Acrylic paints are made from pigment mixed with acrylic resin. They are water-based paints which means that they can be mixed with water to thin them down and you clean your brushes with water, there is no need for solvents. Acrylics dry quickly, which many people like but you can add a medium that slows down the drying if you wish to work more slowly or blend your colours longer. Because acrylics dry so fast, squeeze only a little paint out of a tube. You may wish to use a spray bottle so you can spray a fine mist over the paint regularly to keep it moist on your palette. Acrylics are very versatile and can be used in thin, watery glazes to look like watercolour or more thickly to look like oils. They are self-sealing, so they are waterproof when dry. As with oils and watercolours, there is a big difference in the quality of the colour between artists’ grade paints and student grade paints. The student paints have fillers and imitation pigments. The artists’ colours are purer and more vibrant, and will mix in a more predictable way.
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