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BalthasarFauge
1 year ago

Yes. You can mix oil colors with different means, so they act as similar to acrylic, but in principle I would say:

Oil colours are intense/lighting

Acrylic is a little weaker

But before all, they have different properties that affect what is possible in the optics:

Oil dries much more slowly, so that you can create much more accurate “perfect” color patterns with oil, depending on which they are more transparent, which is good for layer painting, etc.

Basically, it is easier to make more with oil colors, but with acrylic paint is much easier to paint as much as the effort, health risk, preparation, storage etc., and to paint acrylic for certain types works just as well as oil, but much faster dry. Oil has an extra plus point in some people because oil has a lot of tradition, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Picasso have all painted with oil.

So it depends on what you want to do

SturerEsel
1 year ago

Oil paints I find more beautiful because they are more opaque and dry more slowly. You can create wonderful color transitions by blinding the colors.

They also have a wonderful shine and a very high luminosity.

Good luck!

Schneeloeckchen
1 year ago

I give up the opinion of the artists I studied, who I was allowed to get to know: In acrylic, the nose is stirred; the diletters who have no idea. Whoever keeps it, sniffs the oil tank for a lifetime and waits… waits for drying. But he’s holding something up.

Anyone100
1 year ago

Acrylic seems more plastic. But oil colours are more intense. I’d say.

Tommyleinchen59
1 year ago
Reply to  Anyone100

That’s not true. Acrylic does not work plastic

Schneeloeckchen
1 year ago
Reply to  Anyone100

Funny only that Van Gogh painted so extremely plastic with oil – laugh.

Tommyleinchen59
1 year ago

Oil colours are generally more high-quality. Also more versatile!

I have been painting in oil for almost 50 years

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Thinking You better look at landscape coloring in oil colors? And does this have more texture than acrylic colors?

Tommyleinchen59
1 year ago

This has nothing to do with the texture.

It has something to do with color intensity, lightfastness, mallability and so on.

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Thank you for the detailed answer!!