Thanks Ian, I wasn’t one of those who asked about how to glue a canvas on a panel, but I certainly am going to give it a try as you make the process look so simple . Cheers-Greg

I love the way you simplify what you are seeing. I often feel overwhelmed with information when painting plein air so this is really helpful to watch.

Ian, j'ai découvert récemment ton beau travail sur cette chaine. le problème c'est que je ne pratique pas l anglais, c'est pourquoi j'apprécie particulièrement cette vidéo avec sa traduction française. Au delà de ton style et tes couleurs que j'aime, tout ce que tu expliques est parfaitement clair. Merci.

I'd love to paint that part of the Californian coast one day and hopeing to see Colombo come walking along 🎨😁

Great demo! Specially liked the book titles, ha ha!

Great demo on the panel. Lovely painting. Fabulous teacher.

As usual my Tuesday afternoon treat! There was some very interesting Geology in the cliff you were painting with the ginger coloured overburden on top of much lighter rock formations below. It was fascinating to see how you dealt with this as we watched the process of painting unfold. The you did not go directly to some form of sienna to depict that top layer but to a warmish purple which became more rosy as it approached the focal point. These pinking tones started to vibrate against the various shades of green near by. When I looked at the finished painting I could see the final colours were closer to nature but there was a warmth imparted by what was underneath - this made it subtle as well as effective. Looking at the erosion in the foreground, your painting may be a useful record if the cliff is undermined in rain or storms. I now know what pva stands for!! When I have glued canvas on to a panel I have wrapped and glued the canvas underneath but this would not help when travelling. Perhaps drawing a 10x8 outline in pencil on the limp canvases before travel and painting might help alignment when it comes to attaching to a panel. I shall have to get a brayer - it would be useful for all sorts of things when you are troubled with air bubbles! I used to babysit for an art historian and his wife when i was a student - he was an expert on Dutch 17thC painting. He described a woodcut for a child's ABC book for alphabet learning. C was for a comb for delousing with the Latin tag Purgat et Ornat. This translated - 'It purges or removes and beautifies.' This sums up so many of your films - you show us what to remove and and how to achieve some sort of beauty. As a Canadian, I think you can have a coat of arms - this would make a very good motto to go with it!! As usually many thanks.

Beautiful painting. And thank you so much for the demo on how to glue canvas on a panel. I'm getting ready to go to Paris in September, first time, planning on making a watercolor journal. Traveling light. I hope to take a lot of photos. Busy learning some French online. But I know I'm learning so much from your videos.

Fun is not the paintings part, but biggest fun is to see Mr. and Mrs Ian Roberts together enjoying the plein air painting and his wife supporting him in all aspects of life. Hats off to madam and a salute. May god bless you both with all the happiness of the world at your footsteps Aameen .

As I was watching your process, I was struck by the colors differences between your blocking and the subject (I actually liked your colors better than the actual ones but that’s me). When you showed the finished painting, you had got drastically closer to the actual colors that, as a longtime LA resident, I am so familiar with. I know you’re getting more and more comments, as your reputation keeps (deservedly) increasing, but I would appreciate it if you could say a few words about this, Ian. And, as always, thank you!

Hello, Sir. I watched a dozen of your videos this morning and just bought paints for the first time in my life. You're an inspirational man, I appreciate the generosity of your videos

Thanks for both demonstrations. Love your painting and needed the canvas on panel glueing demo.

Every Tuesday I’m waiting for your weekly demonstration,I enjoy and learn.Thank you so much.

Awww! Used to live there. Makes me want to be there! The color choices surprised me comparing to the actual but I see how well it causes middle ground and background to recede. And yet the color is still rich and beautiful.

I KNEW you would be outdoors this week. I would have bet my life savings on it (twelve dollars!) I could feel your enthusiasm for plein air in the previous video. I love this painting! Just what I needed. I'm in Spain right now, painting on the coast, and what I really needed was a reminder and a demo about simplifying my subject. Thank you!

