Tips for a simple black and white painting – #1: the basics

Absolutely LOVE your work and instruction. Bravo, my friend! The world is still a beautiful place 🙏

I used some of your techniques/ideas and applied to pastels, works wonderfully.

Albert, can you share how you use your floating frames with paper work? I generally paint on canvas and pastel on heavy stock art paper. I’d like to start using floating frames for pastels and paint-on-paper works like you do. Again, thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your inspirational videos. They give me courage to ' have a go'. I love your positive attitude and relaxed style. I'm also enjoying the looking at the various artists that you feature. Keep the videos coming.

Love your videos! Your approach is simple but extremely creative and inspiring, thank you ❤️

My God I love Franz work.

Thanks for creating and posting all videos. They are very inspiring!!! Albert, can you make a video about Sylvia McEwan Art technique? I am planning to have a theme of black-and-white paintings inspired by Franz Kline's and Sylvia McEwan's artworks. Do you have any suggestions for additional videos?

such a great video. I am not an artist by any means and I wish I had creativity with painting. Watching this video has helped me with some DIY projects. thanks!

Mr. Albert, I have to say I really enjoyed the overall quality of your video. Would have give everything to have a painting teacher like you back in art school. You really deserve more than 8k subscribers

So much fun! thanks

wow this stencil technique is so interesting, thanks

I was desperately trying to remember Franz Kline and stumbled on your video and thank god you mentioned him!

Im so happy to have found this channel omg!

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I'm loving watching your videos. I'd like your opinion on this. When doing these minimalistic paintings on stretched canvas, is it recommended or necessary to paint the background, even if it's just white paint or is it acceptable to leave bare canvas showing?

This video really got my mind buzzing full of inspiration. And also you have a very pleasant way to present it! Thank you for this video!

Ohh, I love your video, thanks a lot!!!

Thank you Mr. Zwart !!!!

Even though I love bright colors, I've been drawn to painting/drawing with black and white for quite awhile.

I love working in different blacks and whites! You can mix so many different colours, warm and cool ones. For me it is a nice contrast to working on other more colourful paintings.

Dry swimming would strengthen your arms for large swooshes of black.

I love your art I’m 78 and art and crafts since I was 4 yrs old I just loved creating with my hands but 5 yrs ago I had numb hands and feet from chemo I don’t give up so I started art journaling and splashing paint and scribbling like abstract and loved it and now I’m going to give this a try please keep making videos thank you !!!

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Loved this video!

That's awesome

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Thank you for this fantastic video! Beautiful to see the freedom with which you approach the process! Inspiring and educational! Love seeing the historical references from beloved artists!

Nice video i can see the fun youre having

Very cool ideas and inspiration! Thank you ❤️

I love your courtyard. Did you already paint it ? Even in an abstract way?

Thank you for this video! I get intimidated when trying abstract painting. I love your tips and ideas. Can't wait to give them a try!

can someone please tell me what paper and size is this? and what kind of paint of that? thank you so much! sorry im so new on the arts

I really like your curious awareness of a lot of basic mark making and basic compositions - but I really enjoy the playfullness of warm and cool, soft and hard, and abstract and imaginary …. 🎶🖤🎵

I loved this, so many fab ideas! Thank you 😃🙌

Fantastic, helpful video! I am more of a newbie to art. Up till now I’ve been using canvases, what type of paper are you using? I have tried some watercolor and mixed media paper but it keeps buckling.

This is absolutely brilliant ❤thank you so much

Just ran across your channel. I love it. I love the techniques that you use.!! ❤❤

You are great!

This feels like a very special gift. Thank you.

A true artist and see bird dookie as a beautiful thing! Haha you’re the best :)

I enjoyed watching this so much, and I subscribed, too. Thanks for sharing!

I love your videos & the imperfections, relax attitude. You are great art teacher. Today is the first day of the Dragon year, 2024, and I want to paint so bad…. I haven’t pick up the brush for 20 yrs! But today I will paint some thing imperfect on untraditional materials & medium. Thanks for the inspiration sir. Gos bless & Happy Lunar New year 🙂🌻🙏🏻

I would like to see a black and white painting that is cut apart and reassembled!

Liked the tip of painting from the outside in when using stencils. I just bought some stencils and this tip will be very helpful. I am enjoying your lessons. Thank you.

Fabulous play and experiment, I’d love to see where you got to now in your art 😀

I'm incredibly new to painting, or art in general, and I've been watching loads of videos to gain knowledge, insight, inspiration, encouragement, etc. I've found several artists I like a lot, but yours is the first that inspired me to comment...I absolutely love your personality, creativity, ideas, thoughts - everything. Thank you SO much. I have a very close friend who can barely distinguish anything but black (and he's a very successful graphic designer, go figure) so I wanted to find something to paint for him. I've only so far seen this one video from you, but I plan to watch a lot more. Thank you so much for making a brightly-colored-painting-lover appreciate black and white..

Man you are so inspiring… I am starting painting, and the way you take the pressure out of it is brillant. Thanks a lot