Happy painting everyone, I hope you find this helpful... and don’t forget to support us on Patreon so I can keep making videos and you can continue to listen to my ramblings 😁
Alpay Efe Hast du Tipps für das Verkaufen eigener Bilder? Wie sieht es aus mit einer Gewerbeanmeldung wenn man einen eigenen Online-Shop hat oder auf einer Plattform verkauft? Ich denke mal so etwas braucht man in Deutschland 🤔
Alpay Efe I just found this video and I love it! I’ve been painting with soft pastels for just over a year and have really wanted to get into oil painting, but I live in a small flat and I’d convinced myself that I need to do so much preparation and know all about solvents etc and kept putting it off. Your laid back description and he fact you’ve pointed out that so much of it is unnecessary there are no rules and to just have a go once you have all the basic materials has made me want to get started straight away. Thank you 🙏 the painting in the video is great too.
I generally prefer the method where light and shadow are used to give the form to the painting. In which case the natural shape of the object dictates the result, instead of the reference material.
I'd say my biggest struggle with painting is selecting the accurate colors to make the skin look realistic. Shades are fine, proportions are fine, lineart too, but for some reason those damn colors make me lose my mind everytime 😂😅
Just don't care. Colors are subjective. BTW if you really want realistic caucasic skin tones the secret is in the little quantity of other pigments you put in the white. Just take a lot of titanium white and put a tip of your brush in cad red or pyrrole red (the second one need a little bit more) a tip in yellow ochre and a tip just a little tip in ultramarine blue. For other skins you have to play with only with burn sienna and umber plus blue for the highlights for the black people and limit avoid the red and put more yellow ochre for the Asians.
One tip i found really helpful is to focus more on the cold/warm temperature of the color you are trying to select (that the right 'tube' persay) If you need a peachy tone for a nose tip is it warmer or cooler than the bridge of the nose? And work my way around like that adjusting the palette colour with each section
I agree with @Jun Alice. Try the Zorn palette (yellow ocre, cadmiun red light, titanium white, ivory black). With that color selection you can mix any skin tone with surprising accuracy. The limited palette helps you to keep the mixtures simple and get the color you want quickly.
I remember struggling so hard with exactly this. I wanted to start oil painting so bad but all these solvents and what not confused the hell out of me. Man where was this video when I just started lol. I'm sure this will help a lot of beginners a lot
Me too... It’s defs can still be confusing once u get into it. The info in this video was so great for beginners tho!!! but I think once u get into it experimenting with different solvents can actually become quite fun 😄
Thank god! someone who is down to earth about oils! I'm in an advanced art class in my school, and they preach that art has to be perfect, your videos are truly the idea I'm trying to tell my classmates!!!!
You are brutally honest and many artist would hate you for this. You make processes so simple and this is how it should be. Why to make things so complicated, lets play around the way we want, lets experiment, lets create our own rules and than only we can get what we are looking from a painting. Huge respect man. Love your work too. Will never miss a video from you.
I absolutely love your heartfelt advise. It actually inspired me to lose my fear of lack of perfection and to just paint and enjoy the process! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I very recently got obsessed with oil painting, I have been spending hours on YT and I am waiting for my starter kit to arrive. Bumped into you in the meantime. I love how you preach for doing art and not following a protocol. Art is not a protocol. Art is freedom. I've lost count of how many times I cringed whenever I was hearing someone say "you must do this! it's the "foundation"!". Why would I? Who are you to define art? Who are you to define my "painting" as not being art just because I didn't do fat over lean or used a projector? Just like you said in some other random video, there has to be common sense... I should try and eat paint... But no "foundation" should stop me from trying whatever I want to try. I am grateful for someone putting my thoughts into words. Much love.
I like your paintings A LOT ( theare is no words to describe what I feel when I am looking your clips.Maybe hope is the right word).I guess you will never see that comment because that video is 3 years in the back :D but it doesn't matters for me.The thing that i admire and like most at you is what you are saying and your point of view.I hope i find a mentor like you one day.And for you i hope you live long and happy life (not existing).Thank you .
