Those of you that don't know me, my name is Erica. I'm a self taught oil painter from Portland, Oregon.
I am a mommy to two and I currently make an original piece of art every single day and I share my journey online.
And so today we are going to be discussing mediums for oil painting. And we also have the whole Gamblin team today with us to answer any of your questions, if I'm not able to. So we have Pete. Pete, you want to introduce yourself, you're on mute. The President Stowers hi everybody.
Okay, great. And then p. Can you let them know like if they have a question in the chat. Like, I think Mary is going to be doing some
Answering. And then if they have even more questions, they could probably go to gambling calm and email like if it's like a really big question. If we don't get to it.
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Thanks. Thanks for being here. Oh my gosh, so. Well, welcome. So let's go through all of the supplies first. Oh, and they put the photo reference in the chain, I believe, is that right, Pete.
Did I believe, though, and they also emailed it to you. So it should be one way or the other, just still question, let us know if you don't have it, and then they can put it in the chat for you, just for the reference because it's birthday candles.
This week for painting. So let's go through supplies. Okay, so the first thing, just in case you weren't here last week, we're going to be doing the 1980s.
Gamblin set. And this is kind of what it looks like it that you get at the store and I just wanted to show it to you because I already closed with mine.
So it comes like this. And this is pretty much everything you're going to need in order to get started. Um, there's a couple other little things, but this is such a great pit. It comes with pretty much all the paint, you're going to need
And what I love most about Gamblin paints, especially is the richness of pigment and they put so much TLC and every single to and it's also locally made right here in Portland.
So let's get into it. Also in the kit, there comes a panel and I'll show that to you. It's a panel and it looks like this. And it's from American Eagle and Salem. So it's also from
Oregon. So how cool is that supporting locally. I love that. And it's and the quality is fantastic. Okay, so let's go through that kit. So in our kit we have
Als crimson and this is kind of a rich red and then we have a cat red light.
And it's a read that is kind of more of an orange you read is actually what I use on my current pilot at home. I love it so much. It gives you that electric
Like red color when you put it down. It's fantastic. And we have cad yellow light. And then we have an earth tone which is yellow ochre, or like a earth tone yellow. And then we have fellow green, which is my current favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite million favorites green
Ultra marine blue. I also use these two colors on my current palette and we have every black if you need it, but I'm. Today I'm going to show you how to mix your own black, but you can always use the ivory black
Okay, so let's get into. Oh, I'm going to be showing you. I'm using the paint presses from Michael's though the artists, loved ones I just picked up a plaque. They're pretty great. I love a synthetic brush. You can't go wrong.
When you're picking out a brush you want something that is feels good in your hands. I sometimes like a longer brush, then you can kind of play around with your brush strokes. But you know when you're picking out a brush pick something that feels good in your hands. You can't go wrong.
So I got a couple of those. Okay, so let's go into our mediums. So the first thing in that we're going to be using for mineral spirits is Gasol
And it's right here. It's fantastic. I love it. I already have the same jar that I was using from last week if you weren't with us. All I do is to stick it into a jar with a lid.
And that's it. And you can just use like a jar that you have at home, and it's okay if it looks a little it got a little shaken in the car. But what happens
Is over time, all of the pigment. Here, I'll show it to you in this camera all the pigment settles down. Okay. And then if you want to, if you have
If you're have a good practice is you take another jar and you just dump in the clear any leave the mud and then you can wipe it out. And that's it. And then you have the clear
Minerals pros leftover or you can just use it like this. Like, it's not a big deal. That's the one thing is that there isn't a lot of like, you can just go with the flow with this. Okay, so we have the GAM saw and then. Today we're going to be going over refined linseed oil.
Good light and the solvent free gel that comes in your gambling.
So you don't even have to get it, it already comes with it so you don't even have to worry about it. Okay, so let's just learn a little bit more about it. So when you buy your oil paint to it already has linseed oil mixed into the pigment. Okay. And so what linseed oil does is
Let me just make sure I have all my notes because I want to make sure you have all the right information that you need.
