I found the longer version very very helpful and informative. Please continue.

I would love to see this approach demonstrated on a portrait - in terms of shapes and using values and structure to move the eye around.

The longer video is very helpful. I especially appreciate the palette work and having you explain your color mixing. Thank you.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Katie. Thanks for letting me know. All the best.

I love how you simplify the process, yet the result is such a strong visual impression.....thank you.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ann Marie. Glad you find it helpful.

Its such a fine, rational analyze and a very clear way of showing the important elements of a strong composition - very inspiring

Wow, wonder if you tire of hearing accolades? A wonderful rich learning experience for me and I marvel repeatedly at your finished painting!

I watched both. I love the long version. Please Keep doing them. As a watercolor artist I love watching the oil process all the while absorbing your composition tutorial

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Anne. That is interesting that you found it interesting even as a watercolor painter. Thanks so much for your feedback and glad you are enjoying them.

@Heidi.M

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way, as an acrylic painter. I love the long process and hearing your commentary!

Great idea!

This was excellent and I like the longer version as well. They are both effective and helpful in different ways. Really great videos, I appreciate them so much! I really like that you address one topic or subject at a time, in a concise yet thorough manner. It makes for easy referencing. I wish KZread suggested you a long time ago 😉

Love this!

I like the length of your usual post. Your short edit still shows the essence. It is a good matchup for how much time I have available to watch vs. the longer version. Thanks!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dale. I sure wouldn't do it every week. But it is interesting about 80% of the people that watched the short one also watched the long one. Appreciate your feedback.

Thanks!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Janis. Just signed you up for the tuesday videos.

Wonderful

Excelenteeee!!

Beautiful Ian. You made the photo look even more interesting. Congrats.

Amazing to see the image grow on the canvas. Thanks for these wonderful weekly inspirations!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Fran. All the best.

fantastic

Great channel, thank you

Wow, that was a lot of work narrating two vids! Thank you. Personally I think you do such a great job on the shorter vids with your descriptions and explanations that the longer vid isn’t really necessary and must be that much more work.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Liese, well that is good input. Thank you. Glad you find the short ones maybe enough. As I said to Dale above, I wasn't thinking of doing it every week. That is for sure.

Speaks to me. I’m learning the shading and color mixing. Thx.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you find it helpful Marilyn.

Beautiful!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Candice.

Thank you Ian, I enjoyed this video a lot.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for letting me know Phee.

It is beautiful ! Reminds me a Corot ! Thank you Ian

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Christine. Corot would have some figures in there probably wouldn't he. A woman or two with a head scarf and the light just hitting one edge.

Beautiful painting !!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Catherine.

Very helpful ,thanks 👏👏

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Rudy!

The colors you use are so interesting to me, colors I haven't tried. I have avoided cobalt colors but will definitely buy a cobalt blue and a yellow oxide. Thank you for these videos!

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Cobalt is good for sky because you don't need as much white as you do with Ultramarine. So the sky has more blueness. And yellow ochre is a useful color for landscape. Glad you are enjoying the videos. Best wishes.

Yup very helpful

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know Chuck. Best wishes.

Great stuff man it seemed like a dull photo at first but you made it interesting and made a great painting from it, as well as making the process clear and making a compelling video. Thanks !

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ethan, I think sometimes the idea of a subject being interesting can just bog one down in details, and rendering. Glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes.

Beautiful,I like u video,...amazing creative..love it👍😉..👍😉..👍......

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. THanks for letting me know.

Thanks! Very helpful. How do you keep your brush hairs nice? Your strokes look so soft

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, glad you found the video helpful. Honestly with the brushes I don't treat them very well, I kind of grind them into the canvas which may on camera look like they are nice and soft. Just normal hogs hair bristle brushes. Filberts. Best wishes.

Hi Ian, new to your channel. I found both videos useful. I do watercolors, so it’s a bit different. Still, the mixing of colors and how much you worked the painting to get the grasses and flowers just right was really helpful. Sometimes, I think 🤔 💭 we quit a painting too soon, when we declare 😲, “it is finished.” thank you for sharing this video with us.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found the channel. Watercolor is different in the steps you lay down value masses but obviouysly all the composition ideas apply. All the best.

Ian, what type of brush are you using?

Great video, unlike many oil painting videos, it showed me how to use the brush to create realistic looking marks, which still gave a loose painterly look to the painting! Some questions: are you cleaning the same brush as you use different colours or are you using a number of brushes for different colours, if the former how thoroughly do you clean them? And do you ever use mediums like liquin in your paintings?

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

HI John. I'm glad you liked the video and found it helpful. To your questions, I generally just keep using the same brush cleaning it as I go. I'm not sure it is a good or bad habit but at least I don't have 20 brushes in a big pile that need to be cleaned at the end. If I need a smaller or larger then of course I'll change. I get them pretty clean. Occasionally if I need a really clean new color, like going to the sky or something, I'll clean it a bit more, wiping all the minerals spirits out before starting to mix color. And I suppose sometimes, knowing I'm likely to come back to a color, I will switch to a new brush so I can leave the other color ready to use in a few minutes. I don't use any medium. Hardly use thinner except in big block ins. And in that smaller one in the video because I was building the whole foreground off that thin color. Hope that's helpful. Best wishes.

@johncowburn4444

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition Thanks for the reply Ian, really helpful!

beautyfull

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jean Pierre.

Helpful video. Thank you. But since I'm translating all this mentally to what I would do with watercolor, probably I won't watch the 17 min. video.

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

HI Ralph. I agree with you. It probably is not that valuable for watercolor painters.

He gives me Andy Warhol vibes

Not enough interest in the point where you want the viewer to look. The paths aren'tdefined d

@IanRobertsMasteringComposition

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Joel, I don't treat the center of interest as a place where there is something to look at, like a house or a person. But rather as the intersection of the major compositional elements. I'm hoping that the whole structure carries the painting. Not the thing at the center of interest. That is the goal anyway.