Oh Chloe, I wish I could meet you in person and tell you everything I've learnt about this wonderful medium. So here are some basics instead: 1. The glass from an old picture frame makes a great reusable palette. 2. Oil paints are NOT toxic, only the heavy metal pigments (found in acrylics and watercolours as well) and the solvents are. 3. Having a window open and a fan blowing towards the window will push any irritating smells away from you and outside. 4. Linseed Oil tends to yellow over time, Walnut Oil doesn't and is also good for cleaning your brushes. 5. Oils have a much slower drying time than any other paint. Take advantage of the open time and the wet-in-wet method with Linseed/Walnut Oil or work in thin layers with an Alkyd Medium like Liquin or Galkyd. 6. The Master's Brush Cleaner will work wonders in getting the paint out of your brushes after a painting session and keep their shape for far longer. 7. If you buy pre-primed canvases you don't have to gesso them yourself, but you absolutely can. 8. Ask me any questions you want to.
@@joyceadams5501 Once you understand the basics of oil painting and how the paints work, then yes, they are fine for beginners. Just do a little research before jumping into it and you'll be fine. If you're on the young side and have never painted before though, I would recommend starting with water-mixable oil paints so you can eliminate the added consideration of using solvents safely and be able to clean up with water. Some good brands are: Lukas Berlin, Royal Talens Cobra, Holbein Duo Aqua, and Winsor and Newton Artisan. Make sure any mediums you purchase are water-mixable as well. And have fun. And any specific questions you want to ask, go right ahead.
Maria Rev as far as “toxic” pigments and mediums go...Just as we do not eat and drink any paint or medium from any medium that is not “food” grade (like the cake decorators use)....we don’t eat and drink them in the oil medium either. ALL paint waste (no matter your medium) should go to the recycling centers and put in their proper place. The solvents can be recycled and reused in house so many times it’s ridiculous and even then when it becomes so saturated with oil it is still useful. My turps etc, actually never see the recycling centers-only the sediments, rags, empty containers. As for glass palette: I myself recycle picture frame glass for that purpose but please, please please be careful as it is a very thin glass that breaks easy and has sharp edges. Tape the edges and mount it on stiff surface. Best to buy/recycle a thick glass palette. I like to put a mid toned canvas sheet that matches the toned surface I am starting with under the glass to help judge the Hue and value of my mixes before they hit the canvas. ALL oil mediums yellow gracefully over time (part of the charm in aged paintings) in various degrees but linseed is the worse of the bunch. This is only a real issue in High Value pigments and the worst in white. Good manufacturers tend to put in safflower oil in those paints. Walnut oil is an excellent medium but it tends to go rancid but we are not eating it so who cares. Beginners should not worry about Linseed oil because it is the base oil for most oil paints-just don’t put it in your pure white...but then again beginners-should we be using pure white at all? If you want to avoid the issue and you want fast drying just use Liquin or Galkyd. Can’t go wrong with those. Correct on pre-primed canvas’s for beginners however, here are some tips: at least clean them with mineral spirits or alcohol to remove residues from handling and packaging. When done learning the basics of oil’s please come back and seek further advice on preparing your canvas!
Tay K.T. It really costs about the same as Acrylics if you are just starting out cheaply. Buy decent student grade stuff and avoid the really cheap stuff though. If you really want to try it at a great low value I suggest that you go to Jerry’s Artorama (I shop them online) and get yourself a SOHO oil paint starter kit. Or go to a place like Hobby Lobby. You can get started from around $50-$100. About the same as a “night out on the town”. Better yet...Christmas is coming....
There are multiple reasons for this: 1. He's been doing it for a really long time. 2. He has all of the space he needs, no cluttered brushes or paint tubes or anything getting in the way. 3. When you smack your brush, most of the time it won't come back at your, only to the sides like a garden sprinker.
First Time Oil Painting: OMG I’m gonna stand as far away from it as possible 5000th time Oil Painting: ya know if I ate some of this I would probably live so I’m fine
Elliefont 7 I’m worried about that as he keeps sniffing the box I keep them in and ghd other day he got so excited about the linseed oil... thinking it’s too dangerous to paint around my 🐕
Very good! Linseed oil will prolong drying. A quick rub of 50 : 50 gamsol:linseed oil mix on your paper or canvas will help you wipe away mistakes too. I do hope you do more, oil painting can be quick (eg my portraits - usually wet on wet/‘in one go’) or long and deliberate with many many layers like an old master. There are so many things you can do with oils!
Does the 50:50 gamsol:linseed mix good for the 1st layer? Bec when I do oil paint I only use gamsol for my 1st layer to make sure it's thin and I won't get lost on my priming 😂
I think you did a great job as someone new to oil! Ive got a few tips - but I’m still learning myself. 1. You don’t use the medium (oil) to clean ur brushes like you would with water when using acrylic or water colour. You are able to clean oil used brushes with Vaseline, or vegetable oil during or after painting. 2. If you want to lighten your painting but it keeps blending, you can wait for the layer to dry and add the lighter colour on top of it. OR if you don’t want to wait, you can use white directly on the darker layer to lighten it (not as drastic as waiting but it lightens better than say a lighter green in this case). I go back and forth with darkening and lightening until I’m satisfied. Oil is very easy to fix since it’s opaque and cover up well, and can go over mistakes a lot of times. 3. Instead of pouring the medium on the palette sheet, there are little cups (can’t remember what it’s called) you can get where you pour in the medium and use your brush to mix it with the paints. I hope I don’t sound cocky, thought it’ll be helpful if you want to continue painting with oils. And hope I made sense. :)
Haha no I haven’t, don’t know how! They’re at my parents house and I’ve been at uni so I haven’t had them that close to me but maybe I’ll grab them when I next go home
I’ve been oil painting since I was 12 and am 19 now. I started off the youngest allowed to ever be in her class by a classical artist who just happened to teach. I stopped taking classes when I was a junior as my schedule became too hectic in school, but I’ve still kept up with everything since. So 1. Using Cadmiums are PERFECTLY FINE, as long as you find a brand that has the AP seal on the back and you DO NOT put your brushes in your mouth and if you are extremely worried about the extremely tiny bit of cadmium colors that may penetrate into your skin, then use surgical grade disposable gloves (they can be latex or latex free, it doesn’t matter) all that matters is surgical grade, because if it’s not then putting on regular rubber disposable gloves will actually make your hands sweat and the non surgical grade gloves are actually porous so with your hands sweating and heating up it will make all the paint on the gloves including the cadmiums soak into your pores way more than it would without gloves. Also you WILL NEED cadmium colors as you first begin learning to oil paint, they cannot be replaced by hues because they are hues. The two major ones are cadmium yellow and especially cadmium red. 2. If you’re going to purchase a glass palette then it is a MUST to place a neutral gray colored paper behind it so that as a beginner you can see how to mix the correct color better. When I was learning we had to get a packet of gray tone disposable palette papers, it was extremely useful because in oils some colors are actually transparent and will appear shiny and dark on the gray tone while the opaque colors come out matte and lighter, they also are the thicker ones where you will need to use a yellow gel medium that should only be used sparingly for the stiffest paints and do not mix it with the whole paint you squeeze out, just with the color you ended up mixing if it stays too stiff and it doesn’t spread out enough. 3. You should never hear a scratching sound when you are actually painting, you should always have paint on your brush. 4 gamsol is a SAFE alternative for thinning out your paints to do your under painting, which should consist of only one MAIN color and you should fill in your dark areas and leave your highlights alone. It should be two tones basically until you let it dry a few minutes because you shouldn’t have put a ton of gamsol in your paint to make it run. Also gamsol is the safe alternative to turpentine which isn’t as safe so always use gamsol and never use linseed oil, just use linseed oil to either mix with dry pigments and make paint or to thin down your paint if it’s stiff as well but it should NEVER be used to clean your brushes, it will muck them up. Same with gamsol, gamsol is used temporarily to clean your brushes in between paints and after you are done painting but you must still buy a brush soap cleaner and wash your brushes by hand. 4.once you’re done with the under painting immediately start painting with actual paint, and to avoid your piece going muddy work in connecting areas, don’t jump around. Also if you aren’t liking how it looks, step back walk around and look at it from far away and see what’s wrong. If it’s the values squint and compare the picture vs. the painting squinting at the two. If you still don’t know turn around and hold up a handheld mirror. This will help show you your angles if they’re wrong and when you go back to your piece immediately check your picture vs the painting and correct them. And if it’s colors, mix your colors 75% of the way but leave them slightly marbled so you can grab different tones and colors mixed if your initial color isn’t what you wanted. Also to match colors hold up your mixed color to your picture and keep playing with it till it matches if you want it too. Just a warning, oil paintings are normally finished anywhere from hours to weeks even years but normally it’s weeks for the drying time, in between, if you’re gonna to constantly finish stuff in hours or a day you need to really be careful about the fact that one second it could be fine and the next you could instantly muddy it up, that doesn’t mean muddy brown colors it means things all blend in together without any detail and it’s impossible to fix it until it’s dry. So you will be forced to wait to work on it for awhile again, but sometimes that’s a good thing. Also please get an easel even if it’s a table easel, you can’t oil paint correctly on the top of your table or in your hand. You’ll need the better perspective. I hope you’ll get to enjoy this lost art as much as I do. Oh and please don’t waste your gesso like that, it’s expensive as you probably know. You don’t have to gesso an already gessod canvas even if it’s cheap. It’s better if you don’t buy them from craft stores because they aren’t good quality and they also over charge for them. Try and buy them from a local art shop even if you have to drive a an hour away or so, it’ll be worth the drive to save money and get a better product. If you don’t have an art shop near you the. Just buy one online from dick blick or something, or a pack of them, find artist quality. It will always take your paint way better than cheaper canvases.
I agree. One more thing on canvases: When buying them, check that the weaving is straight. Cheaper canvases can be wonky which makes painting more difficult.
Almost the same age but I started oil painting when I was 11 years old but now I am 12. I paint portraits, landscapes and still lifes in oils(self taught). And also I like doing renaissance style or classical just like you
I've been to artschool: the reason why you can blend oil paints so nicely is because it's a paint that takes a LONG long time to dry which is why you need to wait for layers to dry because otherwise you're not gonna be able to achieve any clean shape. Acrylics on the other hand are known for how quickly they dry, which is why they're way harder to blend together, unless you add a lot of water to them which will basically give you a watercolor effect. Personally I prefer acrylics to paint because you don't need any ulterior supplies like oils or toxic liquids and you don't need to treat your canvas before using it or treat your brushes after using them, also acrylics dry hella fast and I have no patience so I prefer them. Also also, acrylic paints are naturally brighter.
