Oil Painting Basics | Mediums Explained Simply For Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Oil painting basics for beginners, explaining what mediums are, what they're for, and how to use them! Check out my "how to build layers video" where I demonstrate the use of mediums: • Oil Painting Basics | ...
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reminder: do not dump your used solvents down the drain! i don't throw mine out at all, i reuse. leave the used solvent in a big jar, and over the course of a day or two all the paint will settle to the bottom and the stuff on top is clear again!
oooohh.. Thats helpful thanks!
+Myrose Kuan im not being sarcastic btw
I was thinking of what happens if I mix the solvent and oil together as the medium... and different layers require different ratio of solvent and oil?
+raven scorptique
always layer from thin to fatty...more oil in top layers...never less oil there...to avoid cracking over drying time.
Question, if I don't want to recycle, where would I throw them out?
Lena, I know you get this all the time but I wanted to express how much you have helped me get back into painting and sketching. I have recently gone through a great deal of trauma and as a result I have severe depression; the problem with having depression is that you don't feel like doing anything because you convince yourself that you aren't capable anymore. Your videos have helped me see what it's like to have passion again and I'm learning to love the laborious process of making a final painting and all of the steps involved, just by watching you have fun painting and sketching. You are always so humble and patient with your explanations and a true joy to watch. You have so much talent, but beyond that I feel like you're just an incredible human being all around. I can just tell that you have a lovely, kind soul :). I always look forward to watching your videos, so keep up the great work and I wish you a very happy new year. xx Lots of love from Canada.
I would like to see a separate video showing how to use each and every medium/solvent. Oils scare me and the solvent really scares me, lol.
Ugh same I just got oils for the first time and am so nervous 😩
Me too. Do that for us please lena
Me too !!!! Yessss
Is there a video link where she shows how to use each medium/oils?
Oils are great. Not sure why it scares you.
Be careful to have amazing ventilation. Even odorless thinners have a ton of fumes, just less smell. Also remember paint rags (something you use to clean your brushes of oil and solvent) are combustible.
What?!
new to oil painting, but have been drawing, etc forever. thanks for the video. much love
I am used to the acrylic painting, however I got annoyed by how incredibly fast it dried. And yes I really wanted to blend on canvas. So I am excited and a tiny bit intimidated by the mediums but I like fun and I am going to do this. I mostly drew with pencil growing up and my dad did pencil, colored pencil, and some painting and so I think I'm following the same path. Maybe that's normal for every artist. But when I painted, I realized I could also paint. It blew my mind. So I wanted to do more. I am an artist at heart. It's my God-given talent! I love your videos. You explain things clearly. Thank you
u can always add a slow drying medium to ur acrylics to slow down the drying time!!
Thank you! I've watched at least 10 videos and they never really simplified the explanation for me to really understand and not get scared to try out mediums. You we're incredibly helpful!
Just created my first oil painting today...definitely a challenge but WAY better than acrylics. I wanted to thank you for your videos since they have been very helpful in getting me started...now all I need is practice practice practice
Really, you are the first person that explained solvents so clearly. Thank you so much
Thanks so much for sharing this!
I always love a list with links to the products in description. So here it is:
- Gamblin Gamsol
- Gabmlin Galkyd medium
- Gamblin Galkyd gel
- Gamblin Galkyd Solventfree gel
This helped A TON❤ I just got oilcolours as a xmas present and I am going to go buy some solvant and medium soon. I tried already painting without them and it was kinda hard so I understood why you need the mediums haha, but this video still explained a lots of stuff that I needed to know!😀
AdrianMarine costs alot to just use your oils without mediums. You end up using more paint. yikes!
Eduardo Cabral ok ok thank you!! I got the mediums and they're definitealy helping a tooon
I always use a 50% or 60% off coupon for Michaels art store. That helps a lot!!
Same! I got oil paints as gifts for Xmas!!!
got hooked on liquin years ago...dries faster and can make glossy or just glaze. its great. Also use turpenoid.
