Out of all those god damn videos out there this one is seriously the most simple and informative without dancing around the bush. Great job and thank you!
Finally, someone is who is actually sharing relevant information about oil painting mediums! Best one I have found so far. Thank you! That Black oil medium looks really amazing to use, will have to write your recipe down. Do you think that the flexibility of black oil is what will make a painting last for 500 or more years?
Thanks for watching and for the nice comment! Yes, the black oil helps with flexibility but it's not the oil, it's the lead. I read somewhere that adding lead to oil paint is one of the best things you can do for it. Lead helps polymer films remain flexible which is why minute amounts are added to electrical cord coverings...it keep the plastic from turning brittle and flaking off the wire. It will have the same effect on a dry linseed oil film.
Jason Walcott is one of the most informative art instructors on the net. He also happens to be a very fine and creative artist. I know because I have one of his small paintings.
I just want to thank you! Your videos are some of the most informative on painting and materials on RUclips. After 25 plus years of not doing any art I have learned more in the past few months than I did in art school in the early 1980’s. These two videos on mediums were really helpful. Please keep making them!
This is a very informative video I have seen so far on mediums. Since I have been running into problems with my usual medium this really set me straight. Thank You Victoria
Amazing video! I am always going to art supplies stores and get myself lost with all those Mediums. Now I finally understand each one of these! I confess I love the traditional ones and started to pay less attention when you started talking about liquin. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I am a traditionalist too, but occasionally find Liquin useful when I need something to dry really fast. :)
Hi Jason, I have just recently found your channel and I have to say you are quite amazing. I have learned so much from you and I’ve only watched a handful of your videos. I’m looking forward to watching everything you have and I thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your wisdom with us.
I am just getting back to oil painting and Jason's overview on mediums is one of the best I've come across. Many thanks. And my full support for the tip on "child-proof" bottle caps ... they drive me crazy too.
My pleasure. I just tried your levering-off trick with the child-proof cap. Works beautifully. More of these tips in a new book: "Anarchy for Artists"?
At the local art school they advocate two mediums using linseed oil and isoparafin, one is 50-50% and the other is 90%isoparafin and 10% linseed oil which is used on the first layer. This makes life easier for people like me who cannot cope with turpentine and other strong products. Thanks for your very informative video, it is really nice to get such detailed information :-)
Thanks for this video, Jason, I've only just now gotten around to beginning with oils and this is of great use to me. I've actually been building up a Jerry's cart for a few weeks now, and just added a big tube of that Lukas No5 medium to it (it's on super sale, woohoo!). Where I live, anything "piney" is a HUGE no-no, so thanks for the heads-up re: turps as well!
Excellent video on Medium! Congrats you really did a fine job explaining this subject. Thank you so very much. When I walk into an art stire, this area is so overwhelming and never have I inquired about medium, did the clerk have any knowledge of the products! Thank you for helping me to make a more informed decision..
Great video, but being one of David Leffel's pupils I need to clarify that David used to cook and sell the Maroger medium when he was a student at the Art Students League in NY. He now uses the brand showed in the video. Cheers.
Wow thanks so much . I'm new to art and only started trying oils this year . Mediums have baffled me a bit and I've watched a few you tube videos and still been baffled . Your video was outstanding and I now understand . Thanks very much 😁
I love your videos! Could you please do a video on brushstrokes? I have watched videos that show beautiful flowers but we are not taught the brushstrokes. Your help would be so awesome.
There is spike lavender from natural pigments and Art Treehouse. Art Treehouse sells hand refined linseed and walnut oil that's water washed. They also sell rosemary oil and their soy based bio-thinner. I like the combination of my own hand refined sun bleached linseed oil mixed with Canada balsam along with spike oil. It makes the room smell great.
Yes, I have tried the spike lavender oil and found it to be too strong a smell for me. It was actually worse than turpentine (for me). Thanks for watching! :)
You are so welcome! Try Rublev's (Natural Pigments) Walnut Oil Gel or Oleogel mediums. The walnut one will slow drying time and the oleogel will have no effect so colors will still dry at their normal rate.
