Artists Watersoluble Oil Paints
Are you interested in trying watersoluble oil paints? Are you one of the skeptical artists out there that just figure that they are just too good to be true? Watersoluble oil paints are great! If you are an artist that works with traditional oils, and never has really loved the smell and the clean up, then you are missing the boat! You need to try some watersoluble oils paints in your art supplies!
Need some more convincing? Well a little information never hurt anyone… so here goes.
Watersoluble oils can be thinned with water and you can clean up your brushes or palette with warm soap and water. If you will be thinning watersoluble oils for glazes it is best to use a medium, but for small shifts in consistency water is fine. Watersoluble oils are made like traditional oils with one exception. The oils that are used as the binder have been specially refined. These oils have been modified to work like cooking oil would if you were washing them out of a pan. They still have the feel of oil, but they wash away easily with water. Since you can wash up with water, you can forget about smelly solvents and toxic chemicals in your studio.
Watersoluble oil paints will dry faster than traditional oil paints. Now, they don’t dry as fast as an acrylic paint, but they will dry in about half the time of regular oil. This leaves you plenty of “open time” to work in those great color transitions, but you don’t have to wait until your kids graduate from college to get to varnish the thing. These paints can be mixed with your existing oil paint art supply. They will no longer be watersoluble, but if you aren’t really in to the idea of changing out all your paint all at once, just give a couple of colors a try and see what you think.
We bet you are feeling a whole lot more interested in adding some watersoluble oils to your oil paint supply! You won’t be sorry… they are worth the hype! They have all of the great feel of regular oil paints but none of the mess, bad smells or the wait!
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