1. Drawing: Use center lines to help make an accurate drawing 2. Underpainting: block in and map the darkest darks and lightest lights 3. Blocking: Err on the darker side of the value because it's easier to build on 4. Step Back often from your Canvas about 6ft 5. Remove dark umber and black from palette if paintings aren't vibrant enough 6. Use natural daylight lighting or equivalent bulb 7. Phones are too small to use as reference 8. Keep your subject matter the same until you get a general understanding 9. Don't think of gray as a color but a "greyed down color" 10. Put more paint on your palette so that there's a good enough amount on the canvas
In college for my painting class, we had to go out and find a long stick. When we came back, we were told to tape one end to the end of our paintbrush and then paint. We painted about 99% of our painting this way and were told to stop and fill in the smaller details with a smaller brush close up and only had about a minute to do so before going back to the sticked brush. This helped us to learn to stand back as well as be more careful about where to put the right values. We were also taught that if we have a hard time painting/drawing something, instead of avoiding it, then to paint only just that until we ‘master’ it. Hands were a good example of that. So instead of doing a painting of someone’s hands out of the way to avoid them, make sure they’re the center of the painting or paint a painting of only just hands. Painting/drawing what you see instead of painting/drawing what you THINK you see helps drastically here and it’s important to understand the difference between the two! Once you ‘master’ this new way of seeing, the better off you’ll be because then you can paint/draw anything!
So interesting, particularly the last remark - I've been bingeing art videos (especially this channel!) and SEEING properly - developing a way of looking at the world directly instead of through a ''screen'' of thoughts - this notion keep coming up again and again! And the way you say that one can paint/draw anything if one simply learns to look and observe... It's fundamental! Thank you for sharing, that's such a clever tip to use a stick to extend the length of the brush! Happy painting :)
This is really awesome man. You’re honest and you genuinely want people to be able to confidently paint. It’s just so great seeing this kind of attitude on TH-cam, thank you man
I have to tell you that was one of the best tip videos I’ve seen, and thank you you were direct to the point and didn’t over talk anything it was refreshing and enjoyable to watch
Great tips. Another thing I have found very helpful is to take pictures as you go along because the camera picks up things that you miss even if you step back often - which i do.
I have an idea for a video. How about a long video about 20 to 30 mins explaining the techniques and ways for using certain oil painting brushes. Like making texture with the fan brush, blocking in with the big flat brushes etc. It would be a really interesting video.
Funny you said “ have a cup of coffee” which is exactly what I am doing right now - as always, your channel provides a very practical advice, straight to the point and very motivating 🥰
Another thing that can help, towards the end of painting, is to hold the painting in the mirror. Any errors in composition and proportion will leap out at you. I don't do abstracts so not sure if it would work for those but it works well for landscapes and really well for human and animal subjects
When I went to art school (many years ago!) I often used the mirror to get a different perspective on my painting. Amazing what the mirror revealed! Now retired, I'm trying to renew my interest in painting,
1- These 10 are good tips. Especially, for me, the drawing grid idea is helpful. 2-Also, my Rosemary &Co brushes arrived last night. I am trying them out now as I listen to this Paint Talk! They feel sturdy!
Tip no 8 .keep at it until you understand why you are struggling. I am doing African bush landscapes with dusty landscapes I seem to put the dust on my Paper / canvas.working hard to get my green/Grey tones and heus right. I will take the challenge to get it right. Thanks for your tips. Pretoria S Africa
Tip nine about gray was eye opening. That’s a completely new way of thinking that immediately made sense to me. I’ll be using complements to produce gray instead of just mixing black and white from now on!
You truly are the paint coach, man this motivates me (im still at fundamentals of drawing and paint acrylics but this just inspires me so much more each day) thankyou for this.
I must admit that I do love using mars black to darken my shadows, but I always add something to it, like cadmium orange (warmer shadow) or Prussian blue (cool shadow). Just my personal preference, but I totally get what he is saying, especially about the white!
