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Acrylic painting techniques that keep the paints moist so the paintings look more like oil paintings. There are several things you must first consider. Is the acrylic paint that you are working with tube paint or bottle paint? Bottle and tube paints differ in the processes of application to the canvas. My choice of acrylic paints are as follows: Golden, Grumbacher*, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton, DecoArt/Traditions*.
It is best to work with a stretched canvas rather than a
canvas board. Cardboard is under the canvas board. The cardboard draws the
moisture away from the canvas to shorten the application time of the acrylic paint.
The area of your home or studio that you choose to work in should be slightly
moist. Purchase a cool air humidifier and a humidity gauge. The humidity gauge dial
has a range from dry to moist. The setting of the gauge in the area that you
paint should be about halfway between medium and moist on the dial. Be sure to
set the gauge on the opposite side of the cool air humidifier. Your seating
should be between the dial and the humidifier.
Keep a fine mist spray bottle handy. Beauty supply stores have
inexpensive fine-mist spray bottles. Keep an old bucket and a container of
clear water near. Retarders, extenders, and slow dry mediums work great to slow
down the drying time of the acrylic paints.
Application of moisture
Hold the canvas flat and spray a light mist. If it is on an easel
make sure the water doesn’t run. If the water does run take a damp 2” brush and
brush side to side to the outer edges of the canvas. Work fast. Have plenty of
paper towels handy. Use good quality paper towels. There other techniques that
can be used as well.
*My choice of acrylic paints
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