Studio Arts Hints and Tips for Artists

Hints and Tips Acrylics Paint Materials Information

From Liquitex
Acrylic surface preparation Super Heavy Gesso from Liquitex
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An innovative, impasto acrylic gesso used to prepare painting surfaces for acrylic and oil paint.
Create thick sculptural applications on various material and surfaces.
Excellent ground for acrylic and oil paint.
Mix with acrylic colour to have a tinted ground.
Flexible, non-cracking and non-yellowing when dry.
Provides the perfect "tooth" and adhesion to a wide variety of supports such as canvas, paper and wood
Excellent base coat primer for many applications such as murals
One coat is usually enough.
Application : For canvas, paper, wood, or any clean, porous, non-oily surface.
Tint colour with Liquitex Soft or Heavy Body Artist Colours.
Use with knife or brush

Clear Gesso from Liquitex New improved in 2007
A very clear size and ground that keeps your working surface visible.
Ideal high tooth for pastel, oil pastel, graphite, and charcoal
Excellent ground for acrylic and oil paint.
Mix with acrylic colour to have a tinted ground.
Dries clear to translucent depending on thickness.
Flexible, non-cracking and non-yellowing when dry.
Provides the perfect "tooth" and adhesion to a wide variety of supports such as canvas, paper and wood
Excellent base coat primer for many applications such as murals
Application

For canvas, paper, wood, or any clean, porous, non-oily surface.
Sizes and primes while maintaining the original appearance of the support material or surface.
Provides paper with good tooth for chalk and oil pastel techniques.
Mix with a very small amount of transparent or translucent acrylic colour to tint the ground while maintaining transparency.

Liquitex Acrylics Hints and Tips
Palette wetting spray for acrylics

in a 237 ml spray bottle from Liquitex

An innovative, fluid acrylic resin designed to slow the drying of acrylic colours

Allows you to keep your palette colours fresh longer, preventing the paint from "skinning over."

Improves colour blending

Can be used to thin colour while maintaining film integrity.

Formulated with an anti-microbial agent to prevent mold.

Application : Use repeatedly to re-wet palette

Soft Body. Produces a range of iridescent or metallic colours when mixed into acrylic colours.
Opaque when wet, transparent - translucent when dry. Will not oxidize.
Mix with small amounts of Color, gradually adding more Color until desired iridescent quality and transparency is achieved.
Transparent and translucent colours work best. Opaque colours can also be used.
Color will become more transparent as percentage of medium increases.
Colours increase in their iridescent quality and become much more reflective upon drying.
For Mother of Pearl Color, use directly from container.
For use on fabric, thin 50% with water.

Cryla Artists Heavy Body Paint Acrylic colours are characterised by their thick buttery consistency, their uniform eggshell finish across all the colours in the range and their minimal colour shift from wet to dry in the development of Cryla. Daler-Rowney took the industry standards ASTM D5098 set by the American Society for Testing and Materials as their yardstick - and improved on them at every stage of manufacture. Cryla Artists Heavy Body colours are designed to retain the intended stroke when applied with a palette knife or brush, so they are ideal material for highly textured impasto painting techniques and processes.

Cryla Artists Heavy Body Acrylic Colour & Mediums Charts

Daler Rowney System 3 is a high quality versatile water based acrylic paint ideal for art, craft and design projects in colleges and schools. They are also ideal for the amateur and professional painter using colour in large quantities.

Only high quality pigments are used in the manufacture of System 3 Acrylics, with a greater loading than other colours in their class.

It offers an excellent painting experience at a most economical price. System 3 offers all the virtues of light fastness, permanence, covering power and flexibility. Available in a range of 35 colours in sizes from 75ml to 2.25 litres.

