Thanks Phil.
I always come away from your class with something new and useful.

Yes, PLEASE do a video on your scraping method; inquiring minds want to know!  :)

Your figures and animals are well drawn, though they are small, I like the attention you give them.

I like the muted violet in the shadow on that barn it really looks incredible along with the bits of color very beautiful Art 🎨

Your drawing skills as well as your painting interpretations are amazing.

Learning a lot from you. Thanks 🙏🏻

Thanks Ron, squeeze out what you think you need then double it and use it all

May God bless him

Nice paintings Phil and thank you.

Thanks!

This was so darn Awesome love your Art 🎨 videos there so informative and Amazing!✌️🌟

I love both your barn paintings. Outstanding!

Love❤❤❤

Great 👍

Great video, when a painting isn't working out I'll scrape it off and I'm always pleasantly surprised of the unifying, soft effect it brings. I hadn't thought of incorporating this into the painting process! It makes total sense in terms of providing an excellent block-in map, and if you don't cover it all up you achieve more brushwork variety than you could otherwise.

Yes, Phil good and important subject, paint quality. There is a place to use thick paint and thin paint in your picture, the thick usually being in the focal area and foreground to emphasize depth, while the thinner paint in the background to help it recede. That is crucial for a "3-D painting".  Also, if you paint every day no problem putting a lot of paint out as you will use it up in a week or so, most paint can hang on that long depending on humidity of your area. If not a daily painter less amount can be put out to economize, as, like all things art material costs have skyrocketed in the past few years. They were always expensive but now insane for certain pigments, like cadmiums. That's why a limited palette helps mitigate this, I have six main colors and white, and it helps with harmony too, as well as cost. Remember also that your most "expensive" painting item is your time, so don't waste it doing many crappy paintings, if you can. LOL.

Some words from workshop instructors stick in my mind regarding paint, the best being, when seeing the stingy amount of paint that people were using and laying out on their palettes and paintings, scrubbing in tiny dots of paint on a cheap canvas which made a lousy looking painting that may have succeeded with a thicker application of paint. He said to certain students guilty of that: "Forcrissakes, Use some GD paint, They'll make more!!" LOL ;D

Thanks for your thoughtful lessons. I'm learning things I need to hear. Especially about using my imagination to 'design' my landscape scenes. I have a tendency to try to be true to what Im seeing, as opposed to reflecting how it makes me feel. Also like the idea of scraping and painting over this, because I have a problem with keep my colors clean, wet on wet.

Nice with the gouache example. To me it was closer to a more abstract interpretation of landscape - and I love that. I experience it as a more intense feeling of taking in the feeling of the landscape not just looking with the eyes but more with all our senses and taking everything into the open heart of breathing deeply and becoming the light and sound and wind - brilliant 🎵🐦‍⬛🩵🧡🎶🦋

Great video and information a lot of information relative to your Light & Shadow coarse I think.
Thank you Blessings

Thanks for sharing how you interpret the reference and transform them into beautiful paintings! I can see how scraping the paint would give you more of a ‘rough’ start on which you can build or ‘correct’ color and value so to speak. It’s like laying down the foundational cement (which is messy) on which you lay the bricks! Also the scraping I’d imaging is like creating a problem to then ‘fix’… Better to start with chaos and then bring order to that chaos than vice versa, but it’s that combination of order and chaos that is beautiful!