Which medium is the most convenient for you to paint?

I paint with pastels and really like it. It is workable and doesn't make much mess, so the clean-up is practically non existant. My art teacher, Vivian Ripley, even has a water method with pastels, which can give it a water color look. [I don't use that method because it requires a more expensive paper and I try to keep my expenses down, at least until I find a way to sell more of my paintins.] My mother worked in oils and acrylic. She didn't care as much for watercolor because it wasn't as "workable". She wanted to be able to redo things. Reworking with pastels is possible, but you have to be careful how you pick up the color from the paper so that it doesn't look reworked. Anyone else work in pastels?

Hi, Even I love doing oil pinting,I am not good in doing paintings with water colours.One of my mother's friend has presented my son a new set of acrylic colours.I know only oil painting on oil sheet.I wonder how to use those colours on canvas.Any idea about canvas painting?

i love oil paints. i suck at water colors. i didnt like acrylic very much either. oils just blend better for me

i like using water color

One of the benefits of Oils is that one can go back to the piece and still "work" it within a reasonable time span. Acrylics and water colors especially don't offer as much flexibilty. Certainly water based mediums with decent skill levels are beautiful as finished pieces as well, which is where I am now. An issue for me changed my direction. I painted a large oil, seascape many years ago, almost entirely with a "knife" and delivered it, hung it, and was advised nearly a year later that it was still "drying" SMILES. There is no real right or wrong answer though. It's a matter of preference and personal choice. The more valid issue is to create, express, and enjoy whatever medium one explores, experiments with, and perhaps settles into. Truly it's all about the Passion. Steven Wolf Life long artist