Cobra Water Mixable Oil Paint Review #1

I bought some Cobra Water Mixable Oil Paints to tryout. I am not sensitive to regular oils or the mediums but thought these might be less smelly for the others in the house. Cobra WMO are very creamy when they come out of the tube and mix beautifully. Colours are rich and true.

I first started with thinning with a little bit of water. They can achieve some watercolour-like effects and in this thinness dry fairly quickly. Some cool effects of lifting with a clean wet brush creates some unique painting styles; something I want to explore in more depth. Painting directly from tube was luscious and was open for a long time. I am used to using an alkyd medium and OMS mix along with paints which dry to the touch in 24 hours. I found Cobra WMO straight from the tube takes several days to dry to the touch. This could be frustrating for my painting style.....

I briefly tried the Cobra WMO glazing medium, which must be thinned with water. Seemed a bit draggy but will try it more extensively and report back. I liked the Cobra WMO painting paste, which is basically an unpigmentented oil paint which can be mixed to various degrees of transparency.

I was unable to purchase the Cobra WMO painting medium, tried Artisan with it. Don't know if this was a mistake of mixing the two types together or the resin smell of Artisan but the smell of the painting medium almost made me sick to my stomach. I would like to try the Cobra WMO painting medium to compare.

One thing I am not liking about CobraWMO is during painting session brush cleaning. I normally put used brushes into OMS, wipe clean and then into painting medium. Placing Cobra WMO painting brushes into water just makes them tacky and unusable. I found that I was always reaching for a clean brush.

Well thats all for now.