# @blickartmaterials on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc_e4_-CJl5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70244740-blickartmaterials-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f4fc3b0bd5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07T16:01:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Blick Art Materials (@blickartmaterials) — https://gondola.cc/blickartmaterials

## Caption

🎨 When acrylic paint first emerged in the 1940s, artists gained something entirely new: control over both color and texture.

Today, acrylics range from fluid, ink-like consistencies to thick, sculptural bodies. Combined with specialty gels and mediums, they can create effects impossible in traditional paint.

The result? A medium that lets artists shape not only what they paint, but how the surface itself speaks.

🧑‍🎨 Presentation by Todd from our Outreach Team
😁 Thanks to our vendor partners at @liquitexofficial & @goldenpaints for the footage
🫶🏽 Special thanks to artists @scott.l.maier, tishalee_art, @michaelas_artistry & Kelly Burke whose work we included here
🎥 Filmed at Blick Studios in Chicago, Illinois

#ArtHistory #AcrylicPainting #PaintingTechniques #ArtistStudio #ArtMaterials

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## Tags

arthistory, paintingtechniques, artiststudio, artmaterials, acrylicpainting

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