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Artist Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints Information
Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints - Artists Quality - by Chroma
Developed by Chroma, Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints do not form a skin, meaning even touch-dry paint can be reworked, allowing reblending all day. The colour range is intense without a plastic look or feel and with minimal colour shift as the painting dries. Wet-in-wet paintings can be altered or developed without the time restrictions of normal acrylic paints, and unresolved areas of a painting can be reworked rather than just overpainted.
Yet even with these fantastic developments in acrylic paints, you have not lost any of the traditional fast-drying techniques either. There are also new mediums, designed to give you the choice and flexibility over controlling your painting.
For Old "Fast Drying" acrylic paints there is Fast Medium, Binder Medium and Impasto Gel, whilst for New "Slow Drying" acrylic paints there is a Water Sprayer, Slow Medium and Unlocking Formula.
Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints are so unique there is a patent pending on it!
Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints broaden the scope of acrylic painting techniques so far, it is important to read the information here on purplenimbus.com to get the most out of them.
Using Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints:
Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints are balanced to allow wet-in-wet painting for as long as you want it, but you must replace the water being lost through evaporation. A Water Sprayer is the easiest way to do this when working on a small painting, or a small area. For larger paintings, Slow Medium increases the timeframe for working the paint. Even paint which seems dry will reactivate.
It may take a little longer with Slow Medium, but curing in a warm, dry place takes approximately 2-3 days.
To begin with, you may wish to use your existing skills at painting with acrylic paints, whilst starting to experiment with Interactive Acrylic Paints. An excellent way to do this is by using Fast Medium to enable fast painting techniques in your underpainting, and then explore the properties of Atelier Interactive blending as you complete your painting. The awareness of the "wetness" of your painting is often the hard thing to master!
Any surface well-sealed with gesso makes wet-in-wet blending over long time periods much easier. If you paint on watercolour paper, as the paper will absorb moisture quickly, you will need to use a Water Sprayer to keep the paint from becoming too thick and unusable.
To paint wet-over-dry is also possible with Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints. Remember that touch-dry but uncured Interactive is very absorbent - a good method is to wet the surface with a large wet brush or a water sprayer, and then wipe off the excess with a rag. Another approach is to apply fresh paint, which tacks up very quickly because the dry paint is so absorbent - you can then use a water sprayer to soften edges. As you continue to paint, you will have a new wet-in-wet layer. Please note: If you spray lightly you will get a spatter effect of wet and dry paint - it is better to wet the whole surface and swab off excess, before starting to overpaint. When matching wet paint to damp paint, remember to allow for the tonal shift that will occur as the painting dries.
The cured paint is quite possibly less shiny than you are used to - but with excellent colour saturation and strength. Solvent Varnish choices are Invisible, Satin, or Gloss. All of these varnishes are removable and solvent-based to protect against mould.
In-house trials conducted by Chroma have convinced them that Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints are how acrylic paints should be in the 21st Century - there are so many possibilities that it will take some time for artists to exploit them all. If you are using Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paints, and have any tips, techniques or ideas - we'd love to hear about them.