Oils over acrylics became for me the standard way to go. You get the best part of both worlds. You even spend less money (since acrylics is cheaper and you can make all the large blocks on it)... I make the larger forms of every element in acrylics, make the 3 initial light levels on it as well. The only tricky part is deciding exactly the moment to jump from one into the other.
@@empty_seat When you feel you have made enough with the acrylics. Acrilics are harder to make details and soft edges, so the time depends on your subject
It may not seem like it, but acrylics end up being more expensive in the long run because more is always needed. My artist oils may be more expensive, but I use far less at a time than acrylic.
Yes i do this as well. Use acrylic first...then oil on top. You also use less oil paint, you establish light and darks first with acrylic underpainting.
I really like the outcome of your acrylic / oil painting endeavor with the dark background. Please consider doing a painting demonstration using this oil and acrylic paint combination suggestion. Have you ever used water-mixable oil paint along with acrylic? Thanks for sharing.
Just about a month ago, I started using this system of acrylic first and then the oil paint on top and it's superb. Now I have the best of both worlds Just done a seascape and I needed to blend the sky from light blue to dark blue which is not easy to do with acrylic, but the oil paint blends very well After that I needed to sort out the sea and that meant using oil as a glaze with "licquin" and that gives much more depth to the sea I'd never go back to using acrylic just on it's own. I look at some of my earlier work and now I can see that I need to go back and give them the oil paint treatment to give them that lovely gloss finish and depth. Great video, and I'm certain that this information will help many artists to dramatically improve their work Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
Acrylics are made of PLASTIC... an oil painting on TOP of an acrylic base would be highly UNSTABLE (not much "tooth" for oil to grab onto). Over time you would think that the oil paint would loosen up and slide right off of the PLASTIC under painting of acrylics!?! 🤔🙄
thank you! I am an acrylic artist and experimenting with oil now and would like to have a fusion between them and your advice is what I was looking for:)
One of your best works! Caravaggioesque, full of secrets and mystic. I like this painting very much! Do more of that and you will earn enorm success! I know of what I'm talking!
I find that its great because im an extremely impatient artist. I can more quickly and efficiently paint with acrylics. And if the painting looks good - I will use my expensive oils to enhance it at a later time
I use oil over acrylic but like i do not paint entire acrylic areas with oil, how do i varnish this painting having both acrylic areas and oil, Help neededdd !!!
Same issue. I use Winsor & Newton glazing medium as a midlayer, and it sticks to oils that much, as something VERY hard to remove (I tried and gave up) and then liquitex warnish 2-3 layers. I am not sure it will lasts forever, but very impressive. Please don't take this as an advise, I just wrote about my experiment/experience..
Ive read it in few places and then people told me that its safer to varnish this painting in oil varnish since for the acrylics it doesnt matter which varnish it is but for oils it does
Thank you, I’ve done an acrylic dog portrait and wanted to brighten it up with oil - would be nice to know which Matt oil you’d suggest so that the oil paint adheres properly to the acrylic- thank you for your videos they’re really clear calm and inspiring !!!!
Hi! Did you paint over the acrylic deep black background with ivory black and what did you use to make the painting so shiny? It looks like a gloss finish.
I was considering taking up painting, but it seems to require a TON of supplies, not to mention very complicated. I'm going to try color pencils. No mess and a lot cheaper.
Today, I finished a thick Acrylic underpainting of a Dark blue-black for 3/4 of a 16"x20", and dark brown bottom 1/4.....for an Alien Landscape with city-lights and a Galaxy background in Oils.
Question: H E L P: Can I leave part of a painting, like the background, in acrylics, but do the portrait in oils over acrylics? Then apply a retouch varnish when the oils are dry, over the whole painting? I want to do fast inexpensive portrait sketches. But I need more wet paint time for the faces. Thanks so much for the info about not using the gloss medium with the acrylics because it will make the paint too slippery for the oil overpainting to adhere to. I never thought of that and I want to paint oils over acrylics for faster portraits. You probably saved a painting!
Without your knowledge , I’m doing a witches house on top of a rainy scenery day. In the forest. The house drawn in pencil first very light then painted in oil. Not sure what the outcome Will be , but never new what STV would look like ,till I did it lol about the dame size As the one with the lady opening scene of the series.
