The times I used Gamvar gloss I have never been happy with the results. Instead of nice color saturation, the gamvar ends up looking like I never applied it to the work and gets flat in appearance. I size my canvases traditionally with rabbit skin glue and gamblin oil ground.
no one. NO ONE has so concisely explained warm and cool colour to me ever - particular how the poles of the wheel work. In fact, I don't think many artists conceive this so clearly. Peter Donahue (aka Color Nerd) comes close but the 3D representation and your mixing... *chef's kiss*
Hello! I have varnished a 2x3 painting with gamvar, but unfortunately a portion of it has beading/ not shiny part. I tried to “spot treatment/fix” the area by applying gamsol, then gamvar again after a few hours, but, the spot is still visible. :( I plan to strip the varnish of the whole 2x3 feet painting using gamsol again, then revarnish it with gamvar. How long should I wait after removing gamsol, before I varnish it with gamvar again? 5 hours? 24 hours?
Yes. You just need to give the “dirty” safflower oil time for the paint sediments to settle at the bottom. Keep in mind though that old oil turns rancid and will smell. They’re not toxic fumes like solvent, just the smell of rancid oil which is also how your oil paints smell like. Your paints have rancid oil too.
Ultramarine Blue , Cadmium Yellow and Cadium Red or Alizarin Crimson. Keep in mind that cadmium is very poisonous so if you plan to use cadmium-based colours, make sure you either use gloves or wash your hands well before bringing them close to your mouth, eyes or nose if they are dirty with the colour.
I wish there was a narration, instead of stupid music. Should the Gamvar be diluted? I seem to remember another video, where someone demonstrated Gamvar application, and it was more thorough.
I know I am viewing this many years after it was first presented, but I have a question, what Cool Orange and what Warm Violet are being shown on your color wheel you created?
Oiling out with the Galkyd/Gamsol mixture as instructed worked well. Thanks. I ended up applying a 2nd oiling out coat a few days after the first because I had some darker colors were not appearing as saturated as others. Looks great now. However, after 6 days the surface is still tacky. Should it take that long to dry? I'm concerned.
I used cheese cloth as demonstrated, but natural canvas texture shredded the cloth and left lint embedded in the oil! I would recommend another type of cloth.
I need a little more detail. I'm almost finished with a beautiful painting and never had this issue of shiny spots and very dull spots. I use refined linseed oil as a medium. My paintings have always dried to an even, satin type finish. So I'm stumped . I think some paints now come out of the tube very full bodied and dry while other oil paints are too oily and you get that glob of oil spilling out before you get to the paint. I'm afraid to complete the painting and then oil out bc I don't want to ruin it. I have Gamblin refined oil and Gamsol. can I use a 50/50 mixture over the dry painting to even the surface? help!
I have oiled out with linseed oil to good effect. I didn’t thin it much with Gamsol, and as a result the almost straight oil took almost 2 weeks before it was touch dry and not tacky.
Cheryl, a quick search for 'empty paint tubes' yields results with a wide variety of sizes. Looks like simple pliers can be used to crimp the open end. I must say, this opens my eyes to a whole new world of making my own paints while keeping our environment cleaner. Thanks, Jonathan!
My one criticism: his starting point is just the usual Munsell Color System, but he never names it. That's a very weirdly glaring omission and makes it feel like he's taking credit for discovering this system, but then again that's just how capitalist marketing works ("I talked to many artists," "I discovered," "using MY system," etc). Aside from that, this was an incredibly useful and informative presentation, really useful mental models for thinking about your paints and colors! Love how he tied it to the different art movements across time, and explaining how AND WHY the different paints behave differently in different blending scenarios, then bridging that into developing your own palates and color language.
The Munsell system starts from 5 primary colors: red/yellow/green/blue/violet. It makes more sense because there is more nuance between green and violet than between red and yellow and it seems more true to the complementaries of teal/red and green/magenta. I like the munsell system more because of that key difference. I also appreciate Gamblin creating this 3-d animation explaining a basic color space and mixing relations as it has helped me understand mixing so simply.
