How to Paint Sunlight
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2020
- Last week we looked at a photo of a road and analyzed it for structure. We talked about the composition, structure, and the foundation of a painting before you begin to paint. We are trying to avoid getting “stuck” halfway through a painting!
The photo last week was in fact a structure of bands of sunlight and shadow. This week, I demonstrate blocking-in the image & painting it.
I show that to paint sunshine, you have to keep in mind the two families of warm-light and dark-cool color, and to keep them apart!
Because the design relies on such broad bands of sunlight and shadow, it presents a clear example of how to paint sunlight.
My palette: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Permanent, Quinacridone Magenta, Dioxazine Purple, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Chrome Oxide Green, Phthalo Green.
To see the original drawing of the photograph, watch here: • Build a Foundation for...
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As one of your students, I am so grateful to have found you. Congratulations on week 52. I don’t know how you accomplish all that you do in one week. Your instruction in your courses is comprehensive and personal. To everyone reading this, Ian is a great teacher. If you have the opportunity to take his courses, do participate. Guarantee you will improve as an artist. I certainly have.
I really like the painting in the very raw ' blocking in" - it looks amazing, so alive, so filled with " Dance of light and darkness" and " dance of warm and cool colours"
Fantastic for 52 weeks… don’t stop. I love the instructional of blocking in. It’s a perfect base for adding more shapes….
Fantastic finish, just beautiful.
Thank you for the lecture! If only my teacher back in college was as patient as you, Mister...
I learn so much from your videos! Thank you! In this demo, I realized I never in a million years would have thought to desaturate the clouds to that extent, and I see how important it was to define the area of focus. Your videos are always a revelation and inspire me to head straight for my studio! Here I go... ;-)
Thank you Ian for sharing this information with us. I must admit I find it fascinating how this changes my approach to every aspect if my art. As an amateur I feel privileged that you would share this.
What an accomplishment Ian to give of your knowledge and talent every week for an entire year. It is a precious gift to all of us who have the pleasure of viewing your videos. Your generosity is refreshing, especially in this time in our country. Thank you.
Thank you Andrea. I appreciate your letting me know. All the best, Ian
What a gift you give. I'm inspired! Thank you!
WOW 52 weeks where I learnt so much. I feel blessed to see these clips. Thank You!
I just found you and subscribed because I appreciate the format of short but highly informative , to the point "lessons". Ive already learned from your plain language videos. Thank you
Thank you Ian for 52 great, helpful and engaging videos! Along with your books and dvds, you have improved my watercolor. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks for letting me know Ronnie. Here's to 52 more.
Loved this lesson and the painting was amazing, just stunning.
You've given me lots to think about that I will apply in my paintings. Thank you for this gift.
A full year Ian! Much gratitude for your dedication and discipline. And another good lesson. Thank you very much!
I hadn't thought of the word discipline but I suppose it has been. I'm glad you are enjoying them.
You know a painting is good when it looks good from the beginning to the end! NICE! Thank you for the explanation of why you arranged the colors that way. It will help!
Thank you.
Went through all the first year videos. Really appreciate them and can't stop visioning. Thanks
Just beautiful. Reminds me of E. Hopper paintings with strong light-shadow contrast.
Congratulations Ian for 52 weeks of your dedication to helping us become better painters ! I really enjoy Tuesdays and have learnt such a lot from your videos , you are an excellent teacher , many , many thanks !
You are most welcome Judy. I'm happy you are enjoying them.
I can Watch this painting a thousand times. So much to learn from this genius. Very generous to share the skills ❤
I love the way you draw the eye thru your paintings by using roads; it feels like I’m going someplace. I’m trying to think of how to incorporate horizontal and vertical features when I do a painting. New approach for me. Thank you for sharing so many concepts.
A year of these generous and well-done videos has changed the way I SEE now. I have had both your books for a few years which are excellent, but somehow that information got stuck more as “ideas” and “knowledge” in my head - these videos have actually changed the way I see and look for a composition now. I paint mostly landscapes, and I don’t look at things and subjects now, but rather value and shape patterns, designs, and structures. THANK YOU!
Well that is fantastic to hear. Thanks for telling me. Makes making them seem more worthwhile.
Great simplification of the process. I like the loose abstract quality of the original blocking.
Congratulations. I watched very carefully the 52 episodes and I wait every week to see your demos and listen to your explanations. Awesome ! Thank you for this one specially. Very helpful !!
Thanks so much for letting me know Hannah. I really appreciate it!
Congratulations on 52 episodes. I am so happy I found you on CZcams. You lighten my day with your easy style and hopefully enlighten my mind too! Selfishly wishing you many more episodes.
Hi Gaelin, lovey to hear you are enjoying them. And yes, to many more.
Congratulations on your 52nd video! I’ve only recently subscribed and can binge on two a day until I catch up. Your videos are very informative. I’ve turned into the direction of acrylic pouring for a couple of years now but still your composition tips and the drawing of the eye to particular parts of the painting apply just as much - although I do have less control compared with more traditional painting. I’d like to rewatch them from the viewpoint of each art type when I move back to more traditional painting. In the meantime I’m learning a lot from your videos and wish they were available when I studied art so many years ago! Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Glad you are enjoying them Rael. Best wishes.
I am learning so much from you! Thank you! And I love that you whistle quietly sometimes when you work. I do the same.
Jezus on a horse I was baffled by how skillfull you are. You're a great teacher and you're not just great at simplifying shapes but also at teaching. Bravo!
And THANK again for sharing your tips with us !
You are welcome Nathalie.
Congrats on 52 episodes! That is real dedication. Thanks so much for doing these, I really look forward to getting your Tuesday morning emails.
Thanks for letting me know Jay.
Congratulations Ian on your special day of 52 weeks! I found and joined your CZcams channel two days and feel we have been friend forever as I have learnt so much in these two days, my art skills have improved so much already. Here’s to the next 52 weeks. 🌹🎉👍🪅🎥🎊📽🙋♀️
Wow,thank you for your lesson! Finally, light, how to paint what I see...It made sense to me!
I am new to painting and just discovered your videos!
I am looking forward to applying what I learn.
Thank you!
Vanda
Hi Ian Just discovered your channel yesterday evening and have found you VERY inspiring in my new start to paint again. I am really impressed that you are sharing so much of your knowledge and experience. Last year I enrolled in the Tucson Art Academy with Mitch Baird for a year of Mentoring, only to not be able to participate as my husband and I decided to move back to our home in Salzburg Austria, and since then I have started a new business and setting up our rental home….needless to say…Today is the day to get out the paints and YOU have inspired me!!!!!!
Thanks , it is very helpful advice to see objects in shapes , block in different values of colours at beginning of the painting.
You make perfect sense! Your videos are very unique and have helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing your ideas and professinal techniques.
Really glad I came across your videos. Tons of great information here. Keep them coming. I am binge watching as many as I can. Just some great info and your style of explanation and teaching is great.
Simply fantastic and fantastically simple as you teach it and through your eyes. The illusion of that hill and the sunlit trees is both amazing and wonderful. Thank-you.
Thank you so much 😀
Congratulations on your 52nd episode. That is a beautiful painting and a joy to watch and learn from. Thank you for your excellent tutorials.
You are most welcome and glad you enjoy the videos. And thank you on your congratulations.
I really enjoy how you explain things. Thanks so much.
52 weeks! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us...Really appreciated
And I appreciate your letting me know Marie.
This is a wonderful demonstration of painting. Thank you so much
Found this video very helpful with a lot of valuable information. Appreciate the simplicity of the demo and your explanation. Many thanks!
This is exactly what I find so fascinating about painting! Great video, thank you so much for sharing!
Love roads as well
Wow! You simplify it beautifully. Thank you. 👏👍🏻👏
You are welcome.
Well, I have been trying to draw and paint for years. This series is the best learning I have seen and it is really helping me understand what has been going wrong. Thank you very much for this series. Drawing and painting are a beautiful way to learn to see the world in all its glory, even if you never really manage to capture it on canvas, I see more now.
HI Jan, really happy you are enjoying the videos. You say a really important point, that learning to paint well is one thing, engaging and so on, but also surrounding that is the appreciation of the world around you. I have the same experience. Best wishes.
You make it seem so simple, thank you so much for doing these sessions u are a great teacher
Great that photo is there to help follow what you are painting..
Great job for 52 weeks. Congratulations and thanks for all the inspiration!!!!!!!
Thanks Ramona.
Such a help. I’ve been trying to create light in my work
Excellent teaching, as usual! Thanks and congratulations for 52 weeks Ian!
Thanks Dale. Nice to hear from you. All the best.
You are a wonderful teacher and I’m so glad to have found your channel
Thanks Ian and congratulations!!
All the best Fred. Thanks.
52 wonderful lessons - thank you!
Hi Joan, glad you are enjoying them. all the very best to you.
Lovely painting! I so enjoy your Tuesday videos!
Thanks for letting me know Helen.
Very helpful Ian. Thank you for the effort in putting these tutorials together, much appreciated.
You are welcome Greg. Glad you are enjoying them. All the best.
Congratulations! And many thanks! I have your book and just found these videos.
Wow!!! So excited, I didn't know you had CZcams videos and just found you.
I bought your composition book a few years ago, and studied it hard. Such a valuable reference and education. You are awesome!!
Thank you so much. Best wishes.