You changed my life from thing complicated, simplified things to let go of the unnecessary things that really ain’t necessary, really extra. Thank you so much ☺️
I paint with acrylics, and have wanted to start painting with oils for a long time now, but scared to death to starting! All I hear about are fumes, some fires, "You HAVE to start THIS way or you will ruin your painting right from the start" and a conflicting, "You absolutely NEED to do THAT (opposite) or you're ham-stringing the whole thing and just won't be successful in your efforts." I have a number of tubes of oil paint, a bottle of Gamsol, Liquin, every one of them purchased with the question, "WHEN am I EVER gonna actually start?" I REALLY needed to watch this video - thank you so much!
My first oil paintings were still life subjects. And I would practice painting plants, the living room and even kitchen tools. The seemingly mundane things are some of the best subjects to practice on.
Hi There, I am a writer and nowadays I observed myself inclining towards painting on weekends, by saying that I mean painting now became one of my hobbies to enjoy so I thought to self learn how to do it, I have subscribed and watched thousands of youtube videos but this one I found most logical and truthful so i would like to thank you and would like to bless you for your youtube channel thanks a lot
I love to paint in my free time without any pressure, so for that, I normally avoid seeing videos of "artist teaching" because they're always putting many rules, or they normally love to make feel the others like trash!... But I'm glad that I click this video! You're saying VERY useful things with the best attitude! Thank you for being different :)
This is a really good video and shows how you don't need much to make art, the basics are more than enough. I'd also like to add some points that I feel are really important when it comes to oil painting: I would like to add that when it comes to oil paints, use a palette knife to mix paint and not a brush, the paint gets stuck in bristles and damages and deteriorates the quality of the brush over time. Palette knives can also be used to paint directly and give a unique look and texture. If you use solvents like turpentine, mineral spirits, etc. DO NOT dump them down the sink, it's very harmful to aquatic life and the environment. I always use small amounts of mineral spirits and let it evaporate (keep windows open when using solvents) or research and find out if you could take it somewhere to properly dispose of it. Additionally, if you use paper towels or rags to wipe your brush and stuff on, please do not leave it out, it can potentially catch on fire. Soak paper towels and then dispose of them properly. Soak and clean rags. NEVER leave that stuff lying around after painting because some mediums and solvents can catch on fire with prolonged exposure to the air when on a flammable surface.
What I love about your work is at its most basic it’s excellent! And when you finish, it’s as if you could continue on for another hour and it would still be great
What puts me off oils is the brush cleaning part, though also not having much space the long drying time is also offputting... but watching this makes me itch to try regardless!
I'd like to recommend Mark Carder's video "How to Match any color with oil paint" hopefully Alpay efe doesn't mind the video shout-out. It's a good video to Learn how to mix and match colors using a limited color palette.
I lost a lot of time and money and ruined a lot of brushes (with his suggestion of not cleaning brushes) at the beginning following carder suggestions. He's really not a good teacher imo. His limited palette is really wrong for a series of reasons and lacks of explanation of so much basic and fundamental things like transparency and temperature. Watch alex tzavaras instead.
@@squarz really? I think he is a great teacher maybe you didn't use the brush dip sold by his company Geneva Fine art? I personally Love and use all of his his oil paints, canvas stain and brush dip. Were you not able to match a certain color using his method?
@@misaelortega653 you need to clean your brushes unless you want really muddy colors, and you will accumulate oxidation in brushes. I don't really know how he can paint dark tones without black and with a brush full of titanium white (i rarely use black but titanium white like a few of other colors like some pthalo and prussian blu that are not in his palette though need to be wped out). Do yourself a favor, clean your brushes with a diluent and with a lot of soap every time you finish a session it will improve your work a lot and you don't need to use his overpriced products. And you need to know the difference between cold and warm red and blues and every primaries and the importance of each pigment. pyrrole red, cad yellow, ultramarine and his brown is too limited and wrong. I like to use a limited palette of 4, max 5 colors every time, sometimes even 2/3 but I change them according to every need. In art you can do whatever you want, if you want muddy colors follow his tips. But you'll ever have muddy colors, it's not an opinion... Renoir was well known to clean his brushes for minutes and minutes until no pigment was left on them. And you can say whatever you want on Renoir but not that his colors are muddy. The only way I see him work is wasting gallons of colors to cover up, oh yes, I don't want to be satirical but he sells those colors.