Informations très riches. C 'est la première fois que j'entends des informations si précises sur certains médiums comme celui utilisé par David Leffel qui est un grand peintre effectivement. MLS
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge, and keep up the good work! I really enjoyed the vids on safety and the White, Green, Yellow oil paint mixing. A big thumbs up!
I'd love to see you do a side-by-side comparison of the Maroger with Gamblin's Neo Megilp. I have the latter and, although it's probably my favorite alkyd medium, it seems much goopier than Maroger.
The cracks in very old(or sometimes not so old) is because the support is subject to movement , flexible surfaces will always cause the paint to crack over time. Have you seen the Balthasar Denner oils on copper in The Louvre? !749 the paint surface is perfect!
Yes that is very true! The support makes a huge difference. I do like painting on the archival canvas/linen panels as I think they will hold up better over time. Stretched canvas has to be cared for properly. Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks for the information about traditional medium. I am really excited to know about traditional medium(1/3 linseed oil, turpentine and damar varnish ). Can you please clarify when painting in layers,( for fat over lean) where and in which layer the this medium can be used? Whether it is lean/fat than the cold pressed pure linseed oil? Please clarify. Thanks in advance
Adding a medium to paint with oil in it will generally make it fatter. I would use the least amount of medium possible and only in your top few or last layers. Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks for the great video's and taking the time to explain in detail the product or at least your in depth experience with it. Your very helpful,Thanks again and keep up the great work.
I use 2 parts walnut oil and 1 part turps with trace amounts of damar and bee's wax to thin paint. To glaze I use thickened walnut oil cooked with lead white with traces of damar & bee's wax. To do impasto I use paint out of the tube. Liquen can't be used to glaze because it evaporates away to nothing, so the pigment is not suspended in a clear paint film when it dries, as it must be in a glaze. I have no idea what the other thick mediums you talked about are for unless they're used to extend the paint while keeping it thick, and that can be done better with chalk. That Venetian stuff you like that has all the bee's wax is to make the paint dry looking a little mat, as that is what bee's wax does and that's what the Venetian used bee's wax for.
Thanks for watching! Yes, each artist has his or her own mediums that work best for them. It sounds like you might be getting Liquin confused with something else? Liquin is an alkyd based resin gel that can be used to glaze with. Thinners like Gamsol or turpentine are the ones that evaporate completely and cannot be used for glazing.
@@walcottfineart5088 If you take a big blob of Liquin, put it out in a hazelnut sized blob, and let it dry completely over days, it will flatten out to a small fraction of it's original volume through evaporation. Paper thin! A glaze requires that the pigment stays suspended in medium and that the medium cures/dries without loosing much if any of it's volume/thickness. The pigment in a glaze must be dispersed in the full thickness of the thick transparent paint film when dry. If the bulk of the medium evaporates, like Liquin, you get what is equivalent to a very thin coat of ordinary paint, but not a glaze. Using Liquin to glaze gives you what amounts to scumbling. A glaze must be equal to stained glass, have great depth, and no obvious surface for the eye to focus on. I'm not sure people understand the difference between the look of stained glass - which is in fact a glaze, and paint very thinly applied or even sprayed on so that it lets whats below it still show through like scumbling.
Thank you. I think you should have commented on how the medium changes the aspect of the painting. Does it make brilliant, glossy? Do you want the beautiful mat velvety look? What you need to get so?
