I TRIED Oil Painting for the First Time...
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I've always wanted to try oil painting, but I've been too scared to try - until now! So I decided to try and paint a dragon as my first oil painting, and this is how it went...
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Every time I hear you say that you may have overestimated your skill level I smile because I know that this is another project that you are going to knock out of the park. My observation is that like water, you tend to rise to whatever level is necessary to achieve your goal. You are amazing, and after sharing your channel with my twelve-year-old (who is also an artist) she has started greeting me with "skjera bagera" in the mornings.
Totally agree, there is no overestimating this lady's skill level from what I've seen so far!
That’s not how water works but the thought was nice. 😆
@@jigga272 Maybe using gas would work better since they expand to the volume of the container
but what does 'skjera bagera' mean?
@@GaffaHanes It means like "what's up"
Martina: "I don't know how I'm going to do this..."
Also Martina: *executes the painting flawlessly*
See oils aren’t as scary as people think! Your paintings turned out great! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you! Your tutorials were a great help! 😄 Keep it up! 👏
unless you dump it into the ocean...
yeah i started on your channel too lol. Good stuff!!!
i love oil paints! acrylics cant hold a candle. i would be using oil paints exclusively if it wasnt so expensive 😭
Martina: "You know me, just overestimating my powers"
Universe: "You have yet to approach the limits of your abilities"
“I don’t have a clue how to use oil paints”
*proceeds to paint the most beautiful oil apple I’ve ever seen*
I’m amazed as always by your work!
She said the same thing when she painted the Van. But, I do understand, it can be scary. I think she just forgets how talented she is.
I knew from the thumbnail it'd be fantastic! She's a great artist.
Seriously! I'm super hapy for her that she has the time and resources to exercise her amazing talent
True, but I am an artist myself and when I try something new I do that to. To test and know the product artists attend to do something easy like an apple (fruits) it helps and + artists have drawed painted 2445678990 times 😂
@@Annn424 same, my usual go to is frogs lmao
"This is my first time doing this thing, so it's going to suck!"
*Casually creates a masterpiece
I fall for it every time. Seriously though, that could be a book cover.
.... right.... EVERY TIME..... :-D :-D
The thing is, she takes hours and hours for tiny details, several days in total. She is going slow to reevaluate her progress at every step. Her general experience with painting, her vision of the final piece and the careful approach allow her to cancel out the very real inexperience with this specific medium. I wouldn't call it casually. It's a methodic approach that mostly uses her long trained painting skills.
Easy on the use of the term masterpiece. She is good but not a master.
I know!
„Masterpiece“
Yea no far, very far from it. If you think this is a masterpiece you don’t know anything about oilpainting.
Test painting: apple
First official painting: epic dragon breathing fire
I absolutely looove the contrast and the difference you can see in the paintings. You learned new techniques on the way and it (as always) look perfect ✨
My mother painted in oils so when I started painting, she would take me with her to classes and got me lessons with instructors that were all oil artists. I was in my 30's before I ever tried any other medium and at 65 I still struggle with acrylics. Honestly, if I could afford oils, I would use them all the time. I think with a little practice you will come to like oil better. There are lots of things you can add to oils to make them dry faster or take months to dry, depending on what you are doing. We used to put our pallette and brushes in the freezer inbetween sessions to keep the paint fresh.
Very true, acrylic is fun for quick projects and layering without smear. But limits you in blending texture.
Oil pains are great with blending and texture, but dry time takes forever and it's very hard to layer an oil paint without smear.
if you're impatient, use liquin! I love oil painting, I'll never go back to acrylics
Absolutely, oils are amazing, the colors are so much vivid!!
The cracking details in the horns are probably my favourite part, just because IT’S SO REALISTIC!! The amount of detail you put in this is amazing. I’ve always felt the same about oils and have actually been trying to pump myself up to try them, so your timing with this is not only fortuitous, but inspiring. Thank you!!
Exactly what I thought. A very realistic dragon.
I'm constantly in awe at your skill level! The final painting is so striking, it's incredible🔥
Right! I always search up nerdforge every couple weeks to be inspired and fall in love with the process of art. It's hard but so worth it.
