Good video. I've followed Hockney's work for many years (photographed one of his catalogues). Maybe I can add some thing. Hockney has an amazing 3d technique with large shapes. I can't quite figure out how it works (I've studied this subject) . In the Yorkshire paintings the hills and dipping roads. The shapes push and pull. The 'Tree' paintings of recent years might be one way into understanding how he thinks. The branches are very 'schematic' meaning their pattern captures the essence of the branch structure and leaf clustering of a particular species, but they aren't like a still life of flowers where you can count each petal. Van Gogh does the same schematic representation method as well. Might be where Hockney learned it. That field of Van Gogh's in the video. If you had a photo of it, you'd see the mid ground 'count' of grass stalks in the painting in the foreground of the photo. The midground of the photo would be a color/texture. It's like 90 strokes represent 9000 plants. The trees. In 'Tim's Vermeer' a video about a guy figuring out how Vermeer worked Hockney is interviewed in his studio. Behind him is a panorama of a line of trees photographed from a distance. This reduces the incredible 3D complexity of the tree branches into 2D. Hockney can then work from that to create his stylized schematic. He does paint en plein air, but I think he started in the studio working from that photo. Once he 'figured out' how tree branches 'work' visually (as opposed to how they really are) then he could go outside. The best time of year to capture these branches images of trees is very early in the spring when the leaves are just coming out of the buds. Another couple of weeks and it's all leaves. In 2018 in England this was April, by May it was 'too late.' During my hike around Dorset seeing the neat rows of trees along roads and property lines, the copses of them on hillsides, I thought that they were trimmed. After seeing thousands of 'well groomed' trees I realized this is just how they grow in England. Back in the States when I wanted to make some Asian inspired tree branch images I quickly learned I had to go to the wealthy neighborhoods where trees were trimmed or pruned by arborists. I think compared to English trees American trees are quite scruffy. Hockney's iPad paintings might be a good way to see Hockney reducing Hockney as a way to see how he works. There are fewer options on an iPad than brush on paper. I really like the photo and the watercolor at 4:00. It shows exactly how a painting shouldn't just be a copy of what's there. (Hockney says, 'A painting is a painting, a photograph is a photograph, they're different.' In his studio I've seen photos, paintings like the photos, xerox copies of the painting, and faxes of the painting. I was photographing the paintings.. All different, all with their own qualities.) Curiosity. About 35 years ago I was at a Christmas party in Los Angeles (Harold's house). I'd been doing some drywall work and my glasses were horribly scratched. The lights on the Christmas tree in my scratched glass was giving me amazing 3D patterns. David wears hearing aids and he's shy so you don't expect him to listen in to some guy 3 - 4 meters away in a room full of people. I was playing with my glasses by the Christmas tree and told my wife about the 3D effect. A little while later we were talking to friends on the other side of the room. I noticed David was over by the tree playing with his glasses. I was too shy to walk over and offer my scratched glasses. His glasses of course were in great shape so he wasn't going to see the effect. I knew an artist to whom I happened to mention that another artist I worked with used 8B pencils for sketching. She got really pissed off. Said I was comparing her... I started to apologize and then I realized something. If I'd told that other artist or David Hockney something an unknown amateur artist was doing that I thought they might find interesting, they'd be interested, especially if it was something they didn't already know about. In fact, they'd insist on knowing. Fixed mindset people don't make mistakes, other people make mistakes. Growth mindset people endlessly make mistakes, they continually learn and live amazing lives. Using the white paper or background as a highlight. The Bigger Splash painting was taught in my college as the white of the splash being the white gesso. It isn't, it's white paint. But there is a Japanese Ukiyo-e style water color that I saw in a gallery show with some of Hockney's Yorkshire paintings and portraits. The highlighted rings of the rain drop splashes are indeed the white paper. This is probably well known, but it wasn't to me. I asked about it. Opaquing solution. Hockney painted it on first than did his water color painting over it, then peeled it off. And that other artist 8B pencils. He was a sculptor, but he drew for two to three hours every day, seven days a week for his entire life. Said he had to. Hope this is interesting.
