A sketch and some thoughts · Society of Figurative Art

A sketch and some thoughts

I often see teachers who say "use only the best oils and only cadmium colors cause only they mix great skintones and it has to be lead primed raymar panel for 100 bucks and lead white and get your sable brushes". This is a 2 buck brush and an earth tone color by Schmincke. Just a sketch/material test so it will stay that way. The supercheap oils are not good tho and are expensive because they have so little pigment. But i let all these comments keep me from painting because i thought I have to have all of this and "only lead white looks great" which is expensive and i have 4 cats that i don't want to poison (even tho 4 are too many 🤪). Don't let those ideas hold you back. People do beautiful work with titanium white and like here on a piece of cheap canson oil paper (2,50 EUR a sheet 50 x 70) which i actually like a lot ! :) oh and trashy brushes have a certain streaky look that can be really appealing. Or maybe try a toothtbrush. Feel free to disagree tho !

Now trying to post this on insta will probably get me bannes again. I might still do it.

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