This was a really well executed benchmark test for mass-tone and covering power, and we thought the commentary on the paint body was excellent. Utrecht Art Supplies still crafts paint at the same Brooklyn workshop as before we partnered with them, using the same formulas, along with some important new collections like Cadmium Free Oil Colors. The Utrecht team did ask us to explain something about the philosophy behind the formulas, and why some colors develop a bead of unbound oil at the top of the tube. We think the best place for modifications to be applied is on the artist's palette, so Utrecht has traditionally been really conservative where paint components other than pigment and oil are concerned. When paint settles in storage, the pigment will shed a little oil, unless an additive like aluminum stearate is included to bind it up. (A few brands hold finished paint to settle before tubing in order to reduce oil shed in the tube, but it's an expensive measure that results in a high cost for the artist.) Excessive use of stearates can make the paint more dull and dry in appearance, especially in lower priced paints where it's used as a filler, to stretch a small amount of pigment. A little oil at the top of the tube indicates that fillers are not present, and that the paint is in good condition (not oxidized in the tube). As other comments have indicated, massaging the tube to reintroduce the oil or blotting the first dollop on paper are effective techniques.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75522 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that explanation, viewers will find it very helpful, as will I. Utrecht continues to be my favorite oil paint brand, all of the colors are so very vibrant and of the highest standard of professional quality. Thank you for commenting
@michaeljohnangel63592 жыл бұрын
Some pigments require more oil than others. Also, one must remember that the pigment is in suspension in the oil (it is not disolved in it!!!); therefore, they will separate if left too long on the shelves, and a bunch of oil will come out when first squeezed. This is actually a good sign, as it shows that there is no suspension agent in the paint, meaning that the tube contains more pigment. Just let the excess oil soak into some paper towelling-it takes more oil to grind a pigment than to bind it. Oil paints are complicated.
@Blick_Art2 жыл бұрын
Well said! Paradoxically, some of the lean pigments (requiring less oil to disperse) tend to give up more oil than the fatter ones, which can really blot up a lot of vehicle
@Nekkas15 күн бұрын
This video was so helpful! Thank you 🙂 I just ordered a set of the Rembrandt! I use Langridge normally and I’m so happy with it. I’m hoping the Rembrandt will be similar.
@hiddenseashellsstudio755214 күн бұрын
@@Nekkas I’m not familiar with Langridge but Rembrandt is so creamy and wonderful, definitely a reliable brand of paints 😊 happy painting
@daronfayas81452 жыл бұрын
On accelerating the drying of oil paint, a trace amount of cobalt drier does the trick. To me, the reason to use oil paint is because it dries slowly. Get a bottle of clove oil at a pharmacy and add a drop. I've kept paintings wet and workable for weeks using clove oil and it smells wonderful too. I love all the smells of oil paint. Linseed oil and dammar varnish bring me to heaven.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75522 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the slow dry time as well, I’m usually not in any rush to finish a painting. Liquin and galkyd are my choices for when I do need to quicken dry time but I use them VERY sparingly. If I get impatient I just switch my focus to my watercolors !!
@MrKongatthegates11 ай бұрын
I agree totally. Linseed, I even like winsdor and newton turpentine, its mild and kind of pinesol like lol
@jizzystardust94563 жыл бұрын
Tube paints naturally separate so squeezing it to mix helps to incorporate. Especially true for premium paints that have just pigment and oil.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
I have been noticing that certainly across certain brands, except for Old Holland which is always stiff! It can be very difficult to mix up a new tube with no extra room 🤷♀️
@jizzystardust94563 жыл бұрын
@@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 you're right. That's why I have oil to add if it's dry and a napkin to absorb extra oil. The downside to using tubed oils. Mulling your own paint solves it but some people are too lazy to do that.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
Count me in with the too lazy crowd 😆 Happy painting
@TomboTronic2 жыл бұрын
@@jizzystardust9456 I think there is a big difference between being lazy and understanding the economy of time.
@michaeljohnangel63592 жыл бұрын
@@jizzystardust9456 Unfortunately, grinding one's own paints results in there being too much oil in the paint. In the old days, hand grinding was done by beefy guys, and the paint was ground for many hours. The quality of today's high-end commercial paints is much better than that of hand-ground paints (excess oil is why so many of the old paintings have yellowed so much over time).
