I‘ve seen a video a few months back where another cheap brand was performing very well during the painting process, but the painting went through a drastic hue change in under a week. Would be interesting to see how this brand performs on the long run
I've been painting with Marie's oil paints for couple fo years already as I'm a broke-ass art student. I have several paintings of two years that have NOT changed it's hue.
@@lanad.7643 Marie's 1919 or masters?? I have seen a lot of variety of them so I wonder which once. Perhaps you've also heard of Pebeo? Is that a good brand as well?
Well as a Chinese who had studied painting as a hobby in childhood, I would say it will probably change but not drastically. Actually Marie’s is widely used among general art fanciers and it’s recommended by teachers in art classes for beginners. It’s your perfect choice for huge amount of practicing work, as you can imagine all the art students do in daily life- and that’s exactly their target audience. The problem is, if you left the finished piece in direct sunlight or just leave it there for too long, colors fade out a little. Sometimes the foundation color could flip out to the top layer. It requires a spray of some chemical medium on the surface to keep it steady. Otherwise, it is just a very good choice.
this is why i hate those paint swatches you get at the store- they're always so covered in lamination or whatever kind of top coat that they use, and the light they're under is so bright, that it's almost impossible to tell sometimes what the color ACTUALLY looks like.
Just because it's from China doesn't mean it's bad quality. I bought paint brushes from a Chinese shop importing Chinese products. Those were the best brushes I ever bought... Even better than the expensive brushes in the art supply store. They were so cheap I bought 2 sets each of long handled brushes and short ones. Best decision I ever made. Those brushes are fantastic quality. Anyway as for paint, I can't afford expensive paint anyway. I use Windsor and Newton sets but I bought big cheap tubes of white paint. Paint is expensive and if I want to keep painting for pleasure it's going to be cheap paint on cheap canvas lol.
by purchasing stuff from temu ur wasting the money of postal services, its a whole scheme. it was intended to make postage free for developing nations but china managed to sneak in
I literally don't get the China thing tbh. Majority of things are made from China. From high end to bootleg (which can also just be rejected items or things made on the same production line)
this video is also a great reminder for me that the painting process is long amd slow and that's the way it wotks! i get frustrated when i feel like i cant bust out an artwork fast enough, but its supposed to take time an dedication snd thought. great video!
How does your channel not have way more subscribers. It's actually rare to have videos of traditional art broken down in this way, this cohesively and transparently, without cutting corners or editing to make it look like no effort was put in. Either that or just wordless time-lapses. I'm not a traditional artist but this video was incredibly helpful for my amateur drawing and even digital painting process.
When I was learning to paint, I was super broke so I just bought the very basics. I used to mix using only the primaries and it was the best teacher I had on color mixing. Now, I can mix any color pretty much on point
I do acrylics and find there's nothing wrong with many somewhat-cheaper paints. They're great for the background, for mixing (weaker tinting strength can be great when you're trying to subtly adjust something), or for glazing where, again, a higher transparency comes in handy. I've done entire canvases in cheaper paints just to prove I could, and they look wonderful--but may take several layers to finish. In many ways, the canvases show more subtle colors than the expensive paints due to layering effects.
@@BronzeDragon133do u use heavy bodied acrylic or like. thin bodied acrylics i guess? 😅 ive been using ceramcoat $2 paints and they've worked well for me but idk how big of a difference heavy body makes especially cuz of the price jump
@@michelle5952 Huge. HUGE DIFFERENCE. The $2 paints are awful. Heavy body paints (which I tend to use) can always be thinned with a bit of water, and are perfectly happy to be brushed flat. With artist grade colors, a very little goes a very long way. That $35 tube of cadmium red is enough for a dozen large canvases with a fair amount of red on them, whereas the $2 tube of red doesn't go far at all. Artist grade paints have much higher pigment to filler ratios, better acrylic bases, and usually far less water in them. Golden and Liquitex are the two top standards, but Sennelier is also wonderful and Winsor & Newton's professional grade is good as well. I'd suggest Liquitex to start; it tends to be more opaque whereas Golden uses a more transparent acrylic medium. You can mix and match, I have all of the above brands and more. You can replace your paints slowly; I did at first. Whatever color you use most, replace that first, then white.
A beautiful portrait copy. My first set of oils back in the 70s was made by Marie - it is fabulous to know they are still in production. They were priced right, and some of their colours were wonderful. I had no knowledge of what I was doing, as it was a hobby for me, so I could not assess materials nor techniques well at that time. Thanks for this.
Marie’s is a good brand unless you bought a fake one. I used Marie’s multiple times in the past and it came out with no difference than winsor newton. I’m a professional with MFA in painting.
I appreciate this info. ❤ I am a watercolor painter who is now learning oils. I've already spent a small fortune on my watercolor supplies. Hearing that there's a decent, moderately priced oil paint is great news.
