In college for my painting class, we had to go out and find a long stick. When we came back, we were told to tape one end to the end of our paintbrush and then paint. We painted about 99% of our painting this way and were told to stop and fill in the smaller details with a smaller brush close up and only had about a minute to do so before going back to the sticked brush. This helped us to learn to stand back as well as be more careful about where to put the right values. We were also taught that if we have a hard time painting/drawing something, instead of avoiding it, then to paint only just that until we ‘master’ it. Hands were a good example of that. So instead of doing a painting of someone’s hands out of the way to avoid them, make sure they’re the center of the painting or paint a painting of only just hands. Painting/drawing what you see instead of painting/drawing what you THINK you see helps drastically here and it’s important to understand the difference between the two! Once you ‘master’ this new way of seeing, the better off you’ll be because then you can paint/draw anything!
So interesting, particularly the last remark - I've been bingeing art videos (especially this channel!) and SEEING properly - developing a way of looking at the world directly instead of through a ''screen'' of thoughts - this notion keep coming up again and again! And the way you say that one can paint/draw anything if one simply learns to look and observe... It's fundamental! Thank you for sharing, that's such a clever tip to use a stick to extend the length of the brush! Happy painting :)
1. Drawing: Use center lines to help make an accurate drawing 2. Underpainting: block in and map the darkest darks and lightest lights 3. Blocking: Err on the darker side of the value because it's easier to build on 4. Step Back often from your Canvas about 6ft 5. Remove dark umber and black from palette if paintings aren't vibrant enough 6. Use natural daylight lighting or equivalent bulb 7. Phones are too small to use as reference 8. Keep your subject matter the same until you get a general understanding 9. Don't think of gray as a color but a "greyed down color" 10. Put more paint on your palette so that there's a good enough amount on the canvas
I started watercolor painting a few years ago and just started oil painting. The concepts are reversed and it really challenges me (very therapeutic though), my biggest issue so far is “putting enough paint on my palette.” I am so frugal with my paints that it makes some things so much more difficult than it is. All of your tips will help me, but mostly that one. Thank you.
I don't know if this will interest you, but I've started using Dorlans Wax Medium. It's very cheap and you can mix it with oils. I've loved using it - it gives me the ability to basically double the amount of paint I'm using, but it costs less than a tiny tube of paint. It's also really fun for textural effects. I feel like it helps my paint dry a little faster when I apply the paint thick, too. Plus, I use it to seal my gouache paintings when I'm done with them.
I loveeeee tip #8! I recently started doing that (was getting really frustrated with water that washes up on shore and trying to understand the translucence of it while still having form), and it actually really works to just keep going through the difficult moment. I realized I was seeing it with how my mind gives meaning to it rather than what I was actually seeing. I turned the painting upside down and just worked on what I saw, and it was a major break through! I finally got water washing up on shore to look like water washing up on shore!
drawing upside down is how i do many foreshortened objects and anything that looks looks wonky! it really forces your your brain to shut up and just draw it as it is.
I have to tell you that was one of the best tip videos I’ve seen, and thank you you were direct to the point and didn’t over talk anything it was refreshing and enjoyable to watch
This is really awesome man. You’re honest and you genuinely want people to be able to confidently paint. It’s just so great seeing this kind of attitude on RUclips, thank you man
I feel like I owe this guy so much. I can't put in words how much he has helped me. Tbh he single-handedly taught me oilpainting😭😭😭😭😭😭 thank you so much Chriss😭😭😭💜💜💜
Great tips. Another thing I have found very helpful is to take pictures as you go along because the camera picks up things that you miss even if you step back often - which i do.
I'm listening and nodding and smiling. These are all things I've already figured out, or things I know I still do wrong and need to change - haha. More paint on my palette! I struggle trying to rehydrate little tiny blobs of old paint and I never get the colors right agan the next day when I remix. Maybe today will be different. Thank you!
Another thing that can help, towards the end of painting, is to hold the painting in the mirror. Any errors in composition and proportion will leap out at you. I don't do abstracts so not sure if it would work for those but it works well for landscapes and really well for human and animal subjects
When I went to art school (many years ago!) I often used the mirror to get a different perspective on my painting. Amazing what the mirror revealed! Now retired, I'm trying to renew my interest in painting,
1- These 10 are good tips. Especially, for me, the drawing grid idea is helpful. 2-Also, my Rosemary &Co brushes arrived last night. I am trying them out now as I listen to this Paint Talk! They feel sturdy!
Tip no 8 .keep at it until you understand why you are struggling. I am doing African bush landscapes with dusty landscapes I seem to put the dust on my Paper / canvas.working hard to get my green/Grey tones and heus right. I will take the challenge to get it right. Thanks for your tips. Pretoria S Africa
1st I'd say by painting a design draft, you are actually taking out your imagination and unique style. Yes, stepping back really helps. Thank you, it's nice to hear some different prospectives.
You truly are the paint coach, man this motivates me (im still at fundamentals of drawing and paint acrylics but this just inspires me so much more each day) thankyou for this.
