This is gonna be like a nice landscape and
mine's gonna be like the apocalypse.
Can I learn oil painting in a day?
Oh, you know who we should learn?
"Let's start with a little two inch brush", not a little brush...
"and we just load a little
bit right into..." Oh his paints are in a different order.
What?
I don't know if his paint is, his paintbrush wet or dry?
He didn't say.
We're just going to have to trust the process.
I usually draw with colored pencils, markers, or even a computer and paints?
I've dabbled with acrylics, but I've never painted with oils.
So it's time to take a crash course.
How hard is oil painting? Oil painting
easier than acrylic?
Oil painting basics.
A complete list of oil painting supplies that every beginner painter needs.
Oil paints, done. Painting brushes, terpentine, or mineral spirits.
Yes. Is that enough? Linseed oil?
Lindseed oil...
Now, when you're painting, you're going to find that the paint is not
going to flow sometimes the way you want it to.
So in order to change that flow rate, you're going to add medium.
Now, I suggest using linseed oil.
We might need linseed oil.
I'm not as prepared for this as I thought I was.
Hello, I'm Bob Ross,
and I'd like to welcome you to the 29th Joy of Painting Series.
We use about a dozen colors and some unorthodox brushes in each show.
So zinc white, where's titanium white? Got lots of greens.
I don't have the colors Bob!
Blue blue blue
You'd think with all these paints, I'd have at least one of the right colors.
Van Dyk Brown! Pur... purry Yellow?
Three colors out of 13.
We have to do some adjustments.
We've got our paints,
Now I need the canvas.
I ended up sending Natalie on a small trip to the shop because it turns out we didn't
actually have canvases in an appropriate size.
Natalie's here.
Raw linseed oil. Ooh options! You've done a perfect job. Okay
thank you, Natalie.
Let's get started.
I thought today we just do a very simple little scene that hope you'll enjoy.
Little crisscross strokes.
Oh, dear.
This is not good.
"We can do anything that we want to do here. Any little thing."
I've never felt so uncoordinated in my life!
"This is going to be like a nice landscape."
Mine is going to be like the apocalypse.
We need to get the motion, his is like this.
I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm already feeling out of my depth here.
Okay, let's just work with it. I like fatal blue.
It's a very warm blue.
Okay, that's kind of like neither of my blues.
And still using our little crisscross strokes.
X's. No, I'm not good at them.
Oh its so dark! No!
Mine looks so crap, so instantly. You make it look so easy Bob, why
has mine gone grey?
He said not to wash the brush between colors.
Colors mixed, There's too much red on my brush.
I think need to check my other paint colors
and see if I've got something that's a bit closer to the color we're going for.
"Looks great."
Don't lie!
Looks nothing like what his looks like right now.
And that's not a good starting point.
All I had to do is get two colors on the canvas.
The colors look nothing like his.
I think the problem is, my white underneath is dried already.
Let's just rewind for a moment,
because in my zero experience with oil paints, I thought I was supposed to create
a thinned white paint using the linseed oil to prepare my canvas.
By the end of the day,
I learned that the oilier paints are better on top layers,
so this probably wasn't a good idea, and it didn't work as intended anyway.
And I could have just used acrylic gesso for this step.
But mistakes like this are all part of the learning process.
Is there a way to add more moisture to my brush or something?
Because I feel like that would help.
That would help me a lot, if I just had
more moisture to work with, because that's what feels really different
to me about this compared to what I'm used to.
What I'm used to from the one time I've done acrylic painting.
Yes, I've done this challenge before,
but last time, I tried to learn acrylic painting in even less time.
And while I had some challenges then too, I was quite happy with the end results.
So there is still hope today that I can turn this around.
Even though things aren't looking good right now. In hindsight,
I think I should definitely have thinned out some of these paints.
On the lower layers, they were very thick and heavy.
But having never used oil paints,
I didn't know what I was working with until I gave it a go.
