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Fabric painting is acrylic, water based, while oil is oil based. fabric painting, strokes are beautiful, but you have to be very fast, once it dries you cant do anything, while in oil it takes time , so you can keep merging and make changes. both has their own advantages.
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Fabric color is water based it also has a special solvent meant for its usage on different surfaces. You can dilute fabric colors. meaning less of pigments & more of solvent or diluter. Oil painting as the name suggests is oil based medium. the pigments are also oil based. you can prepare thinner past...
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Fabric color is water based it also has a special solvent meant for its usage on different surfaces. You can dilute fabric colors. meaning less of pigments & more of solvent or diluter. Oil painting as the name suggests is oil based medium. the pigments are also oil based. you can prepare thinner past of the oil colors by adding linseed or other oils available. but you cannot dilute it by any means... Both have different usage. working methods too are different. read less
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Fabric painting is to paint on cloth material, oil painting is used to do on canvas. Both are for different purposes
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Fabric painting is water based, oil is oil based. Strokes are beautiful in fabric but you have to be very fast, because it dries very fast, while oil you can keep merging, as drying is slow.
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Fabric is water based..oil is not water based.In oil painting u can do correction.. For learning oil paintings is good choice.. Definetly we will enjoy to do.
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Dear friend, Oil painting is an traditional method of painting.Solution for oil painting is linseed oil,but in fabric painting you can dilute it by water and other solvent.
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Fabric colors are water based while oil color are oil based. To paint with fabric color you need water while with oil you need linseed oil to dilute.fabric color dry quickly, on the other hand oil color takes several days to dry, even a month.
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Fabric is water based and oil paint is oil based so they both are different but the techniques are similar if you want realistic work you can do with oil
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They both have different medium . oil uses oil colors turpentine oil and linseed oil whereas in fabric painting we have fabric colors and its different medium
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Oil painting takes time to dry while fabric painting is easy to dry and oil painting can also be corrected after drying while fabric is not.
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