Oil Painting Mediums - When, Why and How to Use Them

In this oil painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras talks about oil painting mediums, when, why and how to use them.

We have this idea that oil painting mediums are some sort of magic ingredients that hold the secret to succesful painting. We have inherited this notion from rennaisance times, when artists used Glazing techniques. Artists would use oil painting mediums and techniques for glazing, in order to make their colours transparent. Their oil painting medium recipes where often closely garden secrets.

If you are not using glazing techniques, but are instead working directly in oil paint or Alla prima, then oil painting mediums do not play such an important role. In fact, you can most definitely paint without using any medium at all. However, there are some circumstances in Alla Prima oil painting, when you may choose to use oil painting mediums and techniques. So, in this video Alex explains when these situations might occur and he shows you how to use oil painting mediums.

0:00 Intro
2:00 What is a medium?
2:14 Solvents
2:57 Linseed Oil
4:05 The Fat Over Lean Rule
4:55 Sinking-In
5:52 Oil Painting Mediums Recipes
7:44 Using Mediums In All Prima Painting
9:46 Linseed Stand Oil
11:30 When and Why I use a Medium
12:06 How to Use Oil Painting mediums
13:58 Retouching Varnish

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.

For Alex's courses on the fundamental principles of oil painting visit:
https://www.patreon.com/simplifydrawingandpainting

Here are some of Alex's other videos on the fundamental principles of oil painting.

Drawing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tI9wNeloc&t=5s

Light and Dark Tonal Values:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDLyGzi9Tk&t=5s

Colour temperature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yOKITICrc

Colour Intensity & saturation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ozcDjAg1ag&t=222s

Or connect with Alex:
https://www.instagram.com/alex_tzavaras/
https://www.facebook.com/simplifydrawingandpainting
https://twitter.com/alextzavaras
http://alextzavaras.com

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