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“The confidence of how to put down your paint comes from knowing how to fix mistakes”  🙌 gold

"If you want your brushmarks to appear loose, you have to hold your brush loosely..." - Thousands don't know this xD

Your teaching is extremely interesting. You don't tease us with music or noise called music. Your speech is clear.
Besides, you are an artist. What more could you ask for!
If anyone wants to learn how to make a good lesson, these are the ones. Many thanks!

CAUTION! - actual REAL ARTIST at work!  Brilliant! - look out, Degas!

My heart is all swollen up with gratitude for your tutorial here.  I lost a 91-year old very dear friend/neighbor/mentor/professional painter who had been so generously teaching
me and helping me improve for the last 3 years; we painted together almost every day.  She drilled into my head most of what you teach here (“don’t think if it as a face, just spots and shapes”, she said) however your explanations are concise and demo is so straightforward.  I understand half tone and its purpose much better now.  I haven’t had the heart to paint for a while now because it only made me feel her absence so painfully, BUT, now I am ready to get going on a whole lot of self- portraits for practice, then a whole lot of other ones I have in mind.  Thank you so much.

using synthentic brush on top of hard bristel to achieve clean stroke was eye opener..thank you

This is "the" demo! Best thing I've seen in painting demonstration, hands down. Absolutely remarkable. Straightforward. Simplified. Delivered with the same freshness, accuracy and economy as the paint (humour too!). Bravo, Maestro, and a deeply grateful thank you.

These are probably the best lessons on the entire internet concerning painting. Bravo!

"The confidence to put down paint comes from knowing how to correct your mistakes." Alex Tzavaras.  This is pure gold.

14:30 “ it’s important not to blend the small shapes, but rather find and mix the intermediate color between two marks.“

i dont really do traditional painting but i love watching these as i think the principles and tips here can apply to digital painting as well!

I wish I had known the concepts and techniques you covered in this video years ago.  It would have spared me lots of frustration and wasted time.  I’ve been doing so many things wrong: worrying too much about the appearance of my brushstrokes, holding my brush too tightly, using the wrong brush at the wrong time with the wrong pressure, such as using a stiff bristle brush in the later stages of a painting, which disturbs the underpainting, when I should be using a softer brush to lay down paint without destroying the structural brushwork established in the earlier stages of painting.  But that’s just one of the many things you discuss.  You packed a lot of useful information in this video, much more useful, more practical, and more important information than other videos I’ve seen by other artists.  Thank you so much!

Such a determined stare in this one Alex! Great work

You do the best job of teaching of anybody on youtube.  I love your work.

great video! thank you!

To the point, nothing superfluous, every sentence is worth taking note of. Very useful video(s), thanks a lot!

this is perfect. Was wondering how to paint without blendinding since im using acrylics. This is the method i need

After reading the other comments, I thought to add; the intense gaze (artist trademark) strongly encourages engagement and attention. Well done!

Alex, excellent video. One of the obstacles people create to keep them from improving their art is to focus on the materials rather than technique and practice.