Acrylic and Canvas

Painting is a mode of creative and the forms are numerous. Recently, I saw an opportunity to commercialize one kind of arts by using acrylic paint and canvas. I am eager to learn the techniques to paint on canvas since it is kinda interesting and I was enjoying myself when did it. But, I am pretty sure not many people know and enjoy to do such thing.

Let me introduce to you... An acrylic paint is a fast drying paint containing pigment suspension. Whereas a canvas can express an artist's complex view of life or exalt nature through inspiring landscape and depiction of flora and fauna. In simple word, we can express our feelings through painting on canvas. Sounds good, isn't it?

Next, lets move on to the techniques how to use acrylic paint. Acrylic artists paints may be thinned with water and used as washed in the manner of watercolour paints, but the washes are not re-hydratable once dry. For this reason, acrylics do not lend themselves to colour lifting techniques as do gum arabic based watercolour paints. Once, we know the right techniques of using acrylic paints, we may start show off our skills.


Oh, before that... we need to know what are types of acrylic. There are two types here:

• Extruded acrylic: It is made through a process in which the liquid is pushed through rollers, which press it into sheets as it cools
• Cell cast acrylic: It tends of be of higher quality than extruded, but it is also more expensive. In cell casting, single sheets of acrylic are made by pressing the liquid plastic between pieces of a mold, often made of glass, which is then taken through a gradual heating process.