Thank you! I've never painted before, and you explained it very well to me. Now I know what to get and start this off.
Just got myself some oil paints for the holidays can't wait to try them. Your videos have helped me open my mind to diving into a new medium, thank you
After the pigment falls to the bottom of your solvent and yku pour it back, mix the pigment with oil and use it to make grays and browns 👍👍
I guess I should look into buying Galkyd! I've only used linseed oil and paint thinner when it comes to adding stuff to my paint, trying something to speed up drying sounds great though. I have some stuff called Liquin (By Winsor & Newton) that came with a set I bought, I've never used it but it seems like it's similar in terms of appearance and consistency. May have to break out an old practice canvas and see what happens!
Also I think people don't like mediums because they associate it with cleaning, and to me personally, cleaning bigger brushes is suchhhh a hassle haha. Anyways thanks for the video, I appreciate the tips!
Galkyd, Liquin, and other siccatives change the nature of oil paint and the process of oil painting - often to the detriment of a quality painting. Oil paint is a medium that wants to flow without constraints. Using siccatives with oil paint is akin to driving a wonderful sports car with the hand brake on. Why this obsession with quick-drying and convenience? As an oil painter, I do what I can to slow down the drying process as much as possible, thus allowing me to model the paint surface of a canvas for as long as is necessary. Between sessions I store my canvas in a wooden, light-proof, and air tight box. The box is then put in a very cool place. A canvas stored in this way can remain wet for weeks. Only when a painting is finished do I think of drying it.
cleaning brushes in solvent is hard on some....i just let soak in oil and paper napkin out the oil next use...keeping colors separate brush wise...hate washing out brushes...tedious!
Poruchik Kizhe wonderful...if you like and want to keep painting wet into wet. You are aware that the masters also worked wet into dry? But you are also right that oil paint wants to flow without constraint...that’s why we add mediums so that they will flow with all kinds of results. When we wish them to dry faster so that we can scumble or glaze then that’s what we do. Using siccatives with oil paint is akin to driving a wonderful sports car down a quarter mile racing strip-again and again and again...
But it is also wonderful to paint wet into wet for a long time as well. To each their own when they so wish it.
All I did for years were just use a thinner and then out of the tube. It's really simple really. Now I have started to use other mediums and understand it more. Oil paint is far easier and more forgiving than people realise, it's perfect for a beginner I think because you can take more time and adjust as you go along. People are to shy when it comes to painting, you just have to go for it and with each painting you will get better it's quite magical, you only get better I can guarantee that.
I didn't know about most of these mediums! Thank you for this!!!!!! I like a slow dry time, so I love to add stand oil or linseed ☺ ... I continue to experiment, that's what it's all about! Yay!
my granny got me oil paint to use. altho i wanted watercolor and im nervous to paint with oil, your videos are SUPER helpful and make me excited!
Omfg. THANK. YOU. for this video. I’ve been so confused about mediums for so long. This makes sense of all of it.
Also, for anyone else who might be confused about oil painting; the Gamblin website is a gold mine of information. They have all of their products categorized into their drying times and uses. Also all of their paints on the site have charts showing each color’s tint, shade, and tone
You really should make a video for each medium and how they are used, that would be very helpful.
Lena, I haven't even watched yet and I'm ready to say thank you! It's been impossible for me to wrap my head around turpentine, mineral oils, mediums, solvents(?), etc. I went to the store today just to help me get an idea and I couldn't grasp anything. Thank you so much for these tutorials. I really hope I can find a way to support you on Patreon soon. As a student going to art school (and NOT for an art major at that) it's not currently so simple. Again, thank you for the art advice!
would you ever do a video dedicated to just Glazing...? I have been oil painting for about 2 years, and when i first started, had a major glazing FAIL (used linseed oil and it totally turned everythiing dark yellow :'( and Ive been way too scared to try it again ever since. There doesnt seem to be any conclusive results on the internet about which medium is best, and what techniques are fool proof :( thanks
yes it's in the plans! :] ♥♥♥
Jocelyn Orenda yes please!
