LAJOS MARKOS Art Instruction Video: Classical Portrait Painting

[dmxlaci]

HUNGARY :)

[Michael15551]

That's my grandpa!!!! R.I.P grandpa!

[cybrid1940]

It is sad that the Video is so .... bad.

The painting it is really wonderful.

Can u do another Video that u can observe better the tips and beauty of your art ?

Thank You !!!

Zizi

[stevie68a]

Beautiful work....

[MisappliedRhetoric]

What is with that robotic voice?

[Pennytunes]

Mr, Marco's painted my portrait on my birthday. And gave it to me as a gift

Some one stole it a few years later. I was heartsick.

[Michael15551]

@Pennytunes That is sad. I just wanted you to know he passed a way and just recently on 11-11-11 his wife passed away too,

[alptheressam]

just wanted to know if this was a at one sitting type of painting; I'm an ameteur and most my paintings are done alla prima. I have a problem with getting colors muddy on the canvas. any tips you can give me as to how to avoid that will be appreciated. thanks in advance.

[terrapin52]

@alptheressam you get muddy colors when you mix your cool (bluish/greenish) colors with your warm (reddish/orange) colors. keep these separate. clean your brush in turps or walnut oil when switching from warm to cool, or vice versa. look for areas on the subject that are cool. (the jaw/muzzle area of most faces is generally cool, even for women). the middle area of the face like the cheeks and ears are generally warm-reddish and the forehead area is generally gold/ochre. hope this helps.

[myopicseer]

@alptheressam terrapin52 gave you some great advice about how to prevent muddy colors in alla prima painting (I am impressed by the advice and learned some things for me to consider). I would add one more thing that has helped me a lot. I paint most of my first layers with mostly turpentine as the carrier, very thin and able to dry rapidly (I also roughen with sandpaper & degrease the canvas b4 beginning work). I even sometimes spray fixative. Then use LIQUIN and turpentine in upper layers.

[MariyanBG]

If one want to become better he must not follow rules, if you are an amateur and want to learn to paint with this video your "skills" and thinking will be limited, painting cant be learned it can be found, just think " big " learn from your mistakes,

try to found new things , learn from nature ( because there is the truth ) Rembrandt was one of the first who says " It is stupid to draw sculpture of human body and learn something, when you can learn from a real body " Velasquez was the same

[milrago2]

very good tips on color. thanks. jay

[bentleysportraits]

i'm a portrait artist myself and there are basic stuff that has to be right proportion wise to get a likeness.. but no two painters paint alike and use the same method the end result is all that counts not  necessarily your process

[MariyanBG]

AXAXAXAXA never use orenge for skin bullshit tell this to Rembrandt, this dvd is shit, it will only will confuses you, and that arist draw follow some rules in real art there is no such thing, as dont use kadmium yellow !!! Look at van Dyck, Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet , Picasso, Francis Bacon and they didnt follow the rule book of painting, because there are no rules Bacon says " Real artist dont paint things as there are, they paint em as they feel them to be ... "

[iENJOYpaintingSTUFF]

Francis Bacon!?! PICASSO!?!? this is realist art.

[MariyanBG]

Real art, expressionism, realism or any find have no rules for border

[iENJOYpaintingSTUFF]

yup :) but they are different in some ways. different people want to create different things in different ways using different methods asscotiated with the infinite possibilities of different forms art! anything can be art! lol I love how people argue about art. Art is awesome! A world without art is hell.

[davidlever]

@iENJOYpaintingSTUFF It's interesting how you seem so baffled that they mentioned Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso. Both artists understood space, form, and light remarkably. Have you ever seen any of Picasso's early works? I suggest you look them up. You'll be surprised. Want to be even more surpised? Look up Henri Matisse's early works. They're really hard to find, but that son of a bitch could paint.

[jacomanmr]

but this is classical portrait painting, its a style and this style has rules, the artist that you state are indeed fantastic artist, but its unfair to compare them to a classical portrait artist, because they have different styles.

[Dzimini]

Today there are so many 'artists' (in my country) who teach 'drawing' and 'painting', but don't know main perspective, relations etc... and they refuse realism (they don't know to paint realistic). That's because 'there is no rule', as you said - they paint 'AS THEY FEEL' so they can paint horse as one line and say - I feeeeeel it soooo!!!!!!! I'm seek of that...

I don't want to say abstraction is poor or abstraction isn't art, but it just gives space for none-artist to become an 'artist'.....

[MariyanBG]

To be an artist is to be an individual, not to please the public but your self,the idea of art is to bring new meaning of life , Artist like William Turner, Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso even some of Michelangelo works was seen as ineligible.

Now they are seems to be one of the greatest artists ever. And the people living in their age was talking like you " In art you cant do that and that" .Btw allot of realist make very simple "mistakes " because of their rules,because they cant overcome them

[Dzimini]

Can't put Michelangelo in the same line with others, but I totally agree with you! (it's hard for me to express exactly what I want to say in english) Don't get me wrong-I was preparing for the Academy in my country in one of the best art studio, saw many drawing by others in exam for Academy,and for their drawings you can't say-they see the model with their eyes, it just was unknowning (deformed head, unproportional linear drawing act...). So that really hurt.....

[contemporary26]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooow!!! great skill Mr.!

[BIRDWINGS2002]

hahaha,our teacher just a shit,i leaned nothing but how to cheat students only,Youtobe is my great teacher!

[WinterFairy158]

thats my teachers teacher

[69ali]

great talent thanks