I just finished a project that can help me with tip #7. I have a cheap tablet that I can easily send reference photos to. I flipped the upper clamp on my easel (not sure what it is called if it even has a name - the part that slides down and clamps down on top of the canvas to hold it) so that the tablet could fit on it and made a second clamp to slide down and hold the tablet in place. Now I can have whatever reference I am working from, whether photo or video, just inches above the canvas that I am painting.
thank you for easy to follow advice I read an article many years ago paint like a millionaire I have sold paintings and still learning your videos are very helpful;
My biggest challenge is difference of color. Like a near rock, far rock, and a very far away rock should not be the same color but I know they are the same color. With atmosphere mixes. The whole picture ends up being the same color. I always have to fight painting what I see and not what I know. Thank you very much for your great video.
It’s funny, my grandfather was oil painting instructor, and I was fortunate to have him work with me when I was around 5 years old. It’s been many years since I’ve had any formal instruction, and decided to watch some TH-cam videos, it’s surprising all these tips that I was taught so long ago I now do just subconsciously when I paint.
Your tips are so great and useful that I decide to write and resume Them and put them in my studio. You are so motivating. Thanks so much to teach us in a so simple way! 😊 P.S. I'm a french Canadian and I am not bilingual. But I find your English to be very clear. Thanks a lot. 🎨😉👌
I've figured out for myself how to use more paint and don't have to throw away that much: I paint 2 or even 3 copies at once. Another plus of working this way is that one of those will be better than the others
hey chris, great video, great tips! i really enjoy your channel. your teaching style is clear and makes me want to paint more. your paintings are amazing. the nick cage montage is epic.
Excellent. Each tip is valuable. I hardly put any paint on my palette. I dont know what stops me. It troubles me still I continue to do ot. My next practice shall be to squeeze out more colour
Could you please make a video that explains what tiling is? Ive seen demos for tiling but cant seem to find any verbal explanation about the technique or the thought process behind it when laying down strokes.... thank you for all the info you share each week!
Tiling is like paint by number-you paint clean color in a section of your painting and let it be and limit blending on the canvas. The use for this is to minimize muddy color and to get cleaner colors. It’s helpful if you struggle with painting thick over thin. Was that helpful? I can discuss it more.
@@GalleryBry ohhh yes... I was stuck on making it more complicated than it is wondering if the 'tiles' represented plane changes or something and was really confused by the demos I've seen so it's less a technique thats used to describe form (such as brush stroke direction) and more a technique that keeps the colors clean?
@@justluci8578 I mostly think of it as a way to keep clean color. Form is typically rendered using contour lines brushstroke direction, values, and warm and cool color.
About the using different colour than burnt umber or black to darken shadows / white to highlight places.... A few weeks ago I heard of a thing that Van gogh and those fellas used to do: They would not use black and white, instead different shades of other colours. Not sure if that is true but I made a challenge for myself: To paint something and not use black or white. The result was pretty interesting! Not gonna say it saved my paintings or that it became masterpieces, but it was better!
Are you able to do a video on how to paint really dark shadows in a portrait/ figurative painting? I’m learning how to paint figures and one of the reference photos I have is mostly a very dark shadow it’s almost black, I want to take on the challenge but I’m not sure where to even start, how do I make skin tones so dark with out making them muddy or get lost, if you could do that it would be so much help, thank you, love your videos!!
#10 When I put a lot of paint on my brush and use it that way I get big globbyness spots and mud. I've only been painting since January 23 I went to a Bob Ross painting class for a week. I would love love love to be in front of an experienced teacher again to answer some frustrating questions. Now I have completed some nice paintings but it's like 1 step forward 3 steps back kind of thing. Also watching so many different people on TH-cam probably doesn't help because you get mixed advice and then you get confused and frustrated at the easel when things dont work the same. Like I watch a couple people on YT who seem to paint wet on wet like they are painting over dried acrylic yet when I do it I get muddy results. Frustrating. To this day I cant paint the classic Bob Ross bushes where he puts half a tube of dark down and then magically paints highlights overtop. I get very very dull mud and use half a tube of paint trying to get it come off the brush.
I'm looking for a good video on best practices for your palette when painting. How often do you clean, and manage your paint. how you think about cleaning your brush, when a palette knife is useful. Basically a video more on how to best use your tools off the canvas. Does Paint Coach have a video like this or has anyone else come across good content for this?