This was so helpful, thank you so much
thank you so much for all of your encouragment! I took an oil painting class and we used winsor&newton water mixable oils with some fast drying medium and I fell in love with the flexibility. I bought myself a set of regular oils a few months later and that was probably 3-4 years ago. you and other artists have inspired me to start oil again and it feels so goooood
Your videos are taking the fear out of oil painting for me. Once I have some good sketches done, I can't wait to start experimenting.
Never really been angry, just a little frustrated and confused about the mediums and how/what to use. This definitely helped a lot. :)
I have been painting with oils 10 years, and love it. The first steps aren't that bad.
Love your vids! You're a natural born teacher!
People should never be put off by a new challenge or learning a new skill - such as oil painting.
Undoubtedly, certain aspects can seem daunting at first, such as the topic that you're covering, but the sense of reward, achievement and fulfilment will outweigh any earlier frustrations and failures one would expect when taking on a new venture.
Practise, practise, practise!
Sir Edmund Hillary wouldn't have been the first Brit to climb Everest without sheer determination.
....the same applies to a beautiful medium such as oil painting. One doesn't expect to become Rembrandt or Constable overnight (or ever infact), nor should one expect to do so....
....the aim is to have fun and to produce art for ones own gratification.
It's all about making marks!
Great video 🖒
Chris (UK).
Thank you.
Finally someone who gets down to the point. 👍
Thank you so much for the video!! I got oil paints as a gift and I really wanna paint with them, but the whole "toxic" thing just sacred me away. There's so much mediums I felt so overwhelmed over the choices and the cost of things. Thank you so much for that video, now I decided to get linseed oil and sansdor.
I would love more art talks. Thanks so much.
What scares me away is how do you clean it up? What do you do with the paper towels that you wipe your brushes on? How do you dispose of unusable solvents and mediums, and paints? Thanks so much for the great videos!
I learned a number of yrs ago that you can clean your brushes with baby oil. I do that and it works just fine.
dump in the nearest creek. lol jk cities usually have somewhere you can drop off chemicals, you can look it up for you city.
Thank for the tips Lena... I Cant wait to start my next painting
this is one of the most helpful videos on mediums.
Thank you for this video. No one explains these as simple as you.
This was EXTREMELY helpful to me, thank you! I have painted with acrylic for years...and decided to try oils...and it has been intimidating...
This was so helpful, again, Thank You. Amazing paintings in the back, btw....and cute kitty. 🤗
Thanks for this overview of the oil medium. I am a beginner in painting and really interested in taking on oil painting. Would you please showcase several mediums and how they differ both on how you combine paint with medium and how the medium might affect the style of painting?
So helpful! Have always wanted to know this. Started in watercolors, and figured there must be a way to glaze with oils.
yes it would be nice for you to separate things for the mediums I would love for you to talk more about the oil paints I haven't done them yet I like to learn a little bit more about them before I start
You are my favorite painter/instructor! I bought a big bottle of Gamsol! yay! And Galkyd!
Making a video for each separate medium would be a great idea definitely think you should do it! I understand the intimidation and frustration people may have since I had the same problem when first starting music production, mediums in a way remind me very much of compressors, limiters , reverbs.
Yeah.. Please make a separate video on your mediums.... And thank you for this one... I learned so much about the mediums ... I do have practiced a lot in oil colors but never used that gelly medium.. Definitely gonna try that.... And also, you are so adorable!! 😍😍Have a wonderful day 😃😊😊☺
I've watched so many videos and yours was the easiest to understand. Thank you!
Thank you! I've been using watercolours, but oil painting makes me a bit nervous. You've made things less overwhelming. :)
Great video. I loved the water with acrylic to mineral spirits with oil analogy.
the best explanation about basic oil paint i even found! TQ
Thank you SO much for clearing up Galkyd for me! Sounds like a great place to start.
thanks so much. I just started painting with oil. I was using water mixable but I feel regular oil would be better. I needed this video and the other you mentioned so I can be successful.
