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New To Painting
EMC:
I go with Acrylics myself. I normally do massive Acrylic paintings with black sharpies (cartoony style) they dry quick though, SOMETIMES it's good.
You'll just have to play with some media, I suggest going with the base colours and trying to see what you like.
like buy the media but only the yellow, blue and red.
or go with the new modern twist and just buy a cheap $50 pen tablet from say, Walmart, to see if you're comfortable.
Alex C:
Yeah, if you want alizarin crimson you often have to move up to the fancy pants artist grade stuff that you really have no use for when you're just starting out, and reds tend to be rather expensive paints even if you're going for Liquitex Basics (and I wouldn't go any cheaper than that). Also, as far as palettes go, I actually just went down to the hardware store and asked if they had any thin scrap plexiglass they had laying around and then scored it with my utility knife and snapped it down into useful sized chunks. Pretty inexpensive, if they even bother charging you at all.
sleepingfingers:
Thanks for all the recommendations. You veterans may be surprised but honest and simple answers are immensely helpful to someone in their post college phase. I have had great fun in turning out things that may never make it onto a wall, but has given me great pleasure.
Thanks Again!
Mazlow01:
I actually just started painting also. I suck(Evidenced by the crappy lines in the painting I use as an avatar) but it is very relaxing, the biggest problem I have found(besides the art itself) is getting the ferrule completely clean. Any ideas on how to best accomplish this? I use Liquitex Basics, and synthetic brushes.
Lines:
Since you're using acrylics, put some soap in your hand and work the bristles around on your palm and then rinse when your soap is all dirty. Repeat until there is no color being rinsed/washed out of your brush. This is what I do and though paint can stain your bristles (this happens with my white synthetic brushes when I use blue paint), this cleans them pretty well.
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