Love your ruby-crowned kinglet! Thanks for your review, too.

Thank you for this review! It’s one of the best reviews I’ve seen. No fluff, just honest real life experience that is so helpful! Not helpful however for my art supply addiction lol! 🤣

This is a great review, I love how in-depth you go! Haven't used oils in years for the whole drying-too-slowly reason, so I recently bought some open acrylics, too, and have been enjoying them a lot. Blending is so much easier than with regular acrylics, and like you said, they're easier to photograph and even scan when necessary. Interesting that you mention humidity and temperature, too! It's really hot and humid where I am right now, and drying times have increased across the board...

Excellent review and your art is beautiful! I'm using Cobra Water Mixable oils and have a painting that is two weeks old. It is still tacky. I found if you mix in too much water, the oils will never dry. Just a little bit of water, to make the paint flow, is better. Thin strokes are also important. One art website suggests placing your painting next to a slow running fan, that will speed up the drying time. One artist exposes his fresh paintings to sunlight for a day and it speeds the drying time as well. I am testing the Cobra Quick Drying Medium, instead of water, to see if it helps with the drying time. I want to test the Golden Open acrylics and your video was very helpful. Thank you!

@laurelsundbergstudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve! I totally agree with you about the not using too much water and thin layers helping the dry time, and aiding it with a fan and/or sunlight. In this painting's case, I was really pushing the impasto layers in the white, and boy did it show with the super-long dry time, lol! I usually find things dry MUCH faster during the summer months. I'm curious what you think of the Cobra medium. I have the Winsor Newton and find it too tacky, just don't like the consistency.

Great review on golden open acrylic especially for tropical countries where the weather is hot. I tried different methods like using ice bottom of glass palette and wet plastic sheets nothing seems to help. s working l hope open acrylic will help. Nothing is free l hope the company should look into your free advertisement

Thanks for the overview. I just bought some Daler-Rowney Georgian water-mixable oils and tried them out for the first time recently. They work great, very smooth and buttery-good for blending. There is no color-shift and the painting was touch-dry in a few days. Vey low odour too!

@laurelsundbergstudio

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great! I’ve had good luck with Daler-Rodney.

@laurelsundbergstudio

2 жыл бұрын

Daler-ROWNEY…haha. Autocorrect…

Oil color takes a very long time to dry. I didn’t know it would take that long before I did my first painting. I used medium that made it take longer

@laurelsundbergstudio

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Right!? It’s taken months to dry paintings of snow/winter scenes. So much white! I have artist friends who use Liquin to speed dry time, but that medium gives me an instant headache. The water-I’m able oils I use now do have a medium that speeds dry time, but I’m not very experienced with it.

Thanks for sharing. I'm new to acrylics and blending is a pain. Especially if you attempt anything close to realism. I think I will change my approach to something like Studio Ghibli style of animation. Japanese animation with their more flat realism is perhaps a better fit for acrylic.

@laurelsundbergstudio

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Acrylics are a big change from any other medium. Probably a great reason to explore a new style of painting!