Acrylic Paint Markers ???

[dd50]

Wondering if any of you use acrylic paint markers? I've done a search... and came up with the 'DecoColor Opaque Paint Markers as being the only ones you can blend.

Are there other 'good quality' brands? Are you able to use them on watercolor paper or canvas?

Last question: Can you paint on top of the other .. such as white on top of black ... after it's dry, and it showing up well as in using a brush?

Thanks a bunch!
Dee

[dd50]

BUMP!

Anybody???

[mkillough]

I use them on Canvas, over acrylic paint, to sign my name. Works fine on canvas. Just drove me nuts pushing cown on the marker constantly to get the flow of paint going. Actually caused more pain to my arthritis than doing it with a brush. I finally practiced until I can sign my name with the brush. The set I bought only had 8 colors in it. Play with them, see if you can blend colors, or overlay one color on another as with colored pencil. One drawback is you can't wipe out a mistake as you can with acrylic paints. A stroke layed is a stroke played.

[GregWood]

Hi

(I am a commitable marker freak...)

Try the zebra Craft-Star juniors. They only come in eight colors but are very opaque for doing detail work. Nib on the front and the back. (fine and medium)

As far as the "acrylic" portion goes, I find that the xylene solvent based paint markers are also wonderful and compatible with most any surface.

The stronger solvents flash off before they have a chance to damage the medium underneath.

Ziggy, I think, is the brand I see in the art stores the most. I personally use the marktex brite-mark available through industrial distributors.

If you want to get crazy, search the web for industrial paint markers like the brite-mark. I have extra nibs and clean out and refill the markers with acrylic airbrush paints, stains, calligraphy, and printers inks. The tip valve assembly itself is practically indestructable and the life of the marker is only limited to how long you have it before you drop it and step on it. I have markers I may have run 6 ounces of ink through.

Greg

[GregWood]

Hello again:

Regarding "making your own" and the "permanence" issue:

I also keep a supply of valve action pen-tip white-out correction pens from Staples, and clean out and refill these with thinned acrylics endlessly. Again, I have bodies that I have used for literally months on end, having run ounces of fluid through them.

I have also filled several of them with various solvents for doing spot corrections on my work... Zylene and lacquer thinner for oils, ammonia augmented Windex for acrylics, peroxide and laundry bleach for bleaching ink out, vinegar for neutralizing the bleach and one with baking soda solution for neutralizing the vinegar.

Well, You asked.

Greg