Affordable Versatility for Every Artist
When it comes to painting, finding a paint that balances quality, performance, and price can be a challenge—especially for artists just starting out or those working to a budget. Studio Heavy Body Acrylic Paints are designed to fill that gap, offering excellent consistency and colour strength at a fraction of the cost of professional ranges.
What Makes Studio Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Unique?
Studio Heavy Body Acrylics are formulated to provide a thicker, buttery consistency, similar to professional heavy body paints, making them ideal for expressive brushwork, knife painting, and textured applications. Their characteristics include:
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High pigment load for bright, lasting colour.
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Smooth, thick texture for impasto techniques and bold strokes.
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Good opacity and coverage, reducing the need for multiple layers.
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Quick-drying but flexible when dry, ensuring durability.
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Mixable colours that allow easy blending and layering.
These qualities make them versatile across surfaces such as canvas, board, paper, wood, or even mural projects.
Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint Characteristics;
There are a great range of 23 colours.
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Thick, creamy texture, use with a soft brush for blocking out colours, or use a stiff brush to create textured brush marks. Experiment with a Palette knife to create interesting textures and to mix the paint on the canvas.
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Layers of paint were applied to this painting to create surface tension and texture, resulting in a multi-dimensional effect.
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Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint applied with a palette knife and Sgraffito techniques. Here are some link below to our collection of palette knives.
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All Artwork created by Ellie Jakeman; elliej-rosebirdstudios. Details applied with a palette knife to create a painted relief using a multitude of bright yellows and oranges.
Easy to blend and create new palettes, excellent mixing capabilities.
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| Creating a lighter, brighter green - Yellow Middle and Sap Green. Add Yellow Middle incrementally to create a brighter green. | Darkening a red by adding its complimentary colour - Crimson plus Sap Green. Add Sap Green incrementally to achieve a darker red. |
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| Creating a tint, Titanium White and Sap Green. Add white incrementally to achieve the lighter shade. | Dulling a colour, creating a tone, Scarlet plus Grey made from Titanium White and Lamp Black. Add grey incrementally to achieve the lighter shade. |
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Expand your palette and create darker or neutral tones by mixing complementary colours. For a neutral tone, try mixing different blues with orange, and add white to create a lighter version. Utilize these neutral tones to transition your colours from vibrant to muted, fostering a unified composition within your painting.
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Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint is excellent for colour mixing.
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Who Are They Suitable For?
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Beginners
Studio Heavy Body Acrylics are perfect for those just starting out. They are inexpensive, allowing experimentation without the fear of wasting costly materials. With their strong colour and forgiving nature, they’re a great way to learn brush control, colour mixing, and layering. -
Intermediate Artists
For artists developing their skills, Studio Heavy Body Acrylics offer a chance to explore more advanced techniques like impasto, palette knife work, and glazing. Their thicker consistency allows for building up texture, giving more creative freedom than student-grade fluid paints. -
Improver Artists
Artists who are comfortable with acrylics but not yet ready to invest heavily in professional series will find Studio Heavy Body Acrylics an affordable stepping stone. They deliver much of the feel of professional paints at a fraction of the price, making them a smart option for practice, studies, or large-scale projects. -
Crafters and Hobbyists Crafters and Hobbyists can use Studio heavy body acrylic paints for many different projects. Mono Printing, block printing or fabric painting, paper and paint collage, and bricolage. Studio Heavy Body Acrylic Paints are a versatile and essential medium for crafters and hobbyists exploring a wide range of creative projects. Their thick, buttery consistency makes them ideal for techniques that require significant texture and dimension.
For those interested in printing, Studio Heavy Body Acrylics offer excellent coverage and hold their shape well, making them suitable for various methods such as screen printing, block printing, and mono-printing.
In the realm of collage, these paints serve as both an adhesive and a decorative element. Their opacity allows for solid colour blocking and the creation of rich backgrounds, while their ability to be layered thinly or thickly enables intricate details and dimensional effects. When combined with various papers, fabrics, photographs, and found objects, Studio Heavy Body Acrylics facilitate the construction of complex visual narratives and mixed-media compositions.
Furthermore, these paints are perfectly suited for bricolage, an art form that involves constructing something new from a diverse range of available things. Their robust pigment load and durable finish ensure that they adhere well to unconventional materials like wood, metal, plastic, and recycled objects. This makes them invaluable for transforming discarded items into unique sculptures, decorative pieces, or functional art, fostering creativity and resourcefulness.
Beyond these specific applications, crafters and hobbyists will appreciate the paint's quick drying time, excellent lightfastness, and easy clean-up. Studio Heavy Body Acrylic Paints empower creators to experiment with diverse textures, build up rich surfaces, and bring their imaginative visions to life across a multitude of artistic endeavours.
Why Choose Studio Heavy Body Acrylics?
The biggest advantage of Studio Heavy Body Acrylics is their price point. Compared with professional ranges like Golden Heavy Body, Liquitex Heavy Body, or Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylics, Studio paints are significantly cheaper, making them the ideal budget-friendly choice.
They allow artists of all levels to explore the expressive potential of heavy body acrylics—whether building textures on canvas, experimenting with mixed media, or creating mural-scale works—without breaking the bank.
Explore the Versatility of Studio Heavy Body Paints
We've used Studio Heavy Body Paints on a variety of projects, showcasing their incredible versatility. What fun we have had!
Studio Heavy Body for Easter Crafting
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We used Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint on our Easter project making fun Easter hanging decorations. Painting on DAS Modelling Material Clay. We even used them to create a block colour on our eggs along with using fine liner pens and coloured Posca markers.
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For the Easter Crafting Blog press here
Mono Printing
We have created some beautiful flower motif mono prints with Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint on various papers.
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For more Mono Printing information press here to read the Blog Monotype and Monoprinting.
Block Printing
Make unique Christmas wrapping paper with your family by using simple shapes. It's a great Christmas project that creates shared memories.
Potato printing is great fun with Studio Heavy Body White paint!
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Studio Heavy Acrylic paint on brown paper. Small details added with a permanent black fine liner.
For more information on Christmas Craft and Gift ideas for the budding creative in your life blog press here .
Painting on Round Canvas with Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint.
 Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint was used to create this cute Easter Bunny painting. The edges of this lovely rabbit canvas were finished with Studio Heavy Body Gold paint, while the background was dry-brushed for a vintage aesthetic. Another great Easter project was our little Easter bunny. You can even download and print out the template we created to help you. Crafty Easter Fun blog |
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Painting on Canvas Board
Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint was used to create this Van Gogh inspired Sunflower painting. Thick and thin impasto techniques were used using acrylic paint brushes and the heavier layers of paint were applied with a palette knife.
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Close ups of Studio Heavy Body paint applied with both a brush and palette knife. Artwork created by Ellie Jakeman; elliej_rosebirdstudios.
For more information Press here to read the blog Celebrating Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Black Canvas
Make your Studio Heavy Body acrylic paintings truly unique by using them on our black canvases. The vibrant colours of Studio Heavy Body acrylic paint will stand out even more against a black background.
Close up of Studio Heavy Body acrylic paints on black canvas. The black background has been left unpainted. the layers of paint have been applied with a palette knife.
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ARTwork created by Ellie Jakeman; elliej_rosebirdstudios
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Final Thoughts
Studio Heavy Body Acrylic Paints are an affordable, versatile, and reliable choice for beginners, intermediates, and improvers alike. They’re proof that you don’t need to spend a fortune to enjoy the tactile, expressive qualities of heavy body paint. Whether you’re just starting out, building your skills, or working on larger projects, these paints open the door to creativity at a price that makes sense.