Okay, so what the linseed oil does is that it slows your drying time. Okay, so this is something you don't need a lot of
What I use it for in my studio is I just put a little dab in the corner and add it if I need to. But some people use their mineral spirits and put a little bit of this in it and
You know, you can just play around with it. So it's just if you need a little bit of extra it like gives it a little bit of extra flow and also if you want to slow down the drain time
Okay. Go could like, so a lot of people use this to
Make your the oil paint dry faster. Okay. And I use it the same exact way that we just talked about. I sometimes put a little dab in the corner and then I just add it to
My brush and my paint and it increases the flow my knowledge is super basic of all these mediums and you don't really need to know a ton of stuff about mediums, in order to play so permission granted to play for sure. Okay.
So let's get into this one solvent free gel. Okay, so this is the Big Mama, too. But, but we have the little baby tube that comes in the pocket.
But this tube is going to last you so long. Like, you don't need you don't really need the big tube until you're ready for the big tip. So don't even worry about the big tube yet. Okay. So what this does is
It.
Let me see. It has thicker paint and add gloss and it's kind of in the middle between the linseed oil.
And the alcohol light. So it's kind of a medium flow. Is that right, Pete, I just want to make sure I have it right so you have one that is
The slow drying one that's the fast and then the solvent three that's right in the middle. Is that right, correct and solid FREE. GEL as a body to it. So it's been helping make these kind of luscious, juicy parts and
Forth, whereas both the seed oil calculate. Oh, kind of Flint and now your remarks and smooth out the surface of your pain. So if you like a little texture.
Consider the salt free jail if you want to speed up your driving more been considered the Galton light and the refinements oil is that you know Peters.
For six years. It's what's that all is that all just it's only been around for a few days 600 years. Um, okay. That's pretty cool. Okay, so we have all that. But I also want to show you guys. And you can get this on the Michaels.
Website and this is like your little FUN SIZE OF EVERY medium that is it. Every medium that Gamblin has to offer. Really be his most of them and it
Gives you a place to the spirit man feel the beings from the offer that have the most texture like a collection and those that are fist and fastest framing and it's a great value and it's as Eric mentioned it's available on my clothes.com
It's not in stores at the, at this moment, but it's easily available from the customer. Yeah. And you know what I love about this pack because I bought this pack.
Many years ago. And what I love about it is, is even though these are like little bottles in last you forever like it says everything you need in order to play and get started and find what medium speaks to you.
What I personally use in my studio practice is I have the linseed oil and I have the outcome and and I have been experimenting with the solvent free and that's been pretty fun last few weeks. Okay, so we have, we went over everything.
And you know if you have any questions, please let us know. We're just going to start painting and let's set up our palate. Okay.
So our palette. I just laid out all the colors. And so let's just put them out.
Okay and this is like my favorite thing. It's like putting it right on squeezing the to putting it out. Okay, so I have the owls crimson and then I have the cad red light right here.
I'm just gonna add a little bit and a little bit goes a long way. So you don't need a ton. You can always add more if you need to. Okay, had yellow light.
And look how buttery, that is. And so I think, Pete, you were saying last week that someone had a question is why did I pick oil paint versus all the other mediums and I think
The one thing is is I fell hard for oil paints, because as soon as I tried it, I was like, Oh my gosh, what have I been missing. First of all, because it's like
That buttery feeling and the way that the paint flows and there with oil paint and this is special to oil paint.
Is that you can spend it. You can pick it. There are a million different ways to play with it and you can make something that's custom to you.
And even though oil paint is an extremely old discipline. It's been around for many, many years, and
You know what's cool about it is, is there's a lot of different ways to do one thing, but it's super simple, like it's super simple and there's not really a wrong way to do something and you can change up your style and
Make something new and you don't always have to do something, you know, the same way twice if you don't want to
Okay, I just put the Ultra marine blue down
And then we'll put the black in the corner. Oh my gosh. Look how cute that palette looks you guys and I also got this palette. This is an artist left palette so you can also get that out Michaels.
I mean, they kind of give you everything that you need in order to get started. Okay, I'll put those up. Okay. And then we'll do a little bit of the gel right there.
Okay.
So it was my daughter's eighth birthday. And so I thought it would be fun to do birthday candles. So our theme for our party was
Unicorn puppy Pokemon.
The cake was a little obnoxious. I will admit, but she had like the best time and she wanted those Blinky Tick tock lights for her room so Mission completed.
We got her that cake and some lights and she was excited. Okay, so pick out your brush whatever feels good.
Okay, and then I just kept it in the mineral spirits. Okay. And I just like to do that just to kind of get the flow going alright so let's just do our starter sketching everybody
And you guys can do more than one candle, if you want to. I put a couple different candles and a little bit of cake. So, just have fun. Do what speaks to you.
