On YouTube and other websites – July 7, 2024
On this page, you will find links to resources about Artmaking, useful discussions about art and ART, and traditional oil painting methods.
I highly recommend them all. I use them frequently.
World Wide Kitsch
https://worldwidekitsch.com/
https://worldwidekitsch.com/kitsch/philosophy/
Odd Nerdrum
https://worldwidekitsch.com/news-articles/born-in-the-wrong-country/
https://worldwidekitsch.com/news-articles/odd-nerdrum-and-the-rebellious-1970s/
Rembrandt
https://worldwidekitsch.com/news-articles/late-rembrandt-the-unknown-influence-3/
VIDEOS
School of Apelles on Rumble
https://rumble.com/c/schoolofapelles
Learn to Paint like the Old Masters from Odd Nerdrum’s Pupil Sebastian Salvo | Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxg5tZraxCA
How to Paint a Rembrandt Eye from Sketch to Completion (1/2) | Demonstration by Jannik Hösel
https://rumble.com/v2bgkle-how-to-paint-an-eye-from-sketch-to-completion-demonstration-by-jannik-hsel.html
- Starting in Grisaille, focusing on texture
- Painting with Jannik’s “Rembrandt” medium and chalk
- Emulating the structure of skin to catch light in a realistic way
- Direction of strokes relating to the direction of light
- Using the ground as a middle tone
- Painting thinner to make colors grayer
- Keeping the interaction of different layers in mind
- The “Rembrandt application” actually not being that thick
- The importance of quick and short brush strokes
- Passive, warm shadows
- Painting on the whole motif simultaneously
- Illusion of details coming from texture
- “The Devil’s Brush” and the back of the brush for detail
- Effects you get using your destroyed/worn brushes
How to Paint a Rembrandt Eye from Sketch to Completion (2/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN5pHNQNEfk
“The Outcast” – A Multi-Layered Story with Past, Present and Future | Sebastian Salvo
https://youtu.be/5jf8ppGpd2E?si=NxXu_34PhT1Z8Pxx
Cave of Apelles on Youtube
The Extended Apelles Palette | Core and Additional Colors, “Palette Hygiene” and Zorn’s Brush Tip
https://caveofapelles.com/2023/the-extended-apelles-palette-core-and-additional-colors-palette-hygiene-and-zorns-brush-tip/
EPIDEMIC: Nerdrum Students betray their Talent to become Artists — How to Reverse this Trend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJxX_pnfUhE
How to Achieve Texture and Spatial Depth with Glazing | Demonstration by Jannik Hösel AKA Nicksenium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7n6MfahpsI
Imitating John Constable & Lars Hertervig for a Landscape Painting | Sebastian Salvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwu_37gH350
A World Beyond Past and Future: Odd Nerdrum’s Hopeful and Soothing Vision of Humanity | The Cave of Apelles
https://caveofapelles.com/2022/a-world-beyond-past-and-future-odd-nerdrums-hopeful-and-soothing-vision-of-humanity/
Making Dystopia: James Stevens Curl Exposes Totalitarian Modernism and the Falsification of History – An Architectural discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHGrELoiRQ
Nic Thurman
12.5K subscribers
Old Master Secrets – Glazing | Classical Painting Techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsH42JKC1vI
How to Paint Gold | Rembrandt Oil Painting Copy
Demonstration of how to paint gold using oil paint with the four color Apelles Palette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAS_70ZGOE
Andrew Tischler
Golden Ratio Composition Secret 1:1.618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wntIMD9wbR0
Landscape Painting in Oils – 3 KEY COLORS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXJMcFZgRWw
‘Oiling Out’ Tutorial for Oil Painters by Gamblin
Jackson’s Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJEzZkuls4
Elena Roche
How To Use Golden Ratio to Design Representational Landscape Painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIzZ3UVqGG4&t=4s
Chuck Black
Landscape demo – Chuck Black
Painting demo only – “Hard to Come by”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLUahQYVZE
Painting a Desert Landscape En Plein Air | Oil Painting Techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknSjSzYKKM
Stefan Baumann
The Key to Enhancing Your Painting’s Value By Branding your style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKmo_bHQnI
Chelsea Lang
@ChelseaLang
‧137K subscribers 201 videos
You AREN’T Planning Your Paintings Enough
https://youtu.be/88EHVSDnmLY?si=fLp359laGzlmMASH
Don’t build an art website. Do this instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCw-40LkBo
The Drawing Exercise that Transformed My Paintings
https://youtu.be/17ZHRSxxAl8?si=t7asJFn2s2TXNt3
The Artful Souls
Portrait Oil Painting Time Lapse Demo with Kyle Buckland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uysG_7j31oI
Art by Louise
30.5K subscribers
Is it even worth learning art anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WMqNbqk_Y
Christina Kent Art
@christinakentart
‧9.27K subscribers 316 videos
San Francisco
Is Instagram worth it for artists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTcBISiIxo
Quitting my corporate job to be a full-time artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTcBISiIxo&t=64s
I didn’t sell any paintings | Dealing with failure as a full-time artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64w2Lm_t9c
Brooke Cormier
43.8K subscribers
Dealing with Failure as an Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd5IB5aBr9E
Dries Ketels
32.1K subscribers 285 videos
Starting an Art Business: A Guide for Introverts Without an Audience
https://youtu.be/wAvEQcYKAkM?si=3aoNCLv4wWaLGMZC
How This 22 Year Old Artist Made Millions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5m1p01uqpk
Drowning in Unsold Art? The One Skill That Makes All Others Obsolete
https://youtu.be/tdq3w4KynTU?si=aCxUSd8ln3hoQp7w
Portrait painting
Stephen Bauman
139K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/@stephenbaumanartwork
Paint Portraits FASTER using the Alla Prima Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAgrmT57j8
Cameron Copley-Heissig -Portrait painting
How to start a Painting. You need to know this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atodMhAQizE
Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Issue
@contemporaryartissue
‧129K subscribers – 160 videos
Top 10 Young Contemporary Painters You Need To Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpkSQp9ltEc
Welcome to Art Deco. Here, you’ll find deep dives into classic art and discover hidden secrets behind famous paintings. A masterpiece can be hundreds of years old but still very much alive with exciting twists!
