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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 mediaAcrylics were first made commercially available in the 1950s These were mineral spirit-based paints called Magna[1] 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[citation needed] 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 [2]Acrylic artist paints may be thinned with water and used as washes in the manner of watercolor paints, but the washes are not re-hydratable once dry For this reason, acrylics do not lend themselves to color lifting techniques as do gum arabic based watercolor paints

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Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are available, although a satin (semi-matte) sheen is most common; some brands exhibit a range of finish (eg heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex and Winsor amp; Newton)


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