I really like how you virtually dispense with adding solvent for your first layer paint application and instead "season" your canvas with the poppy oil/Gamsol blend. Then control of how much paint you pick up, application pressures, brush to canvas angles. So much information and yet so easily understandable at the same time. I appreciate how you answered the viewer's question.
Great tip and you gave me exactly what I needed after painting en plein air this morning on a modest 8x10 canvas. My friends and I painted at out local park near a little stream with lots of foliage and various species of trees, none of which I could name. To make a long story brief, I ended up with a timid attempt and even though I painted a value study, my final painting looked too gray. After watching your video, I realized that I was not holding my brush at the proper angle, my paint was too stiff, I painted over the value study and should have oiled out before I began, and I should have brought veridian or pthalo green for my darks and mixed up various values of greens before I started. Honestly Dianne, you are the best online teacher when it comes to dealing with practical matters. Thank you so much!
Great tip. I found as I watched that I have picked this up to some extent by watching so many of your lessons. Guess I didn't even realize! Thank you for being so helpful and and such an inspirational instructor! It has made such a difference in my art. I love being able to continually learn and grow.
I started painting again recently but I use acrylics; I’m going try this tip u gave us because I have found so many of your videos are very useful to me even though I paint with acrylics so, I WILL CONTINUE TO TUNE IN! Thank you so very much!
Sylvia, what a lot of people don't realize is that mixing color works the same in acrylics as in oils. Color principles don't change from on medium to another. Only the techniques of working with the material is different.
Neat video! I wouldn't have thought to put gamsol/oil in a spray bottle, and it's a nice technique! Be really careful, though! I used large amounts of Gamsol to clean printing presses years ago, and it's incredibly dangerous stuff. You can become suddenly allergic rather quickly (our professor had us clean the presses because she was so sensitive, and made sure we suited up appropriately), so it's best to keep it off the skin and wear a respirator if you don't have enough ventilation. When it evaporates, it goes into the air... and into your lungs. Because you start with a gamsol/oil spray, this doesn't seem entirely solvent-free; couldn't one couch with just plain linseed/walnut/poppyseed oil and avoid the solvents entirely?
We all must use care when we are working with oil painting materials, especially if we are sensitive to some solvents. But it is best to use good sense rather than handicap the process.
Hi Dianne. Another wonderful tip. Would you do a quick tip on painting on a wood panel? I love painting oils on wood, but am not sure if I’m prepping the board properly, and would love any tips on this format. Thank you, Kat
Kat, there are available in most art supply stores wood panels that are already primed and ready to use. Since I don't use wood panels, I don't feel I'm qualified to do a Quick Tip on the process. However, there are a number of UA-cam videos on the subject. Just search in UA-cam for "priming wood panels for oil painting".
Hi Diane, I've just stumbled across you channel and have found your tips so easy to follow. It is obvious that you are a gifted teacher... I have a question about watercolour - do you have any tips for 'loose' watercolour painting?
That's a broad one, Ramona. Nita Engle was the master of loose watercolor painting. There are very few of her videos on line, but check out those that are there. Here's a good place to start : ua-cam.com/video/I1_Ii31iM_I/v-deo.html
Viva. The best material for minimizing dry dust is a Swifter Sweeper dry refills, and the best material for prevent lint for wet applications are gauze pads.
Thank you, you are the best, your pieces of advice are so detailed and very well explained. Do you know if I could use Maimeri Eco Medium instead of Gamsol for the spray? Should I mix it with oil or use it directly? Thank you so much!
I will put this one on our filming schedule, but it will be towards the end of the year before it appears because we film these several weeks in advance. Meanwhile, it's all about how light is hitting the surface and what it does to those clapboards.
thanks for the great tips, I just started oils and the turpintine smell was too strong to keep using it, with this tip I understood that its possible to paint with no medium, I wish to ask of how to clean a brush if I'm moving from a color to another such that I dont get mud like color, that is while painting, what to do and what to use
Hi, I have a question about colors (in tubes). If I am just learning to handle colors, is it not better to paint with only 3-4 basic colors than to use mixed colors? Is there any risk if we start using too many premixed colors? And is it even needed? Isn't it enough to mix all the colors yourself from the primary colors? When is it appropriate to use premixed colors? Thanks for the great videos. I still have a problem with the technician (I don't know if the error is in the brush, paint, paper, or me :)), but hopefully it will improve over time.
