Oil Painting CRASH COURSE - Top 10 Beginner Problems and their Solutions - Tutorial and Demo

This video is a crash course that will help you start oil painting today and create great art tomorrow. What stops most people is doubt, they anticipate the problems so much that they get discouraged before they even start. In this video, I want to show you that every difficulty that you might face in the beginning has a simple solution and I’ll try to give you all the keys to have a good start and paint with confidence.

So, the structure of this tutorial will be very specifically focused on beginner problems : instead of going step 1, step 2, follow my lead etc. I’ll start with questions or problems that I’ve seen in the community or that people have sent me and I’ll try to bring simple solutions. One problem = one solution !

Top 10 comments, questions and problems I've received :

00:00 Intro
01:03 Oil Painting material to get started
01:42 I don't even know where to start, I feel intimidated
05:02 I drew my outline but it got erased
05:43 Are mediums optional (sorry if it's a stupid question)
10:22 It takes a month to make a painting
12:44 Does Oil Paint have an odor ?
13:16 I can't paint because it isn't safe!
17:04 My paintings turned out flat and muddy
18:22 I can't keep the shapes in place
20:48 I could never achieve that !

Videos I mentioned...
About drying time :
   • Drying Time - Oil Painting Tutorial  
About mediums :
   • How to use Mediums in Oil Painting an...  
About How to start a Painting :
   • 5 Ways to Start an Oil Painting - Art...  
About Safety :
   • Oil Painting for Beginners - Safety a...  
Trailer of my Oil Painting Course :
   • The Practical Guide to Oil Painting T...  

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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.


The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :

Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels

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