acrylic

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Recent Examples of acrylic Unlike acrylic nails, soft gels are free of plastic, resins, and polymers. Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 26 May 2025 In one corner, a dozen New Yorker magazines are fanned across a transparent acrylic table. Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025 Bring your own artwork and supplies (acrylic, oil, or watercolor) to work with Alex and fellow artists. Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025 Expect lots of squiggly silhouettes and modern materials such as acrylic. Erika Owen, Vogue, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for acrylic
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Noun
  • Visual Arts: Experiment with watercolor, sketching, pottery or digital art.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The open-air art show brings together more than 150 local and regional fine artists with works ranging from watercolor, oils, mixed media and photography to glasswork, woodworking, jewelry, pottery and sculpture.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Indeed, secrets is the operative word, applied not only to these gifted designers but to the Petit Palais, whose collection of some 5,600 jewelry sketches and gouache renderings is barely known, even to specialists.
    Ruth Peltason, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Blue Water House Overdose on quirky, pastel, Key-West-meets-knickknack-store vibes by booking one of the 10 whimsical suites at this bed-and-breakfast situated a few steps from the beach.
    Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • The firm is established as a go-to for legendary gentlemen in real life and on the big screen, from Winston Churchill’s Siren Suit, which enabled the prime minister to get presentable in a hurry during WWII air raids, to Robert Redford’s plethora of pastel shirting in The Great Gatsby.
    Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • The lithograph diptych is by America Martin and was also sourced through 1stDibs.
    Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The diptych begins with an artist onstage for a public conversation, then floats in and out of internal monologues and exchanges between the artist and his censor.
    Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025

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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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