I thought it was possible to paint an entire picture in acrylic and then to use tiny amounts of oil paint only on certain areas of the painting basically as highlights and I was told by certain arty people yes you can do that. So I looked into what varnishes you should use for acrylic paintings and it turns out they're completely different from oil painting varnish and that there's no one varnish suitable for both, which surely means the technique I wanted to use would not be possible. Because you can't varnish it. Am I right or wrong? Can anyone please advise me...? Many thanks!🖌️
Very informative! I've a question: when you use acrylic, you need to apply a coating before varnishing. What kind of coating and varnish is good for a painting do e with both acrylic and oil?
So, You don’t have to sand the acrylic under painting? I did an acrylic under painting and it turned out so cool and beautiful but I didn’t know how much acrylic Was enough under the oil. So I just use a thing layer. Gracias, for making this tutorials! I enjoy learning from you.
je ne pense pas cela!! la peinture commence avec de l huile et se ter mine avec de l huile!! la pure technique de la peinture à l huile!! que je pratique toute seule, j aime cependant beaucoup vos vidéos! merci beaucoup!!
Hello, you are really talented! It's always a pleasure to follow your videos. For the first time, though, I have a question I would like to ask you: I painted an oil painting using an extremely thin layer of color. It dried almost completely in just a few days. Do you think it would be wrong to use acrylic paints on top of the painting in this case, solely to create metallic effects that I can't achieve with oil paints (because I can't find the right metallic oil colors on the market)? Thank you so much!!!
You are very talented 👏 I have 2 questions please, why the painting of that last is so shiny? And when you say acrylic paint dries quickly how quickly? Seconds, minutes or hours ?
I really like the idea of using acrylic and oil together...but I am kind of confuse that what should I say..like is it acrylic painting or oil painting....it's a concern when trying to sell it .
beautiful painting ,stunning ,small technicality i thought (could be wrong) acrylic is resin based medium that's water soluble I think ,saying it water based is like saying oils are thinner based
Why did't you use mars black? It is opaque and would have provided a super dark background. Acrylics take a year to cure, especially if you do impasto, and covering the acrylic with oils trap moisture in the acrylic and stop the curing process.
@@trahapace150 No mix up. It takes 12 months to cure acrylics, not to "dry" acrylics. I was pretty surprised to find out about that. Think about all the oil paintings on acrylic gessoed supports, given only a couple of days or less to dry. Now, I'll have to try to dig up where I found out about this "curing" time. I'll get back to you when I locate my source.
Ok, didn't take as long as I thought. Look in the Golden Acrylics web site, wade down through these headings: "product and application information"; "application sheets"; "drying technical notes".
@@ralphhancock7449 I was not aware of this either, but from the Golden site, "For very thin films, this time may be a few days, while films of 1/4 inch thickness or more will take months and even years to be completely dry."
I am still trying to figure out timing ... Drying time ... I started couple of paintings in acrylic and I couldn't get the smooth layers as in oils ... Oils drying time is very slow specially in winter ... I think working the oil over acrylic with mineral oil ... ( I have been painting with oils most of my life )... I like the fluidity of mineral oil ....
Bonjour Florent, Merci pour tes vidéos très généreuses et pédagogiques. Superbe qualité. Une question: Tu utilises un fond noir acrylique et ensuite tu peins à l'huile et jamais l'inverse. Mais lorsque tu fais voir les coulures acryliques noires en bas du tableau, on voit un fond jaune/or similaire aux drapés. Ce fond est-il fait à l'acrylique aussi? Merci
I'm very nervous lol. Your video is very informative. I have done a large underpainting that is essentially a value painting that I'd intended on applying glazes of oil on top of for color. Is there any danger of oil mediums breaking down the surface of the acrylic underpainting?
when I need to use oil an acrylic I make My oils water mixable with a secondary medium. they are moving an behaving the same as acrylic. It’s called medium W. It really makes my backdrop that’s done in acrylic pop
The brand is Schmincke. I'm about to order some Medium W. I shall use it to convert my regular oils to water soluble as am getting away from solvents. So limited thinning of oils with water should be possible? I'm experimenting at the moment before settling on a "system".
What if you can't buy acrylic or not enough in complete color acrylic and you can just find oil painting in the house and water color to complete the color problem but i don't know if its ok thats what isearched for no answer
Oils over acrylics became for me the standard way to go. You get the best part of both worlds. You even spend less money (since acrylics is cheaper and you can make all the large blocks on it)... I make the larger forms of every element in acrylics, make the 3 initial light levels on it as well. The only tricky part is deciding exactly the moment to jump from one into the other.
