Oil Paints - What Colours and Which Brands Should You use

In this oil painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you what colours and which brands of oil paint you should use.

When you walk into any art supply store, you will find hundreds of colours and many different oil paint brands. If you are a beginner and you do not know what you are looking for it can be hard to know where to begin. In this latest video in his series on art supplies, Alex talks about all the different kinds of oil paint brands that there are and he tells you which he thinks are the top oil paint brands and which are the best oil colours for painting.

He also completes a Plein Air oil painting, using a limited palette of primary colours, to show you how you do not need a lot of expensive colours in order to produce realistic oil paintings.

0:00 Intro
0:40 The 3 Different Grades of OIl Paint
1:26 Student Grade Paint
3:10 Mid-Range Artists Grade Paint
4:00 High Quality Professional Grade Paint
6:41 Plein Air Painting with a Limited Palette
11:06 Making Sure You Use Enough Paint
15:44 Painting With a Palette Knife
18:02 The Properties of Different Pigments

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 Essentials of Colour Course visit:
https://www.patreon.com/simplifydrawingandpainting

To See Alex's other tutorials on mixing colours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yOKITICrc&list=PL55WW9WXRbt_O64_7kuzPhNWp3yiazAP2

For more info on the Master Class oil paint range by Nevskaya Palitra of St. Petersburg:
https://www.craftystudio.ie/shop/master-class-professional-quality-oil-paint/

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