I’ll Talk You Through This!! Sunset in Oils

and class is back in session with another florida painting and but this time i'm using my oil paints and we're going to paint a landscape basically a sunset landscape so let me first start you off with the colors that i am using i'm using a cad yellow yellow ochre alizarin crimson ultramarine blue a little bit of burnt sienna burnt umber and titanium white now i'm using liquin original liquin is an alkyd which will help the drying time for the painting it's going to speed up drying so even while i'm painting this it's going to eventually start to tack up enough that i will be able to add additional layers on top of this painting so i could almost do it at all prima meaning all in one sitting but in this particular painting i'm going to have it done in two sessions actually because the paint was starting to move around too much i was like ah let me just do this in two stage so as you can see here i'm just using cad yellow and yellow ochre and you know sometimes a little bit of alizarin crimson to put down the paint to put down the yellows wherever i see them on uh on the reference photo which you should see at the bottom right corner of your screen that's the reference for that i'm going off of now just because i have a reference photo there does not mean i have to be exact or true to the photo all right it's just there as a reference okay i can add subtract change things around the way i want to don't be a slave to your reference photos that's that's a big mistake so sometimes you just gotta use a little bit of intuition a little bit of your imagination change things around to make it to where you like it so as you can see here i'm mixing up this uh gray down purple and you could gray down your purple by either using a little bit of yellow or yellow a little bit of yellow ochre and to gray that to gray it down okay because yellow and purple are you know complementary colors and uh they next to each other they complement each other of course but when you put them together they grate each other down and you know if you put them purely together then you will get a brownish color so right now i'm just putting colors where they need to be without really blending so much yet i don't i don't want to muddy my colors too much because after that just it gets to be a mess and you know it's hard to get back from that so you just got to be careful where you can blend all right you just can't blend everywhere at the same time here and plus the whole idea of this initially is just to get the first layer down all right the approximate colors down and put it thin all right remember when you work with oil you want to start out thin and work your way thicker with less medium towards the end of the painting or should i say subsequent layers so believe it or not i'm actually working pretty thin right now so and uh as you can see here it's thin enough that i'm able to go over with this uh grayish blue on top of this cloud here without muddying my colors too much because i'm using i'm going a little bit thicker and i'm changing my colors a little bit because also why i made it darker towards the top there is uh that cloud it's a little bit further away at the top it's a little bit further away from the sun but yet that cloud is the and it's in its entirety it's actually pretty close to the clouds uh to the sun so it would be a little bit darker at the top and towards the bottom it'll probably be a more of a lighter color so uh now at this point now that i got pretty much the colors that uh i want i could start adding little by little a little bit thicker and thicker of paint okay and i'm still using liquin as my medium throughout this uh painting session you could use liquin on each subsequent layer okay even though it's a drying agent liquin can be used on each layer so and how fast does it dry or how fast does it tack up i will say that when i use liquid and i put a thin coat of paint that that coat will start tacking up within i'd say 30 minutes to an hour and will be dry by morning completely dry by morning if not even a little bit earlier okay it dries pretty quickly and then you could go back over that painting again with your next stage using liquin again okay liquid is formulated like that you could use it on every stage of the painting so or if you don't want the painting to dry and you want to keep it workable you could use linseed oil after you finished uh the first stage with the with the liquid uh with your liquid original the next stage you could start introducing linseed oil to the painting without having any effect on it so it's all up to you i used liquid throughout the whole entire painting to to help with drying time so i could you know get up to the next level here so now for the darks i use a lot my main recipe for darks is usually always ultramarine blue alizarin crimson and depending if i'm doing dark trees or foliage whatsoever i will use a cad yellow medium to that mixture not very much just very little to keep it nice and dark if i want a nice like chromatic black i would do ultramarine blue alizarin crimson and i would use burnt umber to get a really nice dark so here i just varied it a little bit when i did these grasses here that you see in that dark area right here so and i'm keeping it then as well and uh so now i'm just making some of the mixture to start painting uh the reflection of the sky into the water now remember these are only approximate colors they're not the exact color the final colors i'm just putting an approximate and i'm putting it thin so that if i want to go back over it