Tip nine about gray was eye opening. That’s a completely new way of thinking that immediately made sense to me. I’ll be using complements to produce gray instead of just mixing black and white from now on!
I have an idea for a video. How about a long video about 20 to 30 mins explaining the techniques and ways for using certain oil painting brushes. Like making texture with the fan brush, blocking in with the big flat brushes etc. It would be a really interesting video.
I just finished a project that can help me with tip #7. I have a cheap tablet that I can easily send reference photos to. I flipped the upper clamp on my easel (not sure what it is called if it even has a name - the part that slides down and clamps down on top of the canvas to hold it) so that the tablet could fit on it and made a second clamp to slide down and hold the tablet in place. Now I can have whatever reference I am working from, whether photo or video, just inches above the canvas that I am painting.
Funny you said “ have a cup of coffee” which is exactly what I am doing right now - as always, your channel provides a very practical advice, straight to the point and very motivating 🥰
Could you please make a video that explains what tiling is? Ive seen demos for tiling but cant seem to find any verbal explanation about the technique or the thought process behind it when laying down strokes.... thank you for all the info you share each week!
Tiling is like paint by number-you paint clean color in a section of your painting and let it be and limit blending on the canvas. The use for this is to minimize muddy color and to get cleaner colors. It’s helpful if you struggle with painting thick over thin. Was that helpful? I can discuss it more.
@@GalleryBry ohhh yes... I was stuck on making it more complicated than it is wondering if the 'tiles' represented plane changes or something and was really confused by the demos I've seen so it's less a technique thats used to describe form (such as brush stroke direction) and more a technique that keeps the colors clean?
@@justluci8578 I mostly think of it as a way to keep clean color. Form is typically rendered using contour lines brushstroke direction, values, and warm and cool color.
A cool idea for if you only have a phone too copy off of. Do the mangaka technice where you create a smaller image in a corner of your page that matches the phone size. Then it should be as easy as taking your smaller version and doing the same strokes on a larger scale. It seems tough when I write it down, but it is actually really helpful for composition and control of what you are drawing out in the first place.
Excellent. Each tip is valuable. I hardly put any paint on my palette. I dont know what stops me. It troubles me still I continue to do ot. My next practice shall be to squeeze out more colour
hey chris, great video, great tips! i really enjoy your channel. your teaching style is clear and makes me want to paint more. your paintings are amazing. the nick cage montage is epic.
my kit list for art school didn’t even have a black in it, so we never learned to rely on it, I think that’s helped me a lot :) thank you for the free advice on your channel!
thank you for easy to follow advice I read an article many years ago paint like a millionaire I have sold paintings and still learning your videos are very helpful;
Are you able to do a video on how to paint really dark shadows in a portrait/ figurative painting? I’m learning how to paint figures and one of the reference photos I have is mostly a very dark shadow it’s almost black, I want to take on the challenge but I’m not sure where to even start, how do I make skin tones so dark with out making them muddy or get lost, if you could do that it would be so much help, thank you, love your videos!!
Your tips are so great and useful that I decide to write and resume Them and put them in my studio. You are so motivating. Thanks so much to teach us in a so simple way! 😊 P.S. I'm a french Canadian and I am not bilingual. But I find your English to be very clear. Thanks a lot. 🎨😉👌
I must admit that I do love using mars black to darken my shadows, but I always add something to it, like cadmium orange (warmer shadow) or Prussian blue (cool shadow). Just my personal preference, but I totally get what he is saying, especially about the white!
My biggest challenge is difference of color. Like a near rock, far rock, and a very far away rock should not be the same color but I know they are the same color. With atmosphere mixes. The whole picture ends up being the same color. I always have to fight painting what I see and not what I know. Thank you very much for your great video.
Tip 4 standing back from the painting is 100 % correct 👍also if painting a potrait switching it upside down also really helps in shading high and low points..
It’s funny, my grandfather was oil painting instructor, and I was fortunate to have him work with me when I was around 5 years old. It’s been many years since I’ve had any formal instruction, and decided to watch some RUclips videos, it’s surprising all these tips that I was taught so long ago I now do just subconsciously when I paint.
Wow! to grow up with artists - I am the only one in my family that pursue art. My parents had no idea what art is haha! It is a very good video. Something I teach students as well. The part I like the most is how you put your colors down. Gonna really use that. Thank you!
Same I don’t but it’s not that big of an issue for me... You can always put more paint on the palette but how you gonna put it back into the tube? I don’t paint often so I can’t leave them there just covered up for the next day as I might not be doing another one for 2 weeks or so...
Mix all the leftover paint. It'll become a neutral, grayish, colour that you can use for underpainting or monochrome studies. I use a plastic wrap to keep the paint from drying out.
Yep, I'm the same. Don't like wasting and throwing away paint mixtures when they eventually harden if not used on the painting- which happens in time even for the 'grey' leftover mixes.
About the using different colour than burnt umber or black to darken shadows / white to highlight places.... A few weeks ago I heard of a thing that Van gogh and those fellas used to do: They would not use black and white, instead different shades of other colours. Not sure if that is true but I made a challenge for myself: To paint something and not use black or white. The result was pretty interesting! Not gonna say it saved my paintings or that it became masterpieces, but it was better!