It's always amazing how much you learn
when you just jump in the deep end and try something new.
As I continued to paint,
I started to get a better feel for how to work with the paint and what to expect.
I didn't have quite the right brushes for a Bob Ross project, but I made do.
I think my brush is too wide,
he keeps talking about two inch brush that's more than two inches.
And I think my canvas is a bit smaller, and so it's kind of like I need just,
like, slightly smaller brush to make this work.
And the more I got the hang of everything,
the more I started to really enjoy the process.
Let's be honest, learning a new medium is
always a bit frustrating at times, especially at first.
And you'll see all those worst moments here on camera,
but you won't see the other hours that I spend fully engrossed in this new medium
that I'm learning, enjoying every minute of this, despite my commentary at times.
Because once you can work through those
moments of frustration, it becomes incredibly exciting to bring
a piece of art to life in a medium that you've never tried before.
You don't have to be a naturally creative person, more than anything,
you just need to be brave enough to try. "What the heck?
Be brave, be brave."
So it's time to learn some new techniques. Making trees.
Trees are all, like, curved. Making water reflections.
"If you want to create another plane in your painting,
take a little white and lift upward, and it'll make little areas back here."
And making even bigger trees.
"Even a tree needs a friend."
And these are all a lot easier than I thought they'd be, giving me a nice little
confidence boost along with the continual encouragement from Bob.
"You really are the creator on this piece of canvas.
You can do anything."
Although it's still a little intimidating for a first timer like me.
"This is your bravery test."
Thing whole thing is my bravery test!
After this, I'd love to have a go
at a completely different style of oil painting, but I'm glad that my first oil
painting was following a Bob Ross tutorial.
It just feels right.
I love this guy.
How have I never watched Bob Ross before?
If there's another new medium you'd like to see me try in my next first time
challenge video, let me know in the comments.
I've been a creative person my whole life,
but I've always limited myself so much to paper and pencil, and there are so many
different types of art that I'd love to explore.
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Okay, the first painting is done.
I'm okay with this.
I think for the first ever time that I've used oil paints,
and after realizing that it was actually just not what I was expecting,
I totally thought that I'd be using water and the consistency would be different.
I've never even watched a Bob Ross tutorial before.
I'm really happy with how this turned out, but we're not done.
I have found a tutorial on Skillshare
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For my next painting, I wanted to try and paint something
from the color cube, so I've chosen these six images.
Now, these are intended for color
inspiration, but we can also use these as reference images.
So I really like these bottom three, and I'm not sure which one I want to go for.
This one, for me, jumps out as just being
a really nice picture that would work really well in a painting.
But this one, I just love the combination
of colors here, although I do feel like it could present a bit more of a challenge,
and if I don't get it quite right, might not look good at all.
What do you think Shane?
I'm asking you so that I can blame you if it goes wrong.
You know that! To make this happen,
I've chosen a class on Skillshare by Maria Morris called Oil Painting Floral.
She's using a completely different picture, and so I've chosen to do my own
picture instead of following along with her tutorial exactly,
but that's the great thing about
Skillshare, is that the classes are so in depth,
you can do it either way.
So first, I want to set up a basic color
selection as close to my picture as possible.
And because this is from the color cube,
the colors here are a great place to start.
I actually really enjoy the feeling of mixing the oil paints.
I feel like I could skip the paintings and just mix different colors for hours.
In fact, I did.
I recently took on a color mixing challenge to see how many colors I could
match from different objects just by mixing them by eye like this.
Anyway, to the painting, what's the plan?
The only way to learn is to start right?
So I think we're going to have to work on the background first and then work
towards the foreground, which is so not how my brain works for colored pencils.
That's not how colored pencils work at all.
So this time I used paint thinner
in the white, and I made a thicker coat of paint to try and actually keep
the canvas wet, so the green did go down much better.
I also thinned out the paint on the lower layers after learning that this was
a better approach in some of the videos that I watched.
