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art upd8/Painting question. HALP

Wed Jul 8, 2009, 3:13 PM

Hey kiddies. Watch Ash work on her sketchdump makes me want to make a big huge..giftart thing. JUST with a lot of couple art, character art for friends and random people. IT'LL BE FUN. Might take me a month or so. BUT Thats what I'll be working on + a big scrt birthday gift lol....

ANYWAYS

I started another painting, this one of my kitty Artur. I'll upload the picture I'm painting of him. IT'S A PRETTY GOOD PICTURE I THINK. The painting is coming along pretty well.

Question though.

Is there any way that I can make an acrylic painting look like it was done in oils...? I ..am supposed to make an oil painting for my big school culminating project thing and I DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO IT.

You want to know why?

Because I paint ONE LAYER AT A TIME
And guess what

the paints I have take a week to two weeks to dry

PER LAYER

I lose interest in paintings REALLY fast. I didn't know that it would take that long to dry...I bought the paints before I found out that they each have certain drying times and it varies. The paints I bought had some of the longest drying times, of course. Fff.

So would like..mixing acrylics and oils make the drying time less? Or..do you guys know how I can just use acrylics?? I have a semi-textured canvas from then I tried to start a painting..I got 2 layers into it then just painted it over white. Wasn't liking it at all anymore.

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~CandyBug Jul 8, 2009, 3:54:28 PM

yeah Im like that too, I can paint wet on wet. Painting with oils would drive me insane.
Umm
I have no idea though if mixing to two together will make it dry faster..
maybe though you could paint some texture paste on first and then use acrylic over the top for an oil paint effect? Im not sure how much texture paste it though...
Sorry, Im not much help xD; Goodluck though~

ah thats awesome! I love looking through big sketch/spam/art dumps, they inspire and motivate me more than fully finished pieces haha
ee that would be fun putting together actually lol C:

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~surges Jul 8, 2009, 4:07:07 PM

uh i'm not sure if you should mix oils and acrylics. i dont even know if you can water down oils at all.

i dunno how you can make them look like oils... when i paint with acrylics i mostly do it in different layers and washes... but my paint is so cheap that it doesnt matter how long it dries.

*Vanimute Jul 8, 2009, 4:49:41 PM

I would just

stick to acrylics, that's all I used for my paintings. It makes things alot easier when you have a handy dandy hair dryer with you to speed up the drying process.

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN SO INSPIRED FOR THE LONGEST TIME TO do a dump sort of thing full of gifts for people, I just never had the time :boohoo:

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*Hinargaa Jul 8, 2009, 5:13:01 PM

YEAH. I can do the texture I think but I'm worried about the look of the paint...so maybe if I mixed a little bit of the oil paint into more acrylic it will have the same look when it's dried?? Fuck I don't even know what oil paints really look like when dried. I forgot.

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*Hinargaa Jul 8, 2009, 5:14:45 PM

WELL You 'water down oils' with some paint thinner..I haven't bought it yet. I'm just completely dumb when it comes to oils. I guess..I might just have to stick with oils and do some painting that wont require many layers.

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*Hinargaa Jul 8, 2009, 5:18:14 PM

THE THING IS..I said for my project it would be an oil painting....and it HAS TO BE ONE unless if I find some amazing way to make the acrylics look like oils when they dry. WHAT I MIGHT DO..is paint it in acrylics with hardcore oil textures at the bottom and then..add details in oil paints..and some other things..maybe go over the colors a bit in oil too. IDK

AND YES. I really..want to just DRAW THINGS FOR EVERYONE. I need to make time!! It's summer too so I do have time but I'm doing so many things at once ahh!! It's hard.

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*Vanimute Jul 8, 2009, 5:36:53 PM

I dont understand the fascination with oil painting, the paint takes 3837262383623 years to dry.

You know I would paint it in acrylics first, then go over it with oils. I did that with my paintings, except, I started with watercolors, THEN went back in with acrylics because that's what we were required to use. My teacher could never tell the difference.

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*Hinargaa Jul 8, 2009, 5:46:21 PM

I guess I always thought they'd be really cool because of the texture..but once I started to use them...I hated them. I'm an acrylics person.

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*clawfingers Jul 8, 2009, 6:29:51 PM

oils suck: long drying time, horrible smell, intense chemical clean up.

as for mixing the two DONT. they dont mix, acrylic is waterbased and oils are..oil based.
as for replicating an oil look in acrylic, there are a few thickening mediums, and mediums that can slow down acrylics drying time so you can mix more on canvas

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