While somewhat new to the painters world, acylics are becoming more and more popular due to their flexibility suitable for a wide range of techniques. Giving this medium huge potential. They are also much cheeper to work with then your standard oil paints. Good for the begining painter.
In Useing acrylics straight out of the bottle without adding water it is called opaque, it is ideal for even flat coverage, or for very thick effects. Usually you get highly visible brush strokes when using opaque acrylics. Interesting paintings can be built up quickly due to the fast dry time. Mistakes are easily covered due to fast dry times.
Acrylics are largely water based. Meaning there are no toxins to go along with them as in your oil painting. One down side of acrylics is that they dry soft, meaning they can attracked dirt. Some people call this a film. It dulls the colors of your painting. Most art store acrylics do not have this problem.
Different Ways To Use Acrylics:
Opauely: Useing acrylics straight out of the tube. Applied thickly, sometimes adding white. This is important when painting on a toned surface.
Plastic Properties: When it dries, these paints take on a tougher quality of plastic. This makes it unique among painting media because it can be extruded, knotted, or sculpted in 3-D form.
Acrylics As Glue: Its almost like a fast drying glue. Because of this, it works well in colloge techniques. Using lite materials and thick amounts of paint.
Watered Down: Diluted, it can be used like watercolour. It has the advantage of drying insolubly so that layersof paint dont mix with lower layers. Diluted, they also work well in an airbrush.
Painting With Texture: You can create highly textured effects with thick, impasted paint by mixing special pastes into your paint. One coarse paste includes pumice.
Painting With Gel: Gel medium offers you a choice of effects. Alot of gel w/ little paintcreates a translucent impasto. Scraped or painted thinly gels will create a translucent glaze.
MEDIUMS are substances that can be added to paint to change its consistency for specials effects as explained above or even to make it have a glossy or more matte finish. RETARDER can be added to actually slow the paints drying time and keep it workable and useful for techniques like blending.
The best colours to use are those that can withstand fading. Good choices include; Quinacridone violets and reds; Phthalo blues and greens; Cadmium reds and yellows; also Azo yellows are good. The earth colours, Ochres and Siennas, and Titanium White.
In Useing acrylics straight out of the bottle without adding water it is called opaque, it is ideal for even flat coverage, or for very thick effects. Usually you get highly visible brush strokes when using opaque acrylics. Interesting paintings can be built up quickly due to the fast dry time. Mistakes are easily covered due to fast dry times.
Acrylics are largely water based. Meaning there are no toxins to go along with them as in your oil painting. One down side of acrylics is that they dry soft, meaning they can attracked dirt. Some people call this a film. It dulls the colors of your painting. Most art store acrylics do not have this problem.
Different Ways To Use Acrylics:
Opauely: Useing acrylics straight out of the tube. Applied thickly, sometimes adding white. This is important when painting on a toned surface.
Plastic Properties: When it dries, these paints take on a tougher quality of plastic. This makes it unique among painting media because it can be extruded, knotted, or sculpted in 3-D form.
Acrylics As Glue: Its almost like a fast drying glue. Because of this, it works well in colloge techniques. Using lite materials and thick amounts of paint.
Watered Down: Diluted, it can be used like watercolour. It has the advantage of drying insolubly so that layersof paint dont mix with lower layers. Diluted, they also work well in an airbrush.
Painting With Texture: You can create highly textured effects with thick, impasted paint by mixing special pastes into your paint. One coarse paste includes pumice.
Painting With Gel: Gel medium offers you a choice of effects. Alot of gel w/ little paintcreates a translucent impasto. Scraped or painted thinly gels will create a translucent glaze.
MEDIUMS are substances that can be added to paint to change its consistency for specials effects as explained above or even to make it have a glossy or more matte finish. RETARDER can be added to actually slow the paints drying time and keep it workable and useful for techniques like blending.
The best colours to use are those that can withstand fading. Good choices include; Quinacridone violets and reds; Phthalo blues and greens; Cadmium reds and yellows; also Azo yellows are good. The earth colours, Ochres and Siennas, and Titanium White.
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