Cobra Water Mixable Oils - Lesson 6 - Alla Prima & Layered Painting

[@sfchemist]

Excellent instructor who explains the subject matter in a clear and concise manner.

[@alisannsmookler139]

What ground do you recommend for using the Cobra water mixable oil colours? Acrylic gesso?

[@gallande343]

Absolutely great, last painting I did was about 3 years ago with W & N water sol. Oils. Since then I have been woodworking. Having seen this I will be back painting with Cobra ! Brilliantly clear and do -able. Thank you for this demo.

[@chriswhitehouse8982]

Funny, I've been woodworking and now am taking a break to start learning how to paint.

[@gilessteve]

@@chriswhitehouse8982 Same here! lol (Will probably do both though).

[@chriswhitehouse8982]

@@gilessteve Me too, to some degree. I made my own artist easel, which combines both hobbies.

[@gilessteve]

@@chriswhitehouse8982 That's funny. I was looking at photo's of easels yesterday to get ideas for making one myself. I'm OK at designing woodwork items, but I'm not sure I will have any talent as a painter.

[@Cre8iveSignWorks]

fantastic....i was not aware of the 'fat over lean' term! thanks for the useful info! cheers!

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

+Shedz Channel Great! Thank you for watching

[@beece2413]

Interesting! I may try this! Thanks for sharing your talent and info on this product.

[@tumsaoulla]

Good teacher! Many thanks for such understandable explanations and, moreover, applicable.

[@roninalden6956]

i guess it's pretty off topic but does anyone know a good site to watch new tv shows online?

[@marcellusjeremias5049]

@Ronin Alden I watch on Flixzone. Just google for it =)

[@kristophercharles8863]

@Marcellus Jeremias Definitely, I've been using FlixZone for since april myself :)

[@roninalden6956]

@Marcellus Jeremias Thanks, I went there and it seems to work :) Appreciate it !!

[@marcellusjeremias5049]

@Ronin Alden Glad I could help :)

[@leilaskye8143]

Great demo

[@teerex1011]

Your tutorials are very informative and inspiring. Which brushes could I use with water mixable oils? For example. could I use brushes for acrylic paints or maybe even water colour brushes or do they HAVE to be brushes for oils? Thank you

[@jefferson5657]

generally synthetic brushes for acrylic or oil painting is fine but dont use natural bristle hairs because they react more to water and humidity

[@kayjay-kreations]

What brushes should we use?

[@rcsart6409]

I prefer to paint in layers and sruggle with Cobra paints. They are nice to use, but take so long to dry compared to my usual 'conventional' oils. I gave up a year ago as it slowed down the process to the point it becomes frustrating. I still have one on my easel, but my studio is not big enough to accommodate more than a few 'work in progress' paintings, especially larger sizes.

[@karenobrien2579]

Did you wet your canvas also when you refer to wet on wet? I'm assuming you didn't but wanted to check.

[@McConneyv2]

wet paint over wet paint. it's not like water color

[@Photoquicktips]

I use cobra water mixable oil and it's great, could anyone recommend me the best brushes "type" to use with these paints...!

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

Hi! Thanks for watching and your comments. The type of brush that is best for your work depends on how you use the paint. Stiffer hairs, such as stiff synthetic or hog is good for thicker paint but softer brushes such as soft synthetic or sable are good for thin paint. Jackson's has hundreds of excellent brushes to choose from, and good descriptions online. You'll find a suitable brush there I'm sure! ;) www.jacksonsart.com/brushes/brushes

[@Photoquicktips]

Thanks a lot ! Will check them out...😃

[@SynchroDiaries]

Excellent explanation. Thank you so much!

[@piitaa108]

Thanks.

[@hamper22]

Very informative👍

[@tammyhong159]

Thanks for a really great instructional video, I just wish your camera person zoomed in while you were actually painting.

[@pablo_p_art]

Excellent video. However, I have a question: many painters, even manufacturers, advice to avoid water as thinner for water mixable oils and use thinner instead. What are your thoughts about it?

[@lorimcneeartist]

Hello, Don was my instructor. He was a fabulous teacher and friend. I am a Royal Talens Ambassador and a Cobra Ambassador. Your question is somewhat confusing. Water-mixable oils are specifically made to thin with water. They are a solvent-free oil painting medium. Using a thinner would defeat the benefits of these wonderful oils. I am not sure what manufacturers would advise against using water? Maybe I misunderstood your question, but I stand by my statement and hope it helps.

