[Woodcarver] Beginner help with paint.

[Joe Dillett]

Hi Rick,

Both oil-based artists paints and water-based acrylic paints both come in 
tubes. You have to read the tube to see if they are acrylic or oil. If it 
says Artist Oil Colors on the tube then it thins with oil and is not 
acrylic. If it says Acrylic it thins with water. The effects are slightly 
different but the durability is about the same. Some like the workability 
and water cleanup of acrylic. Some like the oil effect of using artist oils. 
Acrylic normally dries faster and, because of its water base, tends to raise 
the grain a little more.

Another bit of information is that watercolor and acrylic paints, which both 
thin with water, are different. Acrylic has binders so once it dries water 
will not make it wet again unlike watercolor, once dry water will cause it 
to flow again.

I like artist oils which I mix with oil-based polyurethane varnish to 
achieve any effect I want, from opaque to a very transparent. It is 
excellent for building shadows. I love building slight shadows because the 
work is not always displayed in the proper light. Mixing with polyurethane 
varnish speeds up the drying process of artist oils. Mixing with 
polyurethane varnish gives the ability to easily blend colors for an 
airbrush look.

I mix my colors, with varnish, on a piece of clear Plexiglas. This allows me 
to see through my color to check to see how transparent it will be.

Joe Dillett
The Carving Shop
645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3
Somonauk, IL. 60552

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick" <usscot555 at yahoo.com>
To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Beginner



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> Hello all,

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> I am a new carver from FL.  I am hoping that I will be

> able to learn a lot from this list.

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> My first carving is for a beginner and its of a

> Beagle.  My first question is about painting.  I

> understand that acrylic paint.  But is that the stuff

> in the tube that canvass painters use or the stuff in

> little bottles that crafters use?

>

> Yours in Chips,

> Rick

>

> All help will be appreciated

>

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