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Atelier Interactive has been
designed to give you greater control over
the painting process. It does this by allowing you to choose when
you want your paint to dry fast and when you want some more time
to blend with wet paint.
To achieve this amazing level of control all you need to do is
learn how and when to use a water sprayer.
How it works?
As Atelier Interactive dries it doesn’t
form a skin like other acrylics do, which
means it can readily absorb more water
to replace what has evaporated. After
the paint has dried it gradually cures and
becomes permanent and waterproof.
Note: Atelier Interactive contains no
retarder so it will dry quickly if not kept
wet with a water sprayer.
Getting Started
The best way to try Atelier Interactive is
to get the 12 x 20ml set or you could buy
some 80ml tubes and use them along
with your other paints. Atelier Interactive
can be mixed with other acrylics but to
experiment with the extended blending
and rewetting techniques you have to
use just the Atelier Interactive colours.
The water sprayer can be a very powerful tool,
allowing artists to control the drying speed of
their paint. When you need more time for wet
blending a light misting of water can keep Atelier
Interactive wet for as long as you like.
To use a water sprayer successfully follow
these simple instructions.
What kind of sprayer?
The sprayer must deliver a FINE mist of
water. We recommend the Atelier Fine Mist
Water Sprayer.
Note: For larger works you may need to
up‑size your sprayer in which case be sure to
get one that delivers a fine mist of water and
not a jet of heavy droplets.
When to spray?
As the paint starts to dry you will feel your brush begin to drag.
This means it is time to spray if you want to keep the paint wet
and workable.
How to spray?
Hold the bottle back about 30cm from the painting and
lightly mist the area you want to keep wet. The painting
surface should not be physically disturbed by the water
droplets. If you are getting large droplets or big dribbles
then you are spraying too much.
What if the paint won’t re-wet?
After the paint has just dried it can still be reactivated with
water but after about an hour, depending on climate and
paint thickness, you will need to use Unlocking Formula
in your water sprayer to re-wet the paint.
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Experience Painting Freedom
Tired of your acrylic paints drying too quickly?
Explore Interactive’s Unique Formulation!
Unlike traditional acrylics, all 75 of these “interactive” colors do not
suddenly form a skin. Interactive changes the painting process, giving
you plenty of time to blend and rework and giving you more creative
freedom. The patent-pending formulation allows even touch-dry paint to
be reworked or ragged-off to blend or reveal layers. Archival quality
and lightfast, the intense colors dry to a satin-like finish without a
plastic look or feel and minimal color shift.
The Unique Benefits of Interactive
Allows reblending and reworking all day. In dry conditions you will need
to replace water being lost through evaporation by spraying with water
from time to time.
75 colours are intense without a plastic look or feel.
Paint has a smooth, buttery consistency that dries satin.
Loses moisture gradually allowing an artist to control the drying
process.
Wet-in-Wet painting can be altered, considered or developed in the
artists’ own time rather than being dictated by fast-drying paint.
Wet-over-Dry painting can be easily integrated.
Unresolved areas of a painting can be reworked and not just overpainted.
Excellent for silkscreen, lino block and monotype printing processes.
Minimal colour shift as paint dries.
Available in 80ml, 250ml and selected 1 litre Jars.
Patent Pending on Interactive
Interactive is a world first in acrylic paints. The formulation is so
unique that it is patentable.
From Atelier to Atelier “Interactive”
Research & Development is usually a background activity which produces
gradual improvements over time. Atelier Interactive is a major change –
the biggest improvement since artists’ acrylics first appeared in the
1960’s, and significant enough to be patentable. Before the release of
Atelier Interactive we carried out lengthy trials to find out what the
new paint was capable of. Our first major decision had to be... Should
it be sold as a completely new product range, or should it be presented
as a dramatic improvement of our existing Atelier Artists’ Acrylics?
The Atelier Interactive formula does so much to broaden the scope of
acrylic techniques, with long painting sessions
and blending which cannot be done with conventional acrylics, that we
decided it should become our universal formula. By calling it Atelier
Interactive and redesigning the packaging, we are alerting our existing
Atelier audience to these changes. Artists need need to read the
information presented in this website to get the most out of what the
new paint has to offer.
It is important to know also that in gaining access to new, extended
working/blending techniques, done within a time frame that you can
control, that you have not lost any of the traditional fast-drying
techniques you may wish to retain.
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