Acrylic VS Oil Side by Side EXPERIMENT

[Music] hi I'm Kevin Hill and today we're gonna do a test I'm gonna do a side-by-side comparison of oil and acrylic hopefully you'll find it enjoyable and maybe a bit of a learning experience alright let's get started I'm gonna start over here on the acrylic side of course I got the canvas divided and we got these handy little labels alright so now I've got my flat blending brush and I'm gonna take some white and blue we're gonna start with a a blue sky now obviously it's gonna be small but a blue sky and a regular white cloud and acrylic and then we'll do the same one over in O L so that you can see the differences now as you probably know I kind of like painting with both I really do I don't kind of I do like painting with both and so this isn't so much of me saying now here's the one you should do but I'm gonna kind of not give a whole lot of input as far as whether you should do oil or acrylic I'm just gonna paint up here and let you guys see the difference and I'll point the differences out some things are gonna be easier and some things are gonna be harder I'm just working on a nice kind of a deep looking sky there we go lighten it as you go down I want to leave plenty of room to do a tree and I'd also like to do a little waterfall because that gives you a wide range of you know different things now our sky has dried completely and it's nice and hard it's not tacky and that's important I'm gonna take my custom tapered round through some white just for the fun I'm gonna just for the fun just for a fun I'm going to tint it with a little bit of red I'm also gonna dip here into some foundation medium this is for acrylics and it's really important you use that it helps your paint flow much better and it gives it it you know gives it nice even stroke here's our little cloud okay so see I'm working on the outside edge you'll notice that this is really similar to the oil phase when we go to do that it's gonna be very similar here's where it's gonna change is I'm gonna be watching my edges as it dries it's drying right now I'm gonna watch these hard edges you don't want these to fuse into the painting your other place you got to worry about hard edges is the back this is called a dry brush blending technique and it's really the best use of this brushes to get these dry brush blending or kind of glazing areas just a little bit a medium is helping to make this sort of semi-transparent do you see that it's so simple and so easy just demonstration purposes only but hey what a fun comparison right maybe this gives you a an advantage because you can kind of watch this and and maybe if you can select whether you want to do oils or acrylics maybe you can't decide I get people asking me all the time whether or not they should do or acrylics I don't know okay there's advantages and disadvantages I started in oils they're both good to have together that's for sure but there that gives you a beautiful sky honestly anybody can be happy just with that you don't need a whole lot make a couple of stringy clouds but now I'm just having fun this isn't even about the acrylics now we're gonna start on the oil side so I've got my oil palette I've got my oil brushes they've got the black handles of course the acrylic brushes have the gray handles I did that so that we would never get them confused because some of the brushes especially these larger ones with the white natural hair are not good with water so you want to make sure you keep them separated all right here we go I've got some this is different then here you go clear gel and white mix we did not do this or anything like it when we painted the acrylics as you recall we went just right over the white canvas generally I'll tent the canvas but turned out okay without tinting it too so tempting it is optional I'm gonna wipe that brush out so there's very little left I've changed my paper towels so I don't have any water down anymore and I am going to take some blue you also notice with the acrylics I only had the colors I was using with oils I've got all my colors because they don't dry very quickly I've got blue and white and my acrylics I fact a lot of the colors are just vibrant and shiny we've got colors like you know like vivid satin green and even yellow ocher light because I don't like my acrylic paintings to look dull so many times so much of the time our curly paintings can turn out dull and I don't like drives me nuts cause I didn't want that to happen to us when we do this I designed a paint that's brighter and shinier than normal so that's why you'll notice my oil colors are more dull because they just tend to come out more vibrant anyways that's just the nature of oil painting now I'm gonna stop right here I wish I had a shop towel but I use them all up yesterday day before yesterday anyway they're gone so I've gotta go buy some more but now I'm gonna just take a regular old paper paper towel like the old days get some of this slippery wet paint off the surface because that will just hinder us when we go to do the clouds so I found a clean filbert brush let's just grab some white and for the sake of being consistent I'll tint it with just a little bit of red red and white on the filbert brush our cloud kind of comes like this I'm gonna start set my brush down and begin to roll it like this if you were painting red a sunset you may not want the build-up but because we're doing just a white sky and it build up it's okay it's not uncommon for me to do a entire cloudy sky with nothing but the filbert brush I like that I like the texture that it leaves so you can pick up that paint and move it in maybe yeah bring a little wispy out here good I'm gonna come right underneath this one and grind that paint in a little more paint down the more slippery wet