go paint. your mind may want it

You can start now that you have that curiosity and became a master seriously said

Mario Oliveto that’s what I thought

Nae Dolor

What you say is true...tuna fish has more lead in it than accidentally getting a little of this paint in your mouth.....all the qualified conservationists all agree the best thing to do for the longevity of your painting is the use of lead white....however even that product has been bastardized by even reputable colorists (manufacturers). The use of zink in any paint will cause cracking, flacking and pealing and that, almost scarily fast. The use of lead also holds the integrity of the paint so you don’t get value, drawing and color float, that is small amounts of movement by slicker or lighter paint over the lower surface that literally changes the drawing from the original over either longer or shorter times depending on environmental conditions. Check out Rublev and Harding for good stack or lead. Harding gets a higher price but Rublev even though less are superior leads done the authentic way. It’s best to use the lead lower ie even as your base, and as gesso, however if your worried about price at least in everything above...its really not that much more and the benefits are worth it. You can scrape right down to the base if you want to start over, do small or large redos, or even make repairs; all of this even months later if you want which is a nightmare with acrylic gesso. But mainly the color quality’s and the way you can work the paint OMG night and day. As a side note: Rembrandt used ground glass in his lead in certain areas and that is how he got that glow that Yupari was so smitten with and Rublev even sells that. My hope is these two manufacturers and our new paint astronauts will ban the scare that the money grubbers have sold America. It’s true it’s a poison, like certain bug sprays etc....but to scare people away with exaggeration and lies and sensationalism is wrong and misleading to our younger up coming stars. Usually Yupari is good at replying to his comment section I’ve been most interested to hear from him...but he must be busy or on the road. Good painting to you my friend...keep your brushes wet.

Hi. I live in Romania and getting Harding or Rublev lead paint here is almost impossible. I'm lucky that I can even get my hands on Old Holland lead paint. My plan is to buy pigment from Kremer and mix it myself. This would be the best solution I can think of. The other solution involves buying sheets of lead and go through the whole process of making it from scratch by myself, but this can take a long time. On the other hand, I actually managed to purchase a 2.3 pounds jar of litharge and I started experimenting with it in different mediums. As far as I know, ol' Rembrandt also played a lot with resin mediums. He liked his paint to have a pasty and sticky quality. Some of the brush marks can't even be achieved without this stickiness. He liked to wrestle on canvas with his paint :)

Fantastic my friend you know you get quite a bit if you make yourself fairly fast in a couple of weeks you’ll have enough for a tube depending on how mush lead rolls you use. once its crumbly or can be scraped off its ready you don’t have to wait for the full decay.... plus from what I’ve heard Old Holland is one of the real deals and maybe the only company that used horse manure and has kept manufacturing all these years. I love them its to bad there so expensive. If I can be of any help let me know. I don’t know what shipping is to Romania and it might be they charge for import but private boxes I’m not sure. God bless.

Nae Dolor

Absolutely true...this is more a sargent way

You are right. This is why this looks dirty.

I paint with water based oilpaint...oilpaint you can mix with water...its great

He named all the colors he was using around the 1 min mark. After the 10 min mark he zooms out so we can see which colors he mixes together for what. But if you are asking about Rembrandt's technique and colors as in Art History knowledge, I think here he's guessing the colors here. You might need to find a book discussing Rembrandt's process in detail. Back then they didn't have as many variety of pre mixed oil paint shades.

jay sullivan what would he talk about? You people always find something to complain about.

jay sullivan you would have to pay hundreds of dollars to hear this lecture from an artist in a classroom but he is doing it for free on youtube. I am going to listen even if he talks about the randomest shit ever.

That's cool. I don't have hundreds of dollars to waste on garbage education and I don't have time to waste on a 'painting tutorial' that doesn't even talk about painting. I was just trying to help save us people's time and help people to understand what to avoid when creating a tutorial.

One of the big dangers of you tube is that anyone can set themselves up as an expert when in fact they really don't know anything about the subject. The problem is compounded by the fact that there is a seemingly endless supply of ignoramuses who know even less and who gush over the drivel that is presented to them. This guy Yupari is awfull, both as regards his lack of theoretical knowledge and as regards his "technical skill" which comes down to nothing more than ( imperfectly ) copying colored shapes from a photograph. He really needs to attend a good art school for a few years or spend a few years studying in the atelier of a proper artist. Thank goodness for just one discerning comment from Jay Sullivan.