It's all about the values

It's not alive, it's just tricking your brain into thinking it's seeing something that the brain is pre-programmed to identify (a face hit by light).

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JessLe! Your fascination about watching artists and how artwork becomes "alive", is a very good symptom of your own artistic talent. But be wary of videos where artists demonstrate paint and painting ablitites, because what looks good for the camera might not look good in real life. And believe me, when you are painting and start to see, and feel, it coming together, that's far better. Oh! I better not forget some art trivia. After the Dark Ages has passed, when Crusaders were leaving Europe to invade the Vatican, the artwork of the Sistine Chapel created a new style. That was a dark background with just a face and some upper body showing. Vatican priests burned oil lamps so the soot covered murals that were considered pornographic by people who read the Holy Bible in English and their native language. They were, with lots of suggested sex, a real tourist attraction at the start. It was in the late fifties that archaeologists cleaned the Sistine Chapel to reveal the bold, primary colors that Michaelangelo used. Painting any painting with a dark background isn't great artwork. This is more about insurance value for collectors.

Mastery of values will do that. Your brain will fill in the blanks with what it expects to see

I've been talking with him to let me film him doing another portrait. fingers crossed that we do it.

14 minutes... amazing!

It's speeded up. Seriously though it is superb work. Extraordinary young man with brush and colour that imbues life into portraiture. The school of Rembrandt is alive and well wherever this man is living.

Thumbs down for painting from the actual model.

cringe

ma šta bolan

(4) Start your own channel

that's what she said.... she being my last date😉

+edoe19 thanks for the heads up. I wish I could have gone, but I wasn't in New York when the show was up. Though since you pointed it out I've gotten to see it online.

Devid Van to judge that, you would have to see it up close, wouldn't you?😉

Moral of the story: 1 in 5 people is honest with themselves.

sassyjay100 This is not how Rembrandt painted. Closest thing you could find here on KZfaq is a demonstration by Tom Keating. Rembrandt used layers of glazes and scumbles, making the picture warm and cool and warm it again. He did Layers of white paint sometimes texturized which he glazed over later to get the light effect. This guy is just painting wet in wet.

Thank you for the reply, Tom Keatings is a gold mine of information on the old masters so thank you for pointing him out to me. The thing is what I meant by my question originally was more how Rembrandt drew or worked out proportions? Like did he use sight-size for his portraits or comparative measure or some such system to draw accurately?

Lol people who actually know how to draw don´t do that sight size shit dude

Germán Maestri Rembrandt did not use any measuring system. Altough many other masters did.

ahhh okay, that is interesting to hear, thank you Toby. @Germán Maestri good day to you sir *tips hat and scurries away* XD

It is not talent. It is the result of hard work! Saying that it is talent ...some inborn “god”given ability, robs the artist of credit for all the years of effort it took to become so accomplish.

its a small step from copying a photo to painting in situ

But is a small step to paint like Rembrandt in situ when nobody had seen a Rembrandt, or like Bacon or Lucian Freud when nobody had thought to paint like that... To copy a work of art is to also copy the artist´s unique inspiration..

John Horowitz it’s a speed painting so it’s all wet unless he messed with his medium

DO IT YOURSELF AND FIND OUT

I think he dry brushed the block in.