@daronfayas81452 жыл бұрын
What I always found to be most important was the specific pigments used in the paint. If I like the quality of a certain pigment, it rarely matters much which manufacturer made it into paint. It's possible to remove some oil by spreading the paint on a blotter paper before scraping it up and placing it on the pallet. As for solid fillers, I haven't been able to see their impact on color in reasonably good quality paints. I doubt any but the lowest of quality paints have fillers that will produce a change in the hue of the pigments used to make the paints. Oil seems to be the main adulterant in oil paints and Old Holland most certainly has the lowest oil content from the tube. Given the price of Old Holland, I believe you could remove some oil from a less expensive brand and have not a lot less paint than you would out of a tube of Old Holland of the same size. I doubt a less expensive paint is going to have 50% more oil in it than Old Holland. However, Old Holland has about the widest range of pigments you will find in any line of paints. As a final note, I'll add that I've made my own paint using dry pigments, oil and a muller on a frosted plate glass slab to make paint as low in oil content as Old Holland. I have noticed no difference in the hue of my homemade paint compared to any commercially produced paint. The notion that a power mill creates paint of better quality is not true in my experience. It takes time to make oil paint by hand but the artist knows for sure what's in that paint. Of course, from the perspective of permanence and color fastness, there has never been a time in history when paint quality mattered less. Even the humblest of paintings are kept in much favorable conditions than those the paintings of the old masters endured for a few hundred years. All paintings survive now, the good, the bad and the atrocious.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75522 жыл бұрын
A great wealth of information! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’m sure making your own paint is an enriching and humbling experience that will create a lasting appreciation for the companies that do make their paints in small batches according to old world techniques. Extracting the oil in existing paint is also a great idea for those who want a stiffer paint :)
@ravenshadowz23433 ай бұрын
Old Holland oil paints are expensive because it has more pigments instead of a lot of fillers, which is what student grade paints are mostly fillers, in the long run you will pay more for cheaper oils, while still having plenty of Old Holland tubes left, that's all we use and without solvents, when you paint thin layers with Old Holland, you can if need be go back over a section that's already painted 2 days ago and paint over it, because the linseed oil they add to the pigment drys the paint pretty fast. But if you're doing impasto it's going to take some time to dry.
@msd58083 жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering their consistency. I wondered how Winsor and Newton and Gamblin differed.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
Glad my video was helpful! For the colors I chose I definitely say W and N is on the oily side. I tend to go for Gamblin and Rembrandt anytime I can, they are consistently creamy across colors and just feel nice 😊
@msd58083 жыл бұрын
@@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 Thank you :)
@cisp360 Жыл бұрын
I have tried so many brands of oil paint, all artist grade and most of them are considered to be the best. Utrecht is so good that I just can't justify buying a much more expensive brand. There is one exception, however. I also use Mussini because they smell so good.
@MrKongatthegates11 ай бұрын
I thought my big tube of burnt sienna from utrecht was totally awesome, I just love it, even though there was oil at the top of the tube, just squeeze it out untill it comes out nice. I have never splurged on old holland, but I am to the point where I am getting alot more fussy, and just tossing out tubes of paint that I dont like. Utrecht made the grade, Im not doing winton or any student grades any more. No gamblin 1980, no lukas, definately no cheap brands. Gamblin and rembrand both look pretty nice, the gamblin was surprisingly thick which I like
@ltwig476 Жыл бұрын
As far as stiff paint goes, I like heavy bodied paint that I can still spread and mix tones easily. When the paint is too stiff from the tube, it takes too much time to add my "oil mixtures" and blend the color and tint I'm seeking. I mostly paint in the range of 32"X 24 canvas, approx 6 paintings per month. I have an abstract going, an impressionist landscape and some science fiction of sorts going at one time. I like the oily paint when I need to mix quick and cover a large area. I like it really stiff while taking my time mixing the perfect highlight or detail tone. I love the cheap low pigment raw umber and Paynes gray for quickly bringing down my greens. "Just a little dab will do ya" Having to keep adding expensive paint because you over did the raw umber ends up having to mix too much paint and a waste. Except when toning down a violet, I like a high quality, high pigment cad orange. My go too paints most often are artist pro grade Winsor Newton and Ultrech on sale at Blick. I'm not big on pre mixed colors. I like mixing my own, especially those highly varying pinks and greens. A high quality yellow ochre is a must on my pallet. It needs to be medium body and quick but not too wet. I have a mix of turpentine, linseed oil and mineral spirits on hand when needed. I also use a mix of Liquin Light Gel with a bit of mineral spirits on early layers for quicker dry time. Sometimes I just want to add a bit of paint thinner instead of oil for a nice flat wash. I would advise to experiment with all paints and additives and not get too selective. The way you find out is by painting and painting and more painting!
@evelinam.5835 Жыл бұрын
She has no clue about painting in oils
@ryanmurray12522 жыл бұрын
One thing that might have happened is that it’s oily cause sometimes the oil separates from the ping and when you get an old tube or if your colors sit in the tube for a long time they will separate
@leighfoulkes7297 Жыл бұрын
A way to stop all the oil from coming out is to store them upside down and all the excess oil will go to the back of the tube.
@romulusbuta93183 жыл бұрын
There are TONES of mediums and fluids designed to be mixed with the oli colors as they come out from tube ....some make oil colors fluid like watercolors, some make them real thick...some add gloss, other matting,...some speeds drying and others produce really slow drying....some alowed to build layers of paint quickly .. ...... name it !
