What is the best paint to use oils,water, house paint , acrylic etc and why? Thank you?

All depends on what you're going for!





House paint: If you're painting a house or a large area such as a board for a canvas, go for it. I wouldn't recomend it for making a painting because colors don't mix well and it's expensive.





Oil paint: Dries very slowly, rich colors, difficult to use but very dynamic





Acrylic: Dries quick, versatile, easy to use, often very bright





Watercolor: Colors aren't as rich, sometimes hard to master because they bleed, but good for sketches/simple compositions.What is the best paint to use oils,water, house paint , acrylic etc and why? Thank you?
I like acrylics best because they dry quickly, plenty of techniques can be used with them, and they are less expensive than oils haha.What is the best paint to use oils,water, house paint , acrylic etc and why? Thank you?
It depends on what you want to do.





Watercolors are pretty easy and good for beginners. They take patience. In order to add detail to an area you just painted, you have to wait until the paper is dry unless you want it to blotch. People use these a lot for landscapes. They're more expensive than acrylic, but are cheaper than oils. A little tube will go a long way. Only a bead of pigment is really needed at a time.





Oil paints are very expensive and take a very, very long time to dry. You can buy products to speed up the drying process, but it will still take a week to dry. These are great for really detail orientated people. Make sure you want to invest in these before you try them. I have about a dozen tubes of oil paint, and it cost me about $80. You'll also need linseed oil and a special paint thinner. You can buy water-based oil paints which take a lot less time to dry and are water soluble. I used these when I first tried oil to get the hang of it. They also take a really long time to dry.





Acrylics are great for beginners, dry fast, are cheap (my roommate and I both use just the one dollar tubes from Michaels), and can wash off of clothes with a little stain stick if necessary. If there's a mistake, they can be painted over with a few coats. I really, really recommend these for people who are just getting into painting. If you need more time to dry, you can buy something called a retarder (seriously) which will slow down the drying process but make the paint more transparent. Really clear colors like pure blue, red, yellow, etc. will be more transparent as well.





House paints... I'm not sure. I've only used them for painting my room. I suppose you can try them since you can buy premixed little packages, but if they get on something, I'm pretty sure it will stain.





Tempera is great for generic crafts. It's very water soluble, very cheap, and can produce some great fine art results if handled correctly. They don't blend as well as oil or acrylic, have less paint choices usually, and dry with a powdery finish. The powdery finish, especially on cheap tempera, can sort of brush off of fabric, but nothing too terrible from my experience.





Hope that helps.
Like its been said before, it depends what you want to do :)





Oils - take a long time to dry, say 3 months to properly dry, which means you can keep working into the painting for as long as you like. However, it's hard to use and master the techniques if you've never used it before, and it's also fairly expensive for the decent stuff.





Acrylics - take much less time to dry than oils, like a few hours, it's cheap. If you're going to use acrylic i suggest liquitex because its the only acrylic thick enough to get a good even coat, however, its more expensive than most other acrylics. System 3 acrylics are rubbish because they are watery, so dont add water to them if you insist on using it.





Water colour - difficult to use because it bleeds but its fairly affordable. you can't get a solid colour with this easily, and colours aren't massively bright either.





House paint - used for painting walls in houses usually, you can get it from any DIY store. You wouldn't usually use this for artistic purposes, only for decorating.





Gouache - a personal favourite of mine because it dries nice and smooth without any brush marks, the colour is a nice, even coat, its affordable. but obviously depends what you want to do, because you only use it for art painting not decorative purposes.





Powder paint- i wouldn't recommend this, its the sort of stuff they use in primary school and its really watery and doesn't cover well.





Whatever paint you decide to use, always make sure you wash your brushes thoroughly!!!