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Acrylic Paint

Acrylic paints are an acrylic Polymer emulsion which are acrylic resins from thermo plasticsetc. For our purpose it is a plastic paint and it dries fast. It is water soluble and water resistant, when dry. It can be mixed with acrylic mediums to thin or thicken it, make it flow like water, without loosing its brilliance of color, it is an adhesive, a glaze and when thinned out enough can be a water color substitute. It can be made opaque,translucent or transparent.

1934 Rohm Hass patented acrylic resins in this country. In the 40 ’ s Lenny Boccur an Oil paint manufacturer along with Sam Golden produced an acrylic they called Magna Paint. It flowed, dryed quickly and became the paint of choice for artist like Morris Louis. The first Magnas were mineral spirit based so, they would not become water based until the 1950 ’ s. Aquatec and Liquitex would be the big names for many years. At present Aquatex is gone and has been replaced by Golden Paints.

For our purpose here the paint is binder, pigment, and water or filler. The cheaper the paint the less pigment the more filler.

*First Lesson-Monotone or monochromatic We will paint a simple still Life of a geometric setting



*Second Lesson-simple receding space, mountains or waves or a pattern, by adding multiple amounts of white to a color

*Third Lesson-Sky and Clouds fields of color



Georgio Morandi Claude Monet Henri Matisse Above and below Richard Diebenkorn