Having the need to expand your motif?
In this video, Jan-Ove Tuv demonstrates how to enlarge your canvas by sewing two pieces of canvas together.
For this, you need:
- Two pieces of canvas
- Cotton-wrapped poly...
2023-03-21 15:30:21 +0000 UTC
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Jannik Hösel demonstrates how to increase volume through cool and-warm local glazing.
Watch Part One here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-...
2023-03-13 07:33:18 +0000 UTC
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Sebastian Salvo will do another live painting session, continuing on the tilted self-portrait from last time!
Where: School of...
2023-03-11 16:16:40 +0000 UTC
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Jan-Ove Tuv observes as Jannik Hösel demonstrates how he paints an eye from sketch to completion with the rembrandtesque Osamu Obi medium.
Also watch how Hösel mixes his medium:
2023-03-03 09:40:57 +0000 UTC
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What are the key factors of masterworks such as The Flaying of Marsyas by Titian? David Molesky, Sebastian Salvo, and Jan-Ove Tuv sit down to talk about myths, perspective on life, archetypes, eternity and more.
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2023-03-01 18:55:01 +0000 UTC
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We will host another Critique Night. Who's in?
Where: School of Apelles on 2023-03-01 10:50:59 +0000 UTC
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Growing up in Rembrandt's hometown Leiden, Ruben Hanssen developed an interest for the built environment and has studied Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology.
In 2021 he...
2023-02-25 19:30:49 +0000 UTC
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As of March 2023, we are starting up Painting Issues, a new segment focusing solely on technical questions related to painting.
These qua...
2023-02-20 16:37:13 +0000 UTC
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In a world where options for an education in classical crafts are scarce, some decide to take on a more difficult and empirical approach. Being self-taught and learning by observation, Jannick Hösel is one of them, and now he has entered Odd Nerd...
2023-02-17 18:49:12 +0000 UTC
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Sebastian Salvo will do another live painting session, continuing on the self-portrait from last time!
Where: School of Apelles ...
2023-02-15 09:06:24 +0000 UTC
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Jan-Ove Tuv gives his analysis of the portraits by Nicolai Fechin and compares them to works by the Russian-American's contemporaries and older colleagues.
In this video you will learn about:
- Reflecting the ba...
2023-02-05 18:48:01 +0000 UTC
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We will host another Critique Night. Who's in?
Where: School of Apelles on 2023-02-02 09:41:22 +0000 UTC
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Jan-Ove Tuv visits Sebastian Salvo to observe him as he continues to work on a two-figure composition of a loving couple in his studio.
Part one: 2023-01-31 10:16:44 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Our guest for the featured interview which will be released to the public in February is the young talent known as @nicksenium on instagram.
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2023-01-29 20:58:32 +0000 UTC
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Öde Nerdrum sits down with Wim Winters to talk about Whole Beat, sharing the story of how he discovered the YouTube channel @AuthenticSound ...
2023-01-26 19:44:06 +0000 UTC
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Sebastian Salvo will do a live painting session!

Where: School of Apelles on
2023-01-19 20:30:28 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As you might know, our interview with Wim Winters will be publicly released today, so I thought I would share this 10 minute vide...
2023-01-15 10:19:57 +0000 UTC
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Jannik Hösel, painter
Jannik Hösel is a German classical painter currently studying with Odd Nerdrum.
Growing up in an enviro...
2023-01-11 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
It is time for another painting video with Sebastian Salvo. This time, Jan-Ove Tuv observes him as continues to work on a composition of a loving couple.
I have to apologize for the lack of better camera angles in this ...
2023-01-10 12:38:41 +0000 UTC
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We will host another Critique Night. Who's in?
Where: School of Apelles on
2023-01-03 18:31:02 +0000 UTC
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Fellow Apellesians: a Happy New Year to all of you!
For the Cave of Apelles, the past year has been phenomenal, so I would like to summarize the most important things:
Approximately one year ago, the Danish composer 2023-01-02 15:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Knowledge of the craft and what you are up against is vital for the revival of classical architecture. Carl Korsnes sits down with Eric Norin to talk about the knowledge handed down to us by Vitruvius, good examples of building projects with local...
2023-01-01 18:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Jan-Ove Tuv visits Sebastian Salvo who is working on the landscape painting he previously started outside:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-paint-of-...
2022-12-18 15:14:21 +0000 UTC
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Good evening to all of you!
This is an episode I have been looking forward to sharing with you. Wim Winters is a brilliant speaker and passionate proponent of an idea that is viewed as absurd by academics.
Sounds familiar?
You co...
2022-12-15 19:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
In this video, Jan-Ove Tuv demonstrates how to reduce disturbing edges when restretching canvas in order to re-position the motif.
Best wishes from the producer,
Bork Nerdrum
2022-12-06 18:55:00 +0000 UTC
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Magnus Vanebo and Jan-Ove Tuv sit down to discuss the meaning and significance of Vasily Kandinsky's manifesto "On the Spiritual in Art".
What exactly is "pure" mimesis and the "innate" power of color?
Who knows, are...
2022-12-01 18:59:02 +0000 UTC
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We will host another Critique Night. Who's in?
Where: School of Apelles on
2022-11-28 17:37:51 +0000 UTC
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The young draughtsman and painter from Finland has proven his talent with narrative portraits from live model.
Aiming for the Classical Greek ideal, Hjalmar Hagelstam is already well-equipped, having studied painting with Odd Ner...
2022-11-15 12:01:41 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
We decided to do an outdoor landscape painting video with Sebastian Salvo. It is something he has never done before.
In an upcoming video, he will bring the landscape painting into his studio to work more on it from fa...
2022-11-11 18:27:01 +0000 UTC
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You might have seen a drawing like this by Odd Nerdrum:

This is exactly the technique Jan-Ove Tuv demonstrates in this video, using sand paper, toi...
2022-11-05 11:10:28 +0000 UTC
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