6:49 While I'm here clearly for tips as a beginner with oil paint.. this is a mistake that I'm making but I can't stop now I'm already 3/4 of the way through the painting 😅 It's conveniently difficult to not use the phone when there's so many references at hand. That being said I couldn't agree more with your points.
More paint on the palette really works. I found out the hard way in acrylics. Too little paint and it just dries, or even goes on practically dry. That makes it hard to spread and blend. It also means you end up running out of your colour and having difficulty matching it up again to finish an area.
Dame I use my phone all the time I don't have a computer or a camera but I do see what he is say hopefully I can go to the library thanks for the video today was my first day painting in oil funny I felt after maybe I should just go back to gouache but NO I will figure this out thanks again for your info
I always draw before painting and I thought I was an amateur cop out and had no idea that that's the right* way to do it. I even went to the art store to ask how to hide the pencil marks under the paint cuz I thought you're not supposed to do that and I can't believe it's the actual right way to do it *For lack of a better term
Hey Chris I have a question for you. How much of this oil painting advice and techniques can be applied to acrylics? I plan on switching to oil sometime in the future, so I guess I'll have a head start because your videos rock! I swear to God, I painted my father's dog after watching one of them and he was shocked at the leap in my quality. Thanks to you, the lightbulb flicked on in my head and now I have the desire to learn more and more about painting and color in general. I'm truly grateful man!
Most painting techniques are similar between oils and acrylics. For example, squinting, working from large to small shapes, drawing, color mixing, values, dark to light, etc are universal. The main difference is how the paint handles. Acrylics dry quickly so it is easier to layer. Oils require one to paint thin to thick to get the paint to layer. That the major difference. Don’t be intimidated by oils and mediums. I don’t use mediums and use safflower oil to thin my paint. You should try oils. They are really fun. You can learn more about how I use oil to clean brushes on my channel. Hope that helps. :)
I am currently painting with acrylics and I find all 10 tips just as apropos for acrylics as oils. the only tip u might want to evaluate is how much acrylic paint u squeeze out just cuz of how fast it dries. 😃
Your videos always motivate me to keep painting and remind me the essential steps. I am struggling with milky colors in opposite to vibrant. (I am afraid it could be because maybe my oils aren´t to pigment and I am always mixing with white to make them more opaque). What do you think?
Rule no 5, does it mean raw umber won't give you vibrant shadow? I know how black should be avoided, apart from Raw umber and mixture of 2 complimetarys what other means of getting shadows can we use ?
I like to use burnt umber and Prussian blue to get extra dark values. For shadows, you can use any color combination. Shadows outside tend to be blue because they are lit by the blue of the sky. You could use a mix of ultramarine blue and a red with a touch of yellow to get a gray blue for shadows. Some shadows are warm, especially in urban settings where they get reflected light from buildings. Burnt umber and burnt sienna can be used with a touch of yellow and blue to get nice warm shadows. Was that helpful at all?
Thanks for the video! Question about the new studio: did you paint the walls a particular color to help with the light? My walls are an old bedroom that is painted sky blue, and I was considering painting white or a grey pallette color
I definitely hit the like button. Your tips were were absolutely fantastic. Now would you please tell me how I can lighten my colors without usin white? Pleeese, and thank you
Like your tips. Some of these I need to revisit! Many of us who know these things often "forget" and regress... always with the basics... I recently was told that I need to forget about values, and begin using more color, to worry about tinting last- lay in the color, then adjust. A fool proof way to block in the huge zones of color- more of an exercise than a good technique... but worth doing a couple of times to break other habits about using paint. One of the weird things about that is that I had another issue before- putting color into a scene which didn't need to be there- seeing more values than were good for the overall painting- but yes, seeing the underlying value (root pigment) for things is hugely valuable- pun intended.
quick qs: how long should i wait to do the next layer on oil painting? i mean by minutes not hours, cuz the first time i try and i dont know about much and i just kept adding layer after layer and it just mix the color up
1. Drawing: Use center lines to help make an accurate drawing
2. Underpainting: block in and map the darkest darks and lightest lights
3. Blocking: Err on the darker side of the value because it's easier to build on
4. Step Back often from your Canvas about 6ft
5. Remove dark umber and black from palette if paintings aren't vibrant enough
6. Use natural daylight lighting or equivalent bulb
7. Phones are too small to use as reference
8. Keep your subject matter the same until you get a general understanding
9. Don't think of gray as a color but a "greyed down color"
10. Put more paint on your palette so that there's a good enough amount on the canvas
Thanks. 🙂
Thank you. Now I can print it, tape it to the easel and beat it into my iffy memory!
