How to Key in Your Landscape Painting Correctly

A treasure chest of brilliant information, every time!

I’ve been catching up on your videos as I dive into oil paint (you’ve given great advice!), but a surprising delight is seeing the evolution of the Nicks Cage painting 😁

Thank you Chris ✨

Beautiful! And thank you so much for so generously sharing your knowledge.

I agree with this. A common cliche I hear (from most) is to ALWAYS work from the lowest value first, before moving up to the mid-tones, with the high values going in last - but I can never get on with that. I always need something to look at or else my low values and cast shadows never actually get light enough. I need that early benchmark.

thanks for another great demo, I'm having a problem keying in due to my lighting situation, can't seem to get it right and my paintings are coming out too dark

Thanks for the painting tips...only thing that bothers me is the wave breaking on the rock...probably the photo but it doesn't look natural...edge of wave too straight

Excellent advice!❤️

Love how no-nonsense your videos are. Informative and direct. Thank you!

As usual excellent and concise explanation and demo, Happier 2022

Sir you inspired me to take up oil painting and I am loving it..thank you so much 💛

My drawings are so beautiful 😋😋😋😋😋

My drawings are so beautiful 😋😋😋😋

Thanks for the tips on value, I am trying my best to get value correct as this is what gives your painting a 3d look, your paintings are awesome and I have joined your channel, have a great day my friend 😊

Chris I have a ? about atmospheric pressure. Why don’t sunsets lose their reds and yellows?

Hey, coach! Would you make a video (or link an old one in your next video) about underpainting? I have some understanding of the subject, but I don’t understand if it should “always” be thinned down burnt umber/sienna or grey for a grisaille or if it’s specific to the subject and its background. Do I even “need” an underpainting? Can I use the main background hue as my “underpainting”? Thanks!

GOLD...you're a really great teacher

Hey man we’re you in an omeletto short film called will the machine

Obviously you haven’t heard about happy accidents yet - watch bob ross he’ll learn ya 😃

Your channel is invaluable, I'm learning so much.

Thanks buddy you help a lot

New subscriber here from Louisiana. Debi's Design Diary sent me here---and I'm SO happy she did!

Very useful, thank you.

I do water colors. I have never tried oil painting, and lately, I've been very much into it and I wanna start it. is it possible to start oil painting on my own, or do i need to get into a proper training/ coaching under someone to first teach me the technique?

Thank so much for your advice will continue to practice it. 👍 From Malaysia 🇲🇾😎

I’m not a painter but I feel like you don’t add enough contrast, the paining feels too off to me, the bland colouring and smoothness in the rocks, the white of the wave blending in too much with the rest of the paining. It has a sort of high school student paining vibe and I don’t think it works, the more I look at it the more off everything feels, the rocks are not as yellowish but more warm and certain highlights don’t seem to be as light leading to it sort of blending in to the backdrop which sort of throws off the whole paining

Idk but I just don’t vibe with this paining dude

Excellent and useful technical info (as always). Thanks again. Important video.

I just found your chanel recently and going through all your videos. I like your direct style, the video quality and the information you provide. May I make a suggestion concerning the music. It is very nice, not loud but watching all your videos 'en rafale', I start hearing it in my dreams. How about making a change for the new year? ( I understand that your are probably limited in your choices ).

Thank you Paint Coach, love watching the tutorials, helping me a lot

Just started rocks, and it's not easy

Joined you suggested by Debbi Beard

Coach, can you talk about how to color match computer monitor references due to the glare and illuminated background? When I bring my paint brush up against the monitor, the brush get shinny. Thank you

Those colors were amazing. How you pulled the notes and tones out and make them so easily understandable. Just brilliant!. You Rock!

You were way hotter with long hair, but your painting is phenomenal so whatever, we can't all be perfect in everything always. 💕 lol.

Great video!!

Youre a landscape yourself sweetie...

Thank you for taking the time to help us all👍.

I don't know why but I feel like it was a studio tour as well

I could watch you paint for hours , amazing

Your art is get better every year and easy to understand . the studio is great. thank you 😊

What combination of colors did you use on the large boulder? Thanks for all of your help!

Are you akiles brother Let me call hector jajajaj nice paint I’m want to learn how to paint

idk why but you remind me of in Father Paul in the Netflix series Midnight Mass

Thank you so much CHRIS!

Wow, super videos, thank you- will check out your courses

Great video - just discovered this channel! I'm hoping taking the advice here is going to take me from a pretender, makign the same bad decisions over and over, to something that can me taken a little more seriously!

Fantastic thank you

Thank you Cris..very good tutorial indeed. Many a time I forget to relate the sky to the other elements in the painting and end up scratching my head in frustration. This video is worth watching many times.