Choosing Paints for Oil Painting

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Vince Fazio and I'm here to talk to you from the Sedona art center about one session oil paintings. Basically, you don't need a lot to do painting, but you can end up with a lot, but I'm going to go through some basic stuff. For a basic palette, I tend to like cool blue colors, I use a lot of blues. I have ultra marine blue, which is the coolest blue, it has a bit of a purple to it, cobalt blue. I use a Sicilian blue hue, which is great for skies, it's a bit like manganese blue, not as toxic though. So there's a number of blues. A traditional palette, a full spectrum palette will have two blues, two reds, and two yellows, so you have a cool and a warm of each of the primary colors. That was cadmium red light, which is the warm red, alizarin crimson will be the cool red. And I'm keeping this palette pretty limited, so I'm not going to have a real cool yellow. This is cadmium yellow light, and then I'm going to go right to orange. The white is titanium white, and I am going to add one other color, which is viridian. Viridian is going to be the one green, but I mainly use it to make black. Mixing it with the alizarin crimson will create a black, and you get a variety of blacks that way. You get a black that's a little more green or a little more red, a little more warmer or cooler. Titanium white, and we need mineral spirits with that. We need a razor knife is great for cleaning the palette. I'm using a glass palette. That's a very smooth palette. You can clean it off in the middle of a session and start over."