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Contemporary flower paintings in mixed media

Acrylic materials are by far the most versatile of all painting media. Artistquality acrylics come in three quite distinctive consistencies: heavy body acrylics, the quite runny fluid colours and the inks, which are the most liquid form. These different viscosities help you to make the right choice to achieve the desired effect in your painting. All three viscosities are intermixable on a single surface and all are great contributors to a mixed-media painting.

Fluid acrylics

Wherever I need highly intense colour with a flowing consistency that is not quite as thin as inks I turn

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