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This is a high quality video with lots of close ups of both the portait and the palette. Dan paints this portrait entirely from life, guiding you through his portrait painting process. He has a painterly style, using daps and strokes of color to model the form rather than blending and smoothing. There are lots of useful tips - the less advanced you are the more you'll learn... just watching him work on his palette made things click for me. As a bonus for those who haven't painted a person from life you also get to glimpse the nuances of interacting with a live sitter to get the best portrait. I'm renting all his videos based on this one.
I just finished watching this, and I say it's a must-rent set. Morgan paints this portait from life, stopping frequently along the way to illustrate and discuss features of his model's face and how to observe and capture them.
He's painterly, less so than Scott Burdick or Greg Kruetz, but very precise - using numerous small strokes of muted colors even where they'd use large, high chroma, ones. His initial sketch is elaborate and his strokes go on with thought and see a minimum of reworking compared to Kruetz and especially Burdick.
The numerous "side trips" are informative - adding content to the video but not taking any time away from the portrait. The best of these is a second quick portrait demonstration with a very limited palette.
Distinctly different to other portrait videos, I'd recommend this set to everyone wanting to learn. For those who love Burdick's or Kruetz's styles and videos, Morgan's style and approach is similar enough you should enjoy this set but definitely different enough to make it worth renting too.
I've been in awe of Scott's work since viewing his Peru paintings so I jumped at the chance to rent this set and see one of them created. It was the wisest chance I've taken - I enjoyed every moment of this video and learned a lot too. Scott uses and discusses a variety of techniques in painting this work. Large and small brushes, palette knife work, long broad strokes and short thin ones, loose and tight passages, it's all there and more. The video is superbly shot, with crisp closeups of both the canvas and palette as he works but more distant shots that show how the painting pulls together as he talks. A big bonus - Scott paints an amazing background and a large stunning swath of fabric. I'd rent the set to see that alone. You can't go wrong with this set, it's Scott's best video!
I thought this was an interesting portrait demonstration. Starting with a pre-toned canvas, Gregg lightly brushed in masses rather than lines, and then he began to paint - very thinly, mixing minimal amounts of paint on the palette and applying minimal amounts to the canvas. He tended toward small brushes and small strokes, leaving toned canvas visible in many areas and showing through the thin paint in most. A lot of the more subtle variations in the color seemed to be controlled by paint thickness and the amount of undercolor showing through. Gregg always seemed to mention the colors he was mixing just as I was wondered and he made some keen observations at just the right time for them to click for me. I would recommend this video to anyone who prefers this style of painting as it's completely different from Burdick, Weistling, etc.
This is a great educational video by Scott Burdick. It's not near as involved or thorough as the "In the Studio:Peru Colors" set, but I preferred it to the "Rebecca Firelit" set. First off, the title mislead me, but I wasn't disappointed with what I got. This video has Scott painting a fully clothed seated model draped with a green throw. It has great colors and a beautiful blonde model who's side lit, and Scott turns out a stunning portrait of her in the end. It's very painterly and a bit quicker with Scott doing less reworking of the face than in the Rebecca video. You get to see a lot of the model in this set too, so you're not in the dark about what he's seeing.
I'd heard many wonderful things about Richard's videos and his Alla Prima book, so I rented all the former and bought the latter. When the book arrived I absolutely hated it and felt a little queasy about having rented all his videos before viewing one. Not anymore, they're great. In this set Richard took a scene that I'd never consider painting and kept me riveted to the screen as he talked his way through the process. Colors, strokes, what he was trying to capture, why he made certain decisions on detail, and more. Then, after the painting was finished, he sat down in his studio, illustrated some points(on canvas) and discussed a few other topics including color and his color charts. This was very informative... I just wish it was a twenty disc set instead of two, because I want more.
I loved this portait on Scott's website and it was a treat to watch him paint it. He's very painterly, something I aspire to yet can't seem to achieve. This video helped me better understand what he's seeing and how he's portraying it. His discussion of warm and cool light was very educational, as was his use of color, moreso since the model was shown very often during the video. I was suprised by the amount of reworking Scott did on the face - not scraping off and repainting, but coming back and adding to or painting over small areas again and again as he refined his vision. It was very unexpected yet very encouraging. What I found most beneficial was seeing him work on his pallette.
This video really is an afternoon with Richard Schmid. It was filmed on stage in front of a fair sized audience and so the portrait is more informal and much less refined... more of a portrait study. There are a fair number of close-ups of the canvas as he works so you will get a good feel for how he paints. There's little else though. Palette shots are lacking. He entertains the audience a lot instead of talking solely about the process and decisions he's making. The question and answer session at the end is not as technical as in his landscape videos. It seemed as though he avoided direct answers to technical questions or he dumbed his answers down for the non-artists is the audience... plenty of fluffy, inspirational, abstract, substanceless answers. It's a good video if your interest is Richard's personna or watching and learning a bit about how he paints a portrait. It's a bad video if you're looking for more shared insight and direct instruction.
This is an excellent video, one of the best I've rented. Without a doubt, Daniel Greene is a talented artist but more important he's an amazing teacher - direct, clear, concise, and at ease in front of the camera. No stuttering, stammering, or trying to think of what he wants to say - he says and illustrates it with clarity. A stunningly beautiful portrait demonstration that's very professionally shot.
A good instructional video that will be most useful to those using Sanden's pro-mix colors. Sanden starts with demonstrations of mixing his pro-mix colors, doing a portion of his recommended color charts, and matching colors to both samples and to random colors in portraits. This is followed by an hour long portrait study of a previous work - painted using his colors.
This is a very good video on the use of value in modelling form. Using a series of mixed grays Sanden paints three studies while discussing light, shadow, half-tone, reflected lights, and so on. The studies are 1) a cube and sphere, 2) a planes of the head model, and 3) a bust of Abraham Lincoln. That gives you a progression from simple shapes to more complex forms.
There's no need for Sanden's pro-mix colors - just black (or any dark color) and white.
Note that this video does not use or discuss color or color mixing.