oil paint you have down the harder it is to layer so just you know keep that in mind okay wipe out the brush again so there's basically nothing left in it and then feather the bottom out I'm gonna take a blender brush you can do it without but sometimes it's a little advantage to just break out your blender brush and hit the bottom edge now back on the acrylics side and I'm going to take a little number four flat synthetic brush or number six rather it's number six flat synthetic don't even know what I'm saying I'm gonna start right about here I made a little line to make sure you could see me let's start at my little line and work my way up there we go maybe a clump of trees one doesn't really quite get the idea across so we want to probably do just a couple this is the number for bristle brush and I'm gonna grab some of our medium I'm gonna grab some vivid SAP green little black alright we're just gonna go ahead and tap to create the generic shape this is just a side by side test I'm not too concerned there we go get a little something out on this tree doesn't take a whole lot of paint does it okay and then just got some just least scrub it along the bottom so now to highlight I'm just wipe my brush gonna go into a little more of our medium right into some white this is white yellow in the acrylic line that is a stiff natural bristle there's several that are soft natural bristle but this is the only stiff one and that's important this brush will kinda get mangled it'll kind of twist around a little it's just the way that that brush reacts to water but because this brush is used primarily for leaves and grass and rough textures the more you use this brush the better and the more character it actually develops to see mine has this got a couple of uncooperative bristles in there and those add the best best parts of your painting no matter whether you're painting will or acrylic you always come outside the dark with the light not the other way around okay so that's kind of our light color one let's get a mid-tone going so to kind of show you how to paint a mid-tone now you might be wondering this is I would say no tacky normally you don't want to paint tacky but in this case when you're doing the treat it doesn't seem to hurt it if it kind of pokes through if you were doing a sky you know you do your sky and they put a tree over a wet sky and it was tacky would probably not work out but because this is the tree and it's all kind of dark and kind of green kind of splotchy it wouldn't make any difference if you lift some of that black underpainting up blue and some blue and white a little whatever is left over in the brush I'm gonna add a shadow leaf in here good this is my synthetic flat brush you can just cut right down the tree take your finger and smudge it all right let me find my let me find my micro filbert brush I've got some beautiful bright yellow and white and right out on this edge I'm gonna do a few comma strokes to create a larger leaf shape a better look to the edge of the tree oh that's pretty sad your trees can grow on you make them a little smaller than you'd like they are gonna grow nice look at that look at look at the Leafs coming in this is mostly dry these thin layers of paint dry up so quick not that I've thinned him but I'm putting him down very sparingly that's what I mean baring layers of paint dry up so fast all right I just finished up here just finished up putting a clear gel actually put outs more clear gel in white and I did that over the entire canvas this is not something I would normally do in an oil painting I would stop only at the sky but I've got to replicate the wet and slippery areas that you would be painting a tree over you would not be painting a tree over a dry surface so that that slippery clear gel and white foundation that we have there is gonna be a great representation of what you would normally encounter I'm gonna come up here a little smaller than I want the tree to be I'm gonna begin tapping that's mixing more than I want we're gonna stop and we'll wipe this area with paper towel my goal is to just wipe where the tree is going no more there's other ways you ruin your background and what will happen is you just make it look weird but this is gonna remove some of that slippery loose oil paint sitting on top now we can always add more leaves but let's quit and take a break for just a moment make sure you don't get too much paint you don't want too many strokes alright let's take a break for a second wipe out that brush gonna grab some umber and black and I'm gonna place in just a little bit of a tree so I don't do a continuous tree I don't want a lot of dark up there I want you know with the dark down here it's not exactly the same but that's just cuz painting that's nice there's nothing to do at the paint that's just painting alright now let's go ahead and highlight actually let's start with the trunk of the tree I'm gonna use my filbert brush to make it at least established with highlight create a bit of a bottom here to the tree cool now we're going to switch to the detail brush this is where things are gonna really come together I'm gonna take some of our yellow ochre now you remember the rule right this is a soft brush and it layers over my stiff brush work okay just like that as simple as a few strokes I'm gonna do it with the detail round brush try to get a little bit more of a layering effect because this is a softer brush layer a little better than if we went on with the filbert brush although you certainly could this is SAP green yellow and white one set of leaves I push the brush in just like before I'm gonna just tap these leaves on you can kind of see how it works you get about that far have to reload I generally make some more paint a couple times throughout the tree