My FASTEST Technique for Realistic Oil Paintings
In this Alla Prima oil painting tutorial, artist Alex Tzavaras shows you his fastest oil painting techniques, for achieving incredibly realistic oil paintings.
For Alex's course on the fundamentals of oil painting visit:
/ simplifydrawingandpain...
Connect with Alex:
/ alex_tzavaras
alextzavaras.com
For this realistic oil painting tutorial, Alex used the following palette of colours:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Transparent Oxide Red
Raw Umber
Viridian
Ultramarine Blue
Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.
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By far the most useful and important channel on painting here on YT. Thanks for sharing your knowladge, really impressive to see.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Torsten! Very glad you think so.
@BillPark-ey6ih
5 ай бұрын
Agreed
what I like about this guy's lessons is that he pronounces everything very clearly
@Natalya_Fedorenko
10 ай бұрын
Exactly! Its perfect for me being a foreigner. So clear! 🙂
@theodoradanielacapat298
8 ай бұрын
That's a good teacher...
I have been thinking how hyper realistic art always looks like "art", like a fake. Impressionist art sometimes looks real. You put it in words perfectly.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! I'm glad you think so. I spent quite a lot of time on this script.
Very good tutorial on painting from the artist's mind instead of taking in everything that the eyes can see. Hope to get some more of these. Thank you very much!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
Ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
When you began to add the background, the rose just came alive. Beautiful. Your instructions are amazing, as well. Everything you say is denonstrated at that moment in your brushstoke. So glad I found your channel.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
4 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad you did.
Beautiful! Your description of why realism works is very well-communicated!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank very much you Peter! I'm glad you think so, I put quite a lot of thought went into it.
Fantastic tips! Incredibly helpful description! Thanks
Best advice ever!! Thank you so much for sharing ❤
This video showed up in my feed today. I’m so glad i watched it! Beautifully done and so well explained. I’m going to find more of your posts! Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Beautiful!! Well done! Thanks for sharing!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
My Pleasure David!
Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge, I love it when I log on and see a new video from you has arrived in my feed.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much Rich! I'm glad to hear it.
Fantastic video! Thank you 😊
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thanks Chris
Amazing painting!! I love the loose brush strokes of the Green bg. Thank you for informations too! 🙌🏿
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
My pleasure! Glad you liked it.
Wow ! Beautiful painting 🧡🧡💖🧡🧡
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your skills, I love your videos.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
My pleasure! I'm glad you think so.
Another excellent video, and a beautiful, masterful painting. Bravo !!!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much Michael!
Simply amazing!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
Thank you for a new tutorial, Alex! Your channel is a great source of information! Please keep it up.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you think so.
Thank you so much for yet another useful, informative video :)
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful.
القيمة اللونية من اجمل الاشياء التي عرفتها في الرسم ، شكرا لك فيديو جميل ❤
Absolutely fantastic! I am so happy I've found your channel! Exactly what I needed and it helps me to grow as an artist😊
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm very glad you did.
you are very talented , great talent
I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank you.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
7 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad they're helpful.
Awesome
Lovely demo Alex❤👌Beautiful simplification & and well articulated
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Such a helpful demo, and I don’t even work in oils! Thank you so much for sharing.
Another great one thank you Alex, love how after you painted the leaves the rose like magic became light, as before that it appeared dark.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Laurel!
Excellente démonstration, idem pour la pédagogie 👍👍👍
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Very informative video. 10:20 very well invested. Thank you!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Dennis!
Very helpful!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you David.
Another incritable painting. So many things i learned from channel .Good job sir
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
Fantastic demo!! Your channel always delivers the most concise, useful, and applicable advice of any KZread painter.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! Very glad you think so.
Another great video! Bravo!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
`Thank you!
Thank you.
Beaut', love your videos. Really great quality content you offer for free.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
7 ай бұрын
Thank you very much Tod! Glad you think so.
so fantastic! thank you so much! you are great!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
Thank you
super valuable information, can't believe im getting this for free. Thank you Alex
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful.
Cool!
Дуже дякую за ваше пречудове відео! Це дивовижно! ❤❤❤
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
8 ай бұрын
You're welcome Xena!