AnimeHeart HD to be honest I like oil better because it gives you a more realistic look whether it’s skin or landscape, that’s just my opinion tho it’s worth it at the end lol
@@chubbyjaydraws Maybe AnimeHeart HD meant that you don't have to add extra gesso to a pre-treated canvas like Chloe did in the video, if you're going to use acrylics instead of oils.
I was like 8 when I first bought oil paints, it was so weird because I had no idea what it was and neither did my father. I just needed acrylics for school and those looked like the ones everyone had at School, so I bought them and drew a lion and was really angry because it wouldn't dry and it wouldn't wash off my hands, so I Finished my lion and it looked like an orange spot in the middle of a canvas with two green balls in the middle
Everyone's first time with oil paint:wears mask an gloves My first time: didnt care about poison, didnt notice smell and got everything on my clothes and hands😂
My first time and I painted in a room with windows closed and nothing to protect my skin from color when a thought crossed My mind "Hey isn't it supposed to be toxic. Doesn't feel like it. Might as well die trying to find that out" 😂
I've never worn a mask or gloves to oil paint. Granted I do water based oil paints. (They clean up in water so there's no turpentine or linseed oil needed to clean them up. Yes, they really are oil paints. You can find them online.) The reek isn't anywhere near as strong, but I've never heard of anyone using gloves and masks to oil paint. Good ventilation, yes, but I guess I was missing something?
i started art school this term and upon trying oils for the first time, it was the blendability that had me SHOOK! you can really make some beautiful things with oils. here's what i've learned so far (that i didn't see mentioned when i scrolled the comments a little): -water soluble oil paints are an issue if you wash your paints straight down the drain, so our teachers don't recommend we use those. -we clean brushes with cooking oil and paper until there's no paint left, then soap and water over the sink to get the oil out of the brush. -oil paints as such aren't more toxic than any other paints, the toxic pigments like cadmium come in acrylic and watercolor etc as well. if you're concerned about toxicity, you could stick to the paints as they are and just add oil to do layers! the brush cleaning above is no concern, as you can tell. -for wet on wet layers, use the paint as is first, then with some medium. more fat for each layer basically. the "medium" we use is about 50/50 linseed oil/paint thinner but you can add more oil or more thinner depending on what you want to do. there's also pre-made mediums (i've got a non-toxic one). the paint thinner slightly dissolves the paint, meaning when you mix colours, if you add thinner they will merge together completely and you can better tell what you've mixed. it also makes the paint thinner in consistency without adding fat, aka drying time. -people have talked about mediums that help oils dry faster, but THOSE are very toxic and i wouldn't recommend them. good luck playing more with these!! i've found oil painting so much fun, i just adore the softness of it. i hope people seeing this get the courage to try it out! you don't have to use a bunch of chemical solvents if you don't want to. :) xx
I've found that it helps a lot to have an under painting with the basic tones that you want to use, let that dry and then layer on top for the shading and details. Also patience, lots of patience.
Hey Chloe! A great and inexpensive alternative for a glass palette is to buy a large picture frame from the dollar store, and paint the backside of the glass with a solid colour (I do a really light grey- the same colour I prime my canvases with so I can mix colours accurately). Its about $4 compared to a $40 glass palette. You can also keep your palettes in the freezer to keep your oil paints from drying out if you are working on a piece over a few days/ weeks. I hope that helps!
The toxism really isn't a problem if you're not finger painting with the oils (I say as I am a messy painter and it ends up on my hands no matter what I do) and don't leave your supplies out for children and pets to get into. Liquin, in my opinion, is a WAY better mixing medium. It's a fast drying medium, and your layers will dry over night without a yellow tinge, which I hear can happen when using Linseed oil over time. Linseed oil lengthens the drying time by A LOT. As in DAYS or WEEKS a lot. Also, Liquin doesn't have an overpowering smell to it. If you don't want to use the Liquin, I hear Winsor and Newton Griffyn Alkyd oils dry over night with the use of only Gamsol as your thinner. Just some suggestions that make oils easier to work with, imo. Also, open a window when you paint and put a fan in it pointing outward, that will help you not get a headache. In my experience, the painting will make the room smell until it is dry, so having it sit for a long time wet is not ideal, imo, but the smallest oil painting I've done so far is 11x14 so idk about smaller paintings. Also, NEVER throw away supplies that have wet paint on them, let it dry first, and don't pour solvent down the drain. Reuse it/mix it with mostly cat litter and let it dry before disposing of it. My final tip, acrylic underlayers. That helps to not have to regesso. You can put oil over acrylic, not the other way around. ☺
Hi, Chloe! I think I have a tip. So, when I went to an art school and had oil painting classes, my teacher told me to make strokes on an X shape if I wanted a solid and smooth base (it was usually used on backgrounds with a big brush so the color would be laid smoothly, without any streakiness). It's quite similar to how you laid the gesso but instead of making strokes on one direction at a time, you just do both opposite directions simultaneously :) Oh! Also the paint for this was quite diluted in oil as far as I can remember, so it was a thin layer. I'm saying this because I don't know if it would work just as well with heavier layers. Love your videos!
Yes! I recently started using water mixable oils and they are great. I have stuck to acrylics because I have small kids and a basement studio and was worried about chemicals and fumes. They are so much fun to blend.
Liquin is a great medium to work with. Mixing a little into your white paint, and then putting a small amount of white in each color will make it opaque. Also, liquin speeds up drying type by a LOT. As someone who started with acrylic, I like to do a lot of my painting with acrylic and then use oil over the acrylic on parts where I want more smooth blending. Also liquin is great for transparency! If you wait for the painting to dry and then mix liquin with a transparent color, you can use it as a glaze.
There were some comments about water soluble oil paints and that is the direction you should think about going especially since you are new to oils. 25 years ago I took a commission for an oil portrait, I charged her for the oil paint and all other supplies since I used just Acrylics and watercolors for my artwork. I also gave her all the supplies with her painting when finished as they were so toxic that I never wanted and never have used oil paint again. HOWEVER I have just bought some water soluble oil paint because I have another painting to create. All of my research leads me to believe this is the future of this medium as the disposal of used solvent supplies will soon become hazardous waste disposal issues! Soap and water clean up of the water based "oil paints" which should really be called "pigment paints" is the way to go, less oder and toxicity. Do not use water to mix, use the medium and the thinner or converted "oils" that every brand makes for their paints. This would be a great video for you to do a comparison since you just started and you can get good deals for these paints and mediums on e-bay. I got super deals on Artisian from W&N and Holbein's water based "oils" much less than the cost at Cheap joes or jerry's. well I hope you do another video soon and thanks for sharing your experience PLEASE use more ventilation in the future if you stick with the Old oils they can cause serious health problems, another reason I do not like them. OMG does this guy ever shut up? Sorry for the long comment.
I also had water-soluble oil paints first, but the medium smelled of solvents. I then brought it back to the store. it is not recommended to dilute with water in these colors. what do you do with it?
AskiaLuna Videos I have watched and the articles I have read recommend using the medium in small amounts even applied with an eyedropper! This would greatly reduce the smell as well as preserving the medium. I have some on order it has not arrived yet, I am hopeful it will not be as toxic as the solivent oils I used in the past. We must remember this really is “oil paint “and is dried by oxidation.
Crafty Tamara yes you can use any paint without medium, traditionally oil paint needs to be thinned or fattened up depending on how long you’re working with it and the water soluble oil‘s are the same for serious confusion try figureing out the fat over lean rule!
'Hue' after a paint name means its a colour copy of that pigment using cheaper modern organic pigments. So a cerulean blue should be a cobalt pigment with the CI code PB35 (sometimes PB36, they're both forms of cobalt) but if the tube says "cerulean blue hue" then almost anything could be in the tube as long as its a cheaper pigment or pigment mixture. Hues will vary in colour and recipe from manufacturer to manufacturer. Most cheap or hobby brands are almost all hues (this includes all types of paints, not just oils) and might not be good at declaring it. If there's no pigment code listed and it gives a pigment name as the shade name, you can generally assume it's a hue with only a couple of exceptions wherein the pigment itself is very cheap eg. ultramarine. Knowing your pigments becomes very important as an artist, you know what you're paying for in the case of more expensive pigments such as cadmiums and cobalts and also can make sure you don't get caught out if a recipe changes. Oil paints are just linseed oil and pigment, nothing else until you add solvent or medium. Adding more linseed slows drying time, you can get an alkyd flow medium (I have one from Daler Rowney) or something like liquin that you can add instead which will work the other way around and speed up the drying. You can even buy alkyd oil paints which dry faster (still slow by comparison to acrylic). There's a lot of panic over oil paints and cadmium paints in particular in the online art community that I think is pretty unfounded. It's like we're still trying to paint with Emerald Green with the way people go on about it. Pop over to TheSpinDoctor's channel and watch his video on this, as he is actually qualified to speak on the matter of toxicity and goes in depth on the matter.
Krisha Jain no idk but I luv my oils watercouler can’t blend as well and idk but the only bad thing abt oils are the waiting time for it to dry and acrylics I’m not a fan but yah
Krisha Jain yes ok I understand this but for me I’m saying I just feel like watercouler is not as gud when I think of watercouler I think of crayola and it is simply just moderate oils are for me are my favorite meduim and water couler is just idk not that gud cus like it’s so water and I understand the benfits but all in all I hate it
I LOVE THIS! So much character in the bear. There are no mistakes, just happy accidents. The blue and green hues in is coat reflect the environment he's in and makes it so cohesive and pretty. I love oils because of the 3D texture you can get out of them. Also, pay very little attention to the scare-mongers out there. Paint in a well-ventilated area if you are sensitive to smells, don't do the artist trick of licking the brushes to get a fine point, don't ingest any paint and wash your hands thoroughly after painting. That's really all you need to worry about. Oil paints are no more hazardous than acrylics or watercolours and they are made very differently to paints created even 20 years ago.
The problem with knocking down the color in the background is that it's a phthalo. It's such a beautiful color and one thing I learned through learning about some pigments and painting is phthalo/quinacridone colors are insanely powerful. It's harder to get lighter than other colors. Love them now and hated them then. It's weakness is also it's strength. -------- (The below share isn't needed I believe you can learn by using your materials but this one thing helped me some.) Also edited this realizing you might have already known this stuff/ won't see this because I commented on an older video.lol. So ignore me if I'm being annoying and saying stuff you might have went though. ------- Learning about pigments helped me but started out thinking about that stuff would've frustrated me. So if you stay interested in it and feel more confident later on down the line you might be curious what pigments are in your paint. What mixes are made out of singular pigment paints you have and knowing some characteristics of each pigment. If you do, handprint.com is lovely or art is creation. Started out to learn about characteristics of watercolor pigments but qualities such as opaque/transparent or the strength translated over to other things. Also knowing on a tube if it's a singular pigment or a mix of a bunch of pigments.
