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Recent Examples of acrylic
The giant aluminum and acrylic music note stands 16 feet tall and weighs around 400 pounds.
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Kate Perez, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
Bring your own artwork and supplies (acrylic, oil, or watercolor) to work with Alex and fellow artists.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
The creator specializes in producing Lichtenberg figures by firing high-energy electrons into insulating materials such as acrylic.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
The key development in the sixties was Frankenthaler’s turn from oil paint to acrylic.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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Kate Perez, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
Bring your own artwork and supplies (acrylic, oil, or watercolor) to work with Alex and fellow artists.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
The creator specializes in producing Lichtenberg figures by firing high-energy electrons into insulating materials such as acrylic.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
The key development in the sixties was Frankenthaler’s turn from oil paint to acrylic.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrylic
Noun
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Bring your own artwork and supplies (acrylic, oil, or watercolor) to work with Alex and fellow artists.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Dec. 2025
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This month, Davis painted the Christmas tree inside the Union Station and included a watercolor sticker of the Shuttlecock at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
22 Dec. 2025
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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
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Sunrise yoga There’s a moment, right before the sun lifts, when the sky fills with strips of pastel, a warm-up.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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This new coated canvas comes in the historic dark brown color and four pastel shades.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
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The first Universal Frankenstein movie to be produced after James Whale’s masterful diptych loses Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, jumping ahead to his adult son Wolf (Basil Rathbone) returning to his ancestral home, where the resentful villagers give him the cold shoulder.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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The exhibition is physically structured around five diptychs, each on a podium, juxtaposing five sculptures and five video installations.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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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 11 Jan. 2026.
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