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Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS - Painting - Sythetic Resin Paints

Acrylic Resins - Alkyd Resins - Cellulose Acetate - Cellulose Nitrate - Synthetics in Artists' Materials - Vinyl Resins

Prepared Artists' Materials - Polyvinyl Acetate Emulsion [PVA, Vinyl Polymer Tempera] - Acrylic Emulsion Paints [Acrylic Polymer Tempera] - Acrylic Solution Paints - Alkyd Resin Medium

[From: Kay, Reed. The Painters Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.]

Acrylic Resins


The acrylic resins were introduced on the American market by Rohmn and Haas Company in 1931, initial development being credited to Otto Rohmn in 1901. Methyl methacrylate resin is prepared from acetone, which can be obtained from fermented grain or from propylene, a product derived from either petroleum or natural gas. The acetone, processed successively by hydrocyanic acid, sulfuric acid, and an alcohol, yields the methacrylate monomer, which is then polymerized by the action of heat, light, and catalysts. The resin is soluble in acetone and toluene. It has been emulsified by means of special agents, such as ammonium oleate, and is supplied in water emulsions. Butyl methacrylate resin is soluble in V. M. and P. naphtha and turpentine as well as in toluene and xylene. Since the late 1930s acrylic resins have been commercially available under the names Lucite, Elvacite, and Plexiglas. In the form of solutions, they have served as fixatives, picture varnishes, and paint binders, and in the form of water emulsions, as binders for prepared gesso and artists' tempera. [p. 189]

[Kay, Reed. The Painters Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.]





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