Reasons NOT to Blend While Painting (and How to Break the Habit)

Reasons NOT to Blend While Painting (and How to Break the Habit) | DrawMixPaint

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Nic Thurman

Күн бұрын

Reacting to a video by ‪@DrawMixPaint‬ on why you should not mix your paint.

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@valeriopilotti9275 Жыл бұрын

Hi, can you make a video on your experience studying with Odd Nerdrum?

@NicThurman Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Will work on it soon, thank you

@MadArtGallery 4 ай бұрын

So wonderful when you find out that the artist you admire also appreciates advices from others that you have been following before. On the Same direction ❤

@1977ajax 3 ай бұрын

A great study in this is Rembrandt's portrait of Jan Six.

@sadi19 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your advice, it is greatly appreciated!

@genobambino 4 ай бұрын

It’s all really well stated in the original video by Carder-no need to repeat every point or embellish. So this is the video equivalent of overworking and blending.

@KrstnaSchroeder Жыл бұрын

I blend A LOT! I prefer photo realistic style, so yes I will blend like crazy. There is no WRONG way to paint, it all depends on what you want from the painting, your personal style and how you want your finished work to look. Not everyone wants to paint like Sargent, Monet, Rembrandt, Picasso or Da Vinci. Painting is a form of communication and not everyone has the same skills, emotions or taste as another painter. Stop listening to everyone else and do what YOU LIKE, you’re unique, so why shouldn’t you’re art reflect you?? Edit: painting from life you’re focusing on each individual element/area as you paint, your eyes don’t focus on everything at once. When you converse you look at someone’s eyes, everything outs vades/blurs out. Using photos I can make those artistic adjustments of background fade, of capturing motion, of focus on a small or wide area. It really depends again on what the individual artist wants and what they want to communicate to the viewer of the finished piece.

@SixtoLuna_art Жыл бұрын

For a particular effect and old master’s style following these tips makes sense, but I have to disagree. There is no wrong way to paint as long as you’re being mindful of composition, lighting, color, form, depth, perspective, etc the technique should be intuitively guided to your own personal style. Sure learning the rules help, but breaking them mindfully is the goal.

@H3nry488 Жыл бұрын

I fully agree, as long as you are in control of what you are doing, and deliberately do it, all should be fine. Also, these painters telling in videos what you should do and what you shouldn't, all went through a learning process figuring our what suited them best. You can mix and blend on the canvas, you don't have to have every colour exactly on your palette, it's not painting-by-numbers. We play and adjust colors to our liking.

@FranziskaHaaf 6 ай бұрын

This! These "you mustn't" and "you absolutely must" instructions can spoil painting... I bought a wonderful tutorial from Gustavo Ramos where he talks about blending on the painting surface as "push and pull". It helped me a lot that a person whose work I admire also does this nasty evil thing and has great results ;)

@brayan.sanchez.escobar Жыл бұрын

Day 2 of asking for a video using acrylic painting...

@kristoferolson1663 Жыл бұрын

Just apply what he says to acrylic. It’s all universal, independent of medium for the most part

@NicThurman Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Agreed

@NicThurman Жыл бұрын

I don’t use acrylics 🤷‍♂️ sorry. There’s still valuable advice but I would recommend using oil colors if you’re interested in classical painting

@BoonPaints Жыл бұрын

Acrylic trad painter here! I recommend one of Nic's recent videos-kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNt8irt4qa7Jk6s.html and take on how he recommends building, YES we hold the same principles, but with different mediums, linseed/sunflower for oil- water (or the millions of thickeners available online) for acrylic.

@vitataormina9409 Жыл бұрын

Ciao, mi sembrano molto interessante i tuoi video peccato che non capisco lingua inglese e non ci siano i sottotitoli in italiano o anche in spagnolo che sono le lingue che conosco. Grazie comunque, sei eccezionale, complimenti

@NicThurman Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Wish I could help 🤷‍♂️ I would be happy to reach a wider audience. I’ll see what I can do. Hopefully I can expand my subtitles in the futures

@martinayalaart3823 9 ай бұрын

But you do nothing other than agree with the painter in the analyzed video and the truth is that what you do, you and all those who study with Nerdrum and even Rembrand's painting. It's like that, diffuse, so I don't understand why you agree with him.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