Artist Problems: 5 Rookie Oil Painting Mistakes 

Tip #1 put your oil paints in the freezer to keep them from oxidizing. Tip #2 instead of throwing your excess paint away mix it all together for beautiful grays and store in a tube or airtight container.

Don't over mix your paint. Mix the two hues by about half way and let the individual hues be visible in the mix. It adds life to the color being mixed.

My friend wanted to paint. I told him go ahead and use whatever you want of my paints. He took one look at what paints I had and quickly said he couldn't because I didn't have enough colors. I had titanium white mars black, red, yellow, ultermarrine blue, cobalt blue, yellow ocher, burnt umber and raw umber. I told him you mix to get other colors like yellow and blue for green and ect. I could not even get him to try it. He said he would wait until he could afford to buy all the colors. It never happened. If he had tried he might had been surprised how flexible that palette could be.

If you want to limit your color pallet further you can use a CMY (cyan, magenta and yellow) or a Zorn pallet (titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, and cadmium red (vermillion substitute)).

One of my teachers had us line theses paint brush pots you have shown with a small plastic bag. Same results but sludge settles in bottom of bag. Pour off clear paint for use, no mess in bottom of pot.

LOL the Michael's products diss was strong in this video 😂😂😂

Yes starting with a limited palette make it so much easier to learn!!! Oil painting especially but I'm sure it applies to many mediums as you need to develop a working language of how the medium functions!

Tip one - Never clean your brushes. Wipe the paint off the brush with a paper towel when you change colour and at the end of a session dip the brushes in a slow drying oil, safflower or even baby oil ( this will not dry for at least a week ) then wipe this oil off when you begin a new session.

Fun fact you can easily fix those cheaper canvas by spraying water on the back of them. Smooths them right out. That being said I still like my gallery wrap!

Excellent tips for beginners, thank you

Honestly some of the best art advice I have heard! Yes, more youtube deals... but also perpetual deals (possibly a smaller discount?) only for youtube... so someone who just finds you a year from now is also made to feel welcome and encouraged to get these supplies from you (not Amazon.)

For oil paint color mixing, I suggest two RU-vidrs: Draw Mix Paint Florent Farges The both of them show easy and digestible techniques for mixing paints, and Farges also offers incredible courses you can purchase that goes over literally everything. But Draw Mix Paint has a wonderful video where he teaches you how to color-match using 5 basic colors: Titanium White ; Burnt Umber ; Cadmium Yellow Pale ; Permanent Alizarin Crimson, French Ultramarine. This doesn't include super vibrant "neon" colors, which involve a whole different set of special synthetic pigments, but every other color (including grays) can be matched using only these colors. Definitely check out the color mixing video(s) Draw Mix Paint created and follow it. Why does Jerrys Artarama suggest a warm and cool version of colors? It's a decent paint mixing technique which takes away the mystery of trying to make things warm or cool. IMO I like the Draw Mix Paint approach, but this is a viable option as well.

For paint colors, honestly, there's an extremely successful artist here in Colorado that only uses BLACK with a white canvas for a luminous black and white effect. No white paint. They're brilliant huge paintings.

It's drank, but a more coherent structure for the sentence would be "You don't want anyone drinking it." I come to art from a background in grammar, so that opportunity to problem solve actually made me very comfortable.

Thank you for the great presentation. I learned that I'm at the "Advanced Rookie" stage.

Thank you for the great tips!

I agree with all of these tips! But alternatively, when you get an easel, you can get the kind that can be taken apart, put in a bag and traveled with so that you can easily take it places to do plein air as well.

I use just 2 types of brushes. A fan brush and a round painting brush. I buy them from small to large for diffrent sizes dipending on canvas the panels that i paint on

A very interesting video. Thank you. A new follower from Spain.

