i thought he was going to say that, but he come out with a nice alternative. i would use it as a background... i dont care if it is ugly or not, it will be cover later, so...
I was going to recommend just that 😂 Also we do abstract so Yes by all means use all the left overs. Our Sheikh (teacher and guide) has always reminded us that Our CREATOR dislikes Wastage of all kinds.
@DrawMixPaint And here I thought this "Frugal Franny" made that up!😆 Seriously, it has worked well on an *In Progress* painting because hues are already present. Get wild, tone a canvas! Waste not, want not👩🏼🎨😊
Hey Mark- I was having a problem with my oil paint drying out to fast so I started adding M grahams walnut oil to it...But now I'm nervous about if it can be used with other mediums (I use a lot of Gamblin, stand oil etc...) I think I'm making this confusing lol...I add it to my paint mixes before sticking them in the freezer so that they wouldn't dry out as fast...but then when I go to use them to paint, the paintings ive already started have stand oil mixed with gamsol and am scared that I cant add the stand oil, or any of my other mediums, to the colors I added walnut too...Okay this might be confusing haha I'm so sorry.
I always saves the leftover paint. I'll go so far as to keep the dark's separate from the lights. Blend each pile then use it as Mark stated or save it for the background on a still life. Some of my best backgrounds with a little abstraction have come from using this leftover muck.
Put the mix in a pile in the middle of a page of paper then roll it to a size that will fit inside the tube. Pinch the paper roll and pull it between your fingers. No mess.
At the end of every studio session I use the left over paint by painting it randomly onto a blank canvas. After a few weeks I end up with an abstract painting which I sell for $1,000 each.
I very much appreciate your taking the time to share your pearls of wisdom with us! Clearly you have a passion you can't keep to yourself. Otherwise why would you be so generous? You've helped to rekindle my spark more than the other artists I've checked out. And the carpentry tutorials to boot! Amazing.
Holy crap thats a lot of paint. I always just add a tiny blob to my palette, so if I run out I just add more and if not, I didn't waste a bunch, but that method may not work for everyone.
Hi Mark, I just saw that the oil paint you sell at Geneva now comes in plastic tubes rather than the previous glass jars. Is there a reason for that? Glass jars are not only more classy but they are also more comfortable as far as paint handling goes. Squeezing all the paint out of those plastic tubes is a bit difficult because of the rigid cap. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I heard you say in one of your videos that you didn't like much tubes beacause usually the oil separates from the pigment and tends to come out first when you squeeze it. Kind regards.
Brilliant idea , and that's coming from someone who hasn't a clue how to paint , i never knew you could keep oil paints in a sealed jar for up to a year
I call this a bubble gum amalgam. I've created some very useful tertiaries and earth tones doing this. If you do a lot of production painting for art shows and the like, this is a great way to save on cost as Mark mentioned.
He has an answer for everything. Thank you for doing this video, I had this question on one of your other videos cuz I always thought you seem to have a lot of leftover paint and I don't want to waste any paint once I start painting with these oils!
Hi Mark, great tutorial. Thanks. One question I have is in regards to the white paint that might be part of this neutral. In episode 20 you talk about never mixing white into shadows. So I'm assuming this neutral mix (if White's in it) is off limits to use in shadows? Can you let me know if this neutral is okay to use for shadow bases, or will it always milk up my shadows? Thanks for all you do!
I’m gonna change how I save mud. I’m gonna save the hopelessly ugly mud one jar and the decently colored mud to other jar and if a neutral color turns out really nice save to third jar. Ok
Thanks so much. I have wondered what to do with the excess paint. I appreciate your transparency that you give to your viewers . That is a rare quality now days.
How are your oils so smooth and ‘liquidy’ please? Are they mixed with a medium on ypur palette? Thank you so much for your lessons. Very big thank you and well done!
Mark, Mark, and Mark . . . If you teach everyone how to save paint, you may loose on a sale of some Geneva paint. Great tip, and I like the color that it produced. Thanks for the video.;
Thank you for this tip. I mean, everyone knows how to shove paint down into the glass can. Much more interesting at this point would be to mix a usable color from it. From a "neutral" color to get another color.
There is a technique in cooking, used on puddings and other things that might build a film on top of them. They just take shrink rap and put it directly on top of it to stop it from getting this film. I wonder if this would work for oil paint?