U r a herooo xD
Thanks for this, I'm gonna add this to my notes!
Thank you Jake!
It's a lot easier to lighten your values than it is to darken it when wet❤️ 100% yes!!!
Oh yes! Especially if titanium white got mixed in your darks - that's a mess to darken it when wet!
I honestly thought he stumbled when he said this, as I always just (intuitively) thought that darker pigment was more dominant than lighter pigment?
@@NozaOzthink translucent | opague
In college for my painting class, we had to go out and find a long stick. When we came back, we were told to tape one end to the end of our paintbrush and then paint. We painted about 99% of our painting this way and were told to stop and fill in the smaller details with a smaller brush close up and only had about a minute to do so before going back to the sticked brush. This helped us to learn to stand back as well as be more careful about where to put the right values.
We were also taught that if we have a hard time painting/drawing something, instead of avoiding it, then to paint only just that until we ‘master’ it. Hands were a good example of that. So instead of doing a painting of someone’s hands out of the way to avoid them, make sure they’re the center of the painting or paint a painting of only just hands. Painting/drawing what you see instead of painting/drawing what you THINK you see helps drastically here and it’s important to understand the difference between the two! Once you ‘master’ this new way of seeing, the better off you’ll be because then you can paint/draw anything!
So interesting, particularly the last remark - I've been bingeing art videos (especially this channel!) and SEEING properly - developing a way of looking at the world directly instead of through a ''screen'' of thoughts - this notion keep coming up again and again! And the way you say that one can paint/draw anything if one simply learns to look and observe... It's fundamental! Thank you for sharing, that's such a clever tip to use a stick to extend the length of the brush! Happy painting :)
@@zackerywalker880 you’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!
This is really awesome man. You’re honest and you genuinely want people to be able to confidently paint. It’s just so great seeing this kind of attitude on TH-cam, thank you man
I have to tell you that was one of the best tip videos I’ve seen, and thank you you were direct to the point and didn’t over talk anything it was refreshing and enjoyable to watch
Wow, you’re such a gifted teacher! I feel lucky to have found your videos . Thank you for sharing I really appreciate it.
Great tips. Another thing I have found very helpful is to take pictures as you go along because the camera picks up things that you miss even if you step back often - which i do.
New to oil painting. Your videos definitely help a lot 🤓
Happy to help!
I have an idea for a video. How about a long video about 20 to 30 mins explaining the techniques and ways for using certain oil painting brushes. Like making texture with the fan brush, blocking in with the big flat brushes etc. It would be a really interesting video.
It would be a short video bc I use pretty much one brush in different sizes lol
Yes!
@@paintcoach Then perhaps you might explain things like how you go about getting a bright to act like a fan, and so on.
Funny you said “ have a cup of coffee” which is exactly what I am doing right now - as always, your channel provides a very practical advice, straight to the point and very motivating 🥰
Another thing that can help, towards the end of painting, is to hold the painting in the mirror. Any errors in composition and proportion will leap out at you. I don't do abstracts so not sure if it would work for those but it works well for landscapes and really well for human and animal subjects
When I went to art school (many years ago!) I often used the mirror to get a different perspective on my painting. Amazing what the mirror revealed! Now retired, I'm trying to renew my interest in painting,
Lovely set of tips, well explained and interesting to watch. Thank you
1- These 10 are good tips. Especially, for me, the drawing grid idea is helpful.
2-Also, my Rosemary &Co brushes arrived last night. I am trying them out now as I listen to this Paint Talk! They feel sturdy!
Wonderful!
Everyone I know loves those brushes. My turn to order them. Did you get them from Amazon?
Thank you Chris. Great content in a pill.
