Great photo painting and very beautiful match! Beautiful and perfect💯💯💯💯

Thanks for this lesson Stan, more than a couple of light bulb moments (lighting pun) the techniques you’ve shared are invaluable

Really appreciate and enjoy your no nonsense, down to basics, do your practice approach! Thanks again Stan

You're the man! Thanks for all your lessons.

Really enjoy these videos, thank you Mr Miller

Interesting tip on not painting from a photo on the iPad. I can see what a difference it makes in portraiture. The portraits you paint are wonderful. Will take your advice. Thx!

Mr. Miller you are my muse. An artistic genius.

That painting is absolutely incredible!! So accurate and the colors you chose were perfect. The edit of background and border is also perfect. Amazing.

Amazing result :) (y) ... Lots of Love & Respect to you .

Thanks for explaining about the iPad. I’ve been using mine and wondered why I was finding it so difficult. I’ll be printing out my images from now on!

Cant tell u how happy I am to have your lessons again. Thank you so so much 🙏

Lesson is DONT QUESTIONTHE MASTER!

Putting a clear piece of glass or plastic over a photograph to check the accuracy of color mixes of paint is something I was aware of, but to paint on top of the glass to edit a photo and experiment with different picture ideas is something I never thought of. Gotta remember that one. That's going into my "Simple, yet powerful" mental note folder. Thanks. One side note, people should take his wise advice and paint from a print instead of a computer screen because of the important fact of screen brightness he pointed out. But if someone is really scrapped and needs to give in and paint from a screen, keeping in mind what he said and lowering the screen brightness just right could help a lot. Would be tricky to get exactly right though, and working from a print like he said is the real foolproof way to go.

Thank you for posting!!!

Fantastic teaching! Found all your lessons extremely helpful!

Very nice, thank you! :)

Amazing lessons, thank you so much sir!

have always painted no problem with my phone or pc with the reference... a good painter's job is to be a visial problem solver, and because my phone's light at times it doesnt mean what i'm working on will be a copy of that... its all relative, and depends on one's commodities, and yours wont be the same as someone else's and i'd be shocked to need to clarify the art you make comes from you, its your expression, even though looking up to others give you many steps to get around it you'll really have to take your own turns left and right all the time by you and your creativity alone.

Your painting is breathtaking 😍

I photograph my art and put it on PHOTOSHOP to see what's wrong and do alternative layouts with the rest of the image. Great took if you know how to use it as you can paint and remove and try textures and photos of images...

excellent! YES, that ipad light coming from behind is always a buggar, and my clients seeing their cover designs on the computer are disappointed when it comes printed, which is lifeless compared to that computer image.

Do you use black straight from the tube or do you mix colors to create your own black?

So I'm painting Tulips with morning sunlight coming through the flowers, I'm working from a photo that I took with my phone and I'm working from the image on my desktop Mac. I hear you about the illuminated background but when I took the image to snappy snaps it came out looking too dark, the colours weren't as vivid. That said my room is very brightly lit with a daylight bulb.

This is all so true. I find that photos taken by iphone/ipad will always have a coolish cast to them as well as subject to distortions produced by failing to hold the camera still or perpendicular to the subject. I have stopped trying to take photos and make a videos instead so I can just grabbed the image I want instead of looking for the perfect pose....

Do you ever use wet on wet technique to paint a face or some areas of it like the first layer if you were layering the paint? or do you just use the brush like a color pencil and use wet on dry mostly

Do you varnish your paintings after they are done ?and do you pre strech the paper or does you paper buckle while painting to beging with?

Hi Stan, just wanted to say thank you for putting together those lessons 🙏. I have started painting for first time this year and your advice has been invaluable!!! Just wondering, is there a forum where one can post their work and get some feedback? I agree your lessons give everything you need to start and I am satisfied with what the result turned out of my first attempt (I am yet to buy proper paint, have been using my daughter's acrylic.). The only think that I think I am missing is a constructive feedback from a teacher :). Just checking...

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Waiting for new lessons 💞

Will there be a Lesson 30? I have learned so much from Lessons 1 - 29 and would love for you to continue!

more videos please.

Hi Stan..do you normally work from photos of people you know personally or ask random people if you can photograph them?

Very nice

What if the display of the device is 4k AMOLED?will it be okay to paint from the device then?

Hi Stan.... I was able to draw correct proportion for the first time in my life today...... It was a Ellen Pompeo smiling face...... I did the sketch sadly on the back of a cardboard box(cereal box)..। I wanted a non white background... So sad i cannot save the image where i achieved likeness for the first time in my life.... I wish i could show you..... Now i feel so energised and inspired..... I am now one step closer to drawing my dad..... I ddnt use grid or scale.... I used the length on my pencil to measure the proportions..... I am so proud of myself

What brand of watercolor do you use ?

Thank you sir(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

Can you please make a video on how to paint facial hair ? especially grey hairs