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Acrylic Painting Techniques The most striking feature of acrylic paint is its versatility .
When acrylic paint is diluted with water, it handles similarly to water-colour , when thinned with a smaller amount of water , acrylic can have a superb gouache like consistency. If you add even less water , or thin it with acrylic medium, you have a paint quality like that of oil . If you add retarder and or gel medium, or paste extender, you have a medium that has even more body than oil. If you are interested in working with collage techniques , there is no more ideal medium than acrylic. It is an excellent adhesive and can be used to bind papers, fabrics, sand and any other materials to the painting surface.
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Understanding the Medium : Acrylics were invented in the 1950s. They are as versatile as Oil and Watercolour and have some unique quality of their own. Acrylic is a polyacrylicate polymer - a modern, manufactured product derived from synthetic resin. Acrylic paint is made by dispersing pigments into an emulsion of acrylic resin and water. Acrylic paint becomes slightly darker as it dries (allow for these colour changes)
Generally, you can mix paints and media products by different manufacturers without problems.
Advantages of Acrylic Paints: • Very quick drying time. • Can be over painted as much as you like • Can be painted on more or less any surface, from paper to board to canvas. • Needs no surface preparation, or priming, but most artist prefer a prepared surface. • Water base, and can be thinned down with water. • Brushes can be washed out in water. Note: Brushes must be left in a container with water or washed regularly.
Acrylic Mediums: (media) Acrylics can be used directly from the tube or thinned with water. But the real fun starts when you begin to add media . Mediums are used to make acrylic even more versatile. Mediums can improve the flow and brushability, they help to maintain adhesiveness and increase transparency. Mediums are also designed to create special characteristics, such as gloss to the normal flat drying colour, and to protect the finished painting from dust and grime.
Brushes for Acrylic
Because acrylic paint dries so quickly, there is a risk that the paint will dry on the brush, damaging it. Don't put your costly sable brushes at risk. Synthetic brushes work well for synthetic acrylic paints.
Stiff Brushes: Get to know your brushes and find out what “marks” you can make with different type of brushes, how much paint they can carry and how they respond to different surfaces. Thicker paint and bristle brushes make more distinct marks than soft runny paints and soft brushes.
Every brush is capable of a range of marks. You can even use the handle of the brush to scratch into wet paint, a technique called “sgrafitto”.
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