8 Things I Wish I Knew as a Beginner Oil Painter

The first 500 people to use my link https://skl.sh/caitlinart04251 will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare! Ever since I first started using oils, I've kept a google doc of all the random questions I wanted answering about the medium. And finally after a year of learning I feel like I've managed to find the answers to those first questions that I had. My thinking is that if I was asking this then surely others must be too. I'm always adding to the doc even now because there's always more to learn but I hope this might help some oil painters tick a few questions off their list ♡ Also props to my friend @pyka.oliwia over on instagram because she was the one who did the due dilligence of asking a bunch of artists which varnish they use which is where I found out about Gamvar! Be aware that of course nothing beats waiting 6 months to varnish but if you are under deadlines, there are many artists who use Gamvar without any issues! If you would like to see more in depth videos and painting demos then you can go to my Patreon! And you can even have a say in what kind of videos that I make ~ recently a Patreon member suggested that I do some Sorolla master copies and that's exactly what I'm working on currently! So if you want to join my community of fabulous artists you can check it out here ~ https://patreon.com/Caitlinart Also here's some stuff that I mentioned in the video :) Air Purifier: https://amzn.to/42NhAwM Ampersand Gessobord: https://www.artsupplies.co.uk/p/ampersand-gessobord?srsltid=AfmBOoqD5actp305FbEmfzRwbhleerzglwraaAtaR4nMbX1DdqanaG2I Gamvar Gloss: https://www.artsupplies.co.uk/p/gamblin-gamvar-varnish-gloss?srsltid=AfmBOoqGR7ie6ypPEymjSjSzko1mPpcITvoqYZxfk4yAcIgiY9eni-40 My paints (same type but these are in smaller tubes): https://amzn.to/4jta9St If you would like to read up more about cadmium then I will put a paper here. This is just one of many papers on google scholar that talk about canmium toxicity: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/11/3782 Please don't worry too much because it's only dangerous when ingested and breathed in in the form of dust, but if you are a regular painter then your exposure will be higher. Please do you own research as well to be able to make an informed decision :) This video is sponsored by skillshare