Paint Brushes from Scratch

I learn about the earlier forms of paint and produce my own tempra paint and my own paintbrushes using tin, wood and horse hair.

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[hppynd]

Between the Bob Ross wig at the end and the "beating the devil out of your brush" I was wheezing lmao

[fireaza]

"Please do not film Ferris Bueller's Day Off references" -Minneapolis Institute of Art

[Poisso]

Lots of respect for everything you do in this series, but when you make ink or paint you make it too thin! Start thick when making the paint, and slowly add water to thin it showly. Good luck making the oil paints!

[TheOfficialCzex]

Those "inspiration" shots are what I live for...

[TheDanielsweden]

The first paints "pigment" was to crude.
For black pigment its easiest to collect the soot from a candle by holding a spoon over it and scraping it off.
For brown however I don't know, maybe boiling onionpeals with rose petals.

[gabrielcabrera]

Are you going to paint like bob ross or are we just getting some paint brushes

[ndgenjohn]

Your videos are great keep up the good work. I'm always happy when u come out with a new vid

[lutobor]

The coolest thing about handmade paints is source of your pigments. Same pigments can be different depending where they came from- it makes them unique. I own a jar of red ochre, one of the oldest pigments known to men, from German province Neandertal. Once I've made my watercolours with it I felt such a connection through millennia with people using same pigments to tell their stories on cave walls.

[micahphilson]

I love the comedic little segments recently, like Andy in the art museum and last video's beer commercial!

[kattejuice]

Thank you HTME for this wonderful Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference, it's one of my most favourite scenes ever and you really brought me back to a feeling I had forgotten

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Never have I been so interested in paintbrushes.

[carpart]

Awsome homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Please please please, let me get what I want this time.

[ThatoneAnomaly]

Making paint is actually what i have gotten in to recently (though i make watercolor). Its actually quite fun. Im cheap so i dont buy my pigments but go out and look for different colored rocks. I honestly love making paint and hope you learn to enjoy it too!

[paranoiarpincess]

I've been an artist for the majority of my life, so this arc makes me very excited!

[canaan]

Can't wait to see you painting happy little trees.

[dwaynewladyka]

Great video. You should do a collaboration with Nile Red. See what kinds of paints you can make. Cheers!

[emilylukeskywalker]

I remember watching this channel years ago, and thinking to myself, how does this channel not have more subscribers?!? And now I come back and see that you have over a million, congrats!

[ManSpidernater]

Love the Ferris Bueller's day off reference, nailed it hahaha

[watermaker.]

This channel deserves more than it gets

[andrewbeleckis]

I really enjoyed this! back in 2010 I racked my brain doing this I wanted to do a painting like a old Dutch master but with my own pigment. And ended up going crazy with the variety of natural pigment you could achieve from minerals and I even made stacked lead and vermilion. The best tip I can give for brushes is feral hog closer related a Eurasian boar makes the best brushes the natural flagging and spring of the bristles make it ideal for oil brushes not sable but definently better then the Chung King hog they use for most modern brushes. Maybe a little late to the party but after 6 years that's what I got the best results with.
And when I was done I made a painting that genuinely looked and felt old. Although modern synthetic pigments preform much better then what I could achieve with just a hand Muller.