealing. Thank you for taking the time to make this video it has helped me hugely! Subscribed 🙏

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@user-dq7og1yj5u

2 жыл бұрын

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This is a brilliant demonstration. Great content, cheers Alex!

Wow, awesome and brilliant.... you totally captured her contemplative gaze! Thank so much, Vanessa

Excellent. Very lucid explanation. I never realised there was such interplay between warm and cool tones in the face.

Thank you for this, I received more good info than my time at university!

@mogalcat3091

4 жыл бұрын

Wth are they teaching at universities?

brilliant, learnt more here than anywhere else

I learned a lot watching this. I like the foir color approach. The simplicity of your approach is not dissimilar from that of a blacksmith fabricating a gate. The gate is a lot of pieces put together to make the whole. I like it.

Thanks for making a clear tutorial. Real good clear explanation of everything without making it so boring like many others do 😉

Amazing. It's one thing to paint a beautiful picture - quite another to be able to explain so clearly how you did it. Thank you.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stefan!

I love these vids. You're a gifted painter Alex!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Scarlet!

You have painted the most difficult subject to paint in the world! That is most excellent, wow! Yes, like magic, I must agree.

I'm just moving into oils from graphite, and this video has been an eye-opener. Thank you!

Solid gold. Thanks for making this demo, man!

You have some beautiful hues here from such a limited palette. I guess that's the payoff. The eyes are amazing, suggesting blue grays and love the way you've suggested the far side eye lashes too.

This was extremely helpful and took my painting to a new level. By far one of the best painting tutorials I’ve seen. Thank you so much!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Klaudia! That's excellent.

Can’t stop watching and writing down notes from this wonderful demo as well as applying in my work. Thank you for sharing knowledge Alex!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you José. Glad it was helpful.

That is a really great portrait painting. Fantastic work.

zorns the man. really hope to get to sweden one day to see his paintings in the flesh

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

I was very fortunate to see his exhibition in Paris in 2017. But I still intend to visit his museum in Mora at some point.

@shamardaniel4819

3 жыл бұрын

I got the joke! Good pun! 😂

Excellent!! This is such a wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time for this.

I've watched your videos countless times. thank you for making this, I think its the best one on youtube.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This was so fun to watch I’m starting to get interested in painting and trying to self teach myself this video was super informative thx!!!!

This was absolutely thrilling to watch! I've never heard of this limited palette technique, but through analogy and correspondence with working in other mediums, it makes complete sense. And to watch a theory flesh out in front of your eyes, well...EXCELLENT! Thank you very much for this brilliant tutorial Sir!!! I've liked and subscribed

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

as always a clear explanation covering areas that other sites don't give, cheers.

Wow! That was amazing! I can't believe the flesh tones came so accurately out of those four colors! Great work, indeed! Thanks for the guided instruction!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad it was helpful.

The mysteries of the Zorn palette have been shown! I never learned anything near this in art school. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skill with the world!

@slimshim297

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very helpful.

I can’t speak English very good, but this lesson I understand so much!) And you’re drawing a model in live, because photo drawing not good for beginners. Nature drawing the best!!! Thank you!)

Thanks for this instruction, never knew about the Zorn before but it's certainly effective. I'm a cartoonist doing pen & ink using water colour bases and backgrounds. I then do all the line work in Indian ink with a brush pen. I have only recently started painting in real oils and I'm really bad, so it's good to see a person with talent.

Beautiful work! Thank you for the detailed insight into your process.

The compilation sequence seems so counter-intuitive but the reveal is almost like magic

Your paintings remind me of Ressendi... and I love Ressendi's paintings. I love how you can tell it's a painting and at the same time you can feel that it's alive. Love your videos.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'd not heard of Ressendi, I had to look him up. What an amazing painter. Actually, the artist (British) who taught me to paint went to Art school in Spain. So, maybe some of that Spanish style rubbed off on me. His teacher there was an outstanding painter Joachim Torrents Llado, he died in 1997. Have you heard of him?

@Stemma3

4 жыл бұрын

​@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting I use to watch a channel from Antonio García Villarán. Besides all of the silly jokes, I discovered Ressendi because of him. I like Goya because you know it's painting because you can see the brush strokes, but it's alive. I don't like hiper-realism because the people look like wax figures). Here is the video, if you activate the automatic translation of the subtitles, they are quite accurate kzread.info/dash/bejne/aH2GzdppfLzAj5M.html

@cochinealake

4 жыл бұрын

@@Stemma3 I was curious and I google Ressendi, it's a video explaining his paintings, I stop at 3:37, toreros subjects are kind of people I don't like to see, in pictures and in real, maybe a dying bull for the hands of these monsters was a more exciting subject, seem Ressendi mind didn't go so far.

@Stemma3

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know which video are you talking about, if it's the one about García Villarán. He explains that he paints the decadence of the bull fighters. That's why I liked those pictures. They don't show the bull fighters as heroes, they show them as some kind of depressing and miserable people. His paintings are really ugly, that's why I like them. Saturn eating his children by Goya is a really ugly picture, but it's one of my favorite paintings. It's so violent.

I found your approach to organizing the values on the pallet very helpful.

Thank you for the demo Alex, you do great work.

Thank you, awesome tutorial with limited palette

Thanks allot for the video, it was helpfull and i enjoyed watching it!

Thank you, Maestro, for this short but very helpful lesson!

This and the other videos you make are so helpful, thank you so much for making and sharing your techniques it's so valuable at this time.

