I too learned first with acrylics and then moved onto oils. The two are very different to work with. I found the drying-time the big difference. With acrylics you just let it dry and paint over it, add a layer, whatever. Oils… not so fast, as everything will smudge and bleed and turn greenish brown!! Using Liquin, a product by Windsor&Newton, is great to speed the drying time of oils.

Anyway – just wanted to cheer you on! Painting is so great – keep up the drawing and practising… it is a learned thing after all!

peace,
kdf

you are leaving me hanging. what happened? did you create your masterpiece? oil painting is intimidating, i just tried it last night. . . this form of self-expression definitely does not come naturally ;-)

acrylics are a much more forgiving medium, cuz they dry so fast. Make a mistake in oil and you could end up waiting days for it to dry.

Oh! I just read gottabekd’s comment about this entry, and she said basically the same thing. ha!

What sort of drawing are you interested in? The figure? faces? objects? cartoons?