@@squarz It all depends on your artstyle. If you like more dull brownish colors then it's fine. Mark Carder caters to his painting style which is not that bright or colorful, even his videos are dark
Love all paints and love oil paints and water paints the best. Your amazing in everything you do and say. Fun to watch. And great artist. Than you for sharing. 💚🤎
oh, this is a really helpful video! ive been looking to get into oil painting for a while. acrylics just dry way too fast for my liking. i especially appreciate the way you encouraged just starting with whatever. das wird wohl mein nächstes projekt ✨
My advice someone who never got the blocking to work: you can still create beautiful paintings without doing blocking. It’s hard to find oil painting videos who don’t use blocking, but it’s not the hard and set rule of oil painting. Just do what feels natural and don’t worry about details. You’ll get it
You are a fantastic portrait painter. I am going to have to mimic your style, as you def have the sense of "flow" down, and that is what I want to portray in my artwork. Great tutorial!
My problem is not the actual painting but the materials. As a broke college student, its hard to buy oil paint and canvas because both are too expensive :(
I suggest you simply start painting with cheap acrylics and try to find cheap substitutes to canvas. There's nothing wrong with not being able to afford the expensive stuff right away, you should develop a desire to paint first. It would cost you even more if you bought all the expensive materials and then just quit painting after a little while. So do what I did, buy a cheap acrylic starter set and just paint and paint, and develop a love for it. Then later when you get a job and earn some more money, you can buy the expensive stuff.
Also ebay/any second hand shop are great for cheaper supplies, lots of used paints and brushes online! And you don't need much paint to use on a large surface so even if it's half full you can still use it!
I used to be in your situation at college. However, I learned how to create home-made gesso and bought very cheap oils. Used to build my frames with used wood laying around at my garage. Also, used gasoline (very careful with this!) instead of professional solvent and designed my own brushes and knives. Please, DO NO GIVE UP!, The impulse you have to paint is a " special spark" which not many people have. After college, got a job and never painted again, my stupid mistake!. Some years ago, retook the painting and I realized that I still have the spark of painting. I just regret to have stopped painting for 20 years. Now, I lost my job for health reasons and let me tell you that painting is my new job. I enjoy painting and am planning to sell my paintings as well. Just think like Monet and all those painters who struggled at making their way on the art, they never gave up. Cheer up!
If you live by a Walmart, I got a 12 pack of oils for $5 (I also got watercolor and acrylic for $5) and the Dollar Tree has small canvases (2 pack). So for $6 (if you have it) you can get started.
I am not a beginner, I watched you paint, which I enjoyed, btw, however, I thought your explanation and list of materials was right on for a beginner. Learning art and painting is a process, but you must begin before anything happens.
It’s enjoyable to just watch and listen. I think my absolute favourite part of your videos is when you give the advice , “not to give a shit! “ and after watching your video for the first time when you actually “destroy” the painting near the end, well let’s just say you had me at shit! 🤣 Incredible work, and love your philosophy. 🙃 I am curious though as to how you clean your brushes. When I paint with oils I used water based oils as the fumes from regular oils really affect me to the point I can’t be in the room with them. True I was probably not using the best quality of paints, but do have to say the easy clean up of brushes from water based oils is sweet.
Hello. Such a stark contrat in life from one example to the next. The armour one bares before all each day is presented with a collar tht grounds us in reality. The greens of all the life that soon bursts fourth from now to spring. It is even sugessted in the words as the days of this winter suggest warmth in their hours even still. The blush and blues and all that is here. A jene sais quai within us all. Shown only as a bright befudled adornment as the beauty strikes us quick. And your light shjnes truly. An we all become. Good luck.
Thank you for the wonderful insight I plan to one day myself create a youtube channel just not sure what I should do it on. But with the tips that have been expressed here I seen now its virtually anything.
Happy painting everyone, I hope you find this helpful... and don’t forget to support us on Patreon so I can keep making videos and you can continue to listen to my ramblings 😁
Alpay Efe Hast du Tipps für das Verkaufen eigener Bilder? Wie sieht es aus mit einer Gewerbeanmeldung wenn man einen eigenen Online-Shop hat oder auf einer Plattform verkauft? Ich denke mal so etwas braucht man in Deutschland 🤔
About how long to complete this painting? Thanks 🙏
Hello! Which technique do you use for painting your portaits??? Thank you.🌟
Alpay Efe I just found this video and I love it! I’ve been painting with soft pastels for just over a year and have really wanted to get into oil painting, but I live in a small flat and I’d convinced myself that I need to do so much preparation and know all about solvents etc and kept putting it off. Your laid back description and he fact you’ve pointed out that so much of it is unnecessary there are no rules and to just have a go once you have all the basic materials has made me want to get started straight away. Thank you 🙏 the painting in the video is great too.
