A subscriber asked about techniques for painting Impasto. Art teacher/Artist Dianne Mize demonstrates some commonly used skills to get the desired results.
This is my first lesson and I genuinely appreciate your thoroughness. You're an excellent instructor and so very kind to share your amazing gifts as an artist! I'm a new subscriber and I look forward to more of your lessons. Thank you!
Thankyou,once again. You are so generous with the amount of time you put into your free tips. I learn something every time, and it’s not always relating to the quick tip tuitorial. Thankyou once again. Ps. You do so well to concentrate when Charlie is in the background trying to create havoc and also steal the limelight. 🐕
It's my pleasure, Robyn. About Charley, he's a perpetual limelight stealer while his sister, Lizzy, sleeps through the entire thing. Charley will be Charley.
Charley does manage to make himself know on occasion. Lizzy, his sister, is always present, too, but once we start filming, she leaps on her special chair and goes to sleep. The pooch, Maggie, left us for the rainbow bridge a while back.
Looks like I have another reason to visit my local art store again! Lol this looks like it would be so much fun to use, thank you again Dianne for helping all of us viewers with all your quick tips.
Thanks Dianne....I always thought that the cold waxes were only for very advanced painters. Now I’m less intimidated to try it. Thank you as always for your generous tips.
Great. I love knowing my explanations are clear. Yep, Charley is adorable, though he can be quite persistent when he wants something and doesn't feel his wants are being addressed.
Love this video . 😻😌🥰 I did lots of experimentation with acrylics adding all kinds of stuff to the paint.. What a great demonstration on impasto. Love the way you combine the texture and changing the value of the colors. I see now what i need to improve. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎨😻👀🥰
My pleasure! We have currently 366 Quick Tips and we add a new one every week. Also, I have full video lessons and courses available at https.diannemize.com
Wow this was a winner, Dianne!!! I loved the effects that you got and to get to see you apply it was so very helpful! And of course, Charly! Thank you for sharing another amazing QT!
Really enjoyed learning about impasto. I'm trying to do a painting for my wife. Need to see how leaves are done impasto. Enjoy all your instructions. Also, love the cat.
Loving vocal Charley, as bad as my cat Ivy when I ignore her, oh and great tutorial, my impasto gel came today so I am going to have a go soon at impasto. I got Windsor and Newton impasto.
When I started this video I told my cat to knock it off! Ha! I've never used a wax medium...I don't think I'll start. Maybe I'm a paint waster. There are paints you can buy with the medium in it now and I avoid them usually. I enjoyed this and agree with swiftness of brush strokes as well. Dianne, you put all of my art teachers to shame.
I am very new to painting found it to be very therapeutic after my car accident and spending almost a year in a wheelchair! With that said I absolutely love it now. Thank you for such an amazing video you explain things so well. I do need some advise please. I really like the style of eassel you are using in this video can you tell me who makes it and the style? Also any chance you remember where you purchased it or where I can get one like it? Thank you for all of your help I love your channel have a wonderful week.
Thank you, Diane for this video. I want to try a Rembrandt portrait for study of impasto...I believe he added sand of some kind to his paint mixtures too...in his later works.
Nikki, keep in mind that during Rembrandt's time, artist had to make their own paints. How those pigment got ground determined their texture. Add to that the process they used for making the ground of their painting surface. You might benefit from watching this UA-cam video -- ua-cam.com/video/SA83FCQCmhc/v-deo.html -- The language is Dutch, but there are subtitles.
Calcium carbonate can also be mixed with the paint to give it more body. It doesn't affect the colour in any way. Rembrandt used it quite extensively in his days.
No, I just read a lot of old books about painting. I have thought about studying Art History, though. Glad I can be of some help. Thanks for the great videos.
I never use wax with flake white ... it yellows with this pigment in my experience. Bold impastos grab my eyes. I wish I could be bolder with this. Utmost blessings!
Does impasto take longer to dry/cure than just a regular oil painting? I am assuming maybe yes because of the thickness of the paint when mixing with wax medium. I absolutely adore your teaching style, and this is a complement - your accent reminds me of Jimmy Carter - so pleasing to listen to your kind voice.
