these videos are pure gold

you're a great communicator and teacher. this is what you should focus on. more tutorial series

Absolutely fabulous video series. Theres nothing quite like this that I've seen anywhere else. I love portraiture too. I really like the way you paint. I learned a lot. Liked and subscribed.

You make it look so easy!

Outstanding tutorial. One of the best I have ever seen around here. congratulations for your mastery. I like and sub.

I must confess: I do have trouble taking the 'paint what you see not what you think' when the head in the painting is turned in a different angle than the reference. That said, I enjoy painting what I think …

Great series. i must say though that for demonstration purposes the open palette approach is very confusing. It enphasizes the painter experience but jeopardizes the comprehension. A systematic approach with closed palette would , in my humble opinion, improve the message even further. Anyhow, It is a great work.

Super Cool

Haha "a mm out, pftt" love it ans so true!

Vary good proses sir , it's helpful.👍

Sometimes when I'm painting I get sick of music and want company so I find a demo to put on while I paint.

Love your work, but i think you are using to much gray color. The orginal pic has almost no gray at all.

Here's the problem with the so-called Zorn palette. While it can be helpful to a student to try working within defined limitations, the limitations can also produce rather expected results. In this case I find the painting too pasty and silvery gray. I have another problem with the peripheral paint handling here, meaning the loose washy strokes surrounding the main subject. These loose strokes are meant to convey a certain semblance of accident, or facile artistry (which seems to impress the "incognoscenti"), but which I find unimpressive and somewhat too "pretty". My preference is to set aside rules (such as implied by Zorn's palette), and focus on psychological analysis of the subject, personal color sense, and good composition. As for the most exquisitely beautiful and innocuous peripheral loose brush marks or deliberate avoidance of "finish", I suggest a look at Picasso, from early to late works. He did this better than anyone else.

you are No zorn