Your enthusiasm for plein air painting is infectious! I can’t wait to experience it…..the good, the bad, and the ugly! (And, preferably, in the reverse order!) It is enjoyable to watch your painting process, to see your choice of colors and to watch you determine their values, and then to simplify masses to create an outstanding painting. I particularly struggle with color and value, many of which I do not adequately or accurately see. For example, the grays and greens in the foreground, and the warm pinks and lavenders in the cliffs. I am too focused on replicating the actual colors than taking liberties with an interpretative one. In the end, your color choices are instinctual and visceral…….they appear to more ‘accurately’ represent the images, as we imagine or recall in our minds, and the result is more appealing and satisfying! I see your use of a strong compositional structure,, similar to a ‘letter z’ or ‘s’ form, leading the eye directly to the portion of the cliff which is your focal point. You reinforce this with the value masses, once again in all areas: foreground, mid-ground, and background. Though, I continue to struggle with seeing the comparative values in actual colors………their relationship to one another…….I can discern the color saturation but not always the value difference or similarity. Another area I continue to have difficulty is determining the ‘story’ I wish to tell…..deciding on what details are important to include and which are distractions to be eliminated. This compositional finesse is what distinguishes the expert from the amateur! Another great instructional piece……….thank you! Looking forward to joining you on Saturday, the eleventh!

Thank you Ian, it is always a pleasure watching and learning from you.

Like Joani, I have had my plain air paintings turn out too dark and want to prevent that. Also, let’s hear a little more about the greens you use. Looking forward to Saturday!

The plein air painting turned out beautifully! It's always so helpful to have the voiceover of your reasoning behind each stroke. The demo on gluing a panel was terrific, too, thank you for that. My question for next week's live: Could you address ways to prevent making the lights too light and also the tendency to end up with an overall dark painting. P.S. Love learning more about Ann! :O)

Excellent and helpful as always!

Thanks Ian for these videos. I prefer to glue the canvas to the panel before I paint on it, and often I just put three coats of gesso on panels and paint straight on to them.

So helpful. Your thinking process, your composition, the way you build the layers of overlapping shapes. You are a gift to us. Thank you for sharing.

Fantástico Ian, me gusta ver como pintas y compones tus cuadros. Muchas gracias.

Really great video as always thank you so much

great mix of open air techniques, and demo of gluing, AND a Saturday promise - should be great!

Once again a great demo. Thank you Ian!

Thank you so very much Ian for the great outdoor demo and also for demonstrating how to glue a canvas to a hardboard. Your response on how to deal with the inevitable shrinkage of the canvas (cotton or linen) was also very helpful and will save me from ending up with the board showing at the edges. I would love for the live session to address the difficulty in accurately judging values when painting outdoors or even indoors. Again, thanks for your generosity in sharing your immense painting knowledge. Christine

One of the things I love about your work is your color interpretation, the cliff face being much more violet than the orange I am seeing, the use of greys in the midground. I need to stop trying to be such a realist in color rendition, as I am not a realist painter by any stretch. Thanks for your time.

Thank you so much Ian for these practical examples of the real world scene and how and why you render it as you do. The colour choices were so much nicer than what was there. Looks like as long as the tone is correct, you can use any colour you prefer. Purples and pinks are much nicer than browns. I struggle with composition, but these videos are helping me to grasp how to approach my own work. My friend and I have successfully glued watercolour paper to a board and that works as well. You have to varnish the painting after fixing it. It is a nice way to display watercolour without the glass covering.

I’ve been mostly photographing and dark room printing the past two years but you inspired me to take up more painting again. Thanks!

Love this! Watching this over again this morning.

Always waiting for your educational videos. Thank you for your generosity! 🙏🌟

Very well done, sir.

Excellent Tutorial

wow that was great. Thank you. My painting is improving and my understanding of why something is or isn't working is becoming easier.

Thank you for the demonstration of putting a canvas on a panel. Much easier than I thought it would be. Todays video was informative and made me start thinking about possibly trying plein air painting. Thank You for the time you take to do these videos and looking forward to Saturday's utube

Thank you. I love your painting and your process and it is so nice to hear the ocean in the background.

Great composition. I love to watch you paint so effortless. One day I might get there. I only just started painting after I retired, so about two and a half years. My current focus is upping my drawing skills. Rusty. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you for the glue demo, I'm just now watching this!

