01-10-2014, 01:31 PM
Well, for me, oil is THE traditional painting medium:) It's insanely versatile and it has bunch of blending "modes" and there are things you can do in oil which you simply can't in acrylic, for example. But it's kinda pain in the ass in some other aspects - mediums, turpentine, washing brushes, fumes, drying period, all the stuff you have to think about...
I think it's perfect for a fine art painter who is living and working at a "renaissance pace", but for the aspiring industry illustrator/concept artist, it is just unjustifiably inefficient, if you ask me:) That's why I put my easel away, maybe to be used again when I could afford the time to mess around with it, which shouldn't be soon:)
I think it's perfect for a fine art painter who is living and working at a "renaissance pace", but for the aspiring industry illustrator/concept artist, it is just unjustifiably inefficient, if you ask me:) That's why I put my easel away, maybe to be used again when I could afford the time to mess around with it, which shouldn't be soon:)