I generally prefer the method where light and shadow are used to give the form to the painting. In which case the natural shape of the object dictates the result, instead of the reference material.
I'd say my biggest struggle with painting is selecting the accurate colors to make the skin look realistic. Shades are fine, proportions are fine, lineart too, but for some reason those damn colors make me lose my mind everytime 😂😅
have you tried the zorn palette? I think its a really good one for skin
Just don't care. Colors are subjective.
BTW if you really want realistic caucasic skin tones the secret is in the little quantity of other pigments you put in the white.
Just take a lot of titanium white and put a tip of your brush in cad red or pyrrole red (the second one need a little bit more) a tip in yellow ochre and a tip just a little tip in ultramarine blue. For other skins you have to play with only with burn sienna and umber plus blue for the highlights for the black people and limit avoid the red and put more yellow ochre for the Asians.
One tip i found really helpful is to focus more on the cold/warm temperature of the color you are trying to select (that the right 'tube' persay)
If you need a peachy tone for a nose tip is it warmer or cooler than the bridge of the nose? And work my way around like that adjusting the palette colour with each section
Jun Alice this^^ makes things more simple imo
I agree with @Jun Alice. Try the Zorn palette (yellow ocre, cadmiun red light, titanium white, ivory black). With that color selection you can mix any skin tone with surprising accuracy. The limited palette helps you to keep the mixtures simple and get the color you want quickly.
Love this guy.. he encourages art, not make it intimidating. Thats a true artist talking... Subscribed already
agreed!!!
💥🙌
I remember struggling so hard with exactly this. I wanted to start oil painting so bad but all these solvents and what not confused the hell out of me. Man where was this video when I just started lol. I'm sure this will help a lot of beginners a lot
Same here
Me too... It’s defs can still be confusing once u get into it. The info in this video was so great for beginners tho!!! but I think once u get into it experimenting with different solvents can actually become quite fun 😄
Watching you block colors for skin tones actually helped me understand how to create skin digitally !
Thank you! 🥰
This is a great starter guide. I love how you block in the colors and give varied shades and tones. :)
2020: The year for Back to Basics
(Something has to be fun and optimistic this year right?)
Liz Gridley - Artist yes. Something. 😉 hard times call for simple luxuries
Yes! Thanks for bringing it into perspective
Thank god! someone who is down to earth about oils! I'm in an advanced art class in my school, and they preach that art has to be perfect, your videos are truly the idea I'm trying to tell my classmates!!!!
Your voice combines with the brush work has a certain level of peace and relaxation. ❤️
My brain: I'm ready!!!! Let do it!
My hand: No No. You're not. 😂😂😂
You are brutally honest and many artist would hate you for this. You make processes so simple and this is how it should be. Why to make things so complicated, lets play around the way we want, lets experiment, lets create our own rules and than only we can get what we are looking from a painting. Huge respect man. Love your work too. Will never miss a video from you.
I absolutely love your heartfelt advise. It actually inspired me to lose my fear of lack of perfection and to just paint and enjoy the process! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I very recently got obsessed with oil painting, I have been spending hours on YT and I am waiting for my starter kit to arrive. Bumped into you in the meantime. I love how you preach for doing art and not following a protocol. Art is not a protocol. Art is freedom. I've lost count of how many times I cringed whenever I was hearing someone say "you must do this! it's the "foundation"!". Why would I? Who are you to define art? Who are you to define my "painting" as not being art just because I didn't do fat over lean or used a projector? Just like you said in some other random video, there has to be common sense... I should try and eat paint... But no "foundation" should stop me from trying whatever I want to try.
I am grateful for someone putting my thoughts into words. Much love.
Oh, and you absolutely should start a podcast if you have the time!
I like your paintings A LOT ( theare is no words to describe what I feel when I am looking your clips.Maybe hope is the right word).I guess you will never see that comment because that video is 3 years in the back :D but it doesn't matters for me.The thing that i admire and like most at you is what you are saying and your point of view.I hope i find a mentor like you one day.And for you i hope you live long and happy life (not existing).Thank you .
