Thanks for this method! I saw you do one of your Demos locally, beautiful. I just did a search on here for how to clean off oil paint, and here you are. Hey the great masters painted over their paintings, why shouldn't we? You really got that canvas cleaned off and looking great. I'll look for some of your other videos.
Hi Dan, I just found your channel with this video. Very interesting process. In the past, all I did was to sand the oil paint as much as possible, then add a few coats of oil paint, white, gray or black or depending what I wanted to paint again. The sanding was overwhelming but I did it until I got a smooth surface. My idea was just to get rid off the oil paint I have done as much as I could. I usually gesso my canvases or panels with at least three coats of gesso before I paint with oils. So, I didn’t hunk I needed to coat with more gesso. It worked fine, but as you said, it is an experiment and only time will tell. I will be watching your videos from now on. I have subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Champaign, Illinois. Blessings and take care.
Hi Dan good information and demo. Glad you mentioned Frank Covino. I took a few workshops with him in 2014. I'll follow your method on my old oil canvas paintings. Hope I could get closer to your demo video session 303. Thanks for you dedications of teaching.
Hello. I know it’s been 4 years since this video post and this older gentleman may have passed away by now , however I have used Murphys Oil Soap with success removing dry oil paint. Need to let sit for awhile.
Acrylic Gesso does NOT need to glue to a tacky surface. If there's any oil paint in that tacky surface then that gesso will not bind well. Oil paint glues to the substrate but not acrylic. I doubt that tacky surface will help, but will make things worse.
I used a hand plane ... set the depth of cut to thin and it works ten minutes start to finish ... I’ve only effed up one canvas and that was my fault not the plane ... was chipped
Two words........Easy Off. Yep, oven cleaner. Works great without all the elbow grease. Try it........you'll like it. It immediately starts foaming as it lifts "ALL" the paint. Then use a plastic putty knife to scoop/scrape off the residue. All that stuff you use is highly volatile and flammable. Easy Off is safe enough to use in your "oven" in your "kitchen" and soap and water will give your canvas a final cleaning. SAFE, SAFE, SAFE!!! Give it a try Dan........you'll like it, trust me. Oh yeah, almost forgot, one can of Easy Off will last a long time and it's got a nice fresh Lemmon scent. There ya go.......a BETTER, SAFER, CHEAPER way. I've used this method many, many times. You'll like it. You'll never do it the old way again.
Three years later you won’t see this, but I must thank you, Rick, for adding immense value to the tutorial with an out of the box and safer solution. Anyone stumbling on my comment who has tried Easy Off, please share your thoughts. Unless one is a hobbyist who like the artist also enjoys detailed and tactile processes where time and cost effectiveness is not an issue, stripping with Easy Off oven cleaner sounds more user-friendly and with less risk than even reversing the canvas, which requires precision, the right tools, and know-how, to avoid tearing or shoddy outcomes especially if the oil paint is thickly textured, the canvass is not new, or was stretched by someone else with already rusting nails or staples.
@@musarimassakhi4845 hey! Just found your message, Musari--- Did you try the Easy Off method? Did it work for you? After Rick's comment, I rushed out and bought a couple different brands of Easy Off.... It didn't work at all. Didn't even soften the paint, even if I left it on overnight. Please let me know how you did it...
Hi Dan! I have several large (4 ft. x 5 ft.) gallery canvasses. They are covered with oil paint mixed with galkyd. Mainly done in dark colours. I would like to cover them all with light-coloured oil paint. What would be the best way to rough-up the oil/galkyd surfaces so they would receive the new oil paint well? OR Can I paint overtop with oil paint straight from the tube without roughing up the base. Or could I mix my oil paint with a little solvent. And what solvent would you recommend? The canvasses are way too big to remove most of the product and start over with acrylic. Thanks for the video. Suzanne
Dan, if the canvas has been painted with oil paint only and you don't mind painting on oil ground would you just sand the canvas and proceed with the oil ground? I noticed that you added marble to the gesso, why not add the marble to the oil ground to make it less slick. Also, unless you sand the oil ground it isn't that smooth. I use Gamblin Oil Ground.
Thanks! In the comments, Rick suggested spraying the canvass with Easy Off oven cleaner as a cost effective and time-smart alternative to the tactile and detailed process demonstrated by the artist. Any community member who may have tried it, your feedback is appreciated. If it works it is the kind of tip that is timeless, and easier than the other very good idea, to reverse and gesso the canvass. The unanswered question is this, while a kitchen cleaner is likely safer for humans than the chemical strippers used in this tutorial, is there risk of corroding the canvass with Easy Off? (What about residue from Easy Off? If indeed Easy Off does thoroughly strip off oils without damaging fabric, then theoretically we could use heat to get rid of the residue, as we do when we turn on the oven or wipe a surface with a hot dishrag following treatment with Easy Off. If sufficiently stripped, the canvass could possibly be immediately hosed off with hot water--and perhaps the kind of all purpose kitchen cleaner that degreases your dishrags--and then sun dried? An old painting has already been subjected to wetting and drying and shouldn’t be prone to shrinkage, water should not be a problem. The question is, will the easy off do a good enough job to leave it sufficiently oil free? Doubtful but I wonder).
PLEASE NOTE: I tried an assortment of oven cleaning products, including Easy Off, after receiving this comment. It has NO effect whatsoever. Tried leaving it overnight... Nothing.
What I have done before is to sand the painted canvas as much as you can. Clean the surface from all dust. Apply a couple of coats of gray, black or white oil paint. Let each layer dry before applying the next layer. Works very nice. If the canvas becomes loose, spay cold water on the back and use a hair dryer. You can repeat this process until the canvas is tight again. Hope this helps. Blessings and take care.
Ok, you talk of the hour of time you’d spent going to the store to buy a new canvas. Now tell me you spent less an hour stripping and resurfacing that canvas. Unless it was a very large expensive canvas, the trip to the art store would be the smart move. Just saying #
Thanks for this method! I saw you do one of your Demos locally, beautiful. I just did a search on here for how to clean off oil paint, and here you are. Hey the great masters painted over their paintings, why shouldn't we? You really got that canvas cleaned off and looking great. I'll look for some of your other videos.
The stripped off looks like an Impressionist painting. Love it!
Thank You!
Hi Dan, I just found your channel with this video. Very interesting process. In the past, all I did was to sand the oil paint as much as possible, then add a few coats of oil paint, white, gray or black or depending what I wanted to paint again. The sanding was overwhelming but I did it until I got a smooth surface. My idea was just to get rid off the oil paint I have done as much as I could. I usually gesso my canvases or panels with at least three coats of gesso before I paint with oils. So, I didn’t hunk I needed to coat with more gesso. It worked fine, but as you said, it is an experiment and only time will tell. I will be watching your videos from now on. I have subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Champaign, Illinois. Blessings and take care.
Hi Dan good information and demo. Glad you mentioned Frank Covino. I took a few workshops with him in 2014. I'll follow your method on my old oil canvas paintings. Hope I could get closer to your demo video session 303. Thanks for you dedications of teaching.
Hello. I know it’s been 4 years since this video post and this older gentleman may have passed away by now , however I have used Murphys Oil Soap with success removing dry oil paint. Need to let sit for awhile.
Acrylic Gesso does NOT need to glue to a tacky surface. If there's any oil paint in that tacky surface then that gesso will not bind well. Oil paint glues to the substrate but not acrylic. I doubt that tacky surface will help, but will make things worse.
I used a hand plane ... set the depth of cut to thin and it works ten minutes start to finish ...
I’ve only effed up one canvas and that was my fault not the plane ... was chipped
Really?? That's amazing!
Two words........Easy Off. Yep, oven cleaner. Works great without all the elbow grease. Try it........you'll like it. It immediately starts foaming as it
lifts "ALL" the paint. Then use a plastic putty knife to scoop/scrape off the residue. All that stuff you use is highly volatile and flammable.
Easy Off is safe enough to use in your "oven" in your "kitchen" and soap and water will give your canvas a final cleaning. SAFE, SAFE, SAFE!!!
Give it a try Dan........you'll like it, trust me. Oh yeah, almost forgot, one can of Easy Off will last a long time and it's got a nice fresh Lemmon
scent. There ya go.......a BETTER, SAFER, CHEAPER way. I've used this method many, many times. You'll like it. You'll never do it the old way
again.
Wow! Thanks for the tip. I am certainly going to try that!!
Wont the oven cleaner eat through canvas?