Great question! In almost every case, using medium will make the paint more glossy and/or translucent. If you are looking to make a surface that is more matte, then the medium will usually be described as such. Although I've never used it, I believe cold wax medium will make oil paint less glossy. The primary purpose of medium is to make the paint more easy to manipulate and get it to do what you want it to do. Thanks for watching! :)
Good job with your video's, I really like your understanding of your subjects. Your paintings are lovely and enjoyable to look at. Maroger published his book in 1948. It was in response to the Fogg museums, George Lesli Stouts call for more research into old master techniques published 1932. The first to respond to that call was Max Doerner in 1934, and Fredrick Taubes 1938, They referred to the medium as Mal Butter or McGilp. The controversy arose out of the NY Armory show in 1913. The fallacy is there is not one medium. There are six Maroger mediums, with subsets for the reader to try. There is the Black oil variety of Van Eyck and DaVinci, these chapters deal more with the process of oil clarification. The Venetians, such as Giorgione and Tintoretto. These are the Italian Variety. The big one is Rubens which adds the translucent quality by adding resins. This would be the area of the book that brings in the Dutch masters, IE VanDyke, etc. Included with the Dutch masters is Velasquez. Rubens was friends with Velasquez since he spent time in Spain painting the royal family while on an ambassadorial mission to create an alliance between Spain and the Netherlands. Pacheco the Vasari of Seville was father in law to Velasquez and spent much time with Rubens. Pacheco ran his own school, and mediated over the correctness of religious art in the inquisition. Then there is the De Mayerne manuscript, which Maroger dilates further since De Mayerne spent time with Rubens and wrote of his technique. After which there are what he calls the small dutch masters, Rembrandt and on. They added waxes to the resin and lead compounds. The controversy arrives from Ralph Mayer and Gustave Burger, who lay claim that the medium is a carnival side show and hucksters. Both of their methods of painting restoration include harsh chemicals to release the paint from the canvass, and thus they dissolve the resin upon their attempts to restore. However since the resin combined with the linseed oil, a linoliat the resin will remain intact with the chemical baths. The lead is already oxidized and will not cause darkening from exposure to the sun. The entire secret to the medium is the purity of the oils and turps. I have never seen a painting dull with this medium in 60 years. Of which I am glad to see you use the same turps as I do. Ralph Mayer discusses Blooming from the mastic. Blooming occurs when moisture is trapped between the paint layers. This can be avoided by a simple turpentine wash and dry clothe over the linen to remove any moisture The resin does not become brittle, it has very elastic properties. The issue is the lead, again stated above, it is already oxidized. 99% of all color and darkening issues is with the pigment itself, or the purity of oil and turps. All cracking known as crazing can be resolved by understanding the lean over fat rule. Exposing the painting to the sun in between layers also stabilizes the permanence of color and the oils. This can be achieved economically by painting large painting groups. An Alkyd is a resin whether it is a natural occurring gum or synthetic. The Maroger mediums that employ the Resins are in all actuality Alkyds!
Thank you so much for that wonderful and infomative comment! Yes, I agree that the quality of the Maroger is probably of utmost importance. I try nott to use too much of it anyway. James Groves has a wonderful discussion on this topic here: www.jamescgroves.com/meguilp.htm Thanks for watching :)
@@walcottfineart5088 When you get under the hood of this topic, the references are pretty much the same. The difference between he and others, is he reads his references and gives due credit Bravo! You do a very balanced presentation on mediums, which is great since there is so much poor information on the topic. You even use the same turpentine as I do! If you can tell I started writing as you were speaking, and you kept hitting the right points. For me this is like competitive sports and you brought this one all the way home, I was cheering the whole time.
I was using teak oil mixed with regular grocery solvent and door varnish in different quantities depending on the stage of the painting. Now I know the three ingredients where wrong. Thanks!
I'm glad my video was useful to you! Take extra care to keep the paintings you've done with the teak oil, etc. away from sunlight or any other elements like humidity. Because those ingredients weren't really meant for fine art use, they may not last as long. Thanks for watching!
I used a Dremel with a cutting wheel; cut two slots 180 degrees apart. The cuts don't have to be all the way through to the rim of the cap. Finish the cut with a sharp tool. Pop 'em right off.
Kind of an odd question, but what kind of plastic is the bottle you store your medium made of? I pre-mixed a medium recipe but the turpentine eventually ate through the bottle.
