Acrylic Paints

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A2 Student Acrylics

A2® Art Students' Acrylics are specially designed for the needs of students, beginners or hobby painters who wish to avoid the expense of buying artists colours, especially during the earlier stages when they are learning how to handle paint.

A good student's paint needs to be:
1. As strongly pigmented as an artist's quality paint.
2. The same in its consistency and handling as an artist's quality paint.

A2 acrylics meet this definition very effectively and are competitively priced because we have used student quality pigments.

Chroma's A2 Art Students' Acrylics are perfectly suited to be used with the Atelier® Range of Painting Mediums & Varnishes.

The choice of colours in a range like this is important. The 20 colours in the A2 range are what we believe to be the "basics" which need to be used and understood before exploring more specialised and extended artists ranges such as Atelier, Golden or Liquitex.

The 20 colours in the A2 range have been carefully matched to colours in the Atelier Professional Artists' Quality range, so that experience in colour mixing gained by learning with A2 is not lost.

Atelier Absolute Matte

A genuinely new kind of paint

Absolute Matte provides an opportunity to create a new genre of painting with unique optical effects. Paints with a matte finish are usually a little dull – Absolute Matte has a vividly, vibrantly matte surface which enhances colour. Neither a gouache nor an acrylic, it opens up totally new areas for exploration · It dilutes delicately for washes. It can be built up in layers. It remains workable for as long as it is kept moist, because it does not form a skin as it dries (a water atomiser keeps it workable).

It is very aesthetically pleasing to use for anyone who likes water based media effects, but has the advantage of being overpaintable for alterations or subtle layering effects. It is totally unlike acrylics to work with, yet it has the acrylic sturdiness and flexibility to permit large major works on paper or canvas, or it can be used for the smaller “works on paper” which many painters like to show with other larger works. It is ideal for outdoor sketching, even in difficult dry Australian conditions, provided that a stay-wet palette is used. A great addition to your Art Supplies.

Atelier Interactive Artist Acrylics

Tired of your acrylic paints drying too quickly?
Explore Interactive’s Unique Formulation!
Unlike traditional acrylics, all 75 of these “interactive” colors do not suddenly form a skin. Interactive changes the painting process, giving you plenty of time to blend and rework and giving you more creative freedom. The patent-pending formulation allows even touch-dry paint to be reworked or ragged-off to blend or reveal layers. Archival quality and lightfast, the intense colors dry to a satin-like finish without a plastic look or feel and minimal color shift.

The Unique Benefits of Interactive
- 75 colours are intense without a plastic look or feel.
- Paint has a smooth, buttery consistency that dries satin.
- Loses moisture gradually allowing an artist to control the drying process.
- Wet-in-Wet painting can be altered, considered or developed in the artists’ own time rather than being dictated by fast-drying paint.
- Wet-over-Dry painting can be easily integrated.
- Unresolved areas of a painting can be reworked and not just overpainted.
- Excellent for silkscreen, lino block and monotype printing processes.
- Minimal colour shift as paint dries.
- Available in 80ml, 250ml and selected 1 litre Jars.

Chromacryl Students Acrylics

Derivan Brush & Finger Paints

If you are choosing what paints to use for 3-5 year olds, you will need to consider more than just the price.

Brush & Finger Paint have been formulated with young children in mind.

The colours are bright, and intermixable, as well as being safe.

When children are young, paint doesn't always end up where it is meant to go.

Paint will end up on clothes, despite aprons. It will end up on the floor, despite drop cloths, and when you're not looking, it will end up in young children's mouths.

Obviously Brush & Finger Paint are not designed to be eaten - but kids will be kids, so the formula for Kids Kolors has been built on food starch, just in case.

Brush & Finger Paint are easy to clean up off children's clothes as they have been formulated so that they swell up and release when soaked in cold soapy water.

In addition to 10 basic colours, there are also 5 glitter paints, ideal for creating gifts for special occasions.

Derivan Student Acrylic Fluorescent Paints

For general art education. Great for teaching colour mixing, producing strong pure secondary and tertiary colours. Smooth buttery consistency. Can be used for screen printing, block printing and painting from impasto to water-colour effect

Derivan Student has been manufactured since 1964. As part of our commitment to producing only the best products, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our paints for you the artists. That is why Derivan Student acrylic is now made using a pure acrylic binder. This gives you the advantage of a quality acrylic paint at a student price.

Derivan Student acrylic washes up in water.