Very informative…always, more videos 🖼🎨📽🎞

In the first few years of painting I don't see any problem with buying cheap canvases in a pack from amazon but I did buy Windsor and Newton oil paints and half decent brushes. Having low quality turps is no problem for me either, I use it carefully only opening it when in use, otherwise it's airtight closed and I wash my hands after use. Having skills and tools to practice immediately is more important than having the highest quality goods.

Since the war started in sudan, we were displaced from our home, exiled to the outskirts of the country, i left behind my studio filled of my beautiful paintings and expensive art materials that ive gathered over the years, where i am now, "good" paint and painting material does not exist, but that didn't stop me, i kept painting with cheap paint, bad paper, no canvas, kids brushes.

Great information. Thanks.

Love your videos and love Jerry’s! Outstanding customer service and your shipping is crazy quick ♥️

I knew all these already, but a great reminder. I'm going to pick up some of those brush cleaners though because those are nicer than what I've been using.

Very helpful!!!!

Just bought my oil paints from Jerry's, watching this in the meantime while I wait! Got Lukas, an m graham(perelyne maroon, I love it),and some Georgian paint.

Vary good job brother 👍

Great video

Hey there....I am moving from acrylics over to oil and totally baffled by all the different mediums and oils. Linseed, walnut, gamvar, turpenoid, dms,.....it's all very confusing. Can you do a video like this that explains what all this stuff does and what we really need to get started? BTW....loved my first experience at OAC this month!

I'm glad I watched this before messing all my watercolor brushes up

Discounts always help. Love Jerry’s Artarama.

I have an unusual suggestion/request for another oil paint topic: Issues with the paint yellowing over time. It seems that leaving them in the dark for too long makes all the lighter colors become a gross yellow color, and from what I've learned, leaving them in the light for a while makes the yellow go away. I'm just curious as to how this happens, and if there's either a way to prevent it, or a better/faster way to fix it?

i've seen the best painter ever only using synthetic brushes for oil. He preferred synthetic ones. thank you I will buy the lavender and the paint cleaner containers.

Thanks brother. I'm still using paint thinner from home depot.

Listen. I think I would watch just about anything this dude advertises. There is something real about his personality that I just love. Good on Jerrys. I hope they never get rid of him.

Perfect timing XD I just got myself some (watermixable) Oils last week. I know watermixables aren't the same but it's kind of like you guys know exactly what I struggle with when you upload your videos

Yup this is the way

Wow that sutch a good idea whit two cans for cleaning oil paints

I don’t get overwhelmed with brushes i find it easer to use one brush per colour instead of cleaning one brush for all colours ☺️

Heya Mike, sweet video. I do enjoy watching your quick and easy videos. I am able to point others that are constantly asking me questions that I honestly am rather tired of answering. I hope you do a basic supplies list for every medium, you can create videos for everything from watercolor painting to ink block printing! I believe that it is Ok to feature brands, I mean you do sell art supplies you can feature multiple brands when talking about brushes or even paints! Every supply has a pro and con, why not make a video featuring them? I like Charvin because this, but Gamblin is good because of that! You know how to do it! I look forward to seeing how you are going to run with this idea or not. Take care and be safe out there!

👍 love the deals ❣️😍. Art supply hoarder here. Live Jerry's.

I swear I have never loved an ambassador for literally any company the way I love this man. 😂 Hilarious human. Real human. GOOD ON JERRYS FOR HAVING THIS GUY.

Use a jar with a lid and a small piece of 1/4inch Chicken Wire Mesh to make a turpentine container

Ok after I can move out of my travel trailer ill get a big peoples easel. Thanks for the info. Maybe I can get past my 1/2 Bob Ross painting. Thanks again.

So the same colours i use for my acrylic paints. I wanna get Pebeo oil and acrylic paints to start whit. I am a biginner painter

Yes more videos. coupon codes are an added bonus

Me painting with Michael's oil paint, acrylic brushes on handmade canvases: "oh no".

They have water mixable/soluble oil paint now. Fun fact.

