…has it’s advantages and disadvantages.
I totally love how quickly it dries, that you can wash brushes out in water and that it doesn’t smell as strongly as oil based paints.
The quick drying factor means that you can put down a layer of paint and 10 minutes later you can put another layer of paint on top of the dry paint. Laying wet paint over dry paint like this is my favourite way to paint.
The most annoying disadvantage of acrylic paint is that on a warm day the paint literally starts drying on your brush before you finish laying it off on your painting. It dries on the pallet too before you’ve finished using it, so you need to clean and refresh your pallet several times during a painting session or you get frustrated with the drying lumps of paint that look wet but won’t move when you try to stick your brush in it. It then becomes a hunt for the tiny bits of paint that are still wet enough to paint with. This is most frustrating at the end of a session when you might have one or two tiny corrections to do which requires a minuscule bit of paint but there’s just dried paint on the pallet so you have to put out your colours again and mix the tiniest bit of colour up to match the part you want to correct which leads to…
…the other most annoying disadvantage of acrylic paint is that acrylic paint dries darker, so it’s very difficult to colour match for corrections. This is because the acrylic resin in the paint is opaque and white when wet but dries clear…and correcting with the wrong colour or tone is like opening up a can of worms…
Study in acrylics on a hot day.