I love the way you go about things. I get inspired as much by listening to what you have to say, as by watching what you’re painting.
I've been watching and watching and watching videos on how to paint, and all I needed was this. Thanks a lot!
I don’t normally like lots of talking on a video tutorial, but I can listen to your tutorial all day.
You changed my life from thing complicated, simplified things to let go of the unnecessary things that really ain’t necessary, really extra. Thank you so much ☺️
I paint with acrylics, and have wanted to start painting with oils for a long time now, but scared to death to starting! All I hear about are fumes, some fires, "You HAVE to start THIS way or you will ruin your painting right from the start" and a conflicting, "You absolutely NEED to do THAT (opposite) or you're ham-stringing the whole thing and just won't be successful in your efforts."
I have a number of tubes of oil paint, a bottle of Gamsol, Liquin, every one of them purchased with the question, "WHEN am I EVER gonna actually start?" I REALLY needed to watch this video - thank you so much!
Favorite artist online!
Thank you for all of your information. Love this piece as well! I love that you like to keep things simple for us beginner oil painters!
Wow u are really good in portraits! Also this is very impormative 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I just love your channel! You make me want to paint again 😊
Much love from Germany !!!
I really love you and you’re art
My first oil paintings were still life subjects. And I would practice painting plants, the living room and even kitchen tools. The seemingly mundane things are some of the best subjects to practice on.
Hi There,
I am a writer and nowadays I observed myself inclining towards painting on weekends, by saying that I mean painting now became one of my hobbies to enjoy so I thought to self learn how to do it, I have subscribed and watched thousands of youtube videos but this one I found most logical and truthful so i would like to thank you and would like to bless you for your youtube channel
thanks a lot
He literally the only oil painter I have ever seen who uses black in this palette it is truly extraordinary how good he makes his painting...
What a based and cogent breakdown.
Frigg this was refreshing 🍻
I love you. And your work. I can’t wait to paint and show u how much I’ve improved my techniques by just watching your videos
"You've successfully turned them into...... a mirror." ! that was very funny I love your videos please keep going
Truly one of the best on youtube, so simple, lol
Bless
“Successfully turned it into a mirror” omG I’ve seen this SO often!!
You should make a series for beginners oil painting! I would rly appreciate that
Alpay on saturdays !!!
Yeah, that was actually accidental 😅
I love to paint in my free time without any pressure, so for that, I normally avoid seeing videos of "artist teaching" because they're always putting many rules, or they normally love to make feel the others like trash!... But I'm glad that I click this video! You're saying VERY useful things with the best attitude! Thank you for being different :)
You are so professional in art actually l want to be an painter like you and paint a lot 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Your work is fantastic mate
You always inspire me! Great content 😊😍
I wish this video was around when I started painting with oils last year! So many RUclipsrs make the process complicated and a bit stressful.
If you want to keep oil painting simple Water Mixable Oil Paints are great.
Robert Roberts yep and the smell is much better!
This is a really good video and shows how you don't need much to make art, the basics are more than enough. I'd also like to add some points that I feel are really important when it comes to oil painting:
I would like to add that when it comes to oil paints, use a palette knife to mix paint and not a brush, the paint gets stuck in bristles and damages and deteriorates the quality of the brush over time. Palette knives can also be used to paint directly and give a unique look and texture.
If you use solvents like turpentine, mineral spirits, etc. DO NOT dump them down the sink, it's very harmful to aquatic life and the environment. I always use small amounts of mineral spirits and let it evaporate (keep windows open when using solvents) or research and find out if you could take it somewhere to properly dispose of it.
Additionally, if you use paper towels or rags to wipe your brush and stuff on, please do not leave it out, it can potentially catch on fire. Soak paper towels and then dispose of them properly. Soak and clean rags. NEVER leave that stuff lying around after painting because some mediums and solvents can catch on fire with prolonged exposure to the air when on a flammable surface.
Really useful video! I considered buying the paper palette, it looks really practical!
She looks gorgeous her hair looks amazing.
What I love about your work is at its most basic it’s excellent! And when you finish, it’s as if you could continue on for another hour and it would still be great
What puts me off oils is the brush cleaning part, though also not having much space the long drying time is also offputting... but watching this makes me itch to try regardless!
