I love using Acrylic paint. Do you ever do any type of painting?
Yes actually! I like to use acrylic also because its very fast-drying. It's very convenient being suspended in a polymer emulsion. What do you paint?
I mainly use it for art/crafts projects. Painting wood signs, etc...
Fun! Acrylic is great because is water soluble, but once it's dry is it also water resistant. It's so versatile. Do you like doing landscapes?
I wish i was good at landscapes. Would love to learn, but my talent is not that great. But yes! I do love the paint is water resistant
It's also great because it doesn't stain clothes as easily as oil paint. I used that sometimes but also leave myself in a mess!
I agree. Oil paint is extremely difficult to deal with. And so many color varieties with Acrylic Paints.
acrylic paint. As early as 1934, the first usable acrylic resin dispersion was developed by German chemical company BASF, which was patented by Rohm and Haas. The synthetic paint was first used in the 1940s, combining some of the properties of oil and watercolor. Between 1946 and 1949, Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden invented a solution acrylic paint under the brand Magna paint. These were mineral spirit-based paints. Acrylics were made commercially available in the 1950s.
Following that development, Golden came up with a waterborne acrylic
of color and use of wet-in-wet technique as in oil painting. Even though acrylic retarders can slow drying time to several hours, it remains a relatively fast-drying medium and adding too much acrylic retarder can prevent the paint from ever drying properly.
Meanwhile, acrylic paint is very elastic, which prevents cracking from occurring. Acrylic paint's binder is acrylic polymer emulsion – as this binder dries, the paint remains flexible.
Another difference between oil and acrylic paints is the versatility offered by acrylic paints