Hey Chris I have a question for you. How much of this oil painting advice and techniques can be applied to acrylics? I plan on switching to oil sometime in the future, so I guess I'll have a head start because your videos rock! I swear to God, I painted my father's dog after watching one of them and he was shocked at the leap in my quality. Thanks to you, the lightbulb flicked on in my head and now I have the desire to learn more and more about painting and color in general. I'm truly grateful man!
Most painting techniques are similar between oils and acrylics. For example, squinting, working from large to small shapes, drawing, color mixing, values, dark to light, etc are universal. The main difference is how the paint handles. Acrylics dry quickly so it is easier to layer. Oils require one to paint thin to thick to get the paint to layer. That the major difference. Don’t be intimidated by oils and mediums. I don’t use mediums and use safflower oil to thin my paint. You should try oils. They are really fun. You can learn more about how I use oil to clean brushes on my channel. Hope that helps. :)
I am currently painting with acrylics and I find all 10 tips just as apropos for acrylics as oils. the only tip u might want to evaluate is how much acrylic paint u squeeze out just cuz of how fast it dries. 😃
We bought these awesome Feit multicolored LED bulbs from Lowes. Not only can you adjust them to any color, you can adjust the temperature too! So when we paint, we bump them up to that super white 5500K Word of caution, they work through your phone by hooking up to your WiFi, and if your router isn't set up right, it's kind of a pain to get them working
I would love to paint more often but my parents always say something like after we move which im totally fine with that but man when I look at the paint it can be expensive.. Thanks so much for making such good and insperational videos I am truley inspired
Your videos always motivate me to keep painting and remind me the essential steps. I am struggling with milky colors in opposite to vibrant. (I am afraid it could be because maybe my oils aren´t to pigment and I am always mixing with white to make them more opaque). What do you think?
...I’m using my phone as a reference 👀 freehand airbrush is my medium but I’m looking to mimic an oil painting look, solely with airbrush, along my art journey. Would love to develop this & push it into something that others would see as my style... it’s difficult as painting with spray produces just that - no textures just different tones and focal values with each stroke. But I’m up for it... Keep up the good work 👍 really enjoy your videos.
6:49 While I'm here clearly for tips as a beginner with oil paint.. this is a mistake that I'm making but I can't stop now I'm already 3/4 of the way through the painting 😅 It's conveniently difficult to not use the phone when there's so many references at hand. That being said I couldn't agree more with your points.
Thanks for the video! Question about the new studio: did you paint the walls a particular color to help with the light? My walls are an old bedroom that is painted sky blue, and I was considering painting white or a grey pallette color
When you 'map out the values, create your underpainting', do you directly paint over it or wait several days for it to dry somewhat before continuing on? And if I'm going to take weeks to months to paint one painting, what can I cover it with that won't soak up the oil or mess with the painting? I really enjoy your videos, very helpful!
You can paint right on top of your under painting. The fact it’s just a wash using a lot of turpentine and a fast drying paint like umber, means it almost dries instantly and it’s a thin wash so it won’t mix up with your thicker paint you are applying over it. I’ve taken lessons in “ wet on wet” oil painting and we do a whole painting in about four hours...for scenery. We can go back and finagle for days afterwards because oil dries slowly
Rule no 5, does it mean raw umber won't give you vibrant shadow? I know how black should be avoided, apart from Raw umber and mixture of 2 complimetarys what other means of getting shadows can we use ?
I like to use burnt umber and Prussian blue to get extra dark values. For shadows, you can use any color combination. Shadows outside tend to be blue because they are lit by the blue of the sky. You could use a mix of ultramarine blue and a red with a touch of yellow to get a gray blue for shadows. Some shadows are warm, especially in urban settings where they get reflected light from buildings. Burnt umber and burnt sienna can be used with a touch of yellow and blue to get nice warm shadows. Was that helpful at all?
#10 When I put a lot of paint on my brush and use it that way I get big globbyness spots and mud. I've only been painting since January 23 I went to a Bob Ross painting class for a week. I would love love love to be in front of an experienced teacher again to answer some frustrating questions. Now I have completed some nice paintings but it's like 1 step forward 3 steps back kind of thing. Also watching so many different people on RUclips probably doesn't help because you get mixed advice and then you get confused and frustrated at the easel when things dont work the same. Like I watch a couple people on YT who seem to paint wet on wet like they are painting over dried acrylic yet when I do it I get muddy results. Frustrating. To this day I cant paint the classic Bob Ross bushes where he puts half a tube of dark down and then magically paints highlights overtop. I get very very dull mud and use half a tube of paint trying to get it come off the brush.
I'm looking for a good video on best practices for your palette when painting. How often do you clean, and manage your paint. how you think about cleaning your brush, when a palette knife is useful. Basically a video more on how to best use your tools off the canvas. Does Paint Coach have a video like this or has anyone else come across good content for this?