I enjoyed listening to this.
Yay I'm early this time 😊 love the painting and your tips on how to get started 👍🏼
Amazing… All encompassing!!
I'd like to recommend Mark Carder's video "How to Match any color with oil paint" hopefully Alpay efe doesn't mind the video shout-out. It's a good video to Learn how to mix and match colors using a limited color palette.
I lost a lot of time and money and ruined a lot of brushes (with his suggestion of not cleaning brushes) at the beginning following carder suggestions. He's really not a good teacher imo. His limited palette is really wrong for a series of reasons and lacks of explanation of so much basic and fundamental things like transparency and temperature. Watch alex tzavaras instead.
@@squarz really? I think he is a great teacher maybe you didn't use the brush dip sold by his company Geneva Fine art? I personally Love and use all of his his oil paints, canvas stain and brush dip. Were you not able to match a certain color using his method?
@@misaelortega653 you need to clean your brushes unless you want really muddy colors, and you will accumulate oxidation in brushes. I don't really know how he can paint dark tones without black and with a brush full of titanium white (i rarely use black but titanium white like a few of other colors like some pthalo and prussian blu that are not in his palette though need to be wped out). Do yourself a favor, clean your brushes with a diluent and with a lot of soap every time you finish a session it will improve your work a lot and you don't need to use his overpriced products. And you need to know the difference between cold and warm red and blues and every primaries and the importance of each pigment. pyrrole red, cad yellow, ultramarine and his brown is too limited and wrong. I like to use a limited palette of 4, max 5 colors every time, sometimes even 2/3 but I change them according to every need.
In art you can do whatever you want, if you want muddy colors follow his tips. But you'll ever have muddy colors, it's not an opinion... Renoir was well known to clean his brushes for minutes and minutes until no pigment was left on them. And you can say whatever you want on Renoir but not that his colors are muddy.
The only way I see him work is wasting gallons of colors to cover up, oh yes, I don't want to be satirical but he sells those colors.
@@squarz It all depends on your artstyle. If you like more dull brownish colors then it's fine. Mark Carder caters to his painting style which is not that bright or colorful, even his videos are dark
for the first time I am not scared to paint after watching a tutorial... thank you!
He gives me so much motivation and encouragement, i just bought oil paint :) and I’m still practicing ‘till i learn to do portraits
Love all paints and love oil paints and water paints the best. Your amazing in everything you do and say. Fun to watch. And great artist. Than you for sharing. 💚🤎
Merci beaucoup!!!! I really needed this! 🙏
I love your videos , they make me so happy to continue my desire to paint..
Thank you for inspiring me to get back in touch with my right brain. 🙏
imo the best starter kit is titanium white, burnt umber, and ultramarine
I'm watching your video with respect
Always amazingly good 👍👍👍
oh, this is a really helpful video! ive been looking to get into oil painting for a while. acrylics just dry way too fast for my liking. i especially appreciate the way you encouraged just starting with whatever. das wird wohl mein nächstes projekt ✨
Thank you and All the best.
عالییییییییی افای هنرمند ارزو می کنم روزی به همین نزدیکی مکانند شما نقاشی و طراحی با رنگ روغن انجام بدم به یاری خداااا
Thanks for making this! I suspect a lot of people are turning to things like painting at the moment and this is very informative.
My advice someone who never got the blocking to work: you can still create beautiful paintings without doing blocking. It’s hard to find oil painting videos who don’t use blocking, but it’s not the hard and set rule of oil painting. Just do what feels natural and don’t worry about details. You’ll get it
You are a fantastic portrait painter. I am going to have to mimic your style, as you def have the sense of "flow" down, and that is what I want to portray in my artwork. Great tutorial!
My problem is not the actual painting but the materials.
As a broke college student, its hard to buy oil paint and canvas because both are too expensive :(
I suggest you simply start painting with cheap acrylics and try to find cheap substitutes to canvas. There's nothing wrong with not being able to afford the expensive stuff right away, you should develop a desire to paint first. It would cost you even more if you bought all the expensive materials and then just quit painting after a little while. So do what I did, buy a cheap acrylic starter set and just paint and paint, and develop a love for it. Then later when you get a job and earn some more money, you can buy the expensive stuff.
