Acrylic Colour
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Choosing a surface for Acrylic painting
Read our guide to five types of acrylics surfaces that can lend your art a decidedly different look and feel, and open up new creative possibilitie...
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How to remove varnish from acrylic paintings
To maintain your painting at its best, Winsor & Newton Acrylic Varnishes can be readily removed when dirty. Simply apply Artists' Acrylic Varnish R...
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What does acrylic 'colour shift' mean?
Acrylic paints usually darken in tone as they dry, making colour matching difficult, so artists have to remember to allow for this when mixing wet...
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Tips for using Acrylic mediums
We’ve identified three simple tips which can help you best work with acrylic mediums, enhance your practice and perhaps even the colour performance...
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Using Acrylics as underpainting layers for oil painting
When acrylic colours first became widely available in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was a reluctance to recommend overpainting them with oil colours b...
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Understanding the drying times for acrylic paints
One of the main reasons for choosing acrylic paints is their ability to dry quickly. This is a guide to Winsor & Newton acrylic drying times. Galer...
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Understanding the blacks and greys in the Winsor & Newton acrylic ranges
Ivory Black is a brown black of moderate tinting strength recommended for general use. Mars Black is a denser, more neutral black with stronger tin...
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How intermixable are the Winsor & Newton acrylic ranges?
Galeria and Artists' Acrylic are fully intermixable ranges and can be used either in layers or together on the palette.
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Cleaning acrylic paint from tube caps
It is not uncommon for artists to have problems trying to remove caps from paint tubes that they have previously used. This is usually caused by pa...