That Cage gap in the back is looming at all of us now 😉
I know I need to finish it lol
Tip no 8 .keep at it until you understand why you are struggling. I am doing African bush landscapes with dusty landscapes I seem to put the dust on my Paper / canvas.working hard to get my green/Grey tones and heus right. I will take the challenge to get it right. Thanks for your tips. Pretoria S Africa
Tip nine about gray was eye opening. That’s a completely new way of thinking that immediately made sense to me. I’ll be using complements to produce gray instead of just mixing black and white from now on!
You truly are the paint coach, man this motivates me (im still at fundamentals of drawing and paint acrylics but this just inspires me so much more each day) thankyou for this.
number 9 is a real treasure!
the tip about piecing the painting together as if you're using pieces of paper helped me a lot!
Thanks for this video - I was struggling with my ballerina and you video was just what I needed to dig myself out of the hole I was stuck in!
I must admit that I do love using mars black to darken my shadows, but I always add something to it, like cadmium orange (warmer shadow) or Prussian blue (cool shadow). Just my personal preference, but I totally get what he is saying, especially about the white!
You nailed a couple of my “d’oh” facepalm mistakes - thank you so much!
These are all such amazing tips! You’re so good at what you do! Thank you 🙏
Love the comments about the colour grey. So helpful.
I just finished a project that can help me with tip #7. I have a cheap tablet that I can easily send reference photos to. I flipped the upper clamp on my easel (not sure what it is called if it even has a name - the part that slides down and clamps down on top of the canvas to hold it) so that the tablet could fit on it and made a second clamp to slide down and hold the tablet in place. Now I can have whatever reference I am working from, whether photo or video, just inches above the canvas that I am painting.
I love these tips! All of the other tips require a lot of time, and these I can do immediately.
thank you for easy to follow advice I read an article many years ago paint like a millionaire I have sold paintings and still learning
your videos are very helpful;
My biggest challenge is difference of color. Like a near rock, far rock, and a very far away rock should not be the same color but I know they are the same color. With atmosphere mixes. The whole picture ends up being the same color. I always have to fight painting what I see and not what I know. Thank you very much for your great video.
It’s funny, my grandfather was oil painting instructor, and I was fortunate to have him work with me when I was around 5 years old. It’s been many years since I’ve had any formal instruction, and decided to watch some TH-cam videos, it’s surprising all these tips that I was taught so long ago I now do just subconsciously when I paint.
Your tips are so great and useful that I decide to write and resume Them and put them in my studio. You are so motivating. Thanks so much to teach us in a so simple way! 😊 P.S. I'm a french Canadian and I am not bilingual. But I find your English to be very clear. Thanks a lot. 🎨😉👌
I started a 30-portrait- study project with Zorn palette last month and I found all these tips are super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for the great tips!
I've figured out for myself how to use more paint and don't have to throw away that much: I paint 2 or even 3 copies at once. Another plus of working this way is that one of those will be better than the others
and less fear of messing up!! i like this
Great tips and advice! Ty!
Great video. One of my painting profs always chewed us out telling us to put more paint on the 🎨
I love to tip #9 'get gray out of your mind'. I wish I had learned that one a long time ago!
I’m here to thank you for all the tips!!! This is very helpful and directional. You are awesome! 🔥
hey chris, great video, great tips! i really enjoy your channel. your teaching style is clear and makes me want to paint more. your paintings are amazing. the nick cage montage is epic.
Binge watching your videos and feeling inspiredddd
Excellent. Each tip is valuable. I hardly put any paint on my palette. I dont know what stops me. It troubles me still I continue to do ot. My next practice shall be to squeeze out more colour
Really thoughtful and helpful. Thanks.
This guy is good... (No Great!) Glad I Found This Channel! A Wealth Of Knowledge.
You kept my attention. Thank you for your time.
Chris, I can’t believe Nick Cage hasn’t contacted you to buy that fabulous painting of his many faces. It’s wonderful.
Could you please make a video that explains what tiling is? Ive seen demos for tiling but cant seem to find any verbal explanation about the technique or the thought process behind it when laying down strokes.... thank you for all the info you share each week!
Tiling is like paint by number-you paint clean color in a section of your painting and let it be and limit blending on the canvas. The use for this is to minimize muddy color and to get cleaner colors. It’s helpful if you struggle with painting thick over thin. Was that helpful? I can discuss it more.
