SWATCH WITH ME! | M Graham Acrylic Paint UNBOXING & First Impressions 

LOL 🤣 maybe try our acrylics? If you want to get in for a low investment just to try acrylics, I recommend value sets or sample sets ( other brands like golden or liquitex, as MGraham doesn't really have sample sets. ) And try to use coupons or sales where you can. Also, the Winsor Newton galleria acrylics are a great way to try acrylics affordable, they are student grade but reliable quality, and I think a step above the rest in student quality.

Thanks so much for watching. It maybe your screen however I do think acrylic quin rose is more close to quin red. M grahams quin rose is my favorite watercolor rose too !

You are so very welcome 🙂 thank you for watching !

I'm so glad that I could help! Thank you for watching. This is why I do swatch videos because I know how difficult it is picking colors through a computer screen. Especially if you don't have access to a local art store.

@@nicolemartinart5819 I'm sure the colors aren't absolutely the same color, but the best thing about your swatching for me is seeing how transparent/opaque the paint is. Thanks again.

Yes, I prefer the golden gloss glazing liquid. #1 because it has a tiny bit of retarder in it, this enables you to blend your glazed out unlike the liquitex which dries almost immediately and I find i don't have enough open working time to achieve the results i want. #2 make sure you get GLOSS glazing, regardless of what brand because if it's satin, it contains a bit of mattifying powder which will cloud over and milky the glaze. Not only does this render it no longer a true glaze by very definition (glazes are transparent veils)but it looks awful, especially if you like to build up many layers. If you want a satin finish you can always go over with a coat or two of satin varnish at the end to unify everything but never work with satin glazes and never use satin or matte anything over darks because it will easily go chalky and you'll lose your darkest values. In general I only recommend gloss varnish and definitely gloss glazing liquid, this will allow for the widest range of tonal values to be achieved, which is always what you want in good strong artwork. Hope this helped 😊

@@nicolemartinart5819 Of COURSE it helps. It's obvious that you know the tools of your trade better than any acrylic artist I've seen online. I saw on Instagram that it's hard to tell that some of your acrylic paintings aren't oils. Wish I could find.a teacher like you.

@@charlesreidy2765 that's so kind, thank you so much. It means a lot to me 😊

That's a great question. I had considered trying the sennelier acrylics too. Maybe I'll pick up a small trial set for Christmas just so I can review them on the channel

No , i have not tried those 🙂

My top favorite are Golden, Matisse structure( I have a review of your interested with swatches) and Winsor Newton.( I have a review coming soon) I do not like liquitex! They are too crumbly like cottage cheese ( some, as the textures are very inconsistent.) But they work well for impasto style or palette knife paintings.

@@nicolemartinart5819I haven’t had problems with Liquitex before but I generally use their soft body acrylics. Are you speaking about their heavy body acrylics? Thanks.