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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Acrylic Color Shift is simple. It means that the hue or color of the wet paint changes when it becomes dry.  Normally, this means the color deeps or darkens? Why does Acrylic Paint darken when dry? The easiest way I know to explain this is to say that the gooie stuff in the paint (otherwise [...]

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 ! [...]