Acrylic Paints



Acrylic paints are heralded for their quick drying time and relatively inexpensive price tags. Many artists appreciate the flexibility that acrylics give to their paintings and projects. Most artists are looking to save money, but if you yearn to truly flex your artistic skills, you should consider small upgrades. For example, a sable or hog hair brush tend to last longer than their synthetic counterparts. You’ll also need a palette knife. The palette knife is not a brush but is used by many artists as such. Most artists prefer a cranked palette knife, and often invest in small flexible painting knives which provide a wonderful medium for employing other techniques with your acrylic paints. When selecting a palette, its best to stick to those made of plastic that can be cleaned with cotton rags, or to go with a disposal palette. When painting with acrylics, you can also use a glaze if you with to extend the setting time of your piece, and glazes are especially helpful on warm days when acrylics tend to dry faster. Finish up your piece with a good varnish to protect it in either a gloss or a matte.

Perhaps you are looking for high quality acrylic paints, bases, gels, mediums, gesso, acrylic paint sets or kit – we connect you to the sites that provide you with the fine art supplies and quality artist’s products that you have been searching for. We help you find premium products for both budding and professional artists at exceptional values that won’t break your budget. Choose from brands that you know and trust for their quality and superior performance such as Winsor & Newton, Grumbacher, Krylon, and Liquitex.

You’ll find an enormous selection of both student and professional acrylic paints to meet your needs, and we pride ourselves on providing information before you buy about the supplies you need, including specialty acrylics like fluorescent and iridescent. Our directory strives to provide you with recommended brands that are from industry leaders who are known for their reliability, consistency and performance.
To complement your acrylic paint purchase, we connect you with sites that carry wooden, plastic, moisture-retaining, and disposable palettes as well as soft sable or synthetic alternative brushes in all sizes, and polyester brushes that have been manufactured specifically for the thicker consistency of acrylic paint. For those searching for easels, you can choose from simple radial easels, sketching easels, painting boxes with telescopic legs and much, much more. We bring together all the supplies that artists need in one convenient website to help make your next piece a masterpiece.

Holbein Acryla Artist Acrylic Colors
 Holbein Acryla Artist Acrylic Colors

Holbein laboratories is renowned for the consistency of its professional paints. The Acryla line of acrylic polymer colors is manufactured in a vacuum to assure uniformity and consistency, to prevent bubbles from entering the paint. Acryla colors include several unique pigments that are rarely seen in other lines of acrylic polymer paint. The Luminous colors, not rated for light fastness, are delicate and intense fluorescent that should be used only in decorative or temporary applications and for works made for reproduction. All other colors are rated "durable" or better.
Amsterdam Expert Series Acrylics

Amsterdam Expert Series Acrylics

Amsterdam Acrylics have the viscosity, pigmentation level, and lightfastness that professionals demand. The well-balanced range of 70 genuine artists' colors is formulated with high concentrations of authentic, non-fading pigments, which guarantees strong and intense colors. 28 colors in the line are mono-pigmented . This heavy-body paint is suitable for working with a brush or painting knife. Paints are formulated with 100% acrylic resin binder, which results in an exceptionally durable and flexible paint film with a uniform degree of gloss. Thin films dry in 30 minutes. Expert Acrylics thin easily with water and are virtually odorless. Being alkali resistant makes them ideal for wall paintings. They exhibit the highest degree of lightfastness so colors remain brilliant and true for years. Paints are packaged in clear, recylable tubes.


Chroma Atelier Interactive Professional Artists’ Acrylics

Chroma Atelier Interactive Professional Artists’ Acrylics

Unlike traditional acrylics, these interactive colors stay wet on the palette without forming a skin. This changes the painting process, giving you plenty of time to blend and rework unresolved areas of a painting. The formulation allows even touch-dry paint to be reworked or ragged-off so you can blend or reveal layers. Archival quality and lightfast, the intense colors dry to a satin-like finish with minimal color shift and without a plastic look or feel.


Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics 16 oz

Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics 16 oz

Golden's original line of acrylic paint is known for its exceptionally smooth, thick consistency, and for its excellent permanency and lightfastness. Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors (with the exception of a few balanced primaries and blended colors) are composed from pure pigments in a 100% acrylic emulsion vehicle, using no fillers, extenders, opacifiers, toners, or dyes. Each color is formulated differently, depending on the nature of the pigment. Colors that tolerate higher pigment "loads" dry to a more opaque, matte finish, while colors that are more reactive and do not accept high pigment loading dry to a glossy, more transparent finish. A hand-painted color chart is available on request. Multiple Sizes Available — Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics are also available in 2 oz , 4 oz , 5 oz , 8 oz , 32 oz , and 128 oz . Gift Idea — Students and professionals at all levels appreciate Golden Heavy Body Acrylics. A variety of introductory and gift sets are available. See Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Sets for pictures and more detailed specifications of these sets.

 


Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics, 32 oz Jars

Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics, 32 oz Jars

Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics feature the thick, buttery consistency that offers the feel, pull, and look of a heavy-bodied paint. This line of professional acrylics offers sheen, consistency, and paint handling characteristics that are similar to those of oil paints, such as retaining brush strokes and palette knife marks when dry. Multiple Sizes Available — Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics are also available in 2 oz Tubes , 4.65 oz Tubes , 7 oz Tubes , and 16 oz Jars .


M. Graham Acrylic Colors
M. Graham Acrylic Colors

Art Graham puts the same care and attention to detail into acrylic paints that he lavishes on more traditional media. Each color is manufactured only in small batches, using a traditional three roller mill. Only pure, high solid resins are used, with no fillers, retarders, opacifiers, or bulking agents. Each pigment is present in the highest concentration possible consistent with good working properties. This gives each color outstanding tinting strength and mass tone.


Winsor & Newton Finity Acrylics
Winsor & Newton Finity Acrylics

After conducting careful research to find out what artists really wanted from an acrylic paint, Winsor & Newton developed Finity Acrylics. This superior range of acrylics offers the widest color spectrum, maximum performance, optimum brilliance and intensity of color. The Finity line is known for its excellent brush stroke retention, minimal color shift from wet to dry, uniformity in consistency, and satin finish throughout the entire range. Finity colors remain workable on the palette slightly longer than other acrylic colors. Most colors contain only a single pigment, for cleaner, brighter mixes. Finity Acrylics also offer unsurpassed covering power and tinting strength, and are non-tacky when dry. Winsor & Newton Finity Acrylics come in a range of 75 colors formulated to a soft buttery consistency. They are water soluble when wet and water resistant when dry. Use them on canvas, paper, wood, degreased leather, or any surface that is not too greasy or glossy. They are not for use over oil paints or on oil primed surfaces. All Finity colors are classified as permanent for use by artists.
Acrylic paints dry fast, so you can work with layers and not have to wait long periods in between sessions. The pricing of these acrylic paints depends on the brand and size of the tube you order so none are listed on this page.

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