Concept · Two Paints

Solvent Acrylic and Water Acrylic

Magna, the first artists' acrylic, had its plastic dissolved in solvent. Most acrylic sold today is water-based instead.

Magna thinned like oil but often dried in hours rather than days. Solvent or the next layer could dissolve it again.

• It could even be mixed with oil paint.
• It never sold well and was dropped in the mid-1970s.

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