1. Burnt sienna and ultramarine blue: good for sand, rocks, etc. (also depending on how much white you add) 2. A trick to know where to put the color in the eye- put it on the opposite side of the little dot of reflected light. 3. Paint it small first- if doing a big painting, try doing it small first. 4. Don't go to white too quickly. If you need to lighten a color, don't just add white to it. 5. Branch off from colors on your palette. Start with a motherpile of color, and then branch off from that (make variations) 6. When blocking the lighter parts of a painting, start with the DARKEST light. You want to be able to build lighter color on that. 7. Go extreme with composition. Make very strong decisions, especially with landscapes. 8. Tone your canvas. 9. Photoshop is totally worth it. 10. Try painting on linen. TIMESTAMPS FOR EACH TIP 1. 0:04 - 2:40 2. 3:06 - 4:02 3. 4:03 - 5:33 4. 5:33 - 6:37 5. 7:51 - 9:08 6. 9:19 - 10:14 7. 10:14 - 11:36 8. 11:36 - 12:53 9. 12:54 - 14:39 10. 14:39- 15:41

Great content. I have a natural, built-in 'Blur Filter'. I just take off my glasses and I'm good to go.😊

All killer no filler, your videos. Dependably. [Also, burnt sienna + ultra used full strength make a profound black]

@alex24mamba

Жыл бұрын

If you add a splash of cad yellow it turns into the most amazing turquoise for backgrounds of flowers

What a Coach! Teaching what he learned from his own mistakes. It cannot be a better way to teach. My respect and admiration. Thank you Chris.

@unkemptsnugglepepper

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! I love how he’s able to break things down and give the why.

@WheelschairArt

Жыл бұрын

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Good tips - especially not going to white immediately to lighten! This will help me!

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Perfect!

The idea of people starting new colours instead of branching off from the existing mixed colour is crazy to me. I’m so lazy, I will find a way to use every last drop of the colours I already mixed rather than mixing a new colour from scratch 😅

Tip #5 seems to be directed to me! My palette is usually a disaster, a bit of everything everywhere and indeed there is no organic growth when I'm branching off. Then when I need to go back to a color, I spend a lot of time trying to find that pile in my palette...again, as it's everything everywhere with absolute no reason or logic. Thanks for the tip! will try in in my next painting :)

@cheryrobertson2735

Жыл бұрын

I agree

Thank you for the supply list! Very helpful

I am sooooo happy I’ve found your channel! Your advice and tips are absolutely invaluable, Thankyou 🥳🥳

Thanks again. All of your information is so valuable.

There are so many good suggestions in this video period thank you for posting period

These are great tips! Good for beginners and good reminders for experienced ones. Thank you!

never missing your videos, is the best decision I take. I mean so damn helpful tips, my favorite was the paint small one. Could've saved ALOT of effort in my last painting, man. THANKSSS COACH!!! ❤

Thank you so much. This was truly a helpful video. I’m off to use these hints.

This has quickly become my favorite channel. The way you explain things just makes sense to me. Great stuff!

This is gold man!

I just tonight found your videos on KZread. Wow!! What a great teacher you are!! Can’t wait to do my next paintings with your ten tips,in mind.

Excellent, to the point, educational, clear and very inspiring tutorial. Chris , thanks so much for the great work and information you put in each video in a short time. I truly appreciate it. Each video is a fountain of wealth. Amazing use of ultra marine blue and burnt sienna. Blessings and take care. I wish you the best and more for 2023. Whatever you put out, you will get back one hundred times more. ❤❤❤

Excellent video, thank you Chris!

Thank you so much for these videos.. They are so very helpful as I strive to get back into painting after almost 20 years off. You are an excellent artist and teacher

Thank you!!!! Very informative and helpful!!!! Have an awesome day!

I am so glad I found this channel. Super helpful, thank you.

Super helpful video! Thank you for making this one!

I’ve been teaching myself oil painting for a couple of years, and your videos have helped so much. Thank you.

I recently started oil painting after a few years of gouache and your videos have been SO much more helpful than anything else! I was very intimidated at first but you have set me way more at ease and made me more confident. Thank you thank you for what you do.

If you do not already have a video covering painting materials for specific types of paint, I would very much adore a video covering this very topic! You have such insightful knowledge man. Thank you for all the information and teaching!

Thank-you so much for all these tips. You are a talented artist.

Thank you for these great tips. I love your videos and I improved my painting so much within the last year 😊

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Really nice to hear the explication of all the reasons I do things without much reflection on why.

That little anatomy session about the eye was super informative!

Thanks a lot for sharing your knoledge about painting.

Another excellent video. I love every one of those tips.

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

So helpful! Thank you so much!!

I've bought some oil paints to try out. It's taking me some time to actually get down to using them. Your tutorials are so helpful, and I'm not quite so frightened to try them out now. Thank you

I work in acrylic and watercolour but this has been very useful, thankyou!

Awesome tips! Thank you!

This was very helpful, makes me want to paint immediately, thank you!

