Chroma Interactive Acrylics

[Steve McArthur]

Does anyone have any personal experience (pros/cons) with Chroma Interactive Acrylics?

 

Thanks,

Steve

[Steve McArthur]

I seem to get a more oil feel by using the Gel medium or just paint with no water or medium. It also makes the painting look more like oil if you give the final painting a couple of coats of the Binder medium. Puts a gloss on it.

Barbara Sawyer said:

Hi Steve, I just bought a set of the  Chroma  Interactive Acrylics ,   the colors are very bright and it takes a lot of getting use to . Guess I'm really more in love with oils  ..I did use them  for a base  block in before doing the finish in oils .I'll do another  soon and really give them a hard try.   and yes the paints seem very watery  especially when you can add water  after the fact.   

[Steve McArthur]

Hi Jan,

Great cat, the fur looks really good. The more I use the Interactive Acrylics the better I like them.

The ability to seal a painting with the binder medium and then experiment without worrying about messing up the painting is one of the best benefits I think.

Jan Kench said:

Hi Steve I am a relatively new painter and have just recently switched to the Atelier Interactive Acrylics and I love them.

They are so lovely to use and the colours are awesome.

I am just starting to use the mediums but find that using water is just as good for the things I like to do.

Here is a picture of my dad's cat I have just finished today using these paints.

Let me know what you think if you do use them.

Cheers

Jan

PS my profile picture is done with them too :~}

[Sharon Lynn Williams]

I tried them when I was in Australia on holiday, and couldn't get used to them. I live in Canada and have learned with Golden Acrylics. Found it very frustrating to figure out what paint had dried and what was still wet. I was working in abstraction at the time, and found them really poor to glaze because often they were still wet, so mud was the result. I think I would love to try them for plein air work though! 

[Barbara Sawyer]

I treid  them and   they were  Ok  but sure not like working with oils   so a cheap one is fine for base coating

[Jan Kench]

Thanks Steve , glad you like the cat.

I am still trying to work out the mediums but that binder sounds good I may have to get some.

Steve McArthur said:

Hi Jan,

Great cat, the fur looks really good. The more I use the Interactive Acrylics the better I like them.

The ability to seal a painting with the binder medium and then experiment without worrying about messing up the painting is one of the best benefits I think.

Jan Kench said:

Hi Steve I am a relatively new painter and have just recently switched to the Atelier Interactive Acrylics and I love them.

They are so lovely to use and the colours are awesome.

I am just starting to use the mediums but find that using water is just as good for the things I like to do.

Here is a picture of my dad's cat I have just finished today using these paints.

Let me know what you think if you do use them.

Cheers

Jan

PS my profile picture is done with them too :~}

[Lyndon Baxter]

No Barbara, they are not like oils, they are much more versatile and deserve the same amount of attention you originally gave to oils when you first used them. I recently went the other way and tried water-soluble oils as I cannot cope with solvents and the only thing I found really attractive was the easy of blending when painting wet-in-wet, other than that I prefer the acrylics for their drying times. The study that I did with the oils took almost 3 weeks to dry, I could have done a heap of paintings in that time with Interactive acrylics!

Barbara Sawyer said:

I treid  them and   they were  Ok  but sure not like working with oils   so a cheap one is fine for base coating