Artist grade paint is more expensive than student grade paint. However, one way to get over the price is to see artist paint as a good investment. Use it to make your work of art special and mean more to you. A painting's going to be all the more important to you if you invest money into it, as well as time, of course. With this more expensive grade of paint, you know you're getting your money's worth. Investing in it for your painting means that you painting's going to be more treasured and appreciated. Note that with this grade of paint, the higher the series number of letter, the more the cost will be. The greater the cost, the greater the quality of the paint.
2. Huge choice of high-quality colours
With artist paint you get practically the full complement of colours to choose from. If you've used student paints in the past then switch to artist paint, you'll appreciate the huge variety of colours that this type of paint offers. instead of your choice of colours being limited, you can take time to explore lots of exciting and vibrant colours to use in your works. The colours themselves are of a higher quality because they contain more expensive pigments. If you want to do a painting that is vivid and rich, with lots of colours that are less commonly seen, artist paint is the one for you.
3. Less colour shift
Artist paint is made of more expensive materials that are of a better quality than those that are used in student paint. One of the key properties that separate the two grades of paint is that artist paint has a lot less colour shift. This is especially noticeable when painting with acrylics and watercolours, both of which tend to change colour as they dry; acrylics usually go darker as they dry, while watercolours go lighter. The change in colour, the colour shift, can be quite dramatic. With artist paint, the colour shift is far less pronounced. Some brands will claim that their paint has barely any colour shift at all, meaning the colour that comes out of the tube will be practically identical to the colour that you finish your painting with.
4. More mixing
Artist paint can be mixed together a lot more easily than student paint. In fact, you can very easily mix different brands of this grade of paint together without any problems arising. Mixing student paints together can be a bit more problematic; again it comes down to the fact that the ingredients in artist paint are of a much higher quality than those found in student paint. The main advantage of this property is that it allows you to mix colours a lot more. With student paint, you can't mix colours that well or effectively; the opposite is true for artist paint and this lets you produce lots of exciting and vivid colours.
Joanne Perkins is a Berkshire-based artist with a BA (Hons) in
Fine Art. She specialises in painting Berkshire landscapes and loves
capturing the natural beauty of her local countryside. She is happy to
accept all queries and questions. For more information about Joanne, her
work and her current projects visit: http://joannesberkshirescenes.com/default.aspx Joanne can be found on Facebook
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