EVERYTHING you need for oil painting! Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I’ve had a lot of requests to break down everything you need for oil painting from the perspective of a beginner, intermediate and advanced artist.
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Ive probably been to disorganised to get this done in time for the holiday shopping time period but a few people have requested it in my comments lately so I wanted to share my thoughts.
Here’s my list of recommended oil painting supplies:
A CMY primary palette: titanium white, burnt umber, quinacridone magenta pr122, phthalo blue pb15, and azo yellow medium py75. You can mix a black using blue and brown
Or a split-primary palette: all of the above, naphthol scarlet pr188 or cadmium red medium, Hansa yellow light py3 or cadmium lemon, and ultramarine blue pb29.
You can either use special water soluble oils, choose to go solvent free, or you’ll need a slow evaporating mineral spirit like gamsol or lavender spike oil. You’ll want a sealable brush cleaning tank or jar with diy agitator to keep the solvent in.
You’ll need an oil medium to create and control flow, i'd recommend Liquin or linseed oil and extra containers, or jars to keep it (and other mediums to extra paints) in. I use a silicone cupcake mold as it’s easy to clean.
You’ll need paper towels or t-shirt rags to wipe brushes and a fire safe metal safety can lot throw them out carefully.
You’ll need a range of synthetic or hog hair brushes from size 1 to 8 and a wide paddle brush for varnishing. If you’re a detail painter you may also want some below zero as well as a smooshy brush for blending.
You’ll also want an oil painting varnish like gamvar to protect your work and a midtone grey disposable or glass palette. You can use any piece of glass like a chopping board or picture frame. You’ll need palette knives to mix paint and a razor scraper to clean the palette.
You’ll need paper, canvas, wood panel or even a metal surface like aluminum or copper to paint on and a good quality acrylic gesso if these surfaces are unprimed. You’ll also need an easel - my recommendation is an H-frame. Vine Charcoal is also important for the underdrawing
Let me know in the comments if I forgot anything!
PALETTES
CMY primary: titanium, burnt umber, quinacridone magenta pr122, phthalo blue pb15, and azo yellow medium py75
Split-Primary: all of the above + naphthol scarlet pr188, hansa yellow light py3, ultramarine blue pb29
Zorn: Ivory Black, cadmium red medium, yellow ochre, titanium white
Daniel E. Green: for landscapes or portraits (google this one for check my insta post for the detailed list of paints and arrangements)
Glazing: dioxanine violet, quinacridone magenta, crimson lake pr149 permanent yellow, Indian yellow py83, phthalo green pg36, phthalo emerald pg7, phthalo blue, ultramarine blue
This is exactly what I needed -- I'm moving from watercolor as it was a much more affordable and safer way to get into painting, but oil can be so overwhelming with all the materials! Looking forward to your other videos :)
So glad you found this useful! Oils are a whole new world! Have fun! 🤗
Same
this is a great vid overall but dang water soluble oil paints are not great.. at least in my opinion. They mix really strangely and have a weird “chunky” texture and just overall don’t work as well. I have asthma so I’m pretty intolerant to most paint thinners but gamsol works well in a ventilated room, and quick drying mediums (instead of linseed oil which takes ages to dry) also work. For newer painters I just think water soluble paints aren’t the best due to their finicky nature but that’s just my opinion and I’m sure a lot of people enjoy them but they are pretty weird and hard to get used to
thank you so much! I was so confused about solvent, this cleared that up.
I'm glad it helped! 🤗
yay! long video! thanks as always for sharing your expertise :)
You're welcome! 😊 thanks for watching !! 🩷🩷
Thank you - that was marvelous. You explain everything so well.
It looks like you keep things in a fridge or it is just a cupboard?
I think that must’ve been a cupboard. Sometimes I put my paints in the freezer in case they are likely to dry on the palette but i don’t store anything in the fridge & I make sure to keep the studio above 10 degrees Celsius.
Ok thanks - I thought I had seen wrong🙄😜😖
When we paint solvent free what we must do with the brushes when we want to change colour?😊
You can clean the paint off using oil medium & a rag or paper towel.
Thank you very much for your answer and for sharing with us your precious experience
Hello so apreciat your video. I am starting with oil. If i dont varnish at the end of a picture and i want to get back to the painting in a few weeks or so i could just paint over with oil paints ?
Should I still varnish when I’m finished my painting even if I added liquin to the oils to make it glossy? Thanks ❤😊
Yes, the varnish makes the work shiny but most importantly it is a separate, removable layer on your painting. So varnish is important to protect the painting for the long term so that after a long time the varnish layer that’s collected all the dirt can be removed and a new one reapplied.
Thanks for sharing merry christmas
You too! 🎄
Does Gesso get bad easily that you keep the date on the pot?
No it doesn’t if it’s well sealed. I just do this on all my art supplies these days to make it easier to keep track of my materials & remember when I got them etc.
Isn't more lightfast=longer it'll last in the sun?
Hmm I think you’re right!! it’s whichever one is NOT good lol aka fades in light more!
I was confused from what you said because I hear so many artists say that alizarin crimson has low lightfast and ultramarine blue has high laugh fast
I feel bad for Bob Ross@@dorisroseart
Not a good idea to put any kind of color in the Sun for long periods of time. Not just because of how bright the light is but because of the ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light is a kind of high energy light. It can be useful to help lighten oil that have yellowed when drying especially if they dried in the dark. And it helps a lot!
Good luck with your painting, and by the way that was a very good question to ask!