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Recent Examples of acrylic
Layering oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas, her art is a process of accumulation, textures applied to capture the brush of wind and the shift of light.
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
There are already stickers with this texture that just stick to the surface, but nail experts can also do it from scratch by first applying nail polish and then a layer of clear acrylic.
—Paola Zamarripa, Glamour, 10 Feb. 2026
Equipped with radar, sensors, flashing lights that glint off the rotating acrylic cubes and real-time artificial intelligence that initiates dialogue with the viewer, the artwork is anything but static.
—Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
The fitting rooms spotlight works by distinguished American artists, including an acrylic on linen canvas by Wyatt Kahn as well as an abstract, textured painting by Robert Greene.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
There are already stickers with this texture that just stick to the surface, but nail experts can also do it from scratch by first applying nail polish and then a layer of clear acrylic.
—Paola Zamarripa, Glamour, 10 Feb. 2026
Equipped with radar, sensors, flashing lights that glint off the rotating acrylic cubes and real-time artificial intelligence that initiates dialogue with the viewer, the artwork is anything but static.
—Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
The fitting rooms spotlight works by distinguished American artists, including an acrylic on linen canvas by Wyatt Kahn as well as an abstract, textured painting by Robert Greene.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrylic
Noun
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The diffused appearance of this gradient design has a mesmerizing, watercolor-like appearance.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
20 Feb. 2026
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Scrolling through the results, Benning then selected a diverse set of reference images and turned these into digital collages on an app on their phone, finally executing them on paper through the highly personal and painstaking medium of watercolor.—
Alex Bacon,
Artforum,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Made with gouache and pencil on paper, the work depicts a guitar and several everyday objects, including a bottle and a folded sheet of paper, arranged on a table in soft brown and gray tones.—
Dragana Jovanovic,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2025
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With an airbrush borrowed from his job at an ad agency, Man Ray would blast droplets of gouache onto board or heavy paper and use stencils to organize the spray.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Opt for a baby pastel blue to still be close enough to a versatile neutral.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
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Still, no visit is complete without ending the meal with a warm pastel de nata dusted with cinnamon—and maybe a box to take home.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Feb. 2026
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One is a diptych of a ship before and after its wreckage.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
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His most recent works, the Polar EP and the conceptual diptych Helios Rave Draft and Superfluid, continue his exploration of sound design as emotional and physical experience.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, fashion illustrator Talia Zoref was on hand and busy creating aquarelle sketches for guests to take home.—
Camila Hennessy,
Vogue,
5 July 2017
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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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