How to Use Thick Paint Confidently (Oils or Acrylics) 🎨🎬 

I love Malcolm,s art lessons and also I like his personality . Calm with positive energy.

Love your voice Malcolm it's calm that makes us want to listen more. You also go straight to the point of your teachings. Thank you 🙏🤗

I love this approach and just starting.

Malcom, I just discovered your channel and absolutely LOVE all of your videos! I’ve been a tight painter for a really long time and your videos are that breath of fresh air I’ve been looking for. Your explanations and tutorials are exceptional! I’ve really been able to loosen up and appreciate brushwork in a way I never have before. Thank you for making a huge difference in how I approach my art! 🌻

Amazing

I have watched this tutorial multiple times and is still enjoyable and educational...

Wow. I love it.

I LOVE this style. I'm practising it now. Thanks for your tips

I really appreciate your calm approach to painting, and am fascinated with your Impressionistic style you use. Thank you Malcolm!

Ah, it helps to watch your videos many times. In the stage I'm at, I think I need to do as you say, and block in one day, come back the next to add layers.

Great Job there..,😉

Thank you. Very helpful…

Very well explained and easy to follow instructions. I will definitely have a go!

It's remarkable how similar our painting strategies are. Well done sir, i especially like how you are conscious of stroke shapes and interactions to complete the whole. I like to use texture to create depth then use other perspective techniques to create different rhythms of focus and horizons that dont exist in reality but draw your eye to different places and have it still make sense. Keep up the good work

Malcolm, I'm watching your videos over again. Haven't try your technique yet but your paintings and talent are so inspiring, can't wait to start. Thank you!

Watching your demonstration Malcolm, I thought this is my tendancy. I like to see the brush marks in a painting. But when I do it, it ends up looking too tight & blended. Your video/demonstration gives me the confidence to use thicker paint. Very inspiring, thanks so much for uploading.

What an inspirational video❤️ I will try to follow your suggestions. Thank you, Malcom

Thanks!

Bloody good style...I love it

Beautiful, very beautiful, thank you 🙏🏻

I SO needed to hear this right NOW, having started an autumn scene but wanting heavier strokes in shadows but finding it needed to cover the canvas first. Loosening up for anal realists is rough!

Excellent video. Enjoyed much. Thank you.

I love your style and am desperately waiting for you to apply these principles in a course on gouache painting of urban landscapes! I am trying to get competent enough in this new medium - new to me - to attend the urban sketching symposium in Buenos Aires next year! So please, can you help? PS I know that you do teach about gouache, but I am not at all interested in painting the countryside.

I use to paint in this form of painting....with a small to medium squared off brush for entire painting, or I laid the paint on a bit thicker. This was when I was in Independent Study Art in High School back in 1982. I may be revisiting this form.

I love textured painting, I’ve done a few, but need more practice, thanks for the tutorials & tips

When you said sometimes a third layer of paint has the second layer skinned over thank you once again I love the heavy impasto. Flint

Love the paintings!! I’m going to try to do Impressionistic! I’m just starting.

I completely agree with your thoughts on this, for me the thick paint strokes make the personality / mind and mood of the artist apparent, if you have thin paint, applied flat and blended nicely everywhere it feels like rendering which has no information other then exactly what is physically in the scene. I got annoyed with this flat, thin rendering as I've started painting with real oils(without thinner), and just started grabbing loads of thick (expensive) paint, the process felt authentic and how it is 'supposed' to feel, with a hint of unpredictability. I was glad to see a couple of videos then when I searched from artists I respect that say how important it is. I do wonder about a kind of technical point, since I'm new to oils I'm not sure how it should feel but when I am wiping my brush between strokes 1) the brush tends to get drier and drier 2) it's hard to keep my colours clean. I find myself reaching to dip into some linseed oil which isn't always what you want. Should the brush feel quite stiff / dry, or do you keep dipping into medium to your brush feeling smooth and flowing? Is it that you the brush starts feeling dry when your amount of paint is has just gotten too low, i.e. it's a sign you need to make sure your piles of paint are always substantial enough. I'd be interested to hear your thought

Amazing work

Thank you, i don’t know if you still make videos but this was very helpful’ ♥️

Thank you for your tips on painting! I really enjoy watching your videos and also listening to your south african accent as I lived 4 years there and left it for Kenya in 2017. SA always in my heart! Regards.

your absolute right

White is like adding milk to water, clouding it but it's rough to get bright PURPLES without it.

Thank you, I just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying your videos and your paintings. Very inspiring! :) Do you use a medium for this style?

Did you let your block-in dry before you started the second layer? Thanks for this video

Very inspiring…

Very helpful. It's my desire to start using thick paint but I still have a fear of what to do with it once its there. Agree that flat blended paintings are drab. I need to move away from that single layer and thicken up

Fabulous...I'll give this approach a try Malcolm. How do you feel about impasto mediums, cold wax, etc. MANY thanks

Are You using some medium like alkyd medium for oil? Impasto is much easier in acryl than oil. ??

Thanks for your demo. One thing I like in a painting is the feel of texture. Although I like your method but at the end I do not feel the texture - say of the leaves of trees- in the painting. Can we show texture in your method?

I have a question. Do you use a medium for a second layer of thick paint? I searched and researched about this, but my curiosity was not answered. Some writers use Medium, while others use a 5:5 mix of Medium. Some writers only use Gamsol. It's frustrating because each method is different.

Wow

Malcom would the color and thickness of the paint be less saturated and thick in the distance?

Round one: I ended up with a muddy mess and lost my depth of field. Clearly trying to do too much too soon... but it will be dry soon enough and I can go over it again!

Hello, Malcolm, my problem remains that I don't know what to do about the initial block-in layer of thinned paint. I am allegic to solvents. Is there an alternative method? I am familiar wih the concept of fat over lean, so i am concerned. Perhaps in a 2-layer painting it doesn't matter? Yours, C.P.

Great job my new friend ❤️ Thanks for sharing full watched 😊 New artist here show same love 💕

I am using oil as medium, do I need to wait the layer to dry before apply the new layer to prevent from blending?

I wonder why I like to look at impressionistic works, but I hate making them.

Are those paintings behind you yours? The style looks different is why I ask. Cheers

How do u make to oil paint look like blood with layers and it being thick paint to make it like 3d

Doesn't the thick paint wrinkle when it starts to dry? Thank you

The problem with “wet on wet” with acrylics is that they dry way too fast.