Petra, if you use the primaries that yield the optimal number of hues and values, yes. One palette I might suggest for starters is: cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, permanent alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue and Rembrandt Viridian. (Other viridians won't work.)
I've never tried it with mdf panels, but seems to me there wouldn't be a problem. Just be sure you wipe it down thoroughly so that the paint won't be too slippery.
You could just say to apply the first layers as "dry as possible" and then load the subsequent layers more fully and pull them over top. Being successful is more about how you load the brush with paint than how you drag it over the surface.
You say you don’t have to use solvent but the first thing you did was add solvent to the canvas? Gamsol is solvent, and I don’t think you should be spraying it, it’s not as bad as turps but it’s still slightly toxic.
Seán, to clarify--I don't mix a solvent in my paint. Yes, Gamsol is a solvent, and yes, I slightly dampen the canvas with a mixture of Gamsol and oil, but the solvent evaporates and does not mix with the paint.
I agree - I am looking for completely free solvent painting because I can’t be around mineral spirits at all and gamsol is OMS it’s very toxic just doesn’t smell.
@@lizzieyeehaw5016 Exactly right. The fact that it's odourless makes it so much worse as you don't realize how much you're breathing it in. And spraying it!!!! OMG. Similar to Bob Ross flapping his big brush full of solvent , flicking it all into his breathing space. Didn't do his health much good, hey.....
I keep a tube of water soluble impasto medium on hand should I ever feel the need to thicken my paint up, but it's very rare. And even MORE rare for me to thin down (I've had a 75ml bottle of linseed oil in a drawer for nearly a year now.) I find that the Talens/Rembrandt paints - on their own, never fail to do whatever I need them to. Windsor & Newton are stalwart too. But realistically, it's as you say, it's all in the brush handling. Me personally? I refuse to have solvents in the house.
I often use mineral spirits to put a wash on my board or canvas first, plein air or alla prima. I also use it to clean my brushes at the end. Maybe diluting paint with mineral spirits helps in rendering small detail but normally I just use my paint fairly thick after the first wash. I never use turpentine. Off the top of my head, Gamsol is odorless mineral spirits but don't quote me on that
Rebecca, Gamsol is a solvent. James, adding a solvent to the paint weakens the integrity of the paint. If you find getting small detail necessary towards the end of the painting, it is better for the life of the painting not to use solvents.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thanks for your reply Diana. I have oil paintings from 2010 that I painted over an underwash of pure white spirits and they still look fine today. Subsequent layers are solid oil paint though but you reckon the base layers will break down at some stage? I rarely use stand oil or linseed oil but I might start after watching your video and I'd definitely like to try your tip of slicking the canvas first with Diana Magic Clear 🙂
Thank you, Ms. Mize. I was the one who asked the question, and this video is very helpful.
Great! I always love know that I've answered a question adequately.
I really like how you virtually dispense with adding solvent for your first layer paint application and instead "season" your canvas with the poppy oil/Gamsol blend. Then control of how much paint you pick up, application pressures, brush to canvas angles. So much information and yet so easily understandable at the same time. I appreciate how you answered the viewer's question.
Thanks for watching. It's a pleasure to share these.
Great tip and you gave me exactly what I needed after painting en plein air this morning on a modest 8x10 canvas. My friends and I painted at out local park near a little stream with lots of foliage and various species of trees, none of which I could name. To make a long story brief, I ended up with a timid attempt and even though I painted a value study, my final painting looked too gray. After watching your video, I realized that I was not holding my brush at the proper angle, my paint was too stiff, I painted over the value study and should have oiled out before I began, and I should have brought veridian or pthalo green for my darks and mixed up various values of greens before I started. Honestly Dianne, you are the best online teacher when it comes to dealing with practical matters. Thank you so much!
Thanks, Marlene. Have fun with the process.
Great tip. I found as I watched that I have picked this up to some extent by watching so many of your lessons. Guess I didn't even realize!
Thank you for being so helpful and and such an inspirational instructor! It has made such a difference in my art. I love being able to continually learn and grow.
Thanks, Alan. I am delighted to know that.
