Bembo doesn’t like it when these go past.
@kdfrawg They produce some lovely effects, but it’s never been something I thought would work in a little corner of the living room.
@kdfrawg I bought a little starter kit of oil tubes, but I hated the smells so much that I could never really work with them. I have some oil pastels for when I want something that will behave a little bit like oil.
@kdfrawg Exactly. You don’t want to have to relearn your trade every time. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been trying to settle on a relatively limited range of colours. You can just be used to the way they behave and interact.
@kdfrawg I thought I might like acrylics, but I found them a bit hard. I tried watercolour first, because I just had a vague idea that’s what people started with. I don’t know if I like them because they’re what I did first, or if there really is something about them that suits me.
@kdfrawg The surface and sizing of the paper has quite a big effect on how the paint behaves. It can be quite frustrating to change paper and suddenly have things not doing what you expect. I haven’t found that to be a problem in switching between major brands, but if you try to do watercolour on sketchbook paper, it can be very different. It works the other way too — people who are used to working on sketchbook paper don’t always like using “proper” watercolour paper.
@kdfrawg I don’t know that there’s any way to tell by looking at an art work.
// @streakmachine