OIL Painting Miniatures | Cthulhu Death May Die Painting

[@Dianikes]

I think your pinting with oil pints is some of the best pinting I have ever seen pinted

[@DonSuratos]

Wow! Thank you! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@acutler4745]

Im definitely going to try this. I know I said it before, but I drawn a lot of inspiration from you. Prayers for you and yours.

[@DonSuratos]

Seriously, oil painting is so fun and easy. I can give you a list of must have oil colors if you like. 😊

[@warmaster7114]

Another great video. I've used oils before and they are phenomenal for blending. I still have a lot of experimenting to do. So keep the oil videos coming. Thanks again

[@DonSuratos]

Thank you War! Appreciate it man! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@willmuckel9131]

Have you tried any of the Williamsburg oil paints. I’d recommend the Williamsburg Egyptian Violet.

[@DonSuratos]

Yes they are awesome! I have a handful. 😊

[@erinweatherly6539]

Sweet I’m first. I love hanging out in your studio!

[@DonSuratos]

Thank you Erin! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@PraktikalRice]

Great video! I love using oils for highlights too! Did you wait for the oils layer to dry before adding the oil sludge wash at 5:10?

[@DonSuratos]

I think I just assumed the previous layers were dry. But did not check. 😬😅

[@PraktikalRice]

@@DonSuratos haha fair enough. I guess how long did you leave until you applied the wash? I think I had an issue where my brown mixed in with my yellow and it didn't turn out vibrant once 😭

[@zeroa6]

Great work!!! ¿Do you recommend use mask for this type of painting? Thanks!

[@DonSuratos]

Yes IF you are not using an odorless mineral spirit to thin and do not have a well ventilated studio or paint area. 😊

[@zeroa6]

@@DonSuratos Thank you very much 😁

[@will_souza_art]

Hi, amazing work! If I may ask, how are you mixing acrilic and oil? I always heard oil cracks if used with acrilic

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks! No… you can never mix oils and acrylics. Let dry the acrylics before painting over with oils. Cheers! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@will_souza_art]

@@DonSuratos Oh, thanks, I had tought you couldn't even apply it after it dried, good to know

[@Mordraqq]

Oils.... , mistake free painting ,it all melts away, blending is so much fun ,so many options ,oil washes are really good ,etc so much more stuff with oils. Im afraid Im addicted to oils, and its hard to go back to acrylics.

[@DonSuratos]

Oils are king. 👑 🎨🎨🎨

[@MaskedRiderChris]

Question; how many coats of varnish and how long to let them dry before applying the oil washes? I'm always concerned I'm doing it wrong somehow!

[@DonSuratos]

Why bro? What’s happening? You’re rubbing off the acrylics?

[@Slouworker]

You don't need varnish

[@gordonbanning9355]

can you put acrylics over oils???

[@DonSuratos]

Once the oils are fairly dry sir. 😊

[@Yonbii91]

But does oil paint dry immediately?

[@DonSuratos]

Slower drying. 😊

[@kumarawr740]

Oil paints terrify me. But then so did painting minis when I first started

[@DonSuratos]

They are less scary. You can simply wipe off if you feel you made a mistake.

[@kumarawr740]

@@DonSuratos interesting. One more question will the paints and cleaner damage the brushes at all or wear them out faster? I think that is my biggest hesitation, that I would need to get a separate set of brushes just for oils.

[@awildtomappeared5925]

@@kumarawr740 oils are waaay easier on brushes than acrylics, oils can take days to dry, if you use fast mediums they can take hours but that's the fastest while acrylics will dry into brushes in minutes and are much more abrasive when they do, it's very unusual to use natural brushes especially expensive sables for acrylic painting because of this but people do it anyway for minis because the detail that a good pointed sable gives and the softness that a goat hair mop gives are so useful

[@dskraus]

@@kumarawr740 I generally recommend keeping your chemicals separate from each other where possible. So - use brushes you only use for oils and brushes you only use for acrylics. Keeps things from cross contaminating and helps with predictability and lowers risk of getting some mineral spirits/thinner mixed up with your water and acrylics.

[@bacawaka2813]

I enjoy painting with oils. I think underpainting with acrylics and finish with oils is the better method. Like doing the zenithal and glazing with an airbrush first then finish off with metallics and oils. Some people enjoy doing the entire mini with oils but I dont like the pre-glaze step for staining because some colors are more staining than others and next thing I know I have a prussian blue where my skin tone should be and I will spend way to much time trying to remove the blue paint rather than focusing on the painting process. I have been experimenting with oils with gundam figures recently. I left some gundam parts in Gamsol for about a month and they still havnt changed. Someone said that mineral spirits is bad for gundam plastic but not the odorless mineral spirits apparently but the wash for panel lining over a painted kit with no varnish is super easy.

[@DonSuratos]

You know why I think Gamsol is not harmful to plastics… the Gamsol bottle is plastic. Unlike usual paint thinners which need glass bottles. I do believe acrylic underpainting then oils is such an efficient method. 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@sevencoloredmage8726]

You don't have to stain your mini beforehand. That is just one procedure to paint with oil paints. Others exist and those don't rely on people hunting down a collection of specific tubes of paint from different brands for that desired "tinting power".