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Something versatile, invented, and fast drying is called acrylic paint. Versatile because it can be used in a variety of styles: It can be worked like watercolor in thin glazes. It can be layered on a canvas like oil paint. Or it can be used to collage other papers to a canvas. And the artists that use it have styles that range from detailed wildlife paintings to modern abstracts. | ||||
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Invented in Germany in the 1900's, made available in the U.S. in the 1920's, and in the 1950's the water based acrylics were developed further. Acrylic paint was first developed in the late 1940s as a house paint, and artists who wished to do large paintings- wishing to avoid the long drying time of oils- soon began using it. They became popular in the 1960's when pop artists like Andy Warhol used them. Today, acrylic paint for artists is highly pigmented and specially formulated. Acrylic paint is also a fast-drying paint, containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion (a mixture of two unblendable liquids.) Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Painters can modify the appearance, hardness, flexibility, texture, and other characteristics of the paint surface using acrylic mediums. While watercolor and oil painters also use various mediums, the range of acrylic mediums is much greater. Acrylics have the ability to bond to many different surfaces, and mediums can be used to adjust their binding characteristics. |
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