I Need Painting Tips! Is there a paint that Is as good as oil paint but drys fast kinda like Acrylics?

I have oil paint and Acrylics..but I don't know how to use Acrylics THAT well...I'm better with oil paints..but Oil paints Take forever to dry..and I am trying to do Mixed media so I kinda don't want to ait 3 days to get a picture done...Any Advice or better paints that i can use??





(I kinda want to mix them together XD just to see if i can get what i want by doing that!)I Need Painting Tips! Is there a paint that Is as good as oil paint but drys fast kinda like Acrylics?
Done mix them. There is a fast drying medium you can add to the oils to help them dry faster (*made by liquitex), but be careful if you mix you own from (Japanese Dryer) because too much can cause the paints to crack at a later date.





Both have good points and bad, and you will need to get skilled with both. I like under painting with acrylics for the fast drying part and finishing up with oils because of their great ability to allow me to finish and dry brush. But you cannot do them in the reverse order.





Grumbacher used to make an oil paint that worked a lot like acrylics but I don't know if they are still making it. Check around.





I love mixed media work because you can do some fun techniques, but some care needs to be exercised because you don't want to sell a nice piece and find out later it peeled off the canvas or all the paint faded to white. ooops.I Need Painting Tips! Is there a paint that Is as good as oil paint but drys fast kinda like Acrylics?
Don't mix them together unless you want a mess. They are not compatible. Just use a drying agent and your oils will dry overnight and even begin tacking up within a few hours.





Use M Graham Walnut Alkyd Medium. It is odorless and safe. Scroll to the bottom of the page:


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M T is right; don't mix them together but if you want faster drying oils develop a technique using the oils in a thinner consistency. The thinner the oils the faster they dry. You can do a lot with turp-thinned oils ; I have done many paintings with this technique and they turn out great.
Mixing them together experimentally could be interesting, but not much will make oil paint dry in three days! There are mediums you can buy to mix with the oils that wiil make it dry faster, but only at the surface. I have used oils outdoors in the heat (97 degrees) and it dried very quickly, but again, just at the surface. It would be interesting to experiment with how the mix of the two paints would look in a few years, but in three days you have to use acrylics.





Remember the old saw: practice makes perfect. Acrylics are different, they dry faster. There are mediums, like ';Slow Dry'; you can use to make them more like oils, but you will still have to get used to how they feel. Three-day paintings are possible in acrylics.
Dont mix them. Use the new mediums and slow drying agents that are available. Acrylics arew great and can be used in so many ways nowdays