Thanks!

Thanks Sherrie!

Thanks Suz! I like to paint figures when they're the main subject. 😊🙏💛✌

@@chamberlainpaintings I was thinking of a trucks one that had a guy walking away and maybe a store front city scape one that are really beautiful.

Thanks for your thoughts Jim. My problem with figures is the same problem I have with placing birds, cows, or other details in the painting. They add clutter and detract from the overall composition. I may experiment with adding groups of figures that have interesting shapes.

Thanks Kay!

@@chamberlainpaintings you're welcome! 😎

Thanks for your thoughts Martin! Yes, I wish my whole beard was white lol. I have to be patient 😂

I'm so glad!

Thanks for your thoughts Kristen!

@@ronschlorff7089 I feel painting figures in landscapes can be done very nicely. Sargent was great at it. Monet was great at giving the “impression” of figures in the distance. I don’t feel Michael’s oil version less superior than the watercolor version. But I do understand why it had to be removed. Watercolor can really give figures in the distance or foreground a more floaty feeling, and sometimes they work better. I guess that was what I meant. Figure paintings on their own are definitely the primary focus and the landscape is merely the background player. Artists like Gainsborough often used the landscape and figure and melded them into being both stars.

Ha, yes! Keeping energy in the brush. I'm really enjoying watercolors. I think it's helping to improve my oil painting!

Thanks Andrew! I'm thinking that figures in oil could work if the figures were treated as an interesting, abstract shape. I'll have to give it a go!

@@chamberlainpaintings I agree with you Michael - I like the way Fred Cuming used figures in his landscape paintings. Suggestive marks and abstract shapes are enough

@@AndrewBarrowmanArt I'll have to look up his work!

Thanks for your thoughts Ray!

Thanks Andrew!

Thanks Mike!

Thanks Olda!

@@chamberlainpaintings Cheers!

Thanks Lisa!

I'm so glad!

Thanks for your thoughts Lisa!

Thanks for your thoughts Paul! I think figures should be viewed just like any other shape in the composition. I like the idea of including groups of people that create interesting shapes.

Thanks Dennis!

Thanks Daphné!

Thanks Joyce!

Thanks Cedric! Yes, we must paint again soon.

Thanks Sharron!

Thanks for your thoughts Charles!

Thanks Jane!

I know what you mean. I think they could work in oils if the shapes were interesting. Painting individuals is just adding distracting detail but groups of people that are treated as one shape could work.

Thanks Sophie! Yes, it is!

Paint anything that inspires you! The important thing is to start and keep going.

I haven't tried Rosemary watercolor brushes. I use Raphael Petit-gris brushes for watercolor. They're expensive but very nice!

Light fast refers to the pigment’s ability to not fade in sunlight. Colors are considered light fast when they maintain their intensity and vibrancy over a long period of time time (usually 100 years or more). Paint quality can affect light fastness but also the chemical makeup of the pigment itself can affect it as well. For instance there’s some Van Gogh paintings that don’t look the same as they did when he painted them over hundred years ago because of the paints that he used.

Andrew explained it well!

Thanks for you thoughts Debbie!

Give yourself a simple assignment. It can be anything. An assignment to paint trees, or fruit, or something red, etc. Try not to have expectations just have fun.

Thanks for you thoughts Douglas. I think we just have different taste.

The snow is mostly at higher elevations. However, we did get a dusting at the location in the video but it melted very quickly.

I've done them in the studio. I've been thinking of doing a plein air nocturne and filming it. Stay tuned.