I'm just going to do one so I can help answer any questions that you have. And then, okay, I just dived in the Ultra marine blue and then I'm going to do a little bit of Kevin light and that's like a purple color and I'm just going to do a little quick little sketch
Okay.
Here we go. I mean, the one thing I love about birthday candles. It definitely sets the mood, you know,
Okay. And, you know, feel free to sketch in any color. I mean, there's a lot of people have their color that they sketch with as usually a burnt sienna or cat read
But have fun. Okay, so let's get
My lines.
Going. How's it looking everybody
Okay.
Looks good.
Okay, and then I'm just gonna dip in the mineral spirits, and then I mean you use my paper towel and wipe it up.
Okay, so I'm going to show you how to mix black. We're going to do that first. But I just want to give you a little tip when we are going into block the color. I'm not going to get
I'm going to do it close enough to the candle, but not touch the candle, because we'll get to our edges later because the edges.
Is when you wanted to kind of take your time, so that you get your lines right so that it looks real.
Okay, so let's talk about mixing slack. So you can always pick your ivory black to mix or the fun thing about oil paint is you can mix your own and make your own recipe. So I'll share, share with you some of my recipes
And when I tell you how to do it. You can always use your finesse because when you mix color. It's not like baking instructions where you have to get it exactly 100% right
It's kind of like, you know, if you just try and experiment and get it close because something truly isn't like that black color.
Like blank black. It's usually like leans to warm or cool or maybe it has a 10th of a color. So feel free to experiment. Okay. And I'm going to get a little bit thicker of a brush so that it's a little less work for me.
Okay and I'm using what's artists left number two.
Okay, I have a nine artists laughing click around. Okay, so I'm just going to do a quick little dab alright so black. Okay, so I like this kind of black it's red. And this is just your complementary colors.
And you see like, so what I did was when I was mixing. I took 50% CAD read 50% green and I think it looks a little bit more Moroni, so I don't think I got it 5050 and you can just add a little dab of that green and just put it in and then you can just see if you get it right.
And this is one of my favorite blacks, but if you want
A little bit of blue and see what it looks like and see what you think.
And it's kind of like
I like that. What do you guys think
Okay.
So,
Let me just try a little bit of the solvent out. And this is when you can just start to play. And the reason why I picked the candle.
Is because when you want to experiment with mediums and you're kind of new to it, you can experiment and something that's like one full color so you can see how you like the flow.
Just like that.
Okay, so I thought, Pete, we could ask some common questions just to kind of
You know, because when I first started with mediums. I just like kind of bought everything and I winged it and I wasn't sure what everything meant
And then I was like, oh, maybe I do have questions about it because I'm kind of more of a feeler we're all just like jump in and try it and see what I think about it. So,
I guess my first question is what kind of mediums. Do you need to get started. And I'll give my answer and then Pete will give his answer because you know people like super technical and I'll just give you my answer from like a self taught person.
Okay, so what mediums, you need to get started.
The mediums that you definitely need to get started. Are your mineral spirits. Number one, you need it. Your mineral spirits is basically like your water component it thins the paint it increases drying time your damn self is fantastic. It's this is it. This is amazing. Do it.
Okay. No brainer. Okay. Um, the other thing I would recommend is getting that Starter Pack. But if you don't want to commit to that trying this out.
The solvent free gel and experiment a little bit with that because it comes with the kit and you don't even have to worry about it.
Then the next level is I think I would try the linseed oil.
Because then you can add a little bit to it because remember your paint to already has the linseed in it, and it might just need an extra little bit of boost. So what to, kind of, what do you think you need to get started, Pete. Honestly, I think you you answered.
People, if you're going to spend some money as you get started, spend your money on taller and
Yes, forever and always helping create what you want to create mediums are just here to help you go where you know their destination if enough themselves and so
It can find one that's working for you when you're getting what you want, then just keep going. And there's there's out of a to
Took to try a bunch of different ones. And there's they'll be in this can make you a better picture if there's no secret sauce, if you will. It's whatever works. You know what, there's no secrets.
Of course, there, there has to be at least one little secret. The secret is, is you get the Snack Pack and then you can try that. And so this, I want to do this weekend you guys is like I
Forgot about the cold marks medium and I'm so gonna try this weekend and experiment because you were telling me before we started that you can mix it and it kind of creates like a here, I'm just going to open that up because I want to tell you what happens.