throughout the first stage i can but the thing is you're gonna have to layer a thicker um a thicker layer of paint okay without using so much liquid in it this time because what happened it's going to kind of activate the the base of the base the base layer because liquid is a solvent it has solvents in it so but otherwise another recipe you can use to make your own uh instead if you don't want to use liquid you can use 50 gamsol or orderless mineral spirit and 50 linseed oil that's a mixture that you know it's been used throughout time and you could do your whole painting with just that mixture alone if you want your mixture to dry a little bit faster to make the paint dry a little bit faster just increase the amount of dryer meaning either your odorless mineral spirits like instead of putting 50 you can make it 60 70 um gamsol or odorless mineral spirit and then 30 linseed oil but if you want more oil then you just do the opposite just simple as that and it will help with the drying time as well but because liquid is very uh consistent in its mixture i just use that and i have it available and i want to use it before it goes bad on me so so now i'm just going back over the clouds uh the paint had time to tack up a little bit i have enough time there to uh start slightly blending some of this yellow with the with the purple at the top of the clouds just to show uh the sunshine coming through the top of these clouds there a bit so uh the paint has tacked up enough and now that's all i'm doing is just going over it uh ever so slightly colors let the colors blend all right i don't want hard colors on on the clouds so i'm just letting some of it just blend together slightly if you find that it's blending too much or the base layer is coming out too much and uh and it's muddying the colors stop don't continue let go of that part of the cloud or that part of the painting work on something else let it tack up and i would say like in an hour you could come back to the painting that's the beauty of oil you could just come back to it in about an hour and then start doing the the mid-tones as you wish without having any uh difficulty of you know uh of mudding the picture by uh lifting the bottom layers of the paint the brush that you see me using here is a princeton polytip uh very nice brush very very nice brush when i use that for oil paint uh it just it's smooth i've tried other other brushes but this one in particular it's a very smooth and as far as spreading the paint and loading up the paint and when i uh when you try to blend beautiful brush i love it i would recommend anybody get that brush uh when you find out i think you can find it online at jerry's ardorama or most most places carry that brush and princeton's make pretty pretty good brushes as well so now i'm just trying to define this uh the yellow aspect of the cloud here and i'm trying to make a little sun bursting right through those clouds towards the bottom of those clouds which is going to shine on the landscape and uh i had to be careful there because i noticed that even though i was adding more white it was just blending to the bat with the background so i stopped that so and what i did to compensate as well is just uh make the halo around the sound a little bit more yellow in order to bring out the white part of the sun out a little bit more i i hope that was not confusing uh when i said that so and uh now we're just going to work on the landscape uh remember the paint was thin so i'm able to paint over uh that part i know some of the cloud colors went all the way down to uh into the grass area but i'm able to go over it because the paint was thin enough and by using liquid which added uh the drying time to that i'm able to go over it now see if i had used linseed oil i would have had a hard time adding you know the the background landscape because the paint would have just slid all over the place i'd have to sit and wait for it to dry out which probably would have been the next day or so and uh that's the difference when you use a dryer and when you don't use a dryer so you know it all depends some people like the you know the working time and it's just me if things have to drop i'm an acrylic painter so i'm used to things drying pretty quick and just jump into the next layer or so but in oils in order for me to do that i have to use an alkyd which another word is a dryer to help me accelerate the paint now as you can see the background there's a little bit more of a bluish tinge in the background landscape as you as you can see because yellow and red are the first two colors that will disappear as you look into the distance all right so when you look at the distance things will be a little bit more bluer and in color than what it actually is okay and that's what gives it you know this atmospheric feel so if you want to push something back add more blue and white and you will push the the whatever subject that you're trying to paint further back and gray it down and i did use a little bit of yellow ocher with ultramarine blue and a little bit of burnt umber to make that greenish blue color for um for that background there so now also i'm able to go over these grasses now that i laid out the dark uh i'm able to start painting over the grasses but ever so slightly because uh some parts of it was was you know tacking up some parts of it were you know drying enough that i could add some of the greens to the grasses now i had to be careful okay because not every part of it was dry and as you can see also what i did there i was able to add darker tones to that grass even though that