Fresco {Chalk} Acrylics- a 'how to' reference

As we near the 3rd birthday of the launch of our extremely successful PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk acrylic paints in February 2011, it's time for a video that summarises how to enjoy them with your rubber stamps.

As of January 2013 we have 10 colour families of 4 in sets (light, medium, dark and super dark), 4 glazes, black, white, gold and silver, so in total, 48 Frescos.

We are about to extend this to 13 bang-on-trend colour families, including 4 new metallics, and 2 new glazes. This means 60 frescos will be soon be available as we move into our 3rd year showcasing these beautiful, unique, chalk finish paints.

As you may be aware, I have been a bit of a paint junkie for many many years. I have no hesitation in saying these paints are so easy to work with, produce superb results, and give you fantastic options for craft-project versatility due to the comprehensive colour range, and amazing characteristics. We have been overwhelmed with fabulous feedback from our customers over the last 2 years, and so we are thrilled, for a third year to be adding even more colours to this outstanding Fresco paint collection.

If you have not experienced these paints yet, here is an extensive list of Fresco Chalk Acrylic characteristics:

• High coverage on all surfaces, wood, metal, glass, paper, card, chipboard, Crackly Tissue, Crunchy waxed paper, Metal Card, Smoothy stamping card, Metal charms, plastics, ceramics, fabric...you get the idea...they can be used on any surface
• Perfect for indoor and outdoor use...so they are hardy!
• Water- based acrylic means clean up in water is easy.
• Extremely matte, chalk finish is perfect to stamp over with all kinds of inks, pigment, dye , and yes, as they are chalk, even distress inks can be used over these paints as they happily sink into the 'tooth' of the chalk.
• A variety of opaque, semi opaque and translucent colours allows you to enjoy the features that high, medium and low coverage paints offer. Eg high coverage means one coat is all that is necessary, or use the low coverage for building depth, shading, or blending both wet in wet or wet on dry
• No need for undercoat, gesso or primers, use direct onto any surface.
• Bang on trend, appealing colours specifically to designed to all work together harmoniously
• Frescos are suitable for altered art, mixed media, journaling, interior design, fine art, Scrapbooking, card making, textiles and general craft projects.
• Ideal and easy to write directly on for journalling or add additional colour and detail with a huge variety of pens, pencils, crayons, water soluble colours, dye sprays, mica sprays, inks etc
• Can be diluted with glazes or water and the colour pigmentation maintains its integrity.
• Permanent once dry on all surfaces and can be mixed with textile medium for permanance on fabric for washable items.
• Fast drying and durable.

So enjoy the video, and if you haven't yet tried Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics, then check out the many other things you can do with them at the PaperArtsy youtube channel

You can see all the colours available online here at PaperArtsy.

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