Water-based oils (1 Viewer)

[theBaron]

Hi, all!

I just found a reference to this product in another forum, and I thought of the rest of the painters here, and our recurring discussions about oils vs acrylics. I did not know that there was such a thing as a water-based oil, but there is:

http://www.dickblick.com/products/holbein-duo-aqua-water-soluble-oils/#description

Has anyone out there ever tried these, and if you have, did you find that you got the benefits of both media (the mixability of oils, with the ease of use of water-based acrylics).

We have a Dick Blick store here in the valley, I may have to pick up a tube or two and mess around with them, to see.

Prost!
Brad

 

[thebritfarmer]

I think these would be like painting with regular acrylics though Brad. I think the traditional oils are used for glossy soldiers, and I don't think these paints would be glossy

 

[theBaron]

I think these would be like painting with regular acrylics though Brad. I think the traditional oils are used for glossy soldiers, and I don't think these paints would be glossy

Actually, oils are used more by connoisseur-style painters, especially painters of flats. Proponents of oils (eg, Windsor-Newton, or Schminke's Mussini line) all seem to say the same thing, when it comes to oils' characteristics, and that's the longer drying time allows the painter to blend his lights and darks for his shadowing. As far as I know, all oils, used on their own, will dry to a more or less glossy finish, and so painters will mix a "matte"-ing agent into the paint, like a wax medium, to produce a matte finish (a gloss finish is smooth, seen at a microscopic level, while a matte finish appears rough, the agent added breaks down into little clumps, and leaves a rough surface, that looks matte to our eye).

Water-based acrylics' advantages appear to lie in their ease of use-you can dilute them with water, or isopropyl alcohol, and their faster drying time. I'm curious to see if these water-based oils have faster drying times, but retain the "blendability" of traditional oils.

I should probably take up my traditional oils again, anyway, and resume teaching myself to work with them. But I'm afraid I don't have the patience.

Prost!
Brad

 

[thebritfarmer]

Thanks for the added info Brad, some stuff in there I knew nothing about.

 

[theBaron]

Sure thing! If I pick up some of these paints, I'll post back here with a little review.

Prost!
Brad