Acrylics

Choosing the Perfect Pink Acrylic Paint: Quinacridone Red vs. Permanent Rose

I’m looking at two pink acrylic paint tubes with the same pigment: PV19, but with different names: quinacridone red and permanent rose. One of the interesting things about learning about pigments is that once you start looking closely at pigments, the more complex you learn they are. Two paint manufacturers may use the same pigment […]

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Tubes of cerulean blue and cerulean blue chromium sit on top of swatches of colour.

Cerulean blue and cerulean blue chromium acrylic – what’s the difference?

Choosing a green-leaning blue for your palette can be tricky. Do you go for the dark phthalos? Or the paler ceruleans? This blog post looks at cerulean blue and a similar colour: cerulean blue chromium. Both paints are a middle value – not overly dark or pale. Landscape artists particularly love them because they are

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Titanium white and zinc white acrylic paint – what’s the difference?

I’ve been examining different similar acrylic paint colours, testing out colour mixes to see how the slight differences in hue might be useful (or not) as an acrylic artist. Today, I’m looking at titanium white and zinc white acrylic paint. These two white colours are the most common white acrylic paints.  If you’re a beginner

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