Why Oil Paint Is So Expensive | So Expensive 

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Yes

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its a Tilly r/foundthemobileuser

Disgusting 💩

Niyati Tyagi no problem

murders be like

That seems disrespectful

Seems cool

I used to work in a craft store, and the highest "loss" (shoplifted) areas were almost always the fine art paints/markers, and jewelry supplies. Partly because the cost adds up fast if you want the good stuff for your project... and partly because there's lots of small, valuable, easily re-sellable items you can shove into a bag or purse without breaking them.

Hey I was just there not to long ago.. lol 😆 wow thats so true.. people like to steal them..

Nerd!

Why were you looking for the cameras?

Booo michael’s.

Same

Me

Wtf ikr

i thought "maybe they realized how creepy/ unmoral/disrespectful that was..." NOPE

Literally

How are we supposed to get the fleash tones now?

Well at least now we dont have to worry about mummies coming back to life

....ikr

madness

lol. explains why there's haunted paintings.

Haha me too, it just looks sooooo buttery and nice

...I used to eat it...

trîck or trèat god bless you

Kobar Ariatna he was probably more worried because it’s SUPER toxic and dangerous, I’d be concerned if he was mad just because it was expensive lmao

Poor uncle

now i know why my mom smacked me so hard when i emptied all of my grandmas paints

i literally have no idea why people love acrylic paints, its a bloody nightmare and tacky as all hell to work with

@@Ava-ns4go it's all i can afford atm. I adore oil over acrylic, used it in a summer class and until I can buy my own I have my 50 cent acrylic bottles to use.

Ava Parker find that I like acrylics more because I find myself over blending a lot. The drying allows a restraint that is welcomed for me. It’s also much more affordable. I also find that when working with oils, they have a tendency to become muddy due to their mixing capabilities. I usually mix a slow drying medium into my acrylics before I start painting. Also, more expensive acrylics, like golden acrylics or liquitex have a longer drying time.

ive been using acrylic all my art career, im 15 yo and pretty much a beginner so icant afford to use this stuff, i cant really show u my part but i have one on my insta of black panther @timtam_26

Pretty off topic but, your name ma lord. PREACH!

no compound make you "go crazy" permanently.

@@ChristopherGray00 Lead White (lead carbonate) did... And the cool think is that it wasn't just used in oil paints. It was also used in cosmetics. Mild lead poisoning is associated with aggressive/irritable behaviour, apathy, lack of empathy and finding grotesque things humours.... so "crazy" for short. And since organic lead compounds accumulate in both fat, nerve and bone tissue it is borderline permanent.

@@ChristopherGray00 organic mercury can make you go insane from permanent brain damage

@@andersjjensen lead can induce psychosis, many substances can induce that, but there is no known compound that can induce permanent psychosis. there is no literature that even suggests lead causes permanent psychosis.

@@ChristopherGray00 tbf they never said permanently

As someone who’s seen paint before, I agree

@@michaelhiggins9791 As someone who's read satire, that was very amusing.

I guess lol i mean I'm definitely weirded out but hey I'm dead so I'm sure not caring at this point

Well it does turn them into a masterpiece

They weren’t using it anymore.

People used to snort the mummy powder too if we’re talking about how disrespectful they were

trxshy my last will and testament.

Note to self: don’t lick oil paintings at all

do you just,,, lick paintings in ur free time or

@@flrtpyo1076 wait.. you don't?

Way to go gurrlll

True. Might accidentally lick cow peepee or snails.

not true

Nana • LOL

Better make some calls quick to make sure that'll happen... You know while you're still breathing xD

Nana • that’s deep I should write that on my will

Nana • um...ok....

Nana • 😂😂

This comment gives me life

Lol!! 😄💗🌷

Frosting?

Someone: Can you pass me the YELLOW oil paint? Me: Oh you mean the "Fancy Cheese Whiz?"

Y es

nara tsa We do now, it’s called synthetic pigment.

@@alexa6709 no the mummies

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if I die I volunteer to be a mummy and be used for making paint *I can forever live with your masterpiece*

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I see a man of culture

Yes, a minecwaft fan.

@@cryptixdt u/uwutranslator

@@qutaibaabumatar6015 Hi potartor named Bob Potato

i love you

“delicious”??? 🤔

Maaz Kalim it looks like ice cream lmao

Man ...if its made from dead bodies ?!?!? 💀

It taste better than it looks

@@kittykittybombomb143 Ahh... I get it, now. So it appears very creamy. However( assuming that you and the OP are not the very same person): Is that strictly your personal observation or..? 🤔

I know and it’s so disrespectful.

@@TheEldenLord_ they condoned slavery abuse and whatnot. Meh

They actually also ate them as a spice

Gimmerqueen really ???

