What type of paint??

underpants

I'm going about doing a painting and was intending to use oil paint but I want part of the painting to have a very thick texture with liberal amounts of paint applied. Now I've found out that oil paint is normally applied slowly by lair. So I was wondering would it be better to just go with acrylic paint.

As an example, Van gogh's Starry night uses oil paint on canvas yet its very "lumpy", for want of a better word. how did he manage that? he hardly built it up using tens of layers to make it look like it was liberally applied??

Anywho, any thoughts or helpfully comments would be appreciated.

lenablue

Hi,
Acrylic works wonderfully.. Another way that I have used is mixing plaster of paris with normal pva to get the texture and the painting over it once it's dry. It does take some time to dry though. If you can afford to use loads of paint I would suggest just using acrylic and piling it on.

Fajitas!

Oil paint mixed with sun flower oil, applied thickly alway's worked for me.

artieanna

You can use oil paint thickly, this is known as impasto (you can squeez it out of the tube directly onto canvas if you like, however this can be expensive and is very slow to dry, at least a year.

The thin layers of oil paint you refer to are called glazes, paint is too thin to create texture.

Acrylic is good for texture as it will dry much faster than oil. To create texture you can add sand to pva and colour it with pigments or acrylic paint.

In fact you can add almost anything to pva to create texture, rice, tea leaves, soil, etc; etc.

underpants

sounds good. I'll try a few of those.
Thanks for all your help!