This is the tutorial I've been looking for to get me from oil washes to oil paint application and blending. Thanks so much!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👏🏼 Thanks Justin !! Glad to help 🙃 shout if you have any questions!

Love ur sweet oils tutorial ,I paint minis in oils now for 2-3 years. Guys like Vince V. brought me into oils ,after that i joined the brotherhood of oil painter where James Wappel is a Pioneer.

@WitnessMyMinis

3 ай бұрын

Right !! 🤘🏼🤘🏼 the brotherhood 🤌🏼 James ❤️

I love this creature’s sassy “Talk to the hand” pose

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

haha ! now it can never be unseen

Great video. Love the wappelville reference

@WitnessMyMinis

Ай бұрын

Thank you ! Wappel 🤘🏼🤘🏼

I started painting some months ago with acrylics and yesterday I tried oil paints for the first time and I must say wow, I am a convert, instantly leveled up the look of my minis even though I am just a beginner.

@WitnessMyMinis

3 ай бұрын

So happy you had the guts to try it out ! 👏🏼👏🏼 good for you !

This is probably the best oil paint video I've seen, out of dozens. Thank you for everything!

@WitnessMyMinis

3 ай бұрын

Thank you that really makes me happy to hear 😊

Great tutorial, I've been painting with oils for years now and really enjoy them for minis, it's nice to see the community embrace them again. I think your advice on repeat use is great, practice will make them much less intimidating!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas !!! For sure 👍🏼 Means a lot that you took the time to write a comment 😊

One minor tip regarding using the same color in various spots on the model, always modify that color a tad bit wherever it’s applied. Reason being if you are doing a painting of a plain white wall, there will be subtle differences in hue no matter where on the wall you look. It will look flat if the same color is applied in various spots without modification IMO

@WitnessMyMinis

9 ай бұрын

👍🏼

Love this vid. Just picked up some oils and plucking up the courage to give them a try. This helps!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ! You are more than welcome to the discord if you want to share wips and ask stuff !

Loved the video. It's a great introduction to the medium. Especially the cleaning of the brushes.

The cult of oil grows, with our prophet wappell to lead us! all hail the one true brush

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah !!!

Gimme more of those oily tips. Great 👏🏻

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment ! Great to know people are still interested in oils ! 🙌🏼👌🏼

Great video Peter..excellent tutorial .. Excellent color scheme.

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Cindy ! :D

An excellent video. Thank you!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

thank you ! :) if you have any more questions come and hang out in the discord :D

Finally had a chance to watch it! Awesome work, mate! Gonna try those paper sheets and some techniques! We need to chat soon! Hope you are well! ❤

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks my man !! We really do !

Good one! Nice to see another member of the Linseed Brotherhood, and definitely a follower of Wappel. ;) I started using oils about a year ago after seeing a bunch of Wappel's videos and Twitch, and I'm absolutely in love with them. You covered the basics really well in this video. Another advantage of oils that I've found is that they will dry exactly the same color as they come out of the tube. Acrylics can often have a tendency to shift value just a bit as they dry, but you don't get that with oils. It's also much easier to get incredibly vibrant or dark tones with oils, and having an actually opaque yellow (Cadmium) is amazing to work with. Keep it up!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Brother!!! Wappel is the best 🙌🏼

@danthonyrobinson

Жыл бұрын

@@WitnessMyMinis he's a great painter, and super nice guy. Had a blast hanging out with him at last Adepticon.

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

@@danthonyrobinson ah you got to go ! That’s the dream ! 🥹 not at all jealous 😅

Great stuff, I understand you are not an native English speaker but there was a point at 7:59 where you said something which seemed important but I could not understand "sometimes when you paint ?????" eh?

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mate really glad you liked the video ! and you got me not native haha. I understand what you thought you missed, but its just my my stupid tongue having a hard time saying OILS . "sometimes when you paint with OILS you will notice ... "

Great video! I started using oils late last year, and love them...mostly. I love the long drying time and smooth blends possible. The downside for me, at least for now while I am learning, is teaching myself color mixing as well as matching over an entire army. If I was a display piece painter or had a 3D printer, I might paint more with oils, but I have armies to paint, and getting the consistency across an army when I need to mix colors is much more difficult for me.

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Brian! I totally get what you mean, it is possible of course but it in the beginning it lends itself the best to single minis , big monsters and heros that can stand out and not be totally locked down with scheme . If you do wanna try painting units with oils I would recommend doing all the minis in the same unit at the same time . At least the oil stage. I sometimes undercoat all the minis with a bright zenithal highlight and then go over with lots of oils to get variation on all the areas , a way to set the mood on the mini. then when all of them are dried you can go over with acrylics and get more interesting minis. Thanks again for watching and for the kind words on the video.