Is you can mix it and it makes it thicker and so does that create like a like a. Is it like a frosting kind of texture very much in it meant to your colors very thick and very mad and for those that we did.
That texture to your work. It can be it can be a lot of fun. And you can also get
trills soon player like in caustic work if anyone's ever done caustic working. If you haven't, it's fine, don't worry about it, but
Callbacks is made from pure beeswax in it, and it really helps dial up the texture. If that's something that you're playing with your work.
Oh, and can you tell me. Could you remind me again what the solvent free Dell is made out of, because I think you were saying it's made from vegetables right for
The solvent free mediums. We offer the children. Eric has talked about. And there's also a solvent free fluid and they're they're made from plants.
One is the soybean specifically soybean oil, what can't SOYBEANS DO really right and and then the other ingredient is safflower oil, which is from breast
Pressed South Florida. And so when you're working with solvent free jail or you're working with solvent free
Fluid you are working with basically a vegetable oils like you have in your in your kitchen to cook with or 14 make
You know, a salad dressing. Okay, that's so cool though, because then you know that it's like coming from plants. And that's how it's made. And I love the buttery texture of it.
So how does everyone's painting. Look, are they liking that they're black that they made. And if you aren't feeling you're black.
You know, feel free to add some of the ivory black if you like don't like it but I always like not a true black. I like it where it's a little bit tend to work kind of leans
And it kind of makes it in my opinion, more special because you're kind of like what I'm doing is I'm going back and forth and kind of mixing my black with the green and the red and maybe a touch of blue
And I just kind of keep playing with my color because it doesn't have to be straight from a tube and that's what I love most about oil painting is that you can kind of play with the color, mix it up and
You know, it doesn't have to be like that street one color. It can you can kind of use your imagination and your mixing skills and make something unique to your, you know, style.
Okay. And the other thing I wanted to talk about is, um, can you mix mediums absolutely 100% so when you get this little fun path. It's like you can
You know, try a little bit of this, try a little bit of that. And what's cool is you can make your own recipe. If you want to
For a long time I mixed the Galpin and the linseed oil and I still go back and forth. So you don't even have to have just one thing that you use. You can play. So, P. I'm curious. What do you have on your easel. What do you use for your medium.
I don't use a lot of media they use a little bit of the solvent free Joe medium a lot just to loosen colors up and give them a little bit more flow and I tend to be messy. And so for me.
Joanie this great because my put it on my palace put in a fluid medium, obviously, doesn't it, and I get. I get sloppy. So, so, and free jealous real go to for me really does almost everything that everything needs and it does it. You know, completely safely.
You know, using plant based oil. So as we talk that's that's a favorite of mine and and then I really like khanfar or other founders, yes.
I know you'll be talking about that, in future, no. But that's the magic in a at the end of the month, we're going to be talking about vanishes. And honestly, once you
Like barnes's are so easy and so like they make your Penny magical. It is the secret sauce, but we'll get into that, but next week because you know I'm here all month
So every Thursday 3pm. I am going to be here with you painting.
And we picked a subject because we wanted to go over any questions that you're going to have when you start oil painting. And like I said, if you have questions, put them in the chat or feel free to email Gamblin or you can always reach out to one of us on Instagram.
There is no I have. Okay, look, I just want to be real with the guts. I have tried everything I have experimented and tried everything. And I have
Played with what works, what doesn't work. And to be honest, I always go for the simple route and that's what's awesome about oil paints, is that you just need like this. This setup and your mineral spirits and a paintbrush and you're ready.
And your surface. Don't forget, but you don't have to get something fancy like I have these fancy
Artists locked panels, but you could just do like the thin ones or whatever you have or even I painted for a really long time in like a watercolor sketchbook.
Right.
So just remember you guys let's not get too close to the candle with the black because your flame. I want it to look like the flame.
Okay.
And what I'm doing is just adding some cat red light and some more green my black and I just, this is what I do in my studio is I just make a big pot of like color.
And then I just keep adding to it and it's okay if it changes a little bit. It doesn't have to be always the same color. It can be tempted and that's when I think that it makes a painting more interesting when you see little swatches of different colors.
Okay, let's get into that.
I just dropped my mineral spirits are here. One more little dab. And then a little bit more of that.
