I tried painting a masterwork with cheap TEMU oil paints 

Another painting of one of your doppelgangers.

Okay next find the most expensive worst art supplies thanks.

I‘ve seen a video a few months back where another cheap brand was performing very well during the painting process, but the painting went through a drastic hue change in under a week. Would be interesting to see how this brand performs on the long run

8:03 the whole time before I realized how much glare there was I was like “that looks nothing like the color” 😭

why's bro so majestic

How does your channel not have way more subscribers. It's actually rare to have videos of traditional art broken down in this way, this cohesively and transparently, without cutting corners or editing to make it look like no effort was put in. Either that or just wordless time-lapses. I'm not a traditional artist but this video was incredibly helpful for my amateur drawing and even digital painting process.

Just because it's from China doesn't mean it's bad quality. I bought paint brushes from a Chinese shop importing Chinese products. Those were the best brushes I ever bought... Even better than the expensive brushes in the art supply store. They were so cheap I bought 2 sets each of long handled brushes and short ones. Best decision I ever made. Those brushes are fantastic quality. Anyway as for paint, I can't afford expensive paint anyway. I use Windsor and Newton sets but I bought big cheap tubes of white paint. Paint is expensive and if I want to keep painting for pleasure it's going to be cheap paint on cheap canvas lol.

this video is also a great reminder for me that the painting process is long amd slow and that's the way it wotks! i get frustrated when i feel like i cant bust out an artwork fast enough, but its supposed to take time an dedication snd thought. great video!

I love experimenting with the cheap supplies, and save the expensive stuff for commissions

For a second I thought I left my game on while watching this video but turned out to be the background music in your video! 😂

When I was learning to paint, I was super broke so I just bought the very basics. I used to mix using only the primaries and it was the best teacher I had on color mixing. Now, I can mix any color pretty much on point

Marie’s is a good brand unless you bought a fake one. I used Marie’s multiple times in the past and it came out with no difference than winsor newton. I’m a professional with MFA in painting.

Never saw your channel before. I saw the thumbnail and thought you were doing a self portrait. I liked the comparison you did between the types of paint, and the long discourse during the time lapse was intelligent. By the way, you are much more attractive than the guy in the portrait.

The dictum is that we apply thick paint over thin paint ( that is, paint with more oil content on top of paint with less oil content) . Oily paint “dries” more slowly than paint that has less oil. If the oily paint is covered by a layer of thinner paint, the top layer will set first and the underneath layer will, as it sets, crack the top layer.

Your ability to conceptualize and mentalize art in a practical way is sooo helpful. Like when you were talking about stringing individual skills together to create a whole masterpiece. You seem very grounded and intellectual, which is rare for artist types. I love it thank you!

I think you might of painted a self portrait! Done that before on accident lol

I am so pleased you appeared on RU-vid. I am going to watch all your videos. The colour of your pink lipstick and gloss is incredibly similar to the original portrait you painted but in your painting you used darker tones with a matt finish. Fabulous portrait and interesting opinions on 19th century artist painting tecniques and glazing. To use such a limited pallete and using the cheap oil paints, as demonstrated, is a remarkable achievement. Thank you so much.

Thank God you finished that ear! I couldn’t stop staring at it 😂

Love the Stardew music in the back

A beautiful portrait copy. My first set of oils back in the 70s was made by Marie - it is fabulous to know they are still in production. They were priced right, and some of their colours were wonderful. I had no knowledge of what I was doing, as it was a hobby for me, so I could not assess materials nor techniques well at that time. Thanks for this.

watching it come together and the reveal in the end makes me want to start painting and learning how to do this stuff!! amazing

Dude your whole channel is absolutely goated! The way you explain stuff is so entertaining and informing.

Please let me know what you're smoking it looks like its working

I loved the topics you discussed. From you don't need really expensive materials to how Sargent approached his portraits. Great job!

Beautiful man mixing colors with stardew valley music in the background? Sign me up

Fascinating to watch you work. Wonderful eyes in that portrait. Thank you.

You've got skills, and I appreciate the way that you explained your processes and why you do what you do. Also really appreciate the discussion about Sargent. He would just keep scraping away his efforts until he got into perfect flow and nailed it all at once in direct ala prima painting. A true master! Thanks for your video!

