Oh my goodness! I want to paint like the Impressionists, and you just taught me the first things about how to do that. Thank you SO VERY MUCH! This video is priceless!

I would not be the painter I am today without you Miss. Mize :)

I love your quick tips Dianne! I’ve learned so much in the year I’ve been watching. You’re a great teacher and so very inspiring. You keep me painting with enthusiasm. Thank you so much for these videos !

I'm gonna watch this vid over and over again until it sticks. White has been my demon for ages. ;*)

thanks Dianne, sixteen minutes of pure GOLD!

Nice to see YOU in a little color. Thanks for the tips.

Wow, simply gorgeous! I love colour, but I love it more when it plays off each other, and when it’s unexpected, a surprise. Thank you!

Well, well, well...the lightbulb finally turned on regarding impressionists, impressionistic! Thank you for broadening my understanding.

Thank you for a most fascinating tip, in fact a whole lesson on interpreting whites ! plenty to practice...

Such a great lesson !! I love it!! Thank you Dianne! You are so generous w/your time!

Amazing. With this little demo you have opened a whole world of possibilities for art interpretation and practice. Thanks

This was great. Thank you Dianne.

Thank you Diane this was a great tip for painting white in the impressionist style. I really appreciate that you've taken time to show how to interpret and paint white.

Dear Diane - this was just pure magic! Thank you.

You are always a light to me, showing me the JOY of painting. painting without the pressure and the stress that can make you go mad.. Often feel like I'm just banging my head against the wall. Im newer to art, I started painting last summer & I'm 27. I feel like I'm too old to do this now..to learn everything. I had no previous experience at all, until I started drawing portraits & fell in love. Now I'm trying landscapes and Oh My. I constantly hear "THERE'S NO RULES IN ART" "JUST PLAY AND HAVE FUN" then I go to the canvas and there's actually a billion rules I have to think of. So many rules that I don't even know what to do first, I just go blank. I think I am afraid to paint. lol. Do you have any advice on this? I want to grow as an artist, but it's often overwhelming & I end up just staring at the canvas crying lol. How can I grow my skills and figure out my creative process? sorry, I know that was a lot. lol

So helpful! I have been struggling with how to tackle the white bowl! You covered it all perfectly. Thank you!!!

Yeah, that was pretty awesome and so easy to understand. Thank You, Ms. Mize!

Thank You Dianne That one just blew my mind Tony...west hills, ca. usa

Thank you Dianne for very interesting explanation of two x two colours - fascinating. Caz.

You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you so much

Hi Dianne. Thank you for all of this wonderful information. I work in watercolour and will atempt to interpret this lesson in that medium

Stunning explanation. I wouldn´t have realized by myself. Thanks a lot!!!

As always very helpful. I appreciate your methodical presentation.

Amazing! Took my breath away - and I'm so glad to have the insight into such possibilities! I'd been sick this week and started watching your numerical list of quick tips grouped by Ruth Bennett, so there it wasn't convenient to add a comment. However in this case I wanted to thank you.

Phenomenal explanation and instructs on this! Merci Beacoup!

Well.. that is fascinating.... I’d read about Impressionism and complimentary colours...but you really need to see it done to understand it. Thanks,

The funny thing is, when you zoom in I would never perceive the bowl as white. But when you zoom out, my senses tell me it’s a white bowl. Thanks for sharing ❤️

Nice insight into how the impressionists work with complementary colours

I so appreciate you explaining how you transition from dark to light using neutralized color. Great demo! When you have a chance, could you please explain how you clean your brushes? I would love to see your method for doing this while you're painting and then after a painting session, as well. If you've already posted this tip, I apologize; I've not seen it and will search for it. Thanks!

Wow that was great 👍

Going to try it in watercolor

Brilliant!

Thank you so much for the excellent instruction. My only wish is that there were more close ups of the painting as you work and explain. When the camera is zoomed out to include all of you it is hard to see the result of the brush work. Thanks again.

WOW... sooo much to learn!!! t.u.

Great video showing value and light, perhaps I don't understand, your bowl is purple with sunlight on it, but the photo shows a white bowl with sunlight on it. Possibly because impressionist did not use white or black while painting. How would Rembrandt interpret this white bowl? Thank you your tutorials are excellent.

Excellant video thank you so much!!!