So Pete, you mentioned getting messy. I am also very messy like this is very clean. For me, I usually like just get into it in my studio and I think
That's what's cool about it is, is they ever. You know, like I think you think of oil painters and you think that it has to be super tidy and pristine and it doesn't
You know, like, for me, I just like keep my, you know, little setup in this 10 and then it keeps all my paint together. So then it's not like getting on my table and stuff.
And I used to like use a, you know, apply 10 and I put my palette in there to keep my paints in there, but that's pretty much all I do.
All right, so we're really close. Okay, so your paint brushes probably super dirty. I'll give you a couple more seconds just to make sure that you're, you know, getting all your black slate in and I'll just touch up a little bit more
Okay, so I'm going to clean my brush. We ready. So I just dip it in here and it's okay that it's dirty water. Don't be afraid. It's okay.
Okay, Dad, look at it. See look, it's not about the color of the GAM saw it's about what your brush looks like like a still a little dirty, but it's like, you know, and then if I want to unfold and pull. And this is kind of what I do and this is just me pulling out the pain.
Just like that. And if it's not 100% clean, don't even worry about it. It's not that big of a deal. So I picked one candle today, you know, pick
Whichever color you want for your candle. Okay, so I'm going to do that blue candle. If you guys see it. And this is all ultra marine right here. And then I'm going to add a little bit of that.
Okay, look, I'm pretty
Oh, you guys did not remind me. I have no white on here. All right.
Look at it.
All right, it's just to show you, like, even though I love to paint white
Like with white and you thought this is probably gonna be the most popular type of paint that you get is that, you know, I tried to not use my white until I need to use my white because once your white gets into your color, then it's like, it's there.
Okay, so I just add a little bit of white
Little bit more, and just, you know, get whatever feels right.
Okay.
Oh, and I wanted to give you one more little pro tip for you guys with brush work. So as you can tell you're putting down your color. Okay, you see that
And what happens is is when you put your brush down on your surface the paint pushes up through
And if you roll your brush to the other side. You can keep using your brush. You don't have to go back and forth. So let me show you. So it's like right here in the camera. So you're dabbling and then when it's kind of dry you flip it and you do it some more.
Okay, how are we looking everybody. How is everyone's picture.
Do we have any questions that we want to do you see anything that you want to ask, Pete.
I can see people are working hard.
There's a shout out to a couple of our younger listeners Rena
And see plugging away.
And
ALBANY as well.
So that's terrific. But I see, yeah, people are focused and maybe towards the end. The last folks to. Okay, that's good. Yeah, we'll see that at the end. That was so cold Chelsea direct a minute ago, and I just missed it.
Oh what brush side. So I'm still using that number nine. But you know what do what feels good with you. So I'm just using a nine round.
Okay. And so what I did was I just cleaned my brush with the blue and I just did a little bit of color.
Now, and I put the blue around the flame. As you can see in the picture.
Now I am going to add the little wick, which is the black
Right there.
Well,
There we go. Okay, and
Here we go. And then what I'm going to do is a little bit more around. Oh, what do you do with leftover paint. Well, I just keep it out and I use it for next time.
What do you do with your leftover pain. There's personal fun. There's a lot of options with it.
One of them is just a scrape it makes it and save it as a neutral way to use it here mixtures.
Full idea. Make your own gray. A lot of people do that, put it in an airtight jar. That's something for their next training session so nothing's
Nothing's wasted putting it in the refrigerator will slow down the drive time. Okay. And it's another thing people do sometimes covering the saran wrap sometimes not.
But, but I would say those are sort of the main options, you're lucky enough to have empty tubes. You can mix that together and put it back in it too.
But, but you know what jar. A small jar was works just fine. So I saw something really cool and I have to share this with you, Pete, since we're talking about mediums this week.
What I saw was someone, what they do is when they're done with their and this is if you want to want to. You don't have to do this by any means. It's just one person's techniques.
What they did was they took their leftover paint and they put it in a little mini glass jar, but then they added
The linseed oil so that it stays fresh because remember your linseed oil is already in your tube. This is just if you need it to kind of extend the life
So, or, you know, slow down during time. So I thought that was kind of cool because what he did, did was for every tube, he would do that with so that it would make it last way longer which just shows you how long one little to paint can really go
Okay, oops actually made that a grey. Okay, so what I was doing was adding the white part to the candle.