So when is the right time to jump ?
@@empty_seat When you feel you have made enough with the acrylics. Acrilics are harder to make details and soft edges, so the time depends on your subject
It may not seem like it, but acrylics end up being more expensive in the long run because more is always needed. My artist oils may be more expensive, but I use far less at a time than acrylic.
thanks of sharing , lots of love 😊
Thanks.
My god, that painting of the lady is so beautiful.
I agree.👍
Yes i do this as well. Use acrylic first...then oil on top. You also use less oil paint, you establish light and darks first with acrylic underpainting.
acrylics + oils = sexy and dirty
I really like the outcome of your acrylic / oil painting endeavor with the dark background. Please consider doing a painting demonstration using this oil and acrylic paint combination suggestion. Have you ever used water-mixable oil paint along with acrylic? Thanks for sharing.
Just about a month ago, I started using this system of acrylic first and then the oil paint on top and it's superb. Now I have the best of both worlds Just done a seascape and I needed to blend the sky from light blue to dark blue which is not easy to do with acrylic, but the oil paint blends very well After that I needed to sort out the sea and that meant using oil as a glaze with "licquin" and that gives much more depth to the sea
I'd never go back to using acrylic just on it's own. I look at some of my earlier work and now I can see that I need to go back and give them the oil paint treatment to give them that lovely gloss finish and depth.
Great video, and I'm certain that this information will help many artists to dramatically improve their work
Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
Acrylics are made of PLASTIC... an oil painting on TOP of an acrylic base would be highly UNSTABLE (not much "tooth" for oil to grab onto). Over time you would think that the oil paint would loosen up and slide right off of the PLASTIC under painting of acrylics!?! 🤔🙄
thank you! I am an acrylic artist and experimenting with oil now and would like to have a fusion between them and your advice is what I was looking for:)
i love that painting, i dream of doing something like that
One of your best works! Caravaggioesque, full of secrets and mystic. I like this painting very much! Do more of that and you will earn enorm success! I know of what I'm talking!
Acrylics first then oils I find is the quickest way to get a painting going on my home made panels
I find that its great because im an extremely impatient artist. I can more quickly and efficiently paint with acrylics. And if the painting looks good - I will use my expensive oils to enhance it at a later time
I use oil over acrylic but like i do not paint entire acrylic areas with oil, how do i varnish this painting having both acrylic areas and oil,
Help neededdd !!!
Same issue. I use Winsor & Newton glazing medium as a midlayer, and it sticks to oils that much, as something VERY hard to remove (I tried and gave up) and then liquitex warnish 2-3 layers. I am not sure it will lasts forever, but very impressive. Please don't take this as an advise, I just wrote about my experiment/experience..
Ive read it in few places and then people told me that its safer to varnish this painting in oil varnish since for the acrylics it doesnt matter which varnish it is but for oils it does
I rarely comment but that painting of the woman is so gorgeous!
There are 557 painters on top of their shit today, and one sitting alone wondering why they're better than everyone else. Thanks Florent!
Thank you I was curious about doing this and you answered my question. Thank you!
Thank you, I’ve done an acrylic dog portrait and wanted to brighten it up with oil - would be nice to know which Matt oil you’d suggest so that the oil paint adheres properly to the acrylic- thank you for your videos they’re really clear calm and inspiring !!!!
I was so hoping acrylic paint could be the gesso, because...I'm lazy and this was what I needed to hear.
I have been doing this method for a while, and love it!
Hi! Did you paint over the acrylic deep black background with ivory black and what did you use to make the painting so shiny? It looks like a gloss finish.
What about water mixable oil paints?
What varnish would you recommend for an acrylic and oil painting?
I was considering taking up painting, but it seems to require a TON of supplies, not to mention very complicated. I'm going to try color pencils. No mess and a lot cheaper.
Hi Florent, how can I varnish an art work where there is mix of oil and acrylic paints
Today, I finished a thick Acrylic underpainting of a Dark blue-black for 3/4 of a 16"x20", and dark brown bottom 1/4.....for an Alien Landscape with city-lights and a Galaxy background in Oils.
I know you can't put Acrylic Paints on top of Traditional Oil Paints, but can you put Acrylic paint on top of Water Mixable Oil Paints?
