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Acrylic paint

A blob of red acrylic paint shaped like a slug glistens as it rests against a white surface with a small blob to its upper left.
Red acrylic paint squeezed from a tube
Red paint tube is squeezed by hand over previous line of paint on dark border.
Example of acrylics applied over another color
Two paintings (portrait orientation) are side by side with the only marks being thick lines that terminate with a sizeable dot of blue, yellow, or red. The left one has lines vertical/horizontal, and the right one has lines diagonally.
Experimental pictures with "floating"[1] acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps.[2] Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted with water, or modified with acrylic gels, mediums, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor, a gouache, or an oil painting, or it may have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.

Water-based acrylic paints are used as latex house paints, as latex is the technical term for a suspension of polymer microparticles in water. Interior latex house paints tend to be a combination of binder (sometimes acrylic, vinyl, PVA, and others), filler, pigment, and water. Exterior latex house paints may also be a co-polymer blend, but the best exterior water-based paints are 100% acrylic, because of its elasticity and other factors. Vinyl, however, costs half of what 100% acrylic resins cost, and polyvinyl acetate (PVA) is even cheaper, so paint companies make many different combinations of them to match the market.[3]

  1. ^ Here, the word describes a technique that allows more time before the paint dries.[citation needed]
  2. ^ Izzo, Francesca Caterina; Balliana, Eleonora; Pinton, Federica; Zendri, Elisabetta (2014-12-20). "A preliminary study of the composition of commercial oil, acrylic and vinyl paints and their behaviour after accelerated ageing conditions". Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage. 14: 353–369 Paginazione. doi:10.6092/ISSN.1973-9494/4753. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  3. ^ Sickler, Dean (Spring 2002). "Water-based Alchemy by Dean Sickler". Dundean.com. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012.

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