Painting with Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Over a year ago I switched from oil paints to Chroma Interactive Acrylics. These
paints provide a long wet-in-wet painting time along with the ability to build up layers of glaze and scumble very quickly. I can also go back and re-hydrate an area 24 hours later. They're just amazing
Below are short video clips from a painting demonstration i recently gave using Chroma Interactive Acrylics. I hope you find it informative and enjoyable.
paints provide a long wet-in-wet painting time along with the ability to build up layers of glaze and scumble very quickly. I can also go back and re-hydrate an area 24 hours later. They're just amazing
Below are short video clips from a painting demonstration i recently gave using Chroma Interactive Acrylics. I hope you find it informative and enjoyable.
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Luminist Landscape using Chroma Interactives
Evenlight, 16x20, Chroma Interactive Acrylics on Raymar panel
Jan Blencowe
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All About Chroma Interactive Acrylics
everything you need to know
Chroma has developed a new,truly revolutionary acrylic paint. I have been using Interactives for over a year and really love them. Read on to find out why.
- Find Out What Chroma Interactives are all about
- Tired of your acrylic paints drying too quickly?
Explore Interactive's Unique Formulation!
Unlike traditional acrylics, all 75 of these "interactive" colors do not suddenly form a skin. Interactive changes the painting process, giving you plenty of time to blend and rework and giving you more creative freedom. The patent-pending formulation allows even touch-dry paint to be reworked or ragged-off to blend or reveal layers. Archival quality and lightfast, the intense colors dry to a satin-like finish without a plastic look or feel and minimal color shift. - Getting Started using Chroma Interactives
- Acrylic artists have never before had the opportunity to blend and adjust their paintings wet-in-wet within a time frame they can control, but this advantage involves new processes that need to be learned and followed.
- Jim Cobb, owner of Chroma and paintmaker for over 40 years, talks about using Interactive.
- As the inventor of Atelier Interactive, I have been more than pleased with the results. I feel that artists' acrylics have, after 40 years of subservience to their house paint origins, reached maturity as true artists' paints.
I hope you will get as much pleasure out of exploring and using them as I have.
J. Cobb
Paintmaker. - Visit the Chroma Website
- Chroma's website is filled with lots of information on all their products.
- Paint Talk - Chroma's Forum for Artists
- Here's where you can ask questions, get answeres and post your own artwork.
Part 1
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan Blencowe demonstrates painting a traditional landscape using Chroma Interactive Acrylics. In this segment she begins an explanation of the colors she regularly uses. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 2
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan Blencowe continues an explanation of the colors she chooses to use when painting the landscape. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 3
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan Blencowe discusses the colors on her palette used for landscape painting in preparation for her painting demonstration, using Chroma Interactive Acrylics. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 4
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
In this segment Jan lays out her colors on the palette and discusses how and why she arranges them in a certain order. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 5
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
In this segment Jan explains an imprimatura or under painting and how to begin one. She talks about the various colors you might use and the reasons why she chooses to use an imprimatura for her own landscapes. She discusses compositional choices and begins the underpainting on her canvas. www.ThePaintingaDay Project.com www.janblencowe.com
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Buy Chroma Interactive Acrylics
and give them a try!
There's nothing like experiencing something first hand! Buy a few tubes of Chroma Interactive acrylics and give them a go. I recommend getting Napthol Red Light, Transparent Yellow, French Ultramarine Blue, Transparent Red Oxide and Titanium White as a basic starter set.
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Part 6
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan creates the imprimatura (underpainting) and discusses composition, light, values and the symbolic meanings in her landscape paintings. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 7
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan develops her imprimature, (underpainting) with a focus on composition and values. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 8
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan finishes her imprimatura(underpainting) and begins the block in stage of her landscape focusing on composition, local color and values, the sky, clouds and distance. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 9
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan continues to work on her block in, focusing on trees, foliage, ground planes, water and light. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 10
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
Jan continues to work on her block in painting trees and water including the reflections and talks further about color mixing and tools. www.ThePaintingaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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Part 11
Painting Demo using Chroma Interactive Acrylics
This is the final installment in the painitng demo. Jan brings the painting to the end of the block in stage. www.ThePainitngaDayProject.com www.janblencowe.com
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