The Pig-Faced Orc
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Hello Wappellious,
I've spoken a few words to you in YouTube comments (as well as this forum), and also subscribed to your Twitch. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to catch you due to time differences (and for some reason, I don't get notifications when you're live - I guess because it's 2am).
I have a couple of questions...
1. What is the pallette you are using in your videos? It kind of looks like some kind of wet palette.
2. How useful are transparent paints ... in fact, a few words on paint opacity in general would be helpful. When I first started experimenting with oil, I bought a few colours without knowing what I was doing, and they're all transparent. But they actually don't seem to be that transparent. In fact, some of them are more opaque than the ones labelled as "semi transparent" or "opaque".
3. You said in one video that things like yellows in oils are more opaque than darker colours. That has not been my experience, even my "opaque" Cadmium Medium Yellow Hue" is very transparent. Maybe I just put too much thinner it or? Or is it because it's a Cadmium Hue instead of the real deal? You can see in the photos how transparent my "opaque" labelled cadmium yellow hue is...
This is how I mixed my paints ... I put each bottle about 40% full of thinner and then squeezed the tube in until they were full and then shook the hell out of them. Interestingly some came out really thin and others still quite thick. I guess it depends on the actual pigment.
These are my opaques (primaries right, mixed secondaries left) ... you can see how transparent that yellow is!
Also ... damn it's hard to mix purple. I thought it was just red and blue? lol. That seems to always turn out brown (as you can see in my mix). I gave up and bought a violet one that hasn't arrived yet. The red is also very dominating, to make that "orange" I had to basically use mostly yellow and just a bit of red and it's still turned out red-orange at best. All learning stuff.
These are my "transparent" paints. I think they have surprisingly good coverage, some better than the "opaque" ones, so I dunno what that's all about.
These are some brown shades I mixed together with left-overs. I use a lot of browns.
This is the first model I've painted in entirely 100% oils (except for the undercoat). It's a very old and very small Lord of the Rings miniature. It was a test piece and will serve as a good reference to see how I improve going forwards.
I've spoken a few words to you in YouTube comments (as well as this forum), and also subscribed to your Twitch. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to catch you due to time differences (and for some reason, I don't get notifications when you're live - I guess because it's 2am).
I have a couple of questions...
1. What is the pallette you are using in your videos? It kind of looks like some kind of wet palette.
2. How useful are transparent paints ... in fact, a few words on paint opacity in general would be helpful. When I first started experimenting with oil, I bought a few colours without knowing what I was doing, and they're all transparent. But they actually don't seem to be that transparent. In fact, some of them are more opaque than the ones labelled as "semi transparent" or "opaque".
3. You said in one video that things like yellows in oils are more opaque than darker colours. That has not been my experience, even my "opaque" Cadmium Medium Yellow Hue" is very transparent. Maybe I just put too much thinner it or? Or is it because it's a Cadmium Hue instead of the real deal? You can see in the photos how transparent my "opaque" labelled cadmium yellow hue is...
This is how I mixed my paints ... I put each bottle about 40% full of thinner and then squeezed the tube in until they were full and then shook the hell out of them. Interestingly some came out really thin and others still quite thick. I guess it depends on the actual pigment.
These are my opaques (primaries right, mixed secondaries left) ... you can see how transparent that yellow is!
Also ... damn it's hard to mix purple. I thought it was just red and blue? lol. That seems to always turn out brown (as you can see in my mix). I gave up and bought a violet one that hasn't arrived yet. The red is also very dominating, to make that "orange" I had to basically use mostly yellow and just a bit of red and it's still turned out red-orange at best. All learning stuff.These are my "transparent" paints. I think they have surprisingly good coverage, some better than the "opaque" ones, so I dunno what that's all about.
These are some brown shades I mixed together with left-overs. I use a lot of browns.
This is the first model I've painted in entirely 100% oils (except for the undercoat). It's a very old and very small Lord of the Rings miniature. It was a test piece and will serve as a good reference to see how I improve going forwards.
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