Painting models with oil paints
Gathering the tools
I’m going to need some supplies before I start. First up, some oil paint. After some research, apparently oil paints have different qualities with ‘artist’ being better quality than ‘student’. Makes sense. There are a lot of different brands but Arteza seemed to be fairly well regarded without being too expensive.
Amazon was able to supply 24 Arteza tubes of oil paint covering the colour spectrum. And all for around £25, which, given that I’ve just paid £21 for a Scale 75 paint set containing 8 paints, seems good value.
I’m not using my good sable brushes on this experiment, especially as I’ll be using mineral spirit to clean the brush. So, Amazon again to the rescue with a cheap set of ‘sable’ brushes (probably made from horse hair rather than sable) and a set of synthetic brushes for clean up. For the sable brushes, I’ve gone for some fine detail brushes for application. The synthetic brushes will be for blending and I’ve opted for a selection of different types to help with that – specifically a couple which are flat rather than rounded.
Finally I will need some thinner and something to put this in. I could use any glass or plastic object but I feel a metal ‘artists’ pot will get me in the mood better.
I’ll also need a palette. In this case, I’m going to use an old CD case with some white paper inside so that I can clearly see the colours.
And with that, I’m ready to go.
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