Oil & Acrylic Painting Tips : Oil Painting for Beginners

When oil painting as a beginner, gather a painting ground, which can be a canvas, a board or other painting surface, gesso, paint pigments, a palette, linseed oil, paint thinner and various brushes. Gather all of the necessary supplies to begin painting with information from an experienced artist in this free video on painting.

Expert: Koorosh Angali
Contact: www.angali.com
Bio: Dr. Koorosh Angali is an accomplished scholar, poet, musician, actor and performance artist.
Filmmaker: Todd Green

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• acrylic paint
• oil painting
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[phiacido]

brushes are super expenssive!

[DoshUnScripted]

1. Canvas

2. Jesso

3. Pigment/paint

4. Pallet

5. Brushes (Bristol)..flat, round, filbert)(Sable)..watercolor brushes)

Medium...coco, alkaline, basic medium suggestion:50/50 linseed oil/damar varnish and then add colbalt drier or Japan drier

Thumbs up if this is easy to copy and paste.

[despondentmemories]

@DoshUnScripted gesso

[amirus1]

dametoon garnm agha KOUROSH

[luvletterfly]

What would happen if I just used the paint without using a medium?

[rainblueable]

if you are concerned with toxicity avoid using damar, cobalt and japan dryers. If you want to work with an artist grade oil paint consider m. graham artist oils ( the binder that they use is a walnut oil which is non toxic.

For mediums you might want to consider walnut alkyd medium and walnut oil (both non toxic)

You want to reduce (as much as possible) the smelly solvents.

there are non toxic brush clearners that you can use at the end of your paint session.

[PolloNut]

I only spent 10 dollars for a whole kit that comes with oil paints and paint brushes at the flea market o.o I knew it was worth it xD

[patrickwellerwrites]

@phiacido yeah i spent like 20 bucks in brushes for my first painting

[spykat3]

this guy could be an actor :D u know, like with kings and knights ..... even movies like Harry Potter! ^^ his hair and clothing makes him a natural ;)

[803brando]

i come from an automotive background, i paint cars, motorcycles, and similar parts. can these oil based paints only be cut with weak solvents like mineral spirits or other oils? or can lacquer thinner or harsher solvents be used?

[bumpyrocketfrog]

What a lot of faffing for a beginner - I would say you need

Canvas - or something else to paint on

Brush(es) - or something else to paint with

Thinners - white spirits or something like that

Pallet - old plate can be very useful

Off you go!

[doodleguitarist]

@phiacido Not always. You can find them very cheap some places.