Jo Sonja's Artist Folk Art Acrylics

Jo Sonja’s Decorative Painting System developed as a result of collaboration between innovative paint company, Chroma, and renowned American Folk Artist, Jo Sonja Jansen. The commitment of both, was the development of a brand that used today’s exciting technologies to harness the techniques of the past so that a lasting heritage would be produced for the future.

As one of the first to bring Decorative Art to Australia through her travel teaching, Jo Sonja Jansen was able to ensure that the colours and mediums in the range met the exacting standards of serious Decorative Painters. The brand was first introduced to the market in 1985 and quickly become synonymous with fine quality and versatility, a position it maintains today.

Jo Sonja's Background Colours

Jo Sonja’s Background colours are specially formulated for easy one coat backgrounding and are intended for all decorative and fine art applications. Use straight from the jar as a background colour or combine with other Jo Sonja's colours for dramatic effects. Made from the finest artists’s quality pigments, all Jo Sonja's Background Colours are independently tested to ensure your that your colours will not fade over time.

Jo Sonja's Metallic Colours

Matisse Background Colours

A highly pigmented "low tooth" gesso.

Build your art on a strong foundation. Matisse Background Colours are all-purpose pure acrylic that can be applied to almost any surface. They are a highly pigmented low tooth gesso.

Used directly onto wood, the Background Colour will not only cover and create a great surface to paint on, but will also seal the surface because it has a built-in sealer.

All Matisse Background Colours are especially designed and selected for traditional folk art techniques, interior domestic decoration as well as canvas and board application.

Matisse Background Colours can also be used with stencils, design painting, or simply as a flat decorative wall and ceiling paint. Apply direct from the jar and clean up with water. Matisse Background spreads easily with brush or roller and dries fast to a matt-velvet finish. Matisse Background Colours make an ideal coloured gesso. Matisse Background Colours come in 250ml "stack up jars".

Matisse Flow Acrylics

Matisse Flow Formula has all the attributes of the Structure Formula; however, it has a thinner viscosity to allow free flowing brushstrokes or use through an airbrush (with minimal dilution). This allows the paint to be used for fine brushwork with or without water dilution. This paint gives a fine flow with a low-sheen finish and good levelling.

Matisse Flow Formula is highly suited to mural work, acrylic canvas painting, theatre backdrops, geometrics, hard edge, photo realism, air-brushing etc... and fine detail brushwork, poster colour and watercolour techniques can be simulated quite easily.

Matisse Structure Acrylics

Matisse Structure Formula is a rich impasto paint that artists love. Available in 66 colours, Matisse Structure Formula paint is ideal for application with a brush or palette knife for striking textured effects, or combined with the range of Matisse Mediums for exceptional flexibility of application and finish.

The intense, vibrant colours of the Structure Formula paints cover the full colour spectrum, including several uniquely Australian colours.
Only the finest quality pigments and ingredients are selected for the Matisse range of premium acrylic colours. All have the highest lightfastness rating of ASTM 1 or 2 and are archival quality- so you can create with confidence knowing your artwork will stand the test of time. Each are fully compatible with the range of Matisse Mediums working together to create a highly versatile painting system for all artists.

Applied undiluted by brush or knife it gives a rich deep impasto finish. The colours may be thinned with water for washes and watercolour effects.

Tim Gratton's Face and Body Paints

Tim Gratton's Face and Body Paint has been formulated as a safe, non-toxic paint which conforms to Australian and European Community cosmetic regulations and Australian Standard 1647.3.

After listening to customer feedback, Tim Gratton’s Body & Face Paint is now available in a larger 250ml jar (formally 200ml) and a very handy 75ml tube.

Application
It is advisable to use Tim Gratton's Face and Body Paint over a "barrier" or hand cream on the face to lessen the chance of an adverse reaction on sensitive skin. Do not use on persons with sensitive skin or skin conditions. Do not apply to open wounds. Avoid contact with eyes, nasal passages, mouth or other orifices as abrasive irritation may occur.

Tim's tips and tricks of the trade
Hairspray can be used to coat the hair before applying body paint. Hairspray can also be sprayed over the completed body painting to prevent rubbing or flaking over long periods. Avoid eyes and mouth when spraying.

Olive Oil can be applied with a spray atomizer over the body paint to give a silky shine or you can mix it with the metallic paint on the second coat to make it really glossy. Apply the first coat of paint without olive oil.