This is my first lesson and I genuinely appreciate your thoroughness. You're an excellent instructor and so very kind to share your amazing gifts as an artist! I'm a new subscriber and I look forward to more of your lessons. Thank you!
Thankyou,once again. You are so generous with the amount of time you put into your free tips. I learn something every time, and it’s not always relating to the quick tip tuitorial. Thankyou once again. Ps. You do so well to concentrate when Charlie is in the background trying to create havoc and also steal the limelight. 🐕
It's my pleasure, Robyn. About Charley, he's a perpetual limelight stealer while his sister, Lizzy, sleeps through the entire thing. Charley will be Charley.
Charley does manage to make himself know on occasion. Lizzy, his sister, is always present, too, but once we start filming, she leaps on her special chair and goes to sleep. The pooch, Maggie, left us for the rainbow bridge a while back.
Looks like I have another reason to visit my local art store again! Lol this looks like it would be so much fun to use, thank you again Dianne for helping all of us viewers with all your quick tips.
Thanks Dianne....I always thought that the cold waxes were only for very advanced painters. Now I’m less intimidated to try it. Thank you as always for your generous tips.
Great. I love knowing my explanations are clear. Yep, Charley is adorable, though he can be quite persistent when he wants something and doesn't feel his wants are being addressed.
Wow this was a winner, Dianne!!! I loved the effects that you got and to get to see you apply it was so very helpful! And of course, Charly! Thank you for sharing another amazing QT!
Love this video . 😻😌🥰 I did lots of experimentation with acrylics adding all kinds of stuff to the paint.. What a great demonstration on impasto. Love the way you combine the texture and changing the value of the colors. I see now what i need to improve. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎨😻👀🥰
My pleasure! We have currently 366 Quick Tips and we add a new one every week. Also, I have full video lessons and courses available at https.diannemize.com
Loving vocal Charley, as bad as my cat Ivy when I ignore her, oh and great tutorial, my impasto gel came today so I am going to have a go soon at impasto. I got Windsor and Newton impasto.
When I started this video I told my cat to knock it off! Ha! I've never used a wax medium...I don't think I'll start. Maybe I'm a paint waster. There are paints you can buy with the medium in it now and I avoid them usually. I enjoyed this and agree with swiftness of brush strokes as well. Dianne, you put all of my art teachers to shame.
Really enjoyed learning about impasto. I'm trying to do a painting for my wife. Need to see how leaves are done impasto. Enjoy all your instructions. Also, love the cat.
Calcium carbonate can also be mixed with the paint to give it more body. It doesn't affect the colour in any way. Rembrandt used it quite extensively in his days.
No, I just read a lot of old books about painting. I have thought about studying Art History, though. Glad I can be of some help. Thanks for the great videos.
Lol! In my first video attempt to you Dianne I had my Hen's and the neighbors Rooster talking to each other in the background..I was disappointed they stopped for the finished video. Great Quick Tip! After working with watercolor more so lately, any oil painting seems impasto to me!
Thank you, Diane for this video. I want to try a Rembrandt portrait for study of impasto...I believe he added sand of some kind to his paint mixtures too...in his later works.
Nikki, keep in mind that during Rembrandt's time, artist had to make their own paints. How those pigment got ground determined their texture. Add to that the process they used for making the ground of their painting surface. You might benefit from watching this RU-vid video -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SA83FCQCmhc.html -- The language is Dutch, but there are subtitles.
I never use wax with flake white ... it yellows with this pigment in my experience. Bold impastos grab my eyes. I wish I could be bolder with this. Utmost blessings!
I am very new to painting found it to be very therapeutic after my car accident and spending almost a year in a wheelchair! With that said I absolutely love it now. Thank you for such an amazing video you explain things so well. I do need some advise please. I really like the style of eassel you are using in this video can you tell me who makes it and the style? Also any chance you remember where you purchased it or where I can get one like it? Thank you for all of your help I love your channel have a wonderful week.
No no - they are for oils. For acrylics look for heavy gel, impasto gel, modeling paste or 3D gel there is a ton of products. I use Rembrand acrylics they are quite heavy and I use them easily, they dry sharp. Also Schmintzke acrylics are very heavy and dry well. School grade acrylics dry flatter, they lose sharp edges, but if you add gel, all is fine. Good products are as usual from liquitec, look here www.liquitex.com/GelMediums/ You can chose heavier or lighter, depending on the result you want to achieve. It's better to use highly pigmented paint though, the media will dilute color a bit.
Thank you so much for covering this topic. I have a quick question, if you don't mind. Does using the cold wax slow down or speed up the drying time? Thanks again. And I think Charley wants to be part of the video! I'm all for it! 😀
Thank you for demonstrating how to use this technique. I was wondering how would you compare the cold wax versus the some gels i've seen in the market. Thank you Dianne, from another Dianne.
Does impasto take longer to dry/cure than just a regular oil painting? I am assuming maybe yes because of the thickness of the paint when mixing with wax medium. I absolutely adore your teaching style, and this is a complement - your accent reminds me of Jimmy Carter - so pleasing to listen to your kind voice.