I definitely hit the like button. Your tips were were absolutely fantastic. Now would you please tell me how I can lighten my colors without usin white? Pleeese, and thank you
More paint on the palette really works. I found out the hard way in acrylics. Too little paint and it just dries, or even goes on practically dry. That makes it hard to spread and blend. It also means you end up running out of your colour and having difficulty matching it up again to finish an area.
I've figured out for myself how to use more paint and don't have to throw away that much: I paint 2 or even 3 copies at once. Another plus of working this way is that one of those will be better than the others
Any suggestions for a non toxic thinner? Interestingly, when I use the fat over lean using a non toxic approach, I will only use oil as my additive. Acrylic under painting, then a fairly pure oil first coat with a little oil, and if a second or third layer is required, I’ll thin the paint out a little more with oil so it dries slower than the subsequent layers. The top layers are similar to glazes. What do you think of that technique? Any other suggestions for non-toxic oil painting other than water based oils?
There is a type of oil paint (aka oil color) called “water mixable oil color” it is still oil paint, but you can mix/clean it with water (in addition, I do recommend using dish soap for cleaning). You have to get specific modified linseed oil if you want linseed oil and you cannot mix it with regular oil color although there are some products which allow you to make regular oil color into water mixable oil color (sorry for the late response, I only just found this video)
Thanks paint coach, I've been watching your channel for quite some time, and have bought a set of water mixable oil paint to give oil painting a go. Thanks for the helpful advice and for demystifying oil painting.
quick qs: how long should i wait to do the next layer on oil painting? i mean by minutes not hours, cuz the first time i try and i dont know about much and i just kept adding layer after layer and it just mix the color up
So helpful thank you. I’ve purchased a couple of your courses and they were great. But I’m still a bit confused about how you get “a lot “ of paint on the brush when mixing your colors with a brush as u show in your videos. Can u explain a bit more about how you manage to mix your paint on your pallet and still get enough paint on brush. I find I cannot dip into different paint colors without a lot of mess , plus not a thick amount of paint.Thanks very much.
Thanks Chris for ALL the videos! Fantastic! I have a habit of using too little paint on my palette for sure. How long can oil paint stay "usable" on the palette and is there something I can do to extend that time? Thanks!
Try Mastersons stay-wet palette! If the oil paint gets a little seal on it you can break it and keep using. You can also put oil paint in the freezer. But I use the masterson palette and it works well.
Great video Chris! I'm curious what did you use for the white wood strips on the wall holding your panels? Did you find the perfect molding at home Depot? Thanks!
In college for my painting class, we had to go out and find a long stick. When we came back, we were told to tape one end to the end of our paintbrush and then paint. We painted about 99% of our painting this way and were told to stop and fill in the smaller details with a smaller brush close up and only had about a minute to do so before going back to the sticked brush. This helped us to learn to stand back as well as be more careful about where to put the right values.
We were also taught that if we have a hard time painting/drawing something, instead of avoiding it, then to paint only just that until we ‘master’ it. Hands were a good example of that. So instead of doing a painting of someone’s hands out of the way to avoid them, make sure they’re the center of the painting or paint a painting of only just hands. Painting/drawing what you see instead of painting/drawing what you THINK you see helps drastically here and it’s important to understand the difference between the two! Once you ‘master’ this new way of seeing, the better off you’ll be because then you can paint/draw anything!
So interesting, particularly the last remark - I've been bingeing art videos (especially this channel!) and SEEING properly - developing a way of looking at the world directly instead of through a ''screen'' of thoughts - this notion keep coming up again and again! And the way you say that one can paint/draw anything if one simply learns to look and observe... It's fundamental! Thank you for sharing, that's such a clever tip to use a stick to extend the length of the brush! Happy painting :)
@@zackerywalker880 you’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!
1. Drawing: Use center lines to help make an accurate drawing
2. Underpainting: block in and map the darkest darks and lightest lights
3. Blocking: Err on the darker side of the value because it's easier to build on
4. Step Back often from your Canvas about 6ft
5. Remove dark umber and black from palette if paintings aren't vibrant enough
6. Use natural daylight lighting or equivalent bulb
7. Phones are too small to use as reference
8. Keep your subject matter the same until you get a general understanding
9. Don't think of gray as a color but a "greyed down color"
10. Put more paint on your palette so that there's a good enough amount on the canvas
Thanks. 🙂
Thank you. Now I can print it, tape it to the easel and beat it into my iffy memory!
U r a herooo xD
Thanks for this, I'm gonna add this to my notes!
Thank you Jake!
I started watercolor painting a few years ago and just started oil painting. The concepts are reversed and it really challenges me (very therapeutic though), my biggest issue so far is “putting enough paint on my palette.” I am so frugal with my paints that it makes some things so much more difficult than it is. All of your tips will help me, but mostly that one. Thank you.
I don't know if this will interest you, but I've started using Dorlans Wax Medium. It's very cheap and you can mix it with oils. I've loved using it - it gives me the ability to basically double the amount of paint I'm using, but it costs less than a tiny tube of paint. It's also really fun for textural effects. I feel like it helps my paint dry a little faster when I apply the paint thick, too. Plus, I use it to seal my gouache paintings when I'm done with them.
