Oil Paintings on the other hand can be very forgiving for you can get a rag and thinner and just rub off the oils that you did not like and rework it. Also, oils are much stronger in tone and
stand-out even at great distance. Oils have a rich luster that watercolor cannot approach.
However, the greatest weakness with oils is that you cannot delineate very will. Unlike
watercolor where you can introduce a pen and do lots of cross hatching in desired sections of the
work, oils do not permit the use of a pen or any other drawing tools, the paint brush is the
ruler of the oil canvas.
Oil Painting can be much more forgiving than watercolors for watercolors are very not able to be
erased or alter much after you start. When working a watercolor you need to be quick and know
exactly what effect you want. The moment that you put the brush to the paper the pigment sets in.
You can choose to put water on the paper before you set the brush on the paper or you can just
lay the strokes right on. Also, watercolors are translucent which means that you can see through
it so know what you are looking at for mistakes will jump out at you.
The first thing that an artist has to think about when he or she starts a new piece is what
effect do I want have on the work, for there are things that you can do with one medium that you
cannot do with the other. Let us compare the two mediums and see the difference.Canvas Painting
Another feature of watercolors is that you can delineate with far better exactitude than you can
do with oils. You can put a pen and ink line right to the paper and carry that line anywhere on
the paper. What lines of ink that you put on a watercolor are clear and permanent. A great
weakness in watercolors is that you cannot rework it. For example, if you do not like the tone of
a color you applied, you can take your brush dip it into water and apply that to the tone. The
tone will lift out to a point but leave the residue. Now you apply a new tone and notice that it
is not as clear and fresh. Further, if you try and rub the pigment into the paper it will get
muddy looking and loose all it beauty. The key to success with watercolors is to be quick and
light. Do not attempt to edit, try and do everything through on the first time.
Watercolor paintings are far different from Oil Paintings. They each have their own element that
offer very different effects. As an artist I have enjoyed working in many types of medium for
creating art, however, I would like to focus my attention here on my two favorites, watercolors
and oils.