The MEDIUM I use to make my PAINTINGS more LUMINOUS! 

This is the best technique for painting portraits. Some artists make so much mess and from that mess, they create an image that looks horrible. This technique is so relaxing.

Amazingly narrated and so helpful … and funny too! Thanks so much, Scott 🙏

I discovered you years ago and bought several tutorials from you, learning an immense amount. You were the start of my artistic career! Thank you for your videos; the value you offer for free is incredible! When it comes to glazes, I prefer to moisten the canvas with the medium as well, as it just brings the colors back to their original vibrancy. There are many ways to achieve the same goal. I admire how precisely and easily you achieve each shade. Please make more of these educational videos!❤

admire your sense of humour, Scott :)

Obsession appreciation!!!

Thank you. very helpful. Can’t wait to try this out.

Always Fantastic tips and valuable insights ! A pleasure to see you and your work mate! Take care 😊

Excelent class. Thank you👏👏👏

Great video, much needed information, loved it, thank you

Thank you, Scott, for the excruciating detail!;-)

Your talent is so understated... and I get a kick out of all your narrations 😂😂😂 much respect to whom I consider a master of portraiture!!!

Thank you for your wisdom with a bit of wit!!

Peter from New Zealand. Your portraits are so amazing Scott, the best on RU-vid! I have been flooding my first layers of paint with linseed oil so this video is really useful. Thanks for the videos.

your new hat is really great ! congratulation !

Good to see you...ty

I love chatgpt haha this is the best thing ever! You can learn so much with it, thanks for this video

thank you!

We really miss you ❤

I love Scott. what a lesson. Outside of supraorbital process seems light compared to shadow on interior, but I have never seen this model (daughter)?.. I love his school

You are one funny guy. Good clean technique in portrait painting.

thanks a lot!

Sottotitoli, mancano sempre

Thanks, was curious what you used for a medium!

Please tell me about fixing the drawing before painting. Because sometimes I draw and when I paint with any medium my drawing vanishes. So how to fix it once and for all?

Amazing ❤, i have only Mars oil paint around me so please make tutorial on how to use them to achieve such an Amazing result like you .

It just shows your experience. Most people have to value map. I know you've shown us techniques before on how you get it close, but man you just have if it were music, perfect pitch.

Thanks for video ... but how do you measure the correct ratio of refined linseed oil to add to the paints when doing revision layers?

Since you paint on oil primed linen. What do you use to seal the drawing ?

Thank YOU, I do use Winsor N. oils, but have liked BLUE RIDGE, oil colors. They have a white, that gives the winter scenery that extra appearance I love when seen in Real Life, or in a few Masters,, like the famous one with the sheep and their master. leading them home in a strange snow storm, that GLOW. Titanium white, too bright. Blue Ridge has a few other colors I would love to get, be are in short supply. Guess others too like the Blue Ridge paint. Brushes, I am somewhat stuck, with what I have. I too do not like to over layer. Not often do I do figures, but this helps me if and when I do. I seen another artist and he has his sitter, and scribbles in, and as he scribbles you can see the face features forming. When done it is all in color, after he had worked in all the colors.

Thank you so much for this video. It was pure pleasure to watch it. In my opinion, beside you are very good and talanted artist, you are a very good teacher. By the way, is this a Martin guitar behind you?

God's teeth….we *eventually* find out his medium is refined linseed at 11:05. Why doesn’t he say, right at the start. Here is why I only use linseed oil.

Thanks Scott for spending the time recording and editing your videos for us to learn from. I have found that all of the portraits I've done so far have to be oiled out between sessions for me to rematch the correct values. I also use W&N paints and straight out of tube. Any idea if there is a recommended maximum number of times one can keep oiling out? If/when you do it, what is your complete process and recipe for the solution? If anyone else has some info to share feel free.

Obrigada de novo❤

Is to you possible , sooner, to post a video about brushes for Oil Painting , what do you use ?

