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Acrylic Paints are extremely versatile allowing use in a variety of ways and on a multitude of surfaces. Traditionally a fast drying medium, an aspect that has great appeal to many artists, but can be a bit of a hurdle to beginners. Acrylic mediums can be added to prolong drying time if needed. Many acrylic paints dry with a mat finish whilst others dry with more of a sheen. If a mat finish is required a ‘mat medium’ can be added. Note: Adding any medium can sometimes affect paint consistency and drying time unintentionally.
Acrylic Inks, like most acrylic paints, are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Their pigments are suspended in a thinner medium than traditional acrylic paints. This increased fluidity allows for more translucent applications, such as washes, and also enables the paint to be applied via an airbrush.
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Opposite are the basic supplies I recommend if just getting started with acrylics ➡
Below is a small selection from the acrylic products I use ⬇
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Acrylics
- Liquitex Basics Set of 6 – 68 individual colours available
- Liquitex Basics Set of 24 – 68 individual colours available
- Liquitex Basics set of 48 – 68 individual colours available
- Liquitex Soft Body Paints – 100 colours available
- Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic Colour 12 colour set
- Winsor & Newton Galleria – 60 colours available
- Golden Open Acrylics
- Daler Rowney Graduate – 48 colours available
Acrylic Inks
- Chromacolour Liquid Acrylics
- Liquitex Acrylic Ink – 30 colours available
- Dr PH Martin’s Liquid Acrylic
Surfaces
- Saunders Waterford Hotpress Watercolour Paper 140lb & 300lb
- Arches Hotpress Watercolour Paper 140lb
- Strathmore Toned Grey Mixed Media Paper 184lb
- Strathmore Visual Journey Coldpress Watercolour Paper 140lb
- Daler Rowney Cryla Paper
- Seawhite Mixed Media Artboard
- Fredrix Canvas Pad
- Arches Coldpress Oil Pad
- Clairefontaine Oil Pad
- Any suitable acrylic gesso primed surface really
Brushes
- Royal and Langnickel Crafters Choice
- Daler Rowney System 3 – additional shapes and sizes available
- Royal Soft Grip – 12 piece set
- Various generic Golden Taklon brushes – whatever gets the job done
Miscellaneous
- The Masters Brush Cleaner
- Masterson Artist Palette
- New Wave 12″ x 16″ Glass Palette (keep this inside the Masterson Artist Palette – perfect fit)
- Paint Puck – Paint Brush Cleaner (suctioned to the bottom of a jar containing water)
- Liquitex Palette Knives
- Iwata Neo Airbrush
- Winsor & Newton Watercolour Masking Fluid
- Frisket Masking Film
- Liquitex Gesso
- Liquitex Varnishes
- Golden Open Thinner
- Golden Retarder
- Painters Mahl Stick
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