Classical style speed painting of a live model by Jonathan Hardesty

[HERMIONExCANTxDRAW]

I love your videos. Good art and music at the same time :)

[pagnes61]

very good painting. I wonder only why don't you lift a bit the canvas in way that it is directly in front of your face. It must be very uncomfortable curving your back every time.

[electricsparty]

whats the title of the back song?

[nervousnotebooks]

9 people are mad they can't paint like Jonathan Hardesty.

[sclewi]

Try a good quality odourless mineral spirit, only put out small amounts while working. Use sparingly to thin paint. And wipe brushes on rags or paper to clean brushes. If your wealthy apparently Spike of Lavender will work. 

[LukeShetler]

Is there any way to do this sort of thing with 0 harmful vapors? I love to oil paint but it is such a pain to do it in my bedroom, without turpentine and the like. As of now I only use walnut oil (and a fast drying variant)

Thanks (I'll take advice from anybody)

[TRASUPO]

Remember the painters philosophy, or the 3"M"s, 1st stroke Magic, 2nd stroke Mediocre, 3rd stroke Mud.

[edifice9]

Beautiful



[grdemihop1]

goooooooooooood



[ramiresarte]

It's painting!!! Congrats from Brasil :-)

[tomatoe39]

how do u get the blue green background?

[tecagasdelarisa]

what colors are you using?

[paintedglyphs333]

Love it! This is how I was originally taught to work; however over time I have changed my style. I enjoy watching you work, Bravo!

[krimskrams]

what's the music? chopin?

[doddling]

Hi Johnathan, Great piece. Do you have any instructional CDs for sale?

[bytonynguyen]

this is great

[Freak7109]

That was amazing to watch!

really makes me want to take an art class

[asdfkie]

Hi, I'm a 15 year old artist and all my life I've been fascinated by paintings from the renaissance period. I'm currently looking for a teacher and I have no doubt your style of painting suits me. Do you teach in person?

[Akinari]

gotta love the song.. ^^ Awesome drawing =D

[Afrorazor]

bad

[delilahsart]

Great work

[theromanpraetorian]

Omg! before I came to this page I was thinking of Chopin's music then after clicking this video................surprised­! I heared a chopin waltz!!!! Coincidence? or chopin's music is just beautiful to accompany this painting? so surprised

[Miasmummy2497]

gooooood!

[koffeekage]

looks good, do another video in HD

[BigDogGMoney]

Jonathan, love your technique! Are you using oils or acrylics? I noticed early on when you were marking out the features that you did some correcting with lighter paint and your work didn't dirty with colours running into one another, which makes me think you're using acrylics?

[JonathanHardesty]

Thanks! I'm using oils actually. I have found that I am horrible with acrylics. They dry so fast that I feel like I can't do anything. I've seen beautiful work with acrylics but I could never quite get them to work for me. The trick with overlaying oil paint is to make sure you haven't used too much medium/thinner in the first layer. You have to make sure to use enough paint for the overlaying stroke as well and use a light touch. You have to leave the stroke too and not mess with it.

[dcolman27]

welll done man I like your text overlays with little tidbits of valuable info Someone commented you on seeing the model, you can always set up another camera to capture her @ same time and put it as an insert/small thumbnail in upper left or lower left of this main screen. Something my camera guy did on my demos. I will show you an example when its up

[JonathanHardesty]

Yeah I think you are right. Showing the model would help tremendously...even if it was just a picture in the upper right. I've got some software now that allows for picture in picture so I think for my next one I will have both my palette and also the model reference.

[bagoona]

how do u lift the paper w/out ripping it when done?

[JonathanHardesty]

This is actually canvas that I have taped to the drawing board. The reason I do it this way, especially for quick sketches, is to allow myself compositional room. I don't have to worry about the composition while I am painting...I can always just take it off the board and stretch it later. Because of the ground on the canvas the tape doesn't stick or leave a residue...at least in my experience I've never had that happen. It probably depends a lot on the tape and the canvas used.

[lp22hot]

wow how cool is this.

[billypaul85]

YES!  Beau-tee-full.

[Hamking1]

I like how messy your style is. seems like fun. :)

well done.

[crunk001]

saw your sketchbook at CA and mate - yes you know it: 6years of how to see you shining now as you are :-)

what a journey! greetings from germany. much love

[ironpirites]

Very nice job. I would like to have seen the model posed next to the painting at the end for comparison, but I am very impressed.

[divanoaelle]

mmmm fa cacà

[LaMonf7]

It was fascinating watching you work! You are so talented. Thanks for sharing.

[artettina]

See the model sneak in to take a look, that was cute.

[seahinchey]

thank you Jonathan hardesty, I shall think of your little notes every time oil attempts to intimidate me.

[matthewrocks711]

lol, It's looks like a jeremy lipking, just not as soft. Hmm, any influences/inspiration in any direction?

[josepesfial]

Jonathan, are you using a paper?(sorry for my poor english)

[aquacryl]

Saw most of your wonderful demo's !

Merci beaucoup !

[69ali]

very nice

[yuske05]

i can see your raw natural talent, it's great. jus work more on your block-ins. i don't think your seeing in tones enough.

[KeithEPatton]

you're 19... do you have any training? It doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about. This guy is one of the most trained skilled realists alive. Block-in's are the first abstract 2d shapes of the drawing (the first 1:30), proportions, placement, etc; the tones involve the lay-in, posterizing, and the modeling. He only has two hours on a quick sketch, the modeling won't be perfect.

[yuske05]

This is a two hour sketch? Well that changes perspective quite a bit, don't it.

[kuraudosutoraifu24]

OMG that was amazing!^___^

[UncleRabbit1]

Oh Jonathan you are just too good. You are just too damn good!

[daromaclub]

wowowowowowowowonderfull job 5 stars for you! =D

[Shoujoboy51]

Effing amazing!

Your a great inspiration.

I'm just starting ot get really serious with this stuff. I looked at where you started(first page of your thread).

This doesn't even look like the same person did it ! O_O Anyways I'm subscribing and faving this.

[bengoshia]

Great video, hope you add more!

[dannyVulture]

Beautiful. Traditional is always best.

[JonathanHardesty]

Definitely ;)

[0Kiwitube0]

Insanely Great! That's all can say ... incredible!

[JonathanHardesty]

Thanks!

[WillySausage]

Hey Jonathan, well done! Are you using the sight-size method when you step away from the canvas?

[JonathanHardesty]

I actually trained using sight-size during the drawing stage but I quickly abandoned it when I started feeling more competent. By the time I was painting I didn't use it at all.

The model was over to the left and below my eye level so it would have been really tricky to set it up in sight size. Sight size is great for just starting out, but it's restrictive (in my opinion) once you get to a certain point. You can see, in my block in, that I work comparatively with angles in mind.

[JonathanHardesty]

I ran out of space on the last reply, but I wanted to say thanks for the kind words too!  I love painting and I feel really blessed to be able to do it fulltime.

[charlenerice]

***** sweet

[JonathanHardesty]

Thanks hehe

[Earendil135]

Awesome!