Thanks for watching! Those bottels don't last forever, I usually change them out once a year or so. The ones I use came from Blick. www.dickblick.com/products/plastic-squeeze-bottles/
Out of all those god damn videos out there this one is seriously the most simple and informative without dancing around the bush. Great job and thank you!
Thanks! I'm so glad you found this video useful. :)
thomas damascus totally agree
haha he didnt get the notification
answered a lot of questions I had as well
Finally, someone is who is actually sharing relevant information about oil painting mediums! Best one I have found so far. Thank you! That Black oil medium looks really amazing to use, will have to write your recipe down. Do you think that the flexibility of black oil is what will make a painting last for 500 or more years?
Thanks for watching and for the nice comment! Yes, the black oil helps with flexibility but it's not the oil, it's the lead. I read somewhere that adding lead to oil paint is one of the best things you can do for it. Lead helps polymer films remain flexible which is why minute amounts are added to electrical cord coverings...it keep the plastic from turning brittle and flaking off the wire. It will have the same effect on a dry linseed oil film.
any comments on venetian medium?
Thank you, Jason! Your work will continue to be a great resource for me as I transition from acrylic painting to oil painting
Thanks for the nice comment! I'm so glad my videos have been helpful :)
Came for the mediums, stayed for the un-childproofing. This is great, thank you.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
This is so good! Seriously the first video that made me understand the use of mediums.
Thanks so much for the nice comment! I'm really glad my video helped you. :) Thanks for watching!
Walcott Fine Art I'm really glad I found your channel, since I'm just about to start with oil painting. This taught me a lot already :)
Thanks and have fun with your painting! :)
Walcott Fine Art Thank you I'm sure I will! =D
Jason Walcott is one of the most informative art instructors on the net. He also happens to be a very fine and creative artist. I know because I have one of his small paintings.
Brian thanks for that wonderful and kind comment! I'm so glad you enjoy my channel so much! :)
I just want to thank you! Your videos are some of the most informative on painting and materials on RUclips. After 25 plus years of not doing any art I have learned more in the past few months than I did in art school in the early 1980’s. These two videos on mediums were really helpful. Please keep making them!
Thanks for such a nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed watching my videos. :) There are more videos to come!
THANK YOU for this video!! 3 years later and it´s still the most helpful thing on RUclips.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching :)
This is a very informative video I have seen so far on mediums. Since I have been running into problems with my usual medium this really set me straight. Thank You Victoria
I'm so pleased you found the video useful :) Thanks for watching!
this dude has the best and most helpful oil painting videos
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Merci Jason Walcott from the bottom of my heart.
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I know that I'm like 35 years late, but I appreciate the time you took to put down all your insights.
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Amazing video! I am always going to art supplies stores and get myself lost with all those Mediums. Now I finally understand each one of these! I confess I love the traditional ones and started to pay less attention when you started talking about liquin. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I am a traditionalist too, but occasionally find Liquin useful when I need something to dry really fast. :)
I love the Moonlight Sonata! One of my faves!
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Thank you Jason, as always informative
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Just discovering oil painting for the first time and your vids are fantastic Straight to the point and very informative. Thank you!
I truly appreciate your videos they are easy to understand and very helpful. You seem to enjoy making them as well. Thank you so much. Glenn
I'm so glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for the nice comment :)
Really enjoy how specific you are with your tutorials.....very thorough. Thank you.
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Hi Jason, I have just recently found your channel and I have to say you are quite amazing. I have learned so much from you and I’ve only watched a handful of your videos. I’m looking forward to watching everything you have and I thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your wisdom with us.
Thanks so much for watching and for the nice comment! :)
As with the rest of your videos, you explain things better than anyone else on the youtoobs.
Thanks so much for the very kind comment! I'm so glad you've enjoyed my videos. :)
I am just getting back to oil painting and Jason's overview on mediums is one of the best I've come across. Many thanks. And my full support for the tip on "child-proof" bottle caps ... they drive me crazy too.
Thanks so much for watching and for the nice comment! Glad you found the video helpful. :)
My pleasure. I just tried your levering-off trick with the child-proof cap. Works beautifully. More of these tips in a new book: "Anarchy for Artists"?