@@gimmerqueen that's so messed up. "Oh Bella this cake is wonderful, what spices did you use?" "Oh you know. We stole bodies from a historic grave, and decided to grind them up and it them! Isnt it wonderful"

Fun story. I bought a cool ring second hand. Big stone. Too small for me but I liked the blue. Turned out to be Lapis lazuli. Had it on my dresser for about three weeks. Liked looking at it. One Sunday morning, for no real reason, felt inclined to stuff it into my pocket. A lady at church, who is a bit of an outlier, shows up wearing a scarf exactly the color and speckling of the ring. I walk up to her, "This is for you." and hand her the ring. :) That was years ago and it still makes me smile.

Back in the 1800s they made a chemical process for mass producing the molecularly identical substance as lapis gemstone from scratch, so modern ultramarine is pretty cheap. And identical/better than the old stuff (purer, no rock mixed in, etc). There's zero reason anymore to use the actual gemstone other than being a hipster.

potato paradise Its because people who want free artwork don’t respect the art, don’t acknowledge the amount of hours of experience the artist has accumulated, and they also might just be assholes who don’t want to pay.

People feel entitled to free stuff in today’s society.

/rslash choosingbeggers

@@zhianxu7992 ????

People are just :p always gonna be

-Go brrr

Nooo! You couldn't use a dead body just for a paint! Haha, mummies go bruouououooh

wow look at ur comment subs *now thats haunted*

goodness poor people! “hehe corpsey make painty!”

"hahahah haunted mummie paint go BRRRRRRRR

There's plenty of very cheap botanical based pigments too that more closely follow those you see in nature normally, but they aren't very good for oil painting because they fade over months/years. For a flower that only exist sin spring, that doesn't matter to the plant. For a painter it is a big problem. So the expensive ones have to be usually mineral based.

500 years in the future: Nobody really knows how the Tina-precsionist movement started...

tina Well you can still paint over your paintings and cover them up (if you don't like them)

Yes, quite embarrassing

HAHAHAHA Same!

Sam H. It's preferable to sell a good quality artwork made with passion than just something you want to get rid off

gold will always be the best for me

It hurt my eyes tbh

Ultramarines are the children of Row Boat Girly-Man and we love them for it.

IKR

I only like it cause its lapis and its in minecraft

Very good points, but IMO not exactly because of the reasons you base them on. Today, pigment technologies have advanced so much, mainly thanks to demands from car lacquers and ceramic tiling, that many durable pigments are available at reasonable price points. There are still "student grades", that deserve to still be classed as student grade or maybe rather 'Hobby grade'. But the "Student" market leaders, Winton, Georgian, Van Gogh, Cotman, Aquafine, Galleria, System 3, .. have silently advanced into what must be considered 'Budget Artist Paints', rather than 'Student grade'. The ranges don't offer so big selections, they don't feature the most expensive pigments, and they're not quite as strong as premium artist paints, but in all other regards they're good enough for durable fine art purposes. There are IMO reasons why you should still choose durable paints, even if you're on a budget and consider your painting just exercise or a hobby. First of all, I've seen enough green-grey paintings that someone's talented great aunt painted with cheap stuff not so long ago (main reason they get a green cast is the low lightfastness of the reds they have used, and also from using Alizarine Crimson as a tinting color, minus-green, in mixing). And I have to think: What a waste, how unnecessary. The second reason for buying durable paints, is that if we don't, then we are participating in skewing the market demand, making real artist materials even more expensive. We cannot leave it solely to a handful of professional artists, who can prosper on their art, to support the artist materials market. It really isn't a good practice to use only only three bright paints to mix colors. Most bright reds, magentas and yellows have a weakness. While this weakness is insignificant and irrelevant most of the time, it's greatly and exponentially amplified, the less paint you use, particularly in a mix with a complementary color. If you need to adjust a blue, green, grey, brown color, you should use a red ochre, if possible, instead of a bright red. That's why you should do as the great classical masters, build as much as possible on Iron oxide and Iron hydroxide pigments: Yellow Ochre, Light Red, Venetian Red, Indian Red, Raw and Burnt Sienna, Transparent Red Oxide, Transparent Yellow Oxide... You don't even need them all. With some of those dull yellows and reds, combined with Ultramarine and some carbon black, you can do most things in natural, representative painting. You do need a cold blue, like a PB15:3 Phthalo, a bright yellow, a bright red, a quinacridone magenta. A Phthalo green is also nice to base your greens on, with Ochre or raw Sienna. But unless you're painting flowers, you don't need much of those colors, and can buy them in small tubes. As long as your Ochres and Siennas are the real thing (and not some Korean paint mixed together from cheap, strong Azo printing ink pigments), they're just as completely permanent in the cheap brands as in the Premium. Same goes for Ultramarine (unless it's some Russian paint "improved" with a fugitive dye).

