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| Topic Started: Nov 6 2009, 12:01 PM (63 Views) | |
| Lou | Nov 6 2009, 12:01 PM Post #1 |
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Have any of you guys, Ken or KN. have any experience with Webers water/soluble oil paints? http://weberart.com/woil/index.html Edited by Lou, Nov 6 2009, 12:03 PM.
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| khamilton | Nov 6 2009, 12:29 PM Post #2 |
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Not me....Narayan would probably have a better handle on that than anyone. |
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| Lou | Nov 6 2009, 12:41 PM Post #3 |
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Although Weber is not known for quality like Windsor Newton, I figured that a water based oil paint would provide the benefits of both. quicker drying than regular oil paint and the ability to blend colors lacking in acrylics. You are right. NK can order a set and bill his employer for the set as well as the time to see if they work or not. Again I think NK might be the answer because Weber has special art consultants and their learning series of books and supplies. Artists like Bob ross and Jon Gnagy. The latter got me started on my desire to enter the art field back '56 or '57. That guy could sure draw covered bridges and had the unique talent to draw birds in the sky as well as curving roads to lead the eye into the composition. Is he still alive? Edited by Lou, Nov 6 2009, 12:49 PM.
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| nkhandekar | Nov 6 2009, 01:01 PM Post #4 |
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I haven't had any experience with these. They keep popping up as a topic of discussion at conferences but I don't remember anything useful coming out of the discussions. Sorry I can't be more helpful. |
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| khamilton | Nov 6 2009, 03:28 PM Post #5 |
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I always liked how the book showed you how to make shadows on snow with that stumpy-smudgey stick. Jon, I'm afraid, went on up to that big palette in the sky in 1981. (I never did get the hang of drawing that Great Dane) |
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| Lou | Nov 6 2009, 04:35 PM Post #6 |
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Ken, If you did get the knack of drawing the dog perhaps you could have received a football scholarship for the famous artist school up in CT. I had a room mate at Pratt that had the full set of books from the school. Judging by his skills they obviously didn't work. Well I am going to throw a tape in the VCR and watch reruns of Bob Ross's greatest paintings and take a nap under the happy little clouds. |
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| chester | Nov 6 2009, 07:15 PM Post #7 |
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I can't speak for artists paints but the construction business is starting to see a lot of what is referred to as water soluble oil paints (and lacquers as well for that matter) You may know that many acrylics have oil bases for the color composition of the paints and a true (100%) acrylic latex is a rare bird (go ahead, ask for one at the paint store). I believe that the trend towards phasing out oil based enamels in the U.S. has provoked many manufacturers to simply relabel acrylics as "water soluble oils" since there is oil colors in them, in order to fill a desire for oil based paints by many that swear by them. I find the practice somewhat deceptive since as I said, it's merely calling something that has always been known as an acrylic something that it isn't really. By the way, I drew the lumberjack in one of those contests in the back of a magazine one time and won a scholarship to an art school but it was going to cost me to take the courses. I thought getting a scholarship meant it was free. Edited by chester, Nov 6 2009, 07:17 PM.
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| Lou | Nov 6 2009, 09:04 PM Post #8 |
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It's hard to get a full ride from just drawing a lumberjack. You need to draw the car, the horse, the pretty girl, the Great Dane (that's the one that Ken failed) and a few others to get a full ride. Then they penalize you for living off campus and then charge you for books and supplies and transportation. Heh. College ain't cheap anymore. |
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