I recommend starting with water based oils. Everything else can be built on top of them, and you can use them with normal oil supplies if you want to advance to that.
Sections
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Water Based Oils
Normal Oils
Tools and Skin Protection
Canvas and Surfaces
Water Based Oils
The best and great to use if you don’t have proper ventilation for paint thinners.
Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oil Paints and Sets
Normal Oils
You need oils and/or paint thinners to work with these.
Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Paints and Sets
The best paint thinner with no odor. Please still use proper ventilation.
Weber Odorless Turpenoid
To thicken up your paints. Put this into paint when you are doing your thicker later layers. Can help revive old paint.
Blick Studio Linseed Oil
Tools and Skin Protection
Oils can be very toxic and cause skin irritation, as well as the paint thinners.
Latex Free Gloves
To blend with instead of full gloves
Drawing Finger Sleeves Artist Blending Detail
For wiping and cleaning brushes. I love to use rags for blending colors over large areas.
Bag of Rags
Gesso in different sizes for all your priming needs. Gesso is applied in layers to give you a super smooth and opaque painting surface.
Primers and Gessoes
To sand gesso if needed for a super smooth texture
Sandpaper
Easy and affordable mixing surface. Cover with plastic wrap to keep it from drying, or put it in a container.
Palette Paper
Cover your palette easily!
Plastic Wrap
The best brush cleaner. Keep your brushes healthy!
The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
Different price points for whatever your budget is. Pretty brushes make great gifts.
Oil Paint Brushes
You can use plastic or metal. Your choice.
Painting and Palette Knives
Easy to clean brushes with either water or paint thinner
Silicoil Brush Cleaning Tank
For building your own canvases
Canvas Stapler
Canvas and Surfaces
Thin for easy storage and practice paintings
Canvas Pads
A step up from paper and not quite a full canvas
Canvas Boards and Panels
Unstretched canvas is easy to store and send in the mail
Canvas Rolls
All different canvases for your creative impulses
Art Canvases and Painting Surfaces
Combine this with rolled canvas to create your own canvases from scratch.
