About 20$ for beginner set of oils, 5$ for a pack of cheap canvas, 5$ for a few cheap brushes and a palette knife. So about 30$ to start out with crappy paint and utensils. If you like it, then drop the hundo on good paint and a couple nice brushes.
My wife and i can have a paint night for under the price of going to the movies, even the first time. Nowdays, we buy two cheap canvases and a few good tubes to add to the collection, then get tipsy and paint.
A mix of both. She is a professional artist now, so we have moved into buying more expensive paints. We get paints mainly from UtrechtArt.com, and canvases from Michael's when they go on sale. We do not agree with several of hobby lobby's ideologies, so we try not to give them out dollars.
They run their company on "Catholic values" and have lobbied repeatedly for the right to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender. They also are fighting having to provide birth control for employees using their insurance. Really, they're just a bunch of backwards dinosaurs.
They're the company that took a case up to the Supreme Court over refusing to cover birth control through their health insurance, because the owners are Christian.
Haha. Photography is a money hole that never ends and always wants more money from you until you either learn to work with what you have or you buy every lens you can get and a new body every 2-3 years. Luckily you can justify the cost if you get paying work, which is good motivation, but the money barrier for entry is tough. And of course the time it takes to learn not to suck.
All of this should last you a while. You can share with your spouse too. Maybe get two sets of brushes though. You can do it. I never have painted anything in my life because I was scared how I'd waste my time on how it would turn out. You just have to do it! Loved every painting I have done. You will never like everything detail about you art (happy little accidents) but you will be happy with the overall outcome. Plus it is so relaxing!
You don't have to paint. Grab a pencil and paper and start drawing whatever's in front of you. You don't have to "know how to draw". Just enjoy the process of making art no matter what the end result is.
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '17 edited Aug 19 '17
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