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The cheap paint that you are using, I use all the time. I love it, it is affordable and I only buy the primary colours + black and white. I have no problem mixing colours. I've been using cheap paints for 30 years and the colours are still as bright, as the day I painted them. I have tried more expensive paints and haven't found them to be any better. Price wise I would rather spend $1.50 per bottle of acrylic paint. Tweny five dollar for one tube of paint is a little pricey. I always use a base coat of colour and then build up my layers of detail. If you are new to painting some other non expensive brands are Folk Art acrylics and Delta acrylics. I have found these paints to be awesome. You really don't need to buy expensive paints to get awesome results. I hope this helps.

Real artists can use anything and make it work!

I use this brand of cheap paint all the time. I do use the 3 secondary colors to aid with color mixing, but I really like blending, gradients, and glazing with these. Some of my favorite paintings that I've done have been made exclusively with cheap paints, and I will mix cheap with more expensive paints in my work with no ill affects, too!

I have been painting with cheap paint, what frustrates me is that colours seem to bleed through a bit.

I actually use cheap paint myself, DecoArt, Anita's all purpose and CeramCoat, and yes while mixing is a bit off sometimes, it is more worth it to me to buy a full rainbow for cheap than just primaries with expensive supplies. Maybe one day I'll use more expensive supplies, who knows, but I definitely won't be switching anytime soon.

im using the cheapest paint i could find, i've gotta say, works fine

It sounds like cheap paint ends up being almost as expensive, in a way, as you have to use more to get the color you want, as it isnt' immediately as opaque, etc. I'm only a beginner, but it sounds like when it comes to paints of various sorts, and visual art in general, really it's a lot of headache to go cheap. You have to know what you're doing to make up for some of the defecits. But, if you just don't have the money, it's nice to have videos like yours with the iips on how to compensate for defecits.

Just like everything, you get what you pay for

I use the cheap stuff and I like it, and the results are great . I bought some expensive stuff and I didn't think 5 times the price was worth it.

I am a digital artist, just bought some very very cheap acrylic paint for a medium challenge, it frustrated me and made me doubt myself so much just to get a nice gradient for the sky. When it dries, the painting look so matte, not like the painting other artists done. I even doubted maybe I've bought fake acrylics. Thank you for your video, it answered all the questions I had. I might go and buy some better acrylics. :( Oh, one more thing, cheap acrylics can't build up nice textures.

Love this video! I’ve been painting nearly a decade and almost exclusively use artdeco paint (used to use the expensive stuff but it was really breaking the bank). Not the red though, definitely need a less transparent red. Definitely agree you need to buy the colors you want though. Generally I only mix them for highlights or shading.

When I started painting as a teenager I bought all my paints from the a well known art store. Haven’t painted for a few decades and bought some cheap paint recently for the kids to try painting. I joined them and constantly had issues. Initially I thought maybe I just got old and forgot how to paint and the techniques involved. Over a bit more time k realise the paint just behaved very differently. I dug up a tube of the really old paint from many years ago and it was much more usable.

I use dollar store acrylic paints for most colors with one exception: reds. Read is the least stable color so I only buy the best quality red with light fastness. For yellow, I'd sometimes use a cheaper lower quality albeit professional paint. For greens, blues, and every other color, dollar store paints will do the job.

Thank you for the video, ma'am! Funnily enough, when I started painting, all I had access to were the dollar store style acrylics (apple barrel mostly). Thankfully, a friend gave me a tub of Liquitex thickener, which helps with the versatility. For mixing colors, I found, like you did, that 2 colors were often not very effective. However, through LOTS of trial and error, I found that adding a third color could get me close to the shade I wanted. (Mixing thinned black with blue and yellow seemed to yield a better green, for example.) I still use them a bit, because a talentless hack like myself should avoid spending money for good acrylics on bad paintings. P.S. they can come in handy for when one is going for a particular effect, like a twilight landscape.

That is a very interesting video. I have never used a cheap acrylic. For now, since I'm still experimenting with this medium, I use student grade acrylics and specifically the brand art creations by talens, el greco, pebeo, stamperia and liquitex basics. Recently I bought the metallic acrylics by sennelier. They are fantastic!

Interesting video, thank you! I wanted to add to your point about dangerous materials in paints - the more expensive paints tend to be the worst! Lead, cadmium, mercury… must be so careful. Awfully expensive to produce, unsafe, but an absolute dream to paint with (oils)! I have a hard time finding these old fashioned paints now as they’re being phased out of high street art stores and only stocked by a few specialists, which is probably a good thing.

This was a very helpful video. I have only used cheap paint. You hit on something that I was most curious about and that was the chalky finish of cheap paint. I really dont like that about it and was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I am new to painting. I would prefer the satin looking finish. Thank you so much!

Great video and valid comparison. I really enjoyed this honest breakdown of the differences. I'm in the figuring things out phase so I've got the cheap stuff since I'm just trying to learn the medium and not sell or even give it away.

