What could you do without - if you had to?

I think I've asked this before, but never afraid of repetition .... <div> </div><div>Now and then, I play a game with myself: if I had to do without all painting media bar one, which would I choose?  It's a fairly stupid question in one way, because no one is going to make me give up anything, but it also helps to concentrate the mind on what's important. </div><div> </div><div>So - if you were stretched over a frame, every limb popping, plus perhaps flames licking around your body: ie, if you REALLY had to make a choice between art media; if you really, really had to choose one above all others - which would you choose? </div><div> </div><div>Say you paint in acrylic, watercolour, and oil (as I do), or pastel, watercolour, and tempera; or gouache, lithoprinting and - well, sculpture?  Anything you like..... If you really, really had to make a choice between all the media in which you like to create work.... which (under torture) would you choose? </div><div> </div><div>I feel I should confess what I'd choose: I love painting in oil, watercolour (in which I'm still learning), and acrylic; draw in carbon pencil, charcoal, silverpoint, ink, oil pastel and much more.  And I've asked myself this question - I think I'd choose oil paint, if I really, really, REALLY, had to:  physically, it's the most exciting - sculpturally the most challenging; technically and aesthetically the most interesting - oil paint is SO much more complex than even watercolour, and certainly more so than acrylic.  And that's why I love it, and yearn for any opportunity to paint with it.  </div>