Painting a Painting with Michael Shapcott No. 5

[lonawa]

I named my daughter Onawa seven years ago... we both enjoyed this and Onawa thought this was very cool.

[TraceyTil]

I found you on S6 and saw your link to this video. I loved your images beforehand, but after actually seeing everything you do to get the end results, I appreciate the painting even more. Hats off to you, Michael! You're an amazing artist!

[TxNormlmembr19]

your definitely one of my top favorite artists'. anytime I watch your videos it gives me some inspiration for my own projects.

[KendraSiviero]

can i ask how many time did you spent for a paint?

[MadamKarkat]

She is very amzing, i really like your style :D

[stan36solo]

just awesome :) your style is so warm, friendly and inspiring I just cant belive

[Rugoraige]

hahah someone is pretty jealous or missed the like botton loool ! nice michael

[Jacper60]

you are amazing

[PaintSlab]

pffsh! yeah i liked it!

[joolsner]

Oh no, you have a girlfriend! Gutted... lol!

[woodleyerilas]

your style makes my heart smile

[Dressommer]

Michael, I have a question for you. I think you're great, and wanted to know what kind of paper you use? I wanted to something with water acrylic colors, on a portrait drawing i did. I have fixative, but my drawing is on watercolor/aquarelle pape, and it dosen't really work with that. I don't know if you understand my english. But if you do, i would be really glad to hear your aswer.

Best Reguards

ASB

[MoreLikeSmellanie]

You use acrylics like they were watercolours. So amazingly done though!

[awagamgnalaw]

this is just crazy work. well done

[lilmissyolly13]

Amazing.

[BbnnaannazZ]

I like it when you put those little tips during the video to let us know what you're doing and what you're using :)

[HarvestLYlee]

Wow I just got showned

[riteasrain]

beautifully done! I didn't know you could paint with oils over fixative? Wonderful art!

[MRridl6]

THIS IS JUST AMAZING WORK MAN...WOW

[louisemiele]

I love your work so much ....painting faces is my passion ,you are so inspiring to me thank-you ..keep em coming hun xxx

[dragonflyhottie]

Hi my name is Shannel and i love your paintings and videos! I am lettin you know that i would like to use some of your videos in my senior project presentation. I will let people know who you are, and refer them to your website (its awesome) and to your youtube page! Keep urp the good work! and Thank you!

[smeza943]

wonderfull work once again ^ ^

[rollskyder]

The rough doesn't disappear with colours... Have you used a HB pencil ? Or another... ?

Amazing work, very nice. <3

(sorry for the bad english)

[aruchi]

You're just amazing

[farfalla7608]

Absolutely beautiful work! My favorite are the portraits, they're so breath taking! Do you have a website? I was wondering, how do you know what colors to use and where to place them? Awesome music!

[DukeofSanchez]

Wow! You paint fast. :)

[music4lyf1993]

It's great!!! What is the painting trying to communicate?

[angelkubin]

AWESOME! LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!!!!!!!

Thank Your for the demo... Fantastic , watching you create this lovely painting...

[debcoart]

Stunning. Welcome back!

[darkmiguel3]

peter chao wont post my video

hearing your parents do it

dam but this shit is good - peter chao dam him

[Chubrikov]

Wow! It's great!!! Like yours technick! :)

[firestar415]

"Native American Language" which tribe, which language?

[tumbledon]

love this BTW......Love your techniques...but like how u make vids 2....

[artiene87]

nice man.

what illusrtaion borad did you use, and did you have to gesso it? thanks

[nOvsdOwal]

Excellent work

[legrandchloekins]

Drooling in the extremely positive, complimentary sense. :)

[legrandchloekins]

Virtual drooling.

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

man, you are my new favourite artist right now. ive seen enough of your paintings to know that you and your technique are totally awesome.

im subscribing...cant wait to see more.

cheers

[Storminspired]

Exactly what I wanted to see in your videos, how you do it.. not totally giving art lessons or anything just letting us know what mediums your using and how, I love it, I don't much like acrylic but you are using oil over acrylic which is technically possible but new and innovative and creative. Perfect!

[willardfest]

You  The Man Mr. Awesome:)

[MittensIsMyHomeboy]

so jealous of your mad skillz

[cocomajo]

wow!! it's work like yours that leaves me speachless n makes we think how dare i call myself an artist. WoW!!

[baller00330]

NICE WORK

[silverring91]

This is sooo beautiful! It almost makes me want to cry. I'm now stalking on both deviantart and youtube. :3

[thenudeartist]

awesome vid

[daligoddess2006]

She's beautiful. Thanks again for another inspiring video. I tried your technique using pencil and watercolor yesterday, it turned out pretty good for my first try. I think I'm going to play around with it for a while now and use acrylics next time. Thanks for showing me how to do this.

[Marigoldblu]

I have waited a long time to see you here again....and I was very happy indeed to see your latest work! Brilliant!!!

[kitschykaix]

We have a lot of similar techniques and i never thought to use a charcoal pencil for black outlining, brilliant!

[PippinTX]

Gorgeous! Such a treat to watch you work. You could definitely keep my interest at a much slower speed, just so you know.... :)

[xyirii]

Wow. Just wow. I'm also an artist and I always am fascinated by how other artists go about their work. Amazing work. =D

[fireemblem1992]

Simply brilliant, my friend. :)

[vulcanbirdbrain]

your re-upload the other day made me ridiculously happy.

this... yeah :D

can't wait for more! love it

[desertgirl913]

So happy you made a new video! I learn a lot from your videos and this painting is so awesome... great work.

[mamimichan02]

Im sure tons of people have asked you this.. but i thought you couldn't put oil on acrylic paint or overlap because the paint would start to chip off and it would ruin the painting.. is that true??

[Foe117]

not necessarily, it depends entirely on the viscosity and the ingredients of the paint. Certain manufactures create a specific blend which in this case, does not affect oil. You must account for the time to dry the paint as well. Mediums can sometimes be mixed with each other when wet. controlling these mixed mediums is the key.

[Redrosel]

I'm a fan :)

[dankwilliams]

5 stars and fav'ed. awesome.

[AyneEverlast]

Beautiful! :)

[cheekychen]

beautiful mate.

[jacebest]

you make it look so easy!!!

[malexan31]

Welcome back:) Fantastic painting.

[MissGummi]

I'm so glad you made another video! I'm such a fan of your work... I watch you on DA now, and I'm planning on hanging your prints in my house when I have one. Your work is amazing!

[julzabro]

Don't look now but somebody's BRILLIANT!!!

I would like to have a full color book of all your creations!...putting my order in early....;)

[minimicas]

OH MY GOD , I WANNA BE LIKE YOU *.*

[lisacole690]

amazing & beautiful ... glad to see you making videos again!

[bludecembers2]

Amazing

[TheSunSunich]

thanks for sharing this one. great insight into how you paint

[SplitPZ]

She's beautiful! Glad you're back!....You've been missed.

[cr0ssingpath5]

so beautiful!, How can you just paint over the pencil without muding up the color with the graphite? what kind of paper do you use, I use Arches cold press 300lb, and Im definitely in awe with your work

[zZ0088]

i don't know if that's what he does but if you spray your work with workable fixatif and then paint on to of it

[AaronConnorM]

I would love to see you upload a video actually sketching the drawing first!

[Azawindam]

Incredible! I wonder if this is done in one sitting. Amazing work!

[redlung]

Hey Thanks. If I'm remembering correctly I think it was 3 sittings.

[itricke]

That was beautiful. Thanks for adding the words i guess tutorial at the bottom. ur my fav an i cant wait to get my calendar!

[Vuji222]

Love it!

[NamasteCG]

wow... that is truly amazing!! I feel like painting now! ^___^ I just have a few questions, did you use the spray fix before you added the iol paints? And also, what kind of paper did you use for this?

[ivett1990]

You are A M A Z I N G!! x'D

[lalanzinge]

magnificent =)

[itskategoogins]

you are such an amazing artist!

[train2dbrain]

just wanted to ask... how do you get this good?

[OnlyDoniaUKnow]

I'm so excited that you're posting more often now. Looking forward to it all!

[omniscientmoon77]

Great video. Great painting. Thanks for sharing your technique. Very well done. I'm into portraits now myself, and enjoying it immensely. =)

[Catconvention]

FUCK YEAH

i love you michael

[ccbell42]

amazing!

[autumclouds67]

i absolutely love your art (and taste in music)! guess who's calender is going to be on my wall for the rest of the year?

you've been a major inspiration in creating my portfolio for my AP art course and i cannot wait to see more videos and artwork!

[ringo45]

It's great to see you posting again. I've been waiting a long time to see your new work through video. Amazing job as always, looking forward to what comes next.

[raybaboon]

Looked really good man! I wish you would have fixed that hand up a little more or something though... Keep it up though, you've got a lot of talent!

[chelseadee1989]

Lovely. Your work is just gorgeous.

[vixta0401]

haha love the way you started the video. great work, thank you for showing is step by step how you paint. do you water down the acrylics to make them almost water-color-like?

[iamtommyok]

great work man, whats the first layer of color you put on after the drawing was done? Im guessing it was a transparent flesh glaze or something?

[lazah67]

first