Common Oil Painting Mistakes & How To Fix Them (Demo)

The most common beginner oil painting mistakes I see and how to fix them. Crash Course on the most important oil painting tips for beginners with demo.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Common Painting Mistakes
00:05 - Palette Problems
00:47 - Apelles Palette Crash Course
02:47 - Premix Your Palette - (don't) be lazy
03:56 - Use More Paint
04:12 - Sand or Scrape Down
05:21 - Photo References
06:17 - Don't Paint Exactly What You See
06:48 - Most Important Studio Object
08:01 - Scared to Paint
08:36 - Take Distance
08:54 - Big Picture
10:04 - Hiding in the Shadows
11:12 - Painting Directly
11:26 - What to do if You Mess Up
11:41 - Most Powerful Advice
13:01 - Impasto
13:22 - Defining the Shadow Side (Checkerboard Strategy)
16:02 - Best Practice for Painting
16:29 - Reflective Light
17:19 - Big is More Important Than Small
17:36 - Shrinking Face Problem
18:41 - How to Make Video Requests

[@josephtermeer4595]

Unbelievable, I learned a lot of this over 10 years. You taught this in 20 minutes. You have a great way how you explain and a nice voice to listen too. I don't know much about you, but I think you are a really good teacher. Keep up the good work!

[@NicThurman]

Great to hear! Thank you Joseph!

[@NicThurman]

Hands down the biggest mistake you could make is not obliterating the like button! 😳 Feel free to ask any questions or request videos in the comments and I may just make a video for you 😎

[@nickwolf9547]

DO you do one one one sessions for private students?

[@kadeemcgillarts]

OMGosh! I never even thought about premixing and tubing myself! Great info throughout the whole vid. I'm just getting into oil

[@lisengel2498]

Whau super strong intro directly beginning with your inspiring demonstration - with a simplified palet and easy color mixing just from Mars Black, titanium White , yellow ochre and Chinese vermillion red 🤍🖤💛♥️and love tips to make the painting process optimal - the preferred premixed Colors and put Them in tubes ready to go and keep the transparente by scraping with a palet knive or using sandpapir when the underlayer has dried to keep a Soft and Nice surface 😄

[@gwendlyndomingo7215]

Love your teaching!

[@louielouie4187]

Really Dig your content Nic, your appreciated

[@dfldf1]

era essa aula que eu precisava. obrigado

[@eyeshowyou]

I agree with everything you teach. But you also made me smile when you talked about beginners and showed a few very famous painters with a red cross through their paintings😂

[@jilliancrawford7577]

The pre-mixing tip was something I didn't know until recently and it's why I didn't try oils for the longest time. I was always told that oils and acrylics can't be pre-mixed and therefore I assumed that they wouldn't work with what I'm used to with dry mediums or mediums that can be reactivated like gouache. However, knowing that they can be pre-mixed to maximize efficiency and that it's a matter of proper storage and preparation has been a huge motivation to explore this medium. I don't mind the time and efforts in pre-mixing. I would rather rake out as muc guesswork as I can so I can focus on learning in the moment.

[@mehdimoussaoui1712]

Thank you this was very helpful

[@NicThurman]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@NicoWhittaker]

Thanks for these tips ! 👍

[@NicThurman]

Glad you like them!

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

Love your beautiful hair❤

[@dhlimimunza633]

Lovely

[@MultiOstyn]

great!

[@andrewbellavie795]

Hi Nic I really appreciate the most powerful advice part. If you don't do the painting how will you ever improve? Just do it.

[@lisengel2498]

I would love to see you painting a self portrait with your beautifull Long hair style 🎶🧡🎵 16:12

[@miric6224]

Hi Nick, those metal tubes are tough to fill, sealing is messy,and hard to find. Jerry’s tends to carry them in bulk; amazon occassionally carries them in small quantities. Suggested solution: buy plastic syringe tubes (i.e. amazon 20 piece, 10ml, $14). There is a rubber washer at the start of the plunger that neatly scapes the paint down to exit. Also comes with cap or you can dip the point into vascline for sure tight seal. Furthermore, the syringes come in lots of sizes making filling easier. I very much like having premixed colors, find three values suffient to start the flesh string of values.

[@Fred-yo1pf]

Thanks for the tip! I've got a load of them and have had the problem of keeping ready mixed paint fresh. Never thought of this. Sounds better than screw top tubes.

[@daeds.paints]

Lovely stuff you have here Nic, and I love that style of painting, so much to learn for free on KZbin it's literally crazy. Thanks a lot!

[@nephillim.1994]

درمورد ساخت رنگ ها و ترکیب انها هم توضیح بدهید، ممنونم

[@user-pg4wj9hl9n]

Hi Nic, I see a ot of me in your desciptions of the mistakes a beginner makes in portraits. I get too tight a become caught up on detail which is not the direction I want to travel in. I don't want to create a photo like image. People say i've got talent and like the imges saying it's like a photo and that's not where i want to go. Alexander.

[@patriciocabrera8424]

Nic is this the palette that Master Nedrum uses ?

[@kristoferolson1663]

Great advice all around, but I don’t know if it’s fair to say that you need to elevate beyond what you’re seeing and that not doing so is a waste of paint… that would be a matter of intention. You can be painterly and honest, honesty and truth is beautiful as well, as is the artists perception of what is perfect, which can be two different things

[@lianqi1195]

Some of these advices are not for beginners but for advanced artists, especially the using-big-brush one. I’m not saying using big brush is wrong but I won’t recommend that unless you know what you are doing. I would recommend beginners using a small brush at a small scale, finish that area towards the end, and then move to the next area, basically a “scanning” style. Small painting is always easier than large ones.

[@izannahwalker3366]

Hello Nick, I did not find this color the Chinese vermilion, does it have another name or a similar color, there is the Japanese orange and the vermilion orange. Furthermore, is this restricted palette of 4 colors only valid for portraits, I would like a palette for still lifes. Do you systematically scrape the whole face with the spatula? Your paint is very creamy, do you add a medium? how not to dirty the colors, you have to put a thicker layer or scrape and put a thicker layer.. do you have to mix the colors with a spatula...I use the translator, also because I am French and I hope you will understand me. Thank you for all that you bring.

[@mandylwilsonable]

the red cadmium light is similar to the Chinese vermillion red color but not as soft brown.

[@user-kr7fd1ru4k]

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