Blick Presents – Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint

Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint is a professional, high quality acrylic paint available in 75 colors. These paints have a wonderful buttery consistency and dry to a rich satin finish with little to no color shift.

As you know, acrylic paints do have their drawbacks. They dry quickly, colors change value when dry and you can’t rework an area after it has already dried. Well, thanks to Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint, this has all changed. The properties of this acrylic paint are somewhat magical. The folks over at Chroma, have created a paint that stays workable for longer periods of time and maintains its color after drying.

These paints do dry , but they dry differently than traditional acrylics. Normal acrylics dry quickly and form a skin. Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint goes through what is known as a “Curing” cycle. It will go from a wet workable phase, to a tacky stage, then to a stage known as “touch dry”. The “tacky” stage is the interactive stage where these paints really begin to shine. You will recognize this “tacky” stage when your brush begins to drag and is no longer sliding smoothly on the canvas. At this point, you can either wet your brush, or use a fine mist sprayer to wet the paint to bring it back to a workable state.

Now lets say that you leave your painting to dry over night, or even days later and you want to rework a certain area. For this you will need to use a special medium called “Unlocking Formula”…

Learn more about this acrylic paint by watching the video below. If you would like to purchase Atelier Interactive Acrylics or the Unlocking Formula online at a discount, see below…

Chroma Atelier Interactive Artists’ AcrylicsChroma Atelier Interactive Artists’ Acrylics are the world’s only acrylic paints that can be used for conventional acrylic painting techniques, but when needed, artists can easily take advantage of their unique ability to rehydrate for blending techniques. Chroma Atelier Interactive can be used for ordinary acrylic painting effects such as overpainting, scumbling, or glazing when used on its own — or for extraordinary wet-in-wet blending effects by simply using a water sprayer during a normal painting session. The next day — or days later — use Unlocking Formula to blend, reveal, or scratch back. The techniques and methods employed are readily accessible to beginners and professionals alike. Atelier Interactive can be mixed with any other professional artist acrylic, but the paint will not rehydrate as when mixed with other Interactive colors. Atelier Interactive is a world-class acrylic — archival and lightfast — with exceptional consistency, brushability, color load, and a satin finish. When purchased in 80 ml tubes, Interactive offers one-third more paint than standard 60 ml tubes — and it often costs less. Whether creating a landscape, doing portrait/figurative work, creating a still life, or exploring abstract techniques, artists who use Atelier Interactive Professional Artists’ Acrylics control the paint, instead of having the paint control them! Visit the Resources tab of this page for additional information and technique instruction sheets.