Beautiful! Ms.Mize, you're the Best! I want to thank you on bended knee for this. I'm an untrained/self-trained "colorist" painter. I just keep fiddling with random colors until I get a painting I like. And, everyone likes my work; I've sold paintings even though I'm basically a hobbyist. I have taken a couple of short (noncredit) painting classes at local community colleges, but you're the first instructor who's ever given me a useful and usable tip that I can imagine using in real time! My only small critique is that you should REMAKE this (or a similar example) with the camera zoomed in on your hand and the painting more of the time. It's hard to see how you blend the strokes (or not) and it's hard to see the vibrancy of the colors next to each other. I'm on a large desktop with a big screen. I've changed to HD setting. I'll try mirroring this video on my TV to see if it's any better. Your cameraman/husband/neighbor/videologist keeps zooming out for the most part unless you're mixing paint on your palette. This tip, with the part about using four complementary colors is the most exciting painting tip I've seen in years/days/forever/minutes/something. You are most definitely a colorist. I've seen a lot of your videos and I might have to throw some money at you to buy your classes. Wow. I've heard a lot of dark/shadow/cool and light/sunlight/warm color tips before, but your explanation goes into more detail and makes more sense. I just wish I could see every brushstroke. I love your tutorials and I love seeing you as you speak, but most of us need to see each stroke more than your pretty face. Hugs, Tina E: I just hope I can translate this idea using acrylic paints. I have a reaction to oils or one of the related products. Maybe if I add a retarder and/or a mattifier medium, I can learn to mimic something similar without using oils.

well done...thanks for sharing

Ah! I learn so much from you! You are such a good teacher! Thank you!

Thank you Dianne for a wonderful tutorial. Do you use Gamsol or walnut or another medium to thin the oil from the tube? Yours is so smooth and flows and mine is thick. Also, what do you rinse your brush in Gamsol or a Turpenoid? This tutorial reminds me of a NFS painting you created of squirrels playing in the snow. I love this and wonder if you could do a tutorial on it. The snow has some of the features you mention in this video. The snow in the foreground has a bright light white that makes it just pop off the page. The soft edges of the squirrels are gorgeous. They just melt away. And the snow in the background has playful, muted colors. Together.... it is magnificent. I think it is one of my favorites that you have painted - although I love all of them :) Could you do a tutorial that addresses the techniques you used in that painting? Thank you for all you do! I watch your tutorials every day! I just got two DVD's in the mail from your amazing classes. I can hardly wait to watch them.

Thanks so much for the tips, but to me the bowl still looks blue not white. Sorolla's whites are the best and most beautiful examples of how to paint white objects in the light.

What a great tip!

I am impressed by the way you manipulate colour. With me, oh i must have the wrong tube! Are you working with the same colours on your palette all the time or introduce other to change the effect. Could I possibly ask what colour do you have on your palette and if it varies what colours may you introduce.

Dianne, You are brilliant! I want to take your color theory class once I recover from the horrors of the political campaign. Your website indicates that it's available until December 2019. Are you still teaching it?

hi Dianne thank u so much i think impressionism is the most wonderful style among arts, i wish u could teach us how to paint an white egg with impressionism because I'm still confused, i tried my best but really didn't know how to include all the four complimentray colors in one egg!!!!!

Great exercise! I am working on a snow scene. Any demo on snow?

I love your tips but I can’t see them as you are painting! I would get so much more out of them if close up Shots would accompany your fantastic narration!!I LOVE your videos!!

I love my pearl white. I don't think I like the titanium white unless it's to make opaque a color that's not covering. Or for a base coat over my homemade canvases.

Hi Dianne, thank you for answering my questions! Just one more. Is you pochade box the large one or the medium sized one? Unfortunately it does appear to be exported here or that there are no distributors of it yet. I may have to import one with some 35% import duty. If you have wet oil paintings from an excursion out, how do you protect and transport the wet paintings?

I am very new in learning painting i am learning through internet help so my question may sound foolish but still I am confused are we learning how to paint white object in dark atmosphere or background ? Because in the image bowl is white in color and we painted some different color...

Nice one, Dianne! Just wondering about the selection of your two pairs - not the complements but the pairing of the lights and darks in conjunction with the other lights and dark? Thank you!

I like how you did the inside of the bowl, very helpful. The outside though looked all one color, a flat tone mostly the same value. I think it would help if maybe you exaggerated a little bit the different tones, colors, etc. I know I watched a pencil drawing you were making once and it was barely visible on the paper. I think maybe the video technology is not picking up the distinctions you can see right there with the naked eye. Like your tips, very useful. Thanks.

How you get that dark colour for the background?

Hello :) I wonder what is homevalue ? And how dark is the darkest compere to the homevalue, and what is halftones ? I understand that halftones belong in the light ereas ? How to make them ? Greatings :)

Thank you, a great reminder for me -very helpful

Are you using oil paint please?

Je croyais qu'il s'agissait d'un sujet sur le blanc. Il s'agit plutôt d'un sujet sur le volume.

Nope...not sure about this one, don't think it quite works.