>>16887
>Affordable paint
lmao.
I've got a set of acrylics called Premiere Acrylic Color I picked up from somewhere, I think it was pretty cheap. I've never bought my own oil paints, only borrowed leftovers in my art classes.
Places like Micheal's or ACMoore are total scams, they price everything at double what you could get it on amazon. Then they beg you to sign up for daily coupon spam, 50% off one item*, EXPIRING NOW!
*Unless it already had some other bullshit sale applied to it.
>oil or acrylic
Acrylic dries in about 15 minutes, you need to keep spraying the paint with a mister bottle or something to keep it from drying before you get it on the canvas.
Oil paint takes anywhere from 4 weeks to 6 months to dry. Also, it smells bad.
Do you want to build up multiple transparent layers in a hurry with acrylic, or do you want to blend and blend and blend with oil? Bob only uses oil.
>Primers
Usually this just means having a coat of paint or gesso on the canvas to make the paint go on smoother or stick on a non canvas surface.
Bob's whole technique is using primer with paint thinner in it (that Magic Hwhite stuff) and extremely thick paint. The thickness of the paint makes for stronger impasto textures in the palette knife mountains and paint brush jabbing foliage, while the thinner helps get the thick paint off the brush and allows the blending of the sky, clouds, and water.
If you don't care about hanging your shit on a wall then getting canvas pad paper is much cheaper than regular canvases.
