As a dumbass white dude, I'm here to say that's its nice to see a young brother having this channel, and doing videos. Not enough diversity in the arts. Especially painting and portraits in particular. I've been exploring this Zorn pallete, and like that it's a limited amount of colors. Thanks for showing the mixing process you used with these couple of colors
Cool painting. Two things that are very important to point out with oiling in: Use the least amount of oil possible on the painting to get the effect you need, and only oil in the areas that you are going to paint over. If you add oil to a dry area and don't paint over it, that oil will turn yellow eventually.
You came up on my feed and I must say, welcome to the family of Christian artist! He will direct you and use your art in ways you cannot imagine. Blessings!!
Must prime with rabbit skin glue, or acrylic gesso, etc to separate oil from substrate or will rot. I use acrylic primed canvas and add 2 coats oil primer. But I do heavy imposto with thick builtup.
Thanks, great video. I've got a custom painting of me playing football by Ruth Mayer (Google her paintings!!! She's so good. She was a patient of mine and she took some of my photos and painted one of her great football collages. Sadly someone was moving it... (it's large) and she dropped it and the canvas tore in the middle. How can I get it repaired? Or should I cut it up to make smaller paintings in smaller frames??? Im SOOO BUMMED!!)
Thanks bro... I'm painting a drawing someone made of me playing football (like my photo <=) I want the helmet to look shiny silver (like Ohio St). Any ideas??
Great video. Really well explained and easy to understand. I’ve heard there are also non-absorbent gessos that might solve the “sinking in” problem. My gesso is pretty absorbent, so I’m looking forward to trying the oil ground now.
Just found your channel, needed some help with my skin tones. Welcome to the family bro! Glad you’ve found Christ! That’s very exciting and it’s great your devoting your time to that. Looking forward to your new artwork. Take your time. We here when you ready. God bless
Titanium white????? Are you sure? Titanium White is truly the white of the 20th century. The titanium pigment, titanium dioxide was discovered in 1821 but it was not until 1921 that a titanium white oil color suitable for artistic purposes was introduced by an American manufacturer.
I’m curious how long you did wait for the oil ground to dry. It’s recommended to wait a month or more. 2-3 weeks at the very least. Maybe that’s why it was “pulling” on you.
I’m new to oils and trying portraiture. I’m a charcoal artist so colours are the challenge, particularly skin tones. I’ve watched lots of RU-vid vids but this is by far the easiest to understand. Others can be, and often are, very technical. I love this channel. Thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