Alex Du Barry, nope, has never, ever happened and I've done it many, many, many times.
Three years later you won’t see this, but I must thank you, Rick, for adding immense value to the tutorial with an out of the box and safer solution. Anyone stumbling on my comment who has tried Easy Off, please share your thoughts. Unless one is a hobbyist who like the artist also enjoys detailed and tactile processes where time and cost effectiveness is not an issue, stripping with Easy Off oven cleaner sounds more user-friendly and with less risk than even reversing the canvas, which requires precision, the right tools, and know-how, to avoid tearing or shoddy outcomes especially if the oil paint is thickly textured, the canvass is not new, or was stretched by someone else with already rusting nails or staples.
@@musarimassakhi4845 hey! Just found your message, Musari--- Did you try the Easy Off method? Did it work for you? After Rick's comment, I rushed out and bought a couple different brands of Easy Off.... It didn't work at all. Didn't even soften the paint, even if I left it on overnight. Please let me know how you did it...
Hi Dan! I have several large (4 ft. x 5 ft.) gallery canvasses. They are covered with oil paint mixed with galkyd. Mainly done in dark colours.
I would like to cover them all with light-coloured oil paint. What would be the best way to rough-up the oil/galkyd surfaces so they would receive the new oil paint well? OR Can I paint overtop with oil paint straight from the tube without roughing up the base. Or could I mix my oil paint with a little solvent. And what solvent would you recommend? The canvasses are way too big to remove most of the product and start over with acrylic.
Thanks for the video. Suzanne
Dan, if the canvas has been painted with oil paint only and you don't mind painting on oil ground would you just sand the canvas and proceed with the oil ground? I noticed that you added marble to the gesso, why not add the marble to the oil ground to make it less slick. Also, unless you sand the oil ground it isn't that smooth. I use Gamblin Oil Ground.
I’m confused. You’ve stated removing and oil paint from canvas, but then it turned into removing acrylic paint. Which is it?
I love my paring knife. It's called recycling, good for you.
Thanks! In the comments, Rick suggested spraying the canvass with Easy Off oven cleaner as a cost effective and time-smart alternative to the tactile and detailed process demonstrated by the artist. Any community member who may have tried it, your feedback is appreciated. If it works it is the kind of tip that is timeless, and easier than the other very good idea, to reverse and gesso the canvass.
The unanswered question is this, while a kitchen cleaner is likely safer for humans than the chemical strippers used in this tutorial, is there risk of corroding the canvass with Easy Off?
(What about residue from Easy Off? If indeed Easy Off does thoroughly strip off oils without damaging fabric, then theoretically we could use heat to get rid of the residue, as we do when we turn on the oven or wipe a surface with a hot dishrag following treatment with Easy Off. If sufficiently stripped, the canvass could possibly be immediately hosed off with hot water--and perhaps the kind of all purpose kitchen cleaner that degreases your dishrags--and then sun dried? An old painting has already been subjected to wetting and drying and shouldn’t be prone to shrinkage, water should not be a problem. The question is, will the easy off do a good enough job to leave it sufficiently oil free? Doubtful but I wonder).
PLEASE NOTE: I tried an assortment of oven cleaning products, including Easy Off, after receiving this comment. It has NO effect whatsoever. Tried leaving it overnight... Nothing.
very informative. thanks
Dust Mask?? Is it necessary?
Is there any reason why you can't reverse the canvas on the frame then gesso over unpainted canvas?
I've thought that to. Seems like a good option to me as long as one gets a decent stretch.
What I have done before is to sand the painted canvas as much as you can. Clean the surface from all dust. Apply a couple of coats of gray, black or white oil paint. Let each layer dry before applying the next layer. Works very nice. If the canvas becomes loose, spay cold water on the back and use a hair dryer. You can repeat this process until the canvas is tight again. Hope this helps. Blessings and take care.
Ok, you talk of the hour of time you’d spent going to the store to buy a new canvas. Now tell me you spent less an hour stripping and resurfacing that canvas. Unless it was a very large expensive canvas, the trip to the art store would be the smart move. Just saying #
Very possible. I do weigh out such things. I usually do a number of canvasses at the same time, so it's slightly more efficient.
I thought you went for a run everyday.
renee jaspers more or less. Gotta stay in shape for painting! (After I'm over this cold, anyway!)
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