It's a lot easier to lighten your values than it is to darken it when wet❤️ 100% yes!!!
Oh yes! Especially if titanium white got mixed in your darks - that's a mess to darken it when wet!
I honestly thought he stumbled when he said this, as I always just (intuitively) thought that darker pigment was more dominant than lighter pigment?
@@NozaOzthink translucent | opague
I loveeeee tip #8! I recently started doing that (was getting really frustrated with water that washes up on shore and trying to understand the translucence of it while still having form), and it actually really works to just keep going through the difficult moment. I realized I was seeing it with how my mind gives meaning to it rather than what I was actually seeing. I turned the painting upside down and just worked on what I saw, and it was a major break through! I finally got water washing up on shore to look like water washing up on shore!
Turning a paining upside dow is such a great idea never thought of it
drawing upside down is how i do many foreshortened objects and anything that looks looks wonky! it really forces your your brain to shut up and just draw it as it is.
I have to tell you that was one of the best tip videos I’ve seen, and thank you you were direct to the point and didn’t over talk anything it was refreshing and enjoyable to watch
This is really awesome man. You’re honest and you genuinely want people to be able to confidently paint. It’s just so great seeing this kind of attitude on RUclips, thank you man
I feel like I owe this guy so much. I can't put in words how much he has helped me. Tbh he single-handedly taught me oilpainting😭😭😭😭😭😭 thank you so much Chriss😭😭😭💜💜💜
Great tips. Another thing I have found very helpful is to take pictures as you go along because the camera picks up things that you miss even if you step back often - which i do.
Wow, you’re such a gifted teacher! I feel lucky to have found your videos . Thank you for sharing I really appreciate it.
I'm listening and nodding and smiling. These are all things I've already figured out, or things I know I still do wrong and need to change - haha. More paint on my palette! I struggle trying to rehydrate little tiny blobs of old paint and I never get the colors right agan the next day when I remix. Maybe today will be different. Thank you!
Another thing that can help, towards the end of painting, is to hold the painting in the mirror. Any errors in composition and proportion will leap out at you. I don't do abstracts so not sure if it would work for those but it works well for landscapes and really well for human and animal subjects
When I went to art school (many years ago!) I often used the mirror to get a different perspective on my painting. Amazing what the mirror revealed! Now retired, I'm trying to renew my interest in painting,
1- These 10 are good tips. Especially, for me, the drawing grid idea is helpful.
2-Also, my Rosemary &Co brushes arrived last night. I am trying them out now as I listen to this Paint Talk! They feel sturdy!
Wonderful!
Everyone I know loves those brushes. My turn to order them. Did you get them from Amazon?
New to oil painting. Your videos definitely help a lot 🤓
Happy to help!
Tip no 8 .keep at it until you understand why you are struggling. I am doing African bush landscapes with dusty landscapes I seem to put the dust on my Paper / canvas.working hard to get my green/Grey tones and heus right. I will take the challenge to get it right. Thanks for your tips. Pretoria S Africa
1st I'd say by painting a design draft, you are actually taking out your imagination and unique style.
Yes, stepping back really helps.
Thank you, it's nice to hear some different prospectives.
Thanks for this video - I was struggling with my ballerina and you video was just what I needed to dig myself out of the hole I was stuck in!
You truly are the paint coach, man this motivates me (im still at fundamentals of drawing and paint acrylics but this just inspires me so much more each day) thankyou for this.
Tip nine about gray was eye opening. That’s a completely new way of thinking that immediately made sense to me. I’ll be using complements to produce gray instead of just mixing black and white from now on!
I have an idea for a video. How about a long video about 20 to 30 mins explaining the techniques and ways for using certain oil painting brushes. Like making texture with the fan brush, blocking in with the big flat brushes etc. It would be a really interesting video.
It would be a short video bc I use pretty much one brush in different sizes lol
Yes!
@@paintcoach Then perhaps you might explain things like how you go about getting a bright to act like a fan, and so on.
I just finished a project that can help me with tip #7. I have a cheap tablet that I can easily send reference photos to. I flipped the upper clamp on my easel (not sure what it is called if it even has a name - the part that slides down and clamps down on top of the canvas to hold it) so that the tablet could fit on it and made a second clamp to slide down and hold the tablet in place. Now I can have whatever reference I am working from, whether photo or video, just inches above the canvas that I am painting.
Funny you said “ have a cup of coffee” which is exactly what I am doing right now - as always, your channel provides a very practical advice, straight to the point and very motivating 🥰
Could you please make a video that explains what tiling is? Ive seen demos for tiling but cant seem to find any verbal explanation about the technique or the thought process behind it when laying down strokes.... thank you for all the info you share each week!
Tiling is like paint by number-you paint clean color in a section of your painting and let it be and limit blending on the canvas. The use for this is to minimize muddy color and to get cleaner colors. It’s helpful if you struggle with painting thick over thin. Was that helpful? I can discuss it more.