To answer your question, Terri: yes. Unlike acrylic, oil paint oxidizes from the paint surface where the oxygen hits it first down to where it touches the canvas. Sometimes, it can take a year or more before all the paint is hardened. To my accent, you made me smile. Jimmy Carter and I are both natives of Georgia. He's from south Georgia and I'm from north Georgia. We both are of a generation when the southern accent was detectibly Georgian.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you for the reply. I am so new to oil painting as a medium that it is extremely helpful to me to learn how the paint and additives work. I am so used to the instant gratification of acrylic and I am so afraid of ending up with a piece I love in oil and it never drying - especially with the cold wax. :-) I'm glad I made you smile and I hope the Georgian accent doesn't disappear entirely, it is so lovely. I'm a fan of accents and Georgia is a favorite. :-) Thank you again for the generosity of your quick tips instruction :-)
Lol! In my first video attempt to you Dianne I had my Hen's and the neighbors Rooster talking to each other in the background..I was disappointed they stopped for the finished video. Great Quick Tip! After working with watercolor more so lately, any oil painting seems impasto to me!
Thank you so much for covering this topic. I have a quick question, if you don't mind. Does using the cold wax slow down or speed up the drying time? Thanks again. And I think Charley wants to be part of the video! I'm all for it! 😀
Thank you for demonstrating how to use this technique. I was wondering how would you compare the cold wax versus the some gels i've seen in the market. Thank you Dianne, from another Dianne.
No no - they are for oils. For acrylics look for heavy gel, impasto gel, modeling paste or 3D gel there is a ton of products. I use Rembrand acrylics they are quite heavy and I use them easily, they dry sharp. Also Schmintzke acrylics are very heavy and dry well. School grade acrylics dry flatter, they lose sharp edges, but if you add gel, all is fine. Good products are as usual from liquitec, look here www.liquitex.com/GelMediums/ You can chose heavier or lighter, depending on the result you want to achieve. It's better to use highly pigmented paint though, the media will dilute color a bit.
Great demonstration of impasto technique, Dianne. Question: how do you utilize impasto in painting objects in the distance while still maintaining a sense of atmospheric perspective in the entire painting? Maybe this is best left to another quick tip topic, but can you comment on whether impasto textures in a landscape "background" are problematic if the foreground subject is also highly textured with impasto painting technique?
Grant. I think this would make a good Quick Tip, so I'll put it on the schedule. Meanwhile, if we reduce the value contrast and intensity of the colors we're using, the impasto can translate atmospheric perspective, regardless of how pronounced it is.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Perhaps occasionally shining a spotlight across the painted surface at a shallow raking angle would help to show the impasto better. Almost feels like the darks would be better painted or knifed in flatter with the highlights in impasto, contrasting with those flat dark shadow areas - but hey, guess there is no one way to paint. I presume cold wax is going to take a year to dry....so mixing a drying medium might help. Humm, I've a one gallon drum cold wax that needs using up so thanks for inspired me to have a go. Interesting as ever, many thanks for the tutorial.
It seems that painting in oil and cold wax medium is becoming more popular, especially in creating intuitive and abstract paintings. I really enjoyed your painting. I love roosters and it was good to see oil and wax medium used in a more realist way. I recently started playing with this and I love the feel of the mixture and how it applies to the surface. I like to experiment and recently played with adding a bit of calcium carbonate to acrylics for the impasto technique. So far, I like that. Can calcium carbonate powder be added to oil paint as well? Would it dull the colours, make the paint more matte? Thanks for your quick tips. You are so kind to share with us. Charlie is adorable!!!
Lillian, I don't know whether calcium carbonate can be added to oil without weakening its integrity. What we have to watch for when adding anything to our paints, whether acrylic or oils. is whether the additive will cause cracking as the surface dries. For oils, that won't really show up immediately because oils dry by slow oxidation rather than evaporation so it's later on in the oxidation process when cracking appears if the integrity has been weakened.
