Fat over lean explained - Starting oil painting

[@oxoniumgirl]

O, I almost forgot! I LOVE your plein air painting videos, they are such a treat! Do you think you could do 30 minute long ones? I've been feeling they've been too short. Either way I'm hopeful for more!

[@marcjasi]

@@oxoniumgirl thank you 🙏🏻 appreciate it! Well yeah I could release longer plein air videos, but not sure the audience will be up to watch it. It looks like a lot of people are just skipping to the end. I need to find a balance, if not the KZbin algorithm do not share the video if not enough people are watching it. But I’ll keep it in mind, thank you 🙏🏻

[@oxoniumgirl]

When I first started and decided to try oils / water-mixable oils, I didn't realize it meant that I had to always start with thinned paint, I thought it meant that you had to add more oil medium with each successive layer. If I had known what it really meant I would never have chosen oils. I really struggled with actually complying with this rule before I switched from water-mixable oils to acrylics. Complying basically meant that I had to sacrifice access to full chroma and opacity by using thinned paint for the first layer(s), and that I couldn't modify the first layers with various mediums unless I also thinned them. Also, some of the colors in my water-mixable oils were less fatty than others even straight from the tube! So when I worked straight from the tube some colors would crack if placed over another color, for example my ultramarine cracked when placed over titanium white because titanium white takes almost 2 weeks to dry but ultramarine takes 3 days to be touch dry. Ultimately I switched to acrylics because I couldn't stand waiting up to two weeks before some colors fully dried. For whatever reason WN water-mixable oils were not open for as long as true oils, and many colors were more transparent than their true oil versions and I kept encountering problems with too many colors being transparent and thus requiring many layers.

[@marcjasi]

@@oxoniumgirl I feel it’s sad that you switch to acrylic because of this issue. This issue can be easily solved. I don’t see many, or none, occasions where here you would need to have ultramarine blue on top of a white brush stroke. I think maybe planning your painting better could help. Here it is hard to help you more specifically via a comment, but I am sure that issue could be solved 🙏🏻