Use hardboard and gesso it, or put a wash of acrylics on it- super cheap!
Also ebay/any second hand shop are great for cheaper supplies, lots of used paints and brushes online! And you don't need much paint to use on a large surface so even if it's half full you can still use it!
I used to be in your situation at college. However, I learned how to create home-made gesso and bought very cheap oils. Used to build my frames with used wood laying around at my garage. Also, used gasoline (very careful with this!) instead of professional solvent and designed my own brushes and knives. Please, DO NO GIVE UP!, The impulse you have to paint is a " special spark" which not many people have. After college, got a job and never painted again, my stupid mistake!. Some years ago, retook the painting and I realized that I still have the spark of painting. I just regret to have stopped painting for 20 years. Now, I lost my job for health reasons and let me tell you that painting is my new job. I enjoy painting and am planning to sell my paintings as well. Just think like Monet and all those painters who struggled at making their way on the art, they never gave up. Cheer up!
If you live by a Walmart, I got a 12 pack of oils for $5 (I also got watercolor and acrylic for $5) and the Dollar Tree has small canvases (2 pack). So for $6 (if you have it) you can get started.
Alpay abi seninle gerçekten gurur duyuyorum
Nice painting ❤
I am not a beginner, I watched you paint, which I enjoyed, btw, however, I thought your explanation and list of materials was right on for a beginner. Learning art and painting is a process, but you must begin before anything happens.
loved that part. paint whatever u want however u can. 😍👍
I am considering trying oil for some time now , might just do it after your vid :D
I never did oil painting, I do acrylic painting on canvas,
I want to learn oil paintings!
I'm the same. But have heard oil painting is alot easier. Since it dries slower, it gives you more control
ALPAY IS THE BEST!!! Thank you so much for making your video you have inspired me to start a art youtube channel, thank you so muchhhhhhhhhh.
It’s enjoyable to just watch and listen. I think my absolute favourite part of your videos is when you give the advice , “not to give a shit! “ and after watching your video for the first time when you actually “destroy” the painting near the end, well let’s just say you had me at shit! 🤣
Incredible work, and love your philosophy. 🙃
I am curious though as to how you clean your brushes.
When I paint with oils I used water based oils as the fumes from regular oils really affect me to the point I can’t be in the room with them. True I was probably not using the best quality of paints, but do have to say the easy clean up of brushes from water based oils is sweet.
So neat I love this artwork
This is beyond amazing!!! Can u try to include the colors used while painting
Love your videos
I’ve been wanting to take up oil painting for a while now but I have no idea where to start, thank you for this video! Have a good one
Thank you!!! 💗💗🫶🏼💗💗
thanks for sharing your talent with us i love painting
super cool painting and great advice for beginners , thanks !
Very inspiring! After a pretty long break I'm starting to paint again.
You deserve to have more subscribers, I really appreciate your videos🥰❣️
Love your channel, going to be painting soon!!!
NOTRE GRANDE ET MAGNIFIQUE
JEANNE D'ARC .
I already have every single thing you mentioned, but I still need to find liquid white. It's legit nonexistent in my country.
Looks great dude!
I love your channel! It started my own art Instagram!!
Wow, the best tutorial so far
happy new year!!!!
i love this video ! thank u
Hello.
Such a stark contrat in life from one example to the next. The armour one bares before all each day is presented with a collar tht grounds us in reality. The greens of all the life that soon bursts fourth from now to spring. It is even sugessted in the words as the days of this winter suggest warmth in their hours even still. The blush and blues and all that is here. A jene sais quai within us all. Shown only as a bright befudled adornment as the beauty strikes us quick. And your light shjnes truly. An we all become.
Good luck.
I love your videos so much, they are so soothing to watch, I really need to try oil painting sometime!
I love this guide! I’m currently using acrylics but I’m considering moving to oils 😁
it's never too late!
I grabbed a small binder to use as a pallet. It was what i had handy. 😅
Thank you for the wonderful insight I plan to one day myself create a youtube channel just not sure what I should do it on. But with the tips that have been expressed here I seen now its virtually anything.
Happy new year, have a good one.
Thanks a lot
Just love your work and what you say is inspiring
This video is great. Helped me feel better about starting!
love how you make it look so easy lol