Man when you said you needed to paint instead of just buying materials, I laughed pretty hard out loud. Because it hits home. I’m a beginner for the most part. Done probably done at least 12 or more paintings but it always feels like I wish I painted more. Got into it in 2017, which by the way I found Jason Walcott’s channel at that time also. Did maybe 6 paintings in a couple months, then didn’t touch them for 5 years and now this winter I suddenly couldn’t stop thinking about it. Sucked me back in and I went crazy the past 3-4 months buying stuff and making my studio setup amazing. Probably have done about 6-7 paintings during this time. But so so many nights, as I planned all day to paint before the night is out, the time comes and I realize I won’t get enough sleep unless I try to be fast about it. But once I squeeze out some colors, I end up in it for the long haul. Because I can’t stop. So most of the time I end up saying, I’ll just paint tomorrow night instead. That tends to happen over and over… Plus, there is this fear of using up and or wasting paints and also knowing I will have to meticulously clean my brushes once I get ‘em into any paint, and there’s this voice that tells me to wait and not waste em this time, or save the wear on the brushes until you have more time and a better plan… I’m definitely rambling but it made me laugh because all of these things went through my head. I’ve heard that I’m not alone in these strange fears that come with getting into oil painting. The crazy thing is I absolutely love it. It excites your mind so much and in so many ways. The color, the texture when playing with and working the paint. It’s great. And no joke, aside from Bob Ross, who intrigued me towards painting even as a young boy in the 80’s and 90’s (even though I didn’t try oils until 25-30 years later), hands down Jason Walcott absolutely inspired me more than anyone else. Right from the very beginning, I became a pigment nerd from the first video I watched of his. His videos are what I kept waking up thinking about when I was sick with the virus in November. That’s why I started again. There are so many other incredible channels out there, amazing content and information, but Walcott Fine Art is the one that I felt most connected to and I just couldn’t get enough. In fact I wish he would make videos again. It’s been a year or even close to two years. People’s lives are busy and I can imagine it can be difficult to always continue make content. Hopefully one day again… anyway glad I found your video, I was actually looking for reviews on Classico colors because I just recently bought a bunch of cad yellows and what not by them for the first time because it felt like how could you go wrong. But the large tubes literally were 1/5 air, 1/5 pure liquid oil, and then the rest was paint. I read that they can be oilier than most, but this seems crazy to me. I literally had to pour a significant amount of oil from each tube and there seems to only be maybe 150 ml of paint out of a 200 ml tube. I wonder if I got a bad batch.
Hello:) I sure appreciate your comment. I've been a huge slacker. I've also been making more videos on my tarot channel. I have all these paints and canvases sitting here on this big work table taking up space. Yeah I've had a few tubes that seem to have a lot of oil in them. I've wondered if it's just because it's a huge tube? I also realized I don't like the huge openings on the Classico and Van Gogh tubes. I've thought about sticking a long skewer in the tube to stir the paint. Granted I still haven't painted. I think I get caught up in the mess and clean up, etc, etc, etc. Then I start wondering if the paints will go bad, but apparently they last a while. I'm pretty sure Malcolm Dewey uses Classico paints among others. Are you signed up on Jason's newsletter? He does a good job on those.
I have experiment with large tubes that were cheap but had to use a lot more paint. The small er tubes are more pure pigment. So you actually use less and by experiment my larger tubes seem to run out faster than the smaller tubes probably because you have to mix white paint with them to get your values almost all the time unless you're going for high saturation colors. There are large tubes that are cheaper by gamblin that use more linseed oil and lot less filler.
Instead of using those expensive canvases for practice, you should use canvas pads / oil painting paper, or even cheaper gessoed cardboard or gessoed paper. Stretched canvases and panels can be used for professional work.
Man when you said you needed to paint instead of just buying materials, I laughed pretty hard out loud. Because it hits home. I’m a beginner for the most part. Done probably done at least 12 or more paintings but it always feels like I wish I painted more. Got into it in 2017, which by the way I found Jason Walcott’s channel at that time also. Did maybe 6 paintings in a couple months, then didn’t touch them for 5 years and now this winter I suddenly couldn’t stop thinking about it. Sucked me back in and I went crazy the past 3-4 months buying stuff and making my studio setup amazing. Probably have done about 6-7 paintings during this time. But so so many nights, as I planned all day to paint before the night is out, the time comes and I realize I won’t get enough sleep unless I try to be fast about it. But once I squeeze out some colors, I end up in it for the long haul. Because I can’t stop. So most of the time I end up saying, I’ll just paint tomorrow night instead. That tends to happen over and over… Plus, there is this fear of using up and or wasting paints and also knowing I will have to meticulously clean my brushes once I get ‘em into any paint, and there’s this voice that tells me to wait and not waste em this time, or save the wear on the brushes until you have more time and a better plan… I’m definitely rambling but it made me laugh because all of these things went through my head. I’ve heard that I’m not alone in these strange fears that come with getting into oil painting. The crazy thing is I absolutely love it. It excites your mind so much and in so many ways. The color, the texture when playing with and working the paint. It’s great. And no joke, aside from Bob Ross, who intrigued me towards painting even as a young boy in the 80’s and 90’s (even though I didn’t try oils until 25-30 years later), hands down Jason Walcott absolutely inspired me more than anyone else. Right from the very beginning, I became a pigment nerd from the first video I watched of his. His videos are what I kept waking up thinking about when I was sick with the virus in November. That’s why I started again. There are so many other incredible channels out there, amazing content and information, but Walcott Fine Art is the one that I felt most connected to and I just couldn’t get enough. In fact I wish he would make videos again. It’s been a year or even close to two years. People’s lives are busy and I can imagine it can be difficult to always continue make content. Hopefully one day again… anyway glad I found your video, I was actually looking for reviews on Classico colors because I just recently bought a bunch of cad yellows and what not by them for the first time because it felt like how could you go wrong. But the large tubes literally were 1/5 air, 1/5 pure liquid oil, and then the rest was paint. I read that they can be oilier than most, but this seems crazy to me. I literally had to pour a significant amount of oil from each tube and there seems to only be maybe 150 ml of paint out of a 200 ml tube. I wonder if I got a bad batch.
Hello:) I sure appreciate your comment. I've been a huge slacker. I've also been making more videos on my tarot channel. I have all these paints and canvases sitting here on this big work table taking up space. Yeah I've had a few tubes that seem to have a lot of oil in them. I've wondered if it's just because it's a huge tube? I also realized I don't like the huge openings on the Classico and Van Gogh tubes. I've thought about sticking a long skewer in the tube to stir the paint. Granted I still haven't painted. I think I get caught up in the mess and clean up, etc, etc, etc. Then I start wondering if the paints will go bad, but apparently they last a while. I'm pretty sure Malcolm Dewey uses Classico paints among others. Are you signed up on Jason's newsletter? He does a good job on those.
I have experiment with large tubes that were cheap but had to use a lot more paint. The small er tubes are more pure pigment. So you actually use less and by experiment my larger tubes seem to run out faster than the smaller tubes probably because you have to mix white paint with them to get your values almost all the time unless you're going for high saturation colors. There are large tubes that are cheaper by gamblin that use more linseed oil and lot less filler.
Instead of using those expensive canvases for practice, you should use canvas pads / oil painting paper, or even cheaper gessoed cardboard or gessoed paper. Stretched canvases and panels can be used for professional work.
makes sense-- thank you:)