On a winter day that is overcast with bright white skies.
I don't paint with acrylics on canvas using washes either only dry brush to create an almost airbrush quality went I need tones to be very light and subtle in change. I do use dark washes when painting over base coats on a sculpture to attain deep shadow effects in the small cracks and recesses and dry brush for highlights.
Obviously to each their own. It just doesn't make any sense to me to paint in oils even from what you described with your process. Acrylics, in my estimation are not meant to be put onto a pallet of 8 globs at a time like oils, because the obvious: they dry too fast.
I methodically plan out my layers and paint one color at a time, even if that one color is only a few very small areas. Then i clean my brush and mix up the next color, and so on and so forth.
Glad the art snobbery is dying off. That's good to hear oils are dropping in price too.
