Liquitex Soft Body Professional Grade Acrylic Paint Review!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- The Painting Stoof (Steph Moraca)
Thanks for joining me today! I am a professional fine artist from Pittsburgh, PA with a focus on contemporary realism landscape painting. I have been painting since 2002! I received formal art education from the University of Pittsburgh- In 2012 I received my BA in Studio Arts. Today, I sell originals and prints of my artwork to public and private collectors across the United States. I'm well known for my golf landscape paintings and paintings of national park landscapes.
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Halo my friend. Always so nice. . Enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing. All the best. Kjell
thank you Kjell!
I have found that if you only have heavy body paints you can make your own close-to soft body equivalent by adding drops of Liquitex Flow Aid and retardant/slow dry/blending medium to your desired consistency.
I am so happy you liked them, I knew you would. Awesome review and beautiful painting. :)
thanks very much! they were great!
Wow! 💕💕
Beautiful
WOW!! The green with the blue orange yellow all look so beautiful together! as u said it’s fantastic and vibrant! Love it 😍 like12
thanks Mustafa!
Oh my God the beauty made me cry :))))
thank you!
This is awesome technique with gouache
Thank you for sharing it with us
Liked + watched
Stay connected and stay supportive and stay safe
thank you, this is acrylic paint not gouache. have a great week!
Oh wow....that looks so cool
thank you!
Great info. I've been wondering if I should give soft bodied paint a go or not. I think you've convinced me.
Nice review! Thank you for sharing 😊 Have a blessed weekend! xxo
thank you Katherine-Christina!
It's a beautiful scenery! The color is so beautiful.
thank you!
It looks good and yes those bottles are easy to squirt out a small amount of paint. Landscape painting works with soft body without adding water. Maybe portrait would work for heavy body. Anyway the Liquitex Basics Acrylic compared to this soft body would be interesting, They now have fluid paint as well with more colors. I wonder about color tinting. Also airbrushing.
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Good Luck God Blees You
thank you!
Great review!
thank you Jackie!
Awesome thx 😊
thank you :)
These paints are wonderful I loved it 👍
thank you Thereza :)
I love how your pond looked like a heart. Great review, and amazing painting. Very talented. Thank you.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 😄
I am watching this video as someone that bought up on these paints before Christmas, but is still learning them (I haven't used them a lot yet). I am a little of that violet colour and now want it for my collection. I love how flat they dry. I have never liked paints that dry thick, when you don't want them too. Eg. when you outline something and it dries but you then layer over it and can still see the original brush strokes. I hate this. I know there is a purpose for thicker paints and seeing brushes strokes, it is just what I like.
gorgeous sky... it's my favorite part of the painting.
Thank you so much 😀
Very informative review Steph! I have always worked with the Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics. It was interesting to learn that you barely needed to thin down your paints for this work (The Heavy body definitely is the opposite). Paint coverage is also a big deal for me. I might be switching paints hear in the future (not anytime soon, I have a lot of paints to go thru :)
If I were to experiment though I might just go Primary's, White and Black! Your work's never cease to amaze me.....One day I will attempt a golf course landscape ;)
very good Max! yep i loved the heavy body acrylics too and will continue to use them, but for the more detailed work these soft body acrylics are fantastic! primary colors with white and black is a good starting set for sure! :)
I'm so glad I happened upon this video yesterday. I needed a new yellow, and the paint looked so easy (the paint, not the painting) that I went out and bought it. Now I'm looking for reasons to buy more.
I'm glad you liked the review video! These are one of my favorite acrylic paints still! Happy painting! :D
So beautiful my friend :)) stay connected
thank you!
I recently learned these soft body paints are the the reincarnation of just the plain ol' Liquitex acrylic tube paints I used to use back in the 1980's.😀
Stoof got a sponsor y'all!! Good video as usual, keep it up 👍🇺🇸
haha thanks Jake! One day I'll get a real sponsor, haha!
Heard about this brand before & saw paintings!👍 lovely texture and colours!👌 very informative and useful review Steph!👍this type of reviews are very helpful, specially for the beginners!👍 thank you Steph for another honest review and thoughts regarding this paint!👍 thank you for sharing!👍 take care and stay blessed friend 💐
thank you David! glad you enjoyed!
Amazing job beautiful painting great tutorial 👍 👍 💕
I'm very impressed with your painting skill.
Thank you so much 😀
Woww..
thank you!
Wow so beautiful art work. 😃
Have a great day. 😊
thank you!
A great demo, and a fine painting, too.
The liquitex acrylic Gouache are even better. I think you should try them sometime
lindo dibujo amiga
thank you :)
Your Painting are beautiful! I love the paints that you are using!
thank you Tracy!
Wow..so colorfull..amazing..i like it👍👍👍
thank you!
Thank you im going crazy and need to be patient when i use other brands and when i need opaque colours so im looking for this
Great review and painting!
thanks Annie!
Great review Stoof! I really need to try these professional paints. I'm sure the pigment and thickness of the paint is very high quality as you have stated.
yes for sure! i definitely recommend these :)
This artwork looks stunning. Really adorable. You should use these paints. You used this in a nice way.
thank you!
Very nice!
