Acrylic Paint

Acrylic paint is a versatile material to use in mixed media projects, including everything from traditional paintings, to journaling, collage or fabric projects. They are fast drying and the colors can be diluted with water. Acrylic paint comes in a variety of colors, quality and type (matte, gloss, etc.) depending on the demands of the project. Here you can find interviews with artists who use acrylic paint in many different ways, some or which you wouldn’t expect. There are step- by- step guides for using acrylic paints, creating tools for applying the paint in unusual ways and suggestions for books where you can find more projects and learn new techniques for using acrylic paint.

Creating Winged Messengers

How can you use art to send a positive message to the world? In this excerpt from the book Art Saves by Jenny Doh, Susanna Gordon shares her story of creating winged messengers of positivity to send around the world, and she teaches you how you can make your own.

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Artist Profile: Nancy Reyner

Nancy Reyner is a painter of more than 30 years experience who’s best known for her contemporary acrylic paintings created with unusual techniques. Her varied experiences add technical expertise and originality to her work. A resident of Santa Fe now, …

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Acrylic Pours

Acrylic pours, using acrylic paint, are incredibly versatile. Perhaps you’ll apply them directly to a surface or maybe you’ll dry them and use them as collage elements. In any event, the authors of Surface Treatment Workshop show you how to …

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Make Custom Tools

What does a mailing tube, paint rollers and gel mediums get you? Follow these instructions from Lisa Cyr, and you’ll have custom tools to use in your art!

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Artist Profile: Dave Newman

Dave Newman is a self-taught artist living in Prescott, Arizona. He creates mixed-media constructions using his original photographs, found objects and vintage magazine articles and advertisements. On his website he writes, “Sometimes my art begins by the side of the …

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Mary Beth Shaw working with analogous palettes

Watch Mary Beth Shaw work with analogus colors at Art Unraveled in acrylic paint on her carved clayboard. She works through her free flowing method with acrylic paints on top of collage bits, her own stencils, and several textures.

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Artist Profile: Sandra Duran Wilson

Sandra Duran Wilson is an abstract acrylic mixed media artist, instructor, and co-author with Darlene Olivia McElroy, of Image Transfer Workshop and the forthcoming Surface Treatment Workshop. Sandra holds degrees in both science and fine art, which provides the foundation …

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