Yes i do this as well. Use acrylic first...then oil on top. You also use less oil paint, you establish light and darks first with acrylic underpainting.
Oils over acrylics became for me the standard way to go. You get the best part of both worlds. You even spend less money (since acrylics is cheaper and you can make all the large blocks on it)... I make the larger forms of every element in acrylics, make the 3 initial light levels on it as well. The only tricky part is deciding exactly the moment to jump from one into the other.
@@empty_seat When you feel you have made enough with the acrylics. Acrilics are harder to make details and soft edges, so the time depends on your subject
It may not seem like it, but acrylics end up being more expensive in the long run because more is always needed. My artist oils may be more expensive, but I use far less at a time than acrylic.
I really like the outcome of your acrylic / oil painting endeavor with the dark background. Please consider doing a painting demonstration using this oil and acrylic paint combination suggestion. Have you ever used water-mixable oil paint along with acrylic? Thanks for sharing.
thank you! I am an acrylic artist and experimenting with oil now and would like to have a fusion between them and your advice is what I was looking for:)
Today, I finished a thick Acrylic underpainting of a Dark blue-black for 3/4 of a 16"x20", and dark brown bottom 1/4.....for an Alien Landscape with city-lights and a Galaxy background in Oils.
Hi! Did you paint over the acrylic deep black background with ivory black and what did you use to make the painting so shiny? It looks like a gloss finish.
je ne pense pas cela!! la peinture commence avec de l huile et se ter mine avec de l huile!! la pure technique de la peinture à l huile!! que je pratique toute seule, j aime cependant beaucoup vos vidéos! merci beaucoup!!
Very informative! I've a question: when you use acrylic, you need to apply a coating before varnishing. What kind of coating and varnish is good for a painting do e with both acrylic and oil?
Without your knowledge , I’m doing a witches house on top of a rainy scenery day. In the forest. The house drawn in pencil first very light then painted in oil. Not sure what the outcome Will be , but never new what STV would look like ,till I did it lol about the dame size As the one with the lady opening scene of the series.
I thought it was possible to paint an entire picture in acrylic and then to use tiny amounts of oil paint only on certain areas of the painting basically as highlights and I was told by certain arty people yes you can do that. So I looked into what varnishes you should use for acrylic paintings and it turns out they're completely different from oil painting varnish and that there's no one varnish suitable for both, which surely means the technique I wanted to use would not be possible. Because you can't varnish it. Am I right or wrong? Can anyone please advise me...? Many thanks!🖌️
I'm very nervous lol. Your video is very informative. I have done a large underpainting that is essentially a value painting that I'd intended on applying glazes of oil on top of for color. Is there any danger of oil mediums breaking down the surface of the acrylic underpainting?
Acrylics are made of PLASTIC... an oil painting on TOP of an acrylic base would be highly UNSTABLE (not much "tooth" for oil to grab onto). Over time you would think that the oil paint would loosen up and slide right off of the PLASTIC under painting of acrylics!?! 🤔🙄
Just about a month ago, I started using this system of acrylic first and then the oil paint on top and it's superb. Now I have the best of both worlds Just done a seascape and I needed to blend the sky from light blue to dark blue which is not easy to do with acrylic, but the oil paint blends very well After that I needed to sort out the sea and that meant using oil as a glaze with "licquin" and that gives much more depth to the sea I'd never go back to using acrylic just on it's own. I look at some of my earlier work and now I can see that I need to go back and give them the oil paint treatment to give them that lovely gloss finish and depth. Great video, and I'm certain that this information will help many artists to dramatically improve their work Kind regards - Chris in Thailand
One of your best works! Caravaggioesque, full of secrets and mystic. I like this painting very much! Do more of that and you will earn enorm success! I know of what I'm talking!
I find that its great because im an extremely impatient artist. I can more quickly and efficiently paint with acrylics. And if the painting looks good - I will use my expensive oils to enhance it at a later time
I use oil over acrylic but like i do not paint entire acrylic areas with oil, how do i varnish this painting having both acrylic areas and oil, Help neededdd !!!