@@GalleryBry ohhh yes... I was stuck on making it more complicated than it is wondering if the 'tiles' represented plane changes or something and was really confused by the demos I've seen
so it's less a technique thats used to describe form (such as brush stroke direction) and more a technique that keeps the colors clean?
@@justluci8578 I mostly think of it as a way to keep clean color. Form is typically rendered using contour lines brushstroke direction, values, and warm and cool color.
the tip about piecing the painting together as if you're using pieces of paper helped me a lot!
A cool idea for if you only have a phone too copy off of.
Do the mangaka technice where you create a smaller image in a corner of your page that matches the phone size. Then it should be as easy as taking your smaller version and doing the same strokes on a larger scale.
It seems tough when I write it down, but it is actually really helpful for composition and control of what you are drawing out in the first place.
Love the comments about the colour grey. So helpful.
Excellent. Each tip is valuable. I hardly put any paint on my palette. I dont know what stops me. It troubles me still I continue to do ot. My next practice shall be to squeeze out more colour
Great!! I used some of your advices while I was painting two weeks ago.
It really worked and improved my skills.
Thank you!!!!!
hey chris, great video, great tips! i really enjoy your channel. your teaching style is clear and makes me want to paint more. your paintings are amazing. the nick cage montage is epic.
Thank you Chris. Great content in a pill.
That Cage gap in the back is looming at all of us now 😉
I know I need to finish it lol
I started a 30-portrait- study project with Zorn palette last month and I found all these tips are super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing!
my kit list for art school didn’t even have a black in it, so we never learned to rely on it, I think that’s helped me a lot :) thank you for the free advice on your channel!
These are good tips. I've never used a grid on my canvases or reference photo, but it is an easy way to get a solid underpainting. I'll try it.
Can you do a tutorial about how the approach to paint flowers like Henri-Fantin-Latour ?
Great video. One of my painting profs always chewed us out telling us to put more paint on the 🎨
number 9 is a real treasure!
thank you for easy to follow advice I read an article many years ago paint like a millionaire I have sold paintings and still learning
your videos are very helpful;
Are you able to do a video on how to paint really dark shadows in a portrait/ figurative painting? I’m learning how to paint figures and one of the reference photos I have is mostly a very dark shadow it’s almost black, I want to take on the challenge but I’m not sure where to even start, how do I make skin tones so dark with out making them muddy or get lost, if you could do that it would be so much help, thank you, love your videos!!
I love these tips! All of the other tips require a lot of time, and these I can do immediately.
Your tips are so great and useful that I decide to write and resume Them and put them in my studio. You are so motivating. Thanks so much to teach us in a so simple way! 😊 P.S. I'm a french Canadian and I am not bilingual. But I find your English to be very clear. Thanks a lot. 🎨😉👌
These are all such amazing tips! You’re so good at what you do! Thank you 🙏
I must admit that I do love using mars black to darken my shadows, but I always add something to it, like cadmium orange (warmer shadow) or Prussian blue (cool shadow). Just my personal preference, but I totally get what he is saying, especially about the white!
My biggest challenge is difference of color. Like a near rock, far rock, and a very far away rock should not be the same color but I know they are the same color. With atmosphere mixes. The whole picture ends up being the same color. I always have to fight painting what I see and not what I know. Thank you very much for your great video.
Lovely set of tips, well explained and interesting to watch. Thank you
Regarding indoor lighting, besides getting a daylight temperature light, also make sure it’s high cri.
Tip 4 standing back from the painting is 100 % correct 👍also if painting a potrait switching it upside down also really helps in shading high and low points..
It’s funny, my grandfather was oil painting instructor, and I was fortunate to have him work with me when I was around 5 years old. It’s been many years since I’ve had any formal instruction, and decided to watch some RUclips videos, it’s surprising all these tips that I was taught so long ago I now do just subconsciously when I paint.
Wow! to grow up with artists - I am the only one in my family that pursue art. My parents had no idea what art is haha! It is a very good video. Something I teach students as well. The part I like the most is how you put your colors down. Gonna really use that. Thank you!
Thanks Chris. Learned so much from this lesson.🇨🇦
You nailed a couple of my “d’oh” facepalm mistakes - thank you so much!
I dont put enough paint on my palette, not because I cant afford it but because I am a bit tight. I admit it.
Ironic name then 😉
Same I don’t but it’s not that big of an issue for me... You can always put more paint on the palette but how you gonna put it back into the tube? I don’t paint often so I can’t leave them there just covered up for the next day as I might not be doing another one for 2 weeks or so...
Mix all the leftover paint. It'll become a neutral, grayish, colour that you can use for underpainting or monochrome studies. I use a plastic wrap to keep the paint from drying out.
Yep, I'm the same. Don't like wasting and throwing away paint mixtures when they eventually harden if not used on the painting- which happens in time even for the 'grey' leftover mixes.
The cost of oil paint is astronomical. It’s hard not to be tight with the products
About the using different colour than burnt umber or black to darken shadows / white to highlight places.... A few weeks ago I heard of a thing that Van gogh and those fellas used to do: They would not use black and white, instead different shades of other colours. Not sure if that is true but I made a challenge for myself: To paint something and not use black or white.