And so I just took my titanium white. And I just added a little tinge of the blue. And there we go. And let's try a little bit more media to thicken it up. And what I'm going to be using mostly when I get the top layers going is using that solvent free so that can
thicken up and lay on top. It looks so what was that word juicy layers. I'm excited to try that. Okay, so let's do our candle.
You know what I have to say, my favorite thing about one of my favorite things about having kids, besides that they're amazing is like the birthday parties because I love like the birthday cake and the birthday pizza.
Right, like I kind of get the extra large take so I could have extra
And my kids get so mad at me because they thought they found like for Nora's birthday, they noticed that I had a little fork next to it.
And so the next morning they check to see how much, how many nipples. I took during the night when they were asleep. It's really true, because I got confetti cake.
So delicious. Okay, so I added my white and look how pretty. And now I'm going to show you how to mix up your flame I clean my brush really quick. Okay. And then I'm going to dry it up. Okay. So for my candle. So you're black is here. So what I do for my flame is I take some white, little yellow
And then if you want to get super fancy just a teeny touch of green just like super tiny.
And then add it to it, maybe a little bit more. Because remember, it's easier to add a little and versus like dumping it in. It's hard to go back. So it's either do it that way. So I have my candle color and then I just put it on top like that.
And I'm going to add the thicker layers afterward. I'm just kind of making sure that my candle stays nice and
Like the flame stays nice and hot looking
All right, I have a shape I like okay so now clean my brush. Okay, so do remember what I said about how we left this white around the edge and now we're going to go in and fill in our black. So I'm going to go back to that black
And then what you want to do is just take your time and just go around.
And test. Take your time. Don't even worry about time for what we're doing.
Because I don't want you to go to that candle or you want to keep it nice and it's okay some of your line show because we're going to do another layer on top.
So that it lays on top. Okay.
And I'm just getting real close and when I do to get really close on my edges. So I'm adding some black and some can read and I really like that touch a blue. So what I do is I kind of start far away and then I come in.
I just
We're coming to mind.
And it's okay if it's not perfect. We don't need a perfect candle. We're gonna
Go back to my black mushroom.
Get around that Cabo
And then I'm kind of going back and forth with my brush like I was talking to you about before, because so when I'm going like this.
Like when I'm going, I'm going to show you here because I want you to really this is honestly like saves me so much time.
Like I'm pushing the paint and the paints coming up. And then when you're when it gets dry like what I was doing. Then you just flip it like that. You don't have to go back and forth so that simple. So then I just roll it with my thumb.
This is one technique I wish they would have taught me sooner because I would have saved me so much time. Okay, so a little more green, a little bit more red. Don't worry about getting messy permission granted to like make a big mess on your palate.
Okay, so let me get that edge.
Very good.
Okay, just want to be careful around that flame, because I don't want the black to get in there.
And this is how you kind of keep the colors, you know, true, especially the white. That's what it's just eat this is, this makes your life easier and keeping that true
Color
Or not color because there's white technically a color, Pete.
White is the unification of all
Technical. Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. What's the technical because it's like you know how they say like, you know, for numbers zero. Is it a number because it's like not a number. It's like zero
I think Erica made a great point about edges and having them be okay with them being imperfect.
The, the, a lot of times people will smudge it and in places on this and leave it crisp in other areas. And if you're trying to create something that looks a bit more realistic or a bit more emotional having those edges. People will sometimes call them Lost and Found edges.
Helps if things look too perfect. They don't really look right in. And that's because our brains as humans can't
See everything around us with an equal amount of focus. So the focus point of your painting, whether it's that
That wick or wherever it is for you. That would be the area where the things are most clear and then
Areas away from that would be the ones where they might be more blurry. And these are all tips that you're free to take her me as you wish, but it's something that I've learned in
It's sometimes helpful but smearing it with with with with the tip of your pinky sometimes helps to get the book that that your
Pinky. Okay, so I just want to really quick. I'm going to do the flame. And what I did was I made a big so I'm took a big
Blob is that the technical word a big glob of the solvent free gel and I put it into my white and yellow and adapt the touch of green and I'm just mixing it up and trying to
Get the flow right there's a lot of green, but that's okay look
There right here. This is what I wanted. All right. So get the color that you want and I want it super thick.
And it's okay if my edges touch here because if you look at the photo reference it kind of blurs out a little bit. Right.
