What is the biggest "rule" or misconception about making art you've run into?

@sujanithtottempudi2991

Жыл бұрын

That misconception for me is you need a teacher to teach art...with current internet information it's not true. You have to practice more than learning from others I think

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

@@sujanithtottempudi2991 I agree. Learning ultimately has to be self directed whether you have a teacher or not. We are our own teachers. And information is easier to gain than ever before. But it takes discipline to seek it out and put it into practice!

“You need to draw well to paint” was why I wasn’t allowed to do an art qualification at school. Not so, I dumped the idea of a qualification, I just got stuck into painting over my crude drawings. An approximate outline is enough and the painting does the rest. Your drawing naturally improves as you do more painting, as your hand-eye coordination improves. Now, many years on I can “paint” using a 2B pencil and it looks like a half decent drawing.

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great point. Drawing obviously can help but if painting is where your passion was why put a road block in the way? And like you said the more you paint the better at drawing you get. I think it’s all relative. It really depends on what you’re trying to do and trying to accomplish. For me sometimes the goal is simply to get outside and enjoy nature. Or sometimes I want to try a new brush or new colors and I don’t really care about the painting. Sometimes I want to paint but just in the short time I have. It all depends on what you’re after. To be honest I almost had the same thing stop me. I was told “you need to draw first” so I did even though I really wanted to paint. Eventually I thought to myself “what’s the dream and how can you get it?” And my dream was to plein air paint like Monet and Van Gogh. So I bought a French easel and tried it. First painting sucked and I hated it. But it was still fun! I’ve never looked back.

@ManWithoutThePants

8 ай бұрын

@@DannySabraArt I think it's still good to learn drawing because it helps also to make the initial pencil sketch faster and better. I don't think you should need to learn draw before you can start paint though. You can learn both at the same time and do them when you feel like. You have a reference photo there, but since you were painting this plein air things might have looked a bit different, but seems that at least the perspective of that black car, that you said you were struggling a bit, is off since in initial sketch car's sides are not pointing up towards the vanishing point, but are pretty straight or even a bit downwards. Anyway nice painting still. :)

@DannySabraArt

8 ай бұрын

Good points! You definitely can learn both. Drawing is something I’m always trying to improve upon and I have a long ways to go!

@ManWithoutThePants

8 ай бұрын

@@DannySabraArt Also I would like to add that the sketch still doesn't have to look fancy, but having decent drawing skills helps to get important landmarks and things you want for painting more easily.

@DannySabraArt

8 ай бұрын

@ManWithoutThePants I definitely think it depends on each persons goals. For me I place a high value on draftsmanship and that’s a skill I want to improve with my art as well as getting tonal values correct. But for someone else if they felt they needed to be perfect at drawing before even starting I’d say don’t let that “rule” get in the way of trying. There is something to be said for getting a start and enjoying the process and along the way you might discover “hey, I’d like to draw better”. But if you never start? That drawing rule won’t apply anyway.

Its awesome how this came together! Great painting Danny 👍😀

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Justin! I’m glad I finally got to paint it!

Question in James gurneys book he talks about old water colour painters who painted amazing landscape environments with a glazing only technique using RYB how is that possible without the colours going muddy from too many layers? Especially greens! How do you get the saturated colours? Could you explain or do a video on that using ryb to get saturated greens in an environment shot without going muddy using a layering technique in so intrigued

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

yes I can definitely do that. The saturation would come from pure color glazed on top of pure color. It does take skill to both modulate the tonal values and the chroma when utilizing glazing technique. However with a color like green, being made from blue and yellow, a dark green would be made from glazing a dark blue with a light yellow, and a light green would simply dilute the value of the blue down to a tonally high shade of blue and then add the light yellow. So a green's tonal range would be dictated by the value of the blue. Hope that helps!

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

I assume you're talking about Color and LIght? I've read that book multiple times. His books are so great. I'd like to read Imaginative realism a second time as well.

Watercolor glazes fine over gouache

@DannySabraArt

9 ай бұрын

Yep! Spot on! Watercolor and gouache are essentially the same type of paint, with gouache having more pigment and watercolor having more binder. If you dilute gouache you can get very similar glazing effects even though it has less binder. In addition to the techniques I show here, you can additionally add binder to your gouache and or blending medium which would also make this process effective.

Danny...have you used blending medium in Gouache? What's your opinion?

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

You know I haven’t. I need to try that out! That might make a great KZread video. Keep an eye out!

@sujanithtottempudi2991

Жыл бұрын

​@@DannySabraArt ​​@Danny Sabra Art actually I m using propylene glycol which is used inside acrylic retarder...it is helping to blend seamlessly like oil

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

@@sujanithtottempudi2991 i wondered about using acrylic retarder. I do have some of that. Maybe I’ll try it out!

@sujanithtottempudi2991

Жыл бұрын

@@DannySabraArt I tried that but it's too sticky I think....I'm trying honey today...as I read safety of propylene glycol...it's vapour in long term aren't good for health... although it's food grade and it doesn't vaporise at room temperature. Mgraham gouache has honey as one of their ingredients in gouache

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Let me know what you find.

This didn’t seem like a glazing technique stall glazing is like how a printer layers

@DannySabraArt

Жыл бұрын

I consider glazing to be utilizing multiple layers of transparent color on top of each other. Near the end of the painting the main red tree is glazed multiple times when that tree is shaded and given definition. It is also a commonly held belief that gouache cannot be use transparently at all, and I hope I showed in this video that in fact it can be. Hope that helps!