5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a SELF-TAUGHT Painter
Starting out as a self-taught artist can be both exciting and challenging. Trust me, I've been there! I had to learn on my own, I went through all the mistakes you can imagine but I somehow managed to push through and now I am a full-time, professional artist. There’s a lot of things I wish I knew when I first started that could have avoided me a lot of wasted time and discouragement and also a few key principles that have significantly improved my ability to grow my painting skills on my own. Being self-taught is not easy, you have to deal difficulty of painting and the difficulty of being your own teacher, for many, this is just too much but fear not, you can do it if you have the right approach. In this video, I want share my experiences and talk about very important methods that helped me successfully learn oil painting by myself. Alright, let’s dive in.
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line (DIY)
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Sennelier, Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt, Blockx, Michael Harding, Gamblin)
✓ Titanium White PW6
✓ Flake White (or substitute) PW1
✓ Cadmium Yellow light (or "lemon") PY35
✓ Yellow Ochre PY42
✓ Raw Umber PBr7
✓ Transparent Red Oxyde PR101
✓ Burnt Umber PBr7
✓ Venetian Red PR101
✓ Pyrrole Red PR255
✓ Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Quinacridone Magenta PV19
✓ Ultramarine Blue PB29
✓ Mars Black PBk11
✓ Cobalt Teal Blue (turquoise light) PG50
✓ Phthalo green warm PG36
Brushes
✓ Filbert hog bristle and Synthetic sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Flat Synthetic brushes (same size)
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odorless mineral spirits
✓ Or Alkyd medium (Liquin, Galkyd, Flow'n'Dry etc.)
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Sponge and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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I'm self-taught and have figured most of this out in the five years I've been painting. One thing I have done which you didn't mention, was to keep all of your work/ photograph anything you sell, to look back on. Space can be an issue, so when my paintings are about 6-12 months old, if I don't particularly like them, I take them off the stretcher and hang them up in bunches on a trouser hanger, the type that has pegs on them. They are good to look back on at times when you think you aren't progressing because you can see how much you have actually progressed. I recycle the stretchers and often just paint on stretched cotton broadcloth or calico that I coat with four layers of gesso. I use these to practice new techniques to reduce the costs and I don't feel so bad if I mess them up. If I do something I like, it can always be mounted on board and framed. I have joined a local art society but unfortunately most are not oil painters, and I've ended up teaching others rather than learning much myself. I keep going mainly to be socialising with like-minded people who don't get bored with talk about art. I've been learning by watching artists on YT. At first I followed tutorials but once I started understanding a lot more about painting, I began to watch artists just painting with no instruction and now I'm watching videos that explain some of the master's techniques. Having painted for a while, I understand them a lot more. A word of caution on researching painting methods though. It's very easy to just do that and not end up actually do any painting yourself. In the beginning, its more helpful to try and paint something, research your difficulties and learn from your mistakes, or paint along on a tutorial. Eventually you find yourself skipping bits of the tutorial, knowing that you have a way that you find works better for you. The most important thing is to actually put paint on canvas.
Thank you for taking the time to create and share these videos. As a "work in progress" self-taught artist, your videos are incredibly insightful as I follow my path of artistic endeavors.
Great information. I am also self taught and other than the practising, I've done everything you've suggested. I will now add practise to my passion(s). It is like you've walked around my Studio area and recorded your show. Thanks so much!
The most important thing is to start! It's just paint.
I feel you. The good news is… You overcame your challenges. I’m still working on initiating how to paint again after the pandemic.
Being organised is so important especially when you are into multiple art interests
Thank you for another great and inspirational video.
Encore une fois, très inspirant. Merci M. Farges
Very good painting imformation.
❤❤ ty!
Thank you.
Glad I found your channel. Do you do in-depth tutorials?
1:39 Can you share what easel are you using? That would be excellent as I am only starting out and painting small. Would also be great at saving space!