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Acrylic paint with added water
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GOLDEN Wetting Agent is a surfactant. A surfactant is a concentrated surface-active liquid which reduces surface tension, thus improving wetting and increasing the flow of acrylic waterborne paints.
A surfactant is used several ways in acrylic paint making. Surfactants are used to “wet out” pigments to ease their introduction into an acrylic resin, medium or gel. They can also be added to thinner paint mixtures, such as stains, to help reduce surface tension.
Wetting Agent is very useful for staining techniques, as it dramatically reduces the surface tension between the stain (paint/water) and the support. Certain supports, especially raw canvas, are inherently water repelling in nature and require the use of such a surface-active agent to allow the stain to wet and penetrate into the support
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Adding Wetting Agent to Paint Mixtures
NOTE: Always pre-dilute Wetting Agent before adding to a paint mixture. This product is a powerful surfactant, and we recommend adding minimum amounts to a mixture and increasing levels gradually. Always try to use the least amount require to achieve the desired effect.
Acrylic paint with added water
Monday, May 16, 2016
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Q How do you make the mottled texture in your acrylic paintings like the one above?
Adding texture helps to animate and activate the surface. There are lots of tools and methods for building texture with acrylic but this is one I use frequently. The secret is timing and control over the size of water droplets! Let me show you!
What supplies do I need?
Acrylic paint, a spray bottle filled with water, untextured paper towel, a soft dry brush. this technique will work on most painting surfaces – canvas, mylar and claybord are my favourite. The crucial tool is a sprayer that emits small droplets of water – not a fine mist or large splatters. You may need to test several sprayers before you get one that is perfect. I use HK Holbein’s Water Bottle that looks like this.
Apply a few drops of fluid acrylic on a dry painting. Light transparent colour will allow the underpainting to show through while opaques and dark transparent paints give more coverage. Since I am using deep darks here the light in this corner will dramatically drop to a lower value. Use any hue or value that will work with your design and colour concept.
Brush the paint over the area where you wish to create the texture. You don’t need a lot of paint – the layer should be thin. Clean your brush with a paper towel to remove excess if the application is too heavy.
