Everything You Wanted To Know About Acrylic Painting

Okay... for everyone who doesn't get the "EYE-GOR" reference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyU99BCNRuU

“And I made a complete mess” the mess:

This channel feels like stumbling across a real life hobbit hole in a forest, where he welcomes you in and offers to paint with you and have tea, respectively

They’re made for bold, heavy lines. Don’t try to blend too much, just try gradients, by mixing colors on a pallet. Keep trying!

The issue that most people run into with acrylic paints is that they expect it to behave like other paints. For example, you can lay it on thick for opacity or thin with water for transparency. These issues arise when you lay it on thick and try to spread/stretch/blend colors as you would with oil paints, it gets "icky". When you thin with water for transparency like watercolors, it dilutes the binders or their adhesive quality. That's why you end up lifting the previous layer of color. Next time, try using an acrylic matte medium to thin the paints and approach it with a glazing method. I think in the end, that's why my preferred medium is gouache. ;)

Try starting with watered down acrilics, use em like water colors?

Ive been painting with acrylics for almost three years now and that painting is better than everything I’ve ever painted

“Dragging jello around” is so accurate to how I feel about them. Acrylic leaves so many ugly chunks and streaks and it shines like glass and uuuUUUGHGGhhh

I’m an acrylic artist and I feel the same way about watercolor. I’m honestly impressed to no end by artists who are good with watercolor and acrylic, they’re just so different

I am so relieved hearing another adult using "icky"! Sometimes, "icky" is the most perfect & Expressive word I know. Thank you for your honesty & openness. 08:42, Tuesday 24 May 2022

I absolutely love how solid and quick drying acrylics are. It means that if I mess up, I can just wait a couple minutes and paint over it

as a fellow acrylic painter, i LOVE acrylic!

I love making landscapes in acrylic paint ❤

“I made a mess” proceeds to make a masterpiece using acrylic paints.

😂 as someone who uses acrylics as my main medium I agree they can be “heavy”. But if you really want to try to get into them I have some tips! Before using the stuff in the tubes which is often super thick and “jello like”, use some craft acrylic paints. Like the bottles in Walmart, brands like Apple barrel or folkart, they are much thinner and are easier to layer! They take some getting used to, but I love acrylics! But I am horrible with watercolors! 😂 but seriously, try it one more time with the thinner stuff! I personally don’t like to use the thick paint unless I’m trying to get a richer tone!

I think your acrylic style is incredible! 🤘

Scott: i can’t do acrylic. It’s so difficult. I cant make it work Scott with acrylic: better than any painting Ive ever done

“Acrylics and I don’t get along” *proceeds to make something amazing*

“Here’s everything I know about acrylics. Nothing” 💀💀💀

my school had different types of paint for different years, I had to use a type of paint that was a bit honey like. The solution to getting rid of the honey texter was by adding a lot of water, this always made it have more of a flowy consistency. Also, the "mess" is very cool!