The biggest reason is that if the wax is not mixed into the paint, there is risk of it cracking. In time, because of the difference in the drying rate between the wax and the paint, the bind between them could fail.
as a videographer that's trying to see what your showing us ...please not so much zooming out just show what she's doing we don't need to see her all the time we need to see what she's doing if you can shoot it cropping in the pallet the brush her hands movements so we can actually see what she's doing we can certainly hear what she says but we don't need to see the whole entire body just what she is trying to show us and have a second video shooting closer of her and edit her in when he hands aren't in on the pallet sorry if its hard for me to see some of the time when its important its gotta be for others who are having trouble seeing thank you in advance ...don't get me wrong I love and appreciate all the help and tips I can get its not personal... a subscribe and 2 thumbs up for the info.
Thank You very much for information about imposter ! Can I ask you to write your favorite name of Impasto ,,because I would like to buy it Bat for me difficult to quite understand the name what impasto you like it Please write me name. Thanks Natasha
Impasto requires a stiffer surface than paper because the paint being thicker, it needs a strong support to prevent cracking after drying. Any strong archival support, even a well-stretched canvas, will work.
its a great video. learned a lot. Can I use this impasto over dry liquin medium ? if i follow fat on lean. Is this a fat or lean medium? I would like to build more layers.
That will probably work fine. Fat over lean is comparative=the bottom layer should be leaner than the subsequent layers, so it's misleading to call any single medium fatter or leaner than another.
Thank you for these excellent videos. When you use oil paint and a medium like a cold wax medium, do you call the work an oil painting or a mixed media painting? Thanks!
It is best not to use too many additives because it interferes with the integrity of the paint and risks cracking as it dries. Oil oxidizes rather than dries by evaporation, so the surface might appear to be dry while the paint is still wet underneath. If you apply paint on top of that surface, the top layer might crack. Liquin Oleoimpasto does speed drying somewhat, but still the surface will dry prior to paint underneath it.
Please do you have videos on how to use different palette knives? I love to do impasto. I use the texturing paste from Hobby lobby and Michaels liquitex brand.but will appreciate if you can respond this again
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I wouldn't trust a studio that didn't have a cat :D love Charlie, carry on
What does a cat have to do with a studio? Grrrr....meow!
Charley will be Charley. His sister, Lizzy, is also a studio kitty, but has learned to sleep on her special chair while we are filming.
Whatever... Grrrr
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction That's a smart cat. Those I like...❤
I wouldn't want a studio with those sneaky litterbox stepping, kitchen counter jumping shredders 😆
As an art teacher myself I am learning so much from you Dianne, thank you! You are the best on UA-cam
Thanks, Richard.
This is my first lesson and I genuinely appreciate your thoroughness. You're an excellent instructor and so very kind to share your amazing gifts as an artist! I'm a new subscriber and I look forward to more of your lessons. Thank you!
Welcome aboard.
Paused the video, thought it was my cat! Love your work! You are seriously the best art instructor on the internet!!
Wow, thank you! (In more than one of these, one of my cats has something to say or makes a cameo appearance :)
Thank you! I learned so much watching this video. Thank you for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Thankyou,once again. You are so generous with the amount of time you put into your free tips. I learn something every time, and it’s not always relating to the quick tip tuitorial. Thankyou once again. Ps. You do so well to concentrate when Charlie is in the background trying to create havoc and also steal the limelight. 🐕
It's my pleasure, Robyn. About Charley, he's a perpetual limelight stealer while his sister, Lizzy, sleeps through the entire thing. Charley will be Charley.
Ignore Charlie? Nooooooooo!
Hi Chatlie ❤️
Please thank your Mum for her helpful videos. 🙂
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The most comprehensive quick tip ever! Thank you for your video :)
Thanks! My pleasure.
Saw Charlie he's cute saw the pooch too, Dianne we spectators r so blessed to get your instructions thanks
Charley does manage to make himself know on occasion. Lizzy, his sister, is always present, too, but once we start filming, she leaps on her special chair and goes to sleep. The pooch, Maggie, left us for the rainbow bridge a while back.
Your voice is really calming. Thanks for the tips!
My pleasure.
Looks like I have another reason to visit my local art store again! Lol this looks like it would be so much fun to use, thank you again Dianne for helping all of us viewers with all your quick tips.
I'm delighted you are supporting your local art store. Have fun with this.
