Thanks Morgan for sharing your knowledge, I love your finished painting. I have a long way to go but learnt so much so far. I think my half tones not dark enough ( maybe stopped squinting so much at the end) and need some practise mixing my greys into the skin tone. What's the best lighting set up, I seem to have a lot of glare on my pallet and canvas? I struggle with long periods due to chronic pain need to work out best way to paint in short session any tips?

Thanks Morgan,,did the adjustments you mentioned. Much appreciate your feedback as i know you are busy with your career. Your course is great as its the next best thing to being in a classroom and you leave no stone unturned..On to the next assignment and hope you do more courses and with Gouache.!

Did a couple touch ups from the last post...Looks like our fearless leader disappeared..!

Finish my first project and looking forward to the next..Morgan's tutorials are very informative..Feedback would help..Thanks!

Painting with color

Hi morgan this is mu First oil painting attemt. I had a problem with color mixing i guess. Looking forward for your critique.

Hi Morgan, after much redo after redo I needed to call it quits. I will need to go to therapy to loosen up, use more paint on my bush not dive into details. I do feel happy with the end result just a painful process to get there. Thanks for the help along the way, great course so far.

My stages here. I had a lot of fun doing the painting. I tried to do it as I watched each video, however it took me 5 days. By the time I got to blending the paint was getting way too dry. My skin tones were going pretty yellow and I probably added too much black, making my colours muddy. Lots of things to work on but pretty happy with my first portrait.

Hey Morgan, thank you for the great Course! What do you think about this one? Greetings from Vienna :)

Finished. Critique with no mercy.

I got a lot of practice on this because I kept painting over it! I probably painted it four times. It’s hard for me to call anything done. I like it now, but I didn’t get it as loose and fluid as I was trying to. Maybe with the next one. I would welcome any suggestions.

Finished! I can’t believe I painted this, this was my first portrait. I think he is too pale, I don’t know if it’s the average or the half tone that is too light, or maybe both. So much to learn and improve, but enjoyed it a lot. Thank you Morgan, I’m learning so much from you.

I'm calling this one finished. I completed the charcoal drawing over 6 months ago and put off actually putting paint on it until last week. This was my first attempt at a color portrait in oils and it was incredibly intimidating to me. However, Morgan does such a fantastic job of explaining the process and "dumbing it down" for folks like me. Overall, I am very happy with this portrait - it's definitely not perfect and I would welcome all criticism and opinions on what could be better, but I'm considering this attempt to be a win. Thank you very much, Morgan! Can't wait to try the others!

I remade the grid mid stream and went from the new grid then on. Quite a learning experience! I know I have much more to learn, just in squinting!! LOL!! I am glad I purchased the class. Now onto the next lesson!

Hello again Mr. Weistling, I hope you are doing well. Here is my attempt, I think I went a little crazy with the highlights on the forehead. Also, idk how everyone else can center their portrait, I find I'm always a little off. I finally got one of the brushes you use and it feels so much better. It really does make it feel like I'm just drawing, I just wish they weren't so expensive. Anyways, later on in this course you give advice along the lines of - if you're going to study from anyone, study from the best and make sure that you study from their best works. I'm just not really sure how to determine someone's best work. For example when I look at your painting you have so many great ones, there are definitely some that stand out more to me than others, but there are still so many that stand out to me as "the best". I actually don't know which ones are the best. I wouldn't be able to pick your 5 best paintings. Do you have any advice on picking the best to study from?

Hello Sir, This is my final submission with steps. My previous attempt failed when I was adding color vibrations. This time I was more careful. It's not as loose as I wanted but looseness will come with confidence and confidence will come with practice. Thanks again for this wonderful course.

I tried a couple of times to follow along and failed on both counts, so switched to a fresh reference while trying to adhere closely to the same procedure. Have watched this demo three times now and learned new things each time. As always, I really appreciate your feedback, and have posted the reference to make it easier to see where I’m going astray. One big mistake I made was to dive right in without first toning the canvas, and now it’s a real struggle to know what to do with the huge white area below the shirt. I actually struggle with what to do with that space on a toned surface too though. Would you have any design insights for finishing this area without painting the shirt all the way down to the bottom of the page?

Here is my final portrait. I've been working on it for a while, and it has gone through several iterations. By trusting the process, I feel that I have finally finished my first portrait! I wanted to say thank you, Morgan, for all the knowledge given in these videos. I feel that I have learned a great deal from watching your videos, and can't wait to watch more! As always, I would appreciate any critique you could offer to help me improve. I had a couple of questions I was hoping you could answer. How often do you empty and refill your walnut oil for cleaning brushes and changing out your medium? I've noticed that after a while, my Gamsol and Alkaline Walnut Oil medium started to solidify, and I was wondering the best way to dispose of it. Also, is it bad to use some dried oil paint from a previous session when painting? I noticed that after a few days, some of my paint would dry up. Even when I mixed it all together into one pile, the pile would still have some clumps of dried paint in it. Finally, I've been wanting to take proper pictures of my artwork to add to my portfolio, but have run into some issues capturing photographs of my work. I was wondering if you had any tips for documenting your artwork.