Also, i love your works and your great personality.🌼💚
Ditto!!! So much talent. Never doubt yourself. You're amazing.
all girl artist should do a collab you nerdforge rae chloe etc
She's the best artist on UA-cam. No one else comes close.
I feel like people don’t give Martina enough credit for the prep work she does before diving into a new process. She didn’t just buy a bunch of random pint and go at it, she did the wrong of learning techniques and experimenting and practicing. And that’s what makes her a great artist!
Yes god damn it, she watched, and I quote, a few hours of tutorials. Oh and she painted an apple beforehand. And that makes her a great artist
@@jakobvanklinken who hurt you, man? And why was your response to that hurt to get pissy on a ten month old comment instead of talking it out in therapy?
@@FortuitousOwl lighten up, it was meant in jest. You overstated the amount of prep work she did, and I thought that was funny
@@jakobvanklinken lighten up, my reply was meant in jest.
@@FortuitousOwl cute
It would take me YEARS to get this close to perfection.
Like... I went to art school. There was a long episode in my life where I drew every single day and yet I'm still overwhelmed of what you can pull of every single time.
What you do is just amazing and I pull my hat off to the work and effort you put into your projects.
You're really motivational. Thank you for that Martina! 🥰
I have a suggestion: you guys should make the most awesome, over the top, worthy-of-such-a-magnificent-beast doghouse
Because that dog is too cute to have a normal bed/crate/whatever you use
Oh yes yes yes, I want to see this project come to life ! This little puppy deserves the most epic doghouse.
I third that idea. I would love to see what they'd do
Have you seen that exact thing you just recommended but for cats? Lol
Dogcastle...
I love the way you deal with light and dark in your paintings, it creates such an atmosphere. And that Dragon is sick!
Get the dragon a doctor then!
@@Clint945 haha I mean awesome lol
Totally agreed with you when you said something was off about the fire, the way it blended into a kind of muddy effect, however personally I think you went from one extreme to the other with it. It went from blurry and muddy to vivid and white. I think it would have looked better somewhere in between.
As for your dragons scales, DEFINATELY overthinking there, they look fabulous. Nothing wrong with them. My favourite bit of the image though is the humanoid figure. Love the detail, the hair and the way it blends perfectly with the colour in the scene. 👏
that way in which Martina paints fire gives me life 🖤
Girl I feel like every video these days starts with "why did I do this" kinda mental state 😂 1. It always works out at the end. 2. I feel like you challenge yourself because somewhere deep inside you know you can do this cuz YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! And 3. Challenging yourself makes you the amazing artist you are and That´s why (I´m sure I speak for a lot of people here) we love watching you!
Oil is a wonderful medium. You can thin it, layer it, use whatever tool to paint and the colours is just so.. alive.. Also it is so easy to correct faults, and it is so forgiving to paint with. You handled it wonderfully Martina! Bra jobbat! ;)
Martina: I've never painted with oil
Also Martina: *creates a masterpiece*
Pro tip: Use olive oil to clean your pallet and hands when you're done painting with oil. To do this. Clean with the olive oil (not water). Then dry with paper towels.
dish soap works well too!
@@nunyabusiness164 I use Dawn or whatever equivalent on my brushes to clean them
You can do that to loosen the pigment but you should absolutely still clean your brushes with solvent or soap after that! The problem is that olive oil will not harden so of you get it into your oil paint when painting the next time, your paint will not firm up completely on the canvas
using murphy’s soap is the best bc it’s oil based! Great for brushes and hands!
Oh wow. If you turned that into a print, I would definitely buy it. Especially if it was poster sized. That piece is stunning!
I think the problem you found with scales is detail density, there is just a bunch of very small details without having some stronger larger details to give the eyes a break
agree. I think the nose was missing a tiny bit of perspective...like it looks the same level when the nose wants to be a little forward.
I taught myself acrylics during the pandemic, and I was intimidated by oils, but then I tried them earlier this year. I went through the same stages you did -- intimidated by it, what sorcery is this, how do I use it to my advantage, etc. We watched a bunch of the same tutorials too! lol In the end, I've almost completely switched to oils and very rarely use acrylics anymore. I LOVE oils!!
