What is the best thing we can get from acrylic painting?

Question

Oil painting is considered alive and breathtaking... Acrylic painting?

Answer 1

Acrylics are the most versatile medium ever created. You can:

- paint them thick and get plenty of texture like oils
- use thin glazes to achieve the same glow used by classical master portrait artists
- use retarders to slow drying so you can blend like oils

Things you can do with acrylics that you can't do with oils:

- use them like watercolour when painted on paper
- use a huge variety of available mediums to thin, add texture, even adhere other objects to the painting surface
- paint on nearly any surface from canvas to metal to plastic
- paint layers over layers many times in a single day
- mix various things with the paint to achieve texture such as sand, pumice, paper, wood, metal, you-name-it
- add items on top of the paint surface using a collage technique, such as photos, paper scraps... the list is endless
- use the acrylic surface to draw on with a great variety of drawing materials

Some skeptical artists think acrylics look flat, but that's because they aren't using them to their full potential.The more you pay for your paint, the more pure pigment it contains, and the better it will perform. Quite honestly, it's the best thing since peanut butter.

Answer 2

acrylic is also good, it dryes much much faster, and easier to paint with. ofcorse it wont have the saem vibrant effect of the oil paint but its good for begginers, and even to use under the oils, very usefull!

Answer 3

I would think it would be the same. Acrylic is one material, so...