OIL PAINTING TUTORIAL || The Surprising Money Saving Tips For Buying Oil Paints!

When people ask what I wish I could go back & tell myself when I started oil painting I often say I wish I could go back and give myself more advice on which paints to buy.

I could have saved money in the long run whilst buying much more expensive brands using the tips I suggest in this video.

I also included a high-key colour palette of specific colours that offer the best value for money IMO.

Time stamps:
How Artist Grade Oil Paints are Priced 0:20
Quality Paints Are Better Value Than You Think! 1:55
Paint Tubes Can Take Years To Use 2:39
Your Painting Style Impacts What You Spend 3:20
Savvy Shopping Ideas 4:09
Be Aware of the Cost of Your Pigments 4:50
Try This Lower Cost High-Key Palette 5:06
The Most Useful Colours Cost Less 8:16
Why You Should Upgrade Your White 9:06

[kh]

I don't do much with oil painting these days, but when I did, I had a phase where I used a limited palette of series 1 colors almost exclusively. Those were: yellow ocher, burnt sienna and ultramarine blue plus white. They are all very lightfast, affordable and when you buy them in 200 ml tubes on sale, they are pretty inexpensive too.

Honestly, there is a lot of concern about colors, but in painting, value is so much more important than color.

[kamrankambang]

For starter getting the student quality is actually reasonable. You dont want to buy expensive thing then realize you dont wana paint anymore or even change to other type like watercolour.

[burak]

Great content Doris, thank you. I love these colorful stuff, please keep them coming!
I’m using a really similar high chroma split primary color palette with some additional earth colors as well. I’ve tried cheaper and less hazardous alternatives over the last years, but I still couldn’t find a worthy replacement for cadmium yellows, especially in lighter/cooler tones. Although I finally replaced cadmium red in my palette with pyrrole red, it’s a bit less opaque but much more clean when mixed or tinted. Bye bye, cad red!
I used to use phthalo blue green shade as my cooler blue color but that color is way too strong and difficult to handle so I replaced it with cobalt teal - or cobalt turquoise. Needless to say, it’s much more expensive and a lot harder to find but you know, how can one resist cobalt teal’s unmatched beauty, right?

My palette is:

Titanium white, PW4
Cadmium yellow light, PY35
Indian yellow, PY83
Pyrrole red, PR254
Quinacridone magenta, PR122
Ultramarine blue, PB29
Cobalt teal, PB28
Phthalo green YS, PG36
Red oxide, PR101
Burnt umber, PBr7

[romulusbuta]

Splendid ! Pleace make a video showing us your mediums for oil painting, how they look and behave when You mixt them with oil paint

[k.k]

Great video doris i totally agree with everything u said

[wolfsonn]

I do agree on most of the information you have here - but then you need the people who make the mistakes in buying cheap paint - who is going to tell you to not waste time and money? Not the people making the paint, they will insist on telling you that their paint is of high quality - where I do not agree is the use of cadmium paints - you can get by using hues, but cadmium paints do have a particular quality to them - and there are some brands on the market that are not so expensive - and here a personal note - if you are following a tutorial by an artist, do use his paint brand - it can be quite a challenge to use the wrong paint - especially using paints with very much higher pigment loads - or naturally the opposite.

[allenvoss]

I burn through titanium white! I’m wondering if I should Go back to students grade titanium white ? will there be much of a difference ? What about mixing A little artist grade titanium white with mostly student grade? I definitely use artist grade for all my colors . it’s white that kills me every time I buy 200 ML for $30 bucks !

[Meticularius]

3/8/2022 USA Grandpa Bill: Thank you! This is very helpful. I have drawers full of student-grade paint. I should have done what you are recommending. I didn't know either.

[Juddy]

“Buy nice or buy it twice” as long as you can swing it go for the good stuff

[MrSilva]

Those colors that are using Linseed oil or Carthame Oil, can be mixed ?

[DietDrPepper]

Do the alternative colors have similar transparency levels? I currently use lemon yellow (hansa yellow light) and i prefer opaque colors so im looking into getting cadmium lemon

[jichaelmorgan]

You could lay the foundation of your painting with cheaper paints or even acrylic?

[kennethaquino]

Hello Miss Doris Is Hansa Yellow Lightfast compare to Benzidamole Yellow?

[jessiecarter]

Can you sell your art using these colors?

[MrKongatthegates]

Alot of people quit painting so buying old holland right off the bat makes no sense. Your paintings will only look a tiny bit better with the best paint. An artist can use burnt sticks to make good art

[svenfigenschou]

stressful with the music, voice and colour mixing - none of them seem to connect...