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What is the
difference between student and professional grade acrylic paints? The answer is
the pigments. The ratio of pigments to the vehicle carrier (or acrylic and water).
Student grade fine art acrylic paint has less pigments in the acrylic base with
more water. Professional fine art acrylic paint is loaded with pigments. Often
very inexpensive brands of student grade acrylic paints are mostly acrylic base
and water. The better grades of student fine art acrylic paints (including some
very good craft paints*) are full of pigments. I recommend staying away from
cheaply made fine art paints. Curators, gallery owners, professional fine art
painters, appraisers etc. can will notice when the artist uses poor quality
paint. Poor quality paint may have a negative effect on the appraisal value of
the piece. If a customer is ordering an original painting from an online image and
receives the piece painted with poor quality acrylic paints they may return it.
You really don’t want the painting returned because of using poor quality
acrylic paint. (The customer generally has
30 days to return an item. Return time for purchases may vary from state to
state. Ask your local chamber of commerce for more information.)
Professional
grade fine art paints are loaded with pigments and you can tell with one swipe
of the paint brush. If you are used to working with the student acrylics the
professional grade will take some adjustment. Acrylic gel medium will work when
you want to tone down the professional fine art acrylic paints to what you are
familiar with in the student grade paints. (See Grinding Pigments in Student Grade Fine
Art Acrylic Paints)*DecoArt makes a fine art line of paint called Traditions that are heavily loaded with pigment. I highly recommend the Traditions line of paints for paintings with a lot of fine detail.
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