Getting greens right
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Landscape painter Brad Teare shares a method of painting vibrant greens while avoiding the commonly over-saturated greens or gray greens of tube colors.
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Wonderful and very instructive, i started to follow all your lessons little by little, seems to me i ran into a gold mine :)) for me, at least, it is exactly what i missed in my self-education... With great appreciation, looking forward to more tips an demos!
+snowsick Many thanks! Glad you are learning some new ideas from teh videos.
Thank you so much for these videos, Brad. They are so helpful to me, a new painter in acrylic. It helped me so much to see how you mixed your colors.
As a young landscape painter who can't afford classes or workshops these videos are so helpful. Thank you and please keep posting! You can read all the books you want but actually watching an experienced painter work is so valuable.
Glad you are enjoying the videos. Thanks for your feedback!
Thank you. I love this instruction. Very clear critique and brilliant solution. I’m in!
Greens change dramatically with changing light. It can be incredibly challenging. Doing a series sounds like a great idea. Glad the video helped.
Thanks so much for the kind words! It keeps me going. I'm glad I was able to help.
Thank you Isolanni. Your comment is much appreciated. I really do try to help people learn to paint. I know first hand how hard it can be to find good information. Glad it is helping.
I love the way you demonstrate! It's complete and thorough; I didn't have to guess at how you mix your paints...and THAT'S one of my biggest hurdles: mixing my colors without over mixing.
Thanks for another great video. The bit on painting the branches was specially illuminating. I've always struggled with fine lines and controlling width. I'll check your other videos to see if you have covered that in detail elsewhere.
Hi Brad, very interesting video. In a way it explains why many paintings look so flat and amateurish. It clearly comes down to wrong use of chroma and poor handling of color. Also explains why the limited pallet water-soluble oils I've been using always produce stuff that looks similar, while you use a wide range of pigments. Thanks a lot for the info and great painting result. Cheers from Amsterdam!
great honest & no bullshit, lovely loose work,
Thanks! The way the thick strokes describe reality so accurately is due to the mulit-hued color I load onto the brush. You have to be sure the palette knife picks up the right values (of many different colors) and then apply it in one clean swipe. From a distance it reads as the scintillating vibrations of the real world.
It will sink in eventually, but remember you may come up with an entirely different variation of this technique that is more suited to how your mind works.
Thank you Brad for sharing this video - it showed me that I'm not the only artist "struggling" through some complexities of painting.... I found it quite informative as to how to solve these problems - I don't often 'get that' from instructional videos!
Thanks Sonja. I'm glad we connected. Thanks for your comment.
Ditto!
Thanks Barnes466! I really appreciate your kind words. Have a great Christmas!
Beautiful variety of greens used here Brad!
Many thanks! I'd love to come to Puerto Rico! Here's an idea to help you with your over-saturated greens: First use an easily desaturated color like viridian instead of thalo green. Then mix up a very desaturated mass of green to use throughout your painting. In other words you will never use viridian straight out of the tube but use all you greens from this pre-mixed mass.
I would like to see you execute a painting from start to finish. New to your channel, very impressed by your knowledge and your work.
You are very welcome! Glad it helped.
Watching these, I am always amazed at how giant and bold your strokes are when you apply them, but how well they create the illusion of detail in the final work. Still trying to get my mind around that...
Wonderful video - beautiful painting. I also find the comments very invaluable! Thanks for sharing this. I hope to see more from you in the future.
Dynamic, wonderful colors, stunning!
Thank you, Enid. Glad you enjoyed the video.
i've watched this many times. paining a all green landscape, and like monet, i've found the colors change every few hours.really going crazy here. 1st painting in 30 years and i pick the hardest
As a new painter, I really appreciate the information you give in your videos, thanks so much for your wonderful work and instruction, helping people is the best feeling I believe and you have helped me (and whole bunch of others) big time :) You explain concepts so easily which makes it easy on your students out here on the web :) Cheers from Halifax, Canada - Merry Christmas!!!!! :) Barnes466
I add g-gel occasionally. It is a gel in a tube from Gamblin colors. Less often I use neo megilp from the same supplier.
The painter is taking something for granted.
Very helpful! Even though I'm going to stick with a (more) limited palette for now, I see how I can re-ad primaries to my mixes to get better results.
AND, watching your brush work was illuminating.
From this grayer green mass of color you mix all of your warm and cool greens as well as your lights. Add an orangish yellow to make lights and a cool purple to make darks. Try this method for at least several paintings outside until you learn to properly desaturate all greens. I am taking thalo green off of my outdoor palette.
Hello from Brazil Brad. Thanks for share this!
Hi Brad, very grateful for your video and blog. Cheers!
just watching u mix paint is very nice and relaxing
Thanks, Walt! Glad you are enjoying the videos.
I just discovered you on CZcams. I LOVE your brushwork/. I paint in acrylics, but I can apply what you do in oils with my acrylics for the most part. Can't wait to see more of your vids!
excellent and informative,just the kind of information a newbie such as myself needs...
Colors are a subtle mix of hue, value, and saturation. If one is off the effect can be diminished. I do know that many artists use a very limited palette with great effect. I'm told Sorolla used just yellow, red, blue, and white. Personally though I've never been very happy using a limited palette.
Excellent video, thank you for those great tips on creating blends of greens. Its a color that has always given me trouble. I'm going to try your suggestions on a piece I'm currently working on.
Thank so much, this video helped me a lot! Greatly appreciated.
slightly Van Gough type painting, really nice.
thank you very much mr teare i will do and try what you tought and see how its work
greens perhaps the most difficult to master because there is so many and most of them dont complement
Interesting. Geared more to the advanced than the amateur... but never the less... quite informative.
Good color mixing
I usually glaze Prussian blue or Pthalo blue over my greens to brighten them up if needed.
Good idea. I will have to try that.
So helpful to see, thank you
Good lesson.....thanks for the detailed explanations! : D
Genius!
What was I taking for granted? I try to avoid that when possible.
mr teare how to get my greens right in the tropic where i live you know is diving me mad cause im painting tem too saturated i dont know it is because they are or i cant adjust my eyesight to see them the way you see them ,you mus come to puerto rico or somwere in the tropic to see what im saying thanks for your classes you rock
Brad. What's the name of that substance you use to make the paint leave the brush better. It might save me waiting until paint is dry, before adding highlights, which often is a dead giveaway.
Thanks for this. I like your style, which reminds me of Bob Rohm, whose work I also admire.
Regards... JW
there is no mistakes with art.
"you just deny the mistake", according to Pollock. take that one with as many grains as you wish........
There is a mistake in grammar.
I'm a little unclear about why you want to keep the colors on your palette a little on the unmixed side. Are you trying to get little flecks of the original colors you are mixing so that the colors don't appear flat?
That's right. You want to slivers of other colors so that the green will not appear oversaturated. I often use oranges, purples, and reds loosely mixed into my greens. This allows the green to appear to have maximum saturation without having to resort to extremely saturated greens such as pure thalo green.
Awesome, thank you :)
I don't see why anyone would want to have to keep track of 15+ different tubes of paint and how they all do this and do that when you mix them. It seems needlessly complex, especially in teaching students. Wouldn't it be more straight forward to just use red, yellow, blue, white and brown? I can't think of any hue or value that can't be mixed from this.
Many excellent painters use the limited palette you suggest. I have never gotten it to work for me. But everyone should try it at least a few times.
Do you do plein air to? and whats your set up look like?Thanck you.
That was great :-)
Thanks, Tim!
You added what to the paint so that it would come off the brush easier ?
That is right. Also, it helps the paint be able to comingle with other colors more easily giving a broken color effect.
what kind of glass do u mix on?
It is tempered glass, about twice as thick as regular glass. Works great although over time it will get scratches etc. It's about time to get a new sheet.
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I don't think I'll ever understand colour the way you do. Sadly, I'm going to have to settle for mediocrity.
Robert, I wasn't that good at color myself. In fact, I made black and white wood engravings for years only slowly evolving to color woodcuts over a decade. When I started painting my color sense still wasn't that good. I worked on it very slowly over two decades. Aiming for mediocrity isn't that bad of a strategy. Read my blog entry about this idea: bradteare.blogspot.com/search?q=mediocrity
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I'm not sure what you mean. But thanks for taking the time to comment.