The dictum is that we apply thick paint over thin paint ( that is, paint with more oil content on top of paint with less oil content) . Oily paint “dries” more slowly than paint that has less oil. If the oily paint is covered by a layer of thinner paint, the top layer will set first and the underneath layer will, as it sets, crack the top layer.
@@hiero-green I’m saying it for anyone who wants to understand the “rule” that thick,oily paint is laid on over thinned out paint and never the reverse.
Never saw your channel before. I saw the thumbnail and thought you were doing a self portrait. I liked the comparison you did between the types of paint, and the long discourse during the time lapse was intelligent. By the way, you are much more attractive than the guy in the portrait.
So, buy the Temu white, yellow ocher and red. But use an Ivory black made by a different company. Ivory Black has a bluish tinge to it. Lamp black does not
Your ability to conceptualize and mentalize art in a practical way is sooo helpful. Like when you were talking about stringing individual skills together to create a whole masterpiece. You seem very grounded and intellectual, which is rare for artist types. I love it thank you!
You are amazing, your understanding of the painting process and your ability to express it in a clear and understandable way tells me that you are a knowledgeable painter with a special gift. I enjoy listening to you and I thank for your knowledge. I think you are going to have a great career as well as becoming a great artist.
marie's is actually a decent brand in china ive used it quite a bit. it doesn't compare to the actual expensive stuff but for the most part good enough for high school
I am so pleased you appeared on RUclips. I am going to watch all your videos. The colour of your pink lipstick and gloss is incredibly similar to the original portrait you painted but in your painting you used darker tones with a matt finish. Fabulous portrait and interesting opinions on 19th century artist painting tecniques and glazing. To use such a limited pallete and using the cheap oil paints, as demonstrated, is a remarkable achievement. Thank you so much.
I am in the same boat... Lol. I buy one tube of good artist quality paint, manufactured in my own country, South Africa. The overseas art supplies are way to rich for me. I love to work in pastels as well but really had to put it down due prices being unaffordable for Rembrandt or Seneliers 😔
@@privatel_real- yet lightfastness is mostly a feature of pigment used in paint, rather than a feature of paint quality. Ultramarine will behave like ultramarine regardless of the quality of paint mix. Vibrancy will be affected as a cheap paint will have less pigment and more filler.
You explain really well, not too much or too little information and made it easy to understand and good use of camera angles. What I particularly like is that you bring in a different perspective than I have often encountered on RUclips, thereby broadening the intellectual horizons of you and the viewers. I also find it very interesting to get as much as possible out of as little as possible. That you looked for a brand that you have already had good experiences with is a great idea, in order to get art supplies cheaply with a bit of quality. It was also a good idea to buy a few colors that you like to use and larger tubes of 50ml instead of a set with 12ml and lots of colors that you don't need. I've also had the experience that cheap oil paints work surprisingly well. I've tried some that had way too much oil and too little pigment, but unlike other paints like acrylic or watercolor, that wasn't a problem. I simply used an old newspaper as a palette, it absorbed the excess oil. For the overlying layers where I normally add oil, I added new oily paint to my glass palette.
With these cheap oil paints, I'm more concerned that my pictures are hardly durable because cracks can form or they turn completely yellow, because of the linseed oil or other strange things happen. Well, I only use them for exercises where it's not that important whether they last. At least with these I can smell whether there are harmful volatile substances, such as solvents in them because solvents without smell are more expensive than those with one and are usually not used in cheap oil paints.
I have been doing an adjacent thing to your skill set for most of my life. Your videos are helping me as I start to get into digital painting. Poverty has a really good way of gate keeping oil paints as you demonstrated. Your videos are very helpful in reminding me of my fundamentals. As well as the core principles of the skill set I possess. It has made learning a new skill have the uncanny sensation of riding a bike lol
That cold open - lol, AWESOME! As for limiting one's palette, I absolutely agree! BUT, I think it's best done _after_ learning through experience how subtractive mixing works and fully understanding that requires understanding the split primary system (See Michael Wilcox's book, "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green, Revised Edition). Once you've got that down, definitely limit your palette, your way. Remember! Without knowledge, we are without choices. Knowledge beats ignorance every day of the week.
I’m watching this (with the sound off) while writing and the glare on the card had me very confused. I appreciate you tilting it to show us you were, in fact, spot on; And it’s just lighting playing its sick trickery again.
caricaturists always amazed me because in a few lines they capture likeness, sometimes even without any value. I try and remind myself to think like them when I am trying to paint like the masters. I also paint directly, just found this channel. awesome content wow.
You've got skills, and I appreciate the way that you explained your processes and why you do what you do. Also really appreciate the discussion about Sargent. He would just keep scraping away his efforts until he got into perfect flow and nailed it all at once in direct ala prima painting. A true master! Thanks for your video!
