"Choose your central focal point before you start painting. Envision your painting finished and framed, up on a wall in a beautiful home. If it's not worthy of painting, don't paint it" Thank you Stefan, this was just what I needed before beginning today. Love you! ❤

for reference 1. Concept (2:20) 2. Focal point (5:00) 3. Composition (8:10) 4. Values (9:47) 5. Color (11:43) 6. Brush strokes (13:01) 7. Edges (15:20) 8. Transitions (18:24) 9. Drawing (20:00) 10.Perspective (25:49) 11.Horizon (28:40) 12.Memorization (34:30)

Drawing negative space is a fantastic way to learn to draw. I once did a drawing of a knight in a shiny armour on a horseback, very complicated drawing, upside down. I didn’t try to draw the knight in a shiny armour on a horseback. All I concentrated on was drawing different shapes. And guess what. When I finished it and turn the drawing around, voila! There was a perfect drawing of the knight on a horseback.

1. Concept 2. Central focal point 3. Composition (law of 3rds) 4. Value 5. Color 6. Brush strokes 7. Edged 8. Transitions 9. Drawing 10. Perspective (linear and ariel) 11. Horizon 12. Memorization But don't take my word for it.. Take it from the master himself 🙏 Thank you very much sir

Best art teacher EVER

Thank you Stefan actually the intros and your voice are so soothing...honestly when I am stressed or depressed I come to see your videos and hear you talk about art its so calming and brings me so much joy

#1 is so nice. Start with the end in mind. My paintings in heavy, wide, gold and elaborate frames, hanging in gorgeous homes or buildings with floor to ceiling windows, looking out to expansive views... ahh, that feels so nice. I must paint these many, jaw dropping, gorgeous paintings!

"We love you Molly", I love Stefan Baumann's lectures, I always learn no matter how much I listen to them because I need to internalize the information so it becomes part of my thinking when I paint.

Yours is one of the few videos I do not fall asleep watching. Always find something I apply successfully.

A wealth of artistic wisdom. Mesmerising.

Thank you Stefan!

a true master painter explaining complex concepts with extreme simplicity to help viewers grasp them. thanks a lot for all these great content you share with us.

I traveled with 10 painters for 10 days. Drew a lot of landscape paintings. Very helpful. Your painting skills are very helpful to me, thank you! After returning, I released four travel painting videos.

Currently, digital painting is the only form of painting I can afford since I don't run out of supplies that way. BUT, I have my French box easel eagerly awaiting the day I buy my first oil paints for fabulous outdoor adventures and hands on practice. Your content here on KZfaq really helps flame that desire even more that it already is presently. And for the time being, I'll adopt your painting methods into digital artworks. :) I really enjoy your videos, you're an incredible teacher and I highly value the knowledge you share. Thank you very much for this channel. You're a fantastic artist and teacher. :)

I’m SO excited!!! This month for my birthday my wonderful husband is buying my can light and making my still life box. The exciting part is NEXT month, July 2019, I get to start my distance classes with Stephan. I’d dance like Snoopy if I still had the legs for it.

You make the best videos !! Very relaxing to listen to

Thankyou Stefan, you have a real gift for teaching and inspiring

Enjoy this video, very informative. Ty Stephan!!

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much Stefan 👍i never fail to learn from your lessons keep them coming ☺

Most all the stuff we never think about yet are so obvious and necessary to achieve a good painting covered here. wow love it!

Where was he when I was in college taking an art class and didn’t have a clue at the start, and at the end of the class. I have learned more from KZfaq. Wow, thanks this was great.

"People in Nebraska... they aren't painters..." we do exist here in Nebraska, and some of us paint outdoors. Haha love the video, always learning things here and sharpening my skills.

12:20 Not sure what you mean, I can make red by mixing magenta and yellow... And I can mix blue with cyan and magenta. CMY has a much wider gamut than RYB when it comes to limited palettes.

YËS, to every point. You are just right. Thank you Mr. Baumann. No doubt.

So good, thank you 😊

You never let us down Stefan! Great video!

Every video I watch on your channel I have learned something important.

Excellent video, Stefan! The only step of the 12 I still can't fully grasp is Transitions. Any chance you would do a video concentrating on that aspect of painting?

Great information, Stefan. these keys are so true and important.

Great information for an artist. Thank you.

Thank you so much Stephan. This lesson really brought it all together for me. I wish I could hug you!

Mr. Baumann, You are an extremely talented and knowledgeable! You are a GREAT TEACHER, AS WELL! You cover what so many on youtube ignore totally and I wish i were near your location where I could study under your dire,ction! With that said: I love all subject matter and that is perhaps why i don't do some of it well. If you ever just want to cover: How To Render Trees, I would greatly appreciate it as I am sure you would give meaningful instructions that I, and perhaps many more will truly understand! I think your work is incredible!!! Jimi

Mysteries of drawing and painting explained. Thank you

Stefan this is one of your best videos I have a plan to play it every day excellent thank you

Your videos are awesome.... real teaching for becoming a true artist for creating paintings of value. Thank you so very much❤️👍

Thank you. A great lesson. Sò much to take in.