Wow🤩
What a great review If I were a painter I would definitely give these a go ♡♡
thank you Connie :)
Muy buena informacion
thank you :)
I saw a CZcams video about the 4 different types of acrylic paint and she was saying that heavy body is good for adding texture or making artwork like Van Gogh. Heavy body doesn't give you the smoothness that soft body gives you. I think heavy body is harder to mix just because it is so thick.
hi Amanda! thanks for your comment. Yep for detailed realism paintings soft body acrylics work much better for me. The heavy body is great for textured art. Heavy body acrylics can be mixed easily using a palette knife- the texture of heavy body acrylics is closer to oil paint in my opinion. Happy painting! :)
great job 👍👍
thank you!
Very interesting 😍😍
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Nice !
Merci
thank you!
The acrylic guouche is nice too . But the color range is limited . Adding them to the soft body acrylic mixes nicely
oh nice!
Another great review, thank you very much! This is helpful because heavy body paints seems to be the most popular ones, and I was wondering if (aside from impasto) the soft body ones were more limited somehow. But now I want to try them. Aside, have you ever tried the Winsor and Newton professional line of acrylics? They are very popular here in the UK, and meant to be in between heavy and soft body in terms of viscosity. Also have limited color shift. I'd be keen to know what your impression is. x
thanks very much Francesco! I'm glad you enjoyed the review! I have used Winsor and Newtons professional acrylics- I like them, but I like the tubes better for the liquitex brand. (They are easier to open.) The paint quality is great for both brands in my opinion!
Beautyfull ! How about Golden Open ....?
Thank you! Golden has been a great brand to work with in the past- I have not tried the Golden Open acrylics but I would expect the consistency to be similar to these Liquitex soft body paints! Thanks for your comment! :)
@@ThePaintingStoof ....mainly, at Golden Open is about that LONG time the color takes to dry.... so they stat workble for more time that normal acrilic paints=TOO LITTLE TIME 4 ME !
Very informative tutorial Madam.
Can you please tell me, Acrylic heavy body or soft body which is best for abstract painting?
Depends on what type of abstract painting you are going for - one with thick bold colors and texture would look better with heavy body paints. If you need more fluidity in your paint for an abstract painting, soft body will be better.
Great video! I just bought some of these because I've developed some allergies to oil paints (which is such a bummer). I really like more opaque paint - did you find that these were plastic looking like regular acrylics (I hate that about regular acrylics!) - fellow artist and CZcamsr
Hi Sandi- I have yet to find an acrylic paint that has the same buttery look of oil paints. I'm sorry to hear about your allergy- that has to be tough. For these liquitex paints, the opacity varies by color (for example the yellows are usually more translucent) but in general the pigmentation is great in these paints! They do still have that acrylic paint look when they dry, though. Maybe you can get a varnish that would make your paintings look a little less plastic-y for a completed painting?
@@ThePaintingStoof ok. Thank you for the reply - good info! I’m liking these paints so far!
How do these compare to golden acrylics. I do like the extender nib on the end. Did you have to add any mediums? Did they flow well on the brush? I use to buy that brand for students but lately I love the goldens. Nice review and painting. Thanks for sharing. 😀😀😀
thanks! I have tried golden heavy body acrylics and they are great but have not tried the fluid acrylics by Golden yet. I did not have to add any medium for the liquitex soft body acrylics, they flow very well without anything added!
Subbed thank you ! , i work with oils * still a noob ) but i also want to get into acrylics , do you find your paint blobs dry on your pallet quickly or only once its spread thin ? do you recommend a wet pallet ?
Hello! Thanks for your comment- when using acrylic paint, it can take hours or even a full day for a blob of paint to dry and harden. The thinner lines of paint/paint spread out on a canvas can dry from a few minutes to an hour. You can buy slow drying mediums to make the paint stay wet longer, but I don’t usually use those myself. I’m not sure what a wet palette is... haha I just use disposable palette sheets or parchment paper as a palette. 😊👍🏼 with acrylics you need to work more quickly when blending than you would need to with oils, but with acrylics your paint dries faster so your colors don’t get mucky as often from blending. If you use the layering method for your oil painting you get avoid the mucky color blending because your layers dry before adding more color/blending. Hope that helps!
@@ThePaintingStoof helps alot thank you very much
I can,t find them any were. I wanna try them out but i can,t find them anywere
Are you living in US? We have these in local art stores around the country. I believe you can order them from amazon.com as well.
No i am living in the netherlands but thanks anyway. 😄👍🏼👋🏾
Hi,have you tried or reviewed liquid acrylic for landscape painting?
I have used these acrylics for many landscape paintings! They work well for me.
@@ThePaintingStoof Thank you!
@@ThePaintingStoof I meant fluid acrylics like Golden?
@@MattBlytheTheOne oh! I have not purchased fluid acrylics by Golden. I prefer Golden’s heavy bodied paints.
I’ve always wanted to try them but everyone says they take forever to dry......strange.
interesting, these didn't seem to take any longer to dry than my other acrylics when I used them. i really liked these!
@@ThePaintingStoof okey dokey....you’ve convinced me, I’m gonna give them a go.
Is this scenery just from your mind?
This is a landscape of Torrey Pines golf course in California. I referenced an image for the layout and adjusted some features and all the colors to depict a vivid sunset time of day.
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thank you :)
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Paint brushes in your water are giving me anxiety
hahahaha