B.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l! Love the way you use a seemingly very boring picture to layout the basic structure but make it such a vibrant and colorful painting. The color harmony is mesmerizing. 😄

Wow! When I saw the reference photo I was wondering how you could make a good looking paintings with not much to work with. The end results was AWESOME!!!

Thank you for talking about the emotional feelings regarding if your work will be liked and accepted! It is the challenge! I on purpose post my paintings on my Facebook- to overcome this! And to my surprise a painting I didn’t like was my first one I sold! Thanks again ! Very informative teachings!

Such beautiful work and great video. This is the first one I’ve watched of yours. I wasn’t sure where you were going to go with the painting and I like your use of color. Thank you for doing this!

Love your way to simplify a very ordinary photo into a very painterly loose painting, also your way of using colours

Dear Malcolm. Stunning. My breath stopped when I saw the finished work. God bless you.

Hi there like everyone else I’m so impressed with how you take what’s seems like a lifeless, colourless reference and make it into something beautiful. From my learning so far, I’ve got hung up on centres of interest, but I’m going to discard that idea totally. Choosing/deciding a reference should be so much easier now. I think the main thing to look for is the light dark contrast. That’s what I’m taking away from yourself. Now, I can’t wait to try out a Boring bush and drab hillside. Wish me luck😊

Beautiful to see how much Color value control exists. Thank YOU MUCH

I love it that you mentioned Thoreau.

Great explanation and example Malcolm. When i first started painting my goal was to try and get it as close to a photo as possible(realism) but that is just boring and i have totally moved away from that. The work by Tibor Nagy just blows me away. You want the viewer to work things out what they are seeing by using cool and warm colours , small and big shapes, light and dark values etc to make it much more interesting.

Thank you sharing the key! It all makes so much sense now. Rewatching.

Thankyou for these wonderful videos. I am trying to break away from realistic paintings and now with your amazing lessons I am confident I can paint in a looser style. 😊 Liz

What a vibrant lively painting! You make it look simple but there's a lot - a great lot - of experience in there. I know because I sweat to emulate.

Wonderful! I can watch you for hours simplifying "mundane" photos and turning them into fantastic paintings. I just wish it will really click with me one day! Everytime I start a new painting I try to follow your instructions, just to get bogged down into details soon after again!

Such a beautiful painting from such a simple reference photo! You’re very talented 😊

A lovely painting. An inspiring tutorial. Your use of color is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you Malcolm.This is a much needed subject- how to simplify. Yet I love some details in some area at least.

Wonderful! I've always been daunted by my own slavish devotion to realism, while in the end I was never satisfied by the work I produced and I finally quit painting completely. But NOW I find all these amazing artists who paint so freely, and watching you today, I'm going to pick up my brushes and begin again. Thank you!

Your paining is more beautiful than the photo! I love your work. Cheers from US 🙂

Wonderful demonstration of loose and colorful painting. thank you, beautiful.

Brilliant colors! Love the expression and personal vision! Inspiring!

gosh it's lovely, the picture turned out dull next to the painting, i learned so much, thank you

Thank you for making this video, definitely will help me to paint more loosely. I appreciate your style and pace.

Stunning painting, small, modest, yet incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing Malcolm. The true is that you opened my eyes wider today. I am deeply grateful for that

Thank you for taking us through the steps.

Lovely video. I shall keep practising!! Thank you Malcolm.

Very, very nice this simplest possible, delightfully fresh, highly educational sketch. And so fast ! Love it.

Thanks for your demonstration. Simplicity but powerful expressive painting.

This 10:15 was very helpful. Adding the purples and blues when I would have used greens is liberating for my paintings.

Quel talent et connaissances des couleurs , mdrci de partager vos connaissances et votre professionnalisme .

Excellent lesson!! Especially for me! Thank you!

Love the texture created by thick paint. I need to be more generous with my paint!

Simplified truly a fine piece Flint

Absolutely wonderful!!!

Wonderful. Thank you 😊

I enjoyed this demonstration.

Simple. Amazing what you did.

Thank you. An amazing demo!

