OIL PAINTING DEMO in REAL TIME mojave railroad crossing
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Retired now for the second time and committed to painting (though I've been selling and getting commissions for over 50 years) I watch art videos every morning with coffee. I think every video, every art painting discussion should start with what kind of surface (panel, canvas, birch ply, whatever, ect....) and exactly how that chosen surface was prepared. I have used every kind of set up with panels and every kind of panel and canvas preparations and the choice at that moment, in that atmosphere, will be a Russian Roulette moment. Usually when I'm watching a video such as yours, the only hint I get of what canvas and that canvas's preparation is the sound of the brush on it. Thank you for your generous sharing of your works in progress.
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Oh Michael, you're the best kind of teacher, using the process in all its glorious stops and starts to show what it's like to learn, rather than showing the final piece and saying, "do it like I do." I'm voting with those who say do these longer-form pieces again occasionally. They are incredible=y useful to those of us who are still on the steep part of the learning curve. Many thanks, keep going, and stay well.
I agree wholeheartedly!
@@anniemcaward8363 Ain't he the best!
And if you like that burnt sienna drawing layer... try drawing on your canvas with a light wash of burnt sienna acrylic... I use it if I am doing portraits or complex paintings that require detail...
I watched this video last year as a complete beginner. A year into painting, I've decided to revisit videos...love this video, really shows the process of whittling away with persistence to a finished painting. More valuable than almost any other skill for me. Great video!
I enjoyed this video more than any other and it was because of the "experimentation on camera", as you described it. Don't let anyone tell you this is not good to show in a video. It helped me so much to see inside the processes involved in working out the problems. That is SO useful to someone trying to learn and grow as a painter. It was also great from the point of view of the video quality. It was easy to see how thin the washes were, the colors, the brushstrokes...all easy to visualize. I learned a great deal from this video. My favorite quote...(and I jotted this one down)...It pays to think!
I started painting about a year ago. Your videos and explanations connect with me, thank you.
This a terrific painting. Hopper would have been proud to paint. And a steal for the lucky patron. Thank you for such wonderful painrtings and cinema.
Thanks Christian!
I know this painting sold right away in your last show. I wonder how much of a role the unusual size played in it's popularity. The unusual shape and size would make it really stand out in the show and would draw a lot of attention.
I’m not sure. It’s possible!
BIGGEST, BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your show!!!!!!!
Edward Hopper feel ..love it
Beautiful painting!!!
Hi Michael, it was so interesting that this painting sold quickly and you had other enquiries about it. It makes me wonder if people are craving paintings that exude an emotional feeling as this does.
This video was as much about persistence and resilience as it was conveying an atmospheric effect through painting processes. Thanks for that. We have big skies and expansive landscapes here in Australia and you've provided a way of not being intimidated by it when painting.
These longer videos are very helpful. Do more! I'm not surprised that this railroad crossing piece sold quickly. My guess is that the scene evoked an emotional memory for the person who purchased it. Nice work, Michael!
really like the light on the tracks in the area of the gate. beautiful movement in the shadows. sweet vid.
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Great painting - probably my favourite that Ive seen you do. Im not all surprised it sold first.The slanting shadow in foreground is great value contrast. Great comment about not giving up until you make it work. Agree with previous comment. As good as a Hopper.
Thanks David!
Enjoyable to watch and learn. Your trouble-shooting-as-you-go method and conversation was a valuable learning experience for me. I'll ask my students to watch this one.
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Love the painting but the board wiggling on the easel would drive me crazy!!
Thanks for you videos Michael. Liked this subject and it encourages me to try something I don't normally do (like this). This is why I like to be exposed to so many artists.
Mud and other comments: In another case, the beginner can start creating mud if they scrub in one color (like a blockin color, if they even know that concept) and then come over that color by scrubbing in thicker paint, which will mix the two and create mud. Of course if they let the underpainting dry, then they would be dry brushing over and that would not mix the layers. A warm dry underpainting with a cooler color on top can really pop, but if they mix and keep adding paint, the colors will neutralize each other.
Many beginners will attempt to scrub the entire painting from beginning to the end (I was there once). Instead of wiping the paint off, they keep piling it on and essential mixing up a mess. A lot of beginners might also hold the brush like they are drawing with a pencil, but if they learn to lay the brush more parallel to the surface (you are forced to hold the brush differently), it doesn't gouge the paint and pick up the underpainting. I know one painter who said you should pick up paint and then only apply one stroke. I think that's a bit extreme. Oft-times the gouging or scratching will result in wonderful effects, if you don't overwork the paint or the underpainting is dry. A quick drying medium will help hold the underpainting in place, especially with plein air, but this all comes with experience, and as I said, when I went to the university to learn all this, no one ever painted or demonstrated for me. Not one professor, so-called, ever painted in front of his students. A lot of beginners will just give up when they start seeing the muddy mess and there is no one to guide them.