[@pablo_p_art]

@@lorimcneeartist for example Winsor and Newton. They have excellent thinner for water mixable oils. Another thing is, those paints are water mixable, but not water based.

[@gallifreyantauri]

Thank you so much for this clear, concise explanation of "fat over lean". I have a painting I did about 5 years ago with water-mixable oil but stopped working on it due to some problems that cropped up. Can I now begin to paint over it again and if so, should I had oil to the paint or would I be able to use water with it? Thanks for your advice.

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

The paint already on your canvas, I imagine, will be fully dry, so you can use either oil or water. The fat over lean rule is to avoid cracking from happening if the layers underneath are not fully cured (not fully 'dry'). If your layers of paint were applied very thickly and you think they might still be curing then it would be best to add as much (or more) oil than was added to your first layers of paint so that the layers on top do not dry faster than what is underneath. Thank you for watching :)

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

For water-mixable oils; try better surface. Canvas is the worst possible surface for painting with oils. Truly, the mechanics of canvas, and how it expands/contracts, all is terrible. Panel is much better, and also, there are amazing papers ready for oil painting. Paper in fact is best possible surface for any medium. Canson has one for oil panting, which is excellent. If you chose paper, dilute your water-mixable oils with water, don't add oil at all in first two layers, and start to paint same way as you do watercolours. Then, when you have basic underpainting done in a watercolour-like manner, when all is dry, start painting with a little oil added in. And then go from there.

[@gallifreyantauri]

Thanks for your reply. I agree. I always work on a panel because I can't stand the fact that the canvas bounces around when I put the brush to it. I've painted on paper that I gessoed, and it's okay but I prefer the panel over other surfaces.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

I mentioned special paper from Canson because it is available in ~1.4m wide rolls, enabling you large sizes, and because water-thinned oil dries very quickly on it. You can do first two layers almost in one ago. No other surface, however well prepared, acts like this paper because this paper slightly absorbs the paint, and paper pores help water from paint evaporate faster, and oil to oxidise much, much faster. Plus it is convenient for painting outdoors: just roll up your sheet - no need to keep them flat!

[@gallifreyantauri]

Zvonimir Tosic - Thank you. I did not know that but should I be doing some plein air painting I will certainly keep that in mind.

[@suz8481]

Can I use Cobra with Bob Ross liquid white ?

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

Hi Suzanne - Liquid White is essentially white oil paint with a thinner and oil added so It’s possible to mix water-mixable oils with regular oils but in doing so they lose their water-solubility. So if you want to be able to use water with the Cobra watermixable oils, then I would suggest maybe making your own liquid white with a watersoluble oil medium. Hope this helps, let us know if you have any more questions

[@lorrainedaly373]

So helpful !

[@ninogrieco8777]

I have been using water mix able oils For a while, the problem is the opacity of the painting when it dries ...and it gets worse with time.

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

Hi Nino, thanks for watching and for your comments. What do you mean that the opacity worsens with time? That it becomes less or more opaque? I'd like to know as that shouldn't really happen...

[@dagugli6092]

really, how about the varnishes? I am about to try them.. as a really dont like acrylic.

[@derickelsner6802]

Do they dry faster than regular oils?

[@JacksonsArtSupplies]

They do dry faster than regular oils, but not as quick as fast-drying oils, for example. To find out more information about the oils and their drying time we have an in-depth blog post - www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2019/03/26/how-to-start-painting-with-cobra-watermixable-oils/

[@sleepingvolcano7524]

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[@michaelstevens3479]

use it neat and wait a month for it to dry.

[@sleepingvolcano7524]

Ok

[@beedeeuniko]

Fat over lean can be misunderstood as „prefer fat over lean“ ... I use „fat on top of lean“ which is unambiguous 😁

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[@artfortheheartpainter677]

Nice clouds..good tips..but, if you don't want to allow the viewer's to see your method of painting the clouds don't show it...why is the cam showing an above image and from the side..? Why would we want to watch looking down..come on...you artists all have tricks of the trade...they make us believe that they are teaching a method...but, believe me...they will NEVER give up their real signature methods...even when you pay!!..