And overall, I feel like I'm more in control of how
the paints are working on these lower layers of my canvas.
I don't have a clear plan of how I'm
approaching this, so this is still mostly an experiment and an opportunity to really
get a feel for how the oils work together and interact.
My goal here is to block out the basic
sections of color in these lower layers and then build the details later.
From what I've watched today,
this seems to be the right approach, but we'll see.
I don't even know where it is paintbrush from,
but I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be used for proper painting.
We need to look at getting a proper paint brush.
Well, actually,
speaking of proper brushes, I met up with Chloe Rose in Disneyland
recently, and she gifted me her amazing Artistic Bear Co brushes.
So I don't know why I haven't started using these yet.
I should probably use these.
What am I doing?
Maybe using these when this is, like, my first time
oil painting isn't the best idea, but I do like to learn with the best tools
and I love supporting other artists, so I'm happy to just buy another set if I
do happen to accidentally destroy them in the process.
I feel like I've learned a lot and come a long way since my first brush strokes
a few hours ago, and yet I still feel quite out of my depth right now.
I don't know what my overall plan is
with this picture of how I'll get there, but I'm enjoying the process more.
These brushes blend beautifully
and my paints are working alongside me a lot better.
My desk is quite a mess and the floor? Let's not talk about that.
So I'm really not happy with this at this
point and I'm not finished, but I can tell right now it's not going
the way that I want because there's too much paint on the canvas and I can't
really add more without it just kind of mixing together.
So I need to either stop and figure out a way to get this to dry.
Well, even if I do that, I feel like I kind of need to change
my plan, and I'm not really sure what direction I want to take this now because
it's not kind of turning out as well as I hoped.
I took a short break from painting and headed back to the computer to find
some more inspiration or at least some motivation to finish my piece.
And I think I know what I want to do.
Even though it wasn't my original plan.
I think I'm going to try and go for a bit of a chunky painting today.
So I'm already using a palette knife,
but I am going to use a lot more paint because I do have a lot of paint here
and I've learnt now that I need to clean the knife in between every single stroke,
that will stop the paint mixing and will keep the colors separate,
which is something that I've definitely stuffed up in the past.
I have no idea how I'm going to approach
the fine details of the butterfly when we get to that point.
And now that I'm wanting to do the chunky
painting, I'm definitely wishing I picked a different picture right at the very
start of this project, because this picture has a lot of blur
in the background and focus in the front, and that depth of field is going to make
it very hard to distinguish our objects in the final image.
So it's going to look a little bit
abstract, but I'm hoping that it will still look interesting.
And either way, we're going to learn something and we're going to have fun.
This is challenging, but I am having fun.
I've definitely noticed in both with this video and in the acrylic painting video
that I think I really love painting and I really enjoy using a palette knife.
I would love to spend more time exploring
both acrylics and oil paints, maybe together.
Can I use them together?
I just think that this is a really fun medium, and I've barely scratched the surface
in the few hours that I've spent with both acrylics and oils.
At this point, I often give the impression in these 'Trying New Things' videos that I
am stressed out or I'm not enjoying myself, but I am really enjoying this.
And every time I do something like this,
I often find the next few days I just want to dive in and try it again.
And I know that it's going to be hard
to resist not picking up these oil paints again in the next few days or in the next
few weeks when I have so many other projects to focus on.
So I can guarantee you there will be more painting in the future.
I think it's time for me to finish because
as much as I really just could keep adding and I want to keep adding it's, like,
where do you stop with something like this?
Actually, I'm really happy with it as is, given that a short time ago,
I felt very lost and I was really not liking it at all.
I think at this point, I am really happy with how this has turned out.
It's so hard not to pick it back up.
Okay.
Okay. I got to stop fixing it.
So I've done acrylic painting, we've done oil painting.
What's the next thing you want me to learn?
Tell me in the comments.
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