Bali Painting

Bali Acrylic Painting

In modern bali painting arts, acrylic painting is also inffluence the balinese style painting. Acrylic means a chemical or material which fast-drying paint containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic painting ussually diluted with water, however it does not means this paints will not water resistant, but it is become water resistant.

Depending on how much water or acrylic gels, media, or pastes diluted with acrylic material, the painting will have its own characteristic, which different with other painting style such as watercolor painting or Oil Painting. The acrylic paints was introduced in 1955.

While we can make same painting using acrylic painting or oil painting, there is a difference between this painting material. The binder of oil painting is linseed oil or another drying oil, and the binder of acrylic painting is water. That is come to the terms of oil based for oil painting and water based for acrylic painting.

However the most significant difference is the time of drying. Oil painting allow blending color more longer and also giving glazes on the painting. This condition is not good when the painters need to paint the painting quickly. Acrylic painting dry in shorter then oil painting. So this characteristic has uses on a purpose.

If you ever see a wall painting, you will see the acrylic painting is used there. Unlike oil painting, in acrylic painting we can get wide density range for making soft brushes. This allows really heavy 3D (impasto) effects.

The characteristic of Bali Acrylic Paintings

There are some charateristic that visible when using acrylic as the paints :

• It is easier to find dilution for the paints. As mention above as water-based, we only need to dilute with water so no need for special thinner
• The bruses can be clean using soap and water
• We can use bruses that used on oil painting, so we don't need extra investment
• Acrylic paints dry fast often in minutes, while oil painting can take week or more
• Once dry, you can start making layer on top of current acrylic layer
• Acrylic can be paint on wide variety media such as art canvas, water color, paper, wood, board and also wall
• In acrylic, the color change between wet and dry is very little. It is different with water color painting.
• Easy to clean acrylic paints on your cloth or hand using soap and water
• No strong smell for acrylic paints
• Can be use as underpainting for oil painting

Beside the advantage, there are downside when using acrylic paints :

• It is difficult to make blend paint as it is dry fast
• You need to clean your bruses after painting also acrylic painting is hard to remove from solid material such as pallete knife
• Acrylic cannot be adhere in any grease surface

You can find bali painting collection using acrylic paints in Bali Painting. This painting made by balinese artist in modern painting style arts.