If you want the fluidity of linseed oil without waiting several days in drying time, mix Liquin into your paints. It can make the colors deeper as well, especially useful for the darker ones. Depending on your ratio of liquin/oil paint it can dry within minutes. I'd also recommend doing an underpainting with something like burnt umber mixed with a lot of thinner, so you have this light wash of color and you can establish the values for yourself without overdoing it. (I don't like working dark to light, as the white of the canvas will always appear brighter than titanium white) Also if you exclude yourself from the cadmium paints, you're really keeping out the very bright saturated reds/yellows! Wear gloves and you won't have to worry about the (tiny) amount of cadmium getting on your hands. And I see that you already noticed that there's no such thing as "too much ventilation" when it comes to oils. If you keep going, I'd recommend getting a large jar or coffee can, and using a smaller (empty) can with holes poked into it in the bottom. Fill it about 1/3 with the solvent of your choice and you can scrub your brush along the perforations you've made, helping loosen up the oil pigments faster. (I think they sell items like these but I'm cheap) Then wash your brushes and your hands with that green Lava soap because you'll never get it all off otherwise... Good luck! I enjoy your videos and your enthusiasm!!
Believing in yourself is the most important factor. You can do anything if you put your mind to it and practice. Mistakes are the best teacher. Also, if someone criticizes your work,that is great because they believe in you. Keep up the good work!
Chloe! The best part of oil paint is after u let it dry you can cover up anything! Its the most opaque medium! The only negative thing about oil is it takes REALLY long to dry, but thats also why its great
ana karina I agree! Usually when people follow Bob Ross they do acrylics which just isn’t the same and probably leads to a lot of the humor and frustration... I get it though because oils are expensive up front. But I’d be so happy to see one of my favorite art youtubers do it with oils!
There is kind of a “rule” with oil painting that goes along the lines of starting with thinner layers and going thinner. The rule is called “Fat over Lean” which does require some paint thinner (I like Gamsol but other alternatives is Turpinoid or Odorless Mineral Spirits). The rule goes that you start with a layer that has been thinned down with more paint thinner than media (additional oil media), then you let it dry. The paint thinner will cause the paint to set/dry faster and there isn’t as much oil to worry about fully setting. This layer is called your “lean” layer since it doesn’t have as much oil (fat). Then your next layers can use more and more oil media and you can use less and less paint thinner (to your judgement), but keep in mind that it is important to ensure you either let the last layer set completely, or your next layer needs to have more oil, otherwise the layers will set at different odd times and could cause some crack marks on your piece. I have however seen people use the contrary to this rule and create quite remarkable effects.
Not if you do it right after you paint. You can get cheap man's hands or degreaser or equivalaent (I used a nut oil soap? I think, we used that for our hands as mechanics). It comes right out easily.
Oil paint requires a long time to dry. I use low odour mineral spirits to thin paint and clean my brushes. A palette with pallet cups or metal shot cups to clean your brushes might be nice. Several clothes or disposable diapers to wipe your brushes on
Get the student grade stuff to see if it’s for you. Honestly, just avoid buying anything carmine deep or alizarin crimson, and it’s pretty affordable. You can get canvases pretty cheap too.
I tried oil paints a few months ago and they are now my favourite medium! The only thing is they require a lot of patience and I don't have much patience ahaha
You're art is so beautiful. Some things I've learned from my experience with oils: 1. There's a thing called oil paint alchemy. It's basically the science behind oil paints. What chemicals are in them, what the pigment is made from, how particles look like stained glass versus a solid chunk under a microscope, etc. etc. It will really help in learning what paints are good to mix depending on your result. If you want high pigment, don't get a translucent particle paint. There's a difference between a warm white/black and a cool white/black. It can also tell you what is toxic and what is not. 2. Wax. Wax will thicken your paint so you don't have to use as much and waist a lot of paint. This is great for textured paintings like what the Impressionists did. 3. Varnish! I would wait a solid 3-4 months for an oil painting to dry completely before putting a sealant on it, but you can play around in the process of painting with things like glossy or matte finishes. They make your paintings pop. 4. Research your colors. For example paintings that used Alizarin Crimson have faded over the years so they are not as vibrant as they used to be. Museums have to store them in darkness to preserve them. You don't want your paintings to fade from exposure. 5. Canvas is flexible and less expensive to make your own, but overtime the gesso will crack if it's thick or has been moved a lot. Wooden panels don't crack because they are sturdy, but you have to watch out for warping on the wood. There are tons of other tips and tricks I can give, but they've been covered by other comments. Good luck on your adventure with oils! Can't wait to see what you do next!
What I do for assignments since I have deadline and to speed up drying time is to make an acrylic base and then use oil paint for highlights since it’s a lot more brighter than you usual white acrylic and just more vibrant and amazinG
I loved this! Can't wait to see what else you do with oil paints! They're my second favorite medium after watercolors but I've only been able to use them once, in high school :(. I like them so much better than acrylics though because you can blend and work and move the values back and forth until you get exactly what you want without worrying about the paint drying out on on you like acrylics. I definitely recommend only working in disposable clothes (as in ones you don't care about) because the paint WILL get on them and will NOT come out. Also I'd recommend getting a pumice-laced soap block, it's what I used in school and my teacher said it was the only thing she'd found so far that actually got the stuff off lmao. There may be other alternatives (in fact there probably are) but that's one to try that I know personally will work. Also I'd love to see how you tackle a bob Ross tutorial with the oil paints!
If you're worried about the toxicity of oil painting mediums, I would suggest the Gamblin solvent-free mediums. I am allergic to odorless mineral spirits and I use this line for oil painting. It has a relatively quick drying time!
When you add linseed oil it thins down the paint, and to paint light or white on a dark background while it’s still wet, you need the paint to be a thicker consistency than what’s already on the canvas. I’m excited for you to get more used to oil painting and do another Bob Ross tutorial using oils and true oil techniques!
This is so entertaining to me, I started oilpainting about two months after I ever started painting, originally with acrylic, and i never went back. Hearing your reactions is hilarious! Sidenote, the smell of oilpaints is my happy place, it's literally my favorite smell ever.
As soon as I started A levels at school my art teacher was like “yep you’re switching to oils for everything now. Once you use oils there’s no turning back” 😂 tbh I did like using them, apart from the turpentine, that stuffs nasty
Hi Chloë! I love your channel. A couple hints for oil painting... if you can find M. Graham oil paints, use those. They are made with walnut oil and are the most non-toxic paints available. Also, if you can use safflower oil instead of linseed oil. Linseed oil yellows over time sometimes. Specially whites. Safflower and walnut oil don’t. Also if you can, lean the “fat over lean” rules. That will allow you to paint over long periods of time and prevents oil paintings from cracking.
My main acrylic tip is to use a ceramic pallet (an old plate works fine either) because after the acrylic paint dries on it you can peel it off really easily lol (Although I believe that adding too much water to acrylic paint to thin it can affect how well the pigment stays over time as you're basically breaking down the medium the pigment is suspended in? Also watered down acrylic paint won't ever come out of fabric it gets in - straight out the tube you can sometimes chip it off after it dries but it varies)
MALLISA’S ART HAPPENINGS - Same! Been painting in oils for years, decided to try watercolor since it travels easier. Not being able to build up my layers and add my highlights in at the end doesn’t work so well with my brain. Trying to unlearn my methods has been comical.
Lol I don't know how to use ANY paints- I've been an artist for 21 years and I guess am stuck in my stubborn ways of ink and colored pencil. I've experimented with paints in art classes but always got frustrated. Keep up the good work, not all of us can paint xD
Tips for anyone reading that Chloe didn't use! 1. Tint your canvas before you start. You can mix a muted acrylic color with your gesso or use tinted gesso, or just mix a brown with a lot of paint thinner and go ham on your canvas. If working with acrylic or oils, it's best practice because beginner's brains go brrrr when they look at a blank white thing on their desk because more often than not every single value you come across will be washed out if you paint it on a pure white canvas. 2. Please... don't mix linseed oil with your first layer. Linseed is going to make it dry incredibly slowly. If you want your paints to go on thinner, or smoother just mix paint thinner for your first layer. Linseed is more for detail work and smoothing where you need photorealistic blended edges, and huge drying times. If you put such a fat-filled layer on the bottom of your painting, your future layers (if you don't add that same amount of oil or MORE to it) will begin to crack as the paint dries and it looks hella ugly 3. Layers. 'nuif said. I'm actually really disappointed that she didn't use them, when she had some amazing abilities to use grisaille and other renaissance era painting techniques that are harder to achieve with acrylics. 4. It's better not to sketch in pencil (many people do, this is just personal preference). Use a brown paint on a tinted canvas using a fairly fine brush. Pencil forces you to be way too tight to these lines you've set out, and as soon as you make a mistake it's incredibly difficult to move past. Rather than just rearranging those features that took you less than two seconds to paint down with this brown paint. That and pencil sketches encourage flat colors, and are difficult to replicate.
oil painting is something that I love and use more than any other medium. The best way to use it if you want the paint to dry quicker (over a day or two) is to use a product called liquin, you add it in small amounts to your paint which makes the paint smoother too and leaves a kind of glossy finish. With oils I do a watered down under painting, let that dry overnight then go layer by layer. Usually I have two or three oil projects working at the same time because while I'm waiting for the third piece to dry the first is ready for its next layer, using this technique I painted 9 oil portraits in as little as 5 weeks. The best thing about oils is the fact that they blend incredibly well and with a limited colour pallet you can mix some really nice colours in fact if i had just the primary colours such as cadmium red, lemon yellow, ultramarine blue and white I can mix around 60 different colours all you need is to look for colour mixing recipes online and with that you could save a fortune in paint. For example a basic flesh tone i use cadmium red, burnt sienna or burnt umber for darker skin tones, sap green and mix several tones using titanium white.
I have oil paint that I spent major money on over a year ago sitting in my spare room. Never started a crazily spawned idea. Still have a rough sketch of the painting I wanted to do. You have inspired me to start throwing paint 🎨 to canvas.
