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“I never decided at all to be an artist;
being an artist seems to have happened to me.”
Anne Truitt
"Acrylic paint
is fast drying
paint
containing pigment suspension in
acrylic
polymer
emulsion.
Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become
water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the
paint is diluted (with water) or modified with
acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the finished acrylic
painting can resemble a
watercolor
or an
oil painting,
or have its own unique characteristics not
attainable with other media.
Acrylics were first made commercially available in
the 1950s. These were
mineral spirit-based
paints called
Magna
offered by
Bocour Artist Colors.
Water-based acrylic paints were subsequently sold as
"latex" house paints, although acrylic dispersion
uses no
latex
derived from a
rubber tree.
Interior "latex" house paints tend to be a
combination of
binder
(sometimes acrylic,
vinyl,
pva
and others),
filler,
pigment
and
water.
Exterior "latex" house paints may also be a
"co-polymer" blend, but the very best exterior
water-based paints are 100% acrylic.
Soon after the water-based acrylic binders were
introduced as house paints, artists and companies
alike began to explore the potential of the new
binders. Water-soluble artists' acrylic paints
became commercially available in the 1950s, offered
by
Liquitex,
with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming
available in the early 1960s."
Source:
Wikipedia
