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I am seeing my work and others completely differently. So comprehensive. Thank you! Donna

You always have the best insights

I love the way you explain things! Great teacher- I’m going to try this I have been trying to become more abstract but have struggled. What a great exercise.

Sir, you are a master artist! Thank you, thank you! Many blessings during this time!

thank you for your perspectives! I really enjoy the way you break down the moving parts you can align to express with authenticity. That's motivating in art!

That’s very interesting, thank you. Why not have both? Can you not have multiple foci? Get the viewer’s attention, then entice him/her to supplement and complete the picture with their own imagination outside of your painting. It stays with them, but as an invitation to make your painting the starting point of their journey. I think an artist owes this to the viewers of his/her painting.

6:31 It starts with the dandelion left bottom corner. The child is balancing the white and the black, the light and the darkness.

4:52 The tree in the right upper corner. To me, that is the protagonist of the painting. The house is empty. Unnatural. Artificial. Too well defined in contrast with the nature and the old building. The soul of the painter is trying to escape, hence the unseen upper part of the tree that is ‘up in the sky’.

Abbreviating those two trees on the right opened up the painting. Terrific video. Thank you.

just add shapes and adjust the color as you go

Encore et encore Merci😊

California. 📸

This is beautiful to watch. I love the resistance against adding detail and how that makes the picture. Where I live, we have a lot of forest I draw but I'm still limiting my choices of scene due to the fact that a lot has volumes of foliage that are very sparse with very thin foliage - I've not figured them out yet as they're quite intangible in terms of depth - At some stage I'll go in with the paints but I think I'll start with compositions that have a lot of solid elements but with just small patches of the thin, layered stuff that's problematic so far.

Ian can I ask why do you prepare the canvas with a tone? Thanks ❤ from Australia 🇦🇺

Ian I’m glad you’re back. Your videos are the real deal and as an artist myself your one of the few on UA-cam I take seriously so 🙏 thank you from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

Wonderful! Thanks!

Just curious, are you using the same pencil throughout each area ?

This is like my painting sermons. When I feel everything in my paintings are waxky and do not make sense, it just not working, you hold up the standard of Truth that gives me Hope. And more practice to do.. Thank- you for loving what you you do and sharing generously.

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Ian - I'm fairly new to your fabulous instruction . . . are you painting with oils? N

Wonderful painting! I prefer to the original reference photo 😊

Fedor Zakharov is not a russian painter, he is from Ukraine. :)

I never took any professional classes and I paint as my hobby. I like to thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise free of charge. I feel more confident about how to begin to paint 🤙

Well said thanks

merci pour tout ce que vous partgez en veritable professeur, j"ai enormement appris de vos enseignements😊

You'd like Micro four-third body like Olympus e-m5 and Panasonic 14-140mm or 12-32mm & 45-150mm lenses, if you didn't get new camera yet.

Love these examples. Thanks Ian.

Awesome teacher. Great artist 🙏

Ah yes! Thank you, Ian!! So glad you provided a way to keep us in the loop!

I would love to see more of your drawings. It's one step I do not do enough of when painting. I tend to sketch on the canvas if at all.

Your suggestion that you do more of the same sort of drawings that you did in the video "Drawing Helps You See the World" is great. I would watch them all. as I am learning a lot!

Thank you!