With color though, if the beginner doesn't make mud, they usually use too much chroma. They think that is what Van Gogh did, so they squeeze and slather away! That's like a choir with everyone singing at the same volume-no supporting voices-colors just screaming. I see both CZcams and books with that approach and just hang my head in pseudo shame.
Enjoy watching your vidoes, watching from here in England..
This was a good one for me. I especially like the sketching in first and THEN going around it. Because one problem of going the other way (backgrounder first) makes the subject look pasted on. I will try it this way, “ala Michael. “ LoL . I’m forging ahead with those oils, and it’s going well. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Powerful painting with feeling of forthcoming choice and crossroads and journey. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Jennifer!
"It really pays to think." LOL. True. Hey THANKS for another great and very helpful demo!
I need another stimulus check so I can purchase a piece of your artwork! I love your style, and your process is inspiring. This one was beautiful. I'm glad to see that it's ok to feel our way through the painting. I always feel like my whole process is "making corrections" and that there was something wrong with that, that it meant I still don't know what I'm doing. So it was very helpful to see you changing and adjusting things and your reasons for it. Thank you.
I think next time I will let my sketch to dry , because in my case it wouldn’t disappear with my brush strokes. Love the pink sky also such inspiration.
Thanks for sharing.
Yes, it really helps when the drawing is complicated!
In a tight drawing like this, this is probably a good idea. However in a traditional landscape, you are not copying rock for rock and branch for branch (or you shouldn't be), so you just want to capture what is tree-like, wave-like, cloud-like. There is seldom any perfect composition. That's what I love about landscape painting, because it is actually very abstract. I get to control the negative and positive shapes, the fast and slow areas (non detailed vs. detailed). There are different approaches. Some like to do many sketches and a careful drawing. I learned to see in shapes and therefore I don't use a lot of lines. I just put in the shapes and make sure that those shapes read well as an abstract. If they don't, the finished painting will be weak anyway. But in the case of something like a railroad crossing, these are so recognizable, that one needs to be somewhat careful with the proportions and lines.
absolutely brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable ..thanks !
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Wow when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a photo at first! This is awesome 💖🕊️✝️🕊️💖God bless you all
Loved watching the process, it motivated me to start painting again today 😌
Yes YES YeS yes yES, thank you!!!!! More, please! Love seeing the process. Love learning we don't have to be 'perfect', and can rub out, and try again. That is such a powerful lesson... and allegory for life! ;-)
Great video! Very interesting and informative to watch your thought process. Love the final painting!
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Hands down, my favorite Chamberlain painting! Brilliant! I enjoy motifs that are not run-of-the-mill and this one is perfect! Keep up the great work!
Love it , all part of the process
This is a really great video-love hearing about the process and seeing the experimentation. Beautiful result, too. Thanks for sharing and best wishes for your show.
Thanks Walter!
One of your vest videos. Thanks
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This was stupendous! Love both the painting and the video. It was like watching 24 all those years ago when you couldn‘t wait to find out what happened but, at the same time, didn‘t want it to end!
You seem to be the master of long shadows and almost abstract design - would love to see more of these. Thanks for all your hard work xx
Excellent video!
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You made my day. Thanks Mike.
So glad Cleve!
Thank you for all the sharing
That is a fabulous piece
Very eye catching!
Best end result of all the dozens of your videos and mostly because of the transparencies you permitted yourself to keep in the final stage. Great composition too.
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being a beginner youtuber that has not voiced any of my videos yet, I found this one of your best examples of explanation to aspire to. great painting as usual. love your style.
Thanks John!
Remember, the camera and monitors can never replace the eye. They lose too much info. So your heart is telling you what feels right. Trust that. I like its loneliness=Empathy for quarantine. Even sparser and dryer would also work in another painting. But, me, I like the lushness.
love your channel so much!!! ❤️
I love watching the creative process and listening to your thoughts. Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos.
I appreciate how candid you are with describing the process for your paintings...learning a lot from your videos!
Thanks! Glad you find my videos helpful
Really learned a lot in this video….it is sending me over to Patreon!