Invaluable advice as always! Many thanks sir. Absolutely couldn't agree more with using Photoshop as a painting tool. The colour picker is an instant shortcut for identifying what colour something actually is...always a surprise! Grid, rearranging the composition, using the artistic filters to distill images down to their shapes and tones. PS...maybe the most useful painting tool outside the paintbox.

These tips will help a lot of people! Some people think they understand the fundamentals, but I see questions all the time asking how to do something, and it's rooted in the fundamentals. Trust me I know this firsthand. To get over my own resistance of revisiting the fundamentals, I simply tell myself I don't know everything, and I am not ever going to be perfect. This always allows me to be open in going back to the fundamentals. I realized that there are always interesting things about the fundamentals I didn't see the first time, second time, third time, 4th time around. I didn't see them because I didn't have enough experience at the time to understand it. I recently took a painting break and took a detour in cinematography. Some of the stuff there opened my eyes to composition and color theory. Seeing paintings with composition and color theory is good, but there was something about telling the story and how I want to make the audience feel when they look at the scene, that really clicked something in my head. I think it is when I realized that movies and even news stations don't randomly get those live shots, it's all a choice. We can choose what to place and remove from the painting. It doesn't matter what was there in real life. I can remove a whole house if I wanted to if it will sell the message I want to convey.

Thank you for sharing these links to books and products. :)

Such fantastic tips 👏👏👏 thank you

I needed this video! Thank you!

These were very good tips! Thanks and greetings from Norway

Great lesson! Thank you for sharing knowledge with us

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Hi Chris, thanks so much for all your tips and tricks, it's no overstatement to say that your videos are the reason I am painting so much more. Oil painting isn't so scary anymore with Paint Coach around! Just out of curiosity, what is that little kraft-coloured pad that you paint your practice paintings on? I am always looking for cheaper practice surfaces and I am very intrigued. Thank you!

Phenomenal. Thank you. I learned a ton. ❤

You have no idea how much your videos helped me! Thank you so much. Can you please talk about lights? I always struggle with the light and i really hope you can recommend a good light to put on the easel.

Mr. Fornataro, your videos are so much fun to watch along with great teaching and learning. Thank you.

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

A good alternative to photoshop would be at apps like procreate and clip studio paint! It doesn’t have exactly the same features as photoshop, but you can adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and edit composition extremely easily

The eye 👁️ tip was very helpful. Thanks!

8:30 i just did my first oil painting of a vase, which has an orangey brown glaze on it but with some purple tint. the color was difficult enough to mix once so i made a pile of it and scooped a bit from it to make shadow colors and highlight colors etc. I have much to learn! 11:14 What I know about composition I learned from photography, specifically small formats like instax cameras. the print you get is the size of a business card, so you have to make it count by filling the frame with the subject.

Ok. I am pretty successful with watercolor. I can do a good job with acrylics. I can draw. Why am I just sitting here with all my newly purchased water based oil painting supplies afraid to start? Feel like I am about to jump off a cliff. help.

@Citroen_2cv

Жыл бұрын

I said the same thing to a teacher of mine when I was in school: he said he envied it. He was a prolific painter who showed and sold really well, and he'd been at it a long time. He meant, it's a gift to be so into it that your emotions are noticeable -- a different way to look at it, right? Somebody else (Elon Musk, maybe? ugh) said "adrenalin is rocket fuel -- you can use it to fuel the rocket or blow up the rocket. Your choice". I play that in my head when I get the off-the-cliff moments.

@keylandro7450

Жыл бұрын

You just need to keep painting, A LoT. You can be told the fundamentals and process but everything else is up to you and how much you want to assert yourself

@theresafrazer3999

Жыл бұрын

It might be helpful to take the pressure off producing something fabulous by just playing around with the paints first. Give yourself permission to check out the paints and what they do and don’t do. Use canvas paper instead of a canvas. It can be really hard to have a beginner’s mind again once we’re successful at one media, but I think that it might help you. Also, watercolor is the hardest media as far as I’m concerned! Oil is much more forgiving! Hang in there! and have fun.

@melissalacombe1824

Жыл бұрын

@@theresafrazer3999 thanks. I'll try.

@melissalacombe1824

Жыл бұрын

@@Citroen_2cv thanks for the feed back.

I recently purchased the Munsell Student book of color 2nd edition, and I was matching a color chip to a photo I am painting. Turned out, what I thought was grey in the photo turned out to have purple in it. It proved to me that my eye doesn't necessarily see colors just right. And I agree, grey is usually used with another color. That's why I bought the Munsell book, so I can paint with much more accurate colors. Thanks for the tips. Love your videos.

Great tips!! Thank you 🙏

"One star of the painting" Very helpful advice for landscapes especially.

Hey! Looks like you’re a Steelers fan! I’m originally from Pittsburgh. And yet, even though I’m now living in Portland, OR, I still bleed black and gold. It’s good to know that all that black and gold mess cleans up nicely with a Terrible Towel. Good video with fantastic color mixing tips.

This is fantastic

Great vid, thanks so much!