Oil painting is a personal favourite of mine above acrylics, not only does the dry time give you lots to play around with but the mixing also has a satisfaction I don't feel in quicker drying paints. If I may give a tip or personal experience if you want to clean your brushes quickly use dish washing liquid, I know it sounds strange but it works wonderfully with some warm water. I haven't used all the fancy oils such as linseed and ect but I think if you aren't doing it professionally, to begin with I don't think you need them. Last thing oil paints definitely aren't toxic because I have a bad habit of putting the brush in my mouth to take off extra paint when wanting to use a different colour 😅. I'm not a professional but I hope something of this helps. Keep up the great work
Your story with trying oils for the very first time is exactly what happened to me. I painted something and the next day I picked it up from my table and smeared paint all over my hands and was so freaking confused like “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT DRY??” 😂🙆♀️
I love using oil paints! I've been using them since I was like 16 and fell in love with how fun it was to work with! It just allows for so much more play than acrylic.
I’ve seen other people mention the water soluble oil paints, they are really fantastic and the smell isn’t as bad as traditional oils. If the smell bothers you, try the water soluble. I’ve used both (traditional oils in art school and water soluble for my own projects). Linseed oil works amazing for doing thin transparent layers of paint (called glazing), and if you’ve looked at portraits by masters like Vermeer you can see the way the subject’s skin seems to glow, it was this technique! The linseed takes forever to dry, but it does make the paint flow so smoothly! I love how your bear turned out, and I hope you continue playing with the medium!
Wasn’t sure about this project until just before the end. But it turned out beautiful. I think it tends towards Impressionism instead of realism as a result of your other medium usage and /or visions of colors. But it is beautiful especially for your first time. ❤️
If you want to drop 22 pounds on a single 2 ounce bottle of oil painting solvent get some lavender spike oil. It’s comparable in every way to turpentine, gamsol, odorless mineral spirits, and paint thinner except it’s totally non-toxic and smells like lavender, so you don’t need to worry about ventilation or getting it on you or disposing of it. It might prevent those headaches, Chloe! If you really want something safe that’s your best bet, but tbh it’s so expensive on top of your other oil painting costs of brushes and paints and mediums that you should just experiment with different products and buy the smallest bottle of each thing you try out and see how you like it, especially because there are so many products that do so many different things to the paint. I’m only lucky enough to have tried lavender spike oil because my art teacher gave me a bunch of crusty old paint he was getting rid of but was still usable, so I won’t have to worry about buying new paint for a while. I splurged and got 2 ounces of the lavender spike oil and it’s amazing.
Molly Galusha thank you so much for your suggestion on this!! I haven’t heard of it but honestly even if it’s expensive it’s worth it for your health! I’ll look into it :)
Hey! I go to art school and started doing oil paintings in class this year and totally understand the initial process. Just a few tips: Natural bristle brushes soak up the paint and allow for thicker painting, as compared to synthetic! Also, it can be helpful to do a quick underpainting in neutral colors to map out lights and darks to further allow to more layers at a time. Also, if the canvas is pre-gessoed, it usually is fine to work with as is-- or at least I've never had any issues with it.
i did the same thing when i was a kid with oil paints. couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t dry bc it came in an art set and i didn’t know there was a difference between the different paints... it was a mess. but i got into oils for their ability to blend and haven’t looked back. you did great!
As some people mentioned as well, if you want a less toxic oil painting experience - definitely check water soluble oils. There's a lot of help and showcases online that display them, and experience is pretty much the same as classical paints - minus the hard-on-lungs part ;) Definitely worth checking out! Also, as for purchasing colors - basic colors go a long way thanks, especially with oils. We've been using red, yellow, blue, black and white for a long time in my classes and people only purchase extra colors if they need something very specific, like turquoise. Just make sure to use base colors of the same (cold or warm)!
I wish i could paint or draw as well as you but i find it so satisfying to watch people make art no matter how they do it but it also makes me so jealous as well.
-Linseed oils' for mixing with the paints. -Turpentine/gamsol (oils') for cleaning your brushes and stuff. I know this since my family background is made up of painters and they all have years of experience I'm currently learning art from my grandma. :) 💙 Love you Chloe!
I used water soluble oils when I was in art school, cleaning the brushes is a breeze and you can use water as a mixing medium. I also believe you can use dishwashing liquid as a mixing medium... I feel like that was something my painting teacher taught us but it has been a while 🤔 Your piece turned out lovely.
Hello Chloe! I m your big fan . I suggest u to not use any oil or anything to thinner Ur paint just use it as it is that will keep the colours on painting bright n shiny
I would check amazon or an online art supplies store. While, copics are awesome, there are great alternatives so if its impossible maybe check those out. Also, there are three different types of copics so be aware of what you want.
Photography & Art you can get markers that work the same as copics in sets for much cheaper on amazon and eBay, I got a set of 80 markers from amazon for £20, literally type in “alcohol markers” but if you’re willing to spend more, order them from the copic website
I’m confused. The title says “trying oil painting for the first time” but I just finished watching your video of doing a bob ross tutorial digitally, and you brief in that video about what you do for oil painting🤔 Btw this by no means a hate comment, in fact, I love your videos! I’m just confused.
Hi chloe, I am a first timer with oil paint too but I found that baby oil works great for thinning the paint and cleaning the brushes. It can also get oil paint off the skin.
Before you put a rag or kitchen towel with linseed oil on it in the bin, please research linseed oil and spontaneous combustion...it’s a real thing. I wouldn’t use it, but that’s just me. ✌️
Definitely something to watch out for. I usually throw the paper towels in the fire place afterwards. Though I think the usual suggestion is a sealable metal container filled with water.
Windsor and newton Liquin is the fast drying medium the a lot of people use for their base layer because it dries within A-day. Linseed oil takes days if not weeks to dry so a lot of times I will put a very thin Coat where I plan on blending on the base layer, or When im planning on doing ala prima style (or Bob Ross style painting) all at once. But when you plan on layering on top of paint, liquin is the way to go. Dries almost like acrylics. Gamblin solvent free gel Or the solvent free fluid is another alternative to liquin Which you might find less toxic. Good luck on your journey! :) Also a lot of people mix game saw in with the 1st layer of paint because it's normally dry but then a couple of hours pretty much the same speed as acrylics and then they layer on top of that with thicker paint.
On another topic : I went to your etsy store and looked for your pins but only found 1 is that all your going to sell? I was wanting an ART BLOCK & maybe 1 other. . . Any news on that front?
If you want to speed up dry time you can use Liquin. It's really great. They make an Impasto version too which will give more texture to your paint. Also you can create a "skin" on your paint so you can go in on top by using a heat gun or a blow dryer to kind of solidify the surface.
my manager recently gave me an entire it of water mixable oil paints and i have been waffling about with trying these for a week, so i wanna thank you for giving me some confidence in just throwing paint on my palette and winging it!
Oh Chloe, I wish I could meet you in person and tell you everything I've learnt about this wonderful medium. So here are some basics instead:
1. The glass from an old picture frame makes a great reusable palette.
2. Oil paints are NOT toxic, only the heavy metal pigments (found in acrylics and watercolours as well) and the solvents are.
3. Having a window open and a fan blowing towards the window will push any irritating smells away from you and outside.
4. Linseed Oil tends to yellow over time, Walnut Oil doesn't and is also good for cleaning your brushes.
5. Oils have a much slower drying time than any other paint. Take advantage of the open time and the wet-in-wet method with Linseed/Walnut Oil or work in thin layers with an Alkyd Medium like Liquin or Galkyd.
6. The Master's Brush Cleaner will work wonders in getting the paint out of your brushes after a painting session and keep their shape for far longer.
7. If you buy pre-primed canvases you don't have to gesso them yourself, but you absolutely can.
8. Ask me any questions you want to.
Maria Rev Hey
Are oil paints easy for beginners to art
@@joyceadams5501 Once you understand the basics of oil painting and how the paints work, then yes, they are fine for beginners. Just do a little research before jumping into it and you'll be fine. If you're on the young side and have never painted before though, I would recommend starting with water-mixable oil paints so you can eliminate the added consideration of using solvents safely and be able to clean up with water. Some good brands are: Lukas Berlin, Royal Talens Cobra, Holbein Duo Aqua, and Winsor and Newton Artisan. Make sure any mediums you purchase are water-mixable as well. And have fun.
And any specific questions you want to ask, go right ahead.
Are oil paints generally a cheap medium, even with adding everything like the oils themselves all together?
Maria Rev as far as “toxic” pigments and mediums go...Just as we do not eat and drink any paint or medium from any medium that is not “food” grade (like the cake decorators use)....we don’t eat and drink them in the oil medium either. ALL paint waste (no matter your medium) should go to the recycling centers and put in their proper place. The solvents can be recycled and reused in house so many times it’s ridiculous and even then when it becomes so saturated with oil it is still useful. My turps etc, actually never see the recycling centers-only the sediments, rags, empty containers.
As for glass palette: I myself recycle picture frame glass for that purpose but please, please please be careful as it is a very thin glass that breaks easy and has sharp edges. Tape the edges and mount it on stiff surface. Best to buy/recycle a thick glass palette. I like to put a mid toned canvas sheet that matches the toned surface I am starting with under the glass to help judge the Hue and value of my mixes before they hit the canvas.
ALL oil mediums yellow gracefully over time (part of the charm in aged paintings) in various degrees but linseed is the worse of the bunch. This is only a real issue in High Value pigments and the worst in white. Good manufacturers tend to put in safflower oil in those paints. Walnut oil is an excellent medium but it tends to go rancid but we are not eating it so who cares. Beginners should not worry about Linseed oil because it is the base oil for most oil paints-just don’t put it in your pure white...but then again beginners-should we be using pure white at all? If you want to avoid the issue and you want fast drying just use Liquin or Galkyd. Can’t go wrong with those.
Correct on pre-primed canvas’s for beginners however, here are some tips: at least clean them with mineral spirits or alcohol to remove residues from handling and packaging. When done learning the basics of oil’s please come back and seek further advice on preparing your canvas!
Tay K.T. It really costs about the same as Acrylics if you are just starting out cheaply. Buy decent student grade stuff and avoid the really cheap stuff though.
If you really want to try it at a great low value I suggest that you go to Jerry’s Artorama (I shop them online) and get yourself a SOHO oil paint starter kit.
Or go to a place like Hobby Lobby. You can get started from around $50-$100. About the same as a “night out on the town”.
Better yet...Christmas is coming....
What amazed me about Bob Ross is that he doesn’t make a mess on his hands or shirt
Expecially when he whacks his brush to clean...he's magic.
There are multiple reasons for this:
1. He's been doing it for a really long time.
2. He has all of the space he needs, no cluttered brushes or paint tubes or anything getting in the way.
3. When you smack your brush, most of the time it won't come back at your, only to the sides like a garden sprinker.
And he often paints in a hwhite shirt
That's for sure. When I try to paint. I wear my good clothes and I pay for it latter. lol
And he wears a *WHITE* *SHIRT*
Its time to follow Bob Ross tutorial with oil paints.