I enjoy both your painting, and your handsoming...

the only thing i question about cheaper paints is lightfastness.

Fascinating to watch and listen to your process.

You explain really well, not too much or too little information and made it easy to understand and good use of camera angles. What I particularly like is that you bring in a different perspective than I have often encountered on RU-vid, thereby broadening the intellectual horizons of you and the viewers. I also find it very interesting to get as much as possible out of as little as possible. That you looked for a brand that you have already had good experiences with is a great idea, in order to get art supplies cheaply with a bit of quality. It was also a good idea to buy a few colors that you like to use and larger tubes of 50ml instead of a set with 12ml and lots of colors that you don't need. I've also had the experience that cheap oil paints work surprisingly well. I've tried some that had way too much oil and too little pigment, but unlike other paints like acrylic or watercolor, that wasn't a problem. I simply used an old newspaper as a palette, it absorbed the excess oil. For the overlying layers where I normally add oil, I added new oily paint to my glass palette. With these cheap oil paints, I'm more concerned that my pictures are hardly durable because cracks can form or they turn completely yellow, because of the linseed oil or other strange things happen. Well, I only use them for exercises where it's not that important whether they last. At least with these I can smell whether there are harmful volatile substances, such as solvents in them because solvents without smell are more expensive than those with one and are usually not used in cheap oil paints.

Wow, you're the best thing on youtube right now. Love the music love the content .😊

Amazing video love watching you create art keep up the great work

You are one heck of a teacher, paint pusher.👍

Just realized how poor I actually am, cuz the Maries Brand is considered expensive in my country

Brilliant!! I loved watching your process and hearing your thoughts. I am binge watching all your videos 😂

What an orator! Really interesting commentary and narration - I'm subbed!

I have been doing an adjacent thing to your skill set for most of my life. Your videos are helping me as I start to get into digital painting. Poverty has a really good way of gate keeping oil paints as you demonstrated. Your videos are very helpful in reminding me of my fundamentals. As well as the core principles of the skill set I possess. It has made learning a new skill have the uncanny sensation of riding a bike lol

It’s your talent and skill. I’m simply gobsmacked by what you do so effortlessly.

Ooooookay that was a fabulous video I want to paint now •_•

Your work is fabulous!

Excellent video and interesting. I will start to paint again.

That cold open - lol, AWESOME! As for limiting one's palette, I absolutely agree! BUT, I think it's best done _after_ learning through experience how subtractive mixing works and fully understanding that requires understanding the split primary system (See Michael Wilcox's book, "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green, Revised Edition). Once you've got that down, definitely limit your palette, your way. Remember! Without knowledge, we are without choices. Knowledge beats ignorance every day of the week.

Good job Jake!

Fascinating! Subscribed and liked. 😊😊

Can you try to paint out of those huge mixed media kit that grandma gives you for Christmas when they find out you like art

marie's is actually a decent brand in china ive used it quite a bit. it doesn't compare to the actual expensive stuff but for the most part good enough for high school

awesome video. Would definitely watch an expensive vs cheap video!

So, buy the Temu white, yellow ocher and red. But use an Ivory black made by a different company. Ivory Black has a bluish tinge to it. Lamp black does not

Love it!!

Just great you sure have the gift so you are blessed

Nice self portrait :)

I would love to see it I feel like my art lessons in oil are pretty useful 😊

Love the smell of the factory❤❤

Newer used Marie's paints, but I have their 5.6mm lead holder. It came with a box of 4B graphite leads, and both pencil and leads were of pretty nice quality.

I’d love seeing you make that side by side comparison. 💕❤️💕

Great work!

Can you do a long video like this of prepping a surface? Oil paints make the serotonin go brrrrr but HOW do I make the smooth canvas. And tbh I love your formatting and really like how you explain why / how. Really looking forward to more content.

Commenting because you deserve to make money from this channel. Subscribed because you are a great teacher and clearly love your art.

Nice experiment I liked the result . Interesting to see thank you.

Finally a RU-vidr I can binge

I really enjoy Marie’s watercolor. I’m trying her gouache. Now I’ll go get some oil paint to try.

