Welcome back all you awesome and beautiful people I'm gonna show you an
awesome little hack here today that you're just gonna love on how to take
any oil paint that you purchase and make it firmer so that way you can achieve
easier paint breaks when doing snow or anytime you have to lay down a firmer
foundation for like trees and bushes and and when you have to apply softer paint on top of it
for things like highlights you're gonna love it and I'm bringing it to you right now!
Hey it's me it's wild coming at you super strong and
super clutch now a lot of us sometimes accidentally or on purpose by too soft
of paint for what we're trying to do for wet-on-wet or any oil technique now
there are some really strong and firm paints out there like this Winsor
Newton white titanium paint but a lot of times if you want to use like bob ross
paints or some more open paints there will be a lot of oil in there and that's
so you can get more flow within them and they spread out however when you're
trying to use it for bob ross paints sometimes these can be a huge detriment
which is why i'm gonna show you an awesome hack that you're just gonna be
praising me right after but then again every video i do is
awesome and you praise me after am i right okay enough of inflating my ego
let me show you the hack on our left hand side is a dollop of paint from the
bob ross titanium white tube and as you can see when we pull it out flat it
actually is a little mushy and that is because there's so much extra residual
oil in it which is great if you want to do things like snowbanks or put on
highlights but when it comes to paint breaks this can be one of the major
reasons why you struggle because your paint isn't firm thus it doesn't get the
chance to break off of your knife you can have firmer paints like this Winsor
Newton over here on the right hand side which you can see when we pull flat is a
lot more firm and breaks a lot more easy and this is what I want to transform
your paints into our hack comes from an everyday Amazon household item and that
is cardboard my friends cut yourself off a nice
leave and clean it thoroughly I use a feather duster that's right ladies
I own a feather duster I am a catch but make sure to clean off with your hand or
rag or whatever you have to get all the extra dust and paper particles off of
that cardboard if you don't have any cardboard in your house you can use
brown paper lunch bags likewise you can also use grocery bags that are made out
of paper put your paints in the center of the cardboard paper to show you how
well this technique works I'm actually going to introduce extra oil on top of
my paint this way you can see how well the cardboard will absorb the extra oil
because it is porous all you need to do is just pull out your paints and mix it
so that way it exposes more surface area to the cardboard that way it allows it
to soak up all that extra oil just to let you know doing this technique you
will lose a little bit of your paint because since the cardboard is porous it
will hold on to a little bit of that pigment so make sure you put down a
little bit more that way you can compensate for what you will lose but as
you can see on the cardboard it starts soaking up all that excess oil like a
sponge right away making our paint much more firm because it doesn't have all
that extra oil in it now with our brand-new much more firmer paint we can
take it directly to our canvas and start paint breaking with it right away with
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from all you people out there well that does it for me on this awesome video but
of course I'm not done I'll be here next week with another awesome video to help
make you bigger and better with all of your creative adventures and until next
time then put a video over here to the side
that's going to show you all the tips you need to know about gesso that's
gonna make all your paintings so much more better check that video out right
after this one and until next time PEACE!