I always get asked "what kind of materials do you use to do your paintings?" Well I use different mediums. I started out just doing images in black and white using pencil and charcoal, but over the years, I taught myself how to paint using oils; after that I switched to doing my art digitally ,which I will talk about in another post. Lately I went back to doing paintings with acrylics, which I have never done before, but It seemed to work out fine.
On to the materials.
The oils I prefer to use are water base oils made by Winsor & Newton and they are called Artisan. I like them , because not only can they be thinned with water they are also practically odorless. You can purchase them at Hobby Lobby or Michael's and more than likely other art stores.
The brushes ,I don't buy the expensive type, I just buy the ones you can get in a pack. I tend to work with anything that can get the job done.
The other material I use of course is the canvas I don't have a special kind as long as its not the canvas board for me I try to get the paint blended in to the canvas much as possible, the board doesn't allow me to do that.
If I do use turpentine, I use a odorless one called Turpenoid, its not the only one out there, but it works for me. Last but not least I use a folding medal easel which can be folded and put away when I'm done. Well other than that, those are the tools I use to create my paintings nothing really special.
Next time I will talk about my digital painting process, so thanks for taking time to read my post.
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