I feel like your copy was missing a bunch of the very bright/contrast highlighting especially in the eye area. That being said you did a pretty good job and you are clearly a gifted artist and seem to know what you're talking about. You have earned my sub and I hope to see many more videos from you.
I had some acrylic paint called Marie, it's been sitting in my mother's attick since I moved out, but last year my niece wanted to paint and I found it and to my surprise the paint was still good even though it had been through a lot of temperature changes from freezing cold to boiling hot. I also had some oil paint that I got from my grandmother when I was a out 15, it was Windsor and Newton brand, but some of the paints was hard as a rock. My niece had also got a set of fairly expensive acrylic paint, never heard of the brand before, but it was supposed to be artist quality, but it actually was not as good as Marie's acrylic paint from 20+ years ago. My. iece still uses both, but she for some reason mix it with water like watercolor, but she's actually just 8 years old. I was told by my grandmother that artist quality was what I should go for, but it was probably because someone told her that quality is pricey, she also believed that pictures don't lie, she would have been 100 last year if she had been alive now. I think it's kind of true for something but not as much as we think as the paint from china probably is made in the same factory as the famous brands. It's like with cars, they use the same parts but just put different names on it if it goes into a Volvo or a Porsche. It's not the same now as it used to be.
"I don't want to just slap it down anywhere and then realize it's horribly composed when we paint" I've never felt so called out in my life. I say *good day* to you, sir.
I am a painter wanna be. I have wanted to be a painter since a child looking at Dutch Masters work. Yep. I am now 70+ and have a few bux to spare from time to time and time to paint. I crank out work that looks like a 4th or 5th grader has done, but, I learn from each painting. I bought paints from Temu and they have been OK. Granted, you don't know what you don't know. They are OK for me but maybe not for a good artist. JakeDontDraw, I subscribed after watching the vid on the plumb. It made sense to me.
Newer used Marie's paints, but I have their 5.6mm lead holder. It came with a box of 4B graphite leads, and both pencil and leads were of pretty nice quality.
That's a portrait of Prince Imperial Louis-Napoléon, son of Napoléon III, by Jules Lefebvre in 1875. He died soon after, in 1879, serving with British forces, he was killed in a skirmish with a group of Zulus.
I did Chinese painting lessons for two years with Marie’s Chinese art mineral paints. It’s actually a really standup cheap brand! Perfectly decent one at that. Possibly helped by how all Chinese paints are supposed to be mineral mixes, so they don’t dare cut it much. Just don’t buy it from Temu, if possible.
Cheap oil paints are also usually a little more expensive in individual tubes than the cheapest acrylic paints, because the oils are probably much more expensive than the polymers for acrylic paints, which also have to be mixed with water, it makes acrylic paints even cheaper. I still feel like I spend less money on oil paints because they don't dry out on the palette and I don't need additional stuff to make them workable. They handle well and in a similar way to higher quality ones. I had often tried really bad Acrylic paints, ones that weren't that cheap like 2-4€ for 100ml like good student quality ones from the art shop. Very liquid, barely pigmented, totally matt or way too shiny when dried, are cracking, sticky after drying or smelled very badly. I'm sure is it quite harmful to health. As a result, I spent a lot more on cheap acrylic paints to find good, very cheap ones than I did on oil paints and they also take up a lot more space. But I have different good money-saving tricks for oil paints than for acrylic paints. Like cheap linseed oil varnish which cost about a third less in the art shop, than normal linseed oil. Standing in a jar in the sun for two days, it has completely yellowed and become reddish. I only use it for colors that are not noticeable or to change colour. Painting medium made of chalk and linseed oil and put it in a tube to stretch my paint. Add a little doesn't make the colours milky and increases the transparency. The chalk ensures that it oxidizes faster and improves durability. However, it make the paint less flexible and lead to cracks if its made of whiter stone chalk like in my case. But I mostly paint exercises as a beginner with oil paint and it doesn't matter.
Can you do a long video like this of prepping a surface? Oil paints make the serotonin go brrrrr but HOW do I make the smooth canvas. And tbh I love your formatting and really like how you explain why / how. Really looking forward to more content.
I was limited to buy Marie's, good practice paint to start with. Investing in buying higher quality paint one tube at a time. One day I will upgrade to Windsor and Newton 😊
Temu now has Ivory Black and Mars Black. Another option is to add Prussian Blue or Cobalt Blue to the palette -- both of which would add range to the gamut. Yet both are also mellower than Ultramarine Blue, which has a tendency to overpower other colors.
