What is the difference between soft body and heavy body acrylic paint?

What is the difference between soft body and heavy body acrylic paint?

We’re often asked this. If you thought Soft Body was just a watered down Heavy Body, you’d be wrong. But if you thin Heavy Body with water or medium, you reduce concentration and get noticeably weaker colors. Paint feel, performance and stability is also impacted, so choose the right consistency of paint for the task.

What is the difference between acrylic and heavy body acrylic?

Heavy body refers to the viscosity, or thickness, of the paint. Heavy body acrylic paints have no fillers, dyes, extenders, toners, or opacifiers added. Fluid. Fluid acrylic paints are just as intense as heavy body but flow evenly and work well for dry brush application as well as pouring or even spraying.

What are heavy body acrylics used for?

Heavy body acrylics have a thick, buttery consistency (similar to oil paints) that retains brushstrokes and facilitates color mixing and blending. Alternatively, fluid acrylics are thinner (but contain the same pigment concentration) and are suited to detail work, staining, watercolor techniques, and dry-brush work.

Can you mix soft body and heavy body acrylic paint?

Layer, smudge, blend and mix in your own individual style – intermixability allows you to combine any Liquitex Heavy Body & Soft Body Acrylics, Inks, Sprays, Markers and Mediums, any way you like.

How do you thin heavy acrylic paint?

The Heavy Body Acrylics can be thinned very effectively with water, but since the Fluids start at a lower viscosity, less water is needed. Remember: the more water added to the acrylics, the greater the subsequent shrinking of the paint layer.

Can you mix water with heavy body acrylic paint?

Some sources advise not to mix acrylic paint with more than 50 percent water. When painting on an absorbent surface, you can use any amount of water because the fibers of the unprimed canvas, paper, or wood will hold the pigment to the support as well as absorb the excess water.

Why Acrylic paint is bad?

Acrylic paint can go bad in a number of ways; it dries in the tube, becomes chunky, develops mold, or gives off unpleasant odors. The individual components can begin to separate, but that alone doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad.