Painting with Oils like Watercolors? ☾ Learning New Techniques

[@stevielamonte9068]

Your pencil drawing works as a grisaille underpainting for the glazes you are layering. I absolutely love your work! Thank you for sharing.

[@sn0w1et]

As an alternative, instead of using oil paints, use dissolved oil pastels with linseed oil. A little quantity of the pastel will last you a lot and it will be really sheer for making your layering super strong, besides it dries fast.

[@jettzz1]

To really jump your oil painting watch Stuart Davies on KZbin

[@makayladouglas1328]

This was so satisfying to see the glazes go down. Cant wait to see the different layers

[@therabidnicole1]

I would really recommend having a white base underneath everything. The reason for this is that light travels through the glazed layers and reflects back of the white giving a more luminous look. Maxfield Parrish is well known for this.

[@ArtofLaraca]

Danika! Try mixing your oils with Liquin Fine Detail from W&N brand. It gives me beautiful glazes but also dries very quickly which helps like crazy!

[@elinbirgis]

my fave too

[@dianab5738]

This was my favorite oil technique in art school! I remember making an underpainting with burnt sienna, although I've seen green or blue used too, to make the values. I mixed the paint with Liquin to make the glazes, it makes a very luminous piece :)

[@KimberlyCrick]

This is lovely. You may also enjoy using oils over your watercolor paintings on cotton paper, because you can do the same thing as you did here with sealing the wood. Lioba Brückner does that sometimes with nearly completed watercolor paintings, seals them with spray to not disturb the color as much as a brush on clear gesso/sealer. It's a great way to bridge both worlds! I look forward to seeing you experiment more with this :)

[@Lucas-jr3lq]

This is so interesting, I’ve never seen someone use oils in this kind of illustrative style (I feel like most people at least on online platforms use a more traditional/realistic style with oils). It’s so cool! And as a watercolor artist who wants to dive into oils soon I now feel like I have an idea of how to tackle it. :)

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

i think lachri fine art has some videos on oil painting with glazes!! its a technique she uses a lot when she paints oils on top of acrilyics. worth looking at her channel, i love her videos

[@aceriee]

I think I’ve suggested it before on one of your videos, but look into Wylie Beckert. One of the techniques they use is oil glaze over pencil drawings using walnut oil as a glazing medium.

[@diegoallcore]

I am trying to develop a similar technique for scientific illustration. I want to use oils and not watercolours because I already have a lot of oil paints and want to stay in oils. This was VERY HELPFUL. Thanks!!!

[@amandalynnfarrey9102]

I just love your willingness to experiment with different techniques and somehow make them amazing! You're a huge inspiration to me!

[@B1ackDahlia767]

Linseed oil can yellow over time, so I prefer Liquin. I use Gamsol & Turpentine/Turpenoid too. You might consider a different ground with a cream or white finish rather than transparent if the wood grain showing through is seeming to dull your glazes. Great start, it's just not finished is all. More glazes! 👍

[@r.g.8532]

Linseed oil helps in glazing. You can use it to produce various layers of multiple colors. And thinners help in thinning down the heavy texture of oil colors. Kind of like using more water to thin down watercolors.

[@mgwstn]

This may be my favorite piece of yours. I LOVE it

[@gigi-hg8xu]

Can’t wait to see the finished piece!

[@malvernminiatures]

loving this piece so far

[@PinkWytchBytch]

I've never worked with oils, so when you started the wash/glaze for the background and it was so dark I felt my heart sink and thought "I am NOT confident enough to use that bold a colour". The way you turned it into a pale teal was amazing though!!!

[@raspberrysig3114]

I clicked on this video only because of the thumbnail, I've never seen your videos but the picture of the girl on the moon feels like I've seen it before in a dream or something I absolutely love it it speaks to me. Subscribed!

[@selbarton]

This looks fabulous. I now must go find more details on that technique.

[@mjartwork8308]

I've seen this style of art before way back then. It produces an amazing piece of work.

[@olivianealart8179]

Hi Danica, I am in art school and am a painter as well. I focus mainly on oil painting. If you want a thin, transparent layer try a combination of 1/3 refined Linseed oil and 2/3 turpentine. Oil paint is simply linseed oil mixed with pigment, by adding more oil, you will reduce the pigment and increase the transparency. If you want to build up layers, use less and less oil on each layer. Hope this helps!

[@lilyraimey3499]

Very unique way of using this medium. I’ve often thought of trying this, place myself.

