And what about Acrylics? Don't they have the advantages of working like oils, but "setting" faster? Don't they "Water down" into something like watercolors, if you so choose? Are they not easier to clean up after?
Aren't they less likely to pose a fire hazard, and aren't the materials used to thin or clean them safe from "spontaneous combustion" problems, which linseed oil and other thinners/cleaners pose?
Weren't you at one time working in acrylics? I'd swear that I have a few things by you which were painted that way!
Oh - and partly because of you, I've come to really like graphite, particularly the rough sketches before they are inked and nailed down into something solid; there is a sort of vitality, a LIFE to them, which diminishes once those inked lines render them "still". I seek them out, if the artist uses the sketch to trace out the final work onto board for inking and coloring.
Yes on pencils sketches there is always a life to them vitality wise that is toned odown in a painting. Unless the artist can keep it lively during painting its kinda hard to keep it as lively
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Aren't they less likely to pose a fire hazard, and aren't the materials used to thin or clean them safe from "spontaneous combustion" problems, which linseed oil and other thinners/cleaners pose?
Weren't you at one time working in acrylics? I'd swear that I have a few things by you which were painted that way!
Oh - and partly because of you, I've come to really like graphite, particularly the rough sketches before they are inked and nailed down into something solid; there is a sort of vitality, a LIFE to them, which diminishes once those inked lines render them "still". I seek them out, if the artist uses the sketch to trace out the final work onto board for inking and coloring.
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