Really cool and helpful video! Makes sense now
Thanks to your videos, I've started to oil paint, and I love it!
coming from a billboard painting background, we use a product called Smith's Cream. It is somewhat of a jell.
Could you do a video about how you dispose of your waste such as solvents and how you clean your paintbrushes and where you throw the water away?
YES! thank you for the explanations in the video, I am a beginner oil painter who is confused on the mediums and this helps a ton (:
I am in love with your tutorials!
I am one of the ones that freezes before a canvas. A video demonstrating use of various mediums would be helpful. Also more tutorials on how to achieve realism in a painting. I have enjoyed your videos, thank you so much.
I'd love to help anyone with questions about water soluble oil paint. :) Just throwing that out there. Great video, Lena!
Mary Tales can you use the same mediums she was talking about except with water instead of gamsol?
Unfortunately not. Nothing bad will happen if you mix them together but since the mediums aren't water soluble, you'd have to clean up with solvents. There ARE mediums that you can use with them though. Holbein sells a water soluble linseed oil to go with their Aqua Duo line. There are alternatives to the ones shown that can be used and do the same thing like speeding up drying time. Oh I should add that water solubles can be mixed with "regular" oils up to 30% before they can't be cleaned with water anymore. They can both be used in a painting at the same time, just the clean up is affected.
Mary Tales Thanks. I have been considering water soluable oils. Do they have the same texture and behave the same as regular oils? Is the only difference that you can use water to clean up? Do you use water to thin the paint or do they do a watersoluble oil medium for that? (sorry for so many questions)
Your questions are fine ^-^ don't apologize! I use Holbein so here is a link that answers I think all of your questions. holbeinamerica.com/duo-aqua-oil-color/
I use them along with traditional oils and I can't tell any difference between them any more than any other two different traditional oil paints being compared. I think some people try out the "cheaper" versions of the water solubles and decide they don't like them when they could just as easily bought cheaper traditional oils and not have liked them either. I hope I'm making sense! Just like any other paint, you'd want to make sure the brand you plan on buying has good reviews.
Anyway, yes, I insist that at least the Holbein duo aqua brand does feel the same and you'd never know it was water soluble until you actually try to mix the water in. There are mediums you can use with them if you want to use something other than water. Holbein does have a water soluble linseed oil. It all depends on how you as an individual artist prefer to work. It just replaces the need for turps with water.
Hey I have a question! Can you just use Gamsol as both a medium and a solvent? To thin it out and clean your brushes? Thank you in advance!
Lena thanks alot!
I had never heard of Gamsol until tonight, I will be looking for it! I have used Liquin {it never ever pissed me off}An artist friend introduced me to at the University of Alabama. I like to layer paint, & enjoy the fluidity & transparency it gives as well as its aid in drying time. I also use Grumtine (Grumbacher orange oil spirit) this stuff is great & smells great too. There is always some gum spirit turpentine & linseed oil at hand & if I have to use mineral spirits I go with one that has no smell.
My only main dilemma is I don't paint often enough for reasons FAR too complicated to say, (nothing to do with frustration with my own work.) Just life & business i guess you might say, but I have not given up.
I enjoyed watching you paint & admire your technique! I'm so estranged from the art friendly setting that I have forgotten alot, but it is kind of a mixed blessing, it propels one to go into unforged arenas & explore..hmm is that, I mean could that be the point? One also learns to be resourceful & you find sources of inspiration in worlds of different ways...funny even in High school AP art classes I would sit there and feel so uninspired...a classroom full of young aspiring artists could actually stagnate in a hurry...ironic huh?
I haven't used oil paints since art school back in the 'Seventies and even then I was more into other media like acrylic and watercolor (used in mixed-media and other non-traditional painting). However, I have never quite liked the look of acrylics when dry, no matter how much I try to make them look like something else. :-) Recently I was given a bunch of second-hand oil paints so I thought I'd take the plunge. I'm especially interested in the different mediums since in my day it was pretty much Damar varnish and linseed oil, and to clean up turpentine. Thank you so much for your videos! You explain things so clearly!