This is the best demo of cold wax I have seen. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
You are a treasure Dianne.
Thanks, Kevin!
I love your channel! Thank you for so many amazing videos. Have a wonderful Sunday.
Thanks, Paul.
That was a very helpful quick tip.
Great! Give it a try and have fun with it.
Another excellent teaching. I love the fact you have a cat in the studio!!
Thank you! 😊Actually, we have two cats in the studio. Only one of them participates in the action.
This is a super impasto medium lesson. I'm working with oil pastels in a Vincent Van Gog style and this is most helpful. Thanks. Love to Charlie.
You are so welcome! And Charley send love back.
Thanks Dianne....I always thought that the cold waxes were only for very advanced painters. Now I’m less intimidated to try it. Thank you as always for your generous tips.
Moncia, nothing is for advanced painters except their experience.
I thought there is a cat outside my window and I look for it 😂 thank you very much. i enjoyed watching you. ❤️
That's my Charley. We always hope he's napping while we are filming, else most likely, you will hear from him. Thanks for watching.
Awesome and informative video. I love watching you. You are easy to understand and give all needed information. Charlie seems adorable also
Great. I love knowing my explanations are clear.
Yep, Charley is adorable, though he can be quite persistent when he wants something and doesn't feel his wants are being addressed.
@@IntheStudioArtInstructionhe is spoiled. 😉just shows he is loved the right way.
Thank you for this instruction! You're a treat! ♥️
My pleasure. Thanks!
You are such a good expainer!!!
Thanks.
Thank you Dianne for tips on impasto work - yes Charlie is a character but he is family too and letting you know what he wants.!
Yep, you are on point about Charley.
I absolutely love this channel. You've helped me so much this year.
Love it!
Thank you for this. I have not studied impasto at all. I have 2 black chickens I can paint. You keep my attention. Thank you for your time.
I think you'll have fun playing with this.
Love this video . 😻😌🥰 I did lots of experimentation with acrylics adding all kinds of stuff to the paint.. What a great demonstration on impasto. Love the way you combine the texture and changing the value of the colors. I see now what i need to improve.
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Enjoy the journey!
Really useful, so many tips. Thank you Dianne.
My pleasure.
This is very helpful lesson, thank your very much your technical experience. I love to see your move videos.
My pleasure! We have currently 366 Quick Tips and we add a new one every week. Also, I have full video lessons and courses available at https.diannemize.com
Love your content, your teaching style is fantastic and you cover such useful subjects, very grateful. Love the cat!! :-)
Thanks for your comment. And Charley sends his meow.
Wow this was a winner, Dianne!!! I loved the effects that you got and to get to see you apply it was so very helpful! And of course, Charly! Thank you for sharing another amazing QT!
Maybe I should have used Charley as the subject...🙃
In the Studio Art Instruction Absolutely - a great idea but I did love the rooster!
I enjoyed this video very much as always. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for watching. It's a pleasure to share these.
Very interesting!!! Thank you Dianne!!!
You are welcome!
Excellent information- thanks, Diane!
Thanks for watching!
I'm From The Philippines And This Video Is Recommended By Our Schooling System To Paint In Our Art Class During These Pandemic Times.
Thanks for telling me about this. I am delighted!
Very informative. Thank you.
My pleasure.
Thank you, for all your Great lessons !
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
You’re inspiring Diane. Thank you xo
Thank YOU.
Awwwwwww charlie in the background so cute !
Charley does manage to take part when he's not napping.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction love your channel!
I love cold wax. I use it a lot with brushes!! Gives great texture!
Fun stuff, isn't it!
I liked for the video, and subscribed for the meowing!
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Ha ha, I thought I heard a cat outside in distress, so went out to look for it!
My Charley pulls his distress ploy whenever he either loses his acorn or wants attention. Does get one's attention, doesn't it.
Lovely video ! Thank you for the great tips and demonstration
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Really enjoyed learning about impasto. I'm trying to do a painting for my wife. Need to see how leaves are done impasto. Enjoy all your instructions. Also, love the cat.
