New Project: Lesson 26 / Painting All Subjects, What's important / Stan Miller

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7 жыл бұрын

If one desires realism in one's painting, this video addresses what's important. Drawing is most important, values are second. First one must learn how to see, then draw and paint what one sees. After one knows how to paint what one sees, then one can more powerfully interpret the subject.

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@joycebryan2175 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed a great increase in my watercolor skills since I’ve been watching your lessons. I am so grateful. Thank you. Joyce Bryan

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Joyce...as I mention in my lessons, learning how to paint realistically is pretty much the same as learning to play the piano...everyone can do this, doesn't require talent, but practice and proper instruction. Interpreting an image, redesigning your subject, that takes lots of practice and some talent. I wish you happy painting!

@Constantinesis 5 жыл бұрын

The greatest challenge of learning today is not the lack of information but the luck in finding the right one. I am glad that i found your videos! Thank you!

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

Glad my lessons are helpful!

@afafzabaneh919 3 жыл бұрын

Shape and value.... draw what you see.....again a wonderful teacher....thanks ....

@pmlt2010 7 жыл бұрын

Master Stan Miller thank you very much for coming back. Can't wait to see your new tutorials.

@maggs131 7 жыл бұрын

Yay one of my favorite artists has posted a video. Beautiful work as always

@giacomorimatori8483 4 жыл бұрын

Watching this in 2020 but still tremendously useful! Thanks Mr. Miller.

@swatikumar112 7 жыл бұрын

So good to have you back Mr. Miller

@shivanisabnis7406 5 жыл бұрын

I hope you know how great of a teacher you are !!!!!! Watching ur videos really teaches us many things which actually develops us as an artist !!

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad my lessons are helpful.

@shivanisabnis7406 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking ur time to shoot and post all these lessons/instructional videos on KZfaq

@kubitte 4 жыл бұрын

your videos motivate me whenever i feel like quitting... thanks for sharing your wisdom!

@Stanleylestermiller 4 жыл бұрын

So glad my videos are helpful. Like playing the piano...those who practice the most are the best students.

@mollygrierson 7 жыл бұрын

Great teacher, easy to follow and understand. This man understands the beginning student's hang-ups and how to correct these misconceptions. The wee Scot

@drbob528 4 жыл бұрын

Initially, seeing only shape and value takes some practice when our brain insists on seeing specific detail. But here is a professional artist creating what he calls "sloppy" sketches and the entire thing falls into place. Mr Miller, your teaching technique is remarkable. In 25 minutes you have turned my approach to painting around to one that makes so much more sense. Many thanks.

@Stanleylestermiller 4 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome Dr Bob.

@gracecastro5195 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Stan. I so glad you reenforced your lessons. I still use my squares!

@jprosser8820 7 жыл бұрын

Mr. Miller, Thank you for being the lighthouse in my mental ocean of water color medium. You continually provide the direction to building my water color foundation.

@Stanleylestermiller 7 жыл бұрын

Good to hear your thoughts, thank you.

@TerryMcGearyScotland 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent again! Draw what you see -not what you think it is. In a short course I attended the tutor explained that you should be able to copy a portrait upside down and when you're finished turn it the right way up and it should be fine if you have done as you say.

@ginkohsu 6 жыл бұрын

Mr. Miller, We would love to hear more from you pleaaase. Thank you so much for your precious lecture again.

@LearnFineArt 7 жыл бұрын

Great so super and gorgeous scenery of Mountain and tree :-)

@deetee5156 6 жыл бұрын

We can crank these out like a machine. Love it. You are amazing Stan!

@jsindorf 6 жыл бұрын

Stan, thank you for your lessons. I am getting back into painting after a long hiatus due to extensive business travel. Your lessons are what I have needed to jump start me back into it. I appreciate your ability, both in painting and in teaching. I have now watched all of your lessons, and look forward to the next one. Again, thank you, sir.

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Joe Sindorf so glad to hear my lessons are helpful Joe. I wish you well in your painting and return to art!

@ohthattony 7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic to see you back! another relevant, interesting and just plain enjoyable lesson.. thank you

@lisalam1066 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your videos. I love your common sense approach when it comes to painting 😃

@kamarafarai 6 жыл бұрын

I love the way you simplify things... It makes so much more sense..

@ratindramahajan2192 7 жыл бұрын

These tutorials helped me a lot!

@tristanspear9889 7 жыл бұрын

thank you going to save this to go over this several times or more thanks

@aliakber2k10 7 жыл бұрын

At last... after such a long time. Thank you so much. :)

@afafzabaneh919 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful teacher....

@pgceniale 5 жыл бұрын

I guess this was the last lesson. Well, thank you so much for sharing, Mr. Miller! I whatched all of the videos almost at once! Amazing work! Congratulations!

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

pgceniale so glad my videos are helpful.