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Great video! I'm just getting serious about oil painting and this made which medium to use so much less confusing!
Thanks so much for watching! I'm gla dyou found this useful. :)
Jason, you have the gift of simplicity and clarity. A brief intro and you are straight into it. LOL
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I think I just found my favorite RUclips artist! Thank you for your videos! They’re awesomely helpful.
Wow, thank you for the nice comment and for watching!
That tip about the child safety caps is solid gold! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching! :)
I'm researching again- and this is one of your great videos for referencing!
Thanks so much for the nice comment and for watching! Glad it was helpful :)
Thank you for explaining the different types of mediums. I would love to see a glazing video. Thanks again
Thanks for watching! I actually do have two glazing videos, one is called "Glazing 101" and the other is "Alla Prima vs Grisaille" :)
Great videos! This is simple, straightforward, and incredibly informative! Thank you!
I'm so glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching :)
This is a great video, this is one of the best art videos i have ever seen
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I enjoy your videos very much. They are extremely informative. Thank you.
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The best explanation about mediums I've ever seen! Thank you very much :)
Thanks so much for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed this. :)
At the local art school they advocate two mediums using linseed oil and isoparafin, one is 50-50% and the other is 90%isoparafin and 10% linseed oil which is used on the first layer. This makes life easier for people like me who cannot cope with turpentine and other strong products. Thanks for your very informative video, it is really nice to get such detailed information :-)
Thanks for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Not everyone can tolerate turpentine so it's great that you found a medium that works for you.
I’m really glad that I found your videos because they are really helpful
I'm so glad you found my videos helpful! Thanks for watching :)
Entering the world of oil painting and I'm glad this video exists.
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GREAT! Really well done tutorial. So valuable. Thank you sooo much. A lot I didn't know. Love the details. Very conscientious.
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Thanks for this video, Jason, I've only just now gotten around to beginning with oils and this is of great use to me. I've actually been building up a Jerry's cart for a few weeks now, and just added a big tube of that Lukas No5 medium to it (it's on super sale, woohoo!). Where I live, anything "piney" is a HUGE no-no, so thanks for the heads-up re: turps as well!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and have fun with your painting! :)
Dude, just ran across this. Excellent teaching. Excellent. I've subscribed.
Thanks so much for the nice comment and for watching! :)
Excellent video on Medium! Congrats you really did a fine job explaining this subject. Thank you so very much. When I walk into an art stire, this area is so overwhelming and never have I inquired about medium, did the clerk have any knowledge of the products! Thank you for helping me to make a more informed decision..
I'm so glad my video was helpful to you! Thanks for watching and for the nice comment. :)
Nice and clear explaination to this new painter!
I'm so glad you found my video helpful! Thanks for watching. :)
Straight forward and informative. Thank you!
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Thank you so much for the great video. Helped me a lot with all this mediums confusion!
Great! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching!
I so agree with those "child proof" tops!!!! They should be an option you can get for free if you NEED, not as a regular thing!
LOL! Well, try my hack and it should help. :) Thanks for watching!
amen
Thank you for helping me know about the different mediums now I know what to get to start
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Thank you! I wish I found this video before I started oil painting years ago. Very straightforward and informative.
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Excellent explanation of mediums.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
Brilliant explanations and love your videos thank you
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching :)
you are amazing tallent man ' greeting from egypt '
l am painter too , l learned alot things l need from u ' thanks alot
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another great infomative session
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I love your videos and learn a lot
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This was really informative. Glad I found your channel.
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Great video, but being one of David Leffel's pupils I need to clarify that David used to cook and sell the Maroger medium when he was a student at the Art Students League in NY. He now uses the brand showed in the video. Cheers.