To answer your question, Terri: yes. Unlike acrylic, oil paint oxidizes from the paint surface where the oxygen hits it first down to where it touches the canvas. Sometimes, it can take a year or more before all the paint is hardened. To my accent, you made me smile. Jimmy Carter and I are both natives of Georgia. He's from south Georgia and I'm from north Georgia. We both are of a generation when the southern accent was detectibly Georgian.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thank you for the reply. I am so new to oil painting as a medium that it is extremely helpful to me to learn how the paint and additives work. I am so used to the instant gratification of acrylic and I am so afraid of ending up with a piece I love in oil and it never drying - especially with the cold wax. :-) I'm glad I made you smile and I hope the Georgian accent doesn't disappear entirely, it is so lovely. I'm a fan of accents and Georgia is a favorite. :-) Thank you again for the generosity of your quick tips instruction :-)
Great demonstration of impasto technique, Dianne. Question: how do you utilize impasto in painting objects in the distance while still maintaining a sense of atmospheric perspective in the entire painting? Maybe this is best left to another quick tip topic, but can you comment on whether impasto textures in a landscape "background" are problematic if the foreground subject is also highly textured with impasto painting technique?
Grant. I think this would make a good Quick Tip, so I'll put it on the schedule. Meanwhile, if we reduce the value contrast and intensity of the colors we're using, the impasto can translate atmospheric perspective, regardless of how pronounced it is.
Great video. Please do one and paint charlie! Loved hearing him. Great tips. I loved how you discussed directions of the strokes and how it affects the paint. One question when you say value at the end, adjusting value, what does that mean? Adding more or less wax? Value in terms of what? The texture? Thanks for sharing
Value always means degrees of light and dark. When we are adjust value, we are either making an area lighter or darker. The wax doesn't effect the value, only the texture, so I added lighter color to make the value lighter. More wax to that only adds more texture. A lighter value over a darker one reveals texture, but does not create texture.
It seems that painting in oil and cold wax medium is becoming more popular, especially in creating intuitive and abstract paintings. I really enjoyed your painting. I love roosters and it was good to see oil and wax medium used in a more realist way. I recently started playing with this and I love the feel of the mixture and how it applies to the surface. I like to experiment and recently played with adding a bit of calcium carbonate to acrylics for the impasto technique. So far, I like that. Can calcium carbonate powder be added to oil paint as well? Would it dull the colours, make the paint more matte? Thanks for your quick tips. You are so kind to share with us. Charlie is adorable!!!
Lillian, I don't know whether calcium carbonate can be added to oil without weakening its integrity. What we have to watch for when adding anything to our paints, whether acrylic or oils. is whether the additive will cause cracking as the surface dries. For oils, that won't really show up immediately because oils dry by slow oxidation rather than evaporation so it's later on in the oxidation process when cracking appears if the integrity has been weakened.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Perhaps occasionally shining a spotlight across the painted surface at a shallow raking angle would help to show the impasto better. Almost feels like the darks would be better painted or knifed in flatter with the highlights in impasto, contrasting with those flat dark shadow areas - but hey, guess there is no one way to paint. I presume cold wax is going to take a year to dry....so mixing a drying medium might help. Humm, I've a one gallon drum cold wax that needs using up so thanks for inspired me to have a go. Interesting as ever, many thanks for the tutorial.
The biggest reason is that if the wax is not mixed into the paint, there is risk of it cracking. In time, because of the difference in the drying rate between the wax and the paint, the bind between them could fail.
Impasto requires a stiffer surface than paper because the paint being thicker, it needs a strong support to prevent cracking after drying. Any strong archival support, even a well-stretched canvas, will work.
Thank you for these excellent videos. When you use oil paint and a medium like a cold wax medium, do you call the work an oil painting or a mixed media painting? Thanks!
its a great video. learned a lot. Can I use this impasto over dry liquin medium ? if i follow fat on lean. Is this a fat or lean medium? I would like to build more layers.
That will probably work fine. Fat over lean is comparative=the bottom layer should be leaner than the subsequent layers, so it's misleading to call any single medium fatter or leaner than another.
It is best not to use too many additives because it interferes with the integrity of the paint and risks cracking as it dries. Oil oxidizes rather than dries by evaporation, so the surface might appear to be dry while the paint is still wet underneath. If you apply paint on top of that surface, the top layer might crack. Liquin Oleoimpasto does speed drying somewhat, but still the surface will dry prior to paint underneath it.
Thank You very much for information about imposter ! Can I ask you to write your favorite name of Impasto ,,because I would like to buy it Bat for me difficult to quite understand the name what impasto you like it Please write me name. Thanks Natasha
Can i put my oil paint on cardboard to slightly stiffen and still be able to use it in the same wet on wet impasto layered alla prima style? Or will the paint wrinkle when it starts drying. Also would the paint i stiffen on the cardboard be considered lean compared to the same paint straight out of the tube as its more oily in the tube? Could i do a wet on wet layered painting like that without it wrinkling ? Thank you
Harry, oil directly on cardboard will cause the cardboard to rot. If you want to use board for your painting surface, choose from archival boards available. For extra sealing, you can apply a coat of acrylic gesso. There will be no wrinkling on these.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction i just use card board to absorb some of the oil out then i paint on linen canvas . Would the paint which i have aborted some oil out of be more lean them the paint from straight out of the tube? Could i still do a wet on wet impasto style painting with the stiffer paint first then the oilier paint out the tube on top without causing wrinkling etc? Thanks
Please do you have videos on how to use different palette knives? I love to do impasto. I use the texturing paste from Hobby lobby and Michaels liquitex brand.but will appreciate if you can respond this again