Now I want to paint a dragon for some reason...
That montage of you wandering around the piece with your coffee and then lying on the floor and yelling at the ceiling was supremely relatable
Oil painting is easy in that you can wipe off a mistake and do it again, which is near impossible with water colour! Also, hope you're all fully recovered - it's good to see you again - and that puppy is adorable!!
Watercolor is by far the most technically challenging of all the traditional painting medias ( leaving more weird stuff like pyrography out of it). While oils is the most forgiving by far. The counterpart is that Oils is the most logistically intensive, whiel Watercolor the least (you need water and nothing else and do not need even to clean your brushes if you are using synthetics)
One of my favorite things about some of the old masterworks that you can see in museums is to look for the painters trouble spot. The spot where they changed their mind a bunch. There is a self-portrait in the DMA's Wendy and Emery Reeves collection that if you look closely, the artist hated the placement of his hand with the paint pallette. You can see where layered over the original position with his new placement of the hand and pallette.
You at 4:47 is me always. I start the base with the oil paint and thinner -- looks great, then, I just stare at it. FOREVER!
I am actually amazed at how you managed to pull this off, you went from 0 to 500. Who paints an apple and then makes a freaking dragon?!!!
The lighting is what actually captured me, absolutely love it. And one of the things I've noticed (both when you use acrylics and oil) is how much you actually achieve with very few colors, very intense, I can feel the cold in the scene, when its actually full of fire.
some people say she complains a lot. but i see it more as her expressing the anxieties that a lot of us creator types have, and then she's showing how she talks herself out of those anxieties and into getting the project done, which i think is more helpful than acting like she has no anxieties at all. cuz now the viewers who likely say the same things to themselves when wanting to try something new, can hear what to tell themselves to take that first step, and the next one etc. I bought some Sculpey cuz i wanted to try it out. and for the first couple of years (yes, years) i made the odd little thing, but never baked anything for fear of messing it up (because Sculpey no Cheapey) eventually i just did it headfirst. And since baking my first bit, i haven't stopped making stuff, from mini batman busts, to mini cuphead figures and so on. and i found that i have an affinity for making small sculptures and that im not half bad. so all those years i convinced myself not to do it, were for nothing. so now, my 10 year old box of Sculpey (yup, I've had it that long now) is finally getting put to good use. and its thanks to watching youtubers like Nerdforge, and North of the Border, and seeing how they work through those anxieties that we all have when wanting to try something new, or when we inevitably make a mistake while trying something new.
I absolutely love your very familiar fears and hesitancy and I appreciate you sharing that with us. I feel that I constantly struggle with that in my pursuit to be a practicing artist. You’re a plow to my snowy roads of self doubt. Thanks for clearing a path and making these feelings a normal part of the process! Great work!!
Too true. 💪❤
I love oils! My grandmother was a well-known oil painter before she got sick and passed. One of her paintings is still in the White House library today. You did an amazing job, especially considering you basically taught yourself!
Masuko Gartman? Do you know what painting of hers is in the White House?
@@moritzroos87 yes! That’s her ☺️ I do not remember which one it is- it’s been there for a long time- I think since before my dad passed. So I probably should have said I assume it’s still there, because we’ve never gotten it back lol
@@masumigartman4262 Couldn‘t find any more details either. Your grandmother looks like someone who had interesting things to say. The internet is a weird place.
Greetings from Germany! Take care.
@@moritzroos87 thank you so much!! Take care and stay safe!
@@moritzroos87 This is what I LOVE about the internet :)
"I can leave, for 5 minutes, come back, and blend?! What is this sorcery!?!"
I feel that. I love acrylics, but oh my gods, now I really want to try oil. Painting with acrylics feels like a race to blend, always
This is so detailed and beautiful! I love how you can see everything down to the twists on the staff but it doesn’t look busy, just amazing.
