You may choose to add a color tint to your app’s acrylic to show branding or provide visual balance with other elements on the page. To show color rather than greyscale, you’ll need to define your own acrylic brushes using the following properties.
Acrylic material
Acrylic is a type of Brush that creates a translucent texture. You can apply acrylic to app surfaces to add depth and help establish a visual hierarchy.
Acrylic in light theme
Acrylic in dark theme
Acrylic and the Fluent Design System
The Fluent Design System helps you create modern, bold UI that incorporates light, depth, motion, material, and scale. Acrylic is a Fluent Design System component that adds physical texture (material) and depth to your app. To learn more, see the Fluent Design overview.
WinUI 2 Gallery
If you have the WinUI 2 Gallery app installed, click here to open the app and see acrylic in action.
Acrylic blend types
Acrylic’s most noticeable characteristic is its transparency. There are two acrylic blend types that change what’s visible through the material:
- Background acrylic reveals the desktop wallpaper and other windows that are behind the currently active app, adding depth between application windows while celebrating the user’s personalization preferences.
- In-app acrylic adds a sense of depth within the app frame, providing both focus and hierarchy.
Avoid layering multiple acrylic surfaces: multiple layers of background acrylic can create distracting optical illusions.
Suggestions for enhancing acrylic backgrounds
Seems like those watercolor canvases must have some kind of acrylic based coating…Golden sells an absorbent acrylic based ground. I bet it works if the acrylic is a thin wash and not an impasto. Watercolor makes a mechanical bond, not a chemical bond, to the paper. If there’s not a slick build up you might be ok.
February 28, 2008 at 12:47 am #1098290
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Seems to me that it would be possible. Consider that many watercolorists paint on Yupo, which is pretty close to my idea of plastic. Granted, that watercolor on Yupo is pretty much forever susceptible to being re-lifted. But, it does stick in the first place. On the flipside, I know of at least one well-known TV painting personality who has been known to mix watercolor and acrylics paints together prior to application. While I’m no chemist, that procedure sounds like a patently bad idea.
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February 28, 2008 at 3:08 am #1098280
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If you apply background washes of acrylics then you should post the results in Mixed Media or acrylics. Doug
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February 28, 2008 at 3:43 am #1098292
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Alex, this is a painting I made on 2006: acrylic and watercolor on paper.
Tip: acrylic washes with large amount of water and opaque watercolours. For me acrylics and watercolours can be used together.
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February 28, 2008 at 3:49 am #1098281
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Unfortunately acrylics in the watercolour style don’t comply with the watercolor forum posting ruiles. Doug
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February 28, 2008 at 1:03 pm #1098289
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Alex,
Some feel strongly that acrylics have no place in watercolor, and others mix them happily. As you can see, here at Wet Canvas, in particular the Watercolor Forum, you will get answers to your question at two levels: 1) what you as an artist can experiment with / what others have discovered about using acrylic and watercolor together. 2) what can be posted and delved into here in the Watercolor Forum, including the difference between the Gallery (watercolor on paper with only small touches of other media) and the Plus Gallery (predominately watercolor on any support plus whatever else your creative heart desires). In terms of the creative and technical process, yes, some find the use of acrylic enhances or helps their work in watercolor. But as that is not the focus here in this forum, the available resources and coaching are limited. Perhaps through PM’s with someone who responds to your thread you can find more info and assistance. Best of luck with your exploration! Jen
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February 28, 2008 at 1:20 pm #1098283
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Have a look here … This artists works with acquacryl, being watercolor and acrylics. http://www.collectorsprints.co.uk/artist_page.php?artist=Christine+Comyn Christine Comyn is a very well known artist in Belgium. Her work is also very, very expensive …
February 28, 2008 at 6:16 pm #1098293
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yes, it works quite well- paint with thinned fluid acrylics like golden… the background will not lift or interact once dried…there still seems to be enough texture for the watercolors because I have tried it- but it does not run like watercolors once another wash is on it…. your local art store may stock those little bottles of golden fluid acrylics, which have beautiful watercolor shades (jerry’s used to have a little set of these)…. and play around with them….they also make painting in watercolors MUCH EASIER because they do not react with the water once dried…so the result is cleaner and brighter… mind you I greatly admire folks who can use pure watercolor for everything…. but it is nice to have other options I guess!! I also know folks who paint oils over acrylics….
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February 28, 2008 at 6:29 pm #1098296
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Alex,
…predominately watercolor on any support plus whatever else your creative heart desires…
Wouldn’t that qualify it for the Watercolor Gallery Plus.
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February 28, 2008 at 6:55 pm #1098287
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Sure reads that way to me. ) JJ
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February 28, 2008 at 7:02 pm #1098282
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It’s all a matter of degree. Basically the Watercolor forum is for watercolour paintings not acrylics. By creating the Plus Gallery we have facilitated people who use small amounts of other materials such as wax resist, oil pastels, ink etc to enhance their work, or use unconventional supports such a watercolour canvas, Yupo or clayboard. Background washes of impermeable acrylics are unlikely to comply with the posting rules but such paintings will be welcome within the Mixed Media or Acrylic forums. Doug
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February 28, 2008 at 11:09 pm #1098291
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I by no means intend for this to be taken negatively, but I think there are several here who have missed the point of the original post. Indeed, the use of acrylic paints with watercolor would be grounds for posting finished work in either Plus or MM, depending on the exact nature, but I don’t think this is what OP was asking. I took it that Alex1 was looking for technical info regarding the use of the two types of paints, such as whether it will work, and for tips on making it work better. I believe that this forum is the most logical place for that. Perhaps the MM forum would be more directly applicable, but it sounds like the OP is primarily a watercolorist, and looking for other watercolorists’ thoughts on the subject. There are almