4 Types of Acrylic Paint - Which is best for YOU?

Student/Economy Grade:
Liquitex Basics
Winsor & Newton Galeria

Professional Grade Heavy Body:
Golden Heavy Body Set
Liquitex Heavy Body Set

Winsor And Newton Acrylic Set
Sennelier Acrylic Set

Professional Grade Soft Body or Fluid:
Liquitex Soft Body Set

Acrylic Inks:
Liquitex Ink
Golden High Flow Set

Different Categories of Acrylic Paint
1. Heavy Body
2. Soft Body or Fluid Acrylic
3. Acrylic Ink
4. Student Grade or Economy Paints

0:53 Inks Can be used on paper or canvas or any of the other traditional surfaces acrylics can be applied to.
Can be mixed with fluid mediums to achieve richly colored transparent glazes and layering. (I used it to mix with pouring medium!)
Pigment based inks more lightfast than dye based inks.
Watercolor-like consistency on a canvas.
Can be used for fabric painting, rubber stamping, tinting photographs, airbrushing, dip pen.

4:00 Soft Body or Fluid Color
Covers with low texture, more pigment.
good for color charts
Best coverage over large areas using less paint (covers 3 x more area than a heavy body paint)
Good for painting fine detail without losing pigment density.

5:13 Heavy Body
Creates more texture
Holds peaks and brush strokes
Best for techniques require body such as Impressionist techniques or Van Gogh like brushstrokes

6:39 Student Grade Colors
I'm using 2 that I like that I've found to have good quality- Liquitex Basics and Winsor and Newton Galeria.
Less pigment, more economical
Allow you to paint more on a budget - IMPORTANT if cost is a concern.

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[HillaryHorror]

As someone who was only taught oils in college and is now transitioning to acrylic post-grad, these videos have been SUPER helpful to me. It's amazing how different the two media are! Thank you!

[heelrunner]

One of my professors advised us to buy professional grade paint, but buy a limited palette only. We still had the cheap student grade paints for big areas, but learning to use a limited palette taught us fast color mixing and an instinct for color theory. I appreciate him so much for that. Thank you for your video, it is very informative!

[eldritchsquirrel]

Wow that's a generous amount of paint you're putting down there

[skwarepeg]

Thank you! This is perfect and exactly what I wanted and needed. It’s surprisinghow difficult it is to find complete yet concise explanations of qualities and applications. I appreciate the people who take the time to do these videos since I can’t go to art school! Lol!

[Jennifer-wrsi]

before I was just thinking about soft vs heavy, now you've thrown inks in the mix! I didn't even know they had those and they are super appealing to someone who started with watercolour.

[paigegarrison]

Well done. You’ve got me curious about acrylic ink! I use The heavy bodied paints, but I’m wanting to experiment for a different look! I didn’t know there was such a thing as acrylic ink! Thank you!

[MySelfMyCeliumMyCell]

Most videos I saw were so simple, badly explained and done in a quick superficial way in which nothing really was showed. Yours was pretty complete and concise, and you actually transmitted knowledge. Thank you.

[dizzitoast]

I appreciate you taking the time to show and explain. Thank you so much!

[jonathanthyng]

That acrylic ink looks incredible! Definitely going to try it out!

[smokypoo]

Finally someone who gives truly useful information, I couldn't test them so seeing you do it and compare is brilliant 😊 thank you

[rcola]

I like your tutorial. Shown and explained clearly well with no annoying corny jokes and passive aggressive comments.
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[SirPrancelot]

Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate this. I want to start painting and acrylic may be the best choice for a beginner so am looking forward to seeing more of your videos for advice. I like your philosophy of doing a lot of painting with cheaper paint if you can't afford enough of the good stuff when getting started. Makes sense to me.

[DelimitingMeasure]

Thank you for your insights! (Coming from a non-artist who would've tripped himself up over this kind of outwardly trivial, but notwithstanding crucial, subtely or technicality of the craft of fine art.)

[rasmapludums-dunn]

This is the 2nd of your videos that I have watched and can't get over how informative they are. Your delivery is excellent.

[juditharowland]

Hello Pouring medium for $13/qt and I need to thank you a bunch. A while back I can across your channel when I was about to throw in the towel and dump all my art supplies. I had been working with watercolor and getting no where for a very long time. Acrylics had been suggested but I had tried them years ago, in Florida, and let me tell was rough! So, I quit.

About 8 weeks ago I found you and I began to learn one step at a time. This encouraged me to look some more and to try a bit and to buy a starter I am a happy, if tentative, camper and having some happy success. I love abstracts. I love color. And I learned to pour from you! Well, here's something I want to give back to all of us subscribers and company! I recently received a hand painted color chart of heavy body acrylics. It is gorgeous. It's from a family company in California called Nova Color. They have been making acrylic paint since 1968 and selling wholesale to the public, on line. David Kessler, another YouTube abstract artist was using them. He is right, the paint is about 1/2 as much as discount prices for professional quality. AND they make a product called Novaplex #235 which is their version of Pouring Medium. It's $13/qt. and $37/gallon. What a difference from store bought. It's a pleasant surprise for us all. Thank you again. I hope this proves as helpful to you and others as it is to me. I am a devoted fan and I love your meditation download. What a gracious gift! Thank you..

[NayadaraT]

Thank you so much. I am doing my first big painting so I find your tutorils very helpful.

[AlphaGeminorum]

Brilliant! Thanks so much for making this vid. I stumbled upon it as I've just taken up acrylics (added to my artist repertoire); and am mostly self-taught - so this was a HUGE plus for me. Been using Basics mostly. Just yesterday, I needed an ink-like quality to cover a spot and just watered down some pigment of the color I needed to get said coverage. Wasn't exactly what I wanted but was just good enough. Now I know there are INK acrylics that would do exactly what I needed. So, over two years later your vid is still working its magic! 👏🏽

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I normally dont comment or like videos or even subscribe to many channels. You though took so much time energy and resources to clearly explain and teach anyone. Thank you so much 💓 keep doing amazing things.

[purplelamington]

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[clydejohn]

Thank you for the Awsome segment. You are One of the best teacher's around, not leaving a thing out. Sometimes I am thinking of a question, which you answer befor I can think of a good way to phrase it. P.S. Sold. I will buy all of them.