Masterpiece’s are not painted in a day, especially when they are in oil. Amazing work! You could never tell that you haven’t used oil paints before.
bob ross would like to have a word with you. lol
Thank goodness you guys are both healthy and congrats on the pupper! May your lives be fill with fun and fur💚🌼😄
I think it looks amazing and it's more impressive considering that it's your first time with oils. Ir happens the same to me, I only paint in acrylics and gouache and fils oils kinda intimidating, I haven't tried them yet. Btw, I think the thing that looks weird on the painting (and I've noticed you did the same thing on other paintings) is that you're painting a red/orange color on top of tje blue to simulate the light from the fire but the red/orange your using is actually darker in value than the original blue tone, so it doesn't actually looks like a light source but just red paint. I think you sould make everything darker before applying the light and saturated orange tones on top of it to make the effect of fire light :). Keep up the great work, I love your channel!
all i can think about is 100+ years from now someone may restore this painting
My partner and I we were just griping last night about how you guys haven't released a new video. Thank you for giving in to our complaints and tantrums.
I was thinking the same thing!
The way you are able to adapt to new things so quickly is inspiring. Beautiful work.
I’ve been a specific artist for 39 years now. When I delve into something, I find just throw art on the canvas/paper then spend the rest of the time fixing it t what I want. Your process is a lot like mine. Really enjoyed this video! Thanks!
Wonderful First Oil Painting! I have been enjoying your videos for a couple years now. I have been painting in oil for 30+ years so here is my tip for anyone who really likes acrylic paint: Do a complete underpainting in acrylic monochrome: Dark to light and every mid tone in between... [ and Ballpoint pens work for fine line under sketches as well! ]. Make certain the acrylic underpainting is completely dry (a week or two) When you finally commit to laying on oil paints, use an ALKYD medium such as Winsor & Newton Liquin to speed up the oil drying process (often oil paints cut with Liquin can set up to the to the touch in less than a day, allowing added glazing or shading etc.). Best of all you can use Liquin to create transparent color glazes that allow the acrylic painting underneath to show or shine through! :-) Acrylic first... Oil Next. This may be obvious but do NOT use acrylic on top of oil... it will simply not stick. Cheers!
If it wasn’t in the middle of the night I would go painting now because this really gave me inspiration. I bought oil paints for a couple of weeks ago but still haven’t used it because I haven’t had the motivation but I think I will try it now. Thank you for inspiration and amazing painting!❤️
Martina: "I've never done this before"
Some hours later:
*a masterpiece*
Thank you for this! I have been hiding from oils for 20 years with every single thought you had. Seeing you master it (on your first try!) has inspired me to stop overthinking and put paint to canvas! Thank you for not just showing the technical process, but sharing your thought process as well.
I want to start with oil painting myself now just because of this video. I’ve never painted and i’m not artistic at all so this is going to be a deep learning curve. Awesome painting, awesome dragon :D
I have never been artistic at all, but about a year ago I started watching someone restore art and it piqued my curiosity so I bought some cheap oils and a cheap folding easel from Walmart. (I would actually recommend buying the cheap oils from Hobby Lobby when they are on the weekly ad at half off. The WM oils were so horrible I almost gave up.) I am still no artist and I am not producing masterpieces, but putting brush to canvas is now one of my favorite things in the world to do.
If you decide to give it a try, there are many wonderful tutorials here on youtube that can guide you on the journey. I am not sure, but I think the apple she did came from the same tutorial here on youtube that I followed for my first successful painting. Even with next to no talent, I have seen enough improvement in my skills that I no longer want to hide all my paintings when anyone comes around.
An amazing first foray into oil painting!
I highly recommend going back to some Bob Ross videos with oil paints instead of acrylics. You'll get a better feel for blending and even layering with oil, and of course the result is always something someone will want in their home
It’s interesting that every medium has its own method of use. For instance, when using watercolors we usually leave the white and bright areas on the canvas without painting them, or painting them last. It’s great experiencing the different mediums… playing with them 😃😃😃
Your dragon turned out awesome 😃😃
I have a hate/love for oil paint, you can do a lot of things with it that you can't with acrylic like blending and your able to get some texture with it, where acrylic is flat. But it takes so long to dry, and I'm a order in the chaos person so it gets everywhere when I use it, lol
I think the thing that is wrong with the dragon scales is the highlights are white. They should reflect the colour of the light source on top of the blue scales so Orange, Yellow and with some Green ( yellow on blue) tinting.
