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My art: featherdust.comWell I just purchased 7 1oz and 2 4oz containers of Golden paint and one container of GAC 100. That’s 15 oz of paint. $80 (with shipping)! Let it never be said I don’t use quality materials on these! 😆 Really though, for what I got, it was less than retail. Most of the time these 1oz bottles are $7+/ea depending on the series number. My paint alone last time I got it cost well over $150. I can’t even fathom how much the Factory spends on paint. Thousands of dollars, I’m sure. 😯
Well, at least now I can get back to work on the moon griffin and her chicks!!
Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comGeeez! Severe! I feel ya. I have done it a few times. I keep hoping that the pricey-er the paint, the better my painting. 🙄 Your results are awesome, though so it must be worth it!! 😉
Oof! I didn’t realize paint was so expensive – or that it could account for so much of the price of a Windstone…
Greater Basilisk wrote:Oof! I didn’t realize paint was so expensive – or that it could account for so much of the price of a Windstone…
A lot goes into them! 🙂 Quality is important.
Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comsay, where do you buy your colors? got a good hint?(golden and other good acrylics)
only just last week I calculated via catalogue the amount of the minimal I’d need for some exhibit works and… ouch my eyes still hurt. I felt like starting a fire and switching to charcoal artwork…I usually get them from Dick Blick too.. some of the best prices I can find!
Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comNambroth wrote:Well I just purchased 7 1oz and 2 4oz containers of Golden paint and one container of GAC 100. That’s 15 oz of paint. $80 (with shipping)! Let it never be said I don’t use quality materials on these! 😆 Really though, for what I got, it was less than retail. Most of the time these 1oz bottles are $7+/ea depending on the series number. My paint alone last time I got it cost well over $150. I can’t even fathom how much the Factory spends on paint. Thousands of dollars, I’m sure. 😯
Well, at least now I can get back to work on the moon griffin and her chicks!!
Oooo, you said chicks. Sweet.
Nambroth wrote:Well I just purchased 7 1oz and 2 4oz containers of Golden paint and one container of GAC 100. That’s 15 oz of paint. $80 (with shipping)! Let it never be said I don’t use quality materials on these! 😆 Really though, for what I got, it was less than retail. Most of the time these 1oz bottles are $7+/ea depending on the series number. My paint alone last time I got it cost well over $150. I can’t even fathom how much the Factory spends on paint. Thousands of dollars, I’m sure. 😯
Much of the paint we use is now well over $250 per gallon, wholesale.
John wrote:Nambroth wrote:Well I just purchased 7 1oz and 2 4oz containers of Golden paint and one container of GAC 100. That’s 15 oz of paint. $80 (with shipping)! Let it never be said I don’t use quality materials on these! 😆 Really though, for what I got, it was less than retail. Most of the time these 1oz bottles are $7+/ea depending on the series number. My paint alone last time I got it cost well over $150. I can’t even fathom how much the Factory spends on paint. Thousands of dollars, I’m sure. 😯
Much of the paint we use is now well over $250 per gallon, wholesale.
Wow, that is expensive at least to me.
I remember reading once a list of “things by the gallon” that was just sort of showing that a gallon of gas being three bucks wasn’t actually that expensive, when you consider other fluids we buy, and how much they would cost if we bought them by the gallon.
I mean, there’s 128 fluid ounces in a gallon. Even then $1 a bottle cheap paint would be $64 for a whole gallon of the stuff.
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