that dark that i lay down was not completely black and dark which is a good thing you don't want to make it too dark right off the bat i kind of keep it thin so that if i need some darker tones in some odd places i could just use ultramarine blue and burnt umber uh and add darks dark pockets here and there to further give depth to the painting and now i'm just blending uh some of the shadows of the grasses into the water and again that part i'm just letting it blend with the bottom layer i have no problem if the bottom layer lifts and it makes it muddy because that's just a shadow line and i'm fine with that and this is what i meant earlier by you know if i'm gonna put another layer on top i'd have to put it thicker and liquin is helping me do that and i'm not trying to push liquin i mean you could use a gamsol i'm not paid by liquin or you know i'm not trying to push the product i'm just saying it's a good product and it does help in your painting so and that's the beauty you could just work over work over once the the paint tacks up so now we're gonna go into the second stage of the painting i let this dry for about 24 hours because the paint i couldn't go any further with it i'd have to almost use a palette knife to you know add additional colors to that but which i did not want to do that so um i had to wait for it to dry i could have gone over it six hours later but it was getting late i thought well i'm gonna wait till morning finish the rest of it so now i'm just working on some of the darker areas as you can see and always the same color combo ultramarine blue burnt umber and alizarin crimson just further defining the painting a little bit more and again as you can see that little capsule right under my uh palette there that is liquid inside of that and i am using liquin from time to time because with these little layers i'm adding to it i want them to dry fast too so if just in case i have to add additional things additional colors or additional subject whatever i can do that without a problem so oil is fun but you just have to respect some rules like the fat over lean which means you know you put thicker layers over thinner layers otherwise what's going to happen if you do the opposite the thicker layers at the bottom will continue to move while the thin layers on top has already solidify which will cause cracking so you don't want that all right so now i'm just uh using my lighter color of the grass i'm starting to get into the mid-tones to show some reflection of the sun uh the sunset on the grasses here so i'm starting with the lighter colors and eventually as i get to the base of these grasses i'm going to go darker because it will be harder if i did the darker colors first and then trying to go lighter over it because what i would happen is that the lighter colors would mix with the base layer you know while it's not dry and it will muddy up the color and i'd have to put thicker or thicker and thicker paint in order to achieve uh what i want so what i did is while the base layer is somewhat dry already i started with a lighter color and then graduate to darker darker tones as i get to the base of these grasses and let them blend upwards into the lighter color and it works out a lot better that way and it gives a nice transition the other way around it would have been just a muddied mess and uh just don't want to deal with that because then i have to wait for it to dry again and then go back again on the painting just taking way too much time so that's the thing with oils you do you got to kind of plan out your painting here okay it's not acrylics where i can do whatever i want you know paint layer over layer i don't like the color boom wait two minutes i could change the color around and make it what i want it to be so orange you gotta be a little bit more careful and plan out uh your painting that's why sometimes i like to paint more in acrylics than i do in oils but there's something unbeatable about oils about this blending and the softness and what you can do with it too as well so i mean you know everybody got their thing i guess all right so now we're just working a little bit more on the highlight of the grasses here just got to gray it down a little bit more and work on this tree a little bit here and you notice how i grade it down in order to give an impression that's further away and it's not so close to the bank of the grasses and what will further illustrate that is when you're gonna see me put this uh this shimmer of light over grass going across there and that will separate the foreground and the background tree that you see me laying out there that's going to help a lot and so from this point on i'm going to let you watch and finish the rest of this painting and watch how it all comes together because now i just pretty much gave you the basics of or i should say the essence of the painting of how to start the process when not to mix and when to mix and when you have to let it dry and uh so on and so forth so from this point on i'm going to let you watch the rest of the process on what i'm doing and if you have any questions you leave them in the comments and i will respond uh as soon as i can and if you have any questions about the materials that i use or pain or what have you just let me know and i'll be more than happy to answer your questions so enjoy the rest of the painting [Music] hmm [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] um [Music] you [Music] you

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Length: 26min 20sec (1580 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 01 2020