Yes! I was going to say the same but do it in a mini or at least small painting. I would love to watch that video 🤗
Bro YES
1000 th like man
You mean, kevinoilpainting?
My man!
First Time Oil Painting: OMG I’m gonna stand as far away from it as possible
5000th time Oil Painting: ya know if I ate some of this I would probably live so I’m fine
That’s literally me! When I first try I literally had a mask and gloves on! Now I sometimes spill stuff on me and not care
My dog ate a tube...
@@ellie-mae8552 Was your dog fine after that? :(
Elliefont 7 I’m worried about that as he keeps sniffing the box I keep them in and ghd other day he got so excited about the linseed oil... thinking it’s too dangerous to paint around my 🐕
I did and I saw the most amazing colors and forms for a week. ( kidding , Don't eat paint.)
Very good! Linseed oil will prolong drying. A quick rub of 50 : 50 gamsol:linseed oil mix on your paper or canvas will help you wipe away mistakes too. I do hope you do more, oil painting can be quick (eg my portraits - usually wet on wet/‘in one go’) or long and deliberate with many many layers like an old master. There are so many things you can do with oils!
How do you know all that ??
Emily Rose123106 They’re an artist
Yea must be
Does the 50:50 gamsol:linseed mix good for the 1st layer? Bec when I do oil paint I only use gamsol for my 1st layer to make sure it's thin and I won't get lost on my priming 😂
I think you did a great job as someone new to oil! Ive got a few tips - but I’m still learning myself.
1. You don’t use the medium (oil) to clean ur brushes like you would with water when using acrylic or water colour. You are able to clean oil used brushes with Vaseline, or vegetable oil during or after painting.
2. If you want to lighten your painting but it keeps blending, you can wait for the layer to dry and add the lighter colour on top of it. OR if you don’t want to wait, you can use white directly on the darker layer to lighten it (not as drastic as waiting but it lightens better than say a lighter green in this case). I go back and forth with darkening and lightening until I’m satisfied. Oil is very easy to fix since it’s opaque and cover up well, and can go over mistakes a lot of times.
3. Instead of pouring the medium on the palette sheet, there are little cups (can’t remember what it’s called) you can get where you pour in the medium and use your brush to mix it with the paints.
I hope I don’t sound cocky, thought it’ll be helpful if you want to continue painting with oils. And hope I made sense. :)
I’ve had oil paints for about 10 years now and i STILL haven’t tried them out... maybe this is a sign? 😂
Pollygone Illustration Same story😂
Pollygone Illustration ditto
you're missing out! oil painting is so much fun
How have you not gotten curious about them even though you have them around?
Haha no I haven’t, don’t know how! They’re at my parents house and I’ve been at uni so I haven’t had them that close to me but maybe I’ll grab them when I next go home
I’ve been oil painting since I was 12 and am 19 now. I started off the youngest allowed to ever be in her class by a classical artist who just happened to teach. I stopped taking classes when I was a junior as my schedule became too hectic in school, but I’ve still kept up with everything since. So 1. Using Cadmiums are PERFECTLY FINE, as long as you find a brand that has the AP seal on the back and you DO NOT put your brushes in your mouth and if you are extremely worried about the extremely tiny bit of cadmium colors that may penetrate into your skin, then use surgical grade disposable gloves (they can be latex or latex free, it doesn’t matter) all that matters is surgical grade, because if it’s not then putting on regular rubber disposable gloves will actually make your hands sweat and the non surgical grade gloves are actually porous so with your hands sweating and heating up it will make all the paint on the gloves including the cadmiums soak into your pores way more than it would without gloves. Also you WILL NEED cadmium colors as you first begin learning to oil paint, they cannot be replaced by hues because they are hues. The two major ones are cadmium yellow and especially cadmium red.
2. If you’re going to purchase a glass palette then it is a MUST to place a neutral gray colored paper behind it so that as a beginner you can see how to mix the correct color better. When I was learning we had to get a packet of gray tone disposable palette papers, it was extremely useful because in oils some colors are actually transparent and will appear shiny and dark on the gray tone while the opaque colors come out matte and lighter, they also are the thicker ones where you will need to use a yellow gel medium that should only be used sparingly for the stiffest paints and do not mix it with the whole paint you squeeze out, just with the color you ended up mixing if it stays too stiff and it doesn’t spread out enough.
3. You should never hear a scratching sound when you are actually painting, you should always have paint on your brush.
4 gamsol is a SAFE alternative for thinning out your paints to do your under painting, which should consist of only one MAIN color and you should fill in your dark areas and leave your highlights alone. It should be two tones basically until you let it dry a few minutes because you shouldn’t have put a ton of gamsol in your paint to make it run. Also gamsol is the safe alternative to turpentine which isn’t as safe so always use gamsol and never use linseed oil, just use linseed oil to either mix with dry pigments and make paint or to thin down your paint if it’s stiff as well but it should NEVER be used to clean your brushes, it will muck them up. Same with gamsol, gamsol is used temporarily to clean your brushes in between paints and after you are done painting but you must still buy a brush soap cleaner and wash your brushes by hand.
4.once you’re done with the under painting immediately start painting with actual paint, and to avoid your piece going muddy work in connecting areas, don’t jump around. Also if you aren’t liking how it looks, step back walk around and look at it from far away and see what’s wrong. If it’s the values squint and compare the picture vs. the painting squinting at the two. If you still don’t know turn around and hold up a handheld mirror. This will help show you your angles if they’re wrong and when you go back to your piece immediately check your picture vs the painting and correct them. And if it’s colors, mix your colors 75% of the way but leave them slightly marbled so you can grab different tones and colors mixed if your initial color isn’t what you wanted. Also to match colors hold up your mixed color to your picture and keep playing with it till it matches if you want it too.
Just a warning, oil paintings are normally finished anywhere from hours to weeks even years but normally it’s weeks for the drying time, in between, if you’re gonna to constantly finish stuff in hours or a day you need to really be careful about the fact that one second it could be fine and the next you could instantly muddy it up, that doesn’t mean muddy brown colors it means things all blend in together without any detail and it’s impossible to fix it until it’s dry. So you will be forced to wait to work on it for awhile again, but sometimes that’s a good thing.
Also please get an easel even if it’s a table easel, you can’t oil paint correctly on the top of your table or in your hand. You’ll need the better perspective.
I hope you’ll get to enjoy this lost art as much as I do.
Oh and please don’t waste your gesso like that, it’s expensive as you probably know. You don’t have to gesso an already gessod canvas even if it’s cheap. It’s better if you don’t buy them from craft stores because they aren’t good quality and they also over charge for them. Try and buy them from a local art shop even if you have to drive a an hour away or so, it’ll be worth the drive to save money and get a better product. If you don’t have an art shop near you the. Just buy one online from dick blick or something, or a pack of them, find artist quality. It will always take your paint way better than cheaper canvases.
Bob Ross? Thnx by the way!
I agree. One more thing on canvases: When buying them, check that the weaving is straight. Cheaper canvases can be wonky which makes painting more difficult.
5. Have fun :D no rules!
Thank you so much interested in knowing more.. but thank you for the time🙏🏻❤
Almost the same age but I started oil painting when I was 11 years old but now I am 12. I paint portraits, landscapes and still lifes in oils(self taught). And also I like doing renaissance style or classical just like you
I've been to artschool: the reason why you can blend oil paints so nicely is because it's a paint that takes a LONG long time to dry which is why you need to wait for layers to dry because otherwise you're not gonna be able to achieve any clean shape.
Acrylics on the other hand are known for how quickly they dry, which is why they're way harder to blend together, unless you add a lot of water to them which will basically give you a watercolor effect.
Personally I prefer acrylics to paint because you don't need any ulterior supplies like oils or toxic liquids and you don't need to treat your canvas before using it or treat your brushes after using them, also acrylics dry hella fast and I have no patience so I prefer them.
Also also, acrylic paints are naturally brighter.
AnimeHeart HD to be honest I like oil better because it gives you a more realistic look whether it’s skin or landscape, that’s just my opinion tho it’s worth it at the end lol
With acrylics one should gesso the surface
For more extended blending time with acrylics, use a drying retarder, not water.
@@chubbyjaydraws Maybe AnimeHeart HD
meant that you don't have to add extra gesso to a pre-treated canvas like Chloe did in the video, if you're going to use acrylics instead of oils.
Acrylic paints are naturally brighter yes, but acrylics also dry to a darker shade, ulike oils. 👍🏼
I was like 8 when I first bought oil paints, it was so weird because I had no idea what it was and neither did my father. I just needed acrylics for school and those looked like the ones everyone had at School, so I bought them and drew a lion and was really angry because it wouldn't dry and it wouldn't wash off my hands, so I Finished my lion and it looked like an orange spot in the middle of a canvas with two green balls in the middle
😂😂😂
Whoa!!! I remember I was 5 and I mistook my mum's acrylics for watercolors. I got yelled at pretty bad.
I've never tried oils before, I think you did really well!
Ur profile pics offs Popjam
Same
Thank you!!
@@graceplayz3216 nope
@@ameeelia07 welp it's on it I saw when I was small
Everyone's first time with oil paint:wears mask an gloves
My first time: didnt care about poison, didnt notice smell and got everything on my clothes and hands😂
Michelina 4ever My first time using oil paint i was wiping my brushes on my arms after putting them in WATER 😭 Paint didnt come off for hours
My first time and I painted in a room with windows closed and nothing to protect my skin from color when a thought crossed My mind "Hey isn't it supposed to be toxic. Doesn't feel like it. Might as well die trying to find that out" 😂
Me: *wipes colors off paintbrush on hand to be able to apply another color
Me too
I've never worn a mask or gloves to oil paint. Granted I do water based oil paints. (They clean up in water so there's no turpentine or linseed oil needed to clean them up. Yes, they really are oil paints. You can find them online.) The reek isn't anywhere near as strong, but I've never heard of anyone using gloves and masks to oil paint. Good ventilation, yes, but I guess I was missing something?
Bob would be proud 💚💚 I'm proud of you! 💚
Pyles of Paint thank you!!
i started art school this term and upon trying oils for the first time, it was the blendability that had me SHOOK! you can really make some beautiful things with oils. here's what i've learned so far (that i didn't see mentioned when i scrolled the comments a little):
-water soluble oil paints are an issue if you wash your paints straight down the drain, so our teachers don't recommend we use those.
-we clean brushes with cooking oil and paper until there's no paint left, then soap and water over the sink to get the oil out of the brush.