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
Thanks for adding this! You are absolutely right there are so many other things that can be added to oil paints making them so versatile and customizable to your preference. I actually do not have a lot of experiences with these other mediums so I did not mention them :)
@romulusbuta93183 жыл бұрын
@@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 If You want to speed up drying,just try a little bit of medium designed for this....I know for shure german brands Lukas ,and Schminke ,they produce some mediums designed for this..... I was using some time ago Original Liquin from Winsor &Newton.....but I didn't get inlove with it...Contains mineral spirit and in my opinion this does not allowds a very good spreading oil colors on to the cavens...... Liquin is an ALKYD MEDIUM....The drying rate is good (about 1 day for a thin opaque layer )....You can also try some other ALKYD-base MEDIUMS....... Tip : it's better to buy a gel medium than a liquid one....An oil color mixed with a gel for painting can be diluted with terpentinei,mineral spirit,etc.....But when you mix oil colors from tube with a liquid medium, there is no way you can then obtain somehow a thicker paste again....,a paste to be good,nice color and ready for painting...No Dilution is solution !😊
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the recommendation! The drying time can be super long and frustrating, luckily I’m usually working on many different projects so it works out ;)
@romulusbuta93183 жыл бұрын
@@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 buy small jars,tubes ,boxes from the products....See what feets You best..... GALKID (from Gamblin) If You want gloss,liquid paints,really fast drying SOLVEN FREE GEL (Gamblin) - moderate drying, splendid paints ORIGINAL LIQUIN - really fast drying, adds some gloss (Winsor Newton produce also other tipes of Liguin= more fluid, more thick then Original Liquin) OLEOGEL from Rublev/Naturalpigments = fast set up ,not fast drying OLEORESGEL & EPOXIDE OIL GEL (all from Rublev) fast set up, decrise drying time VENETIAN MEDIUM from Lefranc et Bourgeois - I used - is fast set up,decrises drying time of oil paint The last 4 mediums have an unique proprety named tixotropy....THIS ALLOWDS YOU to paint ,to superimpose 2 or 3 layers of paint quickly, in the same sesion of painting,DON'T HAVE TO WAIT until the layer of paint underneath is dry !!!!!! When I first used Venetian Medium from Lefranc et Bourgeois I was SHOCKED what that product offers.....(It only bodered me the big content of wax in it ....I would love it a little bit smaller !) Last is an efect medium...that adds matting to your colors ...I don't know If or how this Medium changes the drying time of the colors...but shurly they became a mat-valvet shade....So try for this COLD WAX MEDIUM from Gamblin, or something similar from an other brand...... ENJOY YOUR ACT OF PAINTING ! 😊
@hiddenseashellsstudio75523 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! I think this will help many viewers of this video who may be starting out
@trondsi Жыл бұрын
Try Blockx oil paints from Belgium next time. They dry slowly but I love them, and they are a family company that has been around since forever :)
@jenniferlrobison2 жыл бұрын
"Goop", the mechanic cleaner is good at getting oil out of clothes.
@hiddenseashellsstudio75522 жыл бұрын
That’s a great tip!
@evelinam.5835 Жыл бұрын
You use solvent or oil for thick paints. People buy them cause they are more pigmented which means you need less paint to cover object, less layers. You never buy it to be more oily... which means more fillers than pigment.
@jasonnye1436 Жыл бұрын
Utrecht is hard to beat for the value. I've been using Utrecht for years and it's consistent in quality. Although I've never had a problem, Blicks customer service is top notch.
@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 Жыл бұрын
I whole heartedly agree. I used to think that I needed to use “top shelf” brands or my paintings would somehow be inferior. I actually prefer the consistency of brands like Utrecht and Rembrandt and never has a customer ever asked what brand of paint I use and my paintings continue to sell 😊
@jasonnye1436 Жыл бұрын
@Hidden Seashells Studio that's fantastic! I just picked my brushes back up after a 7 month hiatus. I like your channel. I wish you continued success.
@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 Жыл бұрын
@@jasonnye1436 thank you! My season for putting out videos has come to an end, perhaps more in the future! Good for you for blowing the dust off the brushes! It’s wonderful to create, and I also wish you success in all of your artistic endeavors
@dont-want-no-wrench Жыл бұрын
paint that separates oil mostly is because it doesnt have stabilizers in it- the highest quality usually doesnt have those.
@laidipaintofficial Жыл бұрын
your choice?
@hiddenseashellsstudio7552 Жыл бұрын
Utrecht and Gamblin!
@ravenshadowz23433 ай бұрын
Use soap and water to get the oil paint off your, never put solvent on your clothes, it's not good for you. The best thing at the time of you doing this video is stop recording wash out the oil paint, and come back with another shirt on. If I get paint on my hands I use soap and water and 90% to 100% of the oil comes off, depending where it touches your skin.
@lesliesmith7312 Жыл бұрын
Dawn dish soap will get it out of clothes
@mariopintoroficial56872 жыл бұрын
Thank's a lot, and just let me tell you that you are nice and pretty.