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 Felt-tip |
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 Hard pastels |
 Coloured pencils |
 Oil pastels and wax crayons |
 Watercolour |
 Inks |
 Gouache |
 Acrylic |
 Oil |
The greatest colour invention for artists since the Renaissance, it has become widely used over the last 60 years and today acrylic is considered as popular a means of expression as gouache or oils.
Made from the latest generation of luminous and lightfast pigments, opacifying fillers and water soluble polymer resins, this paint, available in varying liquid forms, owes its success to many characteristics. The main ones are adherence to all non oily materials (absorbent or not, supple or rigid); quick drying (depending on the water content and the type of base) indelibility once dry, which allows as many layers as required, and almost indefinite modification of the work.
Several acrylic mediums enhance acrylic paints and allow reworking of the finished composition, affecting the brightness, thickness, grain…and delaying the drying process in order to be able to rework and model the colours.
If acrylic adheres to all materials it works particularly well with paper which absorbs some of its water and therefore its binder. The work is occasionally hindered by a too great absorption of the binder which accelerates drying and diminishes the reworking time.
Regular flat tints are difficult to achieve.
Our engineers have developed rigid papers with a lightly stippled surface whose absorption potential is adapted to this technique.
It encourages the adherence of polymers and allows freedom of expression both in flat tint and in thickness. It resists the tension caused by dehydration of the acrylics and does not warp.
This paper is also designed for gouache.
Other papers, especially all the heavier watercolour papers and the multi-technique papers, can also be used.
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