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Listening to: Elliott Smith
Hello there!!
I have been thinking, and hopefully you artsy folk can help me out with this question.
I have quite a few illustrations in mind, but I think they would look SO MUCH BETTER on canvas rather than in Photoshop.
I am starting from scratch.... I only have so much money. :c
Can any of you recommend an affordable brand of paint that is also really nice to use? Or one to stay away from? Acrylic is preferred, but if you REALLY like an oil paint then suggest all you like!
Cheap canvases are easy enough to find.
Thank you!!
Well, Humbrol model paint, also got a generic pack from a shop a while back. Thin with water and away you go. Enamel paints need more aggressive thinners. Celly paint just eats most stuff due to the thinner. Killed one of my brushes anyway, but I think I got the ratio wrong.
I don't paint often, but when I do, I use Golden Taklon bristle brushes, which I have find work about as well as sable-hair, have a longer life expectancy, and cost about 25% as much. I usually dabble with "Ceramcoat" acryllics, which I get at the craft store in little bottles as opposed to tubes. They say they're for "general" purposes, and in my experience, they have a very smooth consistency and high opacity and you can get them in about a zillion different colors for times when you just don't feel like mixing everything from your basic primaries and white. But again, I'm not much of a painter.