Have fun with it. (The cat is an extra bonus :)
great tips thank you....I loved how confident you are on video :)))) Inspired to get infant of video by you
Thanks for watching.
thanks for the tip about gamblin's wax medium...i've been wanting to try impasto on my oil paintings!!
Have fun!
Thank you for your lessons. I really enjoy them. Vast knowledge!
Thanks, Luz.
Thank you! Impasto is the style I like to paint.
My pleasure, Karl.
What a sweet heart thanks for the tips!
Thank you! My pleasure to share these.
I'm really enjoying watching your channel. My dog, Muffin, was looking for Charlie!!!
That's cute. Charley is the most vocal cat I've ever had. Glad you're enjoying the channel.
love your tips! thank you for this video
My pleasure.
Loving vocal Charley, as bad as my cat Ivy when I ignore her, oh and great tutorial, my impasto gel came today so I am going to have a go soon at impasto. I got Windsor and Newton impasto.
Love the texture better with impasto 👍🏻❤️
Wonderful demo. Thank you!
My pleasure.
When I started this video I told my cat to knock it off! Ha! I've never used a wax medium...I don't think I'll start. Maybe I'm a paint waster. There are paints you can buy with the medium in it now and I avoid them usually. I enjoyed this and agree with swiftness of brush strokes as well. Dianne, you put all of my art teachers to shame.
I don't use a wax medium in my painting either, but I wanted folks to know that it's an option.
Thanks for that vote of confidence.
Lovely video! Thank you for sharing
My pleasure.
Such a valuable lesson I had this in the set I bought , l did not know what to do with it ☺️👏🙏👌
Now you do!
I am very new to painting found it to be very therapeutic after my car accident and spending almost a year in a wheelchair! With that said I absolutely love it now. Thank you for such an amazing video you explain things so well. I do need some advise please. I really like the style of eassel you are using in this video can you tell me who makes it and the style? Also any chance you remember where you purchased it or where I can get one like it? Thank you for all of your help I love your channel have a wonderful week.
Thanks, Paul. My easel is a Sienna Pochade Box. It's their original design, but the designs today are very close. Blick Art Materials carries them.
Your kitty may bother you, but he is not bothering me. I think it adds to your tutorial. THe soft touch. :)
I think whether Charley's (the kitty) contributions disturb people depends upon either whether they like cats or how easily they are irritated.
Finally someone posts a video with paste who knows correct technique, not arts & crafts "technique".
Thanks.
Thank you, Diane for this video. I want to try a Rembrandt portrait for study of impasto...I believe he added sand of some kind to his paint mixtures too...in his later works.
Nikki, keep in mind that during Rembrandt's time, artist had to make their own paints. How those pigment got ground determined their texture. Add to that the process they used for making the ground of their painting surface. You might benefit from watching this UA-cam video -- ua-cam.com/video/SA83FCQCmhc/v-deo.html -- The language is Dutch, but there are subtitles.
Calcium carbonate can also be mixed with the paint to give it more body. It doesn't affect the colour in any way. Rembrandt used it quite extensively in his days.
Fabrizio, I am curious. Are you an art historian? Thanks for the historical bits you add to these discussions.
No, I just read a lot of old books about painting. I have thought about studying Art History, though. Glad I can be of some help. Thanks for the great videos.
nice teachers good lesson thanks
You are welcome
Love Charlie , he's joining in . Xx
He IS quite the talker.
❤️ Charlie in the background! My puppy is curious!
I smile.
Very very good!thank you!
My pleasure.
I never use wax with flake white ... it yellows with this pigment in my experience. Bold impastos grab my eyes. I wish I could be bolder with this. Utmost blessings!
The wax must be artist grade white wax. It's not something I use myself, but it is an option for impasto.
Does impasto take longer to dry/cure than just a regular oil painting? I am assuming maybe yes because of the thickness of the paint when mixing with wax medium. I absolutely adore your teaching style, and this is a complement - your accent reminds me of Jimmy Carter - so pleasing to listen to your kind voice.
To answer your question, Terri: yes. Unlike acrylic, oil paint oxidizes from the paint surface where the oxygen hits it first down to where it touches the canvas. Sometimes, it can take a year or more before all the paint is hardened.