I am so sorry for bothering you, but I would love to see a full time lapse from your painting, there are some bits I don't really get how to do when I am painting and I would be really grateful if you show me how you do it. Amazing channel btw, I am watching all your videos while I paint and draw and I will keep doing it, you inspire me a lot ❤
I wish I could give you more than just one Like. Thanks for the video, I love your style. Beauty. And, BTW, it´s being a long time since I hear a painter say "the Zorn palette is much older than Zorn´s.." yes, yes, yes, Zorn did not invented it. What about Velazquez and many others!?? Blue was more expensive than gold. They needed a shortcut. Many painters painted themselves while and their palette shows up in the final picture. You can see the colors there. Way before Zorn. However, Zorn probably put so much effort into it that gosh he mastered it in a way that is hard to mimic. This only colors go back to the Apelles Cave found in Roman ruins of Pompei, if I am not wrong.
I have used Mary’s long time ago from Jerry’s . I liked it it took me some time to realize that was made in China. Also bought 2 sets of Acrylics. I loved the variation’s of the acrylic colors that was better than Newton and Windsor Acrylic set. The fact is if you a beginner, I thinks Mary’s is better because psychologically you take more risks and are more creative if you haven’t spent a lot of money on a paint.
1:26 tbh, I get this, but as someone who is currently learning skin tones, I prefer t9 use all the colours, as I get green and blue, which are soooo useful for getting skin tones right in specific places. But I will do paintings with limited palettes, it would be pretty helpful for colour theory and a bit for composition
I watched this a few days ago and I am so tempted to buy some. I think I will pass on the Lamp Black and get Ultramarine Blue and use my white. I always go down the art supply rabbit hole. I enjoy your videos
Another painting of one of your doppelgangers.
This is so true lol
Literally was like, that him
so glad i wasn't the only one that thought this lol.
I thought that was him 😅
I‘ve seen a video a few months back where another cheap brand was performing very well during the painting process, but the painting went through a drastic hue change in under a week. Would be interesting to see how this brand performs on the long run
I will pin a comment if anything changes!
I've been painting with Marie's oil paints for couple fo years already as I'm a broke-ass art student. I have several paintings of two years that have NOT changed it's hue.
@@lanad.7643 Marie's 1919 or masters?? I have seen a lot of variety of them so I wonder which once.
Perhaps you've also heard of Pebeo? Is that a good brand as well?
@@lanad.7643试试马利艺术家系列，仍然很便宜，但比普通马利好很多
Well as a Chinese who had studied painting as a hobby in childhood, I would say it will probably change but not drastically. Actually Marie’s is widely used among general art fanciers and it’s recommended by teachers in art classes for beginners. It’s your perfect choice for huge amount of practicing work, as you can imagine all the art students do in daily life- and that’s exactly their target audience. The problem is, if you left the finished piece in direct sunlight or just leave it there for too long, colors fade out a little. Sometimes the foundation color could flip out to the top layer. It requires a spray of some chemical medium on the surface to keep it steady. Otherwise, it is just a very good choice.
8:03 the whole time before I realized how much glare there was I was like “that looks nothing like the color” 😭
same, I thought he was doing a "close enough" type thing
I feel like he's just not good at colour mixing
@@freyag8388no he’s fine, it’s just a lot of glare so the colour looks different
this is why i hate those paint swatches you get at the store- they're always so covered in lamination or whatever kind of top coat that they use, and the light they're under is so bright, that it's almost impossible to tell sometimes what the color ACTUALLY looks like.
why's bro so majestic
was about to say the same thing
honestly
No fr it hurts my brain
Fr
1:11 Respectfully, he’s beautiful
Just because it's from China doesn't mean it's bad quality. I bought paint brushes from a Chinese shop importing Chinese products. Those were the best brushes I ever bought... Even better than the expensive brushes in the art supply store. They were so cheap I bought 2 sets each of long handled brushes and short ones. Best decision I ever made. Those brushes are fantastic quality. Anyway as for paint, I can't afford expensive paint anyway. I use Windsor and Newton sets but I bought big cheap tubes of white paint. Paint is expensive and if I want to keep painting for pleasure it's going to be cheap paint on cheap canvas lol.
Best Watercolor painting brushes are from China. They have thousands years of traditional paintings
by purchasing stuff from temu ur wasting the money of postal services, its a whole scheme. it was intended to make postage free for developing nations but china managed to sneak in
I literally don't get the China thing tbh.
Majority of things are made from China. From high end to bootleg (which can also just be rejected items or things made on the same production line)
@@htsunmikumy suspicion is more from the nature of shops like TEMU as like "everything stores" rather then where they're based.
@@htsunmikuit’s just American propaganda in the end 😅 “china scary not trustworthy” (except for everything we create and slap a label on)
this video is also a great reminder for me that the painting process is long amd slow and that's the way it wotks! i get frustrated when i feel like i cant bust out an artwork fast enough, but its supposed to take time an dedication snd thought. great video!
Work on multiple canvases at once, that way you’re never waiting never bored and always stimulated
Okay next find the most expensive worst art supplies thanks.
