My OIL PAINTING PROCESS: Tips and Materials

[@harshadk4264]

I used to wonder will we ever again see the level of fine art as that of Bouguereau - but now we have hope and faith in you, Mr. Waddell !

[@PainterDave]

Great teaching videos! You are a clear, concise and so very talented artist! Thank you.

[@RK-Schlueter]

I love your painting and instruction, but your sense of humor and delivery is ecstatic! Thank you so much!

[@zainab_-yk7xo]

AFTER SEEING YOUR WAY OF SKETCHING FACES I AM NOW FINALLY AFTER JUST COUPLE OF TRIALS, ABLE TO DRAW A PORTRAIT AND ITS MORE ACCURATE AND SIMILAR TO THE REFERENCE THANKSSS!!!!😭

[@1antiquenut539]

This guy is the best teacher in oil that I have ever come across.His advice is so full proof.Just make sure you follow his preparation.That’s key.He changed the game for me.Thank you Scott .

[@ezgi6392]

This video is truly a gem for people who wants to improve their painting. A great tutorial from a masterly skillful artist. Unbelievable talent.

[@rosebarrette6292]

I love your realistic portraits! I can only hope I can get as good as you!

[@ltlove63]

Your painting is unbelievably. Thank you for sharing your talent and time 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼

[@waddellwebisodes]

Of course! Thank you for the comment Lynda---I appreciate it.

[@lol-ot4pn]

It should be borderline illegal that you only have 35k subs.

[@shachmon1]

Wait till you see what you get for $12 on his Patreon. Feels like stealing.

[@waddellwebisodes]

Ha thanks! but I've only been back at for a little while. Also, I'm shocked there are this many people that can tolerate watching my videos so I feel lucky ha

[@waddellwebisodes]

@@shachmon1 Thanks Shaun!!!

[@lornabeecroft699]

Thanks for another great video Randy. If only Scott was as good at this as you are, oy veh. The man just doesn't look like a Scott, not his fault. Great work Randy!

[@randelmalavida]

Thank you so much Scott, your video answered why I haven't been able to exit my painting nightmare of having no chroma, no value's, flat, chalky, over oily, thick greasy paint on canvas, lost in space brush strokes, no plan by chance, never ever endIng painting, paint devouring artist buster method making me crazy loop. I'll forever owe you for saving me. RandelllMalavida

[@leenomar4367]

the most detailed and useful video I ever watched thanks to the moon and back from Saudi Arabia

[@martas3420]

This is so informative, enlightening, and inspiring! You have encouraged me to get back and try to overcome my fear of not being good enough at painting portraits and just unblock myself to paint my best - whatever the final outcome is! One of the best videos I have ever watched on YT.

[@adamleszczyk5153]

One of the best painting proces, let me say, tutorials I've ever watched and believe me or not the time I spent on videos bout painting you can count on months not hours.

[@deeluver95]

The best tutorial I’ve seen yet! For the underpainting do you thin with gamsol or linseed oil?

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks! I use Gamsol for the underpainting

[@joserivera-qb4zv]

Fat over lean Foo .

[@pau8460]

I love you videos! How could I go about it if I dont want to use solvents? @@waddellwebisodes

[@carolynmacaluso4957]

Everything i wanted to know at the moment. 🥰

[@artofanitha]

You know what I felt like while watching this, if i miss any one word, it would be a great loss for my better learning ♥️☺️.. awsome techniques and you are the best teacher ever I see..

[@deborahgonzalezknight168]

What a generous chap.

[@m8kuplvr]

you are so generous and phenomenal!!! It feels like a gift to have found you on KZbin. thank you!

[@lolarules.62]

just bought the 11 hour still life demo from you, can't wait to start watching it. thanks scott, keep up the good work

[@waddellwebisodes]

Oh awesome, thank you so much!! I hope you like it

[@catherinemourounas7132]

Hi! I am an acrylic artist...but your tips for Oils are just as relevant to my medium! Thank You-I always pick up something I can use to help and encourage me on my quest for perfection!

[@angel79nunn]

Oils are such a good medium, why choose acrylic instead?

[@fernandomofreita79]

Outstanding oil painting technic; smooth, and very well blended colors as if done through magic. I wish that I could paint like you by using the brush alone. Thank you for sharing your videos. Stay safe.

[@uflashman]

Brilliant tutorial. If I could only ever watch one instructional video....this would be it.

[@papaspaulding]

I love watching artists paint who can work fast from a rough underpainting and develop it layer by layer tightening it up each time. its always fascinated me to watch yet i can never work that way. Ive tried many years ago in the past and the painting never works out. It always feels like ive wasted time and made more work for myself later on and makes me impatient. I', much the same as i work every layer to the best of my abilities. even if its not going to be seen under later layers i just see it as 'warming up' or simply i just enjoy the process as opposed to trying to rush it

[@richardrosa7321]

So it takes about an hour to draw the sketch, super fun. Then transfer and reinforce. But then you have to wait 24 hours, and then 24 hours again for the underpainting. What I do do speed things up - Either make an acrylic reinforcement and underpainting which would take about 30 minutes of drying time; or if you want to only use oils - use liquin to lower the drying time to just a few hours. Unlike Scott, I'm very impatient and oftentimes start my actual painting much too early so if you're anything like me, this might help.

[@JackDespero]

Amazing video. Thank you for the video.

[@zainab_-yk7xo]

You videos are so much beneficial for me as an artist, my art really got more professional than before, one for thanks for you my great artist

[@kenn3250]

Love how open you are about your process, thanks for all the advice.

[@emzee1148]

Never stop.

[@marriedaprince1]

!!! thank you!!! I feel like this something that is hard to find in the tutorials on YT- overview of the entire process. This answers a lot of my questions that I could not seem to find or know the words to google.... can't wait to try some of this. thanks!!

[@rainphoenix8323]

I like your videos a lot.. Especially your portrait techniques..🎨🎯

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thank you so much, I appreciate it!

[@grehansworld6258]

Absolutely love your channel. Love your personality as well😂.

[@zekenupp2965]

Wow, following your work for a few years I would never thought you were such nice guy for that much of a talent

[@genreartwithjb5095]

A lot of what you describe about the paint not gripping strikes home with me. I paint on board and I have found that you don’t want to sand the board down ultra fine. I intentionally leave a tooth on my gessoed board and tend to do my first pass with linseed as opposed to gamosol. Lol I also like Windsor Newton but I live near a Holbein wholesaler who was indignant when I asked if their store carries Windsor Newton as they are also a general art supply store

[@edwardmirza]

You’re a saint!

[@DavyGoestoHollywood]

Such a helpful tutorial…in lockdown again so I need this!

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks Davy!!

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa45]

You’re videos are awesome!

[@anibalacosta133]

CONGRATS!, AWSOME VIDEO!!!

[@JhonyLeft]

I always wanted to know how you did your paintings. Thank you for the information. I love your channel. I think I’m applying most of your tips to my work! Thank you a lot!

[@Artvideos2024]

Loved your art. I m watching it again and again since morning 😊 Very helpful 😊👍

[@hellogoodbye4894]

Thank's for doing what you do.

[@erikarerat5241]

Thanks so much for your générosité and kindness, 🙌

[@carlosp5355]

Thank you so much for this! Painting is so much easier when there is a roadmap!

[@sketchartist1964]

I've been painting in a rather loose style for many years but have always loved the academic approach. I'm a bit afraid however that if I try to switch from my loose style to this tighter method I'm going to fail and hate the results. I suppose I'll just keep watching your tutorials and maybe eventually work up the nerve to try it out. Thanks for your videos, they are very interesting and informative!

[@evabarvitskiemarshall7999]

I use carbon paper for transferring. Works great, faster, cleaner , easier. I love your skin tones . Not your skin tone - although it is quite lovely, but your portraits. It's better than some of the old masters and superior to anyone else on KZbin. I hate the new style of portrait painting, where the skin tones are a bunch of colored patches. (See Sky Art portrait competition videos, London). BTW Sometimes, your phrasing and mannerisms remind me of Jim Carrey .

[@chandershekharshekhar9843]

You are excellent 👏 thanks bro

[@shahzadqurashi7728]

Best tutorial , hats off!

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks so much!

[@GlenWatson-os9ri]

Thanks. You are a hellova painter and instructor.

[@gioargentati7802]

Great video, Scott!

[@raoarw1859]

Very great lesson 👍👍👍👍

[@SussexIan]

Clear concise and thoroughly clear advice on your method. Many thanks and best wises from the U.K.

[@ivanpapazov6932]

You are absolutely incredible my friend. I can't find words to describe how happy you made me, you are right ,y can be a very skillful artist and never actually achieve your goals, simply because it is not organized it from the very beginning. God bless you Best regards lvan

[@elen_chris]

Outstanding as your Patreon. You are gifted teacher and artist!

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks so much Elana! I really appreciate it

[@blackimangel]

Thaaaaaaank yooouuu!!!!🤗 Really enjoyed this video!

[@nazaretharts8966]

Nice info. Thank you for sharing👍

[@waddellwebisodes]

You're welcome---thanks for the comment!

[@susanoliveira3155]

I have my sketchbook and I love drawing random people from Pinterest but on canvas I can't sketch not sure why but I go straight to the painting process

[@user-stAy_outta_mybiz]

love this ❤ glad I found you on here .. I'm trying a portrait now and it's been 4 yrs 😮 wonderful stuff

[@mrussoart]

Scott, I bought one of your courses a few years ago. KZbin recommended your channel subscribed. Glad to see you sharing more stuff on youtube. Keep it up. Cheers

[@johnorhan121]

What absolutely beautiful paintings. Utterly masterful!

[@happyturtle95]

You are such a lovely bean!

[@LaEscuelaDelEncanto]

Hi Scott, Love the humor 😀

[@romulusbuta9318]

Splendid neo-clasical paintings......👋👋👋👋👋👋...I do guess you use pretty expensive products : cavens , oil colors , brushes and so......Anyway, You are THE MASTER of drowing content in painting, I mean Master of the Shapes and Tehnique .....

[@giancarlozavattinart9898]

A true oil paint guru, I love this painter, absolutely a Master !!!

[@deadlypineapplesatsumas6130]

Honestly, love this tutorial. Every other tutorial you see, shows you how they start off with immediately painting, and that just doesn't work for me, simply because of the problems with proportion, drawing with a pencil helps so much that I'd even dare to call it magic.

[@sonamalika3573]

Ohh my god underrated channel ✨✨

[@calligrakphyart]

So much knowledge being shared just like that in such a simple and easy to understand manner, Thank you kind sir!

[@fred5968]

I had several questions about your painting technique.and materials. This video answered them all! Great job, thank you!

[@lindacarrasco4070]

I learned so much from this video. Thank you Scott. You are awesome

[@mikerockwood4475]

You are an amazing teacher.

[@avestanstudio537]

I really appreciate your painting technique and results. Honestly I see your particular approach to be the best out there. No excess of medium insures permanence. Simple and available tools invites expediency. Actually everything you suggest here provides a solid foundation where results approaching the finest that has yet been done attainable coupled with little more than talent and tenacity. I am taking up the technique starting today. In many ways I already paint in this way but only in passing and only in my finest results. Consider me a devotee. Perhaps we shall show together some day.

[@BOXCARARTZ]

World class by one of the best!! Thanks Scott!!

[@richardnagele5877]

Thanks sooo much for sharing your wonderful painting techniques

[@DCweldingAndArt]

Centurion lead primed linen ACM panels are my substrate of choice. Just LOVE em! Fantastic tutorial my man! Beautiful faces, love your soft transitions and hues around eyes on ur portraits

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks so much Derrick!! Glad to hear you like those panels. Yeah, I started using Centurion many years back and was so happy to find a relatively affordable linen that I liked. I had been using Artfix and other super expensive ones and didn't know how I was going to afford to make paintings.

[@gyorgyiszupperits6094]

Thank you! You are so good!