That was cool
@daidayaarts
11 ай бұрын
Amazing
Ive studied oil painting for many years. This is exceptional tutoring. You have done more in 10 mins than most spend hours doing.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
8 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
I think, you are a very good artist, your Charakters are very well kept. Lyrical. Professionally Level of Hopper, I'd say! Hope you will get all support you need.
Amazing. You’re so talented and you really make me laugh. I never really understood these drawings and paintings that look photographic. They have no soul! I like paintings to look like paint. I love the details you chose to pick out. When I squinted my eyes, those details popped out for me too.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Anna. Some detailed work can be great. I'm thinking Northern Renaissance, like Van Eyck, Dürer and my favourite Holbein. Also, the 19th Century British painter John Everett Millais. In his painting of Ophelia, he literally painted every single blade of grass. The renaissance artists probably used lenses, but all of their work looks more lifelike than contemporary photorealists, because they're not copying photos.
Thank you Alex for sharing all these tips and advice. I wanted to ask you if all these apply when someone paints in acrylic. Very cleal explanation and concrete information. Thanks again!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
8 ай бұрын
The principles in this video are mainly about how we see things, so they should also apply to acrylics.
this channel along with chelsea lang deserve at least 2m subs
Thanks Alex 👍
Very nice friend. Flowers especially roses are surprisingly very difficult because the shapes are complex and the tones very near to each other. I've always struggled with them.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
I have always puzzled over why hyper-real paintings never work for me. This video was a real 'light-bulb' moment. Considered, really well thought out and extremely useful instruction. Many thanks for posting.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you Vincent!
beauty
I like you, you pronounced ochre correctly.
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Wonderful, the perfect amount of loosness. tell me, whats the brush your using at 3:45, ive wanted a small bristle brush like that for awhile and have struggled to find ones of quality. is it hog or badger hair?
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
I used two different small brushes in this painting with synthetic from Rosemary and Co. An Eclipse comber 1/8 inch and a size 1 round red dot, which is like a sable.
@harryainsworth6923
11 ай бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting wonderful thank you
this reminds me so much of richard schmidt
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Too Kind. His flowers are amazing.He was also the first artist I saw painting flowers outside.
@jacobfowler4426
11 ай бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting i bought his supplemental book to alla prima a while back, had a section in it if i remember on his whole flower process, was very interesting.. definitely need to give your patreon a try
Hello, I was wondering if your patreon videos are longer or more of the same we see here? Just want to get an idea!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
8 ай бұрын
My Patreon are all in real time. There full-length versions of some of my time-lapse KZread demos and other demos that aren't on here. I focus on teaching the fundamentals, I reckon there are loads of great portrait and landscape painting demos out there, but there aren't enough resources for beginners that will really help them improve.
like it as always alex very nice do you paint wholefigure some tiimes with clothes like zorn did and is that something you are intrested in like figure in dance or in subway or in pub to capture the movement
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Kaj. I will get eventually around to something along those lines, but it would be a lot more complicated to film. A full length clothed figure would take many days to paint. The file size would be ridiculous, so I would only be able to film sections of it. I am also, thinking of doing a video on fabric and clothing.
@kajwilstorp1483
11 ай бұрын
yes it be very interest if you do that i want to learn more fom you and you always explain good hope you have a great summer @@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
I understand you create high quality videos with excellent content...but we need more frequently please 😊
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
I will try my best. But these video always take me quite a long time to write and in addition to KZread, I make tutorials for my Patreon channel which are filmed in real time. I also have to try and find time to do my own painting.
@sujanithtottempudi2991
11 ай бұрын
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting amazing content..we all understand thats why im following you since long time
Excellent post........Roses are not the easiest of flowers to paint!
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
❤👍💞👍🧡👍💓👍💕
"90 minutes before the battery of my camera runs out" - challenge accepted 🤣
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
7 ай бұрын
If I decide to film more outdoor demos, I should probably invest in another battery for my camera?
Can art be purpose of the life? I cant believe it as purpose usually i think is useful to others
@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting
11 ай бұрын
The philosopher Schopenhauer seemed to think so, tho he classified painting quite low in his hierarchy of aesthetics. He said music was the highest art form.
It's complicated. I don't know what you mean. Please explain it slowly by showing me the tutorial picture. You are only in a hurry to explain. It looks like we need to observe the viewers.