Is it easy to paint with acrylic paint?

Answer 1

Yes. I prefer acrylic to oil or watercolour. Clean and easy, unlike oil and gives you more control than watercolour.

Answer 2

Are you asking if painting is any easier with acrylic rather than oil? The process is cleaner (water instead of solvents, rapid drying) but the end result is no easier to obtain. Painting -- the movement and application of paint -- remains the same. The finished piece certainly has a different look than oils which are much juicier in appearance for the most part, they mix blend better, and there is a slight aroma from the oils absent in acrylics which can look very plastic when overworked, or very dead when over thinned with water. Acrylics are more versatile with mixes ranging from watercolor-like to thick, thick impasto and stringy marble /glass like glosses (when mixed into Tar Gel or other high viscosity mediums). If you like the classic appearance and accolades (there are those who still believe acrylics are for amateurs) stick with oils. Otherwise, acrylics offer a lot of convenience. But I repeat, the end result is never an easy task.

Answer 3

It's a great paint for begginers, and even though I consider myself pretty good at painting already, I still paint with acrylic. As for how easy, I can tell you that it won't paint by itself. Any artist need practice to make something easy. But comparing to things like oil, it is easier.

Answer 4

Dead easy!... as long as you have an artistic talent. It's easy to paint but horrendously difficult to produce a 'work of art'!!

Use acrylics like oil or watercolour. I love it 'cos it dries quick and you can 'paint-over' your 'work of art'. If you want more time with it you can use a retarder to lengthen the drying time. Slap it on for impasto work or use a no. 4 brush for fine detail! A very versatile medium!

Happy painting! ....oh, don't let it dry on your clothes!!

Answer 5

The thing about acrylic paint is that if you get it on your clothes, you can never get it off again. However, that said, I have built up skin layers of acrylic paint on paper to create a 'skin', it feels almost leatherly and you can roll it up loosely, unlike oil on paper.

Answer 6

I enjoy it. It can be transparent, heavy brush strokes like oil or smooth like tempera. Vivid colors. You can work it as additive, as in watercolor --light to dark or like oil painting -- dark to light.

Beginners tend to let the paint dry too fast and ruin their brushes. Be sure and get some brush cleaning gel. Keep the paint on the first half of the bristles.

Research, ask.com, google or yahoo for acrylic painting lessons. Pick out a project like a dolphin painting to try it out.

Answer 7

Each medium takes a degree of skill, but acrylic does have a lot of benefits, especially for beginners--the most important being that it is a very forgiving medium. That is, if you make a mistake, you can fix it. You can't do that with watercolor... and though you could do that with oil, it takes oil days to dry.

Just practice and get to know the medium. Have fun!

Answer 8

They're easy to mix together, they're easier to use than oil and the colours don't run like with watercolours, and overall I prefer them. However, it's hard to get acrylics to blend together on whatever medium you're painting them on. If you're trying to do gradual shading on an object with them, I'd recommend watercolours.

Answer 9

Yes, it is. Acrylic has the look of an oil when you're finished, it just doesn't take months to dry. It mixes well on the palette, and dries in a few hours. Satisfying medium.

Answer 10

It is very easy, but the paint dries very quickly unless you mix it with retarder.

Also, make sure you keep your brushes clean orr they will quickly be ruined.

But you will probably find that oils are much nicer paints an in the long term far more rewarding to use.