Paintfag thread - Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gauche, styles, time periods, palettes whatever about paint

[AbyssStarer]

So, I noticed before we don't really have a thread for painting here, and have been wanting to make one for a while.

What kind of paint do you use?
What color palette do you use?
What's your favorite?
Who's your favorite painter of style in history?
What's your favorite period in the history of painting?
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on?

I have worked with both oils and acrylics. Acrylic is cheaper but oil is more fun for blending. I like to paint in an impasto style but my teacher taught us alla prima with a burnt sienna base with linseed oil.
The palette I use for oil isn't too special, but I use transparent gold ochre and transparent red oxide and van dyke brown instead of black.
I don't know if I have a favorite painter, there's many wonderful painters through time, but I appreciate Bosch and Frans Hals as well as Chihuly.
(The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch. This painting is huge and very amusing)
the image is ginormous so I'll link a large version. It's worth it to look at the details, trust me

Btw, the little dude in the corner of hell has music on his butt; this is what it sounds like.

Baroque paintings are nice, as well as pre-renaissance, such as Bosch.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I don't know shit about art, but I did work at a Lowe's paint department for over a decade, so I know a decent amount about paint itself.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

What kind of paint do you use? - Menses
What color palette do you use? - Light pink to dark brown
What's your favorite? - Deep Crimson
Who's your favorite painter of style in history? - Marina Abramovich
What's your favorite period in the history of painting? - Last month's 'visit'
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - Nothing I own is valuable

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Freestyle rectal paint based spirography is the purest form of self expression. That and this video as all you really need to know:

@AbyssStarer your problem is that you are trying to paint with your mind when you should be letting your ass guide the brush.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

What kind of paint do you use? - Oil and watercolor
What color palette do you use? - oof, mainly i use light\medium yellow, ochre, english red, couple shades of blues and some brown. And titanic white, of course. As for watercolor, i have very big palette.
What's your favorite? - OCHRE. you want to make your art 10 times cooler? add ochre. Your art doesn't feel right? Add ochre. Ochre is such a nice color, it makes everything better.
Who's your favorite painter of style in history? - Picasso
What's your favorite period in the history of painting? - hmm, period of cubism and constructivism, i would say.
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - i have few oil still alive's. I need to draw more, but at this moment i have no place for oil painting

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

What kind of paint do you use? - Nearly everything, I mostly use acrylic and watercolor but also oils and gouache.
What color palette do you use?- I don't think I have a really consistent palette, for a while everything had a lot of purple but I've moved away from that and seem to use a lot of earthy colors. I'm not great at watercoloring so everything ends up a little brown.
What's your favorite?- Acrylic and watercolors are more convenient for me to set up but I feel like oil paint is actually easier to work with.
Who's your favorite painter of style in history?- Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Bisley, Gil Elvgren, Ed Repka, Frank Frazetta.
What's your favorite period in the history of painting?-Baroque and Mannerism for the older stuff, pulpy book cover stuff for the newer stuff.
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - My phone and tablet because I use them for reference images, a lot of my clothes, the carpet due to me knocking over a water bucket, and both of my cats.

Spoiler: fine farts

Acrylic on a floppy disk

Watercolor and gouache

Acrylic ( I forgot to get a good pic of this before it was donated to a fundraiser, so this image was taken off of instagram, hence the two dots at the bottom.)

Recent acrylic mixed media thing

Watercolor

 

[AbyssStarer]

I use oils and teach acrylics, but most of my stuff is elsewhere on the internet so I can’t share without doxxing myself.

I reference John Singer Sargent for the most part and try to stick with the Zorn Palette as a foundation. Otherwise I lose consistency with my colors. I do sometimes swap out ivory black for burnt umber + ultramarine because it feels more comfortable.

Most of my whites are the fast drying alkyd titanium white, but I’m trying to get better about using lead more often since it isn’t so chalky. I opened my tube of flake white last night, for the first time in a couple of months. I’m just so messy that I suspect I’m slowly poisoning myself.

My paint instructor has leukemia, he hinted that it's from some of those paints, especially cadmium red. Since his condition is irritated by paint thinner we've learned to use linseed oil as a brush cleaner and oil soap if the paint gets in anything. It actually works pretty well. I got paint on some of my SO's clothing and scrubbed them with oil soap to get it out.
I got a tube of cadmium red but I want to get something else when the tube runs out; it stinks and if I happen to get a lot on my skin it feels weird. I don't like the idea of getting cancer because of a hobby.

 

[AbyssStarer]

I haven't seen too many good painting channels on YouTube, but I've heard good stuff about Watercolor by Shibasaki. he's a Japanese man but his videos usually have English subs.

Channel
Here's a sample video

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

What kind of paint do you use?
Oil

What color palette do you use?
I have way too many pigments and I use different combinations for every painting. Right now I have titanium white, Mars black, burnt sienna, thalo blue, prussian blue, cad red light, quinacridone red, quinacridone rose Indian yellow, ochre, and some specialty pigments on my palette.

What's your favorite?
Abstraction. I have classical training, I can do a realistic painting like it's nothing, but I don't find it as challenging, engaging, or interesting as making abstract work.

