Comments on: Sunrise with Oils

By: Kate Turner

Kate Turner — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:26:25 +0000

Hi to both of you!

I just finished the second lesson. My first experience with oils (I’m a colored pencil person mostly). When we finished, I had a color of peachy orange that was perfectly fine for a sunrise, but not the specific color orange I was going for. So I took the opportunity afterwards to play around with mixing colors. I found it to be much, much harder than I had expected! It made it easier to understand the story about the guy who had 25+ colors on his palatte. Is this typical of oils? Are there tips for making it easier without using tons of paint? Etc.? My example – I had a peachy color at first that then turned more into a light-tomato-ey shade. When I added more yellow, it just became more of a darker tomato color. Eventually, I got what I wanted, but I’m not sure how. This is fun, though!

By: Connie Selinger

Connie Selinger — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:31:17 +0000

Where can I find the paint colors listed. Do I need to listen to the beginning and try to catch what colors. Under materials it just reads paint no specific colors.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:38:56 +0000

In reply to Sahara Kassam. Hi Sahara, You can definitely use traditional oils.

By: Sahara Kassam

Sahara Kassam — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:40:51 +0000

Do we need water mixable oil or can I use traditional oil paints.

By: Rosalind Soules

Rosalind Soules — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:24:10 +0000

What date are you doing the glazing?

By: matt

matt — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:02:56 +0000

In reply to Connie Hansen. Hi Connie, I'm not sure what you are referring to, but you were able to post on this page which means that you have access to it. The lessons are presented as videos above. You can go to the next video by clicking on the buttons beside the video or by clicking on the links under the lessons tab. There is not a PowerPoint presentation for this lesson. PowerPoints are only included as part of the Ultimate Lesson Plan lessons which are intended for teachers to use in their classrooms. This is a Live Lesson series which is a series of video lessons. There are no walls. You have access to everything.

By: Connie Hansen

Connie Hansen — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:57:01 +0000

I was interested in this class, but cannot access the lessons or even ppt resource for steps. How come this is out of reach? I am enthusiastic about this site but frustrating to have walls up after I paid…
Connie

By: Cheryl Ginsberg

Cheryl Ginsberg — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:04:32 +0000

In reply to matt. I use white gesso which is acrylic based and is used for this specific purpose.It can be purchased at any hobby shop or online or any other art supply store.

By: Audrey Clarke

Audrey Clarke — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:08:37 +0000

Hello Matt,
Please would you let me know what you do with any left over paint? Do you just wash it away? Also, how do you work out how much paint to load onto the Palette. I’m just a beginner and never used oils, in fact only just done one water colour at the evening class I attended and that didn’t go down too well.
Thank you. I enjoy your classes.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:01:52 +0000

In reply to Laura Johnson.

Hi Laura,

Yes, you don’t want to apply water-based media over oil paint. This is because oil paint dries very slowly (sometimes weeks) and will prevent the water-based media from adhering to the surface. This canvas however is simply primed with an oil-based primer and was completely dry and wrapped in cellophane. There wasn’t a layer of oil paint on the surface when I applied the acrylic ground. If it were, it would have been catastrophic and the acrylics would not have laid on the surface or dried completely.