Your Oil and Acrylics are a tad bit expensive. I would use Oils and just buy some of the basic colors. Yellow, Blue, Red, Black (Optional) and white. Then learn to blend your colors to get other colors. You can buy some of your more used colors if you want. Brushes and Paint thinner to clean them and your canvas. You should be able to get a basic setup going for less than $100 and possibly $50. The two links are good painters. Bob Ross is on PBS I think he still on and it a show called "The Joy of Painting" he makes it look easy as does Frank Clarke 2nd link. I think Clarke does Watercolors, but, you can learn a little. Also, Bob's web-site shows some Kits for sale so you get a price. But, you can get started much cheaper if you do like I said and buy basic colors and blend/mix them.
http://www.bobross.com/
http://www.simplypainting.com/
My mother gets paints a lot cheaper than EBay. Go to Craft Places like Michael's and others, sometimes they have an area where they mark things down real cheap. My mother gets Oils, Acrylics, and that charcoal stuff and it always good deals that can not be beat, if, you can catch the stuff on sale.
2006-10-15 03:59:45
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answered by Snaglefritz 7
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If you are a beginner, go with a kit. Usually they come with 6-10 of the most used colors, some brushes, and linseed oil. Granted, they won't be high quality, but you probably don't want to spend $1000 on paint, brushes, gel mediums, etc. Acryllics are less expensive. And you don't need any extras, just paint and a brush. They range from 50 cents a tube to $15 or so. Go to Michael's Arts & Crafts, or some place similar, and check it out.
2006-10-15 03:50:33
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answered by smellyfoot ™ 7
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Oil paints are one of the great classic media. They have been used for hundreds of years and have stood the test of time with great durability and steadfast color.
Oils are beloved by artists for many reasons. They offer great versatility. Oils can be very opaque, or they can be thinned with a solvent to varying levels of transparency. They have a slow-drying time, during which their colors do not change, allowing the artist to rework, correct, and even scrape off areas of paint.
you can spend anywhere from $80 and up to few hundreds dollars depend on the brand quantity, etc
you can always try ebay as well if you have the time to wait
hope that helped
2006-10-15 03:58:09
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answered by Myself 3
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A lot depends on the quality of the paint. Also oils don't dry as fast, so you can go back and rework the painting. This will give you an idea: http://search.ebay.com/grumbacher-paints_W0QQfnuZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQxpufuZx
2006-10-15 03:57:51
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answered by Feathery 6
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I bet you should be thinking of a couple of hundred dollars depending on what you consider to be enough to get going. Some tubes of paint, eithe roil or acrylic, can be $5 to $10 each.
2006-10-15 03:46:42
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answered by Isis 7
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