I'm painting the "oils" (yes, I'm using acrylics now, but "acrylics" doesn't sound as good) at the same time as the watercolours, and it is such a different process, it's really hard for me to switch gears and go from one to the other. The techniques are just so completely different. I enjoy more the process with the oils/acrylics, but they take so much longer, and I need to create more work- and, I do like the watercolours very much. I think what I will do now is paint the watercolours during the week, and the "oils" on weekends...I really liked painting with actual oil paint, I loved the creamy consistency, the way the paint moved on the canvas, the way it blended with the brush. But they REALLY take a long time, and I am also messy, and I'd find paint on all kinds of things I didn't want it on, plus the toxic smell, and getting it on me, and then all that turpentine to deal with...so I started using acrylic house paint. I can get the creamy consistency I like much faster- right out of the can! and they cost far less and are more environmentally friendly. The only thing I don't like as well is they dry REALLY fast- but I don't want to use any more chemicals, to slow it down, plus I am getting used to the quick dry time. It is more convenient than not, to have the fast dry time.
A lot of the watercolours I plan on using as studies for oil/acrylic paintings.
27"x 22" Acrylic on canvas $750. (+ tax, and shipping)
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