@@GalleryBry ohhh yes... I was stuck on making it more complicated than it is wondering if the 'tiles' represented plane changes or something and was really confused by the demos I've seen
so it's less a technique thats used to describe form (such as brush stroke direction) and more a technique that keeps the colors clean?
@@justluci8578 I mostly think of it as a way to keep clean color. Form is typically rendered using contour lines brushstroke direction, values, and warm and cool color.
Good advice. Thank you
Very helpful thanks
I wish you were my art teacher when I was in school dude. I really do. 🥲
Nicholas Cage chaos behind you is hilarious!
Regarding indoor lighting, besides getting a daylight temperature light, also make sure it’s high cri.
About the using different colour than burnt umber or black to darken shadows / white to highlight places.... A few weeks ago I heard of a thing that Van gogh and those fellas used to do: They would not use black and white, instead different shades of other colours. Not sure if that is true but I made a challenge for myself: To paint something and not use black or white.
The result was pretty interesting! Not gonna say it saved my paintings or that it became masterpieces, but it was better!
Thank you!!!
your content is gold, thanks
GOLD
Thank you so much for sharing your practical tips, I really enjoy watching your channel
Are you able to do a video on how to paint really dark shadows in a portrait/ figurative painting? I’m learning how to paint figures and one of the reference photos I have is mostly a very dark shadow it’s almost black, I want to take on the challenge but I’m not sure where to even start, how do I make skin tones so dark with out making them muddy or get lost, if you could do that it would be so much help, thank you, love your videos!!
#10 When I put a lot of paint on my brush and use it that way I get big globbyness spots and mud. I've only been painting since January 23 I went to a Bob Ross painting class for a week. I would love love love to be in front of an experienced teacher again to answer some frustrating questions. Now I have completed some nice paintings but it's like 1 step forward 3 steps back kind of thing. Also watching so many different people on TH-cam probably doesn't help because you get mixed advice and then you get confused and frustrated at the easel when things dont work the same. Like I watch a couple people on YT who seem to paint wet on wet like they are painting over dried acrylic yet when I do it I get muddy results. Frustrating. To this day I cant paint the classic Bob Ross bushes where he puts half a tube of dark down and then magically paints highlights overtop. I get very very dull mud and use half a tube of paint trying to get it come off the brush.
I'm looking for a good video on best practices for your palette when painting. How often do you clean, and manage your paint. how you think about cleaning your brush, when a palette knife is useful. Basically a video more on how to best use your tools off the canvas. Does Paint Coach have a video like this or has anyone else come across good content for this?
Can you do a tutorial about how the approach to paint flowers like Henri-Fantin-Latour ?
Thank you
Thank you so much
6:49
While I'm here clearly for tips as a beginner with oil paint.. this is a mistake that I'm making but I can't stop now I'm already 3/4 of the way through the painting 😅
It's conveniently difficult to not use the phone when there's so many references at hand. That being said I couldn't agree more with your points.
Great advice! Thank you! 👍🏻😊
More paint on the palette really works. I found out the hard way in acrylics. Too little paint and it just dries, or even goes on practically dry. That makes it hard to spread and blend. It also means you end up running out of your colour and having difficulty matching it up again to finish an area.
Super good tips….thank you!
Thanks
Thanks again! Good reminders!
Awesome oil painting tips…..thank you!
Dame I use my phone all the time I don't have a computer or a camera but I do see what he is say hopefully I can go to the library thanks for the video today was my first day painting in oil funny I felt after maybe I should just go back to gouache but NO I will figure this out thanks again for your info
Bro thank you again man! This helps out so much!
aaand subbed ✌🏾 thanx man !!
Glad I found your channel!
Thank you. Great tutorial.
Nicolas Cage is my all time favourite actor. You capture him so well. Do you sell your paintings?
Awesome tips! Thanks 🙏
Thank you, for this tutorial. You're awesome. This helped.
great tips! Thanks for sharing this class!
I am guilty of a good 50% of these "mistakes" xD thank you for opening my eyes!
Thank you for your advice 🙏
Really, really good! 👍😀
Learning SO MUCH. PIANO IN BACKGROUND is distracting....but love this.
