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Oil vs Acrylic

A short course comparing oil and acrylic paint.


How oil and acrylic paint differ: what is in each, how each dries, how they handle and layer, and how they age. Concept pages explain one idea with a historic plate or an original diagram; example pages show it in a public-domain painting or in David Nicholson's own acrylic work.

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