How an acrylic film forms

Working With Each

How They Dry

Air hardens one paint; evaporation sets the other

The two paints become solid in different ways, and on very different clocks. Those clocks shape how each one is handled.


  • Oil cures
  • Acrylic dries
  • Open time
  • Color shift as it dries

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