#but anyhow paints never clicked for me but I love them a lot and I'll never touch oils again but I have mad respect for painters | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

loregoddess · 4 days ago

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I know I essentially never had a proper painting teacher in college, despite multiple painting classes, and therefore actually have no idea how to use oils correctly, but every time I see an oil painting by someone who does know how the oil paints work, I'm like holy shit

#fun fact I'm not actually very good at any type of painting I just enjoy the activity #don't have space to paint in my house though so sometimes I get a wild longing to paint and I can't #also I haven't gone through the dreaded cupboard of old art supplies to clean it out and organize it since college #but anyhow paints never clicked for me but I love them a lot and I'll never touch oils again but I have mad respect for painters #and esp. oil painters #my ''intro to painting class'' was taught by a guy who was one semester away from retirement and let us get away with everything but murder #the next teacher who tried to rectify my class's lack of oil painting knowledge failed to explain it in a way that made any sense #(I was also lowkey scared of her bc I knew she was on the thesis panel and could fail me and I embodied every bit of art she seemed to hate #somehow she ended up liking me well-enough but I did not have the heart to ask her to explain herself better either)#really need to get back into experimental painting someday...#oracle of lore

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