Gerry Can Show You How To Shade With Oil Paints
August 20, 2020 by avernos
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Subscribed to watch this video. I’ve been interested in using oils for ages, I’ve done some light weathering and washing before. But never knew I could use liquin. That’s handy!
Would love to see more oil painting stuff. Like how to paint a whole model! Or perhaps start with a nice red cloak, or a black leather coat with oils alone.
I can’t remember if I mentioned it, but liquin can also be used to make a glaze with the oils as well as speeding up the drying time. So it’s worth picking it up
Turns out I have a small bottle of Liquin fine detail in my drawer. Though it says it dries gloss.
I also have water mix able stand oil and and Abeiltung turps. I picked a bunch of stuff up years back, tried it. Fecked it up and left it alone lol.
I need some of those little tin mixing stands as I don’t want to melt my plastics and then I’ll give it a shot! It’s quite exciting.
one of my fav. painting techniques.
Have you tried Warcolours paints? Do you know how they compare to oil paints? I read or heard somewhere that the medium wasn’t water but some sort of ‘gel’ (i think was the word) and as such have a longer drying time.
I’ve not used warcolours but I’ve used Scale75 which are gel based. They have a longer drying time than waterbased acrylics, but you’re still talking about tens of seconds rather than tens of hours. I do find that they behave differently and have a much more matt finish, but the extended drying time wasn’t a reason I wanted to use them.
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Very nice wouldn’t acrylic shades do the same effects Gerry?
similar although you couldn’t do it as easily and retain the highlights without additional work.
Ok I get you.
Great stuff. Using oils has been on my radar for a while, but yet to try it. Is there a ‘reverse’ technique here for getting a good, brilliant white? I’m guessing the white pigment in oil paints is stronger than acrylic and could make getting that crisp white easier than lots of layers…? You mention varnish before the oil wash, is that an acrylic varnish? And what varnish would you recommend to go over the top of the cured oil? And perhaps a Gerry Can on varnish would be useful..? When to use acrylic varnish, polyurethane, lacquer etc. What to… Read more »
actually for white you should pick up an artists acrylic titanium white. It’s more expensive but the tubes will last much longer than a modellers acrylic anyway. You can also use white ink to thin it rather than water to keep the intensity of the white when applying it. Oil would do the same thing but you have the long drying time, even if you use liquin to speed up the drying.
Varnish is interesting, I don’t use lacquers but use the others a fair bit. The varnish should be fine as long as you aren’t cleaning the brush in between.
I’ve not tried the artists acrylic – I’ll give it a try, thanks.
Might also try a white oil over a light grey base and fade it using thinner when I get round to using some oils – could be an option.
One of the best cans yet. I will be defently be trying this. Thanks Gerry
Good tutorial on using oils Gerry. I’ll stick to acrylics for my horses and keep the oils for my armour. The liquin is something that I’ll have to give a go though.