Who's your favorite painter of style in history?
Rothko, Gorky, El Greco, Bonnard, Vuillard, Holbein, Kuniyoshi, Turner.

What's your favorite period in the history of painting?
Early-mid 20th century.

I got a tube of cadmium red but I want to get something else when the tube runs out; it stinks and if I happen to get a lot on my skin it feels weird. I don't like the idea of getting cancer because of a hobby.

Wear medical nitrile exam gloves while painting. You can buy them at any drugstore or on amazon. Not only do they keep paint from touching your hands, they also help everything else stay cleaner, since they're a physical reminder that you shouldn't touch anything you don't want paint getting on. They're a bit annoying at first, but you get used to wearing them quickly.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

What kind of paint do you use?

Oil.
I never much liked watercolor and acrylic is too harsh a mistress for me. Galkyd is an essential part of the kit though, it makes the oils dry faster while not harming their workability too much for a single session. It does put a timer on your work, though, so do be quick.
Galkyd Lite and Neo Meglip are good mediums to use if longer workability with still reduced drying times is desired. Purists can look to linseed, safflower, or poppy oils for their thinning media, but should expect week long drying times for those.

What color palette do you use?

Cool colors and earth tones tend to dominate my pallet for most landscapes I do.
Cerulean blue is a constant favorite and I almost never do a sky without it. Nothing comes close to its color in that regard.
Van Dyke brown is my go to earth tone for setting value/shadow areas when at the beginning of the layering process. Also helps that it's as cheap as the dirt if often ends up representing.
Sap green is a go to for plants but viridian has its uses there too.
While I like quinacridone magenta or ultramarine violet I often can't justify them for what I'm painting. Too vibrant except for flowers or sunsets. That said, I like signing in magenta, violet, or alizarin crimson.

What's your favorite?

A tossup among cerulean, Prussian, and ultramarine blues.

Who's your favorite painter or style in history?

Albert Bierstadt is probably the best among American naturalist painters from the 19th century. His works are what all landscape artists should aspire to.

What's your favorite period in the history of painting?

I love baroque paintings but I can't emulate that style to save my life. It's the realm of true masters.
Maybe someday.

How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on?

My printer has both latex and oil paint on it. I'm confident that my monitors also have hidden flecks of paint on them somewhere.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

@Mr. Skeltal
You might enjoy gouache if you don't like watercolor. The working process can be more similar to oil, since it allows for additive painting. If you do any kind of plein air work, it's way less of a hassle.

Spoiler: Sperg

It dries by the time you leave, paper is less bulky than canvas, you don't have to carry actual tubes of paint, just a portable palette. if you get paint on your hands and don't have immediate access to a place to wash them, it comes right off with a small amount of bottled water and a rag unlike oil. You don't have to carry any kind of solvent or medium except for a bottle of water, which you should probably be carrying already. You don't even need an easel if you can find a comfortable sitting spot.

When I go outside, my kit is just some sheets of 9x12 or 11x14 paper in a pocket folder, a masonite board and tape to lean on, brushes in a roll organizer, a portable folding palette, a wad of paper towels, a little spritz bottle for my palette, and 2-3 solo cups for water. Takes up about a third of the space in my backpack.

For me, the contrast between the two (heavy, matte, opaque gouache vs transparent, flowy watercolor) makes for some really fascinating effects. You only really need white and maybe a dark color or two if you already have watercolors, since they're completely compatible and mixable - the only physical difference between them is how the pigments are ground.

 

[SITHRAK!]

Time to learn the difference between ‘gauche’ and ‘gouache’.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

@Mr. Skeltal
You might enjoy gouache if you don't like watercolor. The working process can be more similar to oil, since it allows for additive painting. If you do any kind of plein air work, it's way less of a hassle.

Spoiler: Sperg

It dries by the time you leave, paper is less bulky than canvas, you don't have to carry actual tubes of paint, just a portable palette. if you get paint on your hands and don't have immediate access to a place to wash them, it comes right off with a small amount of bottled water and a rag unlike oil. You don't have to carry any kind of solvent or medium except for a bottle of water, which you should probably be carrying already. You don't even need an easel if you can find a comfortable sitting spot.

When I go outside, my kit is just some sheets of 9x12 or 11x14 paper in a pocket folder, a masonite board and tape to lean on, brushes in a roll organizer, a portable folding palette, a wad of paper towels, a little spritz bottle for my palette, and 2-3 solo cups for water. Takes up about a third of the space in my backpack.

For me, the contrast between the two (heavy, matte, opaque gouache vs transparent, flowy watercolor) makes for some really fascinating effects. You only really need white and maybe a dark color or two if you already have watercolors, since they're completely compatible and mixable - the only physical difference between them is how the pigments are ground.

That sounds pretty useful for plein air work but I'd have to get used to a whole new medium. Water most certainly doesn't behave like oil, though that gouche paint sounds intriguing.
Part of me likes all the fuss that goes with oil painting. It forces me to set time aside and just get lost in the process.

Goint to try a set of baroque painting principles soon, hopefully the result will look as good as the paintings I bother to underpaint.