oh, the chance to pick your brain! thank you! i'm learning glazing now and wow, it is a PAIN. i am too impatient, which is my biggest fault, but the result with all those layers is so luminous and gorgeous. i want to achieve that. someday... sigh. Thanks again, for putting this up. Yay!
@ofthefey I don't know how old you are but in my 20's there was no way I had the patience to do what I am doing now. So maybe time will solve all the problems. If you work on two or three paintings at the same time, you don't have to wait for the drying periods. You are painting on one painting while another is drying.
I love your artwork and greatly appreciate how you share your process through these videos. I have looked through your facebook posts, as well, to find some hint of how you transfer your vellum drawings to canvas. At one point I thought you painted directly onto vellum. I draw on tracing paper then use a light board to transfer the final on Bristol/paper for watercolor. I am now studying oils and want to retain the detail/fine lines from my drawings for oil painting. Many thanks, Anne
Thank you for your very kind comments on my work. I appreciate your taking the time to write me. By the way, I now have a facebook site where I will answer questions (when I am not painting!)written by some of the people that follow me. Maybe you would like to take a look! Michael Parkes
I paint from memory. Occasionally I use a photograph but that can be very dangerous as photographs do not portray what I want to say. Mostly I use photos for just the gesture of the body.
Thanks for sharing your peaceful painting techniques. What surface do you paint on? Paper, panal or canvas? The demo is clean and the paintings in progress look like they are matted and done on paper.
I paint on canvas if it is large. I tape the canvas on board so they are easy to manage and then stretch later. If they are small paintings, I paint on board. They are not matted. Michael Parkes
@chiyo007 I paint on canvas unstretched, taped on a wooden board. After it is finished, I ship it to where it is going and then have it stretched at the destination. It is much easier for shipping that way. Sorry this comment is so tardy! Michael
I then truly appologize, it's just there are too many pretenders out there, and I do sometimes feel like they rob great art blind.
MateWiggy 6 months ago
They look a lot like trace overs
MateWiggy 6 months ago
@MateWiggy Sorry to disappoint. My paintings are not traced...just put on with long hours of work.
mariaparkes1 6 months ago
I bet he is doing well financially, his house looks nice
uncompromising34 1 year ago
oh, the chance to pick your brain! thank you! i'm learning glazing now and wow, it is a PAIN. i am too impatient, which is my biggest fault, but the result with all those layers is so luminous and gorgeous. i want to achieve that. someday... sigh. Thanks again, for putting this up. Yay!
ofthefey 1 year ago
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mariaparkes1 1 year ago
@ofthefey I don't know how old you are but in my 20's there was no way I had the patience to do what I am doing now. So maybe time will solve all the problems. If you work on two or three paintings at the same time, you don't have to wait for the drying periods. You are painting on one painting while another is drying.
Good luck!
space4art 1 year ago
I love your artwork and greatly appreciate how you share your process through these videos. I have looked through your facebook posts, as well, to find some hint of how you transfer your vellum drawings to canvas. At one point I thought you painted directly onto vellum. I draw on tracing paper then use a light board to transfer the final on Bristol/paper for watercolor. I am now studying oils and want to retain the detail/fine lines from my drawings for oil painting. Many thanks, Anne
annejewett 1 year ago
Dear Norbert,
Thank you for your very kind comments on my work. I appreciate your taking the time to write me. By the way, I now have a facebook site where I will answer questions (when I am not painting!)written by some of the people that follow me. Maybe you would like to take a look! Michael Parkes
space4art 2 years ago
Thank you for your insights, do you paint from models, or from memory?
slumber56 2 years ago
I paint from memory. Occasionally I use a photograph but that can be very dangerous as photographs do not portray what I want to say. Mostly I use photos for just the gesture of the body.
space4art 2 years ago
I use turpentine as a medium.
Michael Parkes
space4art 2 years ago
thank you for sharing your technique, are you using oil or just pure turpentine?
tinatina1708 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing your peaceful painting techniques. What surface do you paint on? Paper, panal or canvas? The demo is clean and the paintings in progress look like they are matted and done on paper.
chiyo007 3 years ago
I paint on canvas if it is large. I tape the canvas on board so they are easy to manage and then stretch later. If they are small paintings, I paint on board. They are not matted. Michael Parkes
space4art 2 years ago
@chiyo007 I paint on canvas unstretched, taped on a wooden board. After it is finished, I ship it to where it is going and then have it stretched at the destination. It is much easier for shipping that way. Sorry this comment is so tardy! Michael
mariaparkes1 6 months ago
Please come to Melbourne, Australia and share your works. It would be my dream come true. Viktoria
veryfunnygirl 3 years ago
i love this man...he is my favorite of all. i just gush over his work
imzaadi 3 years ago
Very good!
verdadybelleza 3 years ago
Really awesome. Love Michael Parkes work.
You feel yourself out of this world while watching his marvelous paintings, lithographs, sculptures and so on
carlosparedesa 3 years ago