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Acrylic Painting for Beginners: Choosing Paint
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Acrylic Painting for Beginners: Choosing Paint

Acrylic paint is a relatively new type of paint, and has become a popular option for artists at any stage. Acrylic is a water-based paint made from 100% acryl...
Acrylic Paint 101: What Are Acrylic Mediums?
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Acrylic Paint 101: What Are Acrylic Mediums?

Acrylic paint is a well-loved, popular medium due to its vibrancy and versatility, as well as ease-of-use and different capabilities. Although relatively new ...
Acrylic Paint 101: Types of Acrylic Paint
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Acrylic Paint 101: Types of Acrylic Paint

Acrylic paint is a well-loved, popular medium due to its vibrancy and versatility, as well as ease-of-use and different capabilities. Although relatively new ...
Acrylic Paint 101: Acrylic Paint Characteristics
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Acrylic Paint 101: Acrylic Paint Characteristics

Acrylic paint is a well-loved, popular medium due to its vibrancy and versatility, as well as ease-of-use and different capabilities. Although relatively new ...
Acrylic Paint 101: What is Acrylic Paint?
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Acrylic Paint 101: What is Acrylic Paint?

Acrylic paint is a well-loved, popular medium due to its vibrancy and versatility, as well as ease-of-use and different capabilities. Although relatively new ...
Detail of Jest by Keight Maclean featuring tri-art crackle ground
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Breaking the Rules: How to Use Crackle Ground like a Professional

Tri-Art’s Crackle Ground was a happy accident of our lab. It's an easy to use and effective product for creating texture, but unlike our other professional products, it breaks all the rules of best...
detail of quinacridone colours from Tri-Art chart from 1994.
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Quinacridone Pigments

Quinacridones are a contemporary painter’s greatest tool when it comes to mixing, glazing and staining. Whereas artists previously needed to choose between reds of permanency, transparency or chrom...
flaking wall paint
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Staying Grounded: The Importance of Priming

The thought of priming has become a distant thought for most painters today. Although it may seem like simple white paint, acrylic gesso is a truly modern material that has solved centuries of tech...
high viscosity, peaked red paint
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Beyond Colour: The Rheology and Viscosity of Acrylic Paints

Today’s acrylic paint comes formulated in a range of mediums from free flowing, ink-like forms to highly bodied, gel types.Rheology and viscosity are the key properties that form the real structure...