Loved how you opened with Henry Thoreau quote, it's so true, I've been trying to weed out all the unneeded junk in my life, both literally and metaphorically, I just want a simple life with a more minimalist approach. And as far simplying a landscape, this is something I continue to struggle with. I either do too much detail, or end up with something that resembles a finger-painting. Not always, but enough times to be unsure of myself everytime I go to paint. You honestly couldn't cover this concept enough as far as I'm concerned. I guess I have a hard time keeping it simple but also giving it some depth and form that brings it to life. The last painting I did, I was about to throw in the towel, but then I started adding subtle variances of color, without disrupting the values in the composition, and that seemed to help a great deal. Thank you for covering this deeply complex subject, please feel free to do as many more as you like!

Its beautiful.. thanks

Very enjoyable 🙂

I just discovered your channel. This video is extremely informative, telling us what we need to know without being too long and drawn out. I needed this exact lesson right now. Thank you.

Lovely and Inspiring.

Malcolm - I would have never guessed the simple photo could be transformed into such a lovely painting. I would appreciate your sharing your use of mediums. Did you use one in the early stages, or did you simply thin out your paint with a Gamsol-type product? Thank you!!

Amazing work

I like these paintings and videos and think you have good taste. Don’t agree that this style is inherently any more charming than other styles though

Wonderful. Thank you!

Wow! I would love to know how to apply this to Watercolor.

Love it! Merci.

I need to simplify my paintings...thank you sir..you help me. John from India 🇮🇳

Amazing work🙏

that is beautiful

Congrats MD, your painting = way better then the original , rather uninteresting-looking photo. Thát seems to me the real thing about good, genuine painting: think painting, not being 'carried away' by an , at first sight, nice looking or (in this case) rather not so nice looking photo ... See the purely painterly possibilities in an image, find a 'motif' that really works ... things like this Thank you MD

I lllllove your videos and demos, the shapes simplifying gives me a huge step forward in my paintings, so, thanks a million, sir - and please keep doing what you do. Best wishes from Ukraine!

Malcolm that is very nice! I can see the background as sky and the white area as horizon.

Thank you, between yellow lemon and cadmium yellow deep, which is best used for depiction of light in impressionism?

This is a gorgeous painting and such a helpful demo thank you. I’m neurodivergent and struggle with being too literal, but I so much want to paint like this. I can easily understand the technical aspect but do your eyes and brain “see” the finished painting before your start actually painting? Maybe imagine is the right word? How did you decide to just do the two bushes and not four? How did you decide not to include the posts? I don’t see the blue reflective light in the original photo that was included in the finished painting, is that something you added from imagination or am I missing it in the photo? I wish I could understand, any insight would be helpful please

this is amazing

Thank you very much.

Beautiful. I tried using these types of strokes with thick paint. I looks great but there is so much glare it's hard to as I build up to the finish, is it my lighting? I've tried many different lighting angles and bulb types.

Wow! Beautiful! From looking at the photo, I thought it would be a boring painting but I love it!

superlative beauty.

4:45 how do you get the thick color in the foreground? Is this a different color/tube, or just the way you put it on with the brush?

Nice!

Love it. Thk u

How the heck you do that I don't know. I would be going about it completely differently and getting bogged down in trying to make it realistic. And yet, your end result does look realistic!

I love the colors you use here but how did you know to use the reds and blues when they are not in the reference? I love it but I don't understand how you got there.

Hi Malcolm - first time watching you work - beautiful painting that emerged! Thank you. Forgive me for asking but what is the 'notan' approach that you refer to in a response to a comment from Matthew Ressler 5 comments further down the page?

Tirar a legenda que tampa a pintura

hello Malcolm. I'm curious - is (a) the painting purely for demonstration ? (b) did you intend to sell it? (c) if yes to (b) how popular are your loose , abstract(ish) pieces of art? I need to consume at least a 1/2 bottle of Jack Daniels No7 AND be in a hurry to get to an important appointment , to get anywhere loose with a paint brush. I always end up painting too tight and end up somewhat disappointed in my work. thanks for your tutorials

Thank you for simplefing easier to under stand, your sub titles are blocking when you are painting

Great work. What's real painting time?

“Thick juicy paint” 😛

thakyou for sharing the video but you must make the text small size and not cover the screen!