The result was pretty interesting! Not gonna say it saved my paintings or that it became masterpieces, but it was better!
Hey Chris I have a question for you. How much of this oil painting advice and techniques can be applied to acrylics? I plan on switching to oil sometime in the future, so I guess I'll have a head start because your videos rock! I swear to God, I painted my father's dog after watching one of them and he was shocked at the leap in my quality. Thanks to you, the lightbulb flicked on in my head and now I have the desire to learn more and more about painting and color in general. I'm truly grateful man!
Most painting techniques are similar between oils and acrylics. For example, squinting, working from large to small shapes, drawing, color mixing, values, dark to light, etc are universal. The main difference is how the paint handles. Acrylics dry quickly so it is easier to layer. Oils require one to paint thin to thick to get the paint to layer. That the major difference. Don’t be intimidated by oils and mediums. I don’t use mediums and use safflower oil to thin my paint. You should try oils. They are really fun. You can learn more about how I use oil to clean brushes on my channel. Hope that helps. :)
I am currently painting with acrylics and I find all 10 tips just as apropos for acrylics as oils. the only tip u might want to evaluate is how much acrylic paint u squeeze out just cuz of how fast it dries. 😃
@@GalleryBry ok I'll subscribe to your channel, thank you.
@@lunadargent5292 yea I tend to waste paint putting out more than I need.
@@joshludwick8645 You’re quite welcome. :) Hope you are having a great day!!
I miss your hair. Thanks for the vids. Very generous of you.
We bought these awesome Feit multicolored LED bulbs from Lowes. Not only can you adjust them to any color, you can adjust the temperature too! So when we paint, we bump them up to that super white 5500K
Word of caution, they work through your phone by hooking up to your WiFi, and if your router isn't set up right, it's kind of a pain to get them working
I love to tip #9 'get gray out of your mind'. I wish I had learned that one a long time ago!
I would love to paint more often but my parents always say something like after we move which im totally fine with that but man when I look at the paint it can be expensive.. Thanks so much for making such good and insperational videos I am truley inspired
Your videos always motivate me to keep painting and remind me the essential steps. I am struggling with milky colors in opposite to vibrant. (I am afraid it could be because maybe my oils aren´t to pigment and I am always mixing with white to make them more opaque). What do you think?
I’m here to thank you for all the tips!!! This is very helpful and directional. You are awesome! 🔥
...I’m using my phone as a reference 👀 freehand airbrush is my medium but I’m looking to mimic an oil painting look, solely with airbrush, along my art journey. Would love to develop this & push it into something that others would see as my style... it’s difficult as painting with spray produces just that - no textures just different tones and focal values with each stroke. But I’m up for it... Keep up the good work 👍 really enjoy your videos.
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While I'm here clearly for tips as a beginner with oil paint.. this is a mistake that I'm making but I can't stop now I'm already 3/4 of the way through the painting 😅
It's conveniently difficult to not use the phone when there's so many references at hand. That being said I couldn't agree more with your points.
Watercolor here but you explain the overall thinking that I need. Excellent teacher. Are you in Boston teaching?
This guy is good... (No Great!) Glad I Found This Channel! A Wealth Of Knowledge.
Thanks for the video! Question about the new studio: did you paint the walls a particular color to help with the light? My walls are an old bedroom that is painted sky blue, and I was considering painting white or a grey pallette color
I would recommend a neutral color like gray or white. Blue walls can reflect onto your canvas and alter the local color of your painting.
Binge watching your videos and feeling inspiredddd
When you 'map out the values, create your underpainting', do you directly paint over it or wait several days for it to dry somewhat before continuing on? And if I'm going to take weeks to months to paint one painting, what can I cover it with that won't soak up the oil or mess with the painting? I really enjoy your videos, very helpful!
You can paint right on top of your under painting. The fact it’s just a wash using a lot of turpentine and a fast drying paint like umber, means it almost dries instantly and it’s a thin wash so it won’t mix up with your thicker paint you are applying over it.
I’ve taken lessons in “ wet on wet” oil painting and we do a whole painting in about four hours...for scenery. We can go back and finagle for days afterwards because oil dries slowly
You kept my attention. Thank you for your time.
Rule no 5, does it mean raw umber won't give you vibrant shadow? I know how black should be avoided, apart from Raw umber and mixture of 2 complimetarys what other means of getting shadows can we use ?
I like to use burnt umber and Prussian blue to get extra dark values. For shadows, you can use any color combination. Shadows outside tend to be blue because they are lit by the blue of the sky. You could use a mix of ultramarine blue and a red with a touch of yellow to get a gray blue for shadows. Some shadows are warm, especially in urban settings where they get reflected light from buildings. Burnt umber and burnt sienna can be used with a touch of yellow and blue to get nice warm shadows. Was that helpful at all?
@@GalleryBry thanks
@@Chinornor You’re quite welcome. :) Hope you are having a great day!!