😂
Alr
I'm him in another account btw
😂😂😂😂
Gotta be the Dior colored pencils
How does your channel not have way more subscribers. It's actually rare to have videos of traditional art broken down in this way, this cohesively and transparently, without cutting corners or editing to make it look like no effort was put in. Either that or just wordless time-lapses. I'm not a traditional artist but this video was incredibly helpful for my amateur drawing and even digital painting process.
Right??? I literally found his channel yesterday and I'm so happy I did
It's enough.
When I was learning to paint, I was super broke so I just bought the very basics. I used to mix using only the primaries and it was the best teacher I had on color mixing. Now, I can mix any color pretty much on point
I love experimenting with the cheap supplies, and save the expensive stuff for commissions
FR practice or master studies with cheaper paints
@@Di-ProdigyFranklin Roosevelt?
I do acrylics and find there's nothing wrong with many somewhat-cheaper paints. They're great for the background, for mixing (weaker tinting strength can be great when you're trying to subtly adjust something), or for glazing where, again, a higher transparency comes in handy.
I've done entire canvases in cheaper paints just to prove I could, and they look wonderful--but may take several layers to finish. In many ways, the canvases show more subtle colors than the expensive paints due to layering effects.
@@BronzeDragon133do u use heavy bodied acrylic or like. thin bodied acrylics i guess? 😅 ive been using ceramcoat $2 paints and they've worked well for me but idk how big of a difference heavy body makes especially cuz of the price jump
@@michelle5952 Huge. HUGE DIFFERENCE. The $2 paints are awful.
Heavy body paints (which I tend to use) can always be thinned with a bit of water, and are perfectly happy to be brushed flat.
With artist grade colors, a very little goes a very long way. That $35 tube of cadmium red is enough for a dozen large canvases with a fair amount of red on them, whereas the $2 tube of red doesn't go far at all. Artist grade paints have much higher pigment to filler ratios, better acrylic bases, and usually far less water in them.
Golden and Liquitex are the two top standards, but Sennelier is also wonderful and Winsor & Newton's professional grade is good as well. I'd suggest Liquitex to start; it tends to be more opaque whereas Golden uses a more transparent acrylic medium. You can mix and match, I have all of the above brands and more.
You can replace your paints slowly; I did at first. Whatever color you use most, replace that first, then white.
A beautiful portrait copy. My first set of oils back in the 70s was made by Marie - it is fabulous to know they are still in production. They were priced right, and some of their colours were wonderful. I had no knowledge of what I was doing, as it was a hobby for me, so I could not assess materials nor techniques well at that time. Thanks for this.
I remember Marie's being one of the preferred brands in the PH when I was in art school. We loved this brand :)
I enjoy both your painting, and your handsoming...
how very gay...
@@jnorth1000 Indeed...
@@jnorth1000 raghhh!! a man calling another man handsome!! how gay!
Marie’s is a good brand unless you bought a fake one. I used Marie’s multiple times in the past and it came out with no difference than winsor newton. I’m a professional with MFA in painting.
True. They've been around over a 100 years. Their products are quite good.
I appreciate this info. ❤ I am a watercolor painter who is now learning oils. I've already spent a small fortune on my watercolor supplies. Hearing that there's a decent, moderately priced oil paint is great news.
Bro looks like he's feeling nice. Edibles? Vape? Flower? Lmprao
The dictum is that we apply thick paint over thin paint ( that is, paint with more oil content on top of paint with less oil content) .
Oily paint “dries” more slowly than paint that has less oil.
If the oily paint is covered by a layer of thinner paint, the top layer will set first and the underneath layer will, as it sets, crack the top layer.
Who are you saying this for? The guy making the video?
@@hiero-green
I’m saying it for anyone who wants to understand the “rule” that thick,oily paint is laid on over thinned out paint and never the reverse.
@@hiero-green 17:11
I think you might of painted a self portrait! Done that before on accident lol
“….might HAVE painted…”
Never saw your channel before. I saw the thumbnail and thought you were doing a self portrait. I liked the comparison you did between the types of paint, and the long discourse during the time lapse was intelligent. By the way, you are much more attractive than the guy in the portrait.
Why did u do the guy in the painting like that ... What did he do
what did the guy in the painting ever do to you 😭😭 he’s such a cutie pie
Nauuurrr 😭
For a second I thought I left my game on while watching this video but turned out to be the background music in your video! 😂
So, buy the Temu white, yellow ocher and red.
But use an Ivory black made by a different company.
Ivory Black has a bluish tinge to it.
Lamp black does not
I think ivory black is actually a very dark blue
@@LittleMew133 To my eye, there's the tiniest twitch of brown-blue in it.
It actually has green try mixing it with some yellow and it will give you green:) something close to olive green
@@shahlafoad9040
If ivory black has blue in it, adding yellow will make an olive green.
Your ability to conceptualize and mentalize art in a practical way is sooo helpful. Like when you were talking about stringing individual skills together to create a whole masterpiece. You seem very grounded and intellectual, which is rare for artist types. I love it thank you!