I always draw before painting and I thought I was an amateur cop out and had no idea that that's the right* way to do it. I even went to the art store to ask how to hide the pencil marks under the paint cuz I thought you're not supposed to do that and I can't believe it's the actual right way to do it
*For lack of a better term
Thank you!
Great tips!
Thx Chris, great info!
Hey Chris I have a question for you. How much of this oil painting advice and techniques can be applied to acrylics? I plan on switching to oil sometime in the future, so I guess I'll have a head start because your videos rock! I swear to God, I painted my father's dog after watching one of them and he was shocked at the leap in my quality. Thanks to you, the lightbulb flicked on in my head and now I have the desire to learn more and more about painting and color in general. I'm truly grateful man!
Most painting techniques are similar between oils and acrylics. For example, squinting, working from large to small shapes, drawing, color mixing, values, dark to light, etc are universal. The main difference is how the paint handles. Acrylics dry quickly so it is easier to layer. Oils require one to paint thin to thick to get the paint to layer. That the major difference. Don’t be intimidated by oils and mediums. I don’t use mediums and use safflower oil to thin my paint. You should try oils. They are really fun. You can learn more about how I use oil to clean brushes on my channel. Hope that helps. :)
I am currently painting with acrylics and I find all 10 tips just as apropos for acrylics as oils. the only tip u might want to evaluate is how much acrylic paint u squeeze out just cuz of how fast it dries. 😃
@@GalleryBry ok I'll subscribe to your channel, thank you.
@@lunadargent5292 yea I tend to waste paint putting out more than I need.
@@joshludwick8645 You’re quite welcome. :) Hope you are having a great day!!
Your videos always motivate me to keep painting and remind me the essential steps. I am struggling with milky colors in opposite to vibrant. (I am afraid it could be because maybe my oils aren´t to pigment and I am always mixing with white to make them more opaque). What do you think?
Loved this 🙏🏼
great tips !
Thank you so much 😊
*has difficulty painting water* “ok so let’s go back to painting a cactus”
Hello, which brushes from rosemary should I get for realism, I Knoe you mencioné this before. Yogur videos are very usefull. Thanks, from Argentina
Rule no 5, does it mean raw umber won't give you vibrant shadow? I know how black should be avoided, apart from Raw umber and mixture of 2 complimetarys what other means of getting shadows can we use ?
I like to use burnt umber and Prussian blue to get extra dark values. For shadows, you can use any color combination. Shadows outside tend to be blue because they are lit by the blue of the sky. You could use a mix of ultramarine blue and a red with a touch of yellow to get a gray blue for shadows. Some shadows are warm, especially in urban settings where they get reflected light from buildings. Burnt umber and burnt sienna can be used with a touch of yellow and blue to get nice warm shadows. Was that helpful at all?
@@GalleryBry thanks
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Thanks for the video! Question about the new studio: did you paint the walls a particular color to help with the light? My walls are an old bedroom that is painted sky blue, and I was considering painting white or a grey pallette color
I would recommend a neutral color like gray or white. Blue walls can reflect onto your canvas and alter the local color of your painting.
bro, you are b ross on steroids...great tips and obviously well trained...
I definitely hit the like button. Your tips were were absolutely fantastic. Now would you please tell me how I can lighten my colors without usin white? Pleeese, and thank you
Like your tips. Some of these I need to revisit! Many of us who know these things often "forget" and regress... always with the basics...
I recently was told that I need to forget about values, and begin using more color, to worry about tinting last- lay in the color, then adjust. A fool proof way to block in the huge zones of color- more of an exercise than a good technique... but worth doing a couple of times to break other habits about using paint.
One of the weird things about that is that I had another issue before- putting color into a scene which didn't need to be there- seeing more values than were good for the overall painting- but yes, seeing the underlying value (root pigment) for things is hugely valuable- pun intended.
quick qs: how long should i wait to do the next layer on oil painting? i mean by minutes not hours, cuz the first time i try and i dont know about much and i just kept adding layer after layer and it just mix the color up
Watercolor here but you explain the overall thinking that I need. Excellent teacher. Are you in Boston teaching?
Light from a window is not daylight K. It is blue/ish - but daylight bulbs are sunlight temp 5200 K.