www.youtube.com/@Art_Deco
429K subscribers
202 videos
54,663,679 views
Joined Jan 11, 2020
Studies of famous painters
Morandi
Jordan Wolfson – MORANDI: THE PRESENCE OF PERCEPTION
https://youtu.be/HacsOqko_EE?si=p4L5XgAztdRCpo0l
Sargent and Sorolla
Sargent’s techniques
https://www.keenewilson.com/page/2947/john-singer-sargents-painting-techniques
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent
Sargent’s REAL Plein Air Painting Technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAiC-AqOdI
Portrait Painting in Lockdown – John Singer Sargent Master Copy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYesyoKXfs&t=6s
Sorolla
https://www.sorollapaintings.com/sorolla_approach.htm
Tonalism, Inness, Ryder, Corot and Henri
What is tonalism? 12 Characteristics
https://www.artsy.net/article/david-adams-cleveland-what-is-tonalism-12-essential-characteristics
George Inness
https://www.tonalism.com/bios-interviews/george-inness
George Inness Sunrise 7×10 Tonalist Landscape
https://youtu.be/xapX21V59As?si=6WbBqWDJd59G_ZrT
Inness and an Open Experience
https://www.attentiveequations.com/category/poets-painters/george-inness/page/2/
Corot – “The leaning tree”
A great, high resolution image, worthy of study
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jean-baptiste-camille-corot-the-leaning-tree-trunk
Albert Pinkham Ryder
https://www.attentiveequations.com/category/poets-painters/george-inness/page/2/
Robert Henri
Robert Henri’s Permanent Palette of 1922
https://www.attentiveequations.com/robert-henris-permanent-palette-of-1922/
Resources websites
From the Art History Project
“Welcome to Obelisk, a place to discover art.”
“From a simple classroom resource, Obelisk has grown to include thousands of high-quality images of artwork, hundreds of essays on movements and themes in art, letters and manifestos by artists, and a smattering of quizzes and projects. “
https://www.arthistoryproject.com/
“As much as possible, Obelisk Art History uses images of artworks and writings that are in the public domain.”
https://www.arthistoryproject.com/about/copyright-information/public-domain/
Corot
A small collection of high-resolution images, and some biographical information about Corot
https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/jean-baptiste-camille-corot/
Learning from Corot
Some excellent quailty images, as well as detailed information about Corot, his palette and his techniques
https://www.pototschnik.com/learning-from-a-master/
Corot’s Palette
https://streamlinepublishing.com/inside-art/corots-palette-revealed/
Six Paintings by Corot: Methods, Materials and Sources – Sarah Herring
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/15536/herring2009.pdf
The National Gallery in London
A great collection of high-resolution images, great for study
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/must-sees
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan Van Eyck
One of the first, and greatest, paintings done in oil (1434 )
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait/
Landscape painting
John Carlson
“ Rock Face in Winter”
A great, high resolution image, worthy of study
https://i0.wp.com/www.attentiveequations.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Rock-Face-Winter-16×22-2022-1.jpg?ssl=1
Landscape painting – essential concepts
https://mitchalbala.com/blog/
John Ruskin
Chapter Five: The Artist and Society
https://victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/hewison/5.html
Jules_Bastien-Lepage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bastien-Lepage
Going to school by Bastien-Lepage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bastien-Lepage#/media/File%3AGoing_to_School_-Jules_Bastien-Lepage-_ABDAG002288.jpg
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