[@TattedMunchkin69]

Turned out beautiful. God bless♥

[@jinglejangle1997]

i love this piece so much. i cant wait for your inktobers

[@Dys.thymia]

Oooh Alfons Mucha is my favourite too, I was first introduced to him in school and I fell in love with his art I'm happy he's known even nowadays.

[@fuzzydragons]

ooh haven't seen this technique before, very neat look, will have to try this :) love your colour choices :)

[@jinglejangle1997]

What skillshare class was about the shape language?

[@Pralexart]

This is an amazing piece can’t wait to see part two of it!!!

[@khatzeye]

This was awesome! I've been at oils for about a year. Before this I was doing mostly watercolors. And I had been racking my brain trying to figure out if it was even possible to use watercolor techniques with oil paintings. A few days ago in an art group I'm in on Facebook, someone had brought up the same topic. I will definitely link this to the group so others can watch. I really like that you went outside of the normal standards. Art shouldn't have any rules, it should always be about exploration and expressing yourself. Stepping away from what's normal. I can't wait to see part 2 and how it turns out in the end. As far as glazes go I've been pretty good with glazing and I enjoy just using galkyd gel honestly. Neo megilp is another good one for glazing as well as it's also a gel type substance plus it help with drying. Not sure what brand of paint you use but these are Gamblin products. They're the only ones that I ever use for oil painting. Thanks again for great video, keep up the good work! Also what is your Instagram??

[@HeatherBryant22]

I love everything about this one!

[@CREATIVOSCAHD]

Great draw. I like

[@moonspiritartbycindyhill1084]

I love art Nov . Loving this piece. I want to have an go at this style

[@roberttravis3450]

Interesting technique you have there with oils. Like you I love Art Nouveau.

[@tristankruger1504]

I love art nouveau as well i used it as inspiration for 2 of my art assignments 🤭

[@shroukmonir9437]

Thanks for sharing

[@zarahsgarden2097]

Did you finish this!? I absolutely love it already! 💕

[@adelehammond1621]

I'm not a oil painter but I know a little glazing is a oil painting term invented for oil painting and glazing requires transparent colours just look on the oil paint tubes

[@victoriavidaud]

I really want to experiment with transparent acrylics for similar methods, the glazing and stuff like that so it has the transparency but not the drying time of oils. They may be great for blending, but a patient person I am not lol

[@equesdeventusoccasus]

I love this piece, will it be up on your shop? (Or prints of it?)

[@athenazazzaro6082]

Woah that fixadent worked well. I normally have it smudge

[@marmar1293]

Aaah love Alphonse Mucha!!!! :3

[@hafizdrawing]

Very nice view... good art

[@Lithium_Peaches]

i want to try oils sooo bad but it feels so scary and foreign (and potentially expensive) to me.... I work only in watercolors but I've always wanted to try doing an oil painting just with glazes and work with oils in a way that my watercolor brain can make sense of. Great job on this piece!! Can't wait to see your next attempts in oil :)

[@MYMONKEYBERNARD]

How come you would use oil instead of something like ink for this? Does oil hold up over time longer? Just curious on the oil motivations :) Looks great!

[@SuperXrunner]

Lovely!!

[@philjean8125]

so so nice

[@RobynBArtist]

Another great video!!!

[@shanesmith2199]

As a oil painter i can say this is a common approach. Use an Underpainting black and white and it will pop like you want. Hope this helped

[@شريفطاهر-ج7ش]

is that a cobalt violet hue PV62 ?

[@jillsorbian9002]

She’s stunning! ✌️😑😁💕💕

[@TheMckrazy]

Dave dorman with gnomon has a great technique with oils

[@onyxcat6672]

Hi Danica, can you please give us the name of this Skill Share class. Also very curious how this process will progress. Will follow for sure part 2. I appreciate the time you take to share these videos with us.

[@MissLydiaPanda]

I think this is it www.skillshare.com/classes/Illustration-by-Design-A-Guide-to-Elevating-your-Drawing-Skills/963813011/lessons

[@onyxcat6672]

Thanks !

[@green7apocalyptica]

❤️

[@nessnos1978]

I LOVE this!

[@pendensproditor]

Check out Wylie Beckert for some oil-glazes-over-pencil amazingness. She has a few process videos on KZbin.

[@OwliSketches]

💙💜

[@jettzz1]

Check out Tonalism it is so easy. look for Stuart Davies he’ll open a lot for you relating to oils!!!

[@DanicaSills]

Thank you for the recommendation! Ill have to look him up.

[@НатальяФролова-з5х]

Um, but what the point? Why paint with oils if you don’t want them look like oils?

[@muffemod]

wow another fantasy girl painting... so original

[@Accuser13]

Talk too much