I started painting again recently but I use acrylics; I’m going try this tip u gave us because I have found so many of your videos are very useful to me even though I paint with acrylics so, I WILL CONTINUE TO TUNE IN! Thank you so very much!
Sylvia, what a lot of people don't realize is that mixing color works the same in acrylics as in oils. Color principles don't change from on medium to another. Only the techniques of working with the material is different.
I love your painting tips, you always have the information I need right when I seem to need it!
Great! Thanks for watching.
Super useful! So happy that I don’t have to bother with solvents while painting to achieve layering effects, thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for another great tip!!! You are a wonderful teacher!! ☺
Thanks, Debra.
Neat video! I wouldn't have thought to put gamsol/oil in a spray bottle, and it's a nice technique!
Be really careful, though! I used large amounts of Gamsol to clean printing presses years ago, and it's incredibly dangerous stuff. You can become suddenly allergic rather quickly (our professor had us clean the presses because she was so sensitive, and made sure we suited up appropriately), so it's best to keep it off the skin and wear a respirator if you don't have enough ventilation. When it evaporates, it goes into the air... and into your lungs.
Because you start with a gamsol/oil spray, this doesn't seem entirely solvent-free; couldn't one couch with just plain linseed/walnut/poppyseed oil and avoid the solvents entirely?
We all must use care when we are working with oil painting materials, especially if we are sensitive to some solvents. But it is best to use good sense rather than handicap the process.
Fair enough! Since my studio is also my bedroom it probably wouldn't be wise for me to use it in here. ;)
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As usual, fabulously clear and informative!💖💖💖
Thank you so much, Marilyn.
Hi Dianne. Another wonderful tip. Would you do a quick tip on painting on a wood panel? I love painting oils on wood, but am not sure if I’m prepping the board properly, and would love any tips on this format. Thank you, Kat
Kat, there are available in most art supply stores wood panels that are already primed and ready to use. Since I don't use wood panels, I don't feel I'm qualified to do a Quick Tip on the process. However, there are a number of UA-cam videos on the subject. Just search in UA-cam for "priming wood panels for oil painting".
Thank you Dianne for this very important tip.
You are so welcome!
Hi Diane, I've just stumbled across you channel and have found your tips so easy to follow. It is obvious that you are a gifted teacher... I have a question about watercolour - do you have any tips for 'loose' watercolour painting?
That's a broad one, Ramona. Nita Engle was the master of loose watercolor painting. There are very few of her videos on line, but check out those that are there. Here's a good place to start : ua-cam.com/video/I1_Ii31iM_I/v-deo.html
What a wonderful teacher!
Wow, thank you.
Great quick tip -- thank you! One question -- what brand of paper towels do you use to minimize dust/fibers?
Scott shop blue papertowel is popular among painters
Viva. The best material for minimizing dry dust is a Swifter Sweeper dry refills, and the best material for prevent lint for wet applications are gauze pads.
Thank you, you are the best, your pieces of advice are so detailed and very well explained. Do you know if I could use Maimeri Eco Medium instead of Gamsol for the spray? Should I mix it with oil or use it directly? Thank you so much!
I'm not familiar with Maimeri Eco Medium, but being a medium it already is made from a formula. The spray I use requires a solvent with the oil.
Thanks a lot for all the tips. It's helpful !
Thanks for watching.
Love your quick tips. Would you do a quick tip on painting clapboard buildings?
I will put this one on our filming schedule, but it will be towards the end of the year before it appears because we film these several weeks in advance. Meanwhile, it's all about how light is hitting the surface and what it does to those clapboards.
thanks for the great tips, I just started oils and the turpintine smell was too strong to keep using it, with this tip I understood that its possible to paint with no medium, I wish to ask of how to clean a brush if I'm moving from a color to another such that I dont get mud like color, that is while painting, what to do and what to use
I use odorless artist grade distilled mineral spirits. Gamsol and Turpenoid are reliable brands.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I was here to see if there was an alternative to gamsol OMS, it gives me terrible headaches...
Merci beaucoup, j'apprends tant d'astuces grâce à vous
Je t'en prie. Profitez du processus.
Hi, I have a question about colors (in tubes). If I am just learning to handle colors, is it not better to paint with only 3-4 basic colors than to use mixed colors? Is there any risk if we start using too many premixed colors? And is it even needed? Isn't it enough to mix all the colors yourself from the primary colors? When is it appropriate to use premixed colors? Thanks for the great videos. I still have a problem with the technician (I don't know if the error is in the brush, paint, paper, or me :)), but hopefully it will improve over time.