-oil paints as such aren't more toxic than any other paints, the toxic pigments like cadmium come in acrylic and watercolor etc as well. if you're concerned about toxicity, you could stick to the paints as they are and just add oil to do layers! the brush cleaning above is no concern, as you can tell.
-for wet on wet layers, use the paint as is first, then with some medium. more fat for each layer basically. the "medium" we use is about 50/50 linseed oil/paint thinner but you can add more oil or more thinner depending on what you want to do. there's also pre-made mediums (i've got a non-toxic one). the paint thinner slightly dissolves the paint, meaning when you mix colours, if you add thinner they will merge together completely and you can better tell what you've mixed. it also makes the paint thinner in consistency without adding fat, aka drying time.
-people have talked about mediums that help oils dry faster, but THOSE are very toxic and i wouldn't recommend them.
good luck playing more with these!! i've found oil painting so much fun, i just adore the softness of it. i hope people seeing this get the courage to try it out! you don't have to use a bunch of chemical solvents if you don't want to. :) xx
Lmaoooo ive never really gotten into paints before either 😂😂
ZHC sup
Your late shishir
HELLOOOOO
You should try oil painting that would be so cool!!!
ZHC!!!!!!Love Your Art!!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD ART!!!!
Ur art videos helps my daughter deal with anxiety and depression
I've found that it helps a lot to have an under painting with the basic tones that you want to use, let that dry and then layer on top for the shading and details. Also patience, lots of patience.
For someone who never went to art school, you're a lot better than some other people here on youtube that have. Great job!
You can use a glass picture frame as a palette instead of throwing a bunch of money into it ☺️ works great for me
Allison Ann or buy a glass cutting board, they are so much cheaper than glass pallets and they’re pretty much the same exact thing
meghan schmitz never thought of that!
I use pieces of plexiglass for my palettes
that's a good idea honestly
Mirrors work great as well - the art students at the university where I work use them. :)
Hey Chloe!
A great and inexpensive alternative for a glass palette is to buy a large picture frame from the dollar store, and paint the backside of the glass with a solid colour (I do a really light grey- the same colour I prime my canvases with so I can mix colours accurately). Its about $4 compared to a $40 glass palette. You can also keep your palettes in the freezer to keep your oil paints from drying out if you are working on a piece over a few days/ weeks.
I hope that helps!
The toxism really isn't a problem if you're not finger painting with the oils (I say as I am a messy painter and it ends up on my hands no matter what I do) and don't leave your supplies out for children and pets to get into. Liquin, in my opinion, is a WAY better mixing medium. It's a fast drying medium, and your layers will dry over night without a yellow tinge, which I hear can happen when using Linseed oil over time. Linseed oil lengthens the drying time by A LOT. As in DAYS or WEEKS a lot. Also, Liquin doesn't have an overpowering smell to it. If you don't want to use the Liquin, I hear Winsor and Newton Griffyn Alkyd oils dry over night with the use of only Gamsol as your thinner. Just some suggestions that make oils easier to work with, imo. Also, open a window when you paint and put a fan in it pointing outward, that will help you not get a headache. In my experience, the painting will make the room smell until it is dry, so having it sit for a long time wet is not ideal, imo, but the smallest oil painting I've done so far is 11x14 so idk about smaller paintings. Also, NEVER throw away supplies that have wet paint on them, let it dry first, and don't pour solvent down the drain. Reuse it/mix it with mostly cat litter and let it dry before disposing of it. My final tip, acrylic underlayers. That helps to not have to regesso. You can put oil over acrylic, not the other way around. ☺
I end up using my legs as a pallette 😅 lifes too short for me to not be a messy oil painter
I just started using galkyd for my paintings and honestly I’m now addicted to the stuff haha
Agreed, Galkyd is a life changer.
Thanks for the last tip of using acrylics in block -in stage
Hi, Chloe! I think I have a tip. So, when I went to an art school and had oil painting classes, my teacher told me to make strokes on an X shape if I wanted a solid and smooth base (it was usually used on backgrounds with a big brush so the color would be laid smoothly, without any streakiness). It's quite similar to how you laid the gesso but instead of making strokes on one direction at a time, you just do both opposite directions simultaneously :)
Oh! Also the paint for this was quite diluted in oil as far as I can remember, so it was a thin layer. I'm saying this because I don't know if it would work just as well with heavier layers. Love your videos!
Try water soluble oils, less chemicals to deal with and cleans with soap and water ...no terps 👍🏻
Yes! I recently started using water mixable oils and they are great. I have stuck to acrylics because I have small kids and a basement studio and was worried about chemicals and fumes. They are so much fun to blend.
Oh, I didn't know that exists! Couls you please give me the name/brand?
Alina Marcinkowska Windsor Newton,Reeves,Royal Talons,Holbein to name a few
Katie K I use watercolors mostly,but I would love to try oils and need something I could use in my studio that I won’t need a lot of ventilation
People keep telling me about these! I’ll have to look into them! Thank you :)
Liquin is a great medium to work with. Mixing a little into your white paint, and then putting a small amount of white in each color will make it opaque. Also, liquin speeds up drying type by a LOT. As someone who started with acrylic, I like to do a lot of my painting with acrylic and then use oil over the acrylic on parts where I want more smooth blending. Also liquin is great for transparency! If you wait for the painting to dry and then mix liquin with a transparent color, you can use it as a glaze.
There were some comments about water soluble oil paints and that is the direction you should think about going especially since you are new to oils. 25 years ago I took a commission for an oil portrait, I charged her for the oil paint and all other supplies since I used just Acrylics and watercolors for my artwork. I also gave her all the supplies with her painting when finished as they were so toxic that I never wanted and never have used oil paint again. HOWEVER I have just bought some water soluble oil paint because I have another painting to create. All of my research leads me to believe this is the future of this medium as the disposal of used solvent supplies will soon become hazardous waste disposal issues! Soap and water clean up of the water based "oil paints" which should really be called "pigment paints" is the way to go, less oder and toxicity. Do not use water to mix, use the medium and the thinner or converted "oils" that every brand makes for their paints. This would be a great video for you to do a comparison since you just started and you can get good deals for these paints and mediums on e-bay. I got super deals on Artisian from W&N and Holbein's water based "oils" much less than the cost at Cheap joes or jerry's. well I hope you do another video soon and thanks for sharing your experience PLEASE use more ventilation in the future if you stick with the Old oils they can cause serious health problems, another reason I do not like them. OMG does this guy ever shut up? Sorry for the long comment.
I also had water-soluble oil paints first, but the medium smelled of solvents.
I then brought it back to the store. it is not recommended to dilute with water in these colors. what do you do with it?
AskiaLuna Videos I have watched and the articles I have read recommend using the medium in small amounts even applied with an eyedropper! This would greatly reduce the smell as well as preserving the medium. I have some on order it has not arrived yet, I am hopeful it will not be as toxic as the solivent oils I used in the past. We must remember this really is “oil paint “and is dried by oxidation.
mjpete27 I am buying some tomorrow to try out. Can you use them without a medium?
Crafty Tamara yes you can use any paint without medium, traditionally oil paint needs to be thinned or fattened up depending on how long you’re working with it and the water soluble oil‘s are the same for serious confusion try figureing out the fat over lean rule!
Ive had watersoluble for a few months but ive been to scared to even try them out. X
'Hue' after a paint name means its a colour copy of that pigment using cheaper modern organic pigments. So a cerulean blue should be a cobalt pigment with the CI code PB35 (sometimes PB36, they're both forms of cobalt) but if the tube says "cerulean blue hue" then almost anything could be in the tube as long as its a cheaper pigment or pigment mixture. Hues will vary in colour and recipe from manufacturer to manufacturer. Most cheap or hobby brands are almost all hues (this includes all types of paints, not just oils) and might not be good at declaring it. If there's no pigment code listed and it gives a pigment name as the shade name, you can generally assume it's a hue with only a couple of exceptions wherein the pigment itself is very cheap eg. ultramarine. Knowing your pigments becomes very important as an artist, you know what you're paying for in the case of more expensive pigments such as cadmiums and cobalts and also can make sure you don't get caught out if a recipe changes.
Oil paints are just linseed oil and pigment, nothing else until you add solvent or medium. Adding more linseed slows drying time, you can get an alkyd flow medium (I have one from Daler Rowney) or something like liquin that you can add instead which will work the other way around and speed up the drying. You can even buy alkyd oil paints which dry faster (still slow by comparison to acrylic).
There's a lot of panic over oil paints and cadmium paints in particular in the online art community that I think is pretty unfounded. It's like we're still trying to paint with Emerald Green with the way people go on about it. Pop over to TheSpinDoctor's channel and watch his video on this, as he is actually qualified to speak on the matter of toxicity and goes in depth on the matter.
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I feel like oil and acrylic people are enemy’s and watercouler people are in the middle like guys ..... lol
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Actually watercolors are considered the toughest medium
Krisha Jain no idk but I luv my oils watercouler can’t blend as well and idk but the only bad thing abt oils are the waiting time for it to dry and acrylics I’m not a fan but yah
@@sarahsmyth5707 watercolors can blend pretty well when wet. The translucency of the medium has caused it to be said as the toughest medium
Krisha Jain yes ok I understand this but for me I’m saying I just feel like watercouler is not as gud when I think of watercouler I think of crayola and it is simply just moderate oils are for me are my favorite meduim and water couler is just idk not that gud cus like it’s so water and I understand the benfits but all in all I hate it
I LOVE THIS! So much character in the bear. There are no mistakes, just happy accidents. The blue and green hues in is coat reflect the environment he's in and makes it so cohesive and pretty. I love oils because of the 3D texture you can get out of them.
Also, pay very little attention to the scare-mongers out there. Paint in a well-ventilated area if you are sensitive to smells, don't do the artist trick of licking the brushes to get a fine point, don't ingest any paint and wash your hands thoroughly after painting. That's really all you need to worry about. Oil paints are no more hazardous than acrylics or watercolours and they are made very differently to paints created even 20 years ago.
The problem with knocking down the color in the background is that it's a phthalo. It's such a beautiful color and one thing I learned through learning about some pigments and painting is phthalo/quinacridone colors are insanely powerful. It's harder to get lighter than other colors. Love them now and hated them then. It's weakness is also it's strength.
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(The below share isn't needed I believe you can learn by using your materials but this one thing helped me some.) Also edited this realizing you might have already known this stuff/ won't see this because I commented on an older video.lol. So ignore me if I'm being annoying and saying stuff you might have went though.
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Learning about pigments helped me but started out thinking about that stuff would've frustrated me. So if you stay interested in it and feel more confident later on down the line you might be curious what pigments are in your paint. What mixes are made out of singular pigment paints you have and knowing some characteristics of each pigment. If you do, handprint.com is lovely or art is creation. Started out to learn about characteristics of watercolor pigments but qualities such as opaque/transparent or the strength translated over to other things. Also knowing on a tube if it's a singular pigment or a mix of a bunch of pigments.
