I recently bought a beautiful easel for painting. What's the best oil paint to use and what type of paper?
Thanks to all who answer.
2007-03-18 03:37:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Windsor & Newton make excellent oil colors. For a beginner, I would recomment Winton oil colors (A cheaper, student grade oil paint made by Windsor & Newton.) You will also need odorless mineral spirits (such as turpenoid) to thin the paint and clean up when you are done. I would also recommend buying some "liquin" oil medium--it make the paint dry much faster, and won't make it runny like too much turpenoid can.
As far as paper, you actually can use oil paints on any heavy paper (such as bristol board.) You will probably want to coat the paper with a thin layer of acrylic gesso before you begin to keep the paint from soaking through the paper(note: do NOT use your oil brushes with gesso, it will ruin them! a cheap house-paint brush works just fine.) Personally, I love the feeling of painting oil on canvas, and I recommend that you at least experiment with a few different surfaces to find what works for you. If you buy pre-stretched canvas, you won't need to gesso it, so that is one less thing you have to buy.) You can also buy masonite board from a hardware store to paint on. It can be much cheaper than canvas, but you will need to use gesso on it before you paint.
Good luck experimenting!
2007-03-18 05:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by Katherine J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quality in artists' materials is often determined on price. The best oils out there that I know of is Winsor & Newton, but there might be others. Some companies have colors that others do not, so you may want to experiment. Utrecht paints offer good quality, and surprisingly inexpensive, oils.
It is important to have a good quality media, but the support (the thing you're painting on) is not as important, with the new acrylics as they are.
Take your paper, it doesn't really matter what quality, and coat it with acrylic gesso and paint over that. Clip it or tape it to a board to hold it up.
For just sketches, you might not even want to bother. Some artists keep sketchbooks in oil and if they get messy (because the oil will ring around the stroke) they don't care.
For a beginner, don't bother with canvas: it's bulky and the texture is difficult. But that's a personal choice.
** Incidentally, some of the most famous artists out there painted on cardboard, Toulouse Lautrec and Voillard, being a few (i need to check that spelling).
2007-03-18 05:06:23 · answer #2 · answered by Amerigo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't typically want to paint with oils onto paper...oil works best onto a gessoed canvas surface, or onto wood or board. If you REALLY want to use oil on paper, you might be best off with oil-based sticks (such as oil pastel) which you can use to 'draw' with instead of using a brush.
Have fun!
2007-03-18 03:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oil typically works best on some sort of canvas. And any kind of oil paint is good, just as long as it's not obviously some cheap generic brand.
2007-03-19 00:48:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to artstore, utrecht is maybe the cheapest i know. ask for gesso and canvas. paper is too thin but you could get a board. put coats of gesso so the oil paint will absorb into it. winsor newtons are good and not too expensive.
2007-03-18 09:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by supraman126 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try water based Oils no cleaning fluids just water"ARTISAN" Ithink is the name Happy painting Oh and NO smell
2007-03-19 00:53:56 · answer #6 · answered by cheers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a Good Art Shop and they will be happy to help you
2007-03-18 03:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by hobo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