Thank you Syndia, your review helped me a lot! =)

Quite informative. Thank you. Very nicely presented. I purchase all my oils and acrylics at the thrift stores. Often 9 or 10 or so tubes of quality brands for a total $2 or so...also quality brushes, canvases, pastels, crayon pencils, etc. I also like that I can often find unopened tubes, etc from products I used 25 or 35 years ago. I don’t find a lot of difference between cheap and expensive paint for 85% my projects. It’s just the 15% when I’m trying to do a difficult colour or texture.

I like the cheap picture more

An eye-opener to more pocket friendly option... Thanks so much Syndia for doing the experiment for us! So so appreciate yr efforts n clear comparisons!

I’m painting with this cheap acrylic paint at the moment. When I apply it, you can see the bobbles of the canvas coming through it. It’s really thick and gloppy and hard to spread. It sort of sticks to the brush and dries quickly, and it’s difficult to control where the paint ends up. Is the problem here definitely the paint? Or is it maybe a weird bobbly canvas or cheap paintbrush? Or a combination of all three! Haha

beginner graphical artist carrying my cheapskate behaviors over from music. Just picked up a tray of cheap acrylic tubes and knowing the limitations of cheap paints will save me some frustration

Well your point about mixing colors, I see. I gave up on making my own secondary colors. Now I buy 12 paints. Black, White, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Cyan, Blue, Purple, and Magenta And I use Apple Barrel which is $2.60 per 16oz bottle. Cheaper than Red Bull

I don’t know if you have access to it or not but you should try Folk Art for the heap comparison. Deco art is horrible compared to Folk Art and Folk Art is less that $2 for the 2oz bottle and most of it has a nice buttery consistency. And I prefer matte finish. I’ve never noticed any smell on any of the deco art, apple barrel, Anitas, or Folk Art

I quite like the cheap paints 🤪🙂🎨

also worth trying out: dimension acrylics from Mont Marte

We can use this paint in clothes?? The cheap 4 example

Thanks a lot for this video . 😌🌟

Hum......I love DecoArt and never had a problem mixing colors. They all come out vibrant. I just got done with a few paintings and they are bright and colorful. They blend realy good. I like how fluid they are and I have use heavy body paints and end up adding water which dosen't work well. I would like to try Golden fluid paint but the price steers me away. Maybe one of these days.

I mix cheap paints all the time and don’t have an issue

Why does the green paint bottle in the thumbnail say christmas red 🤔

Very nice Syndia..

Oh wow… no wonder my colors are turning out to be pastelly and gray.. I thought I was just doing it wrong

Nice vid

Awesome ❤

I learned that the cheap paint is garbage it's all watered down and it just goes runny when you paint something it looks good when you squeeze some out but soon as you start using it you realize why it is so cheap I even bought some expensive thick gel that was supposed to make it thicker but it still goes on runny so I bought some expensive paint and it works great but after painting a few things I realized it is way to expensive

Thank you for information. Can I mix my deco art paints with a higher quality paint to improve the quality? I have bought many different colors from Dollar store and I don't want to waste money. Thanks.

I would try Five Below not Dollar Tree for cheap paints.

I use the cheap acrylic and wanted a second opinion about them because I wasn’t sure if it was just how I mix colors, or how I paint, etc, but my paintings always come out so dark like I have to hold my paintings outside to see exactly what I painted lol

Thank you for this

if it flows and dries, it works

It seems all comments are year old💔 I don’t know if some one would answer my concern or not but I’ll type it: I use cheap acrylic and it’s all fine but when it comes to varnish it mix the colors of my painting and ruin it. Can I know where am I doing the wrong thing? Please and thank you!

I just discovered you and I am really enjoying all your videos! (Got a set of Van Gogh oil pastels for Xmas and was in need of tutorials as I am new to them). What you say about smells of cheap art supplies is not crazy! I have the same problem with gouach and acrilic. It’s even happened to me with Crealando colouring pencils, Lidl sells them in special campaigns (It’s a massive supermarket chain in Europe, not sure if they are in Canada too). I found I couldnt use them because of the stench that came out as soon as you opened the tin box. Even my 8 year old noticed it. So there! Not so strange! 🙃

isnt liquitex even on the cheap end too ?

Can you do a review on Apple Barrel on Canvas ?

Please make the video on promarker brushpen

hey can you do picasso acrylic paint

Can I use these Art' Deco paints with an Airbrush?

Just goes to show yaah can't please em all.

Do you know the brand "Golden" Oil Pastel?...I just want to know your opinion about that.

Sorry but cheap paint sucks and gives you a terrible experience not to mention it cracks over time. You get what you pay for and when it comes to art having s great experience makes a big difference for me, even a nice profesional brush its a joy to use

How to make cheap acrylic shiny? Is there a product to mix it with?

Really not cheap its just less amount cause 8ve yet to see 32 oz. Cheap paint

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You are using the wrong cheap paint! Folk art from Walmart is pretty good and I have no problem mixing colors you just have to learn about what you're working with! I've made some pretty decent things with cheap paint you just gotta learn how to use it! There's cheap then there's crap! Dollar store is crap and Walmart is just cheap😂

Ive been working with cheap acrylics. It dries before you even finish a stroke, its horrible and is straight up unusable.

Thank you you explain LITERALLY EVERYTHING I wanted to know, I’m still buying acrylic cheap paint at Johnns though 🫠