For some reason every time I try this, it dries in the jar no matter how well I seal the jar. I was able to use a lot of extra paint to save an old canvas with a failed painting though. I am new and struggle with mixing colors so I wound up with WAY too much gray, so after using what I needed for my current painting, I sanded down the impasto on the failed painting and used the extra paint to cover the old painting giving me a solid gray canvas ready for whatever my next attempt will be.
What I do is mix all my leftover paint and use it as the background of the painting. I paint the background towards the end of my painting session to really clean up my edges and avoid wasted paint. If the paint is the hue I need it to be, I mix some more colours in.
Mark, what to do when you are painting a still life or a landscape and you find values darker than your black paint? And also values lighter than your white? Thanks!
How long will Geneva paint store unopened? Does temperature matter, room temp or can one store it in a refrigerator? If I am called away from painting for an extended period of weeks can I place saran wrap over the palette to air-seal it till I return?
Vinish, I agree....guess you should only save the paint that has no medium added or mixed on that palette. I often have left over paint that has a little medium in it and I save it for a few days, but not long. Guess if you quit painting for a while, you can use his method to clean your palette and save it as a neutral. Good question, I was right there with ya!
So do you have to use a medium for it to be stored very long in a jar? or do i have to put the jar in a fridge ? or put oil on top of it if i havent used a medium.
eu já havia pensado em aproveitar a tinta dá paleta mas nunca fui encorajado, agora vou tentar separar em diferentes recipientes as cores, salvar apenas os azuis em um recipiente em outro apenas os amarelos e assim respectivamente
BRILLIANT, You can use it as a background color for your canvas.;-)
Great Idea.
It’s not always a good idea. Sometimes it’s just an ugly color! In fact usually
i thought he was going to say that, but he come out with a nice alternative. i would use it as a background... i dont care if it is ugly or not, it will be cover later, so...
@@cynthiamarston2208 chill
I was going to recommend just that 😂 Also we do abstract so Yes by all means use all the left overs. Our Sheikh (teacher and guide) has always reminded us that Our CREATOR dislikes Wastage of all kinds.
Thanks, very useful way to not waste used oil paints.
Useful for painting fabric
i clicked on this video so fast
Haha
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Also Use as imprimatura, tone grounds.
thanks for your precious suggestions!
This is such a good idea Mark! thank you!!!!
I thought for sure you were going to do some quick abstract background work with that left over paint.
@DrawMixPaint And here I thought this "Frugal Franny" made that up!😆 Seriously, it has worked well on an *In Progress* painting because hues are already present. Get wild, tone a canvas! Waste not, want not👩🏼🎨😊
I never thought of this. Good video
Very helpful
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Hey Mark- I was having a problem with my oil paint drying out to fast so I started adding M grahams walnut oil to it...But now I'm nervous about if it can be used with other mediums (I use a lot of Gamblin, stand oil etc...) I think I'm making this confusing lol...I add it to my paint mixes before sticking them in the freezer so that they wouldn't dry out as fast...but then when I go to use them to paint, the paintings ive already started have stand oil mixed with gamsol and am scared that I cant add the stand oil, or any of my other mediums, to the colors I added walnut too...Okay this might be confusing haha I'm so sorry.
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Lol! I was shocked for a second. I've never heard you use an expletive and I misheard "We don't really care what the shift is" as something else! lol
I always saves the leftover paint. I'll go so far as to keep the dark's separate from the lights. Blend each pile then use it as Mark stated or save it for the background on a still life. Some of my best backgrounds with a little abstraction have come from using this leftover muck.
im not a painter but i love watching these videos for some reason.
krap art I think your a painter from the inside.. you just don't know it
Because you WAS a painter. I dare you to start painting!! 4 years have passed tho.
I've bought a bunch of empty paint tubes that i fill with these grays. It's a great way to get a neutral to tone a color down
How do you fill these though?
@@IlnickiStudios That's what i want to know. But he does talk about putting it into a little jar.
TheTobruk empty tubes come with the non cap end open. You fill them crimp it closed
@@jjroseknows777 plastic bag with a hole in it. The back of the tubes er open and need to be folded shut afterwards 1
Put the mix in a pile in the middle of a page of paper then roll it to a size that will fit inside the tube. Pinch the paper roll and pull it between your fingers. No mess.
It's like having a masterstock used in cooking ,great idea.
This channel is such an incredible resource. Thanks for sharing your knowledge so openly.
This is from a guy who sells his own paint. Says it all. What a guy thanks for making great videos and helping people your a lovely human being.
