Transparent Red Oxide has been my holy grail for portraits for about a year. I'm so glad that your spreading the word, cause this is the only color you really need for a simple portrait and an easy base for even more complex skin tones

The glasses really made a difference

Burnt siena and viridian is life changing

ugh would be so happy to join studio slew, im in chicago right now but thinking about Brooklyn a lot, previously a civil engineer but quitting everything to pursue art. it's pretty scary though, right now im just thinking maybe I could tattoo. It's hard and I just have a lot of admiration for you man, that you're doing the thing.

I tried the Transparent Red Oxide today after watching your video this morning, and I love it! I had to come back and say thank you!!!

Holding the brush like a conductor isn’t easy but I see the benefits of painting like that nice work

dude, I wish I had a quarter of your talent. this is next level! amazing work

thx for the good tips! Insane how much the glasses changed the face of Harry Potter.

The quality of ur vids man. Too good!

I follow Ken Goshens patreon (who I found through your podcast XD) and this is exactly how he recommended me to start with colour in oil, transparent red oxide black and white. although I couldn't find TRO so had to go with burnt sienna

Have you tried the burnt umber, UM blue and white pallet? You can make chromatic black and greys, as well as all the colour options and tones/hues. Love your progress, BTW. Been a subscriber since your early days. ✌️😊

Burnt sienna looks perfect for more yellow-ish undertones.

You had him with the initial mouth lines. So good! I'm definitely one of those people saying 'I'm too scared'...I really shouldnt be.

Always up for listening in on a rambling art rant ☺️ thanks for sharing the studio with us. I'm trying to break some nerves on moving to painting more faces. Appreciate the tips on reducing the pallet. Till next time

Hi, Slew. Thats quite impressive. I guess i have to try oilcolors too.

You basically took an underpainting, and upped the game! I’ve done Verdaccio underpainting before, also a black and white painting. What I love about doing that limited pallet, is that now the concentration is all on details, and not color choices. Well done! ❤❤

Transparent Red Oxide is terrific. Mot sure what white you are using however use it with lead white or Gamblins replacmeent version. Much better range for portraits than Titanium straight

Iam so happy and proud seeing u achieve all this and art school is woow...love u ur sub a yeaaars ago ❤❤❤

This seems really fun. I want to try it!

A tip if someone wants to try oil paints but the toxic components are a factor: try water-mixable oil paints. There is a lot of negative opinion about these, but they are mostly based on early chemical formulas. Modern paints like Talens Cobra or Schmincke Norma Blue are almost indistinguishable from traditional oils, the brushes and your hands can be cleaned with soup and warm water, and a limited palette like this (or my go-to palette with white, yellow, magenta, ultramarine, burnt umber) doesn’t break the bank. :-)

great video, as always!!!

one thing i found helpful with a ultra limited palette is to color match your lightest lights first to make sure you allow enough range through out.

Killer job bro thank for the inspiration an sharing

great work

It works so well ❤ I'd love to see characters from the other Hogwarts houses and only the house color plus black and white 😍

Slew is my inspiration 🤍

Back in 2020 my professor at cc always mentioned to me that I should try oil paints that I could like it since you have more work time I was always hesitant it wasn't until my last year at university in 2022 the other professor I had for independent study told me to try it out for the projects I was working on for my last semester little did I know I would love it and i haven't stopped using oil paints and found my niche

I thought it looked like Daniel pretty early, but I also have the advantage of seeing the thumbnail on the screen beside the video, so I could see with each early brush stroke, what it was to become. I tried zorn and I do want to try it again, but I made such a mess of it. I just couldn't get the tones right, and worse by not getting the actual photo right too. I tried Jenna Ortega as Wednesday and I couldn't capture her youth, she looked old. It is all just practice though. No one becomes a master without practice, even Leonardo dedicated a lot of his time to learning.

nicely done on young 'arry! thanks for the inspiration. 😻😻😻😻😻 5/5

I love it ❤❤

Wow!!!! ❤

I love Transparent Red Oxide, but I worry that beginners are going to be completely drowned by the tinting strength of that color. I also use it for a skin tone base, but heavily drowned into Yellow Ochre because TRO is so bonkers strong. A possible alternative for beginners is to check out Italian Terra Rosa--If Transparent Red Oxide is like super-strong Burnt Sienna, Italian Terra Rosa is like a weaker version. You can get excellent skin base tones with just Italian Terra Rosa and White alone. It's much weaker, so you go through it a lot faster, but it's more forgiving.

which white and black did you use?

Are you making the incredible outro music?

It looks very close to the zorn palette

So you did this in less than 2 hours..? Wow

Rad

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