That painting wasn't just "pretty good", it was an absolute MASTERPIECE! 💛
If dry time is an issue, you can just use galkyd to speed up the dry time. Will still take a day to dry depending on the amount of paint you apply. If not, then waiting is best, otherwise cracking can happen.
Martina you did an amazing job for your first time oil painting. I can’t wait to see what you do next. Great to see you back & congratulations on your new puppy. I’m hoping you guys are feeling much better. ❤️🙏🏻
This is really good. So...some art student tips (basic shit that they teach you on day 1) start ur canvas with a very wet, transluscent wash so your canvas is never white. In this case it would be blue. Mix your own blacks (which I'm sure you already know). I taught myself how to make my own colors using only primary colors so I don't spend crazy money on a full set of oils. You have unmatched skill...trust me if you hone it you will only want to use oils and acrylics will feel like plastic garbage. All the great masters were oil painters for a reason. Also experiment with damar varnishes it really helps ur colors shine, and blacks look amazing. :) Keep doing what you do! I love your work!
I am so amazed of people who can paint like this! Like, you had this vision in your head and you managed to beautifully put it out for everyone to see! It's simply amazing (and I'm a little jealous haha)
Martina, you are incredibly talented in every way, with everything I've seen you create, but the oil paints seem to show your talent even more than the acrylics. That dragon is seriously sick! 😍💕
I really like how you include a clock in all of your shooting. It's very cool to know how long you spent in real world time.
I can't say anything different from the other comments about the wow of this dragon piece. But again, your understanding of color and light has amazed me. For me, I understand it in a finished piece; I see how you apply and use it. But I struggle to create that myself.
I love watching you work! I'd have never guessed that you never painted in oils before. Awesome work Martina!
Oil paint definitely seems like the teacher every perfectionist needs.
It has a curious way, by it's very nature, of teaching the artist that the end result is protean. It will change, and it will morph, and the beauty is in the journey, not the grandeur of the finished piece. The parts you repaint, the layers that never seem to quite erase the ones that came before; they're there to teach you that the 'mistake' was a part of the whole. It's not a step back, it's a step in an unexpected direction.
In your case, unsurprisingly, both the journey and the finished piece are incredible.
Keep safe, keep shining. We can wait. It's always worth it
I don’t know why you doubt yourself, you are an amazing artist!! You did an amazing job and inspire me to try oil paints, which I too am intimidated by. Thank you for sharing your first try with oils!! Your fire technic is so awesome!!!
You actually did quite well for an oil painting, love the way the dragon comes out of the darkness
Martina, Hansi, both of you are so talented and gifted. I stumbled upon your channel and cannot leave! Great inspiration!
Honestly love how fearless you are in jumping into new mediums. Every time you end up making something amazing!
(Just a side note, please be careful with what kind of oils you use, many oil paints in regular brands contain cadmium which is highly toxic)
I love making things. So your channel popped up on my feed as a suggestion and I cannot begin to tell you how glad I am that happened. You have become my 2nd type of netflix. I'm binge watching all the episodes as quickly as I can. The editing, the talking, you are a great fun to watch. Thank you. You are an inspiration. May God continue to bless the fruitful work of your hands. oh! yes I have subscribed!!
My first "successful" painting was an apple just like that, quite possibly from the same tutorial. I painted it about a year ago and it still has a place of honor on my wall as one of my favorites. I am no artist, but I do enjoy painting with oils even though I have very little talent. I started with oils and then attempted acrylics, but they were so different from the oils I was familiar with that I couldn't even get out a low quality beginners painting with them.
That dragon looks amazing. The impasto on the flames is beautiful. The use of impasto takes a bold touch that I haven't developed yet, though as my confidence builds I hope to be able to add that style of brushwork to my tool box.
you might be interested to know that us nerdy scale modelers use oils extensively to weather and bring depth to the vehicle or aircraft we are modelling. The medium allows for some interesting fade effects which acrylics just will not do. Typically though, we will allow a squirt of paint so sit on a piece of cardboard for 45 minutes or so, so that much of the oil base is drawn out of the paint, being absorbed by the cardboard. So it gives you a little more control, and less drying time. One thing I like about using oils for this is that if you screw it up, you can simply wipe it all away and start over....
