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*Thanks* for the presentation John Henry Twachtman was a member of the "Ten" along with George Inness. One of his techniques was to paint the top of the warp and weft of the canvas giving a pixelated image floating in front of the painting.* Can still remember a winter scene of his at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last century. Beautiful yet disorienting at first. Whelter Twachtman primed the canvas don't know. * for what's it worth "saw" a *mirage* of a large Matisse wall sized painting between the physical work and me. The mirage image was the painting. Focal point distance, color field, lighting, don't know ? Made me wonder if some painters are aware of this effect. (A cheap effect is fluorescent paint under ultraviolet light separating into three separate levels, RGB)

Another beautiful art history video, Jill thank you very much. It made up some memory. Peter Paul Rubens was the first popular European artist whose real works I had seen in the museum in 2017. It was so massive in size and jaw dropping beauty of them, paintings made me both demotivated and motivated at the same time as an aspiring artist. I travelled 400 kms just to see them and I never regret the decision, as after watching them I started to see art differently , then I used to before. Also I didn't know many artists, who I didn't know as they are still not very popular to the general public but after Rubens I dug some and I'm still grateful for this small but impactful event of watching Rubens in the museum. Without that exhibit, I might have given up practicing art.

*Thanks* for the fine three part series on the oil painters presented and their techniques. The loose brush strokes of William Bouguereau opened the door for me to his work. J.S. Sargent also set up his canvas parallel to the sitter then stepped back comparing the equal value and size of both the subject and painting. Assume paintings have a focal point or distance for optimal veiwing. The excellent and extensive watercolor web blog *Handprint* has a good article on Sargent.

25:10 - William Bouguereau's Painting Method. Bookmarking this to return to.

*Thanks* for the presentation and introducing artists unknown to me. Jean Marie Reignier and others are amazing.

Thank you so much for your triptique of insights into how the 'Queen of colour' - Oil painting came to be. It's inspirational, as I have recently done a course in Oil painting, but having the background of how the Masters did it, makes me even more determined to explore more.

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Great video! What app did you use to do the editing of the color wheel segments?

@0:49 is that an Albrecht Durer portrait of van Eyck? ... I looked it up. later signed AD for some reason but indeed a painting by van Eyck. art history mystery fun.

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This is just the video I needed. I am a becoming a big fan of your work. Thank you so much

I just discovered your channel. I am a disabled veteran and begenning my art journey. I enjoy your style. Thank You

Thank for this opportunity to learn more….

So enjoy ALL your content, only wish for more 🙂

Just found this channel - excellent studies and descriptions

Excellent documentary…thank you so much…

Jill, thank you so much for these educational and beautifully produced videos! I always feel inspired and uplifted when I watch them. Blessings!

Art amaze me , putting the emotions on a canvas by colors and strokes of a brush , is actually a way of self treatment , appreciation and gratitude of life or resentment , as poetry words lead our emotions , in a painting our eyes are the window to all emotions .

Your series are the Fine Art of the explanation of Fine Art.

Your series are just untouchable by anything else on You Tube.

Please lose the music. Intrusive.

Outstanding series. Thank You Jill

You make such wonderful videos and you have such good taste, especially with paintings like at 7:40. hmmm, are you single?

Oh my Gouache!

Jill, could you please make a video on the "picture frame"? I don't understand why these old masters need to have their art pieces in such big, heavy/thick, and luxurious frame. It looks distracting to me. Is there any aesthetic value of it?

Thank you so much for your hard work on all these videos! They are very valuable documentary type of video! I feel that I am attending art class in some kind of famous art school/university!

Do great artist need to study composition? Or is it inherently within them? When I've looked at cave paintings ( online ) they appear to be ( some at least ) composed. It puzzles me that before the rules, even perhaps before language some people " have it ". The theory being that enabling the subconscious might have been the key. Was the primitive mind able to do that more easily?

Jill, your productions are truly masterful. They always leave me wanting more and they have my complete attention. I would love to see you do more on Degas .

Amazing

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big fan of your work and i love the way you present things...

Bouguereau- The absolute master of skin tone, the eyes and human form. Seeing his works in person, {for me} no other painter has been able to paint such 'life' into the subjects eyes like he did.

thank you great video. Sargent used poppy seed oil too. There was also clove oil in the paint was well. Most likely he used damar in the initial layers or a siccative for faster drying . You know your stuff what's your background?

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the video has some interesting points, but the Italian word pronunciations need quite a bit of work. Decent try though :)

The opening picture on the thumbnail is a picture I have longed to have or a copy of it. I can never find the correct name for . Is it called " la fumiere"????Can you supply that for me p,ease. I really enjoyed the video. Thank you

Awww. I wasn't ready for it to be over. That was lovely!!

What a wonderful segment. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the subject matter. From my subjective perspective, no one has ever come close to the magnitude of mastery of Jan van Eyck. In my view, he is the ultimate God in the fine arts realm of painting. Conversely, there are many Titian-esque artists.

Greatly enjoyed your series on brushstrokes. As a point of shared interest; there is a segment in an Andrew Dixon Graham video where he looks at a portrait painted by Rembrandt this is still hanging in its original location in a private house in Amsterdam and where its present owner discloses unscripted that Rembrandt had used his thumb to paint the series of buttons on the subject's jacket. A close up reveals Rembrandt's thumb print in the buttons.

I am a male artist and appreciate you expose and laud female artists. There were so many that we never hear about. I am going to raise the ire of my male counterparts, but women are superior to men in so many things. This is why they were repressed publicly. Chauvinism has been a terrible barrier for women. I love watching your videos. Keep them coming.

I've done all forms of painting including watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil and whilst oils for e.g. is more technical (i.e. you need more stuff to make it work well), watercolour for me has by far been the hardest to develop layering skill and brush control due to the transparency of it. That said, some of the best classical artworks throughout history have been done in watercolour!

Always a joy to listen and look at your video's. I believe that art / culture can save what is left of society and that humans promoting it, will need to have their names mentioned at one point. Thank you

I really appreciated for your video. I can’t take off my eyes from it. Learnt a lot from it. Was beautiful moment.

What is amazing we are still trying to achieve these results today. I have been doing master copy painting myself and I see this is how we artists today are still trying into paint “loosely” using ” bravura” brush work.. These geniuses were so far ahead of many painting today. It took us centuries to try and reinvent the wheel. They people, men and women,en, were and still are the greatest artists of all time

One more quality video - educational, enjoyable and relaxing with your hypnotic voice! Thanks always.

Dandy talk... I want some of that Rubens' skill and obvious joy he invoked through his sketches/drawings.

It reminds me of a painting I'm copying of a autumn/winter scene where the shadows under distant trees are actually a lavender color.

I'm looking forward to visiting the Freer Museum to see their collection.

I like watercolor more --just like what the video says, it's very accessible. Imagine carrying a canvas on a trip?! :) I just think that art world should give more exposure to watercolor artist.