No, the oil layer will still increase in volume while curing while the acrylic paint will not which may lead to cracking.
@@shrinkhh79 Thank you, I appreciate it.
Question: H E L P: Can I leave part of a painting, like the background, in acrylics, but do the portrait in oils over acrylics? Then apply a retouch varnish when the oils are dry, over the whole painting? I want to do fast inexpensive portrait sketches. But I need more wet paint time for the faces.
Thanks so much for the info about not using the gloss medium with the acrylics because it will make the paint too slippery for the oil overpainting to adhere to. I never thought of that and I want to paint oils over acrylics for faster portraits. You probably saved a painting!
Without your knowledge , I’m doing a witches house on top of a rainy scenery day.
In the forest.
The house drawn in pencil first very light then painted in oil. Not sure what the outcome
Will be , but never new what STV would look like ,till I did it lol about the dame size
As the one with the lady
opening scene of the series.
Loved it! I have a question, how to varnish these paintings made with acrylics & oil combined? Can you please help me out.
I thought it was possible to paint an entire picture in acrylic and then to use tiny amounts of oil paint only on certain areas of the painting basically as highlights and I was told by certain arty people yes you can do that. So I looked into what varnishes you should use for acrylic paintings and it turns out they're completely different from oil painting varnish and that there's no one varnish suitable for both, which surely means the technique I wanted to use would not be possible. Because you can't varnish it. Am I right or wrong? Can anyone please advise me...? Many thanks!🖌️
Very informative! I've a question: when you use acrylic, you need to apply a coating before varnishing. What kind of coating and varnish is good for a painting do e with both acrylic and oil?
So, You don’t have to sand the acrylic under painting? I did an acrylic under painting and it turned out so cool and beautiful but I didn’t know how much acrylic Was enough under the oil. So I just use a thing layer. Gracias, for making this tutorials! I enjoy learning from you.
Hi! How long should I wait for a thick imapsto acrylic to dry to paint over it in oils? Thanks in advance.
Hi. Did you put a varnish after use the acrylic part before you use the oils?
heya Florent! your tips are always useful and professional. can you please talk about making blacklight colors with oil painting? thanks too much
Thank you for amazing tips!
How would you seal that kind of painting?
Hmmm Lisa lachri makes all her acrylic paintings look just like oil painting with a finish…
Does it impact longevity?
Thanks for the tips :-)
Wow that painting is Nicely executed.Im a painter as well.Thanks for the helpful and good videos.God bless always.
je ne pense pas cela!! la peinture commence avec de l huile et se ter mine avec de l huile!! la pure technique de la peinture à l huile!! que je pratique toute seule, j aime cependant beaucoup vos vidéos! merci beaucoup!!
Very informative.
Very beautiful! How did you get the gold tones?
Royal Dutch Talents do silver and gold in Rembrandt and Cobra oil ranges. I understand this is achieved with mica particles.
I paint in acrylic first.....if I find the painting lacking in depth....i glaze or repaint in oil
That painting is really striking. Very dramatic. Love it. Great video.
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Hello, you are really talented! It's always a pleasure to follow your videos. For the first time, though, I have a question I would like to ask you: I painted an oil painting using an extremely thin layer of color. It dried almost completely in just a few days. Do you think it would be wrong to use acrylic paints on top of the painting in this case, solely to create metallic effects that I can't achieve with oil paints (because I can't find the right metallic oil colors on the market)? Thank you so much!!!
That was amazingly useful!!! Thank you! I’m excited now to apply these techniques in my future projects
Can we also use acrylics over oil?
That painting is gorgeous!
You are very talented 👏
I have 2 questions please, why the painting of that last is so shiny? And when you say acrylic paint dries quickly how quickly? Seconds, minutes or hours ?
I really like the idea of using acrylic and oil together...but I am kind of confuse that what should I say..like is it acrylic painting or oil painting....it's a concern when trying to sell it .
That's The number one cant
beautiful painting ,stunning ,small technicality i thought (could be wrong) acrylic is resin based medium that's water soluble I think ,saying it water based is like saying oils are thinner based
I wanted to ask how do you varnish metallic acrylic paint so it doesn't look wet or dull? Would be great help. Please let me know.
Love. Thank you
Just curious can you have a huge amount of acrylic under oil? Like if you wanted to use the acrylic structurally under oil paint, is it safe ok?