Someone said: “Beauty Will Save the World”, well this channel is part of that beauty for me.
I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. Thank you for the content you create and for trying things out of your comfort zone and actually showing us when a mistake is made. It helps me get out of my freeze response to creating stuff. Your art and channel are inspiring I wish you the absolute best.
Oil gives you a lot of options, you can use the slow drying aspect to do blending or you can use additives and it will dry quickly and you can do washes, layers. I didn't have any doubts that you'd do a great job, you have talent, the medium is just how to get your vision out. Give you props for actually finishing it that quick. When I get into an painting -- i'm in it for months, that's sorta good and bad about oils, you can almost never be done, you can keep adding or removing/scraping away what you don't like.
I love it. Your first oil painting (other than the apple, which was really just a test) is truly spectacular. The individual facing the dragon in your painting reminds me of you facing the oil painting dragon. You tamed it and the result is awesome. Keep up the good work.
As always Martina you do a FABULOUS PHENOMENAL job. I always love seeing what new projects you and Hansel work on!!
Your reactions are priceless because we all been there and it’s constant struggle. At least for me I can relate big time. Gorgeous painting btw!
Honestly, I think what you may be seeing up close that was creating issues is due to the more stylized lighting with the flame and magic being opposing colors and there being issues that getting close creates when you do that.
Interactions of multiple light colors when painting is a pain in the rear to get right on the details, and when you step back, the specific details fade into the whole. Especially with a canvas of that size.
I love it that the painting is the most beautiful thing I ever seen in my life and Martina is like 'the scales on the nose look weird...'
This is why i love Martina. Shes so enjoyable to watch, she makes the end of my days laughing. Thanks Martina!!! And the painting looks great.....as ALWAYS. OILS ARE FUN, LOL.
I just want to say that you're an inspiration. Every time I watch your videos it motivates me to get back into drawing/paint, and your videos help me through some tough times in my life. Thank you so much, and I can't wait to see what lies ahead in the future for you guys! ❤
So impressed. Oils are such a change from acrylics. Of course you rocked it. The beauty of oils is that you can do an under color in acrylic first then your oils on top.
I had the same trepidation or mental block jumping from watercolor to acrylic last year when a friend wanted me to paint the sign for her hair salon. "What have I gotten myself into?!?!".. But after I just got started it was very satisfying and it came out amazing! Thx for your inspiring content!
Wow. You are a true fine Art artist. Skilled so crazy, and yet so humble, it keeps on amazing me. Another great project, so glad I ran into your channel.
I love watching how you tackle new things and give a peak into the ups and downs of learning. To conquering your own dragons! 🔥
I would love that hanging proudly in my home and I suspect there are 1000's of other dragon fans who'd love to have it too. Absolutely beautiful!!!
Absolutely amazing! Great job on the apple too! (My guess an apple study is the artist’s version of “hello world” 😃👍)
Lol, I love how your first time using this new medium, you pick an incredibly complex creature to paint!!! 😂
Awesome job, Martina!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I like painting with oils, but it takes so long to dry once you're finished, and you have to store it really carefully because you can wreck an oil painting so easily with just dust because it will stay tacky for so long. Weeks/months if you paint thickly. I ruined a bunch of paintings not storing them right.
Do you have any tips on how to store them the right way? Thanks in advance
They have mediums to make the paint dry quicker
@@wanderlustaesthete4117 Liquin is your friend
@@liz4133 so if you want to keep it safe find a corner a place that no one will go there and check it out and if you want tha painting to dry fast you can ask in art supplies store they can help you find a medium for quick oil painting
@@Annn424 Thanks!