Congrats 52 weeks👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow I can't believe it 52 weeks..thankyou for your generosity I have learnt so much from you.
Hi Cecilee, I know, 52. I am delighted you are enjoying them and finding them helpful. Thanks for letting me know.
Brilliant!!!
Great info. This is my first one of your videos. Thanks for clearing this up. Blocking in always confused me, some say don't use any white, but you really got the tones just right with the entire painting. thanks
Your videos really help me understand backgrounds and lights, im sure my paintings will improve after this. Thank you so much!! Im a new sub:)
Thank you sir ian for sharing your valuable gift of wisdom,i wish you in good health.ALHAMDULILLA
Congratulations on your 52nd episode. As always, this was very helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to put these together each week. It's invaluable information and I so appreciate them.
Thank you Deb.
Just discovered your work. So it’s Week 52 for you. Number 1 for me. I’ll be catching up soon. 🙂
No Week 73 for me. All the best.
thanks and so goes with my favorite acronym KISS!
Congratulations and thanks for your 52 weeks. I’m fairly new to your program, although I have your book by the same name. Always interesting and very informative - helping me to focus on what’s important!
Great Lynda. Glad you are enjoying the videos. All 52 are there somewhere on youtube.
Congratulations 🎊 and thank you! ☀️
Thanks Marianne.
Muy buena esta lección... Me aclaró varias dudas. Me he suscrito y espero próximos capítulos.
Gracias por compartir. Saludos
Great!
WHOA!!! Best one yet, Ian! I have all your videos and your book - love your approach to teaching! Congrats on 52 episodes!
Hi Joani, well that's the problem. If you say best one yet, I feel I have to up my game for next week. I had a feeling sunlight would be popular. Who doesn't want to paint a fine sunny day full of light. And not mud. Thanks so much for letting me know you are enjoying the videos. Best wishes.
@@IanRobertsMasteringComposition I get ya, no pressure. I totally dig your videos!
Very informative series. Thank you.
Wow! It's a beautiful painting. Well done.
I loved that little whistling you did as you mixed the colours. Reminds me of my grandfather ;3 Good job on this study! You inspire me doing more oil n.n
LOVE IT !
I love this!
I'm a recent subscriber but find you very engaging and easy to follow. Learning a ton of stuff and still reading through your book on composition. Thank you for doing this!
Carol, thanks so much for letting me know. Glad you find them helpful.
I love your work. Thank you for those very helpful videos, God bless you
Love it!!!♡
Wow. Thank you. Amazing.
52 episodes! Just found you! I've been putting off painting and now I know why. . . better get to my easel!
Congratulations on your persistence and consistency in excellent, informing videos. Together they form an important body of teaching I can refer people to -- and go back to myself. Keep it up!
Thanks so much Ralph. You have been there from the beginning!
WOW, congratulations on completing this 52-week project. What an achievement ! I hope you get to drink that bottle of Champagne and celebrate in style!
Hi Nathalie, Veuve Clicquot. And it went down well!
Just discovered your videos. Fantastic clear teaching. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
Congratulations! Your videos are the highlight of my week.
Your comment was the highlight of mine. Thanks Madri.
Great Demo Ian. Congrats on the series, amazing dedication.
Thank you Greg. Hope all's well in your world. Best wishes.
Interesting when you squint your eyes on the final painting. Great tutorial, thanks.
Deceptively simple. You’ve got the artist’s eye for sure, Ian. Not sure I do. Much too left brained I think. Thank you for this insightful lesson.
You are a real guru 🙏🙏🙏
Just what I was looking for thank you!
So simple…bizar👍
Thank you so much. Very, very helpful and inspiring
Thanks Loretta. All the best.
Amazing!
thanks so much Matthew
Congrats on your 1 year, 52 video anniversary, Ian. Well done, and very much appreciated.
Thanks Alan. All the best.
thank you, really enjoying your videos, its very inspiring.
excellent, thank you
Congratulations Teacher Ian Roberts. I have seen all your vídeos, I have learned very important lessons about composition and the art to make fine and powerfull painting. My best regards Mr. Roberts. Parabéns, in portuguese, my idiom.
Hi Davi, thank you so much for letting me know. Good luck with your painting. Best wishes.
Heartiest Congratulations for your 52 videos! Always waiting for Tuesday evening ...from India.Thank you very much Sir!
I wonder what time 6 am pacific is in India. Delighted you are enjoying them. All the best Meena.
very cool
An amazing teacher..
U. R. Marvelous. take it from someone 25 years older than you and who's been an artist/ illustrator and art instructor for over 50 years. U. R. Superb! I refer my clients to you..because? Why should I ruin my reputation by introducing people to any service , product or personage/ if any such category is anything except spectacular? Thanks for your series! Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis