When it comes to the difference and the lines of acrylic and oil paint there is much to say.

I get a lot of questions as;

• Witch one is the best to paint with?
• Witch one is the easiest to paint with?
• What are the cons and pros of the different paints?

I’m going to try answer these questions as best as I can from my own experience (While trying to avoid being eaten alive by mosquitoes here in Sweden, god, gotta hate Swedish summers, the rain and the bugs are literately killing me.)

1. Witch one is the best to paint with?

Even tho this has to do with the experience of the painter (how good you are at painting in general) but i find that you get the best colors and the most natural colors by painting with oil paint. Of course – Acrylic paint, if you are good enough, you can get amazing colors and the drying time is like 1000% faster, but still, there are Technics and colors you only can do with oil paint.

2.Witch one is the easiest to paint with?

The Technics when it comes to the oil paint comes from the most easy Technics to the most advanced – the oil paint is for the more experienced one and I would say that  acrylic is good for beginners (but it can be beautiful art if you know how to use it)

3. What are the cons and pros of the different paints?

Oil pros;

• you can do a lot more with it
• it look more natural to paint with, the color are so much more preferred
• you can blend colors much better and easy-er
• It’s covering perfect, it’s thick and covers when to cover.

Oil cons;

• it takes forever to dry
• the smell can (if you are sensitive) make you faint if you are in a closed room with no ventilation

Acrylic pros; 

• it take 3 min to dry completely – make is easy to paint multiply layers
• its easy to paint with

Acrylic cons;

• its transparent paint, it take multiply layers to cover.
• you can’t to as much as with oil paint
• the colors – when they dry – look a little bit plastic in my opinion

<– Acrylic painting. 2014

<– Oil Paining. 2013