As a student I've been discouraged from working with black paint from the tube in favour of learning to mix black from the primaries, so I was extremely impressed with how much mileage you managed to get from Ivory Black in this study. I've really begun to rethink my palette after watching your videos and I look forward to applying some of your tips in the future!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

I find mixing blacks with the primaries quite difficult (did you see the limited palette in my previous video on Saturated?). Tbh I'm not a big fan of Ivory black in the darks, I much prefer using mixtures of blues and earth pigments. One of my favourite blacks is Ultramarine, Transparent Oxide red and Alizarine crimson. But I do find Ivory black really useful in the lights, for greying down and desaturating flesh colours.

This is an amazing demo. Well explained and articulate. I've learned most of all about color and color harmony. Looking forward to view more of your videos. By the way, can you explained how you create the color chart? I would love to do one of my own.

I would have said this result was impossible. Amazing. Thanks.

She literally came alive, out of what I thought would not work, but of course, this is easy when you know what you are doing. Bravo!!. Portraits, are the most difficult type of painting to do. I do not know how to correct my paintings, and as long as I have painted, I think I will never get the nack of it. But, it is nice to see a master a work. Ms. L Churchill (USA)

:O , at the final result the front chin is covered massively by the background and it is so real ! good trick ! :)

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Aleksandar

oooh some skills! you sculpted her out of thin air...

Excellent likeness, you captured the essence of Arriane so beautifully and masterfully! Thanks for sharing!

One of the best explanations of the Zorn palette portrait. Thanks.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dipak!

My god, it looks so easy when you paint it. It's a different story when I'm doing it...

@drawingmaniacsterben7144

4 жыл бұрын

listen carefully and follow the steps. It is about the process.

It's a kind of magic

So happy I found this video, thanks for the detailed explanation.I struggle with portraits ,getting confused with colour and tonal values...which to concentrate on first. Your video helped clarify a few things

You are a phenomenal artist. I’m simply amazed by your talent.

that mastery in making a face pop out of nothing like magic is the reason i didn't paint for the last 10 years. even the 2:02 color board is a artwork by itself.

legit painted today and made all the mistakes he's saying ... lol should've watched this first

This is sorcery... i'm absolutely amazed by your art and this is is the best vid i've ever seen about oil painting

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Excellent video Alex. A big huge “thank you!” from Florida

Zorn was genius...

The description only lists 3 colors-it’s missing the cadmium red light Thank you for this video! 💕

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Whoops! Thanks for that

meraviglia!!! sei uno spettacolo! ti guarderei per ore!!!!

Wow! Love your technique and with a limited palette. Thanks so much.

9:29 yo she's flirting with me!

@laurenhedges6380

4 жыл бұрын

DALEXIS! 👋🏻

are you sure thats yellow ochre?

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

It is. One of the issues I find with filming is the accuracy of the colours. Because I paint under natural daylight which changes the exposure settings I use mean that the colours don't always appear as they do to the eye. I also used separate cameras for the canvas, the palette and the model so there is also a discrepancy there too. Just goes to show, the drawbacks of working from photos, or at least why you should do colour studies from life.

Thank you. This was brilliant and captivating! Your narration is outstanding and really widened my understanding of painting.

I,ve seen this and your other videos more than once, but I always come back to watch again as there is always something to learn each time. Many thanks as always!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! If you liked this one, I think you're going to like my next video, which I'm working on right now.

@Big2bees

Жыл бұрын

@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting Looking forward to your next videos! ❤

This video helped me so much as a student oil painter. The simplified demonstration of each color/value and its purpose helped bring structure to my process.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Bella!

An excellent, clearly described demonstration, with some lovely brushwork as a bonus. Thanks!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave!

Alex, It is obvious, so obvious that you've put a lot of thought into your videos. You are a talented teacher - something that might be rare. I've learned so much from you! As a fellow arts teacher I tip my hat.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Andy! That means a lot coming from a fellow teacher.

What a Beautiful Portrait you painted. You are Incredible. Congratulations!

I LOVE IT!!! In just few colours you can able to create amazing artwork...

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark!

This tutorial is a keeper! I have just enjoyed it again!!

Wow. You made it look so easy. Thank you for the amazing clinic

Yes, thank you. that was enjoyable to watch.

You're a great teacher your videos have been brilliant to watch and work from in lockdown

This is amazing!! You’re teaching me less is more constantly, thank you thank you.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sierra!

Thank you. I'm a self taught artist and have never been taught flesh tones. That's why I'm here and I learned so much. I appreciate it.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Joan! Glad it was helpful.

I love this straight to the point type of tutorial. Thank you so much for posting Alex and a Happy New Year 2020.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Happy New year to you too!

Alex, you are a marvelous teacher. I'm learning so much from you and this lesson about the Zorn palette simplifies things so much, I just ordered the colors and will complete the Sargent master copy when I get them. Thank you and cheers!

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Good luck with it.

Thank you! What a wonderful demonstration.

Thank you so much Alex, what an inspiring demo!

That worked for me, Alex, clear, logical and nicely presented. You've obviously put a lot of thought into how to deliver this presentation. many thanks

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

Жыл бұрын

Thank you John! Glad you liked it.

Fantastic, thank you so much, you are absolutely brilliant! I’ve never heard of Zorn so will watch up on that one next. I will certainly be watching as many of your videos as I can find.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Carole

You seriously teach me more in one video than I've learned from countless books and other resources through the years.

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christopher. I put a lot of thought into how I explain stuff. Its hard to describe painting, which is why I think it took my a long time before I understood what any of my teachers or any of the books I read were trying to say,

So fantastic and brilliant explanation,thanks

It's amazing, thank you. You explain so many thoughts about finding the right tone. It is super instructive ! Thnak you for sharing so widely your art !

@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm glad this was helpful.