6:31 You could say that Orange is like, completely the opposite of Blue
My favorite paint medium is actually oil paint. Though not for painting pictures, because I have no skill with that. I like using oil paint to paint wooden items, like bird houses. It takes several days for it to dry properly, so you need somewhere you can hang whatever wood you're painting on that will keep dust and hair in the air away from it or else it'll end up sealed into the wood. But once it's dry, it also seals the wood and the color is so deep and thorough but it also doesn't cover the grain because it soaks into the wood! It ends up looking like you dyed the wood before you put it together.
Martina,
You have just proven (again) that you DO NOT over estimate your abilities. If anything , you severely underestimate the talent that flows from your fingertips!
Thank you again for an amazing piece of art. Keep the aspidistra flying!
Paul
I.. just realized she has this battle scar and I'm so upset that I've literally been watching her for years and never even noticed. I even went back to the first video I watched of her and yup its been this way the whole time and I'm just oblivious. This just goes to show that her art is so good that I become engrossed in the process and not pay attention to other details
tote bag
Are you referring to the half-missing finger on her left hand; I think she may have injured herself with a power tool (she does not use them correctly)?
I saw that too and wondered how I hadn't noticed before.
@@TheMunros
I didn't notice her missing half-finger at first, but have you noticed that she tries to hide the injury by tucking her hand under the edge of the table when working and other places?
Trying something new like that, so publicly is tremendously brave! You absolutely smashed it and should be super proud of yourself!!
I paint with oil-based enamel on vehicles from time to time. Japan Drier is a product that dramatically decreases the cure time for oil-based paint. Instead of a month, it will take a week!
It's composed of mostly Naptha with less than 10% cobalt.
I don't know what hardware stores are like in Norway, but you can find it in a hardware store.
Just wanted to share. Love your work all around.
Nice work. try adding liquin medium to your oil paint this will speed up the drying time in the first few layers and then you can back off with it if you want the drying time slower to blend. Also, try using glazes when the painting is fully dry., this will enhance the colours depending on what colours you choose. Have a play around and enjoy.
You know, you can use acrylic for a quick underpainting and then go over it with Oil, but you can't paint over oil with acrylic
you can also mix the two though it isnt advised, i did it by accident in highschool when i accidentally oicked up oil instead of acrylic for one color, it works but everyone gasps is shock and horror when i say that.
@@AnnaMae41194 curious, how did it hold up over time?
@@j.ascension7 fairly well once it dried, no different than either of its components. but you couldnt paint over it. it was thicker than acrylic and more smeared than painted.
@@AnnaMae41194 interesting
The best thing about oils is the texturing you can put into the picture to give it 3-dimensionality to the image. I love running my fingers over (dried) oil paintings.
Sorry to hear you both had covid. Watch out for over-doing it now that you're better. And yay for the puppy!
Martina you are an artistic genus. Oil paintings, are never good close up but magical at a short or long distance.
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I love to see your process to tackle a new medium! Very helpful
I'm glad you chose a dragon, my favorite animal/s is/are dragons.
Even if you didn't go with drawing a dragon, I'm willing to bet that painting would still look absolutely gorgeous. I am simply awestruck at every painting you draw because they just turn out so amazingly well, even the ones that use a kind of paint that you have never used before, painting something that you have never painted before and surely the ones that you are uncertain about.
Your work is inspirational. Please keep up the great work.
Oil happens to be my favorite type of paint because of the reasons you lamented at the beginning: it dries super slow! More time for over-thinking, over-analyzing, and blending. Less waste because you can use the same oil next day if stored properly. And I personally just love how it feels to mix and paint with on a textural level: thick and absolute. It won't drip once applied to the canvas. It definitely takes more skill and patience to use oil though.
Beautiful paintings! Absolutely adorable puppy!!
Wet on wet is not easy. You really knocked it off! I would recommend to prep the canvas to make the painting last for generations. Also, oil paintings don't look good up close, and that is the trick. You can just suggest shapes and make tem look realistic from a distance. Also, oil paintings get darker with time, you could try go lighter next time unless you're going full Caravaggio with the dark colors. A coat of varnish will show more depht after the painting is dry. For a first time with this medium, you went above and beyond. Truly impressive.
I wonder where they put all their past projects. If they decorate it around their studio/home, it’d be so cool to tour it. Kinda like an art museum