wa-very

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So, I went out and purchased some new watercolor paints and paintbrushes a week or two ago, and I still haven't used it much. My acrylic paints, however, I've been using pretty regularly. If asked, I'd say I like watercolor better, even though I use acrylics more.

Oil painting, however, has never been for me. I can't stand how long it takes to dry! I'm so impatient.

I was wondering how everyone else felt about this. Do you like watercolors, acrylics, or oil paints better? (All/none of the above?)

 

 

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I paint my watercolour really thick like it's acrylic...and it's also way cheaper than acrylic and I can leave it out and open. Not much to clean up ha ha.

My dad used to paint models with oils but I never have used them. It seems like too much work to use turpentine to clean the brushes and those things are always sticky. Just seems like too much work. Also so expensive for the teeniest pot of the stuff.

I guess watercolour is my fav.

 

happyflowerlady

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I have never used oil paints, and never wanted to. They just seemed like they would be a lot of work to paint with and clean the brushes, and it takes a long time to dry.
When I used to paint, I just used water colors or tempura, but I didn't paint it with the washed out look that a typical watercolor has. I painted it more like you would paint with a regular paint.
I used to love to paint on the kids jeans when they were little, and I used the acrylic paints for that so that it would last and be washable.
I painted horses on the back pockets, and put their names on the jeans, too. It was a lot of fun to do it !
 When I was in school, I had a class that was arts and crafts, and I got a leather kit from Tandy, and it had a bridle and breast collar and saddlebags . I tooled the leather, and stained it black to match my saddle, then I painted the horses that I had drawn on the leather and carved. I painted the horse to look just like my horse, and put her name on the bridle and breast collar.
I am not sure anymore if I used acrylic paint for that, or if it was paint specially for using on leather.

 

HearingInk

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I've never used oil paints myself. I do have a set of brushes specially made for use with oil paints but I've never made the move to get the oil paints and try it. I've seen so many beautiful oil paintings and I would love to use them, but my issue is, I don't know if I can translate my painting style into oil paints effectively and I would hate to spend the money and then screw it up. I'd use them if they were given to me but I'm not confident enough to pursue them on my own.

Acrylic is my medium of choice when it comes to painting. I like the bold colors, I like the fact that they dry quickly and even when they do dry I can still manipulate the image. I also like how easy they are to use and control. I don't get that with watercolors. Watercolor paints frustrate me. I like bright pronounced colors and watercolors are too opaque. They're also way too difficult to control in my opinion. I never understood how anyone could use watercolor effectively. I'm basically burned out on watercolors. I'll stick to acrylic.

 

happyflowerlady

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If I am remembering right, it seems to me like some of the early paint-by-number kits were actually oil paints. I remember doing one of those, way back when I was pretty young, and I think it was before they really had come out with the acrylic paints.
I think I had to have turpentine to clean the brushes, and the paint itself was thick and "gobby".
I only remember doing one of those paint-by-number kits, and it was a cat, and kind of a light colored tortoise-shell cat, so lots of little blobs of the different shades of grey that the cat was. It turned out awful (unless you looked at it from 20' away), by the way.

We also had some paints that I used to paint my rodeo and cowboy/indian sets. The figures were little plastic molded ones, and all of the same color. So , I painted them, and then they looked a lot more realistic. I think it was kind of an enamel paint, and it came in tiny little jars and was in the section of the store where they sold model airplanes, etc.

 

Bunny

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I thought you had to add terps to it if it was gobby? Sounds a bit awful for kids ha ha.

 

DancingLady

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I've never been a big painter, but I definitely have a preference for acrylic over water color. I actually do not like water color at all. I have been told it is because I have only ever had the cheap kind, but I do not like how it runs so much and how the paper ends up so bubbly from absorbing too much water.  I admire those who can control it and come up with something beautiful, but I have never done well with them.

 

happyflowerlady

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I thought you had to add terps to it if it was gobby? Sounds a bit awful for kids ha ha.

I am not sure about the little oil paints in the paint by number. I don't remember using terpentine; but I remember they were hard to clean, and you could not just wash off the brushes like you do with waterpaints and acrylics, so it might have had a little jar of paint-thinner along with the kit.
When I used the little bottles of enamel paints for the figurines; I thinned that with nail polish remover. That might have been what I used for the paint-by-number ones, too.

Back in the 1950's; we didn't have all of the restrictions on what a child could or couldn't use. They expected our parents to have enough common sense to not let us hurt ourselves, and to teach kids how to use things.
Pretty much , that worked. 
Now, they try to make everything safe enough that no one can hurt themself; so kids don't have to learn to be careful, like we did .
I am not sure that this is a good improvement....

 

tasha

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I find water paints are a lot easier to use then oil paints. I would love to use my oils but they are just so intricate and hard to use that it takes me time to get one little spec done. The water paints are easier but I love the effect of the oils more than the water as it shows of colour so much better.

 

oraclemay

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I like all these mediums, it just depends on what I want to paint and my mood. I did a lot of watercolor, especially because it seems to be a lot easier, at one stage. I love the color of acrylic and I love the finish of oils.

 

tasha

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Oils take a lot longer to dry and they do have a better finish then watercolours but I  have seen an artist that does wonders with her waterpaints and I often think that I am doing something wrong.

 



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