You are amazing, your understanding of the painting process and your ability to express it in a clear and understandable way tells me that you are a knowledgeable painter with a special gift. I enjoy listening to you and I thank for your knowledge. I think you are going to have a great career as well as becoming a great artist.
Please let me know what you're smoking it looks like its working
EXACTLY! Noticed it from the get go
Probably just the fumes from the oil paints tbh lol
His eyes are so low hahaha
marie's is actually a decent brand in china ive used it quite a bit. it doesn't compare to the actual expensive stuff but for the most part good enough for high school
I am so pleased you appeared on RUclips. I am going to watch all your videos. The colour of your pink lipstick and gloss is incredibly similar to the original portrait you painted but in your painting you used darker tones with a matt finish. Fabulous portrait and interesting opinions on 19th century artist painting tecniques and glazing. To use such a limited pallete and using the cheap oil paints, as demonstrated, is a remarkable achievement. Thank you so much.
Beautiful man mixing colors with stardew valley music in the background? Sign me up
my teacher always said, it's not in the brand or $$$ of materials, it's in your techniques and fundamentals.
Just realized how poor I actually am, cuz the Maries Brand is considered expensive in my country
I am in the same boat... Lol. I buy one tube of good artist quality paint, manufactured in my own country, South Africa. The overseas art supplies are way to rich for me. I love to work in pastels as well but really had to put it down due prices being unaffordable for Rembrandt or Seneliers 😔
Guys take oil paints for walls or metal,much cheaper and way bigger quantinty
Enamel paints
It’s your talent and skill. I’m simply gobsmacked by what you do so effortlessly.
I would love for you to do a self portrait in the style of this painting. You are that handsome.
And you are that gay.
@@jnorth1000 calling another man 'handsome' isn't gay
@@jnorth1000why do you care so much you also commented this on a different comment 😭 who gives af they’re just giving a compliment
@@jennatuls I don't care, it was just a comment . Why tf do YOU care about it?
@@jennatuls You must be gay too.
I loved the topics you discussed. From you don't need really expensive materials to how Sargent approached his portraits. Great job!
the only thing i question about cheaper paints is lightfastness.
Same.
i’ve used cheap paints before, and in my experience the hues change so much when they fully dry
@@privatel_real- yet lightfastness is mostly a feature of pigment used in paint, rather than a feature of paint quality. Ultramarine will behave like ultramarine regardless of the quality of paint mix. Vibrancy will be affected as a cheap paint will have less pigment and more filler.
“…limitation is the mother of creativity…”
Absolutely!!!! I live it
Thank God you finished that ear! I couldn’t stop staring at it 😂
watching it come together and the reveal in the end makes me want to start painting and learning how to do this stuff!! amazing
You explain really well, not too much or too little information and made it easy to understand and good use of camera angles.
What I particularly like is that you bring in a different perspective than I have often encountered on RUclips,
thereby broadening the intellectual horizons of you and the viewers.
I also find it very interesting to get as much as possible out of as little as possible.
That you looked for a brand that you have already had good experiences with is a great idea, in order to get art supplies cheaply with a bit of quality.
It was also a good idea to buy a few colors that you like to use and larger tubes of 50ml instead of a set with 12ml and lots of colors that you don't need.
I've also had the experience that cheap oil paints work surprisingly well.
I've tried some that had way too much oil and too little pigment, but unlike other paints like acrylic or watercolor, that wasn't a problem.
I simply used an old newspaper as a palette, it absorbed the excess oil.
For the overlying layers where I normally add oil, I added new oily paint to my glass palette.
With these cheap oil paints, I'm more concerned that my pictures are hardly durable because cracks can form or they turn completely yellow,
because of the linseed oil or other strange things happen.
Well, I only use them for exercises where it's not that important whether they last.
At least with these I can smell whether there are harmful volatile substances,
such as solvents in them because solvents without smell are more expensive than those with one and are usually not used in cheap oil paints.
I have been doing an adjacent thing to your skill set for most of my life. Your videos are helping me as I start to get into digital painting. Poverty has a really good way of gate keeping oil paints as you demonstrated. Your videos are very helpful in reminding me of my fundamentals. As well as the core principles of the skill set I possess. It has made learning a new skill have the uncanny sensation of riding a bike lol
That cold open - lol, AWESOME!
As for limiting one's palette, I absolutely agree! BUT, I think it's best done _after_ learning through experience how subtractive mixing works and fully understanding that requires understanding the split primary system (See Michael Wilcox's book, "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green, Revised Edition). Once you've got that down, definitely limit your palette, your way. Remember! Without knowledge, we are without choices. Knowledge beats ignorance every day of the week.
Yes, Wilcox's book is very good!
I’m watching this (with the sound off) while writing and the glare on the card had me very confused. I appreciate you tilting it to show us you were, in fact, spot on; And it’s just lighting playing its sick trickery again.