@thomasdt100 5 жыл бұрын

You are over estimating the talent of your students my man. You are an artistic genius whose talents are WAY above most of us.

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

These lessons progress, lesson 26 is for advanced students, lessons 4,5 and 6 are for the beginner. Thanks for your comment.

@roxannekeomaka4754 6 жыл бұрын

Love your lessons, don,t stop! Sincerely,Roxie

@daisydoodlepaperarts2280 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time teach us! You are an exceptional teacher and I haven't watched all your videos but I intend to watch all of them so that I can (hopefully) create respectable artwork. I think a lot of people may not comment ... so I try to

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

thanks Daisy, glad the lessons are helpful!

@silvanocece1365 7 жыл бұрын

Nice to have you back 🎨👌

@AFOLABITIMI 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks again.... always informative

@odysseuspolytropos2346 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the lesson! Its amazing!

@Stanleylestermiller 2 жыл бұрын

So glad the lesson is helpful.

@ashish1152 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for another amazing lesson sir.

@youbuddha1 4 жыл бұрын

Top teacher !

@RubenGarcia-kc3op 6 жыл бұрын

you are so good as a artist and teacher, you speak the truth of many good methods, shapes and values... everything else is noise....

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ruben, glad my lessons are helpful.

@123gery09 2 жыл бұрын

I like your approach if consider facial features just different shape than its not overwhelming and scary anymore .. thanks again 🙏

@Stanleylestermiller 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear my lessons are helpful!

@MrNecropodo 5 жыл бұрын

This is Gold. Thank you profesor

@pinkpebbles85 6 жыл бұрын

These 26 lessons have taught me so much..inspired me a lot..i made a made a beautiful portrait. In our culture, "guru "( teacher) is said to be equivalent to God. Now i know the meaning. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Amrita. So glad the lessons are helpful. I try to listen to God as I paint and teach.

@pinkpebbles85 6 жыл бұрын

Stan Miller Thank you Sir. U r a wonderful soul. I m sure your teachings will inspire many many more like me. God bless u.

@nadiamcintosh2736 5 жыл бұрын

You sir are awesome! :) For someone who over-complicate things all the time.... this calmed my mind.

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

So glad the lesson was helpful Nadia.

@angelamackay616 5 жыл бұрын

When I was learning to draw very accurate.. I bought a Derwent proportional divider..was like $15 on Amazon, and it helped me so much. It is the one instrument that truly changed my art.. I highly recommend for anyone.. tracing just feels like u cheated and the graphs are so messy, the Stan slide move was pretty good too. Ill have to try.. But if anyone is trying to draw realistic art, get it, you will be so happy you did. Btw, If need for landscape and portraits, you should get a large one and a smaller one. Thanks for uploading these, ive binged watched all your vids today! You are a really inspirational teacher, and sounds like you truly care about teaching, and helping, thanks so much!

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

The proportional divider is a good tool, many devices out there to help us get the drawing down more accurately. Thanks for the tip!

@janecourtenay3676 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your videos. I have always had problems with values. Mostly I draw with pastels, but am trying to teach myself watercolour ... hahaha. The problem I have is if I draw the picture first and then try to paint it doesn’t work. However, if I work directly with what I see i.e. paint shapes I have a better result. Many thanks ... I am glued to your videos.

@neillinneball 6 жыл бұрын

You are a national treasure..thank you.

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Neil Linneball thank you very much.

@elhamazizmohammadi5610 3 жыл бұрын

So helpful, thanks...

@suzalasuzala1135 6 жыл бұрын

thank you! This will help me so much with my students

@francoforleo4971 5 жыл бұрын

Very valuable tutorial 🙏🙏🙏

@ritutaneja3900 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing.

@valerioia9869 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful channel, Mr. Miller. Good job! Thank you. Maybe you could post a full portrait, in several videos if necessary... Thank you again.

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

I have the first stage of a portrait already posted, lesson 23...note the painting of the eye in detail. Stage 2 would be the other eye. Stage 3 the mouth, stage 4, the nose, etc. I would suggest that you follow that lesson, paint the eye of your portrait very slowly, then the other eye...using the same approach, then the nose, the mouth, etc...and you don't really need me to do a lesson of the whole portrait. Good luck, Stan

@valerioia9869 6 жыл бұрын

Stan Miller thank you again!

@ArtKonna 6 жыл бұрын

nice channel.............for art..........

@choudharykishor7448 5 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial as always and can't wait to see more. Thank you very much. Just one dumb question, how to do you convert your black and white pictures in to just 4 to 5 levels of gray? Thanks again.

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

To simplify the number of values in a photo, one needs to increase contrast in a photo program, or on the copy machine. The greater the contrast, the fewer the number of values. One can get apps that increase contrast on your photos.