If you want the fluidity of linseed oil without waiting several days in drying time, mix Liquin into your paints. It can make the colors deeper as well, especially useful for the darker ones. Depending on your ratio of liquin/oil paint it can dry within minutes.
I'd also recommend doing an underpainting with something like burnt umber mixed with a lot of thinner, so you have this light wash of color and you can establish the values for yourself without overdoing it. (I don't like working dark to light, as the white of the canvas will always appear brighter than titanium white) Also if you exclude yourself from the cadmium paints, you're really keeping out the very bright saturated reds/yellows! Wear gloves and you won't have to worry about the (tiny) amount of cadmium getting on your hands. And I see that you already noticed that there's no such thing as "too much ventilation" when it comes to oils. If you keep going, I'd recommend getting a large jar or coffee can, and using a smaller (empty) can with holes poked into it in the bottom. Fill it about 1/3 with the solvent of your choice and you can scrub your brush along the perforations you've made, helping loosen up the oil pigments faster. (I think they sell items like these but I'm cheap) Then wash your brushes and your hands with that green Lava soap because you'll never get it all off otherwise...
Good luck! I enjoy your videos and your enthusiasm!!
Believing in yourself is the most important factor. You can do anything if you put your mind to it and practice. Mistakes are the best teacher. Also, if someone criticizes your work,that is great because they believe in you. Keep up the good work!
Your face in the thumbnail is MOOD
Ur suppoosed to color it only one way!! Sideways or up! And u should use more lotion
lol yes
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She looks like Malinda Kathleen Reese to me in the thumbnail for some reason
Chloe! The best part of oil paint is after u let it dry you can cover up anything! Its the most opaque medium! The only negative thing about oil is it takes REALLY long to dry, but thats also why its great
This looks so good! I think it would be really cool if you tried another Bob Ross tutorial using oils.
ana karina I agree! Usually when people follow Bob Ross they do acrylics which just isn’t the same and probably leads to a lot of the humor and frustration... I get it though because oils are expensive up front. But I’d be so happy to see one of my favorite art youtubers do it with oils!
There is kind of a “rule” with oil painting that goes along the lines of starting with thinner layers and going thinner. The rule is called “Fat over Lean” which does require some paint thinner (I like Gamsol but other alternatives is Turpinoid or Odorless Mineral Spirits). The rule goes that you start with a layer that has been thinned down with more paint thinner than media (additional oil media), then you let it dry. The paint thinner will cause the paint to set/dry faster and there isn’t as much oil to worry about fully setting. This layer is called your “lean” layer since it doesn’t have as much oil (fat). Then your next layers can use more and more oil media and you can use less and less paint thinner (to your judgement), but keep in mind that it is important to ensure you either let the last layer set completely, or your next layer needs to have more oil, otherwise the layers will set at different odd times and could cause some crack marks on your piece. I have however seen people use the contrary to this rule and create quite remarkable effects.
Cleaning the brushes is the biggest pain in the arse.
David Andrew A good brush cleaner is your best friend and really helps with clean-up.
Not if you do it right after you paint. You can get cheap man's hands or degreaser or equivalaent (I used a nut oil soap? I think, we used that for our hands as mechanics). It comes right out easily.
yes, it takes longer than doing a painting.
Not if you beat the devil out of it 😉
David Andrew I use some white spirit then rinse brushes well then just ordinary art washing up liquid and lastly rinse.
SAME! I had no idea what I was doing. But for my first time. I am so proud of myself. Oil painting is so amazing!
Bob Ross is shook, rip bob, it was his birthday recently!💖
Molly-Art it was actually Yesterday!
Awe...
"Oil painting is dangerous"
Me, a person who has been painting with oils for like 9 years and not giving a shit about the chemicals: aw shit
I want to try oil paint so bad, but it expensive
AndyV true, plus if you just get the primaries and black and white then you’re pretty much set
Oil paint requires a long time to dry. I use low odour mineral spirits to thin paint and clean my brushes. A palette with pallet cups or metal shot cups to clean your brushes might be nice. Several clothes or disposable diapers to wipe your brushes on
Get the student grade stuff to see if it’s for you.
Honestly, just avoid buying anything carmine deep or alizarin crimson, and it’s pretty affordable. You can get canvases pretty cheap too.
You can buy them in a bundle small tubes for about #35-$40
Go to a oil paint workshop. I wanted to try oil painting but didn't want to spend the money on supplies.
Oil paints intimidate me so much but watching someone do them for the first time is really inspiring!!! I wanna try them one day
I tried oil paints a few months ago and they are now my favourite medium! The only thing is they require a lot of patience and I don't have much patience ahaha
You're art is so beautiful.
Some things I've learned from my experience with oils:
1. There's a thing called oil paint alchemy. It's basically the science behind oil paints. What chemicals are in them, what the pigment is made from, how particles look like stained glass versus a solid chunk under a microscope, etc. etc. It will really help in learning what paints are good to mix depending on your result. If you want high pigment, don't get a translucent particle paint. There's a difference between a warm white/black and a cool white/black. It can also tell you what is toxic and what is not.
2. Wax. Wax will thicken your paint so you don't have to use as much and waist a lot of paint. This is great for textured paintings like what the Impressionists did.
3. Varnish! I would wait a solid 3-4 months for an oil painting to dry completely before putting a sealant on it, but you can play around in the process of painting with things like glossy or matte finishes. They make your paintings pop.
4. Research your colors. For example paintings that used Alizarin Crimson have faded over the years so they are not as vibrant as they used to be. Museums have to store them in darkness to preserve them. You don't want your paintings to fade from exposure.
5. Canvas is flexible and less expensive to make your own, but overtime the gesso will crack if it's thick or has been moved a lot. Wooden panels don't crack because they are sturdy, but you have to watch out for warping on the wood.
There are tons of other tips and tricks I can give, but they've been covered by other comments. Good luck on your adventure with oils! Can't wait to see what you do next!
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lovesick lullabies I hate that I understand this lmao
lovesick lullabies I’ve worked with Skillshare for almost two years now, I love them, they’ve helped me learn so much 😅
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What I do for assignments since I have deadline and to speed up drying time is to make an acrylic base and then use oil paint for highlights since it’s a lot more brighter than you usual white acrylic and just more vibrant and amazinG
If you want to learn oil painting basics I would recommend some of Lena Danya’s videos about teaching oil for beginners.♥️
I loved this! Can't wait to see what else you do with oil paints! They're my second favorite medium after watercolors but I've only been able to use them once, in high school :(. I like them so much better than acrylics though because you can blend and work and move the values back and forth until you get exactly what you want without worrying about the paint drying out on on you like acrylics. I definitely recommend only working in disposable clothes (as in ones you don't care about) because the paint WILL get on them and will NOT come out. Also I'd recommend getting a pumice-laced soap block, it's what I used in school and my teacher said it was the only thing she'd found so far that actually got the stuff off lmao. There may be other alternatives (in fact there probably are) but that's one to try that I know personally will work.
Also I'd love to see how you tackle a bob Ross tutorial with the oil paints!
If you're worried about the toxicity of oil painting mediums, I would suggest the Gamblin solvent-free mediums. I am allergic to odorless mineral spirits and I use this line for oil painting. It has a relatively quick drying time!
Kait Padlo thank you for the suggestion! I’ll look into that :)
When you add linseed oil it thins down the paint, and to paint light or white on a dark background while it’s still wet, you need the paint to be a thicker consistency than what’s already on the canvas. I’m excited for you to get more used to oil painting and do another Bob Ross tutorial using oils and true oil techniques!
Use the palette knife to mix the colours not your brush, bc the paint will get caked up in the brush and mess it up 👍🏼
This is so entertaining to me, I started oilpainting about two months after I ever started painting, originally with acrylic, and i never went back. Hearing your reactions is hilarious!
Sidenote, the smell of oilpaints is my happy place, it's literally my favorite smell ever.
As soon as I started A levels at school my art teacher was like “yep you’re switching to oils for everything now. Once you use oils there’s no turning back” 😂 tbh I did like using them, apart from the turpentine, that stuffs nasty
glasom is a good replacement
Hi Chloë! I love your channel. A couple hints for oil painting... if you can find M. Graham oil paints, use those. They are made with walnut oil and are the most non-toxic paints available. Also, if you can use safflower oil instead of linseed oil. Linseed oil yellows over time sometimes. Specially whites. Safflower and walnut oil don’t. Also if you can, lean the “fat over lean” rules. That will allow you to paint over long periods of time and prevents oil paintings from cracking.
I am backwards 😂 I started with oils and had to learn water color.. and I don’t know how to use acrylics!!
MALLISA’S ART HAPPENINGS same
My main acrylic tip is to use a ceramic pallet (an old plate works fine either) because after the acrylic paint dries on it you can peel it off really easily lol
(Although I believe that adding too much water to acrylic paint to thin it can affect how well the pigment stays over time as you're basically breaking down the medium the pigment is suspended in? Also watered down acrylic paint won't ever come out of fabric it gets in - straight out the tube you can sometimes chip it off after it dries but it varies)
Work dark to light 👍🏻
MALLISA’S ART HAPPENINGS - Same! Been painting in oils for years, decided to try watercolor since it travels easier. Not being able to build up my layers and add my highlights in at the end doesn’t work so well with my brain. Trying to unlearn my methods has been comical.
Lol I don't know how to use ANY paints- I've been an artist for 21 years and I guess am stuck in my stubborn ways of ink and colored pencil.
I've experimented with paints in art classes but always got frustrated.
Keep up the good work, not all of us can paint xD
I love this! The colours, the composition, the small details worked together to make such a cute style 😍
Tips for anyone reading that Chloe didn't use!
1. Tint your canvas before you start. You can mix a muted acrylic color with your gesso or use tinted gesso, or just mix a brown with a lot of paint thinner and go ham on your canvas. If working with acrylic or oils, it's best practice because beginner's brains go brrrr when they look at a blank white thing on their desk because more often than not every single value you come across will be washed out if you paint it on a pure white canvas.
2. Please... don't mix linseed oil with your first layer. Linseed is going to make it dry incredibly slowly. If you want your paints to go on thinner, or smoother just mix paint thinner for your first layer. Linseed is more for detail work and smoothing where you need photorealistic blended edges, and huge drying times. If you put such a fat-filled layer on the bottom of your painting, your future layers (if you don't add that same amount of oil or MORE to it) will begin to crack as the paint dries and it looks hella ugly
3. Layers. 'nuif said. I'm actually really disappointed that she didn't use them, when she had some amazing abilities to use grisaille and other renaissance era painting techniques that are harder to achieve with acrylics.
