What is the difference between a high quality acrylic latex house paint and a artist quality acrylic paint?

Answer 1

There is a huge difference house paint has a shorter life span than artistic paint. It is called color fastness. If you paint with house paint on canvas you can expect your colors to disappear within a short period of time like 10 to 25 years.
I would feel at a great loss if some of the paintings I painted would loose their colors and I would not be able to enjoy them as much in twenty or thirty years.
There are works of art in museums by Picasso and other modern artists who did not use the best materials or experimented with techniques and their works are falling apart now or are kept in safes and not shown to the public because their colors are almost gone. And with their color the work.
I hope it helps.
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Answer 2

House paint is made to paint houses. Life expectancy of pigments and binders = between 5 & 10 yrs maximum.

Artist quality paint is made to last a minimum of 100 years. Considering most of the best pigments used are single natural elements such as Cobalt, Cadmium, Iron Oxide etc., their colours will certainly outlast my lifetime and yours.

Acrylic Polymer Emulsion and Latex binders are 2 different things, regardless of the quality of the house paint. Latex house paint is not intended to withstand repeated coatings without sanding or other preparation between layers.

Jackson Pollock used latex house paint. The gallery custodians sweep a little more of his paintings off the floor every night after closing because the paintings are literally disintegrating.

You should care what your paintings will look like in 30 years, especially if you sell them.

Answer 3

As far as quality , durability and colour fastness is concerned - no real difference. The main differences are due to purpose. ie: house paint is designed to flow evenly over a surface using brush or roller while artist paint needs to be able to be manipulated according to the artist's technique: house paint thin, artist paint thick. there is also a difference in pigmentation levels - artist paint has greater amounts of pigment per volume than house paint [ watch how much pigment goes into a can when you order a colour from the hardware store] you mix stronger colours using artist paint while house paints generally give weaker inter-mixes. I use both, generally using house paint for large light tint areas and artist paint for stronger textured areas.
unless you use fillers or additives, impasto work with house paint is difficult. I often intermix them for colour but because of the volume of light tint base in most housepaint colours this can consume a lot of artist colour. Experiment, the workshop shelf in your home or your neighbours can often provide a source of cheap paint in challenging colours!

Answer 4

House paint is great! Especially if you can get the cheap stuff they sell at Lowes or Home Depot on Saturdays..the reject paint is super cheap and it works well. I like using it too because the paper doesn't wrinkle when I paint on it!

Answer 5

About $110 per gallon.