But I want to be careful not to pull it to the middle because if I pull it to the middle. It's like, you know, the flame is in the middle, not you know you don't want that gray. Okay, so why
One other we mentioned tips on on what to do with the leftover pain and re sometimes what what we do is use that that leftover Greg. Next up, and Pete the sides of these panels like Eric is going
To put them on the wall, and it looks more finished without framing you without having to get a bunch of war paint out just to paint the size of your panel.
Okay, that's cool. That's a cool little tip. I like that. And you guys do. Can you tell us about the toward great thing, and that might just be a local thing, right.
Sure, so we we make a color every year called tore it. Great. Okay. That's right, tore it and that is a mixture of all the elements that we filter out of the workplace way from our
Master peacemakers we mix it into a pain in the course when you mix all of our opinions together you get gray and then you give that
Way to artists that read here in the, in the early spring time so you can make your own tour of raid.
As we talked about a few minutes. Yes, by mixing up what's left on your palate afterward after we're done today. That's so cool.
So do you guys keep one like at least one to have for like the, you know, keeping the history of them so that you have at least one out of, you know, like how many years has it been, it's been
No, we actually can't quite perfectly. Remember, but it's close to 20 years. Oh my goodness, that's crazy do save tues but the end up giving them away because okay two friends that that didn't get there to in a given year. Okay.
I know. And let me tell you they're hard to come by. I know that I've tried to track them down. And they're like, we're out we're out
We don't have any. Okay, so what I did was I added like a Touch of Gray to the white here, but I just want you to kind of have fun with the colors that you laid. Okay, so that's what I'm doing. I'm just doing some touch up now.
Okay, someone to clean my brush all the white
help everybody likes their candle. I mean birthday candles are like, I don't know. They're just so fun. Is anyone if anyone's up for it. If you want to hold up your key.
Fabulous.
Tea. I see yours candidly, I like the multiple candles arena that keep a great Jessica and I can see yours in Chelsea nice I like those two in teacher, Laura. I see your candle.
Fantastic. Oh my gosh, that
I'm sorry if I said your name wrong, but that's a really great candle, you got there and Kira that lost a tooth.
Senior and and you get to get some notes with you and your candle. What's fabulous two terrific that's mom and who else more rain Hurley like yours. Holy cow. Lots of color and texture and Mirabelle I can see miracles going to create an earthy background.
Warm kind of ground. How many, how many, how many teeth in your blog. Hold up your fingers. How many teeth in the last recently is that Kira Kira that lost a tooth.
Okay, we lost you.
That's okay. That's a great week pretty lucky and he Collins or F Collins, I can see yours, that looks terrific.
Already your back.
You took a break. Oh.
Terrific to see so many of you guys.
I know directly can be hard to keep up with it.
You know you. There's, there's, we've got nothing but time these days. And so you can always come back to these another day. Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
For you to keep working after it's totally up to you just do it at your own pace. You know that's fun thing to and
Since they don't dry right away. You know, like let's say you want to go get dinner or have a snack or take a break can do that too. And you're painting still wet so you can look come back and play some more.
So arena, who's one of our younger painters maintenance that she's lost wealth teeth. What, which sounds like my 12 year old daughter Bitsy said blossoming
Surprise. I have any left. Oh, how many teeth. Do you lose anyone know the answer. I mean, you lose like your whole, I guess you lose your whole set right like
I think my daughter is that
She's just lost. I want to say six teeth and then my son has not lost any yet but we just went to the dentist and he said that boys lose their teeth later than girls do
So, and he but he's really pumped and keeps telling me he thinks they're wiggly
And what we do at our house. So, get this, okay, we do the Tooth Fairy door. So I got a like adult or and I sprayed it with glitter paint and it's the door that the Tooth Fairy comes through at night because my kids are such light sleepers that
You know that we put it by the door, so I don't have to reach under the pillow.
But the last tooth, my daughter was set a trap to try to catch the tooth fairy.
I know I'm in trouble so
She's my kids are on me. Okay, so let's get to that middle of the week right here. And so I'm just going to go around them a look at my reference and I'm going to do a little bit of black
Or the black that I mix, but you can use the every block, if you want to. And then I'm going to use a teeny bit of yellow in the corner here and a little touch of white will touch more
And then go around and you see. And if I want. If you want to get even fancier. You can add that little shade around
And just kind of do these long delicious strokes like this is like my favorite part is when you can kind of add the details.
It makes it a little bit more realistic.
Okay.
