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Firstly, I've never really painted anything in my life aside from using those crayola watercolor sets we all get as a child and using either typing paper, notebook paper, or thick typing paper as my canvas
Secondly, I'm interested in painting because I feel there's some kind of creativeness inside of me that has no way of getting out. I've tried music, but can't play worth a spit. I've tried sculpting, and that works okay. I've tried cooking which is great because i can eat what I create. But I still feel a creative burning inside of me. SO I want to try painting.
I asked my husband to get me a kit for Christmas, and I figured oil paints because aside from watercolours and tempra, I didn't know there was another kind of paint.
Now I find out there's Acrylic.
So i'm torn between oil and acrylic. I know that oil paints are more expensive and require turpentine to clean with, but aside from that, are there any other pros/cons of either of them that a VERY VERY LIMITED SKILL BEGINNING PAINTER PERSON should know about? Which do you reccomend?
FOr Christmas, I figured he could get me one of the kits that come with X number of tubes of paint, some brushes, turpentine (if oil is what I go with), a pallette, and a canvas. Is there Anything else that a VERY VERY LIMITED SKILL BEGINNING PAINTER PERSON should HAVE to get in order to paint. Not things that would be nice to get...but things that I must have to paint? Any kind of canvas-treater or anything like that?
Please help. There's a starving artist inside of me, I just know it.
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