My BEST Oil Painting Tip! 

I've been painting a long time, but this is the single best tip I've ever heard. Seems like a time-consuming pain in the ass, but the amount of time it can save is just beautiful. Wish I'd heard this years ago, could've saved me so many tears.

your videos are so fun, and you are so humble. I've learned more from you than any art class I've had. i don't understand why you don't have millions of subscribers!

clicked for the painting but stayed for the humor hahah

08:15 we can use a small square shaped either white paper or transperant plastic to check the mixed colour with that on the canvas (or reference photo or live subject)

Your talent is amazing! Thanks for the videos; you have a great "easel side" manner and seem like a nice guy.

My friend, you're skin tones are some of the best and most beautiful I've ever seen .

Love how you use only a limited palette. to render magnificent portraits.

Wadell rules. i studied with a guy who studied under him. That line of teaching is very complete.

clap,clap fantastic! what make is your brush? is it a rosmary?

Do you do anything to the dry painting to prepare it for overpainting? Such as adding any medium to the surface so the subsequent paint glides easier onto the dry paint?

So calibrate first before making fine change. That totally make sense and is one of the best advices. Now I see why you are such a great realism painter!

Qué buen Artista lo digo de corazón felicidades.

Sir, you are very experienced person in oil painting. Our experience is very less. 😃Thankyou for the tips , I always struggle, Now I started making some notes so that I can do easily because I always forgot. Sir one question, after first or second layer oil out is necessary....

Really great tip and demonstration. Thank you so much for sharing some of your knowledge and experience online for free! You're not only skilled but also very fun to listen to 😊

Make a color checker. Use a laminated print out of the original photo reference and smudge the mixed color over the section you need to repaint until you have a match

I like the way you explain, you exude wisdom and develop skills of the artist. God bless you always

lütfen....sizi anlamayı çok istiyorum...eminim çok değerli bilgiler veriyorsunuz ve ben de bunları öğrenmek istiyorum. Lütfen altyazı eklleyebilir misiniz?Teşekkürler..muhteşem portreler

Brilliant!

Awesome. This advice is immensely helpful. Thanks, Scott! :)

Thanck you very much Master Waddell for your fantastic lesson!

Thank you very much, I learn alot from you Master

Hello, I really like your paintings, I just have a lot of difficulties when they are tutorials, because I don't know English, and your videos are not available with subtitles, which would help a lot to follow you.

Awesome! thank you!

I struggle so much with the slight transitions to create form

Ive tried so many ways to paint with oils i find your technique the best for me .Thankyou great videos😊

Hi...!!! With all my respect. You guy are good, in fact, very. But, you talk too much. In fact, way too much. Which is very distracting. I appreciate your teaching. But, again, it's too much talking and so little practice. 90% is Talking, 10% is what we got in total. Please, not offense, understand that too much talking is not productive. That's my opinion. Besides that, you are just a great artist...!!!

She is beautiful! Hope you finish her! Loved this tip!

this is very helpful after doing just the opposite and having to paint over a whole area because of not matching the right color first.

Love youre art but u paint in such a weird way .perfectly finished as u go. But I obviously works well for u. U always do give excellent advice.

Funny and super talented!🤗

Thanks for making this video. It seems obvious when you first say it but then as you went on I realized I fall into this trap A LOT lol!

I have a painting question. I have at times “touched up” a background till I no longer like it. This is after the forefront is done. How can you fix the background without ruining your detailed work in front?

Thanks for the tip. I don't like to have so many shades on the palette and they get dried before I could use them on my painting. You are so very right and now I know why my finished portrait looked chalky (though others may not notice it!!) now I will correct my old works and be careful in new work pieces. Thanks for the tip. You have tremendous experitise bringing life into painting, eyes are so very lively. My 9 year old grand daughter has taken my passion of portrait painting and she does amazing face drawings at her age! She wants to draw eyes everywhere and at any given spare moment and paper pencil around she would be drawing a face! I am amazed at her burning desire to draw faces. She is too young to show your videos but certainly I would introduce at little later so that she does not get overwhelmed. Even right now she is never satisfied with her work and does not want to show me thinking it is not as good as I do, wow...how can I make her understand the I have more than 30-35 years of experience while you don't have any and yet you are drawing so very well! :-D Thanks for your videos.

This was an ”A-ha!” moment for me! Thanks for sharing an amazing tip!!

So good. Thanks. Looking forward to the Highlights video.

Very helpful! It's almost as if you've been watching me paint. 😉 This will no doubt save me lots of time and frustration. Thanks!

