I STOPPED Doing THIS and My PAINTINGS IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY, You Should Too...
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- In this video, we’re going to talk about one of the most difficult things to explain in oil painting : controlling paint, brush strokes and consistency. A lot, and I mean a lot of people struggle with this with oil painting. They want to create great colors, they get them on their palette but all they get on their canvas is a disgusting soup of melted hues. Paint that never seems to have the right consistency and that simply doesn’t want to behave like it should.
See, ideally, when you paint wet on wet, you should be able to paint a first stroke with one color and another one, on top, with a different one. And they should only mix around the edges, the core of the second brush stroke should have the pure color that you want. But very often, what happens is this instead : you get a blend of both colors. This is we can call a canvas mix, as opposed to a palette mix. A canvas blend is not always a bad thing, as long as you want it to happen. And most of the time, it happens when you don’t want to.
It used to happen a lot to me when I was just starting and it was driving me insane. But then, I discovered that I had to stop one simple thing to completely transform how I control the paint. And here’s what I did, I stopped doing this : dipping my brush in the mineral spirit every time like watercolor. Guess what… Oil paint is not watercolor and you can only master it if you understand how it behaves.
Chapters:
00:00 Coming up
00:28 Exposing the problem
01:54 I stopped doing this (and you should too)
06:11 Break
06:46 Here's what to do instead
08:19 Thick over thin
08:45 Stop mixing with your brush
10:04 Start pre-mixing a few colors
10:45 Incorporate the medium before
13:29 What stopping this changed for me
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The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !
A good way to accomplish very light colors, without darkening them with underlying layers, is to paint them with a knife. You butter them on, on the top, instead of dragging the brush.
Sir... your content is EPIC! Thank you for your outstanding generosity to the Art community. God Bless!
Dear Farges, today I was about to paint and I worried about ‘consistency’. After watching this, I will not dip my brush into a solvent again! My dad is a watercolorist and he dipped into water with his brush all the time. I followed and the result was often ‘runny’ colors on my canvass. Please continue to teach us the nuances of oil painting. I wish u good health and safety!
An “ah ha!” moment for me. I am going to change my process immediately! Love you Florent! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your talent and techniques!
How am I JUST NOW finding out about your channel?? These UA-cam tutorials are AMAZING!
Florent, you are the best, most concise instructor on the Tube. Much thanks and congratulations on being awesome!
Wow, thanks for the compliment 😊glad my work can be useful. 🎨👍
This sounds very familiar but I wasn't observant enough to be aware of what was going wrong. It's a very tactile process and I get the impression it should remain as enjoyable as it starts out. It's so fun to watch someone who has their process well established!
‘Disgusting soup of melted hues’ 😂❤️ Love it!!! As an alla prima painter, much appreciated this truth!
Haha 😊 unfortunately true...😅
@@FlorentFargesarts this is why I have a ridiculous number of brushes of the same kind. About five of each of my most used sizes/kinds. (When I get to the point I have to switch).
I can change out a brush I’m using since I have several of the same kind.
Even when pressing the mineral spirits/solvent out of the brush, there is STILL the slick solvent film on the brush.
This is the advice I needed. I'd hate my inconsistent strokes that would never be thick enough and for the longest time I couldn't understand why. Thank you for explaining it in this video!
Ah the penny has dropped. Solved my problem, I wondered why I was unable to put the paint down. Guilty of using too much medium and mixing with a brush. Thank you for the valuable lesson.
I paint with acrylics but I really want to transition into oils and they're so different in approach. I feel like oils require a much more calculated technique, and more preparation, but in the long run are much faster in completing works of art. I need to get out of a physical labor job so I have more time to paint. The older I get the more I realize I have crazy raw talent that people have been telling me about my entire life, I don't want to waste it, and I don't want it to be just for hobby anymore either. I appreciate your drive, dedication to the craft, and your willingness to share what you've learned in your experience with people like me. Videos like yours are a huge help for when I do find the time to get behind a canvas. Keep creating, thank you!
This is golden! Knowing how your stuff works in all those circumstances.
Excellent information. I am so guilty of doing exactly what he states NOT to do. Great information. This is so easily overlooked but so important. Thank you.
Wow. This is the best technical advice ever! Just tried it. So simple. So easy to adjust to. Thank you. It answered so many questions I've had.