@Bubarac 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Stan, I had the pleasure of receiving lessons from you at All Saints five or six years ago. I recently decided to pick watercoloring back up in my spare time, and was so excited when I found out about your KZfaq channel! These videos have been so incredibly helpful, especially in constantly reminding us what's the most important and simplifying everything. It's a truly wonderful and relaxing craft and being able to see myself improve over time and practice is so rewarding! I do have one quick question, if you don't mind answering: With most of the work I've done so far, the paper has had a tendency to sort of "buckle" and become wavy after the painting dries. Do you have any recommendations to combat this? I use pretty ordinary 90lb watercolor paper that I find at my school's bookstore, but am definitely open to changing that if it would help. Thank you for everything you do!

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Allie, nice to hear from you! So glad to hear you are painting. There are a number of ways to keep your paper from getting bumpy. You might type into youtube search, "stretching your watercolor paper". You'll find a number of ways to keep your paper flat throughout your painting, and how to keep your painting flat when you are finished. The easiest is to use 300 pound paper instead of 90 pound. One can also use a watercolor block...search for the meaning of that. I stretch my paper, wetting the back side, stapling the paper to gator board while the paper is still wet, using 140 pound paper. Let me know if you have more questions, feel free to email me, stan@stanmiller.net

@rachelanne5060 7 жыл бұрын

Really lovely

@TheWindGinProject 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@skinz1234 6 жыл бұрын

Showing us how and making people feel like we are all capable of doing this is VERY GRACIOUS GIFT FROM YOU!!! THANKS FOR CARING STAN YOU DA MAN!!! :)

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome.

@davis.zakis.dental 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe an idea for future videos - perhaps you could make short videos on watercolor paintings people send you - whats good but more importantly - where to improve. Anyway, thank you for the uploads so far, some tips have been used.

@Stanleylestermiller 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. The most important issue in all painting is the design and composition. In lessons 1-3, I talk about this importance. Interestingly, these are my least viewed lessons. Whenever I look at another persons painting, it's always the design that moves me, or bothers me...but very few want me to talk about this. They prefer that I talk about technique and color, equipment, supplies...the least important part of painting. Never the less, I'll consider your suggestion...thank you.

@mayzhangful 5 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial Just one suggestion. Please can you put both reference and paining on the table. Holding then in your hands the papers move around all the time, it is hard to focus, especially whe you are painting thanks!

@daisydog8127 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@dougg1075 5 жыл бұрын

So the whites (in grass or hair) is exposed paper from painting around it?

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

That's the general approach to watercolor, one paints around the whites, leaving white paper instead of using white paint.

@dougg1075 5 жыл бұрын

Stan Miller got it, thanks

@arteasy 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice

@bradutterstrom4105 7 жыл бұрын

Great video! Next time can you talk about what's the best brush to use, and maybe do a tutorial on how to paint trees? Ok ok, only joking...I love how you really simplify everything to "this is what's important, forget about everything else."

@Stanleylestermiller 7 жыл бұрын

Any brush will work. I prefer watercolor brushes of course. And, generally, the more one pays for a brush, the better it is. The flat brush that I use in this video costs about $10...there are many, many flat brushes that would work just fine. As well, nearly any smaller brush will be just fine. In the spirit of the message of this lesson, it's not the brush, or the brand of paint, or even the brand of watercolor paper that's the issue when one's painting doesn't go well. I wish you the best Brad.

@bradutterstrom4105 7 жыл бұрын

Stan, I guess my sarcasm didn't come through, but I appreciate the response! If you took my question seriously, you must have been shaking your head and rolling your eyes despite giving a friendly response. Anyway I've really been enjoying your videos and recommending them to other artists. After watching a few of your videos, these things run through my head, and are the first tips I would give to any beginning artist or artist struggling with a piece..."get the drawing right, get the value right...use any color you like!"

@Stanleylestermiller 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brad, I got your humor clearly when you suggested a video on how to paint trees...but then you followed up with asking about the brush...so I thought maybe you were serious about that one. : ) You certainly understand my thinking on what's important in painting Brad, I wish you well!

@cjmattocks 5 жыл бұрын

do you teach classes or workshops?

@janecourtenay3676 6 жыл бұрын

Ps: I paint/draw portraits ...

@angelamackay616 5 жыл бұрын

Has anyone ever told you your voice sounds just like Howard Stern! Ive been watching all day and trying to figure it out... it just came to me... lol. Like exactly the same!! Have you heard that before?

@Stanleylestermiller 5 жыл бұрын

40 years of teaching, you are the first to say I sound like Howard Stern.

@aliakber2k10 5 жыл бұрын

Why you stop uploading sir? Please sir Keep Uploading

@aliakber2k10 6 жыл бұрын

Why you stopped uploading sir?

@Stanleylestermiller 6 жыл бұрын

Ali Akber everything one needs to know to do a good painting has been shared in my 26 lessons. Nothing else is very important. However, I will post more videos in the future.