Oil Painting: How And When To Use Medium

In this video I break down how to use medium.
Books

Materials I suggest for beginners:
Titanium White, Cadmium Red Hue, Cadmium Lemon, French Ultramarine, Yellow Ochre, Cerulean blue

Hi, I am the son of two artists and began painting in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia before I could walk. I was a rare combination of artist and athlete so I moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to play football for USC. I left the team my sophomore year to focus on painting and filmmaking, applying the same focus and discipline from my football career to my art. I primarily work in oils, and spend most free days painting "en plein air" in my new home of Sarasota Florida.

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[paulad]

I know chronologically when these videos were filmed based on how many Cage's there are in the background

[evahaunted]

Your channel is an asbolute goldmine as someone who's just getting into oil painting. Straight to the point, good tips, yet you empathize and understand the struggle beginners go through. Thank you!

[williammichael]

Thanks Coach, ive watched a few of your videos, ive now subscribed, just about to start my oil painting hobby, its very hard for me to concentrate for long as i was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's 3 yrs ago when i was 59 yrs old, I'm 62 yrs old & I'm hoping to leave my sisters & my daughter's a wee picture in oils as a wee present before i pop my clogs, from a guy who can't draw well to begin with, ive nothing to lose, remember anyone who's reading this, " Everyday is a school day"😊 blessings from Glasgow Coach ❤

[monelleny]

I would love to see a video on the specific effects of different undercoats. What colors to use when, how heavy to make them, etc. Would be very useful.

[patriciateacher]

You can tell you love what you do by the way to explain the whole process to your students, I feel very comfortable listening to you and your hands on experiments which makes it so much easier to understand

[laura]

"work thin to thick" no👏one👏ever👏explained👏this👏 THANK YOU 💚💙

[davidgetchell]

I switched from acrylics to oil just for the blending effects that come with oil. I'll never use acrylics aging lol.

[patriciateacher]

Paint coach thank you so very much for explaining the color wheel more so the color wheel not just the primary colors but all the rest of them. I love all colors but trying to understanding mediums, values, shadows, highlights, secondary, complimentary, split- complimentary, Tetradic, triatic ( color composition), analogue, and monochromatic just to name a few and I hope I spelled them right. I know to rise higher in my artistic skills I need to understand these colors but I feel like giving up sometimes because I didn’t know that you needed to know all that. My beliefs was all you needed was just the desire to be a good enough artist to draw and just paint with simple colors and that was good enough. It’s very hard to understand but i will keep pushing on and hope that my brain will get to gain knowledge of the color wheel. But I truly enjoy the way you explain a lot of it. I will draw a lay of the color wheel and learn to group my colors together and learn more as I see it and understand

[Meemorp_]

Thank you so much for tackling this issue. The medium/solvent element of oil painting has always made it feel like I'm having to perform some alchemy while painting, making the process very cumbersome.

[pakblueman]

As I begin oil painting coming from 20 year watercolor journey I know painting I don't know the materials and mediums are incredibly (as you say needlessly) confusing. I am going with thinner and linseed oil you got it. Thanks for the heads up on Rosemary Brushes Got 4 really nice ones picked from the Richard Schmid set for $40.00 awesome. All your presentations are straight forward and I hear you beg people to play and experiment. When I learned watercolor some wise one said prepare to waste a lot of expensive paper! I did but it's paying back now...the pain!! LOL keep up the good work!

[louhautdavid]

Thanks a lot. This is the clearest tutorial I've ever seen about this subject. That's why I'm joining your channel

[yevaburshteyn]

Thanks a lot coach for very useful lesson.I was really confused about using mediums in my paint what a relive.Its good to know.❤

[erinchatham]

THANK YOU!!! It has been so hard to find a straight forward and usable video about mediums, I am a beginner and this helped so much.

[nadakodsia]

Yes I liked your video until the last minute 😊👍...you're an awesome teacher, bless you sir and thank you for sharing all these precious tips... 🌷🌷

[SoGiga]

I always stick til the end of the video 😌

[alvaroflorestheflores]

I am Buddy Thank you for giving me the awesome teaching me the rule of using Thiner and line ceed oil, I was ready to give up painting THANK YOU!

[rubychurm]

Thanx this helped a lot just got passed down my Grandad’s set

[kristelledecker]

Thanks for the helpful videos. I am an acrylic painter but just bought my first (albeit cheap) oil paint set to mess around with to see if I like oils better. I was wondering if there is any non-toxic paint thinners to use? I don’t want to use any with toxic fumes as my art room is in my family kitchen and probably not well enough ventilated. Anything I do in there with paint thinners will stink up the whole house.

[yungchinghung]

Thank you! I finally found a video that explains the use of medium clearly!

[TheMinimalistSparrow]

Great tips straight to the point thanks man...