You are truly a master teacher, besides being a master painter. I like the concept you suggested, of doing the same painting a few times. I never thought of that; I either liked my work, or didn't.

Mixing like a ninja!

You paint like I do. Makes me happy and confident!😊

Very outstanding work and teaching, Florent. The portrait is just beautiful!

Beginner artist want to improve their skills, find the video that shows them how to step to the next level...then ask why. Lol! I know we all ask questions, but I guess it would take seeing the final work; in person to truly understand. This technique is taught in art school, for a trained artist to share this skill is like looking behind the curtain at a magic show. Generous schooled KZfaqrs are my professors, I am self taught otherwise. It's finding out about grisaille that has taken my artwork to the next level. Thank you for sharing! Love, Peace, and chicken grease to all of you! No chicken grease to the vegans.

very glad I found your videos. I'm just getting into oil painting and had started a piece in grayscale and now I want to color it. I remembered my teacher mentioning this technique, so I tried to find out how to go about it. Thanks and I'll be watching your other videos!

Your videos are so helpful. Attempting this technique for the first time with a moody portrait of my grand daughter so really grateful for your clear demonstrations. Thank you

Excellent explanations and demonstration. Thank you so much.

Thanks so helpful ! from a NYC painter.

Fantastic Demo- this approach seems really logical.

you are such a great teacher! a natural gift! thank you for this lesson!

Very clear explanation and process of painting, thank you!

Great video! Your explanations and demonstrations are wonderfully thorough. I'd love to see a glazing video soon. Thanks for sharing. Please keep it coming!

thank you for ur videos, they are so helpful and informative like a class for oil painting beginner like me..

Thank you for this. Such a great way to see values. Wishing you lots of luck in your new endeavors. I appreciate all you shared.

Thanks for the demos Florent, love your work!!!!!!!

I love this. Thank you Florent Farges - arts

thank you for your video. Many videos are the artist painting but no explanation of what they are doing or why they are doing it.

That color mixing speed though

awesome videos florent. really like your teaching style, thanks for sharing.

You are awesome!!! i have dificult to do this in time of create the rigth value of colors. The black and white is easy for me but put color is my dificult (sorry if i write something with no correct way, i am brazilian)

Thank you for making this video. It was interesting and informative.

I'm having a hard time understanding why there is a grissaille if you're just going to paint over it with opaques. It's about an undersketch/iterative process?

Very great demonstration, thabks and regards from India

Hi! Great video, thank you very much for sharing.

very nice colour.parfect portait.

Beautiful!! Thank you!!!

Thanks 🙏

Very good explanation, thank you Florent. But I wish the camera was a bit closer so we could see the brushstrokes more clearly

Awesome! Thanks!

Thank you so very much for this clear and helpful pair of videos about this technique. One question: One of my oil painting teachers told me to do the first layer just using one colour (I used a blend of burnt sienna and cobalt blue), and thinning the paint to different degrees to obtain the different values, from dark to light, with no white paint at all in this stage. Only in the 2nd layer he allowed me to use opaque tones with white for the lighter shades. I see that your grisaille was instead an opaque layer using varying amounts of white to obtain the mid tones and lighter tones. Can you tell me what are the pros and cons of these different methods? I did not understand my teacher's reasons for doing the grisaille without white.

Magnificent video! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with others :) One question: You say something like "Don't be afraid to paint an image several times, over and over as they get better and better. If you do anything wrong, just paint over it again" I say this to myself when I'm about to paint, as I'm so afraid of failure: Just begin and if you fail, just continue. It will look good in the end! The question is, how does the fat over lean principal work then?

white, yellow, blue, red, and dark brown

He is not saying this but I think it's to help with your values

very nice!

Isn’t the point in grisailles to glaze over the top with transparent colors?

Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate that you provide explanations as your are painting and it makes complete sense. I plan to view some of your other videos as well. You have inspired me to attempt a painting of a portrait. I am self-taught therefore learning in this manner works for me. Please keep adding more videos. I also like to paint seascapes and am wondering if this method can also be applied to seascapes.

thank you for the video. empresieve work

How do you know how much pigment to medium, (oil)? How do you preven "mud" in color mixing? These are the things I would like to know. Great work, by the way.

Whats the advantage of mixing a dark fleshtone instead of just glazing (alizarine permanent + gold ochre + ultramarine) over your dark grisaille? You could still mix your highlights into the glaze.

What do you think of the Flemish technique

Hi Florent! Thanks for sharing this video, most informative. On the fat over lean rule, apart from having to make less corrections each time, there is also a limit to the number of layers we can apply, correct? This is according to the successive layers we put in which we have to abide by more oil with less solvent ratio as we go. If we just use pure oil on our latest layer as an example, say, refined linseed oil with paint, does that mean we shouldn't apply another layer anymore since this will risk introducing paint cracks later on? I am new to oil and I didn't know what I was doing. I had a paint layer with refined linseed oil with no solvent. The next layer I apply the same medium ratio with paint, and found that my new layer was repelled easily by the underneath surface, ie the new layer would not catch onto the surface easily. I have introduced myself to a new problem other than the potentially cracking one in the future.Lastly is there a way to make my layer stay wet for a minimum of a week or more so that I can come back to blend? Thank-you Florent!

Thank you so much 🙏🏻💗.

A fascinating technique which you explain and demonstrate extremely well. Just two points which I may have missed: is the grisaille completely dry before you overpaint? do you use any medium when you paint over the grisaille? Ive tried the grisaille method myself but having watched your video I now feel more confident about applying it. Many thanks,

.......and if not just paint over it one more time....ha ha ha....But not on a pad of paper canvas for oils! Love the end stages...so this is pretty much wet on wet...?

Thanks your videos are really informative, I'm going to start oil painting soon. I have a question if you use a undepainting does the underpainting have to be in full detail?

On the video you explain what grisaille is you used semi or full transparent colors and olso a medium. Why didn't you do the same on this one ?🤔

valuable video ! I really needed this thank you Florent Farges for sharing. I want to ask about your brushes, do you prefer the soft bristles? Also, do you prefer specific brand?

Profesor are you recomended leave dry the layers?

wow

Je peux vous demander quels pinceaux vous utilisez pour votre tableau? Merci bien

The first few minutes looks like hes making cosmetic foundation cremes for different madames. lol

Nice video's was wundering in the first layer background it might disapare the guidelines in the face or must i be wrong ? Would like to have some advice as i used grafiet for the outlining and wanted to add a first layer background in the face with thin layer thined with some liquin orginal ? Or should i use thinner to the paint to get the first background layer Thank for advice

I love your video THANK YOU for explaining!!! What medium are you using here to add to your paint I love the smoothness!!!

Thank you for this very good video. A question: can I just apply another layer of oil paint, with no oil medium, on top of a dried layer? Thank you a lot.

Can you utilize this same technique with acrylic?

"Paint me like one of your French girls"

Please what medium do you use at this phase

How did you achieve the brown tint background on the canvas?

thank you so much Florent. This series comes at a perfect time for me, I have been trying to learn and understand as much as I can about the grisaille technique and have a painting drying right now that is my first attempt at a grisaille. You did such a great job at explain this process and I learned a lot from it. I do have a question for you if I may. The painting that I am waiting on to try has been sitting over 2 weeks now and it is still wet to the touch, or at least the paint still comes off on my finger when I touch it. I used titanium white and ivory black. Is the slow drying a issue with the color selection? In the future would using burnt umber rather than ivory black still give me the same results if i were to use thin glazes to build up the color or should I stick with ivory black and titanium white?

what number of brushes are you using???

I liked your painting techniques but would have preferred a normal speed video.speed painting spoils the joy of watching the the artist and learning. Soft music would also be welcomed. Many thanks E

Honestly this is such a dull way to paint skin tones! barely any dynamic, why would you even need a grisaille?