Acrylic Materials 1 — Deborah Barr -

Advantages and disadvantages of new acrylics:

Toxicity Levels

There are no differences between traditional acrylics and newer acrylic paints, except that you won’t need to use any toxic retarders to slow drying time.

Drying Time

Advantages – New acrylic paints have extended drying times, so paint can be left on a sealed palette and remain workable for several days. Also, wet-in-wet techniques can be used, just like oil paints, without a retarder.

Disadvantages – If you like your acrylics to dry very quickly, these won’t.

Reactivation

Advantages: These paints do reactivate. When water is applied to paint that is dry to the touch, it can be reactivated, worked into and/or lifted off. Over time, this ability to reactivate is eventually lost.

Disadvantages – Painting wet over dry acrylics may cause some color bleed.

Durability

Advantages – Same as traditional oil paints.

Disadvantages – These paints are even “younger” than traditional acrylic paints. Efforts are being made to prove their longevity, but nothing can be irrefutably proven until sufficient time passes.

Additional Supplies

Tool box

Grey Matters Paper Palette 12" x 16"

Polymer Medium (Gloss) 8 oz

GOLDEN White Gesso 16 oz

RGM palette knife # 6

rags and water containers

Staedtler Pencil: 4B

Blue painters tape

towel

GOLDEN OPEN ACRYLICS

Titanium white -5 oz