PAINT TALK: The Oil Painting Questions I Get Asked The Most 

I've watched this channel for so long and I only ever Acrylic painted with no intention to start oil painting, but now that I've started oil I feel like I am already quite a few steps ahead!

True! Same here! :-)

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Summer is around the corner though!

A tip : you can watch series on flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies these days.

@Elias Mathias yea, have been using flixzone for years myself :)

Awesome!!! Glad you got a lot out of it!

@@paintcoach Hi Chris, I watched one of your paint talk videos where you talked about varnishing, and you said to wait 6 months or more for the painting to dry completely. But if the painting is thin layered and dried in sunlight , do I still need to wait for 6 months or more ?

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Just do it. Carve out the time every day and force yourself even when you don't feel like it. I had the same problem with Food Exercise Cleaning up Reading Software Development Painting I never feel motivated. I thought about it for a bit what is stopping me/think is stopping me from completing my task. 1. Food: I thought healthy food was expensive and took too much time to prep and eat. The truth was that I loved eating junk food. My brain loved eating junk food. It was until I forced myself to eat the healthy food I realized that junk food and fast food tastes HORRIBLE!! I can't eat the stuff anymore. It's trash to me. Now I eat healthy. 2. Exercise: I thought that I didn't have the time to do the exercise or the tools. The truth was I had the time in the morning I was just sitting on the computer looking at random junk online and watching the news loop. That time could be used to exercise indoors. I bought resistance bands and that replaced a pull up bar and dumbells. I noticed always no matter how I feel the first 15 mintues my body is telling me "go sit down you not exercising today loser" Then after that hurdle my body then says "HELL YEAH WE CAN DO THIS !! LETS GO DO MORE!!!" Sometimes that feeling comes at the very end of the exercise XD. So I have embraced that I will hate exercising for the first 15 minutes. 3. Cleaning Up: I ALWAYS think I don't have time to clean up. This one is still a work in progress as others in the house also dirty it up and I get annoyed cleaning after them. I swear some of the people I live with are HOARDERS!! move one thing and you won't hear the end of it. I decided to clean up every weekend since nobody visits my house anyways lol. 4. Reading: This is the hardest thing to do for me. To sit down and see text.I tried to tell myself that various other tasks are taking up the time to justify me not reading. So I decided that every time I wake up my hand grabs the book right on the side of me and read it for as long as I can. Then I go exercise and eat. After that I get back to reading so that I can think about what I read and feel engaged and jump right back into it later in the day. Software Development: Truthfully painting solved this problem. I wanted to make the biggest most complex software ever. Then I realized that was impossible for one person to accomplish. I put this off for MONTHS !!! MONTHS!!! and then I started painting. It took me hours of time to finish a painting. I would watch hours YT videos of painters do their thing. The process of having to break down the painting into shapes and only use the essential parts gave me the idea on how to make the software simple but effective. I stopped worrying about making my software complicated and made a simple lightweight one that gave the software it's identity. Later I can go in and put in the extra details to finish off the software. Painting: Although I started painting, I also would not do so for months on end. I had no clue what to paint. Then I saw that I could just paint the people and locations on the news. So long as it doesn't become public lol. I had a reason to watch the news for an hour and get a screenshot of whatever to use. Sometimes it's a news anchor sometimes its a sunset, sometimes its a cloudy day. Sometimes it's a traffic jam, sometimes its a crash, sometimes its a natural disaster. It's all there to pick from. I don't care for the lighting, the feel, the whatever, I just paint it. The reason why I don't chose things that motivate me was because I shouldn't need it to start anything. The motivation comes during and after completing the task never at the start.

@Glum Sullen okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for writing that out for me!

Look for the channel Enjoying Art Yong Chen for watercolor. Very similar breaking down the basics for watercolor.

Thanks so much, Julia! Will look for that one :)

@Glum Sullen thanks for your reply. I do see that the completed painting behind him is more reflective of the picture. I also realize that an artist has license to tweak the colors and value to make the composition more appealing.

I use lot of Liquin since help to dry faster and never I get a crack on my paints (I use Winsor & Newton, both Artists & Winton lines) I believe that you have a problem in the first layers that aren't dried and when those do it, crack the paint upper it. as Glum say, try to do some research in fat over lean or thin to thick (are sinonims)

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