You're So awesomely talented and helpful! Thanks a. Bajillion❤

Brilliant tip! Thanks very much. Just found your channel. (subscribed)

I think your flesh colours are slightly, kind-of plastic. Brighten it up, mate.

u r perfect artist wow 👏👏👏🙏

Thanks for that tips mr. scott My struggle on painting is the proportion but just little bit

I knew it! I knew that that would be the right way to go.... now i only need to fix all those wrongly adjusted paintings....

Good friend 🌷🤩🙏 please colour printing slowly slowly

Fantastic, but the hearing impaired can’t make out what you’re saying. No CC?

This is a must if you’re spending multiple sessions on a single painting

Man this is so helpful for me, im doing my first oil painting and its super hard, but im not ganna give up, you can see a little bit what im doing😊

No wonder that every time I revisit a painting, I end up changing every color! Mixing and matching FIRST will fix this!

Best tip

For some reason that one hair coming away from you brush annoyed me. I was glad when you changed to the clean brush.

Love your attention to detail and patient color-mixing practice.

Great artwork, thanks for sharing👍😍🇵🇭

He is a magician. I paint a portrait 10 times. He does it almost in one go. Look at how his brushstrokes hardly leave any hard edges.

Thank you so much sir bat hindi lengavej

Thankyou, Thankyou!! GREAT TIP!!

14:02 clapping as well, great color match!

I got kind of out of context question, Why do you wear a hat usually?

Can I ask you what tipe of medium you use in this video?

Great information. Thank you.

I think I learnt something. Good tip.

What's your Instagram handle

Why there are not subtitle? 😢

That intro. 5 stars man, 5 stars

Thank you for sharing!

Good videoS ! 👍 You're talented, (compliment from a pro painter 😉). Please continue! P.S: your style makes me think about "william Bouguereau".

Yuppp truer words!

Very cleared explanation nice...

Those paintings of yours are wow! Could you upload a video of all or some of your paintings as a slide show. This is because some of your videos seem to show dark skin tones but with nice beautiful features! Just so that we could sincerely comment to get the best out of you!

Fantastic tip! Thank you very much. I do enjoy your humoristic approach to your video's very much. Life is to serious anyway.

oh my god that intro 😂😂😂

Scott, don't tell me you've never auditioned for a role in a hollywood comedy, haha! That aside, respect you a lot for your amazing work!

Excellent teaching

Well done, Scott!

3:00 4:00 9:45 11:11 if come in with idea that you want slight change in color then even if your mix comes I. Too strong you might not care too much because you want change But then it can often be too much and totally change all the color relations And so eventually need to adjust everything or else it looks off or the rest of painting looks off as you cont to keep going 17:50 same idea for if you wanted to go darker or lighter you could overdo it without mixing what’s the first 15:44 actually process of remixing previous color literally doesn’t take much time So don’t let it feel overwhelming it’s not a big deal

Best intro ever. LOL.

Excellent instruction…and examples. Thanks Scott👍🏼

How could you make painting looks blurry in overall? Is there a name for this techneque?

outstanding video! I am learning so much from you, and so glad you are sharting your expertise with us! I have already used some of your techniques, and just trying to get better, Thank you!!

Wow!!! Thanks Scott!!!

Thank you, thank you!!

Wow so helpful. Struggling with this exact problem right now!

Such a fan!!❤ a teacher I had always said to warm up by painting something small and simple, a bowl or part of your hand, to practice colour mixing and control!!❤

Very useful, I find colour matching the hardest. Mind you, having poor source images doesn’t help, I tend to paint too light.

So glad I stumbled onto your videos. I love this painting style so much, I guess my stars were aligned today. See you on Patreon, beautiful!

I just love the "shorts" in the beginning - I really appreciate your humor! Thanks for the honesty!

you are amazing, ha ha

Magnificent 👏👏

This came at the PERFECT time for me, thank you for sharing!

Thank you ❤ ❤❤

I like the intro 🃏

Super helpful, ty

Thank you🌹

Enable subtitles, please!

I'm so glad I came across your video today. Great video in every way. Thank you!

You have a way with humor Scott, you should be a stand up comic. Your artistry is fantastic too.😁

Yep, makes since! Thank you! Good tutorial to learn this!

Wow this was an absolutely great video man, well done! Your work is amazing

great!!!!!!!!!...........incredible teaching with so much information.........

Longtime viewer. This is excellent. Thank you so much bro.

I press like before I watch your videos. Because I am sure it's great As usual

Shouldn't you oil the painting out before proceeding?