okay let me just put this oh hello there and welcome back to another episode of
trying out all the artist things because i can't pick an art style or an art medium to save my life
today guys i am going to do the most artist thing
ever and i am going to make my own oil paint and paint with it
now you're probably wondering why artists choose to make their own oil paint instead
of just going to the store and getting some and there's a few reasons for that one is you get to
customize your colors you can make literally whatever color your little heart desires
for example if you color matched a skin tone perfectly and you don't want to spend
a lot of time remaking that one specific skin tone you can make your own colors no problem
two is that there's no fillers it's literally just pure pigment
linseed oil and a few stabilizers that's it
and the last reason and what i think is the most important reason is that it fits my
aesthetic imagine it's raining it's dark outside you're alone in your castle listening to classic
music while grinding away making your own oil portraits while dressed in dark academia clothes
that's my aesthetic so this should be fun i'm really excited to try this
uh if you haven't subscribed with notifications i highly recommend that you do because it helps me
more than you will ever know and uh yeah let's go ahead and do this thing
so
all right let's talk about my setup shall we i have a large glass plate that will not move
off the table i have a glass motar that way i can grind the pigment and oil like
together completely i have probably what's the most bootleg thing i've ever seen in my life
i have an eyedropper full of linseed oil that way i can slowly precisely drip as much oil as i need
and of course the most important ingredient pigments lots and lots of pigments now
pigments can range anywhere from like 10 bucks on amazon all the way up to hundreds of dollars for
one singular pigment i personally went with a nice middle grade and i got 10 colors for 150 bucks
and originally for this video i was actually going to make my own pigment from what i thought
was a plant that was local in my area and so i was talking to one of my fellow youtubers who's
local in this area his name's Huntstashe i will gladly leave his channel down below
when we were discussing it it turns out it's not made from a plant literally whatsoever
it's made from crushing up a very specific bug that creates a fungus that lives on a plant
in the middle of nowhere and i can barely find my left airpod half the time let alone
this tiny bug that lives in the middle of nowhere anyway the reason i'm telling you this is because
a few days later huntstache actually went out found the actual fungus on that plant in the
middle of nowhere and he sent me the footage so here it is hey there so uh i'm huntstashe and this
right here is a prickly pear cactus the reason i wanted to show you this one in particular
is because of all the white tufts that you can see coming out of the pads of the cactus
and that's your indicator for then going into the pads of the cactus pulling the bug out and that's
exactly where some of the native americans and the spanish that would have been in this area would
have got some of the pigments for dyeing clothing painting pottery face paints doing pictographs i
mean you name it they would have been used for all sorts of different items so there you go coaching
absolutely fascinating stuff but i'll just stick with synthetic pigments from amazon
so now that i've picked out my pigments this actually leads me to something very important
safety first these pigments are very finely grated and i absolutely don't
want to breathe these pigments in and i'm just going to mix a little bit of pigment
with a little bit of linseed oil and little at a time until i get the consistency that i want
wow okay so what you just saw was probably like 30 seconds or something like that but it's actually
48 hours later i only grinded about five pigments together and that alone took about half a day
and the reason it took so long is because i had to coat each individual pigment with
linseed oil which by the way linseed oil smells a lot like banana bread
which was oddly satisfying some pigments were easier to mix up than the others especially
the blue as you can see it still has a lot of little tiny rocks in it i guess you can say
but other than that these are looking absolutely incredible
so let's go ahead and swatch these bad boys out
we'll go ahead and start off with yellow yellow ochre to be exact
but right off the bat it's completely smooth it's very pigmented and
it works literally just like regular oil paint hell yeah try out the red
the blue took about three hours to grind and i still could not get it to break down whatsoever
so that might potentially be a problem when i mix it into colors but i mean it's beautiful
oh that's way dark this burnt umber is really weird because on the palette it
looks kind of like a light brown and then you look on the canvas and it's almost black
and the last color is dark umber so let's check it out
oh this one's hella dark
okay so now that i have my swatches i'm really happy with how the colors came out
this actually leads me to a step that i'm going to bypass and that's putting them in containers
i didn't anticipate these containers to be like actually giant and plus
my paint is already perfectly on the palette so i'm gonna skip this step
for next time but anyway this leads me to my painting process
uh actually never mind the oil to pigment ratio was very off-centered it had a lot
more oil and it was kind of like slipping off the canvas which isn't bad it just took me by
surprise so i made a mental note of use less oil next time i thinned out the paint to an almost
water like level i switched up canvases to a traditional canvas instead of panel
and lastly i went for a less realistic and more avant-garde pop art britney spears moment
okay so now that i have you here for a second there's something that
really personal that i wanted to put in the video but i wasn't really too sure where to
put it should i put it in the beginning should i put it in the end i don't know
as you guys know for the past two months or so i've been uploading every single friday and
it's been great i've been getting a really great response to it you guys have really been enjoying
it but if i'm gonna be completely honest uh over the past two three weeks my health issues have
been kicking back up if you guys don't know i have a whole host of just like random health issues
mainly chronic fatigue chronic epstein barr and thyroid problems which has been really frustrating
because for a while there i was doing really great with my health problems i thought that
i thought i wouldn't have to deal with them anymore you know and so now that they're
kicking back up it's really really frustrating obviously i don't know what days are going to
be good days and bad days so it really interferes with my monday through friday
schedule and so because of that i'm going to stop uploading every single friday and just do it
probably every seven to nine days but i am hopeful you know i've been able to get over it before
i'll hopefully be able to get over it again you know so yeah i just wanted to keep you updated
and let you know what's been going on and in some better news i finished my pop art britney
if you're interested in trying this i say do it all the stuff that i personally use
i will link it down below so anyway guys thank you so much again for watching i
hope that you have a good day and i will see you next video