You are one heck of a teacher, paint pusher.👍
Love the Stardew music in the back
there was also hotline miami and skyrim i went insane
@@Nothearerunescape as well
Man knows his audience
caricaturists always amazed me because in a few lines they capture likeness, sometimes even without any value. I try and remind myself to think like them when I am trying to paint like the masters. I also paint directly, just found this channel. awesome content wow.
You've got skills, and I appreciate the way that you explained your processes and why you do what you do. Also really appreciate the discussion about Sargent. He would just keep scraping away his efforts until he got into perfect flow and nailed it all at once in direct ala prima painting. A true master! Thanks for your video!
Dude your whole channel is absolutely goated! The way you explain stuff is so entertaining and informing.
Fascinating to watch and listen to your process.
I feel like your copy was missing a bunch of the very bright/contrast highlighting especially in the eye area. That being said you did a pretty good job and you are clearly a gifted artist and seem to know what you're talking about. You have earned my sub and I hope to see many more videos from you.
The fact that he used stardew music and then didnt paint himself as harvey was such a missed opportunity
Cool! Definitely encourages me to try at some point and not let materials stop me
I had some acrylic paint called Marie, it's been sitting in my mother's attick since I moved out, but last year my niece wanted to paint and I found it and to my surprise the paint was still good even though it had been through a lot of temperature changes from freezing cold to boiling hot. I also had some oil paint that I got from my grandmother when I was a out 15, it was Windsor and Newton brand, but some of the paints was hard as a rock. My niece had also got a set of fairly expensive acrylic paint, never heard of the brand before, but it was supposed to be artist quality, but it actually was not as good as Marie's acrylic paint from 20+ years ago. My. iece still uses both, but she for some reason mix it with water like watercolor, but she's actually just 8 years old. I was told by my grandmother that artist quality was what I should go for, but it was probably because someone told her that quality is pricey, she also believed that pictures don't lie, she would have been 100 last year if she had been alive now. I think it's kind of true for something but not as much as we think as the paint from china probably is made in the same factory as the famous brands. It's like with cars, they use the same parts but just put different names on it if it goes into a Volvo or a Porsche. It's not the same now as it used to be.
"I don't want to just slap it down anywhere and then realize it's horribly composed when we paint"
I've never felt so called out in my life. I say *good day* to you, sir.
Wow, you're the best thing on youtube right now. Love the music love the content .😊
What an orator! Really interesting commentary and narration - I'm subbed!
I am a painter wanna be. I have wanted to be a painter since a child looking at Dutch Masters work. Yep. I am now 70+ and have a few bux to spare from time to time and time to paint. I crank out work that looks like a 4th or 5th grader has done, but, I learn from each painting. I bought paints from Temu and they have been OK. Granted, you don't know what you don't know. They are OK for me but maybe not for a good artist. JakeDontDraw, I subscribed after watching the vid on the plumb. It made sense to me.
Newer used Marie's paints, but I have their 5.6mm lead holder. It came with a box of 4B graphite leads, and both pencil and leads were of pretty nice quality.
Just bought 8 tubes of paint today (6 acrylic, 2 oil), so it’s funny seeing this in my recommended now. Luckily for me the paints were on sale wooo
That's a portrait of Prince Imperial Louis-Napoléon, son of Napoléon III, by Jules Lefebvre in 1875. He died soon after, in 1879, serving with British forces, he was killed in a skirmish with a group of Zulus.
I did Chinese painting lessons for two years with Marie’s Chinese art mineral paints. It’s actually a really standup cheap brand! Perfectly decent one at that. Possibly helped by how all Chinese paints are supposed to be mineral mixes, so they don’t dare cut it much. Just don’t buy it from Temu, if possible.
Cheap oil paints are also usually a little more expensive in individual tubes than the cheapest acrylic paints,
because the oils are probably much more expensive than the polymers for acrylic paints,
which also have to be mixed with water, it makes acrylic paints even cheaper.
I still feel like I spend less money on oil paints because they don't dry out on the palette and I don't need additional stuff to make them workable.
They handle well and in a similar way to higher quality ones.
I had often tried really bad Acrylic paints, ones that weren't that cheap like 2-4€ for 100ml like good student quality ones from the art shop.
Very liquid, barely pigmented, totally matt or way too shiny when dried, are cracking, sticky after drying or smelled very badly.
I'm sure is it quite harmful to health.
As a result, I spent a lot more on cheap acrylic paints to find good, very cheap ones than I did on oil paints and they also take up a lot more space.
But I have different good money-saving tricks for oil paints than for acrylic paints.
Like cheap linseed oil varnish which cost about a third less in the art shop, than normal linseed oil.
Standing in a jar in the sun for two days, it has completely yellowed and become reddish.
I only use it for colors that are not noticeable or to change colour.
Painting medium made of chalk and linseed oil and put it in a tube to stretch my paint.
