[Woodcarver] oils vs acrylic (chat)

[Classic Carving Patterns]

Merrilee,

You aren't doing anything wrong with the thinned acrylics.  You can't
get the same transparent effect with water thinned acrylics as you can
with oil paints.  The opaque or semi-opaque quality of acrylics comes
for many of the colors with the addition of shades of gray pigment mixed
with the color to create the right hue of acrylic.  Yellow Ochre in
acrylics is not just yellow ochre ... It's yellow ochre with some white
added.  That small amount of white will always remain.  So even though
you add lots of water you can't get rid of the white so it appears
milky!

If you go to www.dickblick.com and look up the different acrylic
manufacturers you can obtain color charts that show what each color
looks like with white added, with black added, and thinned with water.
That way you know which colors don't milk when thinned and which do!

Another easy way ... Susan, your brain is running slow today - Duh! ...
Is to find a scrap board of the wood you usually carve.  Then get out
your acrylics.  Mark the board into rows of one inch squares.  In the
first square write the name of your paint, in the second paint your
acrylic straight from the tube, in the third add one part white, in the
fourth add one part black, and in the fifth add one part water.  That
way you have an easy reference guide to the colors in your kit when you
are looking for that exact effect of paint on your favorite wood.


Marcia,

What a clear and easy explanation on how to use oils and the drying
time!  Thank you!!!!

Susan Irish

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Hi Susan,
   As always it helped a lot!  I think I might like to try oils.  I hate

painting because it covers up the wood and after all that carving I want
to 
be able to see the wood.  And I like the transparant look.  I have been
told 
if I thin down acrylic I can get the same thing but I always manage to
put 
too much on because it doesn't look like it will show.  And I know ... 
practice practice and practice again until it is "right" <BG!!>  Thanks 
again for the additional information!
Merrilee


>The color listings apply whether you are using watercolors, oils, or

>acrylics and even colored pencils and pastels.  Paint manufacturers

work

>very hard to adhere to a color chip standard for each color tone no

>matter what media the color is created in.  So if burnt umber acrylic

>and burnt umber oil paint are placed side by side on a palette you

>should not see any difference in color between the two.

>


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