Thanks for the comment and the updated information! Glad you enjoyed the video. :)
Wow thanks so much . I'm new to art and only started trying oils this year . Mediums have baffled me a bit and I've watched a few you tube videos and still been baffled . Your video was outstanding and I now understand . Thanks very much 😁
Thank you so much for the nice comment! I'm really glad you found my video helpful. :)
I love your videos! Could you please do a video on brushstrokes? I have watched videos that show beautiful flowers but we are not taught the brushstrokes. Your help would be so awesome.
Wow - what a concise and no-nonsense introduction to oil paint mediums! Thank you so much!
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I use Liquin and really love it
There is spike lavender from natural pigments and Art Treehouse. Art Treehouse sells hand refined linseed and walnut oil that's water washed. They also sell rosemary oil and their soy based bio-thinner. I like the combination of my own hand refined sun bleached linseed oil mixed with Canada balsam along with spike oil. It makes the room smell great.
Yes, I have tried the spike lavender oil and found it to be too strong a smell for me. It was actually worse than turpentine (for me). Thanks for watching! :)
That Lukis stuff looks to be exactly what I need when I go full on knife & 50x60! Thanks!
Great! Glad my video was helpful to you in finding the Lukas medium. Thanks for watching!
Thank you ! So very helpful and much appreciated
Thanks for watching! :)
Thank you for this video. I am looking for a medium that perhaps is like a gel but does NOT dry fast as I paint slowly and I like working wet into wet
You are so welcome! Try Rublev's (Natural Pigments) Walnut Oil Gel or Oleogel mediums. The walnut one will slow drying time and the oleogel will have no effect so colors will still dry at their normal rate.
Your videos make me happy. And thank you for the great advice.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching! :)
Informations très riches. C 'est la première fois que j'entends des informations si précises sur certains médiums comme celui utilisé par David Leffel qui est un grand peintre effectivement. MLS
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge, and keep up the good work! I really enjoyed the vids on safety and the White, Green, Yellow oil paint mixing. A big thumbs up!
Thanks for the nice comment John! I'm so glad you are enjoying my videos. :) In fact, I'll be uploading one on Orange very shortly!
I'd love to see you do a side-by-side comparison of the Maroger with Gamblin's Neo Megilp. I have the latter and, although it's probably my favorite alkyd medium, it seems much goopier than Maroger.
Thanks for the comment! That's a good idea! I am thinking about doing a second follow up video on mediums and that would be a great issue to cover. :)
Thanks for another great video! Very helpful.
Thanks Charlotte! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)
Charlotte Wall
Ditto
Thanks again. I hope new videos. Merry cristhmas friend.
You do a great job - I'm enjoying your tutorials / videos! Thank you.
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Fabulous video. Learnt so much from your videos.
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Great video! Thank you so much
Love your videos! Learned a lot. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
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Awesome informative video. Subscribed. Defiantly getting your suggestions when I can.
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Great video.
Thank you so much for all this information. The tip about Rublev's Italian Varnish is very interesting and I would like to try it out. :-)
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Thanks for the great info about mediums. I'm subscribed and heading over to check out more videos.
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Thanks for putting this together. great information
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The cracks in very old(or sometimes not so old) is because the support is subject to movement , flexible surfaces will always cause the paint to crack over time. Have you seen the Balthasar Denner oils on copper in The Louvre? !749 the paint surface is perfect!
Yes that is very true! The support makes a huge difference. I do like painting on the archival canvas/linen panels as I think they will hold up better over time. Stretched canvas has to be cared for properly. Thanks for watching! :)
Your videos are very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for the nice comment! Glad you found this helpful. :)
Thanks for the information about traditional medium. I am really excited to know about traditional medium(1/3 linseed oil, turpentine and damar varnish ). Can you please clarify when painting in layers,( for fat over lean) where and in which layer the this medium can be used? Whether it is lean/fat than the cold pressed pure linseed oil? Please clarify. Thanks in advance
Adding a medium to paint with oil in it will generally make it fatter. I would use the least amount of medium possible and only in your top few or last layers. Thanks for watching! :)
@@walcottfineart5088 Thanks for your reply
Thanks for the great video's and taking the time to explain in detail the product or at least your in depth experience with it. Your very helpful,Thanks again and keep up the great work.
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I use 2 parts walnut oil and 1 part turps with trace amounts of damar and bee's wax to thin paint. To glaze I use thickened walnut oil cooked with lead white with traces of damar & bee's wax. To do impasto I use paint out of the tube. Liquen can't be used to glaze because it evaporates away to nothing, so the pigment is not suspended in a clear paint film when it dries, as it must be in a glaze. I have no idea what the other thick mediums you talked about are for unless they're used to extend the paint while keeping it thick, and that can be done better with chalk. That Venetian stuff you like that has all the bee's wax is to make the paint dry looking a little mat, as that is what bee's wax does and that's what the Venetian used bee's wax for.
Thanks for watching! Yes, each artist has his or her own mediums that work best for them. It sounds like you might be getting Liquin confused with something else? Liquin is an alkyd based resin gel that can be used to glaze with. Thinners like Gamsol or turpentine are the ones that evaporate completely and cannot be used for glazing.
@@walcottfineart5088 If you take a big blob of Liquin, put it out in a hazelnut sized blob, and let it dry completely over days, it will flatten out to a small fraction of it's original volume through evaporation. Paper thin! A glaze requires that the pigment stays suspended in medium and that the medium cures/dries without loosing much if any of it's volume/thickness. The pigment in a glaze must be dispersed in the full thickness of the thick transparent paint film when dry. If the bulk of the medium evaporates, like Liquin, you get what is equivalent to a very thin coat of ordinary paint, but not a glaze. Using Liquin to glaze gives you what amounts to scumbling. A glaze must be equal to stained glass, have great depth, and no obvious surface for the eye to focus on. I'm not sure people understand the difference between the look of stained glass - which is in fact a glaze, and paint very thinly applied or even sprayed on so that it lets whats below it still show through like scumbling.
@@ATINKERER Thanks for the information! I don't typically use Liquin anyway but that's good to know.
Very nice, you know your stuff.
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Please make playlists of your videos
thank you. love your art!
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Thank you so much for sharing
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Once again - Fantastic!
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The Cap Hack is useful for more than Mediums! Thank You... I just Subbed, that is the kind of Info that I am looking for.
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moonlight sonata in the background. great video!!
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Thank you 😊
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Very informative video; thanks so much
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Thank you. I think you should have commented on how the medium changes the aspect of the painting. Does it make brilliant, glossy? Do you want the beautiful mat velvety look? What you need to get so?
Great question! In almost every case, using medium will make the paint more glossy and/or translucent. If you are looking to make a surface that is more matte, then the medium will usually be described as such. Although I've never used it, I believe cold wax medium will make oil paint less glossy. The primary purpose of medium is to make the paint more easy to manipulate and get it to do what you want it to do. Thanks for watching! :)
Good job with your video's, I really like your understanding of your subjects. Your paintings are lovely and enjoyable to look at. Maroger published his book in 1948. It was in response to the Fogg museums, George Lesli Stouts call for more research into old master techniques published 1932. The first to respond to that call was Max Doerner in 1934, and Fredrick Taubes 1938, They referred to the medium as Mal Butter or McGilp. The controversy arose out of the NY Armory show in 1913. The fallacy is there is not one medium. There are six Maroger mediums, with subsets for the reader to try. There is the Black oil variety of Van Eyck and DaVinci, these chapters deal more with the process of oil clarification. The Venetians, such as Giorgione and Tintoretto. These are the Italian Variety. The big one is Rubens which adds the translucent quality by adding resins. This would be the area of the book that brings in the Dutch masters, IE VanDyke, etc. Included with the Dutch masters is Velasquez. Rubens was friends with Velasquez since he spent time in Spain painting the royal family while on an ambassadorial mission to create an alliance between Spain and the Netherlands. Pacheco the Vasari of Seville was father in law to Velasquez and spent much time with Rubens. Pacheco ran his own school, and mediated over the correctness of religious art in the inquisition. Then there is the De Mayerne manuscript, which Maroger dilates further since De Mayerne spent time with Rubens and wrote of his technique. After which there are what he calls the small dutch masters, Rembrandt and on. They added waxes to the resin and lead compounds. The controversy arrives from Ralph Mayer and Gustave Burger, who lay claim that the medium is a carnival side show and hucksters. Both of their methods of painting restoration include harsh chemicals to release the paint from the canvass, and thus they dissolve the resin upon their attempts to restore. However since the resin combined with the linseed oil, a linoliat the resin will remain intact with the chemical baths. The lead is already oxidized and will not cause darkening from exposure to the sun. The entire secret to the medium is the purity of the oils and turps. I have never seen a painting dull with this medium in 60 years. Of which I am glad to see you use the same turps as I do.
