Your Advice, Please?

Very recently, I have taken up painting with acrylics.  After a little playing around, I've been most pleased with the Golden Open Acrylics because of their longer drying times.  As for subject matter, I have been butchering everything I can think of, from still-lifes to landscapes to portraits.  The main thing I've found out from my experiments so far is that I have a whole lot to learn.

So does anyone have any advice for working with acrylic paints -- or with any paints, for that matter?

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  1. No advice from me, but see how fast you could think of stuff to write about? Well, okay, a little advice. Don't call it "butchering", call it "interpreting".

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  2. Interpreting? Ah! Yes, it sounds much better! :D

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  3. Like you, I'm one of those 'talent but no skills' artists. I know how to use a crayon. That's about it.

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    1. You know how to use a crayon? I'm in awe! I've tried to master crayons for years!

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  4. I'm a completely unskilled oil paint man myself, so I can't help you with acrylics.

    If you've found that realistic subject matter isn't your forte, why don't you try abstract painting? Just lay the paint down in whatever pattern pops into your mind.

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    1. I plan on doing all sorts of things -- both abstract and more representational. I'm going to try to stay away from too representational, though. I want the painting to look like a painting, and not, say, a photograph.

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  5. The best advice I have is to lay a large plastic sheet on the floor before you begin decorating your entire body in swirls of bright acrylic. That's just me, though.

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    1. Well...whatever you do, try not to rub your painted body against another painted body. The colors, they don't do well.

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    2. So now you're rubbing my mistakes in, I see.

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  6. If you're working with an airbrush, try to keep the humidity down.

    Let's see ... Yep, that's it. Good luck.

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