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I decided to start doing some straight painting again, and by that I mean to use only brush, paint and canvas. Although I have always preferred oil paints to acrylics, I am not set up to do oil painting right now and I am not sure I could tolerate the requisite exposure to toxic substances like I used to do. So, since I have a few tubes of acrylic paint around, I decided to give them a shot. I am not enthralled with the results in this piece; but, as the intent was just to get back into the practice of using strictly brushes to paint, it got me started towards that goal. This piece is 4 inches by 6 inches in size.
Greek style in acrylic
I would have guessed that this was a pastel by the look of it. I didn’t know that acrylics were that much different from oils. I would have guessed that acrylics are shinier than oils; more like iridescent paint. You don’t have to use solvent to clean up? They’re water based then?
-bub
Re: Greek style in acrylic
Hi Bub. Yes, acrylics are water based. They dry out really fast and seem very plastic and cold to me compared to oils. I have seen in art supply catalogs that now there are additives one can use to retard the drying process of acrylics, so I might get some of that to try.