👌👌👌👌👌👌

On your flesh palette: WN alizarin crimson or WN permanent alizarin crimson?

I do not add mediums when working was but if I play then I do.

I tried different alkyd drying mediums, but they give strange kind of plastic gloss to the paint layer. But its just me... 😊

Hello Scott, thanks a lot for this video! Very informative. I had a query, and perhaps you were going to talk about this in the upcoming videos. are you oiling out the painting first when you work over a dry area? I always have issues with the paint sinking in and looking dull when it is dry. Is there a solution to this?

I think on occasions I have seen you use a toned ground. I often (not always) use a toned ground - matching the tone, colour etc... of my palette with, among other purposes, the intent of making mixed colour transfer between the two less jarring. Have you done, or would you consider a video on Toned Grounds? ... My suspicion - with absolutely no evidence - is that the different toned grounds used by many ‘Old Masters’ may reflect the timber colour of their palette. ...maybe.

Correction! You do know what talking about.. you have got to be , and please 🙏 correct me comments if im wrong? The most sharing artvimprover on free app RU-vid there has ever been! Perfect vocabulary, all the facts that matter, and the questions the viewers would have completely answered and i might add with a good touch of humor 🤨 that i have been distracted by before on more than one occasion when im truly trying to go serious. Cause this ain't a joke! Stuff will turn out funny looking, and yeah you can go with that kazy carton, but.... and of course better than 1 out of hundred people, but i dont want compliments from friends and family. I want to delight in delivering the information in visual 2d to 3d as you do. Your sketches are even amazing!

Question: Wouldn't it be time saving, to pre-mix certain shade of flesh colors you know you'll need, cover them in plastic wrap, and save them in your fridge, so as to not have to constantly mix your colors all over again daily as you go? It seems that then it would only take slight adjustments in the colors? I ask because I'm not an experienced painter as you of course are and you probably don't need to pre-mix.

H E L P me to understand please. Does this solvent, Gamsol, have binder in it? I'm told that we shouldn't thin our paints too much or the paint won't bind to the canvas strongly or the next layers of paint, and consequently the whole painting on top will eventually crack and/or peel off. I'm sure you are correct because you are a top professional, but help me to understand my important to me, question.

I know, I know😀😀

First

Don't use turpentine, use petroleum based OMS solvent. OMS can be used with all -non resin- oil and alkyd based mediums. Use turps only if the medium being used contains 'resins' like damar or Venice turpentine.

If using Liquin, you don't have to worry about the fat over lean rule.

as usual............we poor european people rest out of many things. above all the one "not english language"....... after a long check.....the Gamsol is not easy to find and as come directly from usa if you find it is like buy gold!!!! So Scott please tell us the similar we can find in europe....... is easier for you analyze than me as I don't know product...for example is like white spirit? or trementina????

I am not getting notifications from your channel, YT. :(

Mediums aint magic. Its the paint that can make magic, if ure good...

It's such a shame that you don't have subtitles on in most of your videos. As a result, your videos are only watchable for the English-speaking world and you are depriving yourself of a large part of your audience. Your touch of painting is magnificent even if I understand absolutely nothing about your explanation, which is only available in your native language. I wish you good luck and hope that you will add the availability of subtitles.

When you are sayung I know I know... are you upset that the flesh tint is now blush?

MAE NO ENTIENDO NI PICHA EL INGLES APRENDA ESPANOL..

درود استاد چرا زرنوی رو فعال ندارید شما ؟لطفا فعال کنید😢❤

you are a good painter But your presentation need to be more direct. I guess you dont work with a script. Try another video with script and see if you like it. Have your points down on paper in front of you. It will flow so much better. Kinda like the medium.

this dude is master but he can't communicate with audience properly. he can't sell out self. he has weak marketing strategy. I have seen worse artists here at YT with millions subscribers, because they have "warmer" talk to audience. sympathy is the key.

You talk too fast and agitated. Can you structure your talks and stick to the order of your tale instead of jumping everywhere, please