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So excited to see you using the Zinsser! I'm restarting my oil painting after 35 years raising our family & building our homes. Every time I rolled Zinsser on another wall that needed restoring I thought to myself, "How great will this stuff be when I put it on my panels!" I covered the most unbelievably stained walls with this stuff & after 28 years no stains, odors or smells ever came through.

Great advice.

This information was really helpful.

Can you use Liquin with acrylic paint?

Why the heck did they put child proof caps on these damn things? It's impossible to open the first go and keeps getting harder with each usage!!

Tanner, thank you for this demo. It continues from the class you gave at the Broomfield Art Guild.

That’s worse of fear and I am born with microcephaly and my grandmothers has cancer one of them died . My famous artist uncle told me to use this today for my rushed work and he had that brand but it has a green bottle one and I saw it on Amazon saying new . So what’s the difference between that you have and the green one 3:07

thank you!

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Is it possible to work with liquin after a first layer of oil painting that is mixed with a solvent (odourless white spirit)?

Hi Tanner I have done a Mixedmedia painting . The under layer is Acrylic. And I have painted an Owl in Oil with hardly any liquin and I completed it back in March this year. And the Owl is taking for ever to dry. What I would like to know is if I could use a small detail brush and carefully paint over the owl with Liquin? To help it dry. Could you please tell me if this is possible? And if not is there anything else I can do to speed up the drying process? As it is a Commission piece. And just one other thing . Would you use Gamvar to varnish the whole piece after it is completely dry? Or spray varnish that is suitable for both acrylic and oil? I would so appreciate your advice as I am new to oils. Thankyou in advance Cheers Jenny.

Zinc white is the best for mixtures because it's transparent, just should not be used thickly and especially on base layer (but I did do that around 20 years ago, maybe it's not enough to check for cracking, but would be curious to find that painting ~ I also applied it then as textured layer with my fingers:-) but it was a board, generally it's said to use it on a board not canvas and avoid re-streatching if it's on canvas). It is added to titanium white to make it stronger actually, pure titanium makes porous layer which is not strong enough. Lead white is the best because it's most strong and lasting. I'm about to try mixed paint of lead-zinc and also zirconium-zinc white. I don't like titanium for it's strong opacity, just use it in rare cases. For videos like this it's interesting to know all pigmnets in all paints, of course it's possible to just google, but better to find out on the spot. Was good to know about W&N Naples Yellow is a hue, I was just wondering about it after seeing it in other video. I have such mixed hues just for experiment. But soon will try real Naples Yellow:-) (which is toxic, so I prepare to be less messy)

Tanner, this sounds wonderful, especially Rome. Is everyone painting in oil? I am plugging along in watercolor these days, making bits of progress, so I'm not sure I could fit in.....

Yess dude look how far you came from a teacher to this man is sick

Thx for all you share on TH-cam. Love your work.

Let me know if you have any questions! We have absolute beginners to intermediate painters coming with us on both trips. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions. I'm happy to help! France: Feb 2025 asld.org/show-details/atelier-in-france-with-daniel-sprick Rome: May 2025 www.romeartresidencies.com/plein-air-oil-painting-with-dan-sprick-may-2025 MORE INFO ON Tannersteedart.com

That's a very delicate portrait. 👏

That is a very dope painting 🔥

Thanks for the video. My painting took months to dry. I intended to glaze with liquin fine detail verion of liquin and light gel. Used artesian water based Windsor Newton. Am I correct in assuming is ok to use? Portraits lots of time, so don't want any problems.

Give me a good oil painting palette with the ochers and umbers and related paints for really muted landscape and seascape paintings

They’re literally called blending stumps. I use them for blending all the time. Use a light touch. Also the pencil sharpener is for two different sharpnesses. They’re not a one ,two step.

Jerrys has good prices. But I'll never order from them again unless its through a person! I paid good money expecting series 1 micheal hardings, & recieved 2,3,4, 5 instead. Once a computer order is in, theres no stopping it before it goes to warehouse. & yes the computer puts in the wrong data, so read order details Really good before you purchase! Especially if you need the paint for a deadline. By time the wrong thing is sent back, & all paperwork is corrected, you'll never get what you need to meet the date. Good prices, too automated! Blick has always been solid, good products. For the extra couple dollars, you get exactly what you order.

