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I haven't made that video....yet! You can do either but for me It makes sense to mix it into the colors when you first squeeze them out onto the palette. When using retarder you have to be careful not to put too much in because the paint can dry tacky, I think they recommend 30% or less. If that sounds like a pain there are slow drying mediums that you can add in any amount. For example, Liquitex has "Slow-dri" acrylic gel and fluid mediums.

When I clean off the brush that has soft bristles, I use a dry rag to wipe off the excess paint. When the bristles get wet the tend to clump together and I'm trying to avoid that.

Good question! I tend to think of it as purple. There's probably a bias to it but it's a decent purple to start with.

Thanks! I saw that but I haven't tried it out yet...it doesn't seem like it's widely available yet.

hello sir is that medium requires another medium or not?

@@kennethaquino8352 I'm not sure what you're asking....I think the medium mix 100 from cobra works the same way as the one I used from Schmincke in the video.

i mean is if you use Medium W mediumis do you need to used another medium like linseed oil or safflower oil to increase the flow sorry English is not my primary language

Once you add the Medium W, it works just water mixable oils. So for the first layer I would add water to increase the flow ans so that it dries faster. I only add oil or painting medium when I add additional layers, to follow the fat over lean principle.You would want to use water mixable linseed oil instead of regular linseed oil.

I assume you mean vinyl film... I haven't tried cutting vinyl with it .I Googled it and there are people who cut vinyl film with paper trimmers and even scissors...so I think it would work but you'd have to test it.

If you're asking about the risers then I assume that you're framing a flat panel so look for the floaterframe that says it fits flat and cradled panels up to 7/8" deep (which is what I used in this video). The deeper floater frames are for thicker canvases and panels. There's the thin edge and thick edge, I like the thin but that's just my preference! 🙂 The Ampersand website lists all of the different styles and colors.

@@ChrisBreier thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my comment!! If I wanted to buy my own ‘risers’ what are they called exactly? Google isn’t bringing up the results I want .

@@Erinba Oh, I see! I think something like a square wooden dowel might work. The ones that come with the frame are 15mm on one side and 19mm on the other.

No worries....no need to apologize! The thing to keep in mind about demos where they mix blue or yellow from other colors is the results are much less vivid and pure than the yellow that you would get in a tube.

Dorland's is quick and easy! As for using Spectrafix on oil pastels, did you use their final fix or the Degas fixative? I checked their site and it says the beeswax in the final fix doesn't work very well with oil pastels. They recommended the Degas fixative instead. I haven't tried it on oil pastels so I can't verify how well it works.

@@ChrisBreier It was the Degas. I only used it once. It was a sketch study, so I wasn't too upset about it. It didn't smear the work, but I can see where the individual droplets dried when I hold it up to the light. I picked up some cray-pas oil pastel varnish in Japan. I'll try that one or next time I play around with the medium.

You're welcome! And yes, there's always something to be learned by reading about (or watching videos of) artists working in various mediums...even if you don't work in the same medium. Books about oils, watercolor, gouache, etc include useful information about working with color schemes, composition, and simplifying subjects. Plus browsing through these books are a source of inspiration.🖌

@@ChrisBreier perfect…thank you again!! Appreciate all your videos and tutorials…super helpful and your art is inspirational!

The paint itself dries rather quickly. Relatively thin layers are touch dry in minutes and it seems fully dry in about 30 minutes. I only had an issue with smearing when I brushed on the natural glass too soon after spraying the painting with spectrafix.. So I would wait a day to let the spectrafix cure before applying the natural glass.

You might be interested in a video I recently posted where I tried mixing purple from 6 different types of red. Magenta produces a vibrant purple that's similar to Dioxazine. All of the 6 reds produced a duller purple like the one in this video. Here's the link ua-cam.com/video/IsoKgnh9jUY/v-deo.htmlsi=J-SOnJXC7xzRALun

@@ChrisBreier i understand there is no such thing as a perfect primary color so any color can be !ade you just use as to what is considered to be primary to make other colors I seen videos of different people mixing reds with blues and it makes good purples is a thing called color bias warm redds gives you dull brownish purples but if the red doesn't have yellow in it which is a warm bias it would make more purple than brown and dark muddy colors it's the same with green you should try to make a mixing green video if the yellow have red bias it would make dull olive green but if the yellow is cool or without red it makes better pure greens

Thanks Danny! The spectrafix spray works well for sealing drawings too so it's rather useful. I try to use the least toxic materials when possible especially since I live in a cold climate where I can't open the windows for half the year. I've also been working with water mixable oils which has gotten me back into oil painting again.

@@ChrisBreier that’s awesome! I’ve been dabbling with water mixables as well but hadn’t found a good non toxic varnish option so this is useful.

I guess you can't use Spectrafix as a topcoat for oils or acrylics....you can use it underneath to seal a drawing before you paint over it. So far I've been using Gamvar for varnishing oils which isn't too bad to work with. It contains Gamsol which if I remember correctly is also naphtha. If I find something better I will probably make a video about it. 🙂

Thanks Amanda! Yes, you can replace the pans when you use up the paint or if you just want to replace one of the colors. These should work better than the Prang set. Cotman are the Winsor and Newton line of student grade watercolors. At some point you should try out a pan of professional watercolor to see if you like it.