4. It's better not to sketch in pencil (many people do, this is just personal preference). Use a brown paint on a tinted canvas using a fairly fine brush. Pencil forces you to be way too tight to these lines you've set out, and as soon as you make a mistake it's incredibly difficult to move past. Rather than just rearranging those features that took you less than two seconds to paint down with this brown paint. That and pencil sketches encourage flat colors, and are difficult to replicate.
oil painting is something that I love and use more than any other medium. The best way to use it if you want the paint to dry quicker (over a day or two) is to use a product called liquin, you add it in small amounts to your paint which makes the paint smoother too and leaves a kind of glossy finish. With oils I do a watered down under painting, let that dry overnight then go layer by layer. Usually I have two or three oil projects working at the same time because while I'm waiting for the third piece to dry the first is ready for its next layer, using this technique I painted 9 oil portraits in as little as 5 weeks. The best thing about oils is the fact that they blend incredibly well and with a limited colour pallet you can mix some really nice colours in fact if i had just the primary colours such as cadmium red, lemon yellow, ultramarine blue and white I can mix around 60 different colours all you need is to look for colour mixing recipes online and with that you could save a fortune in paint. For example a basic flesh tone i use cadmium red, burnt sienna or burnt umber for darker skin tones, sap green and mix several tones using titanium white.
Are we going to get a proper Bob Ross follow along in the future. I love watching you try new things.
I have oil paint that I spent major money on over a year ago sitting in my spare room. Never started a crazily spawned idea. Still have a rough sketch of the painting I wanted to do. You have inspired me to start throwing paint 🎨 to canvas.
I used baby oil as a medium and dish soap for cleaning the brushes and it wasn't a bad experience at all...
Oil painting is a personal favourite of mine above acrylics, not only does the dry time give you lots to play around with but the mixing also has a satisfaction I don't feel in quicker drying paints. If I may give a tip or personal experience if you want to clean your brushes quickly use dish washing liquid, I know it sounds strange but it works wonderfully with some warm water. I haven't used all the fancy oils such as linseed and ect but I think if you aren't doing it professionally, to begin with I don't think you need them. Last thing oil paints definitely aren't toxic because I have a bad habit of putting the brush in my mouth to take off extra paint when wanting to use a different colour 😅. I'm not a professional but I hope something of this helps. Keep up the great work
Your story with trying oils for the very first time is exactly what happened to me. I painted something and the next day I picked it up from my table and smeared paint all over my hands and was so freaking confused like “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT DRY??” 😂🙆♀️
I love using oil paints! I've been using them since I was like 16 and fell in love with how fun it was to work with! It just allows for so much more play than acrylic.
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bob ross points his paintings over several sessions, allowing dry time between layers
I’ve seen other people mention the water soluble oil paints, they are really fantastic and the smell isn’t as bad as traditional oils. If the smell bothers you, try the water soluble. I’ve used both (traditional oils in art school and water soluble for my own projects). Linseed oil works amazing for doing thin transparent layers of paint (called glazing), and if you’ve looked at portraits by masters like Vermeer you can see the way the subject’s skin seems to glow, it was this technique! The linseed takes forever to dry, but it does make the paint flow so smoothly!
I love how your bear turned out, and I hope you continue playing with the medium!
omg it end up looking so pretty😭✨ just got an oil paint set, gonna start using it like right noww
Wasn’t sure about this project until just before the end. But it turned out beautiful. I think it tends towards Impressionism instead of realism as a result of your other medium usage and /or visions of colors. But it is beautiful especially for your first time. ❤️
If you want to drop 22 pounds on a single 2 ounce bottle of oil painting solvent get some lavender spike oil. It’s comparable in every way to turpentine, gamsol, odorless mineral spirits, and paint thinner except it’s totally non-toxic and smells like lavender, so you don’t need to worry about ventilation or getting it on you or disposing of it. It might prevent those headaches, Chloe! If you really want something safe that’s your best bet, but tbh it’s so expensive on top of your other oil painting costs of brushes and paints and mediums that you should just experiment with different products and buy the smallest bottle of each thing you try out and see how you like it, especially because there are so many products that do so many different things to the paint. I’m only lucky enough to have tried lavender spike oil because my art teacher gave me a bunch of crusty old paint he was getting rid of but was still usable, so I won’t have to worry about buying new paint for a while. I splurged and got 2 ounces of the lavender spike oil and it’s amazing.
Molly Galusha thank you so much for your suggestion on this!! I haven’t heard of it but honestly even if it’s expensive it’s worth it for your health! I’ll look into it :)
Hey! I go to art school and started doing oil paintings in class this year and totally understand the initial process. Just a few tips: Natural bristle brushes soak up the paint and allow for thicker painting, as compared to synthetic! Also, it can be helpful to do a quick underpainting in neutral colors to map out lights and darks to further allow to more layers at a time. Also, if the canvas is pre-gessoed, it usually is fine to work with as is-- or at least I've never had any issues with it.
i did the same thing when i was a kid with oil paints. couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t dry bc it came in an art set and i didn’t know there was a difference between the different paints... it was a mess. but i got into oils for their ability to blend and haven’t looked back. you did great!
As some people mentioned as well, if you want a less toxic oil painting experience - definitely check water soluble oils. There's a lot of help and showcases online that display them, and experience is pretty much the same as classical paints - minus the hard-on-lungs part ;)
Definitely worth checking out!
Also, as for purchasing colors - basic colors go a long way thanks, especially with oils. We've been using red, yellow, blue, black and white for a long time in my classes and people only purchase extra colors if they need something very specific, like turquoise. Just make sure to use base colors of the same (cold or warm)!
I recommend you watch Happy D. Artist and Lena Denya for beginning oil painting tips. They are WONDERFUL
I've started oils painting 6 years ago, it's the best thing ever
That looks amazing ! Mine would have turned out looking like a deformed pig in a swamp...
I wish i could paint or draw as well as you but i find it so satisfying to watch people make art no matter how they do it but it also makes me so jealous as well.
You just became my favourite TH-camr!
-Linseed oils' for mixing with the paints.
-Turpentine/gamsol (oils') for cleaning your brushes and stuff.
I know this since my family background is made up of painters and they all have years of experience I'm currently learning art from my grandma. :) 💙
Love you Chloe!
*Bob Ross has left the chat*
I used water soluble oils when I was in art school, cleaning the brushes is a breeze and you can use water as a mixing medium.
I also believe you can use dishwashing liquid as a mixing medium... I feel like that was something my painting teacher taught us but it has been a while 🤔
Your piece turned out lovely.
This was really helpful! I've had oil paints for a while and wasn't quite sure where to start. Thanks! 😄
Hello Chloe! I m your big fan . I suggest u to not use any oil or anything to thinner Ur paint just use it as it is that will keep the colours on painting bright n shiny
I’m trying to get copic markers but I’m not sure where to get them. Could someone tell me where to get them if you live in Switzerland??
Cultpens.com it's really cheap! I don't know if they ship to Switzerland but you should look
@@ohokayc0ol who knows uhuhu markers?
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I would check amazon or an online art supplies store. While, copics are awesome, there are great alternatives so if its impossible maybe check those out. Also, there are three different types of copics so be aware of what you want.
Photography & Art you can get markers that work the same as copics in sets for much cheaper on amazon and eBay, I got a set of 80 markers from amazon for £20, literally type in “alcohol markers” but if you’re willing to spend more, order them from the copic website
Cute bear, lovely colour choices. If you get a headache and don't like the smell, I would recommend using the water mixable oil paints.
9:00 "it looks like some deformed deer" 😭😂
Are you Left-handed? Omg I am too and you are so innovating and I hope to learn more!
As someone that oil paints fairly regularly, gotta say you did an amazing job! Oils are an absolute pain to work with so be proud!
I’m confused. The title says “trying oil painting for the first time” but I just finished watching your video of doing a bob ross tutorial digitally, and you brief in that video about what you do for oil painting🤔
Btw this by no means a hate comment, in fact, I love your videos! I’m just confused.
I think that's because this is 2018 video
this video is from 2 years ago
He is beautiful..I love all the colours you used and you even brought some of the background colour into his fur ..just so lovely visually 😀
This name keeps popping in my head for a bear name
*woodstree
Hi chloe, I am a first timer with oil paint too but I found that baby oil works great for thinning the paint and cleaning the brushes. It can also get oil paint off the skin.
She's trying to do an art video but also trying not to die. 😂 😂
I have been watching Bob Ross videos for awhile now and finally got some oil paints! Watching your video encouraged me to move forward and try!
Before you put a rag or kitchen towel with linseed oil on it in the bin, please research linseed oil and spontaneous combustion...it’s a real thing. I wouldn’t use it, but that’s just me. ✌️
Definitely something to watch out for. I usually throw the paper towels in the fire place afterwards. Though I think the usual suggestion is a sealable metal container filled with water.
Chris Salch I cant think of better ideas than that! 👍🏻
That’s frightening 😬 thanks for telling me!
Chloe Rose Art definitely something to be aware of. You’re very welcome! ✌️
Windsor and newton Liquin is the fast drying medium the a lot of people use for their base layer because it dries within A-day. Linseed oil takes days if not weeks to dry so a lot of times I will put a very thin Coat where I plan on blending on the base layer, or When im planning on doing ala prima style (or Bob Ross style painting) all at once. But when you plan on layering on top of paint, liquin is the way to go. Dries almost like acrylics. Gamblin solvent free gel Or the solvent free fluid is another alternative to liquin Which you might find less toxic. Good luck on your journey! :) Also a lot of people mix game saw in with the 1st layer of paint because it's normally dry but then a couple of hours pretty much the same speed as acrylics and then they layer on top of that with thicker paint.
On another topic : I went to your etsy store and looked for your pins but only found 1 is that all your going to sell? I was wanting an ART BLOCK & maybe 1 other. . . Any news on that front?
So very cool I got/ordered my pins and I am looking forward to seeing them soon!
If you want to speed up dry time you can use Liquin. It's really great. They make an Impasto version too which will give more texture to your paint.
Also you can create a "skin" on your paint so you can go in on top by using a heat gun or a blow dryer to kind of solidify the surface.
At the beginning : Skill share was supper helpful!
Later in the video : I have no clue what i am doing!
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my manager recently gave me an entire it of water mixable oil paints and i have been waffling about with trying these for a week, so i wanna thank you for giving me some confidence in just throwing paint on my palette and winging it!
i wish i could dabble a little bit bUT i cAn’T