To my accent, you made me smile. Jimmy Carter and I are both natives of Georgia. He's from south Georgia and I'm from north Georgia. We both are of a generation when the southern accent was detectibly Georgian.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you for the reply. I am so new to oil painting as a medium that it is extremely helpful to me to learn how the paint and additives work. I am so used to the instant gratification of acrylic and I am so afraid of ending up with a piece I love in oil and it never drying - especially with the cold wax. :-) I'm glad I made you smile and I hope the Georgian accent doesn't disappear entirely, it is so lovely. I'm a fan of accents and Georgia is a favorite. :-) Thank you again for the generosity of your quick tips instruction :-)
Thank you!
You bet!
Charlie needs his acorn, I think. ☺️
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Very helpful!
Charley's always losing his acorn. Thanks for watching.
Lol! In my first video attempt to you Dianne I had my Hen's and the neighbors Rooster talking to each other in the background..I was disappointed they stopped for the finished video. Great Quick Tip! After working with watercolor more so lately, any oil painting seems impasto to me!
Having them chatter in the background would have been great, Gerald. Come up with another invention and film it while they're doing their thing.
Thanks a lot great tutorial. Hugs to Charlie!!
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Thank you so much for covering this topic. I have a quick question, if you don't mind. Does using the cold wax slow down or speed up the drying time? Thanks again. And I think Charley wants to be part of the video! I'm all for it! 😀
The Gamblin Cold Was actually enhances the drying time.
About Charley--you think?
Another subscriber because of Charlie :)
Charley is grateful :)
Thank you for demonstrating how to use this technique. I was wondering how would you compare the cold wax versus the some gels i've seen in the market. Thank you Dianne, from another Dianne.
How rare to see another Dianne has two "n's" in the spelling of her name. Thanks for watching!
Did not know about this....thank you. I work in acrylics so I guess I would look for the same product?
No no - they are for oils. For acrylics look for heavy gel, impasto gel, modeling paste or 3D gel there is a ton of products. I use Rembrand acrylics they are quite heavy and I use them easily, they dry sharp. Also Schmintzke acrylics are very heavy and dry well. School grade acrylics dry flatter, they lose sharp edges, but if you add gel, all is fine. Good products are as usual from liquitec, look here www.liquitex.com/GelMediums/
You can chose heavier or lighter, depending on the result you want to achieve. It's better to use highly pigmented paint though, the media will dilute color a bit.
Thanks, Tom!
Great video. Hi to Charlie!
Thanks. Charley sends you his most enthusiastic meow.
Thanks again Dianne. My question is: when do you know you have chosen the right subject matter?
Patrizia, you know it when you want to paint it. It's that simple. If it doesn't appeal to you, then it's the wrong subject matter for you.
Great demonstration of impasto technique, Dianne. Question: how do you utilize impasto in painting objects in the distance while still maintaining a sense of atmospheric perspective in the entire painting? Maybe this is best left to another quick tip topic, but can you comment on whether impasto textures in a landscape "background" are problematic if the foreground subject is also highly textured with impasto painting technique?
Grant. I think this would make a good Quick Tip, so I'll put it on the schedule. Meanwhile, if we reduce the value contrast and intensity of the colors we're using, the impasto can translate atmospheric perspective, regardless of how pronounced it is.
I love your teaching. But the camera needs to be closer up to the the painting so we can see the details of the painting
Thanks, Samuel.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Perhaps occasionally shining a spotlight across the painted surface at a shallow raking angle would help to show the impasto better. Almost feels like the darks would be better painted or knifed in flatter with the highlights in impasto, contrasting with those flat dark shadow areas - but hey, guess there is no one way to paint. I presume cold wax is going to take a year to dry....so mixing a drying medium might help. Humm, I've a one gallon drum cold wax that needs using up so thanks for inspired me to have a go. Interesting as ever, many thanks for the tutorial.
It seems that painting in oil and cold wax medium is becoming more popular, especially in creating intuitive and abstract paintings. I really enjoyed your painting. I love roosters and it was good to see oil and wax medium used in a more realist way. I recently started playing with this and I love the feel of the mixture and how it applies to the surface. I like to experiment and recently played with adding a bit of calcium carbonate to acrylics for the impasto technique. So far, I like that. Can calcium carbonate powder be added to oil paint as well? Would it dull the colours, make the paint more matte? Thanks for your quick tips. You are so kind to share with us. Charlie is adorable!!!