Add a little doesn't make the colours milky and increases the transparency.
The chalk ensures that it oxidizes faster and improves durability.
However, it make the paint less flexible and lead to cracks if its made of whiter stone chalk like in my case.
But I mostly paint exercises as a beginner with oil paint and it doesn't matter.
Can you try to paint out of those huge mixed media kit that grandma gives you for Christmas when they find out you like art
Can you do a long video like this of prepping a surface? Oil paints make the serotonin go brrrrr but HOW do I make the smooth canvas.
And tbh I love your formatting and really like how you explain why / how. Really looking forward to more content.
Ooooookay that was a fabulous video I want to paint now •_•
I was limited to buy Marie's, good practice paint to start with. Investing in buying higher quality paint one tube at a time. One day I will upgrade to Windsor and Newton 😊
Dude I would love to see that video idea, and you did a great job of that painting!
Temu now has Ivory Black and Mars Black. Another option is to add Prussian Blue or Cobalt Blue to the palette -- both of which would add range to the gamut. Yet both are also mellower than Ultramarine Blue, which has a tendency to overpower other colors.
I really enjoy Marie’s watercolor. I’m trying her gouache. Now I’ll go get some oil paint to try.
I should add it’s for mixed media work. Nothing like what you’re creating.
Limitation is the mother of creativity. So true.
Nice self portrait :)
Amazing video love watching you create art keep up the great work
OMG THE STARDEW VALLEY SOUND TRACK ❤❤
I've never painted, but I really enjoyed watching this.
I’d love seeing you make that side by side comparison. 💕❤️💕
My buddy had a tube of mystery black that he got from someone when he bought a random assortment of paints. I think you solved the mystery! 😂
From the thumbnail, i thought you did your self-portrait 😅😂
immediately liked and subscribed bc that intro was too good lol
The stardew valley music in the background is great
Stardew valley music in the background? Cool, it’s my favorite game 😁
Fascinating to watch you work. Wonderful eyes in that portrait. Thank you.
keep posting bro your gonna blow up
Brilliant!! I loved watching your process and hearing your thoughts. I am binge watching all your videos 😂
Me: trying to enjoy the painting
Jake:🗣
you’re so pretty
Love the smell of the factory❤❤
The Stardew music took me by surprise :D
I am so sorry for bothering you, but I would love to see a full time lapse from your painting, there are some bits I don't really get how to do when I am painting and I would be really grateful if you show me how you do it.
Amazing channel btw, I am watching all your videos while I paint and draw and I will keep doing it, you inspire me a lot ❤
I wish I could give you more than just one Like. Thanks for the video, I love your style. Beauty. And, BTW, it´s being a long time since I hear a painter say "the Zorn palette is much older than Zorn´s.." yes, yes, yes, Zorn did not invented it. What about Velazquez and many others!?? Blue was more expensive than gold. They needed a shortcut. Many painters painted themselves while and their palette shows up in the final picture. You can see the colors there. Way before Zorn. However, Zorn probably put so much effort into it that gosh he mastered it in a way that is hard to mimic. This only colors go back to the Apelles Cave found in Roman ruins of Pompei, if I am not wrong.
Stardew valley and old school RuneScape music? Great choices!
I have used Mary’s long time ago from Jerry’s . I liked it it took me some time to realize that was made in China. Also bought 2 sets of Acrylics. I loved the variation’s of the acrylic colors that was better than Newton and Windsor Acrylic set. The fact is if you a beginner, I thinks Mary’s is better because psychologically you take more risks and are more creative if you haven’t spent a lot of money on a paint.
Commenting because you deserve to make money from this channel. Subscribed because you are a great teacher and clearly love your art.
1:26 tbh, I get this, but as someone who is currently learning skin tones, I prefer t9 use all the colours, as I get green and blue, which are soooo useful for getting skin tones right in specific places.
But I will do paintings with limited palettes, it would be pretty helpful for colour theory and a bit for composition
I was completely flabbergasted when I realized this was not a self-portrait. Looks just like you. Doppelganger from the past 😂
Finally a RUclipsr I can binge
Ha! I first thought this was a self portrait.
The fact that you used stardew valley music made me love your channel even more ❤ suscribed
That Skryim theme music is just 🤌
nice self portrait. didn't realise you were that old.
I used this brand throughout my whole childhood. It’s cheap for its quality and good alternative for practicing
I watched this a few days ago and I am so tempted to buy some. I think I will pass on the Lamp Black and get Ultramarine Blue and use my white. I always go down the art supply rabbit hole. I enjoy your videos
I did purchase some hog hair bristle brushes a few months ago on Temu. A set of long handled brushes for $7.95. They were really great.
Loving the osrs background music
awesome video. Would definitely watch an expensive vs cheap video!
Fascinating! Subscribed and liked. 😊😊
I would Love to see an old sketchbook of yours