While at an art supply outlet store Christmas shopping for my sister-in-law I found a $75 box of oil paints, palette, brushes, and turpentine marked down to $15. She normally does drawing and acrylics but I thought at this price, it was too good to pass up. I'm not an artist though so I don't know if she needs any additional supplies in order to use the oil paints. Please let me know if there is something else that would be necessary (or even helpful) for her to have when working with oils.
Oh, I bought about $300 worth of canvas for $30 so she's good to go there! ;-)
2006-12-05 03:27:35 · 2 answers · asked by lechemomma 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The canvas says it's treated for both acrylic & oil paints... does she still need the gesso?
2006-12-05 11:56:52 · update #1
She needs linseed oil! Make sure to get linseed oil made especially for artists, I reccommend a sun-bleached variety. Is the canvas gessoed for oil-based media? If not, might want to get some gesso as well. I know that stuff gets gone quickly anyway.
2006-12-05 11:00:41 · answer #1 · answered by kameleonkat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have done a bit of oil painting and that is about all that you need. I think that she will have fun doing oil painting as it is quite different.
2006-12-05 03:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