Oh good! Glad you’re you found it helpful 😊
I really enjoyed seeing your experimentation as you made this painting work.
Great to see your process and I love the painting!
Love your videos!
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Besides the compliment I already paid a few weeks back about this being a terrific painting as well as composition, there's the amusing aspect of it being another of your many wave paintings with the receding image of the two traffic stop gates plus shadow standing in for ocean waves. The light is totally convincing and this is also my favourite in terms of brush variation in size / shape / texture / direction / colours / tones. Well worth a second, third, fourth visit!!!!!
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback 🌟
You always amaze me as I watch you paint and even change your mind and rethink and change and make it work out for the best result.
YES!! You've achieved an almost Hopper effect with light and shadow along with a great design! a very moody allegorical painting. well done..!!
Great painting...very different from what you usually do and definitely challenging. Straight lines even when done properly can be tricky. And the excessive light it also hard to manage. Im delivering commissions this week and then return to paint in my style and my subjects because when I do what people want my "artsy hand" gets stiff. I don't even like the subjects that much. I think I'll follow your ways and stop taking commissions, but at least I made contact with brushes and oils again. I got so many projects to paint. Anyways...I know your show is doing great so congrats!
I love seeing the process and experimentation! The real time videos are awesome.
Wowee! It’s so good to see your studio process, Michael, which is different than plein air. Your verbalizing as you painted the sky was valuable to getting that luminous sky. You persisted. This scene was an unusual subject for you but similar to cityscapes with that stunning shadow on the road. Paint more subjects like this.
Really liked the whole process
You should do this type of subject again
I love desert scenes. More to come!
Have you ever considered doing your sketch with acrylics burnt sienna? That's dry in 10 minutes.
Loved watching this video!
That is a great painting. I am not surprised it sold first. It’s a stand out in composition and colour and evokes a mood. It’s the kind of scene someone would sit and stare at for a long time. It evokes contemplation. When a painting evokes an emotional response it’s special.
Look forward to more like this ????
WoW! This was super interesting! Thanks for sharing the struggle and not being a formula painter. It is so refreshing and interesting.
Michael, thanks for the glimpse into your process for a studio painting. Nice to see you have some of the same challenges as I do. Sometimes they work sometimes they don't. This one definitely did! Love the simplicity of the scene. I really appreciate your eye for those abstract scenes. I've gotta try letting my sketch dry. It obviously helps a lot with the scrub in. All the best.
Great demo Mike. I love seeing your interpretations of the colors!
Thanks Nate!
Very nice painting is wonderful. Very inspiring I quit painting about a year ago. I had only painted for about a year and now. I have severe hip issues and I can't work so i'm getting back to painting so this has inspired me thank you
i love how this has no dislikes. keep going papa chamberlain
I fucking love this video and this painting. You perfectly describe what you’re doing and it turned out beautiful, it’s very inspiring!
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Love everything ♥️
this has also inspired me to do a crossing i have been looking at for, for years and a bridge I have been waiting for snow for.
Beautiful painting and nice experimentation with the colors underneath. Loved listening your thoughts while you went about it! I also looked your paintings at the exhibition online and it was fun to spot those I have seen here on youtube :) Congrats on the exhibition!
Brilliant work Mike, After painting for 18 years one of the hardest things to achieve as a artist is shadows🎨👍
Hey Mike a really cool composition and it was neat to see in real time how you overcame the challenges with the sky. I am so glad you sold it very encouraging. 👍👍
That is beautiful!!!
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Las sombras en la carretera y en las vías del tren son perfectas Michael, gran trabajo!!!!
Wow, beautiful painting. Really love the lighting and texture of it. Keep making these amazing videos, you really inspire many people!
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you paint quite fast i am amazed :)
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Thank you for all your efforts I often use acrylic paint on technical drawings when I don’t want the under paint to be removed, have you ever tried this? thank you again.
from my office door, it looks like a scene You could drive though, fantastic.!
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This painting had me from the thumbnail... Also, did you do any griding first to get the perspective of the lines and shadows accurate?
Sweet video Michael! I feel like I’m experimenting every time I’m on camera. Glad you stuck with this one.
The subject seems to be pretty much complicated
Wish I went to the show. I am moving out of state after a lifetime here. My heart is hurting but life circumstances... I am looking at another beauty of yours. Do you have pictures of your show at all????
Yes! there's a link in the description above!
IS there a way we can get a copy of the photo in order to paint along with you better?
What is the colour that you are applied to the road ?
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