4/1/2023 0 Comments Acrylic in psykopaint![]() In testing, blended with 75% water, we found it very useful for keeping the paints wetter longer on a palette. Thinning OPEN Acrylics with water will tend to speed up drying. Typically it is used to reactivate touch dry OPEN Acrylic films or in small amounts, it can be added to your OPEN colors on your palette or while working to assist in keeping the paint workable in a way that water will not. Small spray mister bottle – Fill with a 3:1 mixture of water and OPEN Thinner (75% water and 25% OPEN Thinner.) OPEN Thinner is a blend of proprietary retarders and humectants used in OPEN Acrylics and it has multiple uses. For more details about using OPEN Acrylics and OPEN Mediums see the links at the end of this article. It is important to only paint in relatively thin films with OPEN Acrylics, not much more than about 1/16″, as thicker films can take a prohibitively long time to fully cure. In general, OPEN Acrylics can take up to 10 times as long to dry as compared to regular drying acrylics. For most other places with average temperatures and humidity, you could have at least several hours or more of time to move the paint around and blend colors. How much time will you have? If you are painting in a rain forest…OPEN Acrylics will likely never dry (or any acrylic for that matter!). If you are in a desert, even OPEN Acrylics will dry faster, especially in thin films. Our OPEN Acrylics can be a very effective solution if wanting to use acrylics outdoors. This can make painting outdoors much more challenging with acrylics unless you are working very fast with “one shot” paintings. ![]() Typical regular drying waterborne acrylic paints tend to dry quickly and when painting outdoors with wind, sun and warm temperatures they will dry even faster.
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