Ralph Mayer discusses Blooming from the mastic. Blooming occurs when moisture is trapped between the paint layers. This can be avoided by a simple turpentine wash and dry clothe over the linen to remove any moisture The resin does not become brittle, it has very elastic properties. The issue is the lead, again stated above, it is already oxidized. 99% of all color and darkening issues is with the pigment itself, or the purity of oil and turps. All cracking known as crazing can be resolved by understanding the lean over fat rule. Exposing the painting to the sun in between layers also stabilizes the permanence of color and the oils. This can be achieved economically by painting large painting groups.
An Alkyd is a resin whether it is a natural occurring gum or synthetic. The Maroger mediums that employ the Resins are in all actuality Alkyds!
Thank you so much for that wonderful and infomative comment! Yes, I agree that the quality of the Maroger is probably of utmost importance. I try nott to use too much of it anyway. James Groves has a wonderful discussion on this topic here: www.jamescgroves.com/meguilp.htm Thanks for watching :)
@@walcottfineart5088 When you get under the hood of this topic, the references are pretty much the same. The difference between he and others, is he reads his references and gives due credit Bravo! You do a very balanced presentation on mediums, which is great since there is so much poor information on the topic. You even use the same turpentine as I do! If you can tell I started writing as you were speaking, and you kept hitting the right points. For me this is like competitive sports and you brought this one all the way home, I was cheering the whole time.
@@forsterarts Thanks so much! I appreciate your kind words :)
great video. Thanks
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Very informative video!I watched it twice.😄I have walnut oil ,gamsol ,galkyd and turpentinoid, are they enough for me as a beginner painter?
Thanks for watching! Yes, those are perfectly fine mediums to use. You don't need to run out and buy anything else. :)
Hier. I always follow your videos. Thanks for sharing. I am Samira from Morocco
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I was using teak oil mixed with regular grocery solvent and door varnish in different quantities depending on the stage of the painting. Now I know the three ingredients where wrong. Thanks!
I'm glad my video was useful to you! Take extra care to keep the paintings you've done with the teak oil, etc. away from sunlight or any other elements like humidity. Because those ingredients weren't really meant for fine art use, they may not last as long. Thanks for watching!
Oh, great! I am not alone with problems opening these "child-safe" bottles! :) it is terrifying, when the turpentine or oil stuck the screw, arrgh :D
Thanks for watching! I hate those things! Like I said, just pry off the outer cap and you're good to go. :)
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I used a Dremel with a cutting wheel; cut two slots 180 degrees apart. The cuts don't have to be all the way through to the rim of the cap. Finish the cut with a sharp tool. Pop 'em right off.
Great video!
Sir kindly help me by guiding about the shadow colors vs sun lit bright areas , kindly make a video dear sir
Thanks for watching and for the video idea!
Thanks Jason, not only for this most informative video, but for the awesome links! OMG those tops from HELL, LOVE the hack!
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. :)
Kind of an odd question, but what kind of plastic is the bottle you store your medium made of? I pre-mixed a medium recipe but the turpentine eventually ate through the bottle.
Thanks for watching! Those bottels don't last forever, I usually change them out once a year or so. The ones I use came from Blick. www.dickblick.com/products/plastic-squeeze-bottles/
Yes thank you!!!
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