Some tell that it's possible to mix Schmincke W medium with acrilics for blending then with traditional oil paint ...is it true ?
i tried mixing a titanium white opaque acrylic with my oil with a ratio of 1:4 and it turned into impasto with no mediums applied... qny thoughts?
Great.
Why did't you use mars black? It is opaque and would have provided a super dark background. Acrylics take a year to cure, especially if you do impasto, and covering the acrylic with oils trap moisture in the acrylic and stop the curing process.
I think you have mixed up oil and acrylics...it don't take 12 months for acrylic to cure...ever
@@trahapace150 No mix up. It takes 12 months to cure acrylics, not to "dry" acrylics. I was pretty surprised to find out about that. Think about all the oil paintings on acrylic gessoed supports, given only a couple of days or less to dry. Now, I'll have to try to dig up where I found out about this "curing" time. I'll get back to you when I locate my source.
Ok, didn't take as long as I thought. Look in the Golden Acrylics web site, wade down through these headings: "product and application information"; "application sheets"; "drying technical notes".
@@ralphhancock7449 I was not aware of this either, but from the Golden site, "For very thin films, this time may be a few days, while films of 1/4 inch thickness or more will take months and even years to be completely dry."
I am still trying to figure out timing ... Drying time ... I started couple of paintings in acrylic and I couldn't get the smooth layers as in oils ... Oils drying time is very slow specially in winter ... I think working the oil over acrylic with mineral oil ... ( I have been painting with oils most of my life )... I like the fluidity of mineral oil ....
This is really great information. I love really dark darks in a painting but this isn’t the easiest with oil
How do I choose what colour to use as an underpainting in acrylic????
I started to use oil with acrylic to paint figurine but not sure if i can seal it with acrylic varnish in the end??
Can you varnish paintings in which Acryl and Oil was used?
I use acrylic both in the background and the block in.
If I use black acrylic for the bg, do I let it dry and then start oil or do I start oil right away?
Very useful information ! Thanks for sharing 👍
Would it be possible to get subtitles as unable to hear? Nice painting
Thanks a lot
Bonjour Florent, Merci pour tes vidéos très généreuses et pédagogiques. Superbe qualité.
Une question: Tu utilises un fond noir acrylique et ensuite tu peins à l'huile et jamais l'inverse.
Mais lorsque tu fais voir les coulures acryliques noires en bas du tableau, on voit un fond jaune/or similaire aux drapés.
Ce fond est-il fait à l'acrylique aussi? Merci
Thank you. But how about painting oil figures on acrylic paysage? Do you think the mat/glossy contrast would be ugly?
Thanks guv. Clearing up all the loose endings
I have to finish my "oil" paint so im gonna use oil paint on acrylic lol
Very useful information. Thank you
what a fantastic channel thank you so much you saved my painting
Great advice! Thank you.
I'm very nervous lol. Your video is very informative. I have done a large underpainting that is essentially a value painting that I'd intended on applying glazes of oil on top of for color. Is there any danger of oil mediums breaking down the surface of the acrylic underpainting?
It wont damage the acrylic. I constantly use oil washes on acrylic underpainting for miniatures.
Very helpful video thank . 😊
What you think about digital art 🤔🤔🤔🤔
It can be applied water based oil Artisan.
Thank you, that was very useful
really u explained very well .i will try to do this way.thanks alot sir u are amazing
when I need to use oil an acrylic I make
My oils water mixable with a secondary medium. they are moving an behaving the same as acrylic. It’s called medium W. It really makes my backdrop that’s done in acrylic pop
The brand is Schmincke. I'm about to order some Medium W. I shall use it to convert my regular oils to water soluble as am getting away from solvents. So limited thinning of oils with water should be possible? I'm experimenting at the moment before settling on a "system".
Really good INOVATION! Thanks!
Thank you very much.
Welcome 😊
What if you can't buy acrylic or not enough in complete color acrylic and you can just find oil painting in the house and water color to complete the color problem but i don't know if its ok thats what isearched for no answer
Ok i know it i not fully watched it though
❤💐
Thank you for this nice video
I got so much out of this ,thankyou
can i use acrylic to stain my canvas?
Thank you so much 😊
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you for tips
Merci pour ces infos !
So do u draw on wood canvas?
Again, well done !
Can you use acrylics over oil primed canvas?
I do not think so. As he explained a waterbased paint will not stick to an oily surface.
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