At least to me, they are vey different from either acrylics or watercolor in that it seems impossible not to blend them as you paint. With acrylics and watercolor I work in layers and rarely mix colors. Instead, I tend to stick to the transparent colors and get the variations by laying them over each other. The main exception is a shadow color which I mix from Ultramarine Blue and either Burnt Umber or Burnt Sienna.
I've watched many oil painting demonstrations and the thing that always seemed like such a pain was mixing all the colors. But I found myself doing that without even much thinking about it. I'm enjoying it.
I can see quite a bit more for me to do in this painting, but my sister said she thinks it's very close to being finished. So I guess in my next painting session I'll limit myself to the changes and additions that I think are absolutely necessary and then reassess.
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