Love your tip about leaving the lid on the mineral spirits. I sometimes forgot to do that. I primarily work in acrylic these days, because I don’t have proper ventilation 😫
Thank you so much for talking about paint consistency!! I seriously needed this and it's definitely something I'd been struggling with. I'm just starting with oils after being exclusive with watercolors for years and yep, complete opposite new territory for me. This is a fantastic video, thank you 🖤🖤🖤
This helped me so much! Was struggling for a while but you have the solution which I never heard from other youtube painters
The best advice. You explained the difference between oils and watercolor application so well. Thank you
Your advice is very helpful to me, and the quality of your videos and demonstrations is excellent and inspiring. I never miss a video. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Florent. Nobody tells you these things and they are so important.
Yet so simple... and so often overlooked indeed. Thanks for your comment. 🙏😊
Thank you, I'm new at painting with oil paints and the problem you described is literally what I've been questioning a lot, now I will know the basics of working with oil
I very rarely paint in oils but I love their glow. I have one painting that I painted using oil and collage on the backside of glass. I really like it. Perhaps I’ll try this. I appreciate the thoroughness of your video. Excellent.
This is probably the best video I ever seen on Oil painting. I was ready to throw out all my oils because I felt I wasn't able to use them. Everything was a mess! Thank you so much :) Ciao Ciao.
Omg this is the best explanation I have listen to as a beginner. It now make so much sense. Thank you so so much.
Thank you, very much, exactly what I've been doing. A pastel and watercolorist habits, yes, know you are right, it will take time.
As a watercolorist - I painted this way and did not understand how to control the oil paint. This was a very helpful instruction. Thank you.
Great video and advice as always thank you for this!
I appreciate you and your videos so much Florent! Thank you
Great explanation of the fat over lean principle. This is one of the reasons why I’m not a fan of alla prima/wet on wet painting. Give me liquin original and paint over a fry layer.
Great explanation!
Good one. I was starting to work that out naturally but that was really good. Thanks
This was very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it is a very generous gift of your time. Be well, be happy, be safe.
Great video it just answered my questions cause I am new in oil and you explain so amazing and sympaticly👍🤩
thanks so much for sharing these valuable insights! much appreciated.
Thank you very much for putting subtitles on your videos! It helped me a lot. :)
Hello. Thank you for these tips!! I am a beginner in oil painting. I love it, but right now I have more stress than joy while painting.
Great tips! No more muddy mess :)
Thank you!! This was very informative for me.
Thank you so much, what great advice all within 14 min. Wow. Really appreciate you generously sharing this advice. Thank you!
Excellent video. Such an important concept.
I like your point about light pressure to go overtop. I also like to play with maybe a little bit of linseed or walnut oil to help with the easy deposit of the top layer by lowering drag on the lower layer. (Clearly this is merely a play of fat on lean.) This is on the order of few drops and varies with the pigment and original preparation consistency (per your cream and butter analogy). Great content, comme toujours. Merci
Acrylic painter here doing research to see if I have a safe environment in an apartment as I have longed to try oils for the beautiful blending capacity. I am still chuckling about "Do not beat the devil out of your brushes." Thank you for this, I'm a tremendous fan of his, but some think this habit contributed to his early death as the rooms were poorly ventilated.
If you are worried about fumes I'd highly recommend buying non-toxic oil brush cleaners like Sennelier; it could be a bit difficult to find as it's only produced in France and it's a bit expensive (16€ for a 250cl bottle) but it's totally worth it, and it's infinitely reusable if you use a container with a filter/mesh that keeps the paint at the bottom. Also it practically doesn't smell at all.
I'm steuggling with this problem very much. Thank you very much.
Thanks for that. I squirm at the sight of the runny paint because I know it so well.
Very practical tips, thanks!
Hello. What is that material that is sunk in your solvent jar on which you pass the brush to clean it?
I've been using the wet on wet technique since I started painting and it worked well for me and my paintings usually end up with thick layers of paint, but still I think this is a great tip and video and will be trying it. I think the technique you used is based on what you're painting
So valuable. Thank you!
Thank you so much I have been thinking of trying oils, your information is invaluable. Cheers from Perth WA
At the end of a painting session I use cooking oil to clean my brushes. I then follow up with soap and water.
