How To Paint With Water Soluble Oils

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If you’ve ever been curious about water-soluble (water-mixable) oil paints but didn’t know how to get started — or if you gave up on traditional oils because of solvents, fumes, and mess — this video is for you.
In this tutorial, I take you start to finish through a simple landscape painting while explaining exactly how I use water-mixable oils to get the same rich look and feel of traditional oils, without turpentine or toxic solvents.
I’ve been using these paints for over 25 years, and in this video I share the one critical step that solves the biggest problem most artists have with them: getting the paint to spread smoothly instead of feeling dry and stubborn.

What you’ll learn:
What water-soluble oils actually are (and what they aren’t)
The biggest mistake artists make when using them
How to prepare your canvas so the paint glides effortlessly
A simple, limited palette you can use to get started cheaply
How to mix darks without using black
How to clean your brushes properly with soap and water
How to control edges, values, and atmosphere in a landscape
I also demonstrate a complete painting using only six colours, showing how atmospheric perspective, value shifts, and edge control create depth — even in a very simple scene.

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TIMESTAMPS (42-minute video)
00:00 – Who this video is for / Why water-soluble oils
01:05 – What water-soluble oils are (and what they are not)
02:30 – The biggest challenge with water-mixable oils
03:30 – My solution to make the paint glide on the canvas
04:30 – Using a limited palette to get started inexpensively
05:45 – Paint brand overview (Winsor & Newton Artisan)
07:10 – Brushes: what matters and what doesn’t
08:45 – Palette setup (palette paper, boards, stay-wet palette)
11:10 – How to keep your oil paints usable for weeks
12:30 – Setting up the palette (shiny vs matte side)
13:40 – The six colours used in this demo
16:15 – Why titanium white and impasto medium matter
17:45 – What impasto medium does (drying time + stability)
20:00 – Mixing colours efficiently (and wasting less paint)
21:30 – Mixing darks without using black
23:00 – Mixing sky colours and atmospheric perspective
25:15 – Why water alone doesn’t work with these oils
26:45 – Brush cleaning with soap and water
28:00 – The key medium: water-mixable linseed oil
30:10 – Applying the oil to the canvas (the critical step)
32:30 – Why this step changes everything
33:30 – Switching to the easel / Speed-up painting demo begins
34:00 – Blocking in the sky and creating smooth gradations
36:30 – Painting distant ridges and soft edges
38:15 – Foreground shapes, darkest darks, and edge control
40:15 – Using Q-tips to remove paint and sharpen shapes
41:30 – Final colour accents and compositional focus
42:45 – Course invitation + materials links