System 3D Block Printing Medium

unique formulation created to work with
System 3D Ultra Thick Acrylics Only

Due to the unique formulation
System 3D block printing medium mixed with
System 3D colours produces sticky slow drying inks
perfect for block printing.
250 ml £7.99
Water based and solvent free
3D System 3

Galeria Acrylic paint fro Winsor & Newton

Galleria Acrylic flow formula acrylic paint

available in 60ml, 200ml Tube and 250ml tubs

Galeria Colour Chart

Galleria New Colours

Daler Rowney System 3 Colour Chart - Click Here

Soluble Matt and Gloss Varnish's Daler Rowney Acrylic available online discounts
Specially developed for the protection of acrylic works from environmental pollutants which can cause surface degradation.
As with all artist varnishes these are removable, so after a year or so the dirt with the varnish can be taken off using White Spirit or Turpentine. The painting is then re-varnished
It dries to a matt finish reducing surface glare while maintaining the same eggshell appearance as acrylic colour itself.
Matt and Gloss varnish can be mixed together to produce intermediate effects.
Ideal for use with System 3, System 3D and Cryla and acrylic colours.

Acrylic paintings may be left unvarnished but dirt will collect in the pores of the dry paint film and be difficult to remove. If the painting is to be displayed in a particularly dirt - ridden environment (especially outdoors) then a varnish is recommended.

For internal paintings use Soluble Gloss or Soluble Matt Varnish. As with all artist varnishes these are removable, so after a year or so the dirt with the varnish can be taken off using White Spirit or Turpentine. The painting is then re-varnished.

The best exterior varnish for durability is Yacht Varnish, but this will discolour and the varnish is not removable. Check for degree of yellowing of the colours on a separate sheet of paper before varnishing the finished artwork.

Ultimately the choice of varnish is dependant, to a large degree, on the way the painting will be maintained over time.

Mediums are less easy to apply than varnishes and are not removable. For the latter reason these are not recommended for varnishing.

Acrylic mediums are sometimes used for special projects (e.g. screen printing mediums for screen printing) or to impart special effects e.g. to add a pearl lustre to colours (Pearlescent Tinting Medium). The other mediums are used to increase the transparency of the colours and either retain the viscosity (thickness) of the colour (Impasto Glaze Medium Gloss or Matt with Cryla, Glaze Medium Gloss or Matt with System 3) or alter the viscosity if used the other way round. This can be a little confusing, but there are some leaflets that give instruction on use that you can pick up or posted to you from Studio Arts or Daler-Rowney.

Talbot Henry, Daler-Rowney.

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Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics New Colours Available Online or in the shop

Liquitex Heavy Body Colour Chart pdf download

Full Colour Range in Stock

Super Heavy Body

Super Heavy Body is a line of highly pigmented, clean, brilliant colours with superior shape retention and unique "gutsy" handling, which is a new innovative product introduced to the Liquitex range. Excellent for 'textural' and 'sculptural' applications with very low shrinkage from wet-to-dry. Highly pigmented, producing clean colour mixing with outstanding clarity and brilliance. Formulated to dry within a uniform satin sheen range. This enhances visual clarity of the finished painting, provides a non-plastic look and eliminates glare. Little or no wet-to-dry value shift allows for more accurate colour mixing. Increased open time for easier blending.

27 Professional Colour Spectrum
Extra thick body with high surface drag (rheology), comparable to fine oils
Superior shape retention: holds super high peaks, knife marks and brush strokes
Flexible when dry, allowing built-up surfaces to remain free of cracks and chips
Excellent for impasto (thick), 'textural' and 'sculptural' painting techniques
Satin finish, no "plastic look"
Very low shrinkage
Vibrant colours straight out of the container which can be used for many art techniques and processes

Frequently Asked Questions Courtesy of Liquitex.com

What is the shelf life of acrylic paint?

You can expect a 5-7 year shelf life from Liquitex acrylic products, provided the materials are stored properly at room temperature, kept tightly capped and kept free of contaminants. High temperatures, freezing and the use of tap water, dirty brushes and painting tools will all adversely effect the shelf life of the paint.

Can I use Liquitex products with other brand name products such as Winsor & Newton?

Liquitex Acrylic Paint should be compatible with most other acrylic products, however the light fastness, flexibility, yellowing and UV protecting capabilities may vary from one product brand to another. Always do an adhesion test when using other products to determine compatibility.

Can Liquitex Acrylic Paint be used on top of latex paint?

Water-based emulsion acrylics belong to a larger group called latex. Most people however are referring to latex house paint when using the term latex. The binder and pigment qualities in these paints are not artists' quality. House paint quality latex becomes brittle with age