So glad I found your channel. Wow

Great video! Lots of useful suggestions. Well done.

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Very helpful stuff!

That was great. What toned notebook do you use for the small oil studies?

Thanks for another great one Chris!

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

The composition short cut was perfect for me. I want to add all of these ideas, which makes me hesitate and put off painting anything. I wanted to try different trees, because I usually just do birches. I thought about adding waterfall and a house and it's all too much.

Great....love your easy natural way of talking. Thanks for all the tips!

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great class!!! thanks a lot!

Wow, you tips are truly helpful and practical! Thank you very much for this video, you seem particularly observant and this really increases the usefulness of your advice. Can I ask, what do you think of cardboard canvas for beginners? What can we expect/are any adjustments necessary when moving from it to actual canvas?

This was an excellent video, as always. It touched on something I've been having a problem with for some time, and that is "chalkiness". I have a good understanding of painting with values, however now I struggle with keeping my colors saturated, especially when I need to lighten them/add white. Do you have any other tips on lightening colors beyond your green example? Thank you sososo much.

What is the sketch pad you use to test your smaller oil paintings? Or do you have a pad/journal you recommend? Thanks!

I’m new to your channel and I really appreciate your style of instruction. Thank you for all you do! 😊

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@RatusMax

Жыл бұрын

I've learned a LOT form this channel, I went from cartoon looking paintings to decent ones all thanks to his information.

@kevinhawley4992

Жыл бұрын

watch them all... he covers the important points for a strong "foundation". from there, it's up to us! he has a TON of great info.

@grandmajan6

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for teaching this granny !

Great video! Thank you! Also, in our house we had that exact same hellofresh taco meal kit this evening. It was yummy :)

i really like your videos , hepled me alot

Dude that eye light was a fantastic tip!

Great tip off re: sienna.There seems to be a trend in avoiding earth tones, which I think is completely unproductive. ANY of the PR101 pigments can easily replace a primary red (the most expensive colour in the world for some reason) in a wide range of situations . Caput mortuum violet - especially, can be a worthy stand-in for Alizarin Crimson. Sometimes a better stand-in, because it's dirty and works well in realism and portraiture. For plein air, I'm actually tempted to start using an all earth palette like Sargent did. Earth tones offer a wealth of possibilities. I just wish that I could justify buying a tube of lapis lazuli. Micheal Harding would say: "that were wasted on thee lad"

@angie.666

Жыл бұрын

what's the primary red? cadmium?

@mrsnrub9780

Жыл бұрын

@@angie.666 Fair enough, I'll give you that one.

Very informative 😊

Great tips

Can you delve into painting eyes??? Especially with photographs or animal / dilated pupils, so hard to pin them down!! Would love to hear more tips & tricks on this :)) love your work!!!!

great video!

thank you so much

I bang in all the darks first, then all the midtones and often by the end I find I don't need to use very little white anywhere, but I also only do landscapes

Love the Steeler’s can. Plus great tips 👍👍

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Right on

Wow, finally heard it ! Big shapes, value map, layers, branch off, don't go 2 white....so much in this video will watch it again and then mayB again. Been watching ur channel for a long while ....ur consistently... repeating finally got me 2 understanding so much more about why I have alot of failed art sittin' around.

Purple redish is nice.

sooooooooooooooooo helpful

very useful!

Very helpful tips (as always), but that was the best plug for HelloFresh I’ve seen!

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

hahahah glad you liked the ad

Another great video, Chris! Question - what's the small spiral-bound paper tablet you're doing your small studies on? And are you painting in oil on that paper? Thanks!!

@d.johnson1811

Жыл бұрын

@ Karen White Click on more in the link of his supplies list there's one for the book

I really enjoy your lessons! I'm an acrylic painter but these are still really relevant. I'm gonna try toning my canvasses for the first time today! Thanks!

Very informative, nice!🙂

As for his tip of painting on linen, I have personally used a linen product from RayMar. This family owned company offers primed linen on panels (rigid support). RayMar panels come in a variety of sizes (including custom sizes) with linen, cotton, etc. They have starter packages so one can try any of their products and combinations. I have tried several different panel and surface combinations and, to me, the quality is notably better than more commercial items. Yes, this does lead to a higher cost vis á vis Centurion, Frederix, et al. Generally, imo, the “extra” $2-4 is well worth it. (I am in no way affiliated with RayMar other than as a customer)

What sketchbook is that for your studies? That looks like such a perfect piece I need to finalize my journey to begin

Thanks!!

Chris. Love your tutorials. Would you consider creating a “photoshop for artists” tutorial? I just want to understand the way that artists use it.

terimakasih telah memberi tutorial yang sangat bermanfaat...

Thank you ❤️

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Any time!

good solid advice. 10Q.

Loved this

I learned more in this one video then I have in watching all of the years on KZread

The extreme tip is so good. When most people take photos they miss that idea. Im usually thinking…what is this a picture of? Great video! Ok still watching. It gets even better!

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Informative video.. thanks for sharing...

@paintcoach

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure