The Lost Rembrandt Medium? | Jannik Hösel AKA Nicksenium Shares His Painting Method
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2023
- In a world where options for an education in classical crafts are scarce, some decide to take on a more difficult and empirical approach. Being self-taught and learning by observation, Jannick Hösel is one of them, and now he has entered Odd Nerdrum’s studio where emphasis is placed on philosophy and the ability to convey a gripping story on the canvas.
Starting his paintings in a muted, cool tone, Hösel’s method allows for a great potency of the subsequent application of warmer colors.
At the time being, he is infused by the dark and torn-up portraits of Rembrandt, and is doing everything in his power to repossess the effect of the Dutch master’s technique.
Using a thick, cream-like medium, he is able to apply small, textured strokes calmly melting together, yet retaining a life-like surface with a delicious vibrancy.
Despite a meticulous method, his paintings take on the impression of weariness and age.
During Jan-Ove Tuv's latest stay at the Nerdrums, Hösel was kind enough to demonstrate his technique by mixing the medium and showcasing how the strokes behave differently.
In this video you will learn about:
• Making an egg-based painting medium
• How to go lean to fat with this medium
• Achieving a Rembrandtesque surface
You will also learn how this medium:
• Makes for a strong paint film
• Does not go matte (seems wet when dry)
• Allows soft transitions and great contrasts
• Allows new strokes on top of wet layers
• Allows you to scrape forth hair, like Rembrandt
The medium shown in this video is based on the medium of Osamu Obi:
• " A Portrait of Time" ...
Osamu Obi's paper on the subject:
www.osamu-obi.com/wp/wp-conten...
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That's practically "mayonnaise". The vinegar will probably coagulate the proteins in the egg yolk. Together with the linseed oil it creates a "tempera grassa" base, I guess. Rembrandt most certainly used ground glass and silica in his impasto paints to achieve more body, too. Raphael did this too to delineate his forms, for example. Many artists did so to save expenses on pigments. The particle size of ground pigment was very probably also part of the granulating properties of his impasto. The particles were ususally bigger than today's pigments. The lead white played a big role in more viscous mixes than our modern substitutes. There is also much evidence that hints to the use of burnt plate oil which is a traditional printmakers medium in addition to sun-dried linseed oil because its sticky and gummy consistency has been shown to be able replicate a lot of features that you find especially in late Rembrandt's paintings like on the arm of the groom in the "Jewish Bride". It's really interesting to see how he came up with his receipe and how he imitates Rembrandt's brush strokes.
Beautiful
This young man is already a remarkable painter.
Hello. Vinegar is a preservative. It’s one of the few food products that doesn’t expire. It lasts forever. Oil of cloves is also has anti bacterial properties as well as retards drying with the bonus of nice aroma. Suggestion use the egg shell, if possible, as a cup to help judge ratio. See how the yolk fills the shell, use the shell to measure the amount of vinegar. After letting the white slip between fingers roll the yolk between palms. When pretty dry find the white vein and pinch it between fingers holding it suspended over bowl. Then pierce the membrane allowing only yolk to spill into bowl. Sun thickened oil? Looks like he used about a teaspoon. He wasn’t precise with his measurements, so I think there’s some latitude in quantities.
Thanks for the info. Is it regular white vinegar?
Rembrandt also used ground silica (glass/sand) in his impasto. The latest chemical analysis states that all he used was linseed oil and ground silica.
And whiting I believe.
yooo nicksenium is officially a kitsch painter now! love it!
La receta la viste de un japones aunque hay muchas personas haciendo esa receta hace años y si, se piensa que Rembrandt pudo haberla utilizado, pero es bueno ser honesto y decir que lo viste en you tube del maestro Osamu Obi
Tempera grassa is wonderfully versatile. Can be used like a watercolour or egg tempera or as an oil paint.
Hi. Use the egg shell to measure out the vinegar. You saw how much volume the yolk took up sfter you separated. Use that amount or less for the vinegar. Then you can use the shell again to measure the oil. 1) Are all your ingredients room temperature? 2) how long does your mixture keep? 3) do you refrigerate? Thanks. Wow! You have the magic touch! Thank you.