Ian, once again, you have provided valuable information and another very nice painting. Thank you! g

Beautiful painting and excellent demo. Very informative Thank you.

Oh, how I wish I lived closer to the coast! :🙂 Beautiful!

That is a great picture. You nailed the color as good as I’ve ever seen in your work. Thank you, as always for instructing on composition in depth as you do. It has been invaluable to my work

Another wonderful video Ian with a great painting and I loved the bonus part with gluing the canvass/linen on to the panel. Thanks Craig

Thank you for this good explanation.

Thank you for answering my question about gluing canvas onto panel-- very useful explanation, so now I'm ready to go! Love your very informative and practical videos. See you Saturday!

Elmer's Glue! Ha Ha Ha! I love it! Thank you so much!

I always look forward to your Tuesday morning videos! I see quite a bit of color difference between your working painting and your final finished you show at the end of the video. For example, in this demo the rock face is quite pink when you are painting it, yet your finished has more yellow and closer to the reference photo. A video starting where you leave off with us, and how you work it to a finished painting would be very informative to see you make the adjustments and details. Thanks!

Thanks for another wonderful video, and the canvas panel gluing was brilliant! I love little tricks like this, so helpful!

Great information, Ian. I am so happy that I found you. I have bought three of your books. I have even gifted them. That’s how much I appreciate your insights.

Hi Ian ! Thank you ever so much for you demo ! Always love to learn new things ! I throughly enjoyed watching you paint ! The colors of the underpainting were really nice and then you finished the painting with such a wonderful sunny glow in the cliffs ! I also love the blue of the water ! Always a joy to watch and I truly appreciate this week after week ! Wish you a great week ! Warmest regards ... Lorraine 🤗🎨😀

As usual this is a great informative video and a great reminder of how to simplify a painting. Looking forward to the live session on Saturday.

Very nice work

Great information about mounting canvas to panel! See you Saturday!

"...you can use rabbit skin glue, but it smells like a wet dog." That gave me a laugh out loud moment Ian, and so thanks for that. The 'how to glue segment' was much appreciated, I will give that a try. Beautiful painting too; you're lucky to have such great sunny weather, I'm envious!

Thank you for the gluing demo as well as painting… I was given a pad of canvas and wasn’t quite sure as to how to glue it down…🙏🎨🙏

Thank you

Beautiful painting!! Such a great video. Feeling so grateful right now and inspired. Plus, love reading other artists comments and input of their own appreciation, tips, and experience.

I find it easier to turn the glued canvas painting side down and lay the panel glue side down on top so I can make sure it’s resting inside the marks, then flip it to set the weights on it to dry. Maybe you’ve tried that?

Got Dec 11th on my calendar! Loved the demo and also learning how to glue a canvas to a panel. Thanks so much!

Elmer's Glue Alll is archival, so no gesso on the panel! Wow, that saves a lot of time and trouble. Beautiful painting, I sure would not get that from your thumbnail. I would have made a greater distinction for each area leading back to the cliff & probably screwed it up. I am not as subtle as you in applying paint. Great to watch you painting outside & what a glorious day!

You make this look so easy! I was enchanted by how the painting came together. Seeing the thumbnails and your discussion of how the values contributed to the composition was very helpful. Your mastery of the medium and technique is awe inspiring! Thanks for sharing how you laminate canvas to panels, too-I’ve done paper but not canvas so this was very useful. Thanks, Ian!! Happy Holidays from Oregon! - Tara Kate

masterful, Ian! Thanks so much!

Thanks Ian. Gluing demo is very help. My question for this weeks live is how to create atmospheric perspective in painting? For example In today’s lesson - the distant green mountains are greyed out and do appear to be at distant. I struggle with this.

Hi Ian!!! Im from your old stomping grounds in Georgian Bay, Ontario. Your plein air video was wonderful...I would have enjoyed seeing your wife's image too!! In your demo of gluing canvas to panel, I use acrylic gel medium (the cheap stuff of course). It works extremely well and has the added benefit of creating a stable barrier between the painting and the panel. I also use Terraskin as my painting surface. Easier to cut, stable and a lovely surface to paint on.