@dondequesta6391
10 ай бұрын
It is interesting.
@ritalynch1930
10 ай бұрын
ps I love that gem of wisdom about Fixed v Growth mindset.
@TheDanishPainter
10 ай бұрын
Yes I've been reading with great interest! Thank you so much for sharing all your insights and knowledge. This was very interesting, I love hearing stories and insights like this. Thanks for watching and leaving such an awesome comment!
@scarletohara6743
10 ай бұрын
i loved your reflections on art. it was really helpful, thanks
@melissaamyx2196
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for this, concepts I need to keep focusing on for sure. You have such a wonderful way of explaining things!
@crisalidathomassie1811
11 ай бұрын
So much inspiration here! Thanks so much. David Hockney, the greatest. ❤❤❤
@johnkitching6293
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Marie Louise for this video it will help enormously!
@scood2323
10 ай бұрын
Lovely to see you working in watercolour-great video and good points.
@robhead22
11 ай бұрын
Excellent discussion! Thank you!
@XenaArt
11 ай бұрын
Чудові роботи! 👌👌👌 Дякую за ваш досвід ❤❤❤
@DavidPerez-zt3qq
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. Love the simplistic style Hockney used. I must try today. !
@ellenpham4834
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for this fun and interesting video. Would you give the titles of the books you refer to here? Thank you!
@ellenpham4834
11 ай бұрын
I can see the larger book is Hockney/Van Gough, but the smaller book doesn’t show it’s cover, and I love it. I can’t identify it enough to find it :)
@kazfarndon4990
10 ай бұрын
They are listed in the description under the video
@JacqueBernadette
11 ай бұрын
Lovely
@francoisemcdermott6725
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this 😊
@andrewwalker3312
13 күн бұрын
i really admire david hockney a true genius
@KittehNow
10 ай бұрын
GREAT VIDEO ❤❤, thank you!!!!
@b.comeau2597
10 ай бұрын
Lovely video! Thank you ,
@guylainemorinstudio7869
11 ай бұрын
Thanks
@judehayashi5892
11 ай бұрын
Thank you…inspiring…
@swordscot
10 ай бұрын
Not steal - it’s being inspired by. There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to art
@randalllaue4042
10 ай бұрын
How sad for you! Choose your words carefully, please stop telling people that.
@delshaydevera
10 ай бұрын
Stop talking
@wilhelmsanchez
11 ай бұрын
Lovely video, thank you. I love David Hockney. An Irish painter called it "pinching" not stealing. Nothing wrong with pinching!
@WillN2Go1
10 ай бұрын
As a photographer there were many images I wanted to copy. I wanted a print like that, but I also wanted to learn. Initially I'd set out to 'just use the technique.' They'd never even look like the same technique. So I set out to flat out 'steal' the image. By the time I'd get an photograph that I was satisfied with it looked nothing at all like the original. Picasso stole from Matisse more than Matisse stole from Picasso. (they were friends). The paintings Picasso made after the one that looked just like the Matisse were always far more interesting. So steal, but not slavishly.
@Eris123451
11 ай бұрын
I've always though that David Hockney probably got his best ideas from Van Gogh, (which he acknowledges,) and possibly Grant Wood ?
@hanssing1
11 ай бұрын
Good evening Marie Louise, thank you very much for this , which I find very encouraging - have a great week ahead 🙏
@peckerdecker
10 ай бұрын
Great video and book information on Hockneys sketchbook. I _like Your mark making_ at the 4.11 of this video. Thank you
@jamiletorres400
2 ай бұрын
What is the fist book that you show in the video? Thank you
@ladyflimflam
2 ай бұрын
It’s called A Yorkshire Sketchbook and is widely available. I got mine at Target.
@jamiletorres400
2 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@luluesparza7360
11 ай бұрын
Excellent video…thank you!
@francoisederocher
11 ай бұрын
Great tips from one of the great masters. Thank you.
@malgorzata7011
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your ideas, it is a new challenge for me, I definitely need to learn how to loosen my paintings, thanks!