Thanks, I'm learning.
I don't use solvents of any kind. Just linseed oil and a rag. Mixing with palette knives always. I use water mixable oils which are fantastic! Clean up at the end is just water. Much safer.
Great class! thanks a lot!
A million thanks, I needed this!
I remember when I was handling physical paints years back in college, I had this bad habit as well, one which was seemingly engrained into my teachers as well.
Once again great information and just what I needed to know. Thank you.
Glad it helped 😊🙏
omg i’ve been doing all of these 😅 thanks for the help!!
Thank you so very much for your explanation and advice! I have been struggling with this and could not figure out what was causing it. What has made is even more frustrating is that you can't google it if you can't explain precisely the problem actually is. So, thank you.
Thank you for this helpful tips 🙂
I had this problem in my last painting.. thank you for teaching these practical tips.. completely unrelated, but can you please tell me what paints those blue and orange ..they are so vibrant and beautiful 😍
Gracias maestro tu arte es muy honesta , agradezco todo lo que nos enseña desde Bogotá Colombia
Your video is soo helpful 🙌❤️
Thaaaaaaank youuuuuu !!!
No one explained the issue better than you
For an effect, I like to scrub my oil paint into the bottom layer at times, it has a different effect, but I am not working in a traditional way. I have been painting for more than 50 years, with an MFA in painting. I mix with my brush, unless I want a fairly solid color. I rarely use thinner. I used a variation of 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 medium. 1/3 stand oil, 1/3 Damar varnish, actually less than 1/3 of turpentine. It thickened to almost a gel, and I got a huge variety of effects, with lush, meaty strokes and thinned the mix on the palette to get some juicy washes. I love that combination. I also added a few drops of copal dryer to speed up the drying process so I could layer, and have the bottom layer poke through. In acrylic, I found I had to be careful with adding too much water, because it broke the texture of the paint, and it looked grainy, even though I use the best quality paint
Thank you, this is so helpful:)
Thank you so much 😊🙏🎨
Thank you for this - never put thought into this before - makes so much sense. gonna change....:)
I'm gonna check it out for sure
opaque paint for opaque passages.
transparent/semi-transparent/semi-opaque paint for optical passages.
Please explain this in a visual way.
Excellent work
Great advice Florent - I have been oil painting for some 60 years. Only now have I had this sensible advice. Painting al a Prima & wet on wet have presented some problems - which I now see must in some part due to too much spirits. I tend to use an alkaloid ‘medium’ that is gel like (much the same consistency as paint out of the tube) partially to make for a good transparency & the sped up drying time, but do initially use a little spirit to get the consistency (I want/you talk about).
I have been guilty of washing brushes in a 4 stage wash to really clean them, but then leaving them in a clean solution between uses - which apparently is not recommended. I have also been guilty of mixing on the palette with brushes (as it gets better gradients & blends of colours) but does clog up the brushes somewhat. I will be remembering to do much more of my main mixing on the palette with a palette knife, as what you say makes sense.
I like the smell of oil paints & the smell of turps from an open jar excites me into action, so I won’t be sealing the jar of spirit, but I will splash around less.
To paraphrase - 1. I will do more mixing with the knife; 2. I will use less turps when mixing/painting; 3. I may thin a bit with a liquid medium when need rather than turps; 4. I will continue to you an alkaloid gel medium - but less so so as to keep my paint a little more opaque/creamy; 5. I will remember to use my rags/paper towel more for wiping paint off brushes (perhaps not so critical as I have many dozens of brushes & I often have 4-5 in my hands at any one time - one for each colour n value of colour) so usually less washing of brushes than you allude to.
Thank you & keep up the great work/lessons.
Gratefully yours
Owen Brown (from Oz).
Thanks for your coment Owen. Glad my video helped you figure out a few things. I also love the smell of turpentine and regular mineral spirits but I still try to limit it as much as possible but I see exactly what you mean haha 😄 all the best, my friend.
@@FlorentFargesarts do you have your posters for sale of the color mixing...or will they be available on the future? Thank you...
@@FlorentFargesarts thank you for this. I sent you an email regarding this- under Abby...