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RedPineapple~ 🤣🤣🤣

😂 wasn’t expecting that

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My Egyptian self is crying

If you’ve ever seen a Van Gogh in person, he took that paint straight from the tube and laid the paint down really thick. He also had a suspected borderline personality disorder.

He had a tinnitus thats why he cut his ear off. He thought it would go away.

If I cut off a piece of my ear and gave it to a lady, I'm pretty sure the police will come and then straight to the mental institution lol 😁

@@muhammadrauf2600 I would gladly except your ear...ish

@@muhammadrauf2600 i actually heard that he gave her the ear because he wanted to tell her that she's not alone in this world or smth, i don't rlly understand him lmao

To each their own ^^. Each medium has their own cons and prons. Both can be beautiful when done well :)

:)

Bhell Ortua idk man, i fell into the rabbit hole of buying way more supplies than i need xdd

Also better for the environment.

@Bell Ortua Yeah I’m not a really good artist but usually when I’m thinking about drawing I first start with just drawing irl and then moving to digital cause it’s easier for me to draw irl.

Frendxhy underrated

underrated comment

Me right now🤣

4 AM for me

Katara is it relly you

Damn I guess I should oil paints

I used to use watercolor just like that instead of drying it then diluting it and I got so confused as to why I ran out so fast

I dont really know exaclty how watercolor is made, but the difference between cheap and expensive watercolor is much more noticable than other materials, even for begginers. So i believe that It must be much more difficult to produce

It’s the canvas or paper for watercolour that get to me

Finally Some one else Notices that..! Thats correct that we do not need a lot of Paint when it comes to watercolor and watercolor lasts longer then oil of the same weight that that does not justify it being more expensive. companies charge for the pigments and the ingredients used in a tube and not how much Paintings and Artist can get out of that tube. its just like saying that an oil Painter who paints very thin should be charged more for the same tube then an oil painter who Paints very thick since hell run out that tube sooner..!

+Bryan Santana Creativity in necessity I guess. Someone also saw a cow taking a piss and thought, "Wow, what a beautiful color! This pigment should be used for painting."

I’ve ran out of brown... Nan you’ll have to do.

I mean we looked at chickens thought “I should kill it, chop it up, put it over a fire and put it in my mouth”.

the ultimate power move

@@allthatglittersisntgold8330 Killing animals and eating their flesh happens in nature, so its not a big leap.

because deep down, you know it's the crayons... not you....

@@Change-Maker that's true

@@Change-Maker That's a stupid thought process tbh

@@HilbertXVI crayons are always bad.

Crayons are for kids, idk how to use it professionally 😅

Karen nah it’s cheese

No, it's cream cheese

Karen The prohibited gourmet frosting

I am the *real Karen*

Cheesecake......

Hahahahaha! XD

Hah!

Lmao😂😂😂😂😂

The artists did not know they were mummies, manufacturers were scamming them basically, and they stopped buying it when it got out. The equally good, normal brown also available at the time that they were pretending it was was just refined brown rust. Grabbing a mummy lying around was cheaper though that manufacturing a whole barrel of rust and cleaning and processing it etc.

Same

HAHAHAHA

I be ignoring it in caves at this point....

blue nuts

I’m still trying to find a single piece of gold

LMFAOO NO WAY

@@mrsyugi-ri9ge yes way the thumbnail really does look like butter

@@junotwithat3118 😭😭

hhhmmmm the butter tastes off

@Rachel ASHTON OH NO

You can eat anything but somethings you can eat only once

Excuse me but is no one going to ask how you managed to “smell” paint lmao

We really have no free will

Same😂

This one is funny. This made my day, thanks.

Byakuya Togami this made me laugh out loud. I feel like this is a conversation me and my friend would have... jokingly though

😂😂😂

Imagine someone saying this to you

Whheeezzeee

yeah, except ink jet ink is intentionally inflated by the companies that produce them by about 50 to 60 dollars. seriously it costs them cents to make that stuff, not sure why mark ups like that are even legal

Next: Why ink jet cartridge is so expensive

@@ThePalatineHill because there is no competition

@@ThePalatineHill because they sell the printer to you for below cost and make money back selling ink.

@@ThePalatineHill It is capitalism and free market bullshit that lets people argue for their right to gouge the crap out of our wallets.

Holy sheet YES

What about the white one lol

@MiniCraftyClub, white water color isn’t technically watercolor, and it isn’t necessary to make paintings, because water will automatically lighten colours the same way.