@@GalleryBry yea, am having a nice time watching your videos
@@Chinornor Thanks! Let me know if you have any topics you would like to see discussed in a video. :)
Thank you so much for sharing your practical tips, I really enjoy watching your channel
#10 When I put a lot of paint on my brush and use it that way I get big globbyness spots and mud. I've only been painting since January 23 I went to a Bob Ross painting class for a week. I would love love love to be in front of an experienced teacher again to answer some frustrating questions. Now I have completed some nice paintings but it's like 1 step forward 3 steps back kind of thing. Also watching so many different people on RUclips probably doesn't help because you get mixed advice and then you get confused and frustrated at the easel when things dont work the same. Like I watch a couple people on YT who seem to paint wet on wet like they are painting over dried acrylic yet when I do it I get muddy results. Frustrating. To this day I cant paint the classic Bob Ross bushes where he puts half a tube of dark down and then magically paints highlights overtop. I get very very dull mud and use half a tube of paint trying to get it come off the brush.
Good tips. Could I add tip number 11. Keep your painting perpendicular to you. To avoid distortion.
Really thoughtful and helpful. Thanks.
I'm looking for a good video on best practices for your palette when painting. How often do you clean, and manage your paint. how you think about cleaning your brush, when a palette knife is useful. Basically a video more on how to best use your tools off the canvas. Does Paint Coach have a video like this or has anyone else come across good content for this?
Solid advice for painters, thanks!
I definitely hit the like button. Your tips were were absolutely fantastic. Now would you please tell me how I can lighten my colors without usin white? Pleeese, and thank you
Again, so many great tips! Thank you.
Glad you like them!
Hello, which brushes from rosemary should I get for realism, I Knoe you mencioné this before. Yogur videos are very usefull. Thanks, from Argentina
More paint on the palette really works. I found out the hard way in acrylics. Too little paint and it just dries, or even goes on practically dry. That makes it hard to spread and blend. It also means you end up running out of your colour and having difficulty matching it up again to finish an area.
I've figured out for myself how to use more paint and don't have to throw away that much: I paint 2 or even 3 copies at once. Another plus of working this way is that one of those will be better than the others
and less fear of messing up!! i like this
Any suggestions for a non toxic thinner?
Interestingly, when I use the fat over lean using a non toxic approach, I will only use oil as my additive. Acrylic under painting, then a fairly pure oil first coat with a little oil, and if a second or third layer is required, I’ll thin the paint out a little more with oil so it dries slower than the subsequent layers. The top layers are similar to glazes.
What do you think of that technique? Any other suggestions for non-toxic oil painting other than water based oils?
There is a type of oil paint (aka oil color) called “water mixable oil color” it is still oil paint, but you can mix/clean it with water (in addition, I do recommend using dish soap for cleaning). You have to get specific modified linseed oil if you want linseed oil and you cannot mix it with regular oil color although there are some products which allow you to make regular oil color into water mixable oil color (sorry for the late response, I only just found this video)
Thanks paint coach, I've been watching your channel for quite some time, and have bought a set of water mixable oil paint to give oil painting a go. Thanks for the helpful advice and for demystifying oil painting.
quick qs: how long should i wait to do the next layer on oil painting? i mean by minutes not hours, cuz the first time i try and i dont know about much and i just kept adding layer after layer and it just mix the color up
I have been loving your amazing videos! Will you ever offer IRL classes in FL?
So helpful thank you. I’ve purchased a couple of your courses and they were great. But I’m still a bit confused about how you get “a lot “ of paint on the brush when mixing your colors with a brush as u show in your videos. Can u explain a bit more about how you manage to mix your paint on your pallet and still get enough paint on brush. I find I cannot dip into different paint colors without a lot of mess , plus not a thick amount of paint.Thanks very much.
Maybe try using a medium like paint thinner or linseed oil?
Great tips, am just starting ☺️
I see youre in my area a lot and one of my favorite coaches... You ever attend the St Armands Art Festival? ...or do any entries?
Hi, have you ever painted only with palette knives?
If so I would be very interested in this as well.
Going to try these tanks!
I wish you were my art teacher when I was in school dude. I really do. 🥲
All of it, excellent advice. Thanks!!!
Wonderful tips and advice...thank you so much.
My favorite “blackish” formula is:
Permanent alizarin crimson, ult. blue and phalo green.
(I do not use black or umber in my work!)
What’s yours??
~c
Thanks Chris for ALL the videos! Fantastic! I have a habit of using too little paint on my palette for sure. How long can oil paint stay "usable" on the palette and is there something I can do to extend that time? Thanks!
Usable would be a few days, to a week. To extend it you can mix with linseed oil, or use castor oil to keep it wet for an extremely long time.
Try Mastersons stay-wet palette! If the oil paint gets a little seal on it you can break it and keep using. You can also put oil paint in the freezer. But I use the masterson palette and it works well.
Super good tips….thank you!
Great video Chris! I'm curious what did you use for the white wood strips on the wall holding your panels? Did you find the perfect molding at home Depot? Thanks!
Thank you! Very effective advices.
Some real Gold tips here, thanks
Awesome oil painting tips…..thank you!
your content is gold, thanks
Thank you for the great tips!