Acrylic Paint Product Reviews & Tips for Artists

Tips for Painting with Acrylics

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 tips will help you learn faster. Reading about paint brands and acrylic painting tips can help you avoid costly purchasing mistakes in your own studio.

These tips are the most searched for and most read tips from our site by readers all over the world.

    • 5 Fluid Acrylic Painting Tips  – If you only use acrylic paint sold from tubes, you are missing out.  Find our what is fun about fluid acrylics, and why you might want to give them a spin.
    • GAC attack 100, night of the killer substrates - Do I need to seal acrylic canvas before painting on it?  It’s called Surface Induced Discoloration. And it sucks. Really. Especially if it messes up your painting and ruins your beautiful colors.  Learn to avoid it.
    • Tips to Stop Acrylic Paint from Drying Too Fast – find solutions for THE most common problem from most beginning and experienced acrylic painters.  Find a solution to extend drying time that works for you.
    • What is acrylic color paint shift?   Did you know your colors look different when dry than they do when wet?  If you have been painting very long, you might have noticed this.  Learn what color shift really is and why you need to know about it.
    • Three Reasons Hobby Painters Need to use Professional Artist Acrylic Paint - Ok, so you don’t paint to sell. You reserve your private, pleasurable studio wonderland just for yourself. Or perhaps you share it with your friends and family only; never intending to hang in a gallery or exhibit at an art center. Who cares if you use cheaper student grade paint? You will.

Do you have some great acrylic painting tips to share?  We always welcome comments, suggestions, and ideas here at Acrylic Paint Review.

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