Acrylic Paint Reviews and Brands

Can you paint with Oil Paint over Acrylic Paint? The answer is YES! Many, many fine art professionals use acrylic paint as an undercoat or underpainting for their oil paintings.  Acrylic dries much faster than oil paint. Therefore it is possible to sketch and shade your underpainting in a matter of minutes or hours with [...]

When the temperature rises and the humidity increases, many artists struggle to adjust and keep painting – especially those who paint outside.  The easiest solution is to move inside for the season, sneaking out on cool mornings.  These acrylic tips for painting in warm weather are compiled from all our wonderful facebook fans! At APR, [...]

Using water to thin acrylic paint isn’t bad, but there are some disadvantages to using water when compared to other methods of thinning acrylic paint. Water reduces the intensity of pigment.  Adding water waters down your color as well as the thickness. Many colors will become more transparent when water is added, thus reducing their [...]

Fluid Acrylic Paint handles differently than tradition heavy body paint from a tube.  If you are accustomed to heavy body paint these tips will get you flowing in the right direction. One: Consider transparent layers for depth Instead of blocking in large shapes of opaque color, try layering slightly different shades of the same color.  [...]

Here is a our top six tips for learning to paint with acrylics.  Reviews, tips, and techniques straight from professional working artists studios.  At APR, we enjoy sharing our knowledge and expertise of acrylic paint. Why waste years learning things others have already worked through?  While only practice will teach you to paint, reading our [...]

Guest Blogger: Robert Burridge. Studio Tip: Most of my preferred studio paints are Holbein Acryla tube paints. I squeeze the colors out on my large, flat table-palette. My table IS my palette! At the end of the day however, the leftover colors are, to say the least, hard to put back in the tubes. Eureka! [...]

When painting with acrylic paint it is important to note that there exists two rather broad categories of paint pigments. Traditional, Inorganic Earth Pigments Modern, Synthetic Pigments Earth Pigments Inorganic earth pigments, traditionally referred to as Earth Pigments, have been around longer and are typically comprised of substances found in the earth.  These substance are [...]

acrylic paint molecules can actually travel back and forth between your paint and your painting surface. When they do, they tend to bring dirt, debris, and funky stuff with them discoloring your painting.

Article Written by Guest blogger: J. Richard Secor The open time of Interactive Acrylics is longer in the studio than when painting Plein air. While in the studio, I find that I can reactive the paint to a wet status with a slight spray of water as soon as my brush or palette knife starts [...]

PHOTO CREDIT:  Original Painting titled, Smiles Awake You When You Rise, by Canadian artist,  Chrissandra Unger. Ms. Urnger is well known for her textural acrylic paintings.  Read more about her unique way of adding to texture on her website and blog.   See this painting in FULL SIZE at the bottom of this page ! [...]