Here we go. What do you guys think okay and then even though in the reference photos. It looks like the wick was a little bit more like up in there and you can be more realistic if you want to
Get it there.
And then I didn't even clean my brush. I just wiped it right there because it doesn't matter like you. Can I just want a little bit of color.
And then add my
Little bit of red
And then
You can see that I had my money brush and I just dumped it in the white because I want to make this like play with my edges and this is what Pete was talking about, like, this is the easy way of playing with your edges without
There we go.
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And what's coming. And that's kind of so exciting. So it's not just the same thing. So if you, you know, you can see what colors. They're working on what they're working on behind the scenes. And I just love that.
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Alright, so we are just about ready to wrap up, you guys. We have a few more minutes left, is there, how are you. How are you guys looking look like are they working. Are they working hard, they're doing terrific go good
Hi Jessica just saw that by the way in which you're
Terrific.
Around there to the halo that's terrific.
And just a quick little tip you guys, so like I think my candles too thick, so I'm just, I did it in the black and then I'm pressing really hard. And then I'm just going straight down. I'll be I see yours to fun
The question came from Pat about painting the size of your panel and of course that's optional that just an idea. Yeah, that's super great. And he asked women do it. And I'd say, definitely do it after you're
Done it. Okay, so this is how I do it. Okay, so this is like totally not professional but it kind of is because I'm a professional. Right. So this is what I do. Even okay so I take it and I'll just show you guys.
I lift it and I just put my hand here, and then I paint it. And then I take a super camp and I set it on a suitcase, like so, like this is like similar shape right so it's just like this, and then I'm just really careful and then it's like that.
And then if I don't want this to be on the canvas part I'll put it, I'll put a little
See if that works like that.
But you can do it just like that. I mean, I would recommend having the stripe first. But that's what I do is usually a suit can or I'll put a little board on top and then because I don't like it, laying on the surface, because then it's harder to pick up
Because sometimes you don't know if it's all the way dry and stuff. And it just kind of lets it air dry.
Do you paint your edges black or gray, Pete. Generally, yes, give you a good reason for why you should do it that way, you should do whatever feels good for you. Well, I have a collector that she's commissioned several pieces for me. And she always wants the edges blue
Always this ultra marine blue. It's our favorite. So I think you could always paint like your favorite color. If you want to or use your leftover paint or some people. If you want a more classic look you do the black all the way around the edge.
But it's totally up to you. So next week. I want to talk about what's happening next week. Next week, we're going to be going over color mixing, which is my favorite.
color mixing is probably my number one favorite, favorite thing about oil painting because
It's like recipes you could just go down the rabbit hole and have so many so much fun playing with color. It is the best
And there is so much to learn. But it's like you just have to have a basic. It's so basic at the same time. So it's super fun.
And then the following week we are going to be doing. We're going to be kind of tying a bow on our
All of our classes and talking about what happens after my painting is finished drying. So we're going to be talking about the varnishing how to wire a painting, which is super important.
Because, you know, it kind of. It's the stuff you need to know to complete your work and to have it be all finished.
So yeah, so I'm super excited for next week, the link should be upon Michaels to sign up for next week. I'm also going to be putting it up on my Instagram as a swipe up for you guys.
And I think Gamblin does that too. So stay tuned for more. Yeah. Is there anything you want to eat this for there's a few folks asking, but our last class. If you missed it.
All and Michaelson that Erica and then this one is should be up by maybe someday. If you want to go back through and and go over something again and then just a special shout out to the team in India for getting up at three
And Kelsey, I see your painting to you've had it up for a while there another green candle that came. Oh my gosh, yes. We want to see him.
On social media. Also, and I asked a ton of times last week, like what is the hashtag that you use. You want to hashtag and make it with Michaels.
At and then you know tag gambling and because I want to see. I want to see what you're making because that's what it's about. This is what gets me excited about painting. I love seeing what you're making and creating. Let's see.
Jessica and teacher, Laura. And then, Pete. Isn't this cool they did this in like what 45 minutes to an hour. Like, how cool is that, yeah, yeah.
And you know what, here's an idea for you guys, if you want. If you love this, which I obviously love birthday cakes and candles there and my work is you could take these Minis and just do a simple different lens.
And then have it be like four or five on a wall if you want to. I think that would look super cool.
Well, thanks everybody. We look forward to seeing you next week and
Really fun painting, together with you guys. All right. Bye guys.