@jamiletorres400
2 ай бұрын
Very helpful. Thank you
@klnrklnr4433
11 ай бұрын
great channel. Learning a lot from you.
@curlew-3592
11 ай бұрын
I live near this area and I love this series of paintings. It always makes me smile listening to artists as where does looking for inspiration and ideas stop and copying ideas start!😂😂
@sublimeister9630
10 ай бұрын
David Hockney-the modern Bob Ross. His older works is better… 🙏😊
@prospero2007
10 ай бұрын
What are you talking about?!? Hockney pre- dates Bob Ross by decades! Not to mention that there’s no comparison between the two! Hockney is one of the most influential fine artists of modern times, while Ross is a celebrity amateur who convinced equally and even more atrociously untalented amateur ‘painters’ that everyone can create ‘art’! Educate yourself!
@annfrodeberg6658
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the inspiration 🙏 I wish you a happy painting week😍
@guitarquartet
10 ай бұрын
I'm a musician but a big follower of visual art (with Hockney being a particular favourite), these concepts translate nicely, thank you!!!
@TheDanishPainter
10 ай бұрын
How cool that his work transcends different genres of art. A sign of his brilliance. Thanks for sharing!
@carolbicknell9603
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!! A much needed reminder!!
@florencegeorges7419
3 ай бұрын
Really interesting! I’m come from France and I don’t know about this artist known in the world.
@stralenmax1384
9 ай бұрын
I'm not an artist, i just love to express myself through colour. Your video showed me how it's important to be myself in my hobby. All videos about watercolour show the techniques, accentuating skills. It's important indeed. But.. Thank you for looking at this particular aspect of painting. When I saw your own painting, I felt like if I'm flying over that beautiful landscape.
@maisycakes1125
8 ай бұрын
Wonderfully explained concepts - so clear I learned a lot from you today, Thankyou. 😊
@flaviofrk1
10 ай бұрын
What set of watercolor or paint are you using for these little studies?! They look so beautiful
@ingridterpstra5743
11 ай бұрын
Excellent🎉 i regonize all. Hockney books are great inspiring
@muchasgracias6976
10 ай бұрын
Such a relaxing video. Thanks.
@isabellekramer6533
10 ай бұрын
Excellent!!! Thank you so much ❤
@connieanderson2281
10 ай бұрын
♥️ David Hockney
@allisonwelburn2467
11 ай бұрын
. Thank you so much for all your very helpful and inspiring videos. I really love your work and one day hope to have the freedom and loose style in my meagre paints . Can I ask you what book you were looking at if that’s allowed ? I’m new to u Tube so not sure if I’m allowed to ask ?
@TheDanishPainter
11 ай бұрын
The titles of the two books in the video: Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature by Hans Den Hartog Jager Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. And A Yorkshire Sketchbook by David Hockney Published by Royal Academy of Arts Hope that helps and welcome to the channel :)
@maureenknight3863
11 ай бұрын
wow, awesome painting!
@MrMjp58
10 ай бұрын
A nice set of ideas.
@MariaAyub-ma-sentient24
10 ай бұрын
Well said! Kudos!
@everydel2941
4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to prepare this for us.
@TheDanishPainter
4 ай бұрын
My pleasure, thanks for watching 🌻
@sandradonofrio413
11 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@PerChristensen-e2i
10 ай бұрын
Tak for råd om "values"
@kerrystevens9313
11 ай бұрын
❤
@tobiasisback4605
10 ай бұрын
I hate his paintings. They are untrue.
@randalllaue4042
10 ай бұрын
NOT STEALING!!! LEARNING! Choose your words carefully!!
@tonydejesus2134
10 ай бұрын
"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." -Pablo Picasso
@tommybell1786
10 ай бұрын
Calm down.
@randalllaue4042
10 ай бұрын
@@tommybell1786 not helpful.
@meowtotheworld4801
6 ай бұрын
There's a book called 'Steal Like an Artist' that artists are often alluding to when they say "steal".
@Jacklette
10 ай бұрын
I love your work but as an European you should not say VÄNGO for Vincent Van Gogh! 🤩
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