Hello thanks for the information 😊

Unless your Japanese

As someone who has hated Acrylic artist paints for more than half a century, can I use that quote? 😁💐

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@@BarakaWaswa ikr 😂😂😂😂

well it could be fun for a curious artists to know and learn

@@milknight5181 Boi he aint serious

Bro that’s a dumb question. When clearly oil paint has a much finer quality to it

good one mate

95 ????

Syed mdabdullah yikes... you don’t know

@@syedmdabdullah3052 are you a new kid

I'm the 1000th like lol

and then being used to paint a high quality meme and posted on reddit only to get like 2 upvotes

@@idrinksemenforbreakfast4496 o

@@idrinksemenforbreakfast4496 nononono, some dude makes you into an anime girl

Then turned into art.

@@aimohsin1380 that would be an even higher honor

👏👏👏Yas!

yes, this.

Probably there is no particular reason

@@er-xj8sn there high quality compared to most brands or markers

@@rae8061 its still overpriced lmao

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Pigment. Listen carefully.

@@rumblefish9 r/whoosh

Thanks for typing fire is hot I was worried it was cold for a minute

The amount of times I see the same comment. So original. 🤦‍♀️

@@rumblefish9 r/woOOsHh

I was thinking the same hahah

So in real life,diamonds or lapiz lazuli is rarer?

@@gillianabigail918 p e r h a p s (It always was?)

@@gillianabigail918 Diamonds of course.

Finally a use

My. LO once👌🏻

I know where I'm donating my collection

Just grab 10yrs old dead peoples

An artist in the 19th century, named Edward Burne-Jones, actually buried his mummy brown paint tube in his garden when he found out that it was really made of dead bodies, not just a funny silly name

I paint my toilet brown every day....

Lol same

Boii u gotta know what oil paint is thats what mona lisa and history uses lol

Kareem Almond ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ekzrn3-nu1s.html she did a simple introduction to oil painting and her paintings are gorgeous i discovered her through her Marzia one

Also me: oh ASMR!!

Who doesnt know what an oil paint is!?

The Great CooLite yup pick the 64 packs of crayola instead of the annoying oil paint its useless if its not dried enough

Time to flex on the kids with that 64 pack

Pencil or wax

We have a man of culture here

Perfection

Bwahahahahaha!

Yohohohoho

Its expensive cuz it also used to be made with poison asweĺl

more like a 40K resolution. *ba dum tss*

@@lefr33man lol, that took me a second to realize that was where you were actually going with it

@@lefr33man Noice.

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Minecraft Steve: why are you always painting🎶 why are you always painting🎶 why aren’t you enchanting🎶

This made me laugh

Ah yes, a Gamer

@Zhiyue YANG ikr

I swear ive seen some people use so much pigment you cant literally play with the slime anymore its such a waste

Professional pigments are made sometimes from very rare minerals that can be really expensive because they were over mined in the past or are really hard to find and produce at cheap costs. Mineral pigments often work better with paints than synthetic ones, but I know this from watercolor so it might be different for paints? But the pigment your probably using for slime is synthetic since a lot of mineral pigments for paints can actually be extremely toxic to touch or inhale!

Dino Dalmatian, oh! That makes sense, thank you for helping me understand! (Btw, I don't really do slime)

@@catsboots803 oh yeah sorry for being long and there is nothing wrong with using a little extra pigment for slime ;D

@@dinodalmatian4781 besides, if you use too much you can just add more slime.

Didn't you listen? It's not the paint oil but the paint pigment that costs so much! ;)

Me rn 🤦🏾‍♀️ it’s 2:13am

@@djdestroyer their brain said that before they watched the video so they wouldn't have known

Sigh

So true. Like I couldn't have figured out why on my own just pausing a moment.

You can buy a tube of french ultramarine that is chemically identical to mined lapis lazuli, EXACTLY that same color, for a few bucks at the store if you want.

Eh I'm not really an oil paint person lmao. For me, imagining that much alcohol marker ink is sooo satisfying!

Starts out a painting ends up a sculpture.

I prefer colored pencils. But oh~... imagining that much Prismacolor wax makes me wanna die

My aunt was an artist. She plied her art for over 50 years when she switched from oil painting to ceramics. She asked me over to help clean out her studio. She pointed to two closets and three old dressers all jam packed with artist supplies. That is when I inherited around five hundred tubes of oil paint. About half of them were partially used and about half never opened. They were almost all usable. She wanted to rent a dumpster her studio had that much stuff in it. Instead I rented a van. I have hardly bought any art supplies since and that was 25 years ago and I've only used maybe 5% of what she gave me so far. The only thing I really ran out of was canvas. I don't even want to imagine how much she paid for all of that. When she died 20 years ago at the age of 85 she left her ceramics equipment and supplies to my cousin.

You have the same name as my sister

Hi jhooooope

LMAOOOO

Mony. v lol same

My brain : whisper of the heart..

Steven universe