DRAWING AND PAINT

What should you use to hold your acrylic paints?  An inexpensive palette is a sheet of glass, safely protected at its edges.  Each time you finish using it, let the acrylic paint dry, and then scrape it off with a glass scraper.  It will be set for the next time you are inspired to paint.  Then there is the big question, acrylics or oils, but honestly, the advantages are for the acrylics at this stage of the beginning artist game.  Acrylics dry faster and are cheaper to use and thus experimenting will not make you look worriedly at your checkbook.  So go for the acrylics and make your vision come true.

Acrylics dry quicker than oil paints, require only soap and water cleanup, and if you begin by using acrylics, your technique will grow solidly and surely into becoming part of your repertoire as an artist.  You may or may not move onto oils, but for sure your painting will be one that you personally have constructed from stretcher bar to the last layer of paint.  You can be proud of your expertise in making canvas paintings.