Oil Paints????

I wanted to try this, but i herd that making one piece of art can take weeks because these paints take so long to dry. Is that true? And also, can anybody tell me any good sites tha will show me how to paint a realistic human face?Oil Paints????
Oh you can try mixing it with acrylic paint or use acrylic alone. Painting human faces, start with the basic face colour and hair, then add the face shades (cheek bones) and highlights of the hair but not the dark shades, add in a light shade of the features and from there work on big details to the small ones.Oil Paints????
Yes oil paint takes much longer to dry, sometimes it takes even up to three days until it's try enough for you to paint another layer on top...


However if you want you can thin it down so it drys faster, use either turpentine or linseed oil





The turpsentine you put it into a small bowl or class then with your brush slowly add a bit of turp into the color and mix, do this until it's thinner, you put as much depending on how quick you want something to dry, if you thin it down to the extend that it's as thin as acrylic it will try in 10 minutes...





Linseed oil is a much better thinner as it doesn't stink, do the same thing with that too!





To learn how to paint faces see some of those sites, I was going to give you my advice but website descriptions are so much better :)





Check out:





This is about digital painting but it says really great stuff about the expressions, probortions etc :


http://www.2d-digital-art-guide.com/pain鈥?/a>





A site about the general painting of the face:


http://stason.org/TULARC/crafts/miniatur鈥?/a>





A site on how to paint potraits:


http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lesson鈥?/a>





Potrait painting in oil:


http://www.oil-painting-techniques.com/p鈥?/a>





A video of a potrait being painted:


http://www.revver.com/video/523439/drawi鈥?/a>





Some sites about the basics of oil painting:


http://www.hagermanart.com/art_class.htm





http://www.wikihow.com/Oil-Paint





http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displ鈥?/a>


http://www.oilpaintings.org
I am a self taught artist who learned to paint with oils using library books. I apply my paint thin and do alot of blending and found that my paintings dry enough to be safely moved or picked up by the client in as little as two weeks, but i tell them not to frame it for at least four months and not to varnish for at least six months. When i decided to learn to paint five years ago, i started with portrait painting because i figured it would get me farther faster and i'm glad i did. I've checked out countless websites and while i did pick up some good tips it was the books that helped me out the most. Get yourself a good book that explains ''underpainting'', learning this will help with your portrait painting and their look. My work can be checked out at hellosanantonio.com under artist GUERRO1.
When painting with oils, most artists use a medium to make the paint flow. I use walnut oil and a drop or 2 of Cobalt dryer. Some artists use Liquin, which, like Cobalt dryer, helps oils dry more quickly, and gives a nice glossy texture. Just don't let it dry on your brushes as it can ruin them. I recommend getting a basic oil painting for beginners type book and go from there. That way you can have the book open as you start working and refer to it. And if you hate what you've done, the great thing about oils is that you can wipe it off with a rag and start over!