Do keep in mind that if u have any Liquin mixed into any of the paints then the paint will not last long. It will dry up very quickly.
At the end of every studio session I use the left over paint by painting it randomly onto a blank canvas. After a few weeks I end up with an abstract painting which I sell for $1,000 each.
Excellent suggestion. Too late for my dried up palette at the moment, but next time! Love your videos.
I very much appreciate your taking the time to share your pearls of wisdom with us! Clearly you have a passion you can't keep to yourself. Otherwise why would you be so generous? You've helped to rekindle my spark more than the other artists I've checked out. And the carpentry tutorials to boot! Amazing.
You are so right. Mark is a gem.
Holy crap thats a lot of paint. I always just add a tiny blob to my palette, so if I run out I just add more and if not, I didn't waste a bunch, but that method may not work for everyone.
Hi Mark, I just saw that the oil paint you sell at Geneva now comes in plastic tubes rather than the previous glass jars. Is there a reason for that? Glass jars are not only more classy but they are also more comfortable as far as paint handling goes. Squeezing all the paint out of those plastic tubes is a bit difficult because of the rigid cap. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I heard you say in one of your videos that you didn't like much tubes beacause usually the oil separates from the pigment and tends to come out first when you squeeze it.
Kind regards.
Probably because it will make the paint very expensive and he wanted them to be reachable price.
Thank you very much for all these tips, I wonder why is it that we don't get any of this type of information in art school!!
4:04 "and I don't know if it is the best way to do it" 🤣
Brilliant idea , and that's coming from someone who hasn't a clue how to paint , i never knew you could keep oil paints in a sealed jar for up to a year
I wish I would have known this 10 years ago! I thought all that used paint was garbage.
I call this a bubble gum amalgam. I've created some very useful tertiaries and earth tones doing this. If you do a lot of production painting for art shows and the like, this is a great way to save on cost as Mark mentioned.
He has an answer for everything. Thank you for doing this video, I had this question on one of your other videos cuz I always thought you seem to have a lot of leftover paint and I don't want to waste any paint once I start painting with these oils!
What an awesome idea!
nice tip,thank you! but Mark,why aren´t you using palette knives to mix the paint? i hate to see your brush inside this mess!
Hi Mark, great tutorial. Thanks. One question I have is in regards to the white paint that might be part of this neutral. In episode 20 you talk about never mixing white into shadows. So I'm assuming this neutral mix (if White's in it) is off limits to use in shadows? Can you let me know if this neutral is okay to use for shadow bases, or will it always milk up my shadows? Thanks for all you do!
U solved the worst part of painting, wasting expensive pigs. Also have many airtight jars 4 say cobalt blue, cad. colors, etc..
I am thrifty and so already do this - good to know I am doing something right 😄
Dang it how wasn't I able to think of something that obvious?! Sometimes I'm wondering... Thanks for this great tip!
I’m gonna change how I save mud. I’m gonna save the hopelessly ugly mud one jar and the decently colored mud to other jar and if a neutral color turns out really nice save to third jar. Ok
Wow, I wasted paint just yesterday 😢, why didn’t I think of that.
Pls suggest. I didn't close oil paint tin properly and top layer got too thick and dry. Pls let Solution to dilute.
I’ve been doing this and I thought I was just being lazy lol
Good job … thank you for your video , I appreciate it👍
I love yr channel, i been taking yr class for yrs now. I keep coming back. Love the practicality and rightious practice. Thanks
God its sacrilege to waste oil paint, I'll always use it for foundation on a new painting
Wish I would have seen this tip I left a good amount of paint on my pallet last night .....
Why do you mix that with a brush and not a palette knife
Would it be ok to put all my paint in jars even if I dont add a medium?
Thanks so much. I have wondered what to do with the excess paint. I appreciate your transparency that you give to your viewers . That is a rare quality now days.
Thanks Mark. That's really great. Wish I had thought of it earlier. I also would be interested in how you make your stretcher bars.
I use that mix of paints as a color ground
I must remember to do that next time I paint with my oils. Awsome tip. Many thanks 😀😁✏🖍🖌
As a begginer thanks for advise.
That's brilliant! I've been trying to keep a sheet of plastic wrap over my unused paint, with pretty poor result. This is better.
Hi I love the big paint scraper you used. What is it called please? I love your tips and teaching, thank you so much for all your help xx
Regular from home depot
I love your tips. Grateful
As always just so nice to watch your videos - and I love the idea with a jar to store this "mud" in
Mark did you get this idea from me?