Wow. This is so valuable, we're lucky to have advice given in such great detail by a skilled painter like you. I also feel like your work keeps getting better each year. Thank you Tanner!

Does wearing a face mask helps “avoid” the product toxicity?

To those who have tried both, how is Liquin vs walnut Alkyd oil?

Do we use liquin if it thickens

There are lots of things to say here. As far as whites go not all whites are equal. Smithsonian researchers were not able to conclusively determine the cause of paint cracking and zinc white was the ultimate cause. Other pigments have been found to also crack and some very commonly used ones. So I wouldn't be in a hurry to discount zinc white. I would discourage it as a single pigment white, using strait out of the tube, but mixing with other pigments can make it more flexible. Interesting, you are ok with cadmiums but not lead or flake white. Flake white is a beautiful color especially in portraits. It does things that Titanium or Zinc white cannot do. The substitutes are nonsense. No one should kid their selves that any of the "hue" or replacement colors are just as good as the original. They are not. Guess what it is, Titanium white and zinc white which doesn't come close to flake white. You will like that Naples yellow in flesh tones it works very well with venetian red. Its a color always on my pallet.

Thank you!

can you link your sharpener?

This is just an idea, not tried it. Use a pallet with a lid, put the whole thing in a vacuum storage bag for clothes, it has a valve; then suck the air out with a hand pump or hoover on suck.

Ah shit, I'm new to oil painting and have just been putting my Gamsol in an old glass, letting the vapours flow all over the place. Guess I gotta be more careful.

What about using a spray primer or paint primer combo?

So if I use 20% liquin with paint on my 1st layer, how do I make a fatter 2nd layer please?

Great video Tanner, thank you. The only thing I would add is this... I typically cut my boards to size first, this way I can prime the sides as well.

Very informative.. especially the fat over lean process.. Great stuff.. thanks

Thank you for the info. Do we still have to wait for 6 Months to varnish a painting which has liquin as its medium. Since you said liquin dries the painting faster, so do we still need to wait that long?

These days, when I paint, it's more with watercolors. However, years ago when I was more into Oil Painting, once I was doing an exercise from a book and it recommended and earth tone palette: Yellow Ochre (Yellow) , Burnt Sienna (Red) , Ivory Black (Blue) + (Titanium White). I was impressed at the variety of hues that could be obtained and the ease of mixing colors. However, I thought that the Ivory Black was a bit lifeless, so I swapped out Ivory Black for Ultramarine Blue. I must have used this modified earth tone palette (Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue + White) for dozens of paintings. There are many benefits to using this combination: 1) It is easy to mix colors with such a limited palette, 2) they are almost always Series I colors, so they're inexpensive, and 3) they're all very lightfast. If you buy the 200ml tubes during back-to-school, winter, spring and summer sales, you can almost always get a great deal. Also 4) Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna are great for making a wide variety of warm and cool greys.

Can you remove a coat of 50/50 Gamsol and Galkyd painting medium...I forgot it had to be wiped off with a soft cloth. I know I put too much onto my dry oil painting. However, I still have dry chalky spots, and I've disturbed some of the paint (I see brush strokes from the brush when applying the mixture. What is the best thing to do at this point?

This is gold. What a treasure to learn from such a master. Thank you for sharing!

are the van gogh paints decent?

Ive used Liquin for a long time, but I never knew about the black oily paint and liquin, so you can always learn something new. I just subscribed Thanks

Thank you! I’ve been trying to paint in my backyard lately and was struggling a lot with the changing lightings and the color mixing. I tend to work digitally so traditional painting is so very interesting, thank you for the tips!

Excellent work!

Thank you, You are amazing

Stunning ❤

I'm a portrait artist and I use Winsor and Newton titanium white, yellow ochre, permenant rose, burnt sienna, brown madder and ultramarine violet for my skin tones. W&N smalt, vandyke brown and naples yellow are also staples for hair color variations

Thank you so much, Tanner and Daniel. So generous of you to share this brilliant content.

Williamsburg white is also my favorite. Bout the cadmium’s and cobalts - don’t worry too much, the heavy metals hardly get absorbed through the skin, just don’t lick your fingers 😉

A cool video could be to demonstate mixing some of the colours you make often

Such a treasure, this! Thank you so much from the other side of the world. I hope to one day meet you people:)