john
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I started with watercolor then went to acrylics then to oils. When comparing the three I like how my oil paintings look the best and it's not because I've become a better painter. I haven't..... dammit.
I almost wish I had just started with oils. Most of the paintings would look nicer. It's funny because when I started I liked the flat looks of watercolors better. They seemed more abstract and gentler or something. Now that I see all three kinds on the wall I just like the look of the oils better. They seem more luminous and present? The watercolors are more polite and the acrylics seem cruder. As tools the WCs are brushes and the acrylics worked like hammers, the oils seem to be in between. It could very well be that I just don't know how to use acrylics. But they just seem kind of blah. It's weird.
Some folks insist that they can look the same. I'm not so sure. Maybe I just haven't seen enough well painted acrylics
And it's one of those things that doesn't translate well over a computer screen. The computer screen seems to equalize them.
So I was wondering if you guys feel the same way. Is there really a "look" to oils that generally cannot be duplicated with acrylics? Do you like the look of it better? Why?
Some folks insist that they can look the same. I'm not so sure. Maybe I just haven't seen enough well painted acrylics
And it's one of those things that doesn't translate well over a computer screen. The computer screen seems to equalize them.
So I was wondering if you guys feel the same way. Is there really a "look" to oils that generally cannot be duplicated with acrylics? Do you like the look of it better? Why?