/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2133838
I'll concede your point on the grounds of long-term consistency of paint, we're not using 'Cow piss Indian Yellow' for example. However, in terms of workability and adhesiveness, a lot has been lost. Most paints function like some variety of water color, having no real capacity for layering. Most of them dry very quickly as well, so you can't work 'wet-in-wet' as easily.

So what we find is that there are more students of art, but those students are less and less serious about their work. It's easy to pump out acrylic paintings of Lady Gaga, but it's harder to really capture your environment in a thoughtful and provoking way.

A lot of student paints still contain beeswax, which are a necessary component for adhesion, yet the 'quality artist oil paints' often don't contain it, because they're so focused on pigment load per tube. This doesn't actually help anyone because it makes tubes both more expensive and less workable. For this reason, I'd have to recommend Old Holland or Lukas Oil paint.