just depending on the situation this is a fairly large tree it's really pretty just like the other tree though I'm going outside my dark with my light very important now automatically you get these beautiful shapes and textures and you get a lighter and darker you get a thousand colors I'm not trying to sell you on oil or acrylic but just know this when you paint any tap like this you get a thousand colors automatically as you as you mix with what's down there you don't get that in acrylics you have got to build those colors in it's not automatic oil it's pretty well automatic so now I'm gonna go back to my detail brush this is a nice clean one I'm going to grab some white yellow mix them together super bright lots of paint so much paint that we don't even see the bristles and then we're gonna glop this on you would only want to do this where you know you're not gonna come back and place another object if this is in the background and you're not sure save this for the very end this is my little accent highlight a little comma strokes and all was that pretty mmm lots paint break up a little bit of those trunks what we're at it here alright that looks pretty good now I'm back on the acrylic side and I put just a two-second little sketch in here I've got my foundation medium I've got my acrylics and there wasn't a handy we put the little labels hmm kind of fun this is just a matter of a side-by-side little test really is a test cuz I've never side-by-side painted acrylic and oil like this ever so it's just as much a test for me let's see what some of the differences are you don't notice I'm just being random here with my color well it's all wet I'm gonna begin to pick out there you only get about a minute but I'm gonna begin to pick out some of my highlights well it's wet so I'm going to under paint here real quick that's my sand here's some more sand good I'm going to rinse my brush a lot of this is really gonna be done with the flat brush but let's go ahead and just get some blue and some white little black and just create a little water action back here all of this should open though that's fairly dry it's getting tacky I'm gonna be just gentle with it how's that they're just grabbing a little bit of that and pulling it oops right now well it's still wet you have that just one second you can give it a quick rub with your finger and blend it right away maybe as we come down here just give yourself a few lines to indicate just a little bit of action in the water maybe just a little mist right here at the bottom just with the corner of the brush so we're gonna take some yellow white and brown and I'm going to just place on whoa there we go it's a beautiful highlight to these rocks now this entire area is fully dry and that's gonna help us an enormous amount it's going to take some number we're head off the bat and we're gonna blend using this is the number four bristle brush we're gonna blend using kind of a dry brush glazing technique and this is gonna make these rocks so pretty and you'll notice that they cooperate when they're dry let's just look at it's just the way it is they cooperate you can your you're in control of the paint when it's dry I almost feel that I'm out of control when everything is slippery and wet when you're painting with acrylics whereas in oils I feel like I'm in total control and it might be just because of the you know their heavy body acrylics but still thin compared to an oil paint which you know stand straight up when you squeeze it out of the tube there now looks decent doesn't it we're getting those nice kind of rough ragged edges this is an accent highlight right over our beautiful under painting really beautiful under painting this is just adding more more and more detail to it some of that under painting will show through it's too blue let's make it more of a purple beautiful as it dries I think that's gonna be just absolutely wonderful just like that you can push this purple in and around white this is now the bristle brush you remember I did it with the the synthetic first now I'm doing it with the bristle brush it gives us an extra brushstroke two different textures versus one the smoother texture is in the back the rougher textures in the front kind of cool there that's a nice look a little bit really is a nice look maybe just a little bright white so we can have a highlight right over the top of all of this oh yeah you can really make things shine be nice grassy areas right right on top of these rocks to help push them back and tell you the truth as is drying here just for the sake of being fair to both mediums so you can see it as it's drying of noticing that I've lost just a little of my value I'm gonna bump that value up before we quit with a little bit of white and yellow see that just white yellow in the on the tapered round with a taper grab that's uh the microfilm eart that I've got in my hand now we'll go ahead and bump this up just another notch the oils if you let it you know you let it sit and it just stays the same the acrylics not so well they kind of disappear so you wouldn't want to bump them up a little more to be fair cuz you can make a bright it's not that you can't make them bright you just have to bump them up an extra layer which is for some people has a really a really valuable thing that some people want to cut it short and they don't want to go and do these extra layers well with acrylics you have no choice if you want a bright you've got a lair I've seen too many oil paintings mine included I do it to every once in a while by accident too many oil paintings where there's a shadow and highlight and you're done oh what a mistake we want to see as many layers of color and value as you can possibly fit in because it'll make your painting better and that's obviously what we