Me: trying to enjoy the painting Jake:🗣

my teacher always said, it's not in the brand or $$$ of materials, it's in your techniques and fundamentals.

I would Love to see an old sketchbook of yours

That was a great video. Watching you is always inspiring and calming, plz keep making these amazing videos and i would love to watch the expensive vs cheap video if possible

This is asmr with you mixing the paint

keep posting bro your gonna blow up

I was limited to buy Marie's, good practice paint to start with. Investing in buying higher quality paint one tube at a time. One day I will upgrade to Windsor and Newton 😊

The fact that you used stardew valley music made me love your channel even more ❤ suscribed

Dang, bro, it was beautiful . Nice job. Better than nice .

Cheap oil paints are also usually a little more expensive in individual tubes than the cheapest acrylic paints, because the oils are probably much more expensive than the polymers for acrylic paints, which also have to be mixed with water, it makes acrylic paints even cheaper. I still feel like I spend less money on oil paints because they don't dry out on the palette and I don't need additional stuff to make them workable. They handle well and in a similar way to higher quality ones. I had often tried really bad Acrylic paints, ones that weren't that cheap like 2-4€ for 100ml like good student quality ones from the art shop. Very liquid, barely pigmented, totally matt or way too shiny when dried, are cracking, sticky after drying or smelled very badly. I'm sure is it quite harmful to health. As a result, I spent a lot more on cheap acrylic paints to find good, very cheap ones than I did on oil paints and they also take up a lot more space. But I have different good money-saving tricks for oil paints than for acrylic paints. Like cheap linseed oil varnish which cost about a third less in the art shop, than normal linseed oil. Standing in a jar in the sun for two days, it has completely yellowed and become reddish. I only use it for colors that are not noticeable or to change colour. Painting medium made of chalk and linseed oil and put it in a tube to stretch my paint. Add a little doesn't make the colours milky and increases the transparency. The chalk ensures that it oxidizes faster and improves durability. However, it make the paint less flexible and lead to cracks if its made of whiter stone chalk like in my case. But I mostly paint exercises as a beginner with oil paint and it doesn't matter.

The stardew valley music in the background is great

Amazing!

Temu now has Ivory Black and Mars Black. Another option is to add Prussian Blue or Cobalt Blue to the palette -- both of which would add range to the gamut. Yet both are also mellower than Ultramarine Blue, which has a tendency to overpower other colors.

Loving the osrs background music

Great video Thank you

I was not ready for "Bing Chilling" to be in an art video

Love the buckshot and hotline Miami soundtracks for art videos that’s great

New subbie, your art work is amazing 👏 😱

I am so sorry for bothering you, but I would love to see a full time lapse from your painting, there are some bits I don't really get how to do when I am painting and I would be really grateful if you show me how you do it. Amazing channel btw, I am watching all your videos while I paint and draw and I will keep doing it, you inspire me a lot ❤

I use those colours since forever :)

This guy is like if Marylin Monroe was a guy.... spell bindingly beautiful

Id love to see a comparison ❤

Lmaooo the “dealer” intro ‘ lmao I’m deep enough might as well

you’re so pretty

love the runescape music!

I watched this a few days ago and I am so tempted to buy some. I think I will pass on the Lamp Black and get Ultramarine Blue and use my white. I always go down the art supply rabbit hole. I enjoy your videos

I used this brand throughout my whole childhood. It’s cheap for its quality and good alternative for practicing

Hotline-miami bg music made me happy :)

Quality counts 👏

Windwaker Music in the backround is very much appreciated

Cheap vs expensive would be great!! See how you do out your thoughts on it.

From the thumbnail, i thought you did your self-portrait 😅😂

That Skryim theme music is just 🤌

I'm taking oil painting this summer semester. class just started and i need to pick up my paints. Do you think these would work well? I''ll probably never touch oil painting again after this class unless i sign up for another.

Would you be able to mix the brands like using the Windsor ivory black with the Temu colours or is that a Nono?

You wanna make sure when using the zorn or Apelles palette that you use a bluish black so you can mix a blue by mixing with white

I love the intro 😂😂😂

With your talent, id like to see what you could do using some quality, Old Holland paints (the best of the best)!