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if you could give us some more info on what you're trying to do exactly with the oil paints, maybe we can help you more.
Also, howcome you're doing art A Levels and have never tried oils before? They're not that much different from any other paints you may have tried. Just a few differences, like ngdawg said. They are more forgiving I would say, because they don't dry so fast and you can actually scrape off mistakes with a palette knife.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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