I was expecting a recipe for marogers medium. What a great surprise! Im going to make this medium tomorrow. Your work is beautiful!! Thank you!
Painting is mans greatest gift
Spectacular!
This is incredible!❤
This painting is so beautiful😍
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. Incidentally or coincidentally, the face of the young man shines like Rembrandt painting.
A question I have is he said (6:30) 1 egg yolk, 1 or slightly less vinegar, 2-3 drops clove oil and 5 parts sun-thickened linseed oil. But then the oil added seems to be only 2-3 drops oil (7:37). Did he add more later? But the final volume didn't seem to suggest that.
Excellent!!!!!!!!
That was awesome
I’m curious about the effect of the vinegar with metal pigments (cadmiums, titanium white, some earths, etc.)… it is potentially problematic… perhaps adding calcium carbonate would neutralise the acidic action and produce calcium acetate, water and CO2… anyone with Chemistry expertise who might want to comment here?
Vinegar Bad. Alcohol Good. Lemon Juice Good. Cream of Tartar Good. Mustard Good.
I think the chronology of steps are really important. You should add the vinegar to the yolk before the paint. That way, most of it should react with the proteins, phosphate and sulfur in the yolk. Oil and vinegar don't naturally mix because their molecular structures repel each other. That's where the egg works as a emulsifier. So my opinion is that once the metal pigments are mixed into linseed oil, the oil should repel whatever amounts of vinegar is left in the solution. Oil paint usually has a ph value around 7 to 9. So, the vinegar should cause too much acidity. If you add calcium carbonate, you will increase not only the body but add an element that sucks the oil out of the colours.
@@Splatterpunk_OldNewYorki've seen a recipe adding white wine as a preservative to egg tempera
Thank you
fantastic, thank you for this sharing ! I wonder, would you use standolie too, ?
Wooow wanderful 😮👌
I just tried this and all I got was a running slops. I know you said the oil was a 5 part but I only saw you add one. It just won't thicken.
holy shit this guy's work is a head and shoulders above the rest
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Ciao, cosí hai ottenuto il medium per la tempera grassa, puoi anche usare l'acqua per diluire l'impasto del colore, ma se usi altro olio di semi di lino, il dipinto impiegherà una vita ad asciugare. So you got the medium for greasy tempera, you can also use water to dilute the color dough, but if you use more flaxseed oil, the painting will take a lifetime to dry.
Have anyone achieved a kind of stringy texture with their paint? I was able using flake white, calcite and cooking the oil but never like the old masters.
Thank You for a Brilliant video. ❤🤲🏻🙏👌 ToomCapeTown
hello, will a normal vinegar do with this recipe? thank you. really learning a lot from your videos.
reminds me of Grumbacher´s Zech, really nice stuff
It doesn't look like he added 5 parts of sun thickened linseed? Looks like he added 1 part, if that?
And why add the vinegar i wonder…
Just use liquin light gel mixed wirh stadt oil does the same.
does it cracks when canvas is wrapped in spite of the fact that the protein (yolk) is added?
its like making Hollandaise sauce without lemon and butter but its linseed oil
this is amazing! but I wonder how long can that emulsion last without going bad?
Same question 🤔
The vinegar, besides helping emulsification, helps it not go bad as quickly, clove oil helps it not dry up I guess. Osamu obi uses a similar medium and has a video on youtube. He stores it in a large syringe so it is airtight and easy to put on the palette, so I guess doing that it can stay fresh for weeks or months
@@jurirenko6203 In the Osamu Obi video comments he said that the mixture would last about 2 months. He did not use clove oil as a preservative, just the vinegar
Chemical research shows that he used egg glair, but it will work also with whole egg mixture /yolk plus glair/. Only few drops added to the paint makes perfect mayonnaise. But addition of vinegar is very bad idea and rembrandt certainly knew that. Vinegar has a tendency to react with pigments, especially based on metals, cobalts and ultramarine, so its safer not to use it in mediums. Faster and simpler way is to mix colours with pure oil and then add only a few drops of whole egg mixture. Works perfectly. Suprising thing is that the best paint-mayonnaise is made witth only, pure egg white - its very stiff, you can make very high impastos with it.
But do you have to make a fresh mixture on every sitting?
@@stephenspiteri_zunkus it depends what is inside. If you'll add turpentine the mixture will last even for days or weeks. When using egg it is always better to make smaller portions once for few days. I used to make make mixture: one part oil paint from tube, one part turpentine, half part of whole egg /you can add more paint or also add half part of linseed oil/ - and it stood for weeks or even months in my fridge.
Without a vinegar or some kind of preservative could there be issues with the egg rotting or growing mold? I’ve tried this with egg glair, egg white, egg yolk, and a mix of them. It works perfectly but I’m worried about how archival it’d be
What is the actilual difference between sun thikened linseed oil and standoil in quality or behaviour?
Modern stand oil is made in a vacuum. As a result its shit (in my opinion). It dries very slow. It’s made in a lab i believe in an inorganic process. Whereas likely traditional “stand oil” was made by letting oil “stand” (sit) for a long time…
Not artificially heating it or depriving it of oxygen.
Sun thickened oil dries in 2 days tops, smells good, is sticky when working; within an hour of modeling you can carefully work into the paint with technical brushes. Stand oil needs turpentine to behave.
Where do you get clove oil from ?
Anywhere that sells essential oils. Pharmacies, supermarkets, ebay, and so on. It's got a long reputation in skincare and pain relief remedies, so even if a place has a poor selection of oils, one of them should be clove oil.
@@vermis8344clove oil is implicated in degradation of the medium. I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.
Por favor, podrían traducir al español?
Gracias!!
What is the music used on this video?
Schumann's A Minor Concerto.
@@SchoolofApelles Thanks!
Temple grasso, muy hermoso, lo que no entiendo es por qué usan pintura de tubo.
I’d like to know where this medium is documented.
I think anyone can come up with an impasto medium and say it’s the lost medium of Rembrandt .
Yes and I believe oil of cloves is problematic too. I want the latest conservator’s opinion before I would touch this medium.
Interesanta reteta de medium.Odd Nerdrum o folosea . Rembrandt cred ca folosea lacul,smaltul,smoala pentru mediumurile sale,le putem banui ,dar reteta sigura nu !
No he did not have resins/varnishes in his paints apparently. but a protein which is likely egg was found, as well as bodied oil
How about that white paint though??
What is that made of?
@School of Apelles
Lead white.
Where is the peer reviewed analysis of this medium? All very anecdotal without it. All I see here is a conservators nightmare unless it can be backed up.
This is just another type of "megilp": gum mastic and turpentine mixed with linseed oil and lead white. Wood-grainers and painters who specialise in marbling use this to great effect. But the young man has lovely touch. Beautiful work
There are great painters among pupils of nerdrum. But in my opinion, there is no need for searching secret mediums or materials, or even techniques, when it comes to Rembrandt. His secret is to be found from innerself. Humanity and empathy, pure Joy of painting, and melting that intuitively on your brushwork. That is more likely the way to reveal "secret" of Rembrandt and other masters.
There's something to be said about the materials as with modern painting It's almost way too clean now. With Rembrandt, there's also his ground on his canvas that really provided the texture for his paintings, rather than painstakingly paint the texture, and then of course his use of impasto. If a student studied him without impasto, they'd certainly feel some frustration.
@@c3ramics I understand your point, but still disagree. For me Rembrandt is number one painter of all time, because of atmosphere in his work, and that is something beyond materials and technique. Of course you can't reach that atmosphere without mastering painting techniques. I still believe, If Rembrandt would Time travel to this era, he would be thrilled to use paints from tubes, and even gessoed canvas, and still paint masterpieces. Because you can find the same atmosphere and soul on his drawings and ink sketches as well.
Light, focus, reduction….
That is a very nice romantic concept/ideal lol but rembrandt clearly used other mediums or materials than we have today and this made tremendous impact in his work. No doubt his mind and mental attitude were also part but it is quite discrediting (and ignorant, no offense) to say his materials played no part, or even small part in his works)
No doubt he was a very talented painter and in my opinion a genius and master of his craft. And his soul played a part but the materials and processes of the old masters including rembrandt are of vital importance.
His work cannot be duplicated with modern paints and methods.
@@joukobehm6515 “atmosphere” is also only one aspect of his or other’s work. Perhaps you mean mystery?
Because atmospheric effects can be recreated with any medium.
And what about the proportions?
It seems he did not put the 5 parts linseed oil to egg yolk..
@School of Apelles
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@@SchoolofApelles okay but that doesn’t answer the question and I can’t afford monthly subscriptions.. I don’t even know which tier it would be under
@@erxfav3197 It is under the $10 subscription. There has been a direct link to the full video on our Patreon in the description of this video all along.
It is Absolutely beautiful to read Allllll the comments. I learn so much about various understandings. Thank You to Allllll❤🤲🏻🙏👌✨️ ToomCapeTown
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Since I'm no admirer of Nerdrum, it follows that all his students are equally likely to inherit his poor habits as well as that overbearing maudlin content and its unpleasant wooden curtain of pseudo-profundity. So I don't see much here.
Agreed.
I wish you well . This video has much faulty advice and facts- (1) the artist uses a brush to mix paint with his mayonnaise mixture : this leads to poor mixtures- to get accurate mixtures homogenized you need to use a palette knife and a flat grinding stone (2) DO NOT USE EGG YOLK: the yolk of egg is over 97 % egg oil - egg oil is a very weak oil . The better part of the egg for oil painting is the clear GLAIR that is limpid and quick drying . It contains 15% albumen which is the main control ingredient to control the RHEOLOGY ( flow) of the oil. The egg clear is frothed and distilled into a clear even solution- On its own,Egg cannot be mixed with oil paint because it floats and resists- but you can mix egg with oil paint if you first mix the glair with oil , thus, creating an emulsion, ( which took you 12 minutes to make with a whisk- the glair oil emulsion takes 1 minute to mix in a small jar- ) then the EMULSION easily mixes with oil paint. (3) YOU have your ratio wrong- to make an efficient emulsion for oil painting use , you must have more oil than egg- I recommend 3 parts oil and 2 parts glair (4) THIXOTROPY ( the ability to paint a new oil paint layer on top of a wet oil paint without disrupting the previous still wet surface) is well described in Professor Ernst Van De Wetering’s 1998 book on Rembrandt - (4) you use too much vi rest! Use only 3 drop or use alcoholic spirits liquor to stop the purée fixation of the egg - CONCLUSION: Your video is misleading - thank you: Louis R velasquez : CALCITE SUN OIL ( books and videos on UA-cam and Amazon)
Life is for learning. Not to nit pick your concerns, but the white of the egg is preferable for painting on vellum, manuscript illumination. For oil painting it is indeed the yolk to be used, as the yolk contains the emulsifying agent: lecithin. Lecithin allows the water content of the vinegar to combine with the oil.
Of course, all of this is as a flash light probing into the darkness of understanding Rembrandt. It may be a piece of the puzzle but definitely not to be confused with the entire puzzle. The only true answers would come from time travel. And even then one would have to follow Rembrandt throughout his life. As his technique was continuously evolving over a long career. He would never have 'one' medium, secret or otherwise. And he employed many mediums and techniques.
What is impressive here is the artist is in search of understanding and exploring the chemical natures of art materials. Materials are not dull, dead things whipped up to produce paintings. There are physical interactions to learn of. Unseen properties when materials methods are intermixed. We must remain curious, enthusiastic in our query, excited by our results, but critical in our reasoning. That's all we have until they invent time travel. But please do remain critical. It is essential for genuine progress to be made.
Why would you add all this shit to commercial oil paints to make them look like handmade oil paints... this whole thing is very ironic..
Off you go then, secure in the knowledge that you're grinding your superior handmade paints in utter obscurity.
why all this people are dressed like 16 century ? no nike shirts or iPhones ? is that like a place you go back in time ? very cool .... I would dress myself like Rubens with a big hat and feathers .....LOL