Thank you for this! I'm getting into oil painting but I've been using water soluble oil paints because I didn't get how to use or why I should use all of the mediums, but this helped so much!!xx
Also a demonstration on how to use Galkyd and Gamsol would be amazing!!
Thanks for explanation and clarification - just started oil painting
I'm trying oil painting, this is encouraging, thank you!
Ah you are great!! This is exactly what I needed to hear! I’m also have been overwhelmed a little with all the mediums and you helped a lot!
Using mediums is one of the reasons I'm excited to start painting with oils. I've been using acrylics for years and honestly they are frustrating. They dry too fast! I dont want my paint to dry while I'm using it lol. And yes, I've added mediums to my acrylics to try and help the flow and increase drying time but they honestly don't work for me. I got a set of oil paints for Christmas now I want to shop for some mediums and a good solvent, I'm ready! lol. Thank you for the video!
Ahh finally a simple, easy to understand explanation! This really helped alot I was so confused😂
Thank you so much...you are very good at explaining mediums!
please do a video on how to use them !
Can I use a cellulose thinner for oil paint???
This may be a dumb question.... but is there a difference between turpentine and Galkyd Lite (aside from the horrid smell of the turp)? I have walnut oil as well and I'm wondering if I can mix Galkyd with the oil as my "medium" in the way Lena has done here? Any help is very very appreciated!!!!
Totally. Very good info Lena, i used to use Liquin a lot but Gamblin products are much less toxic apparently therefore better and of course there's always plain ol' Linseed and stand oil as you mention.
Really wish I saw this video before I went to Michael’s and bought everything I didn’t need for oil painting apparently 😟 thank you for this ❤️
i love your hair colour. nice !
Really helpful and interesting. I hope you can make a serial of videos explaining more about each product!
Finally super clear explanation thanks
I love your videos! They are not just very informative but very positive! Thank you Lena!
Whats your process for transferring your oil paints to print?
Drew Holden i am also interested in this too!
Same here!
Same
2 years, no reply. Oof.
Thank you for making this so simple!
Thanks that's really useful, im an acrylic painter, but got a set of oils for Xmas in error,......but I'm loving using them the blending is amazing. I got linseed oil, but was really struggling with the white spirit, actually made my chest hurt, so I going to create a shopping cart of your recommendations thanks so much really useful!!!! Happy New year Rob x
Thank you! It was so nice to see an explanation by someone who's not trying to sell their own line of art supplies lol.
Super helpful video!
your video is very helpful for to understand about the mediums......
before somedays I was very confused and I doesn't understand a little bit.........thank u....for this video its cleares the concept......and please make videos on how to prevent cracks in oil color on canves......thank u once again......❤
Love your approach to trying something new. Keep at it.
THANKS LENA
this was so helpful
I noticed that you post frequently these days Lena. Seeing you work hard is inspiring! 👍 😊❤
I was not one of the angry ones, but I still found this very helpful, and I agree, Jerry's is great! Especially for Practica canvases and "try its" such as $1 and $2 deals to test a brand. Thanks:)
Thanks for this! You have been instrumental in getting me back into oils!
yay! I'm glad to hear that, hope you're enjoying them :D
Thank you for sharing!
I personally prefer walnut oil over linseed for my final glazing layers.. def worth trying out!
If you have the time, yes, ones on each individual mediums would be appreciated.
Thank you! This video was really helpful, except I would love to know how I could get rid of solvent that has been used to clean brushes, as I am new to oil painting.
thank you for your Help makes me feel better about getting into oil painting Will be following U
Thank you for sharing this. Easy to understand!
i would love to see another video on the mediums :)
Love it! This video is helpful Lena! But being a novice, like really novice, in oil painting, I would to learn about the mediums in separate videos. Thanks much and much love! Deb.
great explanation thanks
could you do an advanced oil painting tutorial pleeeeeeeeeeease?!
This was helpful maybe do a video on advanced oil painting or painting hair 💚
i really need this video because i want to try oil painting but don't understand it much