Same issue. I use Winsor & Newton glazing medium as a midlayer, and it sticks to oils that much, as something VERY hard to remove (I tried and gave up) and then liquitex warnish 2-3 layers. I am not sure it will lasts forever, but very impressive. Please don't take this as an advise, I just wrote about my experiment/experience..
Ive read it in few places and then people told me that its safer to varnish this painting in oil varnish since for the acrylics it doesnt matter which varnish it is but for oils it does
Thank you, I’ve done an acrylic dog portrait and wanted to brighten it up with oil - would be nice to know which Matt oil you’d suggest so that the oil paint adheres properly to the acrylic- thank you for your videos they’re really clear calm and inspiring !!!!
I was considering taking up painting, but it seems to require a TON of supplies, not to mention very complicated. I'm going to try color pencils. No mess and a lot cheaper.
Question: H E L P: Can I leave part of a painting, like the background, in acrylics, but do the portrait in oils over acrylics? Then apply a retouch varnish when the oils are dry, over the whole painting? I want to do fast inexpensive portrait sketches. But I need more wet paint time for the faces. Thanks so much for the info about not using the gloss medium with the acrylics because it will make the paint too slippery for the oil overpainting to adhere to. I never thought of that and I want to paint oils over acrylics for faster portraits. You probably saved a painting!
So, You don’t have to sand the acrylic under painting? I did an acrylic under painting and it turned out so cool and beautiful but I didn’t know how much acrylic Was enough under the oil. So I just use a thing layer. Gracias, for making this tutorials! I enjoy learning from you.
Hello, you are really talented! It's always a pleasure to follow your videos. For the first time, though, I have a question I would like to ask you: I painted an oil painting using an extremely thin layer of color. It dried almost completely in just a few days. Do you think it would be wrong to use acrylic paints on top of the painting in this case, solely to create metallic effects that I can't achieve with oil paints (because I can't find the right metallic oil colors on the market)? Thank you so much!!!
I really like the idea of using acrylic and oil together...but I am kind of confuse that what should I say..like is it acrylic painting or oil painting....it's a concern when trying to sell it .
You are very talented 👏 I have 2 questions please, why the painting of that last is so shiny? And when you say acrylic paint dries quickly how quickly? Seconds, minutes or hours ?
beautiful painting ,stunning ,small technicality i thought (could be wrong) acrylic is resin based medium that's water soluble I think ,saying it water based is like saying oils are thinner based
Why did't you use mars black? It is opaque and would have provided a super dark background. Acrylics take a year to cure, especially if you do impasto, and covering the acrylic with oils trap moisture in the acrylic and stop the curing process.
@@trahapace150 No mix up. It takes 12 months to cure acrylics, not to "dry" acrylics. I was pretty surprised to find out about that. Think about all the oil paintings on acrylic gessoed supports, given only a couple of days or less to dry. Now, I'll have to try to dig up where I found out about this "curing" time. I'll get back to you when I locate my source.
Ok, didn't take as long as I thought. Look in the Golden Acrylics web site, wade down through these headings: "product and application information"; "application sheets"; "drying technical notes".
@@ralphhancock7449 I was not aware of this either, but from the Golden site, "For very thin films, this time may be a few days, while films of 1/4 inch thickness or more will take months and even years to be completely dry."
I am still trying to figure out timing ... Drying time ... I started couple of paintings in acrylic and I couldn't get the smooth layers as in oils ... Oils drying time is very slow specially in winter ... I think working the oil over acrylic with mineral oil ... ( I have been painting with oils most of my life )... I like the fluidity of mineral oil ....
Bonjour Florent, Merci pour tes vidéos très généreuses et pédagogiques. Superbe qualité. Une question: Tu utilises un fond noir acrylique et ensuite tu peins à l'huile et jamais l'inverse. Mais lorsque tu fais voir les coulures acryliques noires en bas du tableau, on voit un fond jaune/or similaire aux drapés. Ce fond est-il fait à l'acrylique aussi? Merci
