What texture to use with acrylics?

Question

Except for texture medium and paper what other methods can I use to create texture in an acrylic painting?

Answer 1

I've mixed acrylic with fine sand with interesting results. You could also try mixing it with polyfilla, or even with bits of roughly chopped up canvas ... or eggshells, bits of broken down polystyrene ... just play around with anything with texture, see whether it's better to glue it onto the surface before painting, or to simply mix it in with the paint. What you can also do is use printing techniques with wet acrylic paint, like chop up a potato and use that, for example. Have fun!

Answer 2

You could thoroughly mix polyfiller with the acrylic but you would have to work fast, before the mix dried! There is also a substance on the market called Liquitex Super Heavy Body Acrylics . This is a highly pigmented colour and is excellent for textural and sculptural applications. No 'plastic' look, very low shrinkage rate. Details and ordering facility on www.artsupplies.co.uk

Answer 3

I was also looking for ideas on how to get acrylics higher off the canvas, and ideas I've found include small bits of wood, cork and styrofoam. But often I just use a lot of paint - I let it dry overnight, and then build more over time, until it gets to the height I want

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

Gorilla glue squeezed onto a surface and then misted with water slowly foams up and hardens...a great texture source because you can make lines, dots, shapes, and all kinds of paintable textures. I've also used, mixed with matte varnish, gesso or Elmers...cloth, newspaper, steel wool, sand, dirt, polystyrene, nails, crushed nut sheels, dried beans, stones, sticks, license plate, mousetrap, cell phone, drywall tape, door screen, crushed glass, Bondo, drywall topping compound, computer parts, jeans, plastic ice cube trays...you can use just about anything if you can fasten or glue it down.

Answer 5

bubble wrap. the non stick foamy stuff you can buy to put on shelves. Sponges. Salt, sand. tissue paper. Elmers glue. Plaster. I like to go to the dollar store and see what different things I can apply paint with. I also by styrofoam plates to use as pallettes.

Answer 6

u can basically use acrylic on any texture....you would be surprised on how many different mediums acrylic can be applied to.

Answer 7

Cardboard, Linnen,

Answer 8

You can use just about anything. I use a lot of tissue paperto build up layers. Also egg shells, sand, splinters, PVA glue. You name it, you can use it

Answer 9

Sand, salt, string, talcum powder, pva glue etc

Answer 10

Either use it very thickly, use a knife to apply it or mis it with something eg sand