I learn from every teacher, I never stop learning, painting for 60yrs and every day is exciting. I love reading and watching Mr Sanden books and dvd's!!!!!!! Instead of being judgemental, learn!!!!!!!

Hahahaha the disclaimer before watching this on YouTube!

The greatest advice I have ever been given by an art instructor was, “Never look at bad art.”

I remember I was so frustrated because I couldn't get the color of the sofa right and got so pissed off and mixed all the remaining color on my palette, ended up getting the exact color

As a portrait photographer, I learn so much from the masters of the brush and palette knife.

I hate to say anything negative about this artist and his painting technique but I think my critique is something that should be shared.  In painting a portrait the eyes are the focal point and the most important feature.  The eyes are as much "feeling" as they are a feature.  This lovely woman had somewhat bulging eyes.  Which is not an especially a flattering feature but there you are: bulging.  Now she not only has bulging eyes, she seems not well, annoyed, feeling kindly of "under the weather".  The under white of the eye tells it all.  The artist here, as good as he is, never stood back and really looked at her eyes; her expression as a whole.  You could say they are puppy dog eyes, at least on that day.  In attending to the color, shape, and shadows, the white of her eyes, shows the real woman along with how she "feels".  Also the eyebrow above her right eye accents those feeling even more,  showing some attitude.  This lips are beautiful in every way but somehow don't convey her fullness or fleshiness of her face and somehow also show her uncomfortableness at that moment.  John Singer Sargent could see this and most probably emphasized her "not well" feeling.  You are a master, sir, in painting but I think you should have stood back, many times, to not just see her coloring, and facial features but the real Lady Agnew as a woman, not just a pretty, pampered and well to do woman, but a woman who just didn't want to pose for her portraiture that day.  Does anyone agree?

For those commenters who think that Sargent painted with a slapdash speeded- up method: He took months to complete a portrait. He would step back, study the subject, go back to canvas, put down one stroke, then step back and do the same process countless times. If you think that's fast, then you're just ignorant. John Howard Sanden is a modern master. I have been studying his books and technique for many years. It is a privilege to watch him work.

I saw the original painting in Edinburgh's National Gallery in April of this year.  It is STUNNING.  It inspired me to come home and research Sargent and his other works.

I think this must be the best video on Sargent's technique ever made

love this chaps presentation.  Love the attitude as well the tie and all.A man with a bit of class

This is  such a privilege!.

Reason thank you so much for putting these films on YouTube, they're amazing

My mother told me, if you cannot say something nice, do not say it at all.  Why are there so many haters & angry people in this world.   Thank you Razim Ahmed for this video, I loved it. :)

This is one of the most enlightening and wonderfully relaxing videos I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. The work is so skillfully carried out and explained. Irrespective of how Sargent worked I like this artists approach and method. Personally I paint too fast so I’m learning to slow down and really think about each stroke and consider its effect on the work, this video helps me with that approach. Thank you for posting these videos. This is also my favorite work by Sargent, a true master along with my other favorite Anders Zorn.

Saw a Sargent retrospective @ the Met a few years back. It blew me away, maybe the best painter I have seen.

Folks the biography mentioned at 3:20 can be found here (I'd probably choose the .pdf version it's large and the archive serves it slowly so the download will take some few minutes) - https://archive.org/details/johnsargent00char
Also, John Singer Sargent spent considerable time as an adult in the USA sharing time in Europe and England.

Indeed thank you for the upload. People who take art seriously love this kind of video were quality painting is being taught by truly generous craftsmen of the medium. I've watched these two over and over and get something each time. Every person is different and will produce another's work differently it's nature but we stand on the shoulders of the greats before us. We invented cameras for those that want exact copies. Thank you Razim

Just seen this in Edinburgh, it’s a beautiful piece of work, absolutely breathtaking

Thank you for sharing. He was a great portrait artist. It's a shame he's gone, but his work will live on.

Great art, great Master, so perfect masterclass, unic teacher for beginners, RESPECT