This is a thread of discussion and resources on oil painting techniques, demos, videos, tutorials that i found online for the beginner oil painting artist.


I just came across a 6 dollar set of oils and couldn't resist the temptation to give a try to oil painting.So here I am in my third day of waiting for my first painting to dry my first layer of oil. Meanwhile I put together these resources list that you can enrich by adding your suggestions of links, books, etc.

Materials

How to prepare a wooden palette

Oil Painting Tutorial

Classical oil masters

Free oil painting for beginners Tutorial

Painting resources page

A Diminutive Survival Guide to Oil Painting

All About Painting Materials and Techniques

Oil Painting Tecniques and Oil Painting Supplies

Getting Started with Oil Paints

How to paint an apple in the Classical Masters Technique

How to paint your own Vermeer

Oil painting Tutorial

Online Art Demos

Underpaintings

Videos

Oil Painting lesson I

Oil painting lesson 2

How to paint Roses

Oil painting lesson - Fir tree

Oil painting lesson - leaf tree

Oil Painting lesson - clouds

Oil Painting lesson - waterfall

So I bought art the University campus Bookstore, art section this set of 18 oil 12ml/.41 fl.oz tubes which has Titanium White, Lemon yellow, yellow Ocre, vermilon, scarlet, emerald green, viridian, cerulean blue, Phtalo blue, Burnt sienna, burnt Umber, lamp black, Zinc Titanium White, Orange yellow, Crimson, Ultramarine blue, raw Umber, Raw Sienna.It was about $ 6.50 the set, made in China.The store didn't carry linseed oil but walnut oil and also the separate oil tubes sold there they say are made with pure walnut oil. I looked in all the tutorials and pages listing materials for oil painting and none of them indicates walnut oil but linseed oil.
What do you know about this?
I also bought turpentine for cleaning my brushes.I have a small bottle of turpenoid which I want to use for mixing colors.
It takes an eternity to dry out and I was just wondering how long painters in wet, rainy climates have to wait for a painting to dry a layer of oils if in Southern California known for its dry weather it takes 3 days and 3 nights for a layer of oils to dry on a 6" x 8" canvas panel.

Wow !. All those colors for $ 7.00. I can't believe it ! You got really lucky as I have spent $ 50.00 - $ 75.00 for paint. I live in Northern California and 2 - 3 days of drying is pretty accurate. I believe there are different techniques you can use like Wet on Wet painting where you don't hae to wait for any drying process. I am new at this and I am working on my 3rd painting. I have not tried the knife painting yet but it looks intersting.

Tell me Amanda, how did you buy your oils, individually or by set? And when you clean your brush you do it in turpentine, in a jar or how you do it. Also when andf how you mix your oil(linseed, I have walnut) in a separate jar and bring the moist brush to the palette and mix more the colors?

Elena, I bought my Oil Paints in a set. I did purchase the larger size tubes of paint, which is why it may have been so much more expensive. I'm noticing that I am going through the White very quickly and I have learned to stock up before starting a painting. As far as mixing linseed Oil, Medium and turpintine to my paints before painting, It just depends on how I want the texture to come out. If it is a background color, I thin it out as much as possible and evenly add medium and turpintine, or Linseed oil. If I am on the last layer of paint and I want the texture to stand out, I may not add anything at all. I do not go by any recipes, I just experiment and learn as I go. Cleaning my brushes has definately been an expensive experience. I've thrown away many brushes out of frusteration of not getting them clean enough. I have went through many containers of paint thinner, until I discovered Pink Soup and a jar with a screen at the bottom for cleaning. It helps. The pink soap alone gets Oil Paint of the brushes very well. I'm still very new at all this and would love some advice from others and yourself.

Thank you,Amanda. I still have to experiment myself with this medium so famous yet neither cheap nor easy.

hello

I've painted some canves in oil and other in acrylics,witch you can see in my gallery, but I have not tecnichs whatsoever, I just bought the canvas and the paint tubes and tried them. As for drying there are some materials you can add to speed the drying process, but i've never tried them.
I don't paint more cause these material can be so expensive, and as a beginner I'm afraid to ruin things...but that is my real passion, when I see a big painting that I like I can stand there for hours admiring it . What I've been doing now is learning how to draw better so then, I think, it will help me improve my paintings

Thanks Elena for those sites, they sure help allot.

PS. I've been invited to paint ten or more canvas to put in a gallery bar of a friend of mine, with no hurries. When I do, they will be hanging for a hole month. Its only a village bar, but I think it will be great.

Happy to hear that, Clara. You surely need good studies first.I am looking forward to see your studies. A great way to prepare yourself for those paintings is to use watercolor or oil pastels.That would be great practice.Good luck!

Thank you, It will still take a while....He has already compromises with other artists.

the unfinished piece from June 2008.Even got smudged.

Elena, you can use walnut oil instead of linseed - both were used historically (linseed may have been used more in northern europe, and walnut in southern) - walnut is slower drying than linseed though.

If you paint very thickly, or add excessive amounts of oil to your paint, that will cause the paint to dry more slowly.

Keeping the painting in a warm place (not hot!) and exposed to light, will help it dry faster - it ought to dry in a couple of days (faster-drying colours, overnight).



Brushes can be rinsed out in oil or in solvent, and then washed with a bar of hand-soap. Even brushes that have been allowed to completely dry out with paint on them can be cleaned with soap by simply leaving it on them for a few hours, and massaging the brush - rinse and repeat, until no more colour comes out of the brush. What you won't be able to do is clean the brush-hairs so that they are not stained with colour - and you don't need to.

This is extremely great news. Thanks a lot, Dave.