Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps. Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted with water, or modified with acrylic gels, mediums, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor, a gouache, or an oil painting, or it may have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.
Red acrylic paint squeezed from a tube
Example of acrylics applied over another color
Experimental pictures with "floating" acrylic paint
Fluorescent acrylic paints lit by UV light. Paintings by Beo Beyond.
Paint is a material or mixture that, after applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer. As art, this is used to create an image, known as a painting. Paint can be made in many colors and types. Most paints are either oil-based or water-based, and each has distinct characteristics.
A charcoal and ochre cave painting of Megaloceros from Lascaux, France
Paint used every day: White paint on a wall in Suzdal, Russia
Watercolors as applied with a brush
The "painter's mussel", a European freshwater mussel. Individual shell halves were used by artists as a small dish for paint.