want want to make you're paying as great as we possibly can that's that's my goal I went ahead and sketched out exactly the same way this time with my oil paints I've got some umber black I'm gonna paint on my little little rocks then we'll go to paint the water grab my paper towel because there's nothing we can do to make this little good without first wiping it now with all that wet paint on there so you make sure you get all of that slippery wet paint off of the canvas you want it to meet rub down as much as possible okay now it wouldn't hurt to just take the leftovers and fill in there I've got my waterfalls here I don't like just having blue so I'll throw a lot of different colors in there's a nice purple I see a lot of purple tones other ones so that works now I haven't mentioned it but not putting any I can even take it away I'm not putting any clear gel in any of this that was just there at the beginning you under paint the canvas you know put it on the canvas before anything and then you get rid of it okay so here we go it's not like the foundation medium the foundation medium in acrylics you mix in the whole time so confusing so maybe maybe good not to jump back and forth too much if you're a beginner if you know what you're doing have fun jump back and forth I jump back and forth all the time one day I'm painting acrylics the next day in painting oils and I don't tend to get him too confused but just depends on how comfortable you are with what you've been doing there okay go over here and then a couple more rocks right in the foreground area we can always adjust to these I'm kind of just looking over here at eyeballing it it won't be the same I don't think you'll mind I think it'll be fine those dark spots kind of working back in as a nice blending area okay so now that we've wiped the canvas we can put the dark back on nice and thick and and solid but that'll allow us to do is just have the dark darks in the area where we where we can actually deal with them areas where they'll cause a problem they're no longer there so now the thick dark areas are back put our dark spots back in in the river a little rock areas good okay blue and red I think what we had no it looked good though it really was it's a nice color for reflected light it gives us some detail in those shadow areas that it really adds a bit to the painting so it's nothing we can do in any kind of painting you're doing really so we got that in that's something I would always recommend get some nice detail in the shadows should like my detail round brush for this back here too okay I'm gonna keep this one in my hand let's just do since since it's going let's just do some white and some blue and let's place on a little highlight I'm not quite bright enough there we go just a little right there on that waterfall you have to be more delicate with your brush strokes here if you push too hard it'll all just mix together all right that looks decent well I see we got a little just for the sake of me you know similar we got that little bit there nice alright we need to refine the edge of the rock ledge here to accommodate there we go see how easy it is to make changes that's true for both mediums early you can just pop a dark back in changes the entire entire form of an object that's just an art rule and honestly a lot of these kind of art rule things kind of carryover from acrylics oils they're the same lights darks values colors all going to be the exact same so it's not not a big deal now of course if you're brand new I'm I know it's kind of even silly to say but if you're brand new just in case just in case the oils are generally Messier and the acrylics can be cleaned up with water that's that's a big difference that's one of the bigger differences people consider when they take oil or acrylic the acrylics drive really quick and the oils take forever to dry by forever I mean several days so that's just another difference just in case anybody's in here nobody laughs at me some people could be maybe you never know and I've got my three quarter brush and I've got some white and some blue and I'm gonna come in and add these little beautiful areas so you can just like the oil or the acrylic version you can kick the oil version right over the rocks nice let's get another highlight right out of it on the edge I've got some white like layer it up a little thicker oh that's nice okay wipe that brush out and just drag it across to blend all of that together now let's get a little bit of umber and I'm just gonna drag a couple of shadows through some green even there accidental but nice okay back to my darks place the dark spot back in the rock here good yellow and green and layer that right on to make a nice highlight and that's about all there is to it super similar I haven't looked from back where you're looking yet but from up here they look pretty pretty well identical I'll be interesting to see some differences in them and some of it obviously could be me so don't don't take it too literally some of it could be me or some of it could be me reacting to the differences in the paint you know yes but there we go I'd like to be interested to see how this looks from six foot from the regular 6 foot viewing distance I need to pop that rock out we lost that rock edge and look how easy it is to just take your round brush and pop that rock edge right back out like that well I hope you really enjoyed watching this little experiment it was interesting to see how each paint worked differently for the same subject don't forget to check out both the acrylic and the oil line available on our website thanks for watching [Music]

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Id: B_XVNrihY0w

Length: 28min 28sec (1708 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 25 2019