Lillian, I don't know whether calcium carbonate can be added to oil without weakening its integrity. What we have to watch for when adding anything to our paints, whether acrylic or oils. is whether the additive will cause cracking as the surface dries. For oils, that won't really show up immediately because oils dry by slow oxidation rather than evaporation so it's later on in the oxidation process when cracking appears if the integrity has been weakened.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for getting back to me on this.@@IntheStudioArtInstruction
I think i'd just used the paint straight from the tube. Mediums cost way too much and oil is cheaper than acrylic - I dont mind!
I don't find medium helpful at all. Once we learn how to control the paint straight out of the tube, medium becomes totally unnecessary.
Very helpfull thankss😊☺
My pleasure.
great job
Thanks.
thank you.
Great 👍🏻 thank you! Is there anything beside that medium that I can use? Maybe a diy recipe or something from a hardware store? Thanks again 🌷
Not really, Mosio. You have to be careful that you don't use anything that will destroy the integrity of the paint.
Is there a reason you wouldn't put the wax onto the canvas and then put paint on top of that?
The biggest reason is that if the wax is not mixed into the paint, there is risk of it cracking. In time, because of the difference in the drying rate between the wax and the paint, the bind between them could fail.
You’re a gift
Thanks!!!
as a videographer that's trying to see what your showing us ...please not so much zooming out just show what she's doing we don't need to see her all the time we need to see what she's doing if you can shoot it cropping in the pallet the brush her hands movements so we can actually see what she's doing we can certainly hear what she says but we don't need to see the whole entire body just what she is trying to show us and have a second video shooting closer of her and edit her in when he hands aren't in on the pallet sorry if its hard for me to see some of the time when its important its gotta be for others who are having trouble seeing thank you in advance ...don't get me wrong I love and appreciate all the help and tips I can get its not personal... a subscribe and 2 thumbs up for the info.
Thank You very much for information about imposter ! Can I ask you to write your favorite name of Impasto ,,because I would like to buy it Bat for me difficult to quite understand the name what impasto you like it Please write me name.
Thanks
Natasha
Impasto is a technique, not a material. It simply means painting thickly.
You’re using oil paints right? Or acrylic?
Yes, oils.
Would it be possible to do impasto on paper? If not, what surface(s) would you recommend?
Impasto requires a stiffer surface than paper because the paint being thicker, it needs a strong support to prevent cracking after drying. Any strong archival support, even a well-stretched canvas, will work.
its a great video. learned a lot. Can I use this impasto over dry liquin medium ? if i follow fat on lean. Is this a fat or lean medium? I would like to build more layers.
That will probably work fine. Fat over lean is comparative=the bottom layer should be leaner than the subsequent layers, so it's misleading to call any single medium fatter or leaner than another.
Thank you for these excellent videos. When you use oil paint and a medium like a cold wax medium, do you call the work an oil painting or a mixed media painting? Thanks!
I'd call it oil and wax medium.
How can I dry my impasto paintings dry quickly
If you are using oils, there are alkyd-based impasto mediums that are speed up drying. Check out Gamblin's Galkyd Gel.
Thanks for this video. I have Liquin Oleoimpasto and have not used it. Can I add anything else to it? Can you layer on top?
It is best not to use too many additives because it interferes with the integrity of the paint and risks cracking as it dries. Oil oxidizes rather than dries by evaporation, so the surface might appear to be dry while the paint is still wet underneath. If you apply paint on top of that surface, the top layer might crack. Liquin Oleoimpasto does speed drying somewhat, but still the surface will dry prior to paint underneath it.
Love what your teaching, but please keep camera zoomed in to see the details of the painting better
We're working on that.
Please do you have videos on how to use different palette knives? I love to do impasto. I use the texturing paste from Hobby lobby and Michaels liquitex brand.but will appreciate if you can respond this again
Check out Quick Tip 37 - ua-cam.com/video/j7xZRxqE1MY/v-deo.html
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