Thank you, great idea!
You, sir, are a genius!
thanks Mark for this video! It reinforced my approach with reusing paint again. I really like to practise my brush strokes with the leftovers.
I read that George Bellows did that too, only he put the "mud" in a tube.
David Kasman you should start painting, its somewhere deep in you! :)
David Kasman I know an Artist that buys empty tubes and puts the extra paint inside of them..great way to save paint
How is putting the mixture into a cube done?
Good idea!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Thank you so so much!
This isn’t oil paint lol
when is paint no longer usable?
When it's dry pretty much.... and even then sometimes it can be "revived"...
Excellent tip!!
How are your oils so smooth and ‘liquidy’ please? Are they mixed with a medium on ypur palette? Thank you so much for your lessons. Very big thank you and well done!
Thank you
Great idea!!!
I don't put much paint on my palette depending on what I'm working on. A shade of white is the largest amount of paint I will have there.
Mark, Mark, and Mark . . . If you teach everyone how to save paint, you may loose on a sale of some Geneva paint. Great tip, and I like the color that it produced. Thanks for the video.;
Thank you for this tip.
I mean, everyone knows how to shove paint down into the glass can. Much more interesting at this point would be to mix a usable color from it. From a "neutral" color to get another color.
There is a technique in cooking, used on puddings and other things that might build a film on top of them. They just take shrink rap and put it directly on top of it to stop it from getting this film. I wonder if this would work for oil paint?
For some reason every time I try this, it dries in the jar no matter how well I seal the jar. I was able to use a lot of extra paint to save an old canvas with a failed painting though. I am new and struggle with mixing colors so I wound up with WAY too much gray, so after using what I needed for my current painting, I sanded down the impasto on the failed painting and used the extra paint to cover the old painting giving me a solid gray canvas ready for whatever my next attempt will be.
brillant idea for backgrounds - and also a good idea to attach the microphone to the glasses instead of attaching it to the shirt
What I do is mix all my leftover paint and use it as the background of the painting. I paint the background towards the end of my painting session to really clean up my edges and avoid wasted paint. If the paint is the hue I need it to be, I mix some more colours in.
Really useful tip, saves paint AND money. Thanks!
Mark, what to do when you are painting a still life or a landscape and you find values darker than your black paint? And also values lighter than your white? Thanks!
I wonder if I can paint exterior wooden garden structures with it, like fence posts, chicken pen, etc?
I’m thinking maybe this is a good starting point for a monochromatic piece?
Thanks so much for the video. I usually mix all the colors and use it to tone my canvas. It is a great way to save the paint. Blessings and be safe.
How long will Geneva paint store unopened? Does temperature matter, room temp or can one store it in a refrigerator? If I am called away from painting for an extended period of weeks can I place saran wrap over the palette to air-seal it till I return?
Great info, thank you.. I love your videos…
even with liquin or other medium in it?
Vinish, I agree....guess you should only save the paint that has no medium added or mixed on that palette. I often have left over paint that has a little medium in it and I save it for a few days, but not long. Guess if you quit painting for a while, you can use his method to clean your palette and save it as a neutral. Good question, I was right there with ya!
Oh ok
you can save it if you thin (mix) your paint with Marks slow drying medium. Im not sure about liquin..
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and all the work you put into your videos! It is all greatly appreciated!
Good to you mr.artist, i always use them as a background for my newer canvas, mak it smooth and easy to work on 😉
Thank you for all your help. Loving the paint I got from you.
So do you have to use a medium for it to be stored very long in a jar?
or do i have to put the jar in a fridge ? or put oil on top of it if i havent used a medium.
Awesome tip!
You save more paint than I use. Incredible.
In regard to used paint , what i do, put aside in the freezer and can be left till you are ready to use it, once is out let it reach normal temp.
That is so awesome. Thanks from Austin.
do you have to use a glass container or can you use plastic? Thanks a bunch
eu já havia pensado em aproveitar a tinta dá paleta mas nunca fui encorajado, agora vou tentar separar em diferentes recipientes as cores, salvar apenas os azuis em um recipiente em outro apenas os amarelos e assim respectivamente
Hi thanks so much on that tip on the saving the left over paints 👍🏻
Excellent tip....thanks for sharing Mark.
So useful! Everything! Thank you!!
Wow, what a GREAT idea! Repurpose the paint :)
New to your channel and I love it. I have learned so much. Thank you