@brianv769

Жыл бұрын

@@WitnessMyMinis Yeah, I am trying some different stuff, including practicing on a set of spare Ring Wraiths since I actually wanted some variation among them (I was not happy with the first 3 I did...but it is practice). I also am finally getting around to using oils for weathering and washes...I have known about this technique for awhile even before I bought my first oils, but JUST tried this 2 months ago!! I should have started there! I am thinking of trying some of my heroes in certain games (MESBG, maybe AOS) in oils, but I think the 30k/40k I want a more consistent look, even with heroes. I will get there I think, it just takes practice. I dont have any art background, so mixing colors is completely new.

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

@@brianv769 nice I'd be happy to give feedback if you show me pics as you go along :) on IG or the Discord. just hit me up !

@brianv769

Жыл бұрын

@@WitnessMyMinis awesome, added to Discord!

Fantastic video, what was the song used during the showcase bit?

@WitnessMyMinis

6 ай бұрын

thank you mate !! don't remember what he song was called , but I use Envato its on there somewhere. Thanks again for watching and commenting !

I have a question! What colour would you use to preglaze under yellow, to achieve a yellow finish? Cadmium yellow is an opaque shade, so doesn't tint - and even if it did it would be too light really. Working with acrylics, a blue shade under yellow would look good, but with oils a blue preglaze under yellow gives me green. Which I guess is kind of obvious!

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

I usually go with Indian yellow it tints great , from there you can go in with bright yellows like pale and highlight , then shade it afterwards with an ochre or a contrasting tone depending on what effect you want !

So where did you buy those cups?

@WitnessMyMinis

26 күн бұрын

@@PerfectionHunter the plastic ones? Just at a dollarstore type vendor

I often hear people say you can go in with acrylics after the oil has dried, but then others say oils never fully dry and the acrylic WILL come off over time. How have you found acrylics over oils as far as staying power? IE: I often have to ship a figure and have always worried that if I used acrylics on top of oils the figure will arrive with paint flaking off. Also what do you use as a matt varnish? Great video btw, thanks!

@WitnessMyMinis

6 ай бұрын

yeah sean there is a lot of different mindset out there, but in my opinion and experience this is nothing to be afraid of. If you use artist oils and put them on thick then you will have a problem, they will take forever to dry. BUT , since we are painting minis , there is no need for that , we can use very small amount of paint. If you want them to dry faster I would use SC75 Floww , I haden't picked them up when I made this video, but so far I really like them . as for Varnish, I use AK Ultra Mat , it really takes care of any shine and blends acrylics and oils together if you are working with both. I've just this on my gaming figs that I've painted this way , and they've been absolutely fine for 2 years now with being handled normally for gaming pcs. Hope this helps ! Feel free to join the discord if you want to chat more , I'm around if you need any help . thanks for watching and commenting :) /P

do you need to varnish before you go in with acrylics? or is it enogh to let the oil dry?

@WitnessMyMinis

10 ай бұрын

It’s enough to let it dry but depending on how much paint you used and how much white spirits you used when removing it the drying time can vary , have that in mind even if you plan to varnish to be on the safe side . You don’t want to varnish over wet paint . If you plan to work with mat paints I would mat varnish before going in with acrylics to make sure I get the same finish and avoid any chance of frosting

I just finished my first oil paint figurine, how many days does it take to dry more or less?

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

It depends on a lot of things, how thick paints , heat in the room etc . Usually 2-3 days , but I’ve had it take 7 days to 😅

@andrem.musiek

Жыл бұрын

@@WitnessMyMinis thanks, will need to learn a new skill, patience 💪🏼

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

@@andrem.musiek haha 😆 yup !

Did you Prime it first?

@WitnessMyMinis

Жыл бұрын

Yup ! Black prime and the zentihal white ink

Has someone found a less wasteful way to clean the mini (especially in the Pre Glaze step)? You throw away so many make up sponges in this step.

@WitnessMyMinis

8 ай бұрын

Haven’t seen anyone do it in a smarter way yet, with that said the cost is minimal

@christianmadcow3018

8 ай бұрын

@@WitnessMyMinis As much as i love using oils and with the low cost of these sponges, it still bugs me. I'll try to clean the sponges with white spirit or linseed oil.

@WitnessMyMinis

8 ай бұрын

@@christianmadcow3018 smart !! Just make sure they are free of spirit if you wanna use them again ! So they don’t remove to much the next time

@frostreaper1607

7 ай бұрын

Just do slapshop it in acrilpaints.

@markpr73

7 ай бұрын

@@frostreaper1607Please explain. Half of your comment makes no sense to newbies.