The Fine Art of Being Awake -The Greatest Painting Secret You Will Ever Need

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1. WOW! I think I might give you to myself as a birthday present in May. I turn 50 years old and I would love to have you as a coach. You challenge and inspire me with each video, but I struggle with procrastination without accountability. Perhaps having you as my coach would help me with that.

2. I have watched many of your videos and learn something different every time. Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge to us newer artists that want to learn.

3. Very helpful as always! Thank you.

4. You are so darn good….. Learning, learning, learning from a far. But I do try to remember what you teach from these videos. Thank you so very much for this.

5. I don't know of any other artist who gives away so much of this nature of information – you teach me so much! I've sketched more this past few weeks after watching your videos than I have done the whole of last year, and what I'm looking at while I'm sketching is taking on a different feel. I wish we were taught this at school instead of abstraction without the ideas behind it. (School for me was 25 years ago!)
   I'm in awe. Thank you.

6. HI STEFAN, MANY YEARS BACK I SET UP A STILL LIFE FOR MY STUDENTS, IT WAS FULL OF BOTTLES, VASE A KETTLE I THINK AND FRUIT. I STOOD BACK AND WATCHED THERE FACES IN HORROR WHEN I THEN DRAPED AN OFF WHITE CLOTH OVER EVERYTHING PRESSING IT DOWN SO YOU COULD BARELY MAKE OUT WHAT IT WAS. NOW PAINT THAT. I TOLD THEM STOP SEEING THINGS PAINT WHAT THE LIGHT DOES TO SOMETHING.NOT THE THING ITSELF .YOUR TEACHING IS A WONDERFULL GIFT TO PASS ON.STEFAN YOU ARE A TREASURE TO ALL STUDENTS OF ART, LONG MAY YOU CONTINUE…REGARDS FROM ENGLAND MEL STENWAY

7. stefan, you are most welcome, now for all of you out there, the world does not need anymore sunday painters, we need great artists. how are they made , by great teachers .hang on to everything this man says, he is giving you pearls….with great respect from england mel stenway..

8. Thank you Stephan, I really appreciate hearing your viewpoint. Right on. Again.
   Will take the "at least 3 eye magnets" hint into my next painting!

9. Paint what YOU see… that's passion.. awesome

10. I've made 3d art with styrofoam and cardboard, I create a design within the constraints of the object. Sometimes I alter the shape, though.

11. I love the anecdotal supplements !!

12. Just Amazing work Stefan , thank you for your words , wisdom and sharing I super dig your you tube channel just Great .

13. You Are Great. you make me want to go back to school man. i get a Ton of Value out of these Videos. Thank You

14. Very nice story about Mrs. G

15. another awesome video!!? Thank you!! I recently was able to spend 2 hours and 40 minutes with a professional artist free of charge, I was so excited! However, he was a very TIGHT painter and not expressive at all. I found that I knew more about the artistic creativity than he did. He had a few beautiful paintings that he did, but most were not very interesting and seriously had no true focal point nor obvious eye magnets. After the visit, I actually felt bad about my free style of art. I love details and precision, but also beautiful free marks that catch the eye. I have decided my style is my style, I see it the way I see it. ? Thank you for every wonderful video you put out!

16. I'm on a constant lookout for master artists and teachers like You, who still believe in classical art and its fundamentals. It's so hard to learn "proper" painting and find good resources when the norm is "don't care" and "rules only limit you". I'm very glad to have found your videos just now.

    As for this video you have a very good point here. I feel most artists today are simply too absorbed in "being artistic" to realize the things you mentioned about being awake, or what we should be painting and why should we paint it. They are missing the real "secrets" that are right in front of their eyes. I've also been there and done that and I know there is still lots and lots I need to learn, and I'm sure there are still things I'm missing. There is so much that is right in front of my eyes if I look at old masterworks, that I just don't see yet – often because I don't know what to look for.

    I'm actually a digital painter but I try to go back to classical art fundamentals and re-apply that to digital painting. As artists of the past expanded their tools as technology and science of their era evolved, such as new pigments being discovered, I see digital art as just another new tool in the line and I believe the same principles can be applied to it as to an oil painting. I'm sad to see that traditional and digital artists tend to think they are on completely different paths, instead of seeing the other merely as a different viewpoint on the same subject. And I learned a lot from your videos already.

    Thank you very much for making these available!

    Best wishes from Hungary,
    Storm

    P.s.: Bonus points for the Renaissance style clothing! 🙂

17. thanks

18. 16:26
    Using your penis for eye magnets?

19. Spot on! This is wisdom… "Paint what you see."

20. I am so happy to have found your channel! Your tutorials are interestingly about more than art. (Liken to Alan Watts zen training.) Thank you for your energy and awesome sense of humor. They are both relaxing and inspiring…… Painting what I see.. "I am."

21. There is one youtube channel said paint what you dont see. Im confuse

22. Make fun of a woman’s name??
    What a cheap shot.
    “Her real name was Doreen. No WONDER she changed her name…”
    Everyone laughs.
    There’s nothing wrong with the name Doreen.

    “As much as we hated Hippies”?

    How can you assume ‘we all hated Hippies’?
    Do you know what a Hippie really is?
    Punk rockers are not Hippies!
    Frankly, I think we could do with a few Hippies in this dim era of Trump!

    Lose the smug superior attitude, Baumann.
    It’s unattractive.

23. What is the name of that artist who said : “paint what you see”?

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