[@TheSmashCapital]

OMG. You are amazing! Thank you for these invaluable tips.

[@duantorruellas716]

What a great video. Gives us an amazing look into his technique , that is pretty much the classical technique. He does the underpainting and later incorporates the fat over lean rule . Brilliant example of fine arts .

[@lupenunez4689]

I absolutely love this video! I learned so much. Thank you for posting this content!

[@Ran_G]

Thank you.

[@bonnieschroeder7893]

You are very generous in sharing your knowledge and experience. Thank you! You have helped me a great deal. I am curious about where you get your reference photos. Truly interesting subjects. Thanks again!

[@nlopez44]

💓 your method, your artwork is amazing!

[@reinhardschleining]

really excellent. have been drawing a lot in the past and coloured on photoshop. then, inspired by tizian, i developed a way to sketch on the canvas directly and boldly and refine with a multitude of layers afterwards. for this I needed mediums that offered me the versatility of acrylics. but acrylics, I realised after a couple of weeks, are something rather for teaching basic arts in schools and prisons. so I subsequently spent five years only on experimenting with emulsions. while I now have a vast knowledge of the alchemy of oils, wax, diluents and resins, still I can't get the precision and control that I want and that you perfectly have achieved. the method you're using and teaching probably really is the fastest and safest way to attain that pristine 'enamel' that bougeaurau was talking about ... so I'll see how it works for me. thanks a lot for teaching this. stumbled upon you today after having decided to revise what I've been doing the past couple of years. and I don't believe in coincidences :) (only thing I might try as well outside of the pure beauty of not using any medium at all is to grind my pigment in walnut oil and lace it with alkyd resin ...)

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Van Dyck said that one should finish as one goes along because there'll be plenty to do afterward.

[@waddellwebisodes]

Hi Michael! Thanks so much for the comment---nice to hear from you! Wow, that's such a cool quote that I never heard before. Makes me feel better about my own approach ha! Thanks again!!

[@lastranger]

WOW.... GOSH ... ARTIST OF KZbin

[@liastern3587]

Thank you sonmuch❤

[@nadeemartist2954]

out standing work masha allah

[@katjamohr8097]

Thank you so much for your passionated detailed explanations. IT helps me a lot in my actually painting. With gratitude

[@marcusburnett8923]

Thank you for your fantastic tutorials. I’m re inspired to paint again with a new level of enthusiasm and process thanks to your easy and fun to absorb tutorials, that are full of detail and experience which you effortlessly convey.

[@christelrascon6492]

Thank you for sharing your gift with us ~ 🥹~

[@alesiaarnold4259]

Best video ever!!!!

[@lilijose1930]

Hola maestro, Muchas gracias. Saludos desde México.

[@waddellwebisodes]

You're very welcome Lili! Thanks for the comment!

[@lupoed]

Best episode so far 👌

[@emmanueludeh7808]

THANK YOU

[@RamvinderArt]

thanks a lot Brother ❤️

[@MarcLaisneARTVenture]

Very interesting thank you

[@cassimameerally2641]

The best,thank you,. Watching youtube about painting, I got confuse, so many system, so many ways but this is the method which I learned from childhood.

[@stephengreico2810]

Scott, these are so great! The drawing at 6:20, it's so straight forward yet these is the part I struggle with most Getting started with a drawimh Could you do a video on the process of getting the best initial drawing? Thank you Scott!

[@waddellwebisodes]

Thanks Stephen!! Yes, I'll definitely try to do one on that topic for KZbin soon. I'm actually making a series on that for Patreon (I'm not trying to sell you on that, don't worry!) but maybe I'll be able to edit some useful things from that series for YT

[@stephengreico2810]

@@waddellwebisodes Awesome! Yes!

[@katharinemaloney3198]

Excellent! Thank you so much! This was so helpful in so many ways; especially drawing transfer and approaching it as though it's my final pass. It's just what I needed.

[@ikawinner960]

Thank you

[@josejorgeamadorlanza3527]

You are great , thanks a lot

[@paulbenedetti8869]

Excellent. And humorous. Thank you.

[@lukenohand]

Great stuff, thank you