{"id":166,"date":"2024-10-20T02:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T02:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:07:53","slug":"watercolor-vs-acrylic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/2024\/10\/20\/watercolor-vs-acrylic\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor vs Acrylic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have started painting almost exclusively in watercolor until recently when I decided to give acrylics a try. I did try painting in gouache but haven’t quite mastered this very opaque medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I purchased some quality acrylic paints like Liquitex and Golden Open. I learned that, unlike watercolor, acrylics are thicker and applied directly from the palettes with little or no water. They also dry fast, which can challenge a newcomer like me. However, I\u2019ve started enjoying it\u2014learning to layer and blend the colors. Below are my initial works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cerulean Blue Sailboat – Acrylic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Morning Fire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Morning on Fire – Acrylic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Morning Fire was my first attempt to conduct a color study for a friend whose daughter needed a large painting to tie in her decor in her new home. She gave me some color suggestions and sample photos. With no experience painting in acrylic on canvas – I took to the task, not expecting any miracles. While this was a much smaller size than what she wanted – it gave me an opportunity and an excuse to start painting. I thought it turned out better than I expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acrylic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardmeagher.com\/rpm_creation_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}