I will be watching this many times to get the most out of this video,,thank you

Beautifully painted tree in the background.

Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge. Your so good at teaching . Love this course

Thank you so much for the beautiful tutorial.🙏🏾

Loved this video! learnt so much! thanks Stefan. now to learn to draw to improve my artwork

Thank you for the insight and inspiration

Hi Stefan great stuff, fyi..., the label displayed for #10 says ‘prospective’ not ‘perspective’ 🙏 - love what you do....

Easily your best video, Stefan. Focused and the material is quite helpful. Thanks!

Wonderful video. What we take for granted, in a great solid list, right before our eyes! Good stuff Stefan!!

Instead of proportional divider I use scale e.g. 1:5 or 1: 3...even like 1: 0.5 to enlarge or to make it smaller...

I lern alot from this channel

always the best

superb.

Today is Friday July 28, 2023. I have no formal training on painting, drawings ect..but i love it and i do my best...is there an art course or school you recommend? ...and Why?

Thank You for Your Help an Time ! : } >

Amazing

Thanks

that Mt Shasta seems just beautiful!

This video is probably too old for you to respond, but where/ what type of light is that, that you use, I'm having a hard time finding one for my still life set ups I know you mentioned it before but can't find the video.

Great video🤗

Your knowledge and skill; simply amazing. I am envious! Thank you for sharing. You have me hooked. Must subscribe for more!

This is an off the wall comment, but it concerns something that I just observed. In the moose painting, your central focal point is the light bouncing off the moose's left horn. I suppose your light source is from the left. Right? If this is true, why is there a sun or maybe a moon in the central background? And if the sun or moon is supposed to be there, what is the light source on the horn? Not criticizing, just confused. I'm 73, and getting to the point that I sometimes get accused of being confused about certain things, so I don't need any help on the matter, Hahaha. So would you please clear this up for me. I really like the painting. Beautiful rendition.

I love the content of your channel. I wish #Douchamp would’ve hear ya.

Walking around with my goats and cats with my sketchbook has done wonders for my drawing memory. It’s very tough at first. Seems almost impossible. Perfection isn’t the goal. In 1 Year I’ve developed a skill of being able to capture them in sketches. Memory is still coming along. There is no better exercise (that I’m going to do).

Question... Could you give some examples of what you meant by concept? Is it the subject, or could it be more abstract, such as I want to try painting home life that depicts harmony and happiness, or I want to paint a series of scenes using vivid warm colors... some examples of concepts you have started with would be helpful. Thanks! PS - great video.

I can’t imagine not drawing while painting. I need the whole artistic experience 😂

I find it easy to draw out my landscapes using rule thirds or just eye ball it. but when it comes to still life work , it is much more difficult for me. It’s very difficult to resist the temptation to use projector. I try with a Proportional divider but the shapes are so hard to match. I know it is possible I’ve done it before with proportional dividers but it is way more involved . do you find still alive to be more difficult? Because I do . a landscape paintings is super easy in comparison to a stilll life. what is your opinion ?

You can make red and blue with magenta, cyan, and yellow. Though, you can’t make cyan or magenta with red, blue, and yellow. Is this true or not?!

Hi Stefan, you have a great teaching ability, but I must disagree that bubble wrap is a 'concept'. It's a 'theme'. A concept is abstract, like happiness or eternity or sacrifice. So it goes like this: the concept of happiness in the context of marriage, using the theme of bubble wrap as a metaphor. You're welcome.

"Honey, does this dress look good for church?" "Nothing looks good at 10 o clock, dear..."

I really want to take his class on value and temperature as well as composition. I feel like I lack those skills and makes my paintings look very flat and boring.

i dont quite understand what he means by transitions. any links to help with this?

What would be good in landscape art is to be able to apply perspective to it. Landscapes don't really have a lot of parallel lines so traditional perspective doesn't do much. But things do get smaller as they get farther away so it would be useful to have more perspective techniques for landscape art.

Why are there no guys in these classes...

Ok great and thx - but why keep showing us your glasses during the video ?

You may want to change how you spelled "prospective" as opposed to perspective...

He speaks a lot of common sense.

But you can make a red from yellow and magenta. Doesn’t matter. I think his point is that you need 3 colors to mix all the colors.

I love you Stefan, no homo

I disagree with the first point. Keep painting!! Keep expressing yourself. You'll mature as you master your talent. Have FUN!!

The central focal point is paralyzing. Most contemporary artists understand the movement of everything rather than a fixed perspective! Welcome to the new world of quantum physics.

Perspective spelling is wrong in the animation...

I has an inner compass, I'm a man.... not.