I hope you have the time to answer for me and maybe address in a video not sure. I think when you read about this, I never seen nor heard about it in the history of oil painting, cannot find anything online about it as well. Thank you for your time, looking forward to hearing from you via email, actually can't wait to hear your thoughts as it's been on my mind and search for almost a year. Thank you
Eureka! Thank you 🙂
Also, the thinner is super liquidy, a bit more than water. So when you use with colour as a wash, even if you're being careful, it can splatter all over the place. I found out when I saw my coffee near by had paint drops in it (saw it before I drank it), and there was drops all over my pc, too. I've seen artists use a wash with a burnt sienna acrylic paint as an alternative. Works just as well and a bit safer.
Thanks!
Excellent video. Great advice.
Just use different brushes while painting rather than keep dipping the same brush into a jar of cleaner. & weakening your pai to opacity.
Absolutely no need for medium such as turps to make your paint less stiff - just use a small drop of artists linseed oil.
Thank u so much.... 👍👍👍👍👍God bless u
Thank you sooooo much ❤️
Is it possible to remove the transcript on top of your painting because I am only seeing half of what you are doing because of the transcript. And I LOVE your videos!! Thank you very much.
I don’t use any mineral spirits 😅 just oil, soap and dish liquid and clean multiple brushes after session
Light bulb moment! Probably the most helpful information I've seen. Thank you.
Glad my video helped 😊🙏
When doing my landscapes I typically block it in with liquin original and then when that dries I typically always use just a little linseed oil for the remainder of the peace. I only use mineral spirits to clean my brushes when using liquin. I never clean my brushes other than that. I keep 95% of my brushes in a brush dip.
LOVE this. you're absolutely correct. I am an amateur artist but I figured this out a few sessions ago. I am always just wiping now ( no solvent/medium) and then going into the next color in the past I would always dip into gam Saul or even a type of brush dip which is oil based and resulted in the delusion
Dilution delusion.
@@Acd-Efz Nice catch. Talking to text doesn't always translate effectively
This was a BIG question on my mind. To me, I did NOT understand how to apply one layer of oil painting on top of another without mixing them. I thought it had something to do with Fat Over Lean, but then I realized that's long-term drying management, and not so much a "create multiple layers" method.
Then I thought "Well what about Ala Prima?" which is a fine method, but it generally appeals more towards people creating defined brush strokes, like Van Gogh or other Impressionistic styles. I like Farge's tutorials, because he somehow manages to incorporate the best of both worlds: Smooth blending and realism, but with nice strokes that when up close are defined.
I think the take-away from here is: Don't use so much solvent to clean brushes, and unless you're using Ala Prima where you mix each spot as a very thin layer, it's best to just clean your brush with a paper towel, and not be afraid to utilize more paint.
I guess my next question is: What if I apply that second brush stroke of different color paint on top of a lower layer paint (both still wet), but I want to blend other colors in to the top most second brush stroke layer only? As in not pollute it? I think the answer is "Do it lightly so you only pick up the second brush stroke color," but if there's a better technique other than that, or waiting for it to touch dry, I'm all ears.
Thank you!!!
thank you 🙏
Thank You
What was the thing inside the solvent jar that you brushed your brush against?
ty so much
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Sooo true!
Excellent
what is the proper way to use the thinner?
My problem is overblending and not picking the correct brush when I need to use them when I'm oil painting. I'm lucky I have the time to take a painting class at community college, not everyone has the luxury of having like 500+ bucks for materials, and the time to show up and paint.
@Jeff M well that's for sure....have a wonderful time....
Absolutely.
By cleaning brush thoroughly, ie rag + solvent the mix turpentine +siccatif stays clean. Jetter la bouillasse marron.
These tips can also apply to gouache but without the toxcisity issues! Yes everyone please be careful with the toxcisity and danger of supplies.
Informative
I also use several brushes at the same time and I wipe my brushes often when painting ala Prima.
I know acrylic and oil are pretty different, but do most of these also apply to acrylic paints? Should I be stingy with the water for acrylic paints, like you would oil? Or is it too similar to a water-based medium.
It is similar indeed. Although the medium allows more dilution and doesn't need to follow the fat over lean rule but indeed, past a certain point, you need to add an acrylic medium because too much water can be counterproductive. Acrylic has so many cool texture mediums, plenty of things to experiment...
Wow, just wow.
Happy to see like-minded fellow painters.