Petra, if you use the primaries that yield the optimal number of hues and values, yes. One palette I might suggest for starters is: cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, permanent alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue and Rembrandt Viridian. (Other viridians won't work.)
Very useful. Does the coating with gamsol-oil work for mdf pannels too? Thank you very much
I've never tried it with mdf panels, but seems to me there wouldn't be a problem. Just be sure you wipe it down thoroughly so that the paint won't be too slippery.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I will try it, thank you!
If you don’t thin the paint how do you paint small detail with thick gloppy paint?
You control the amount of paint, the kind and size of brush you use and the way you hold the brush when you make the application.
Thank you so very much, just what I needed.
Wonderful! Thanks for watching.
You could just say to apply the first layers as "dry as possible" and then load the subsequent layers more fully and pull them over top. Being successful is more about how you load the brush with paint than how you drag it over the surface.
Yes, Chris. That, too.
You say you don’t have to use solvent but the first thing you did was add solvent to the canvas? Gamsol is solvent, and I don’t think you should be spraying it, it’s not as bad as turps but it’s still slightly toxic.
Seán, to clarify--I don't mix a solvent in my paint. Yes, Gamsol is a solvent, and yes, I slightly dampen the canvas with a mixture of Gamsol and oil, but the solvent evaporates and does not mix with the paint.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thanks for the clarification!
I agree - I am looking for completely free solvent painting because I can’t be around mineral spirits at all and gamsol is OMS it’s very toxic just doesn’t smell.
I don't care what the solvent does to the paint. I'm concerned what it does to my health. Gamsol is toxic.
@@lizzieyeehaw5016 Exactly right. The fact that it's odourless makes it so much worse as you don't realize how much you're breathing it in. And spraying it!!!! OMG. Similar to Bob Ross flapping his big brush full of solvent , flicking it all into his breathing space. Didn't do his health much good, hey.....
Absolutely correct. I have tried the method your follower mentioned about and it doesn't work well, at least to me. Your solution is the best.
It certainly works best for me, Giovanni.
would you please give me any brand name of that kind brush you use on this video ? Thank you in advance or any recomendation.
The brush I'm using in this Quick Tip is the Rosemary Series 274 short flat.
Thanks Dianne!
You bet!
I keep a tube of water soluble impasto medium on hand should I ever feel the need to thicken my paint up, but it's very rare. And even MORE rare for me to thin down (I've had a 75ml bottle of linseed oil in a drawer for nearly a year now.)
I find that the Talens/Rembrandt paints - on their own, never fail to do whatever I need them to. Windsor & Newton are stalwart too. But realistically, it's as you say, it's all in the brush handling. Me personally? I refuse to have solvents in the house.
Thanks for sharing!
I have a question. If i use this tip, at the end for the details it is goo to use huile de lin/linseed oil?
Linseed oil is not a solvent, but a binder most often used in oil paint, so it is the safest medium to use, though not to extreme.
Thank yoouuu for the reply
so useful thank you so much as always
And as always, my pleasure!
Thank you miss D Mize
You bet!
Very helpful
My pleasure!
Isn't Gamsol a solvent?
I often use mineral spirits to put a wash on my board or canvas first, plein air or alla prima. I also use it to clean my brushes at the end. Maybe diluting paint with mineral spirits helps in rendering small detail but normally I just use my paint fairly thick after the first wash. I never use turpentine. Off the top of my head, Gamsol is odorless mineral spirits but don't quote me on that
Rebecca, Gamsol is a solvent. James, adding a solvent to the paint weakens the integrity of the paint. If you find getting small detail necessary towards the end of the painting, it is better for the life of the painting not to use solvents.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction thanks for your reply Diana. I have oil paintings from 2010 that I painted over an underwash of pure white spirits and they still look fine today. Subsequent layers are solid oil paint though but you reckon the base layers will break down at some stage? I rarely use stand oil or linseed oil but I might start after watching your video and I'd definitely like to try your tip of slicking the canvas first with Diana Magic Clear 🙂
Thanks Miss !
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Thanks madam!
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