The 7 Secret Painting Techniques I learned from my Mentor: Master Artist, Odd Nerdrum

Dustin Neece
Dustin Neece
345.6 هزار بار بازدید - 8 سال پیش - In this 2 hour painting
In this 2 hour painting lecture / demo I did my best to share the principles and techniques I learned during my apprenticeship with Odd Nerdrum. The themes of his painting may be dark, but there is no question that he is a master. Nearly everything I say I do in this video is also practiced by Odd. Not all... but most.

The first half of the video I talk a bit about my overall experience and get into my general painting process and some of the tools I use. Please note: Since this was an in person event and not initially meant as a youtube recording, you might not be able to hear all the audience questions and the flow of the lecture is not very straightforward as I was answering questions throughout the talk. I am posting this so that you can extract some of the valuable information that I share.

At 1:12:00, I list off and elaborate on the 7 most important techniques I learned which I have also listed below.

1. Be bold and learn to compare: Don't be afraid to put your art next to your favorite artist and learn to paint like them. You won't lose your own style, you will extract as much as you can and incorporate it into YOUR style. If you want to create master paintings, you need to have a clear idea of where you are, and where you want to go, with an unflinching resolve.

2. Be flexible, and learn to fumble through your painting: be open to changing everything in your painting. Don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be restricted by fear and the desire to know exactly what you will do next in your painting process.

3. Learn to destroy in order to create: using sandpaper or palette knives. Make your painting a sculpture as much as it is a painting.
(Be safe with these techniques - know what is in your paint, use a respirator or be outside in the fresh air, don't sand like crazy and create tons of dust in your studio.)

4. Use layering techniques - understand scumbling and glazing

5. Values are the key to creating a sense of realistic form and three dimensionality. Learn how to see and translate values well into your painting. The best tool I use is a black and white viewing filter. Also learn to view your paintings in different ways to see the errors...use a mirror, turn your painting upside down etc.

6. Work from life! - Life offers so much more information, you learn to see light, you learn to incorporate the energy of your surroundings into your paintings. You get to incorporate spontaneous experiences into your painting. (Like the one I describe at 1:29:00)

7. Working with a limited palette, making sure that you are working with pigments that harmonize naturally. Less is more!

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8 سال پیش در تاریخ 1395/09/22 منتشر شده است.
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