Acrylic Paint Reviews and Brands

Product Reveiw for HUGE liquitex painting knives. Written by working artist.

Liquitex is most likely the most widely recognized artist acrylic paint in the world.  Most every who paints in acrylics has used it.   Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic paint, sold in tubes and jars, is available in almost every craft, hobby, and art store in America. Availability sometimes brings about a sense of the ordinary and [...]

photo credit: chaparral Learning to use acrylic Painting Gels and  Mediums are a often confusing and intmidating part of acrylic painting.  As a beginning acryic painting, I would typically just stand in the paint aisle at the art supply store with my mouth hanging open in a rather dum fashion, staring at the large number [...]

Ask most artists who were around in the 1950′s and they will say that Liquitex invented acrylic paint.  After some careful research, it is more correct to state that: Liquitex was the first to offer water-based acrylic paint for sale in 1955. Today Liquitex remains a giant in the acrylic paint manufacturing scene in America.  [...]