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Acrylic Paint
What Surface Should I use with Acrylic?
Tue, 05/05/2009 - 16:21 — ArtyfectWhat is the best surface on which to use oil and acrylic paints?
The best suited surfaces for oil and acrylic are prepared boards and surfaces. Acrylic is more forgiving in that most non-oily surfaces will take acrylic paint. Oils paints must be painted onto prepared/ gesso primed surfaces. This allows for proper adhesion to the surface.
Canvas or Canvas Board?
Daler-Rowney Stay-Wet Palette
Wed, 03/11/2009 - 15:33 — ArtyfectThe Stay-Wet Palette is ideal for Acrylics. One of the lovely things about acrylics is that your not waiting for weeks, even months for the painting to dry, but this does lead to the issue of time that you have to work with a painting.
There's nothing worse than squeezing out a large amount of paint on your palette, only to find that is has dried. The amazing thing about the Stay-Wet Pallete is that it actually keeps the paint
on your pallete wet for days, even weeks. Thus reducing the amount of paint you waste, making it ideal for people who lead a fairly busy lifestyle and need to be able to pick and drop a painting where ever they have time. You no longer have to wash away any paint, just place the lid on the pallete and come back to it.
These Daler-Rowney Stay-Wet Palettes have a clear lidded plastic tray which contains three sheets of "reservoir" paper and 12 sheets of "membrane" paper. Stay-Wet works by osmosis - moisture evaporating from the surface is replaced by water from the dampened reservoir paper beneath the semi-permeable membrane which forms the working surface of the palette.
Click here to view the Stay-Wet Palette Video
Starting Out With Atelier Interactive Artists' Acrylic
Mon, 02/16/2009 - 12:42 — EditorStarting Out
Acrylic artists have never before had the opportunity to blend and adjust their paintings wet-in-wet within a time frame they can control, but this advantage involves new processes that need to be learned and followed.
One of the attractions of acrylics has always been speed. Therefore, it is important that in extending working time the abi
lity to do things quickly is not lost, particularly for artists who have developed successful techniques for overcoming the problems of fast drying paints. Otherwise in choosing Interactive you would burden yourself with new, slow processes to learn and lose the techniques you have already mastered to your satisfaction.
Balance
Interactive moves the balancing point which controls drying.
Extended wet-in-wet painting is now possible. However when you want your painting to dry quickly to allow fast layering techniques, use Fast Medium Fixer.
