A Review of the available Ranges
Do you know how many ACRYLIC PAINTS are available on the market?
A lot!!
Whilst surfing the Internet, you can find acrylic paint from everywhere: United States, Spain, Japan but also different types of acrylic paint, for instance: artist, studio, decorative, kids… Wow! What a huge choice!
Do not panic! I’ve checked the most popular artist acrylic paints for you. In partnership with GreatArt (London) this following list will help you find the right choice amongst all the available ranges.
Did you know?
Artist, Professional, Heavy Body, Extra-Fine Acrylic Paints: High concentration of pigment, heavy, thick or buttery. Several sets of prices for the same range as the price depends on the pigment used. As a more expensive paint, it is often available in tubes or jars. Its resistance to light is also impressive.
1. Professional
- Range Name: Professional
- Brand: Winsor & Newton
- Colours: 80
- Thick, creamy texture, maintains brush or knife marks. Longer drying time than other acrylics, remarkable intensity, colours vary little after drying, dry to a satin finish.
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2. Artist Color
- Range Name: Acrylic Artist Color
- Brand: Vallejo
- Colours: 96
- 100% acrylic resin, very heavy body texture, dry to a satin finish.
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3. Primacryl’
- Range Name: Primacryl’
- Brand: Schmincke
- Colours: 84
- Heavy body with a high viscosity and great pigmentation, no colour shift between the wet and dry states, unusually brilliant.
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4. Extra fine
- Range Name: Extra-fine
- Brand: Sennelier
- Colours : 120
- Creamy texture and rich tones, rendering capability similar to those of extra-fine oils, rapid-drying, revealing desired brush or knife marks.
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5. Fine artist quality
- Range Name: Fine Artist Quality
- Brand: Reeves
- Colours: 45
- Quick drying, high opacity, creamy, bright finish.
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6. New Masters
- Range Name: New Masters
- Brand: Old Holland
- Colours: 168
- Same characteristics and texture as Old Holland’s oil paint with satin finish.
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7. Rubens Premia
- Range Name: Rubens Premia
- Brand: Nerchau
- Colours: 60
- Thick and solid paint, allows free and spontaneous, expressive painting as well as techniques where the paint is applied in thick, textured layers with a brush or painting knife.
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8. Urban Fine Art
- Range Name: Urban Fine Art
- Brand: Molotow
- Colours: 78
- Spray can, high pigment concentration, intense, great opacity and lightfastness, dries quickly on thin or flat surfaces, handy nozzle with seal.
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9. Cryl Liquid
- Range Name: Cryl Liquid
- Brand: Lukas
- Colours: 48
- Liquid acrylic paints, quick-drying, waterproof and highly lightfast. Dries to a matte finish. Ideal for transparent effects but also for large paintings.
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10. Pastos
- Range Name: Pastos
- Brand: Lukas Cryl
- Colours: 48
- Heavy-Body with a buttery consistency, fast-drying, highly lightfast. Dry to a glass-clear, waterproof, acid-resistant, non-yellowing finish, ideal for most techniques, from glazes to palette knife work or impasto.
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11. Liquitex Heavy Body
- Range Name: Heavy Body
- Brand: Liquitex
- Colours: 100
- Buttery consistency and smoothness that resembles oil paint, very suitable for both brush and knife. They are ideal for smooth brush work and for layering, colours barely darken at all on drying due to the lightness of the acrylic, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
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12. Lascaux Artist
- Range Name: Artist
- Brand: Lascaux
- Colours: 54
- Excellent lightfastness, buttery consistency, great colour intensity and a semi-matt finish, perfect for impasto and palette knife techniques.
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13. Golden Open Acrylics
- Range Name: Open
- Brand: Golden
- Colours: 80
- longer drying time, slightly thinner consistency, perfect for paint blends, gradients, shading, glazing and details.
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14. Golden Acrylics
- Range Name: Acrylics
- Brand: Golden
- Colours: 54
- Exceptionally soft, heavy body, thick consistency, excellent permanency and lightfastness.
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15. Cryla Artists’ Acrylic
- Range Name: Cryla
- Brand: Daler Rowney
- Colours: 87
- Heavy, oily consistency and considerable volume, very high viscosity, specifically designed so that brush strokes remain discreetly visible, ideal for impasto work and to generate three-dimensional impressions.
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16. Amsterdam Expert
- Range Name : Amsterdam – Expert Series
- Brand : Royal Talens
- Colours : 70
- Slightly greasy consistency, 100% acrylic resin, dries quickly, good opacity for some colours. The colours do not vary much after drying, matte finish. Most affordable among artist acrylics.
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17. Ara
- Range Name: Ara
- Brand: ARA Colours
- Colours: 97
- Good fluidity, great intensity, pleasing sheen, suitable for most applications on clean and grease-free surfaces, ideal for murals and collages. The colours are brilliant and highly resistant to ageing, good price.
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Information for this article was provided by professional fine artist, Amylee Paris. You can visit her colourful portfolio or follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
Find all Amylee’s posts published in GreatArt online Magazine by clicking here!
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