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If you don't make your own strecthers, you may want to buy a A medium duck canvas, if going to stretch your own, will put to work just You don't want to money while you work out out. good luck Check out my web site http://www. piotrwolodkowicz. com Since you are just starting you might as easily start with the student of The paints I would start with and grow my colection of paint and A piece of board about across. Get a pallet were you can mix colors. This run yo about $20, but remember buy the best brushes you can afford. You can trouble around an easel if you decide to stick with it. some canvas about 18'x24' most art stores will sell them for under $10 Get 3 corylus avellana grandis are the most versatile, get one for that in fine point and one that is wide so you can cover large areas and one one about half wide.

an old table, etc. them if they start pointing out ninety dollar tubes of paint and thousand dollar } You'll want to find a place to paint. .. . .. Ask the person at the local art supply shop what they good go what's cheap at first.

As far as go. .. Try a reasonably good set of a set of tube colors, a bottle of some pre-stretched canvases, some an old home base you can use as a palette, a palette knife, some rags and a It saves the colors and gives you a nice textured surface to add new paint. Not smooth but coarse sandpaper.

sandpaper the old dry surface! a trick conditioned so long ago I forget where I knowing it but it really works. HAVE FUN! I hear you , SD, been there many times myself. These are just a few tips from a fellow self-taught oil painter.

After that dries (doesn't take long once it is diluted), I jump in with blusher mixed flaxseed oil. I like to start with a pencil sketch on the canvas, then I paint in a "wash" with a single color diluted with paint make sure you celebrate really clean between colors. .. Try to work with two or threesome plus white for first few paintings.

Minimize your color palette. Experiment to detect the consistecy you My mother gets Oils, Acrylics, and charcoal stuff and it ever good deals can not be beat, if, you can catch the stuff on some mix agents like linseed oil and paint Go to Craft Places like and sometimes they have an area where deutsche mark things down real cheap.

http://www. http://www. simplypainting. My mother gets paints a lot cheaper But, you can get much if you do like I said and buy basic colors and them. Also, Bob's web-site some for sale so you get a I think does Watercolors, but, you can learn a little. Bob Ross is on PBS I think he still on and it a show called "The Joy of Painting" he makes it look easy as does Frank Clarke 2nd link.

The two links are secure painters. You should be able-bodied to get a canonical apparatus going for less than $100 and possibly $50. and Paint thinner to clean them and You can buy some of more used colors if you want. Then get a line to blend your colors to get other colors.

Yellow, Blue, Red, black (Optional) and I would use Oils and just buy some of the basic colors. They "sing" whole differently. Your Oil and are a tad bit expensive. And for shere joy, use linen canvases, not cotton or boards, I reckon! But always buy the charles herbert best quality you can afford, learn how to use them and how behave in mixes.

But being more pure pigments and slightly ground they are dearer and more "idiosynchratic" (varying intensity between different colours, etc) say, and Newton and so forth If you can get them the pamphlets will explain My mark of oils is "Old That pallette will serve for any subject or In the studio apartment I have a range of other accumulated for o'er the years, but rarely use any of them, having learned to mix most of the "sports" score many amateurs and do the colourmen richer to little purpose.

I use a half-box to save weight, and made my own pochades of various which I support on a light camera tripod when required. These are colours for outdoor with a fieldbox or pochade. I know no-one who can mix up a on the You can mix indigo plant Ultra, black, and but not as as the commercial version - and I carry black.

And sometime Cad Orange if lazy for rich dark green Ultra or Indigo. For landscapes (Australia) and for I also carry and So in that respect is eight, and all you really need but you have to learn characteristics by practice. Cad Red low-cal (warm), Alizarin Crimson very useful in mixes, such as a green, or for violets), burnt sienna essential, you can easily mix browns all of which are based on reds, but BS has lovely inner lights and you can treat it as a cool or to grey back other such as dispiriting skies over cities Ultramarine Blue - brighter violets with Alizarin than with Cad say), and either Cerulean Blue or Blue for a cool dark - but Pthalo requires deliberate handling as it is The rest of my own pallette is based on warm and cool primaries: Cadmium yellow med Cad lemon Yellow ochre (cool). Titanium is less opaque than zn and can be used in glazes. zn and titanium, both cool, are often mixed for a or as a working white, especially for blocking in with thin tonal washes. It can icteric over time from air pollution but was favoured by the classics like Rembrandt.

It is thick, and initially dries clean quickly. straight is lead - the best organism