A lovely painting but I was hoping you would have done more of the ocean!!

Ian...I enjoyed this short video of the coastline...but I notice when you paint you just place the brush on the canvas in small shapes ..not moving the brush consistently...yet you make it look so easy to "fill in" ...I have to try this...

I would like to echo the request by P Taylor for a video on developing the finished painting in the studio after your plein air session. Thanks!

Fantastic! Your tutorials are amazing 🤩. Just one thing about gluing the canvas: the smell of wet dog may appeal on a subliminal level to a large subset of prospective buyers!!😜

The demo was lovely andthe painting is great as usual. And the canvas/panel was helpful to see. What are you using for canvas and how do you prepare it for painting?

Really helpful 👌 see u Saturday

Thank you so much! Fantastic video. Sometime I'd love to hear your thoughts on focal area/center of interest. What do you do when all lines in the composition lead to nothing exciting? Can you will a focal area into existence by adding something not there in the photo? Is a center of interest always vital in a painting?

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Thanks. I enjoyed your process today. Just wondering, Ian, why not stretch the canvas before painting? Perhaps I missed your explanation. Cheers.

I think I recognise a drawing (middle left side) from streets with a canal from Bruges in Belgium... isn't it?

Thanks Ian for another amazing demo!!! I just finished a still life but I faced difficulties painting a white ceramic vase, I couldnt make it shine as much as the real thing :(

Thank you for doing this. Are you using any medium while painting?

Been painting for a long time and I'm still afraid to scrape my canvas with a tool. I think I've traumatized myself going too hard and ruining work in the past. It's just one of those techniques I think I never made space for in my tool belt. I love texture though, maybe I'll give it another try.

Hello Ian.. Great video and great painting again.. Would you be taking questions from last session which couldn't be addressed? Or do you want us to repost them here for convenience?

Thank you for this video! Enjoyed the painting and great to see the mounting of the canvas. Do you often just buy rolls of canvas and mount them yourself?

Hello Ian , for the live show. My question is : you have mentioned alzrizin crimson plus pthalo green for black/ dark areas. But are there any other mixtures that you use/ favour personally ? Thank you.

Ian, thank you so much for your weekly videos. I have only begun painting this year and the ideas of value and shape have helped me to improve so much -- I pretty much had monotone paintings at first. As a beginner I have a basic question -- how do you prop up a canvas panel so it does not move? I have an easel and so far have used hardboard on which I tape sections of canvas in the center. Panels are obviously too heavy to tape up. Also, is there another way to sign a painting, without paint? I have a shaky hand when it comes to painting a clean signature. Excited about Saturday!

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Ian , Can you use that glue to mount a watercolor painting on a board? Larry 06 Mar 2023

Hi Ian, thanks for doing another live session this Saturday; the previous one was terrific! I have a question for Saturday please. During the last live session (at around 52 mins), you showed us a picture, that was initially painted in monotones and then with yellow ochre added - and a single green focal point. I tried this on a sketch of my own and was very pleased with the outcome. Could you please expand on this as a strategy for landscape painting please?

Great help, even though I am an acrylic painter. What glue do you use to attach a canvas sheet to a panel? Thanks so much.

I have a question for the live stream if you have time. I’m fairly new to painting and I’ve been painting with acrylics. I’ve been thinking I should switch to oils - seems more ‘painterly’ somehow. What are your thoughts about the pros and cons. Thanks.

A question for the live show - what medium do you use when you do your block ins?

Another very informative vid. Thanks Ian. Love the added tip on how to glue a canvas to a panel. Where do you get your panels and canvas? Is your wife an oil or acrylic painter?

At around 7:08 you say "And there is the finished painting" But all the colors changed from what was visible 10 seconds earlier.

What kind of canvas on a roll do you use for making your paintings that you attach to the panel?

Question for your upcoming live session. I live in England and our landscape contains more greens than you could possibly imagine. Depending on the species of tree, shrub etc, it's not unusual for the foreground greens to be cooler than the background greens or at least the mid-ground greens. How do you get around this and create convincing perspective? Than you!

Do you prep the canvas sheets with gesso?

Why is it important to use untempered masonite?

9AM. What time zone?