As I told my friend the other day; "if you wnat to learn how to use copic markers, don't practice with dollar store markers." I'm planning on giving oil painting a serious try with the right materials this time. Last time, I got the cheapest brands and materials I could find. Needless to say I struggled and didn't have as good of a time as I probably could have with actually good paints, brushes, etc.

Always great suggestions and advice. 🙏 I had a family member who wanted to try painting and bought the very oil paints you were using as examples of what not to buy. 😂🤣 They gifted them to me. I’m an acrylic artist, so I can’t even use the paint set for anything 🤷🏻‍♀️🙃

But what about platinum blue

I just heard that you can clean your oil brushes in vegetable oil instead of mineral spirits or turpentine. Have you tried heard this? Also, would you recommend this as a safer way to clean your brushes?

Oh!! are you kidding me .. an odorless paint cleaner as in truly odorless ?? I had to give up oils MANY years ago due to migraines from the fumes... Even the "odorless thinner" was not .. Switched to watercolor and although I am very happy with that medium... It is NICE to know that should I reaaaaly want to.. I could go back and do some oil painting again.............. : ) WOW .. what a revelation ..

Actually can I just purchase that paint palette from you for my studio decor??????????

My big issue with oils is that they take forever to dry. I never know if I can keep painting while it's wet or if I need to let it dry in between.

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Where can you buy good quality paint?

Do not confuse thinner with solvent. Essences (white spirit, turpentine, etc.) are solvents. They evaporate. Just because these essences smell good doesn't mean they aren't toxic. Mediums, oils are thinners

You’re awesome! Lol

You can’t dump turpentine down the drain 😱 I knew it was bad when I did it... ugh... 🤦‍♂️

Me (a watercolorist): yes, all you need is 1-3 well chosen brushes (depending on use/preference) Also me: collect ALL the brushes 😂

Brush cleaning…I don’t know why but cleaning my brushes the way you’ve shown has never worked for me. Unfortunately the way I paint gets paint near the furrel, so using the method you’ve shown has never gotten the paint completely out and thus starts to split the hairs apart. I’ve started to use plain oil’ bar soap and working it through with my fingers until it runs clean under water. What could I be doing wrong when using your method? Why won’t it work for me?

Best brush cleaner = a bar of dove soap. I have been painting without thinners (except a tiny bit in my medium) for a decade. I go back and forth between oil/acrylic with the brushes all the time and they don't get stiff, because I wash them really thoroughly. Also, painting on a table is fine. you don't need a fricken easel. I mean I own three of them and they're recommendable, but anybody who is not painting because they do not own an easel has been deceived.

Always Tilt the canvas as far forward as possible and forget about it

I'm not on instagram. I'm older and just use google and txting. lol

I think you should dress up like Evil Knievel.

I never thought there would be a time when I would be nervous to say this; I am vegan, for reasons of faith, we cause no harm to any soul, so do you have a synthetic recommendation, please, for we squirrel and piglet lovers? Great video, thanks!

The natural and synthetic brush to types of paint is incredibly not correct or consensus. Me and maaaaaany others use natural hair for acrylics, and synthetic for oils.

This video focuses entirely on materials, not techniques or concepts. Tools don't make the artist, as they say.

No UK link? Sad face.

Take the basket out before you let it settle because a layer will settle on it.

Spend the money on decent paint mediums and surface ... not your brushes. No one needs expensive brushes to paint well ... I just use cheap crap and throw em' out. Brushes don't last anyway... especially if you're using oils.

Are you jerry

Mike, good tips. The jokes are not that funny, however. It would also have been helpful to show the techniques you are trying to explain. Really pouring the brush cleaner, etc. You could have had a container that had settled to show you pouring off and the remaking “sludge” to be being wiped out. Oil painting is difficult and showing people how to do the techniques is very important. Good effort. I think you have potential to make some really good videos. You appear comfortable in front of the camera.

OMA. Dear Jerry, I thought you are the president of Ukraine.

Thumbnail: "Fuck your brushes!" "Pour water"

98% of my paintings end up in the garbage