Paintfag thread - Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gauche, styles, time periods, palettes whatever about paint

[AbyssStarer]

So, I noticed before we don't really have a thread for painting here, and have been wanting to make one for a while.

What kind of paint do you use?
What color palette do you use?
What's your favorite?
Who's your favorite painter of style in history?
What's your favorite period in the history of painting?
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on?

I have worked with both oils and acrylics. Acrylic is cheaper but oil is more fun for blending. I like to paint in an impasto style but my teacher taught us alla prima with a burnt sienna base with linseed oil.
The palette I use for oil isn't too special, but I use transparent gold ochre and transparent red oxide and van dyke brown instead of black.
I don't know if I have a favorite painter, there's many wonderful painters through time, but I appreciate Bosch and Frans Hals as well as Chihuly.
(The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch. This painting is huge and very amusing)
the image is ginormous so I'll link a large version. It's worth it to look at the details, trust me

Btw, the little dude in the corner of hell has music on his butt; this is what it sounds like.

Baroque paintings are nice, as well as pre-renaissance, such as Bosch.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I don't know shit about art, but I did work at a Lowe's paint department for over a decade, so I know a decent amount about paint itself.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

What kind of paint do you use? - Menses
What color palette do you use? - Light pink to dark brown
What's your favorite? - Deep Crimson
Who's your favorite painter of style in history? - Marina Abramovich
What's your favorite period in the history of painting? - Last month's 'visit'
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - Nothing I own is valuable

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Freestyle rectal paint based spirography is the purest form of self expression. That and this video as all you really need to know:

@AbyssStarer your problem is that you are trying to paint with your mind when you should be letting your ass guide the brush.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

What kind of paint do you use? - Oil and watercolor
What color palette do you use? - oof, mainly i use light\medium yellow, ochre, english red, couple shades of blues and some brown. And titanic white, of course. As for watercolor, i have very big palette.
What's your favorite? - OCHRE. you want to make your art 10 times cooler? add ochre. Your art doesn't feel right? Add ochre. Ochre is such a nice color, it makes everything better.
Who's your favorite painter of style in history? - Picasso
What's your favorite period in the history of painting? - hmm, period of cubism and constructivism, i would say.
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - i have few oil still alive's. I need to draw more, but at this moment i have no place for oil painting

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

What kind of paint do you use? - Nearly everything, I mostly use acrylic and watercolor but also oils and gouache.
What color palette do you use?- I don't think I have a really consistent palette, for a while everything had a lot of purple but I've moved away from that and seem to use a lot of earthy colors. I'm not great at watercoloring so everything ends up a little brown.
What's your favorite?- Acrylic and watercolors are more convenient for me to set up but I feel like oil paint is actually easier to work with.
Who's your favorite painter of style in history?- Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Bisley, Gil Elvgren, Ed Repka, Frank Frazetta.
What's your favorite period in the history of painting?-Baroque and Mannerism for the older stuff, pulpy book cover stuff for the newer stuff.
How many valuable items in your house have you gotten paint on? - My phone and tablet because I use them for reference images, a lot of my clothes, the carpet due to me knocking over a water bucket, and both of my cats.

Spoiler: fine farts

Acrylic on a floppy disk

Watercolor and gouache

Acrylic ( I forgot to get a good pic of this before it was donated to a fundraiser, so this image was taken off of instagram, hence the two dots at the bottom.)

Recent acrylic mixed media thing

Watercolor

 

[AbyssStarer]

I use oils and teach acrylics, but most of my stuff is elsewhere on the internet so I can’t share without doxxing myself.

I reference John Singer Sargent for the most part and try to stick with the Zorn Palette as a foundation. Otherwise I lose consistency with my colors. I do sometimes swap out ivory black for burnt umber + ultramarine because it feels more comfortable.

Most of my whites are the fast drying alkyd titanium white, but I’m trying to get better about using lead more often since it isn’t so chalky. I opened my tube of flake white last night, for the first time in a couple of months. I’m just so messy that I suspect I’m slowly poisoning myself.

My paint instructor has leukemia, he hinted that it's from some of those paints, especially cadmium red. Since his condition is irritated by paint thinner we've learned to use linseed oil as a brush cleaner and oil soap if the paint gets in anything. It actually works pretty well. I got paint on some of my SO's clothing and scrubbed them with oil soap to get it out.
I got a tube of cadmium red but I want to get something else when the tube runs out; it stinks and if I happen to get a lot on my skin it feels weird. I don't like the idea of getting cancer because of a hobby.

 

[AbyssStarer]

I haven't seen too many good painting channels on YouTube, but I've heard good stuff about Watercolor by Shibasaki. he's a Japanese man but his videos usually have English subs.

Channel
Here's a sample video