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Took a photo of this at a recent german car meeting at the Classic Motor Hub near Bibury in the Cotswolds. The car in front is a 1939 BMW and the band is playing in a 1909 Benz!
Thought it had potential as a painting and at present I'm drafting it out in acrylic but if it turns out good then I'll spend more time on it with oils to finish.
Thought it had potential as a painting and at present I'm drafting it out in acrylic but if it turns out good then I'll spend more time on it with oils to finish.
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Hi Tony
I personally have a mixture of different makes of acrylic paints, from when I used Jo Sonja gouache acrylics and others given to me. Too many to just throw out. perhaps if I replaced them with better quality then I would get better results! I do try to use retarders but I still find it difficult to blend and during the hot summer days they dry so quickly. Oils just seem to give a much better blend and are more vibrant when I compare the results. Having said that, I've seen artists producing wonderful paintings with acrylics so it is just down to my poorer paints and technique. My advice to anyone starting would be to try using acrylics but buy a small range of best quality paints to start.
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Thank you for the points of view. I have always used acrylics, apart from a 'paint by number' oil set aged about 13 or 14 - which definitely did not encourage blending. I do enjoy the quick(er) drying of acrylic paints, I don't think I would have the patience to wait for an oil to dry, and I expect any attempt at 'blending' on the canvas would end up as 'muddy smudging'. Then again when I look at a finished work, I often think the colours look unnaturally vibrant - including the greens which I always mix for myself. But that I expect is the failure of technique overpowering the potential of the medium.
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I think that sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a painting is in acrylic or oil. When I look back at some of mine I am not sure what I used!
I now have to put a pencil note on the reverse so I don't accidentally go over an oil with acrylic when I decide it needs a little "improving"!
Acrylics can produce some results equal to oil I'm sure. For instance I'm very happy so far with the painting below which is WIP and following the project by Charles Evans in October's LP. I suspect by the time finished I will not be able to tell if it was oil or acrylic.
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I can usually distinguish other people's oils from acrylics, and can always distinguish my own. This isn't because I have a fantastic memory - but because the surface is totally different. It's far more difficult to tell them apart on a screen, though - I know the painting above is an acrylic because you've told us; I THINK I would have recognized it as such even if we hadn't been told; whereas I'm pretty sure I'd know if it were in front of me, in the flesh.
Somewhere or other I have a painting which could be, from the look of it, either acrylic or watercolour; might be interesting to show it and see if anyone can tell: indeed - this could become a challenge/competition.
But back to the point: I think and hope the prejudice against acrylics - "plastic paint", "poor man's oils" and all the rest of it - is dying, slowly. It used to be the case that a well-painted oil would fetch more than an equally well-painted acrylic ..... I wonder if that's still true.
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This fox painting is now finished and framed which adds a lot to it and has really made the colours vibrant.
With regard to acrylics I find that my local gallery now shows many and on pretty much an equal footing with oils. Certainly the acrylic paintings are not priced cheaply because they are not oil.
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It’s just old fashioned snobishnesss acrylics versus oil. Neither are better or worse than the other . People also think watercolour is inferior along with gouache ,pencil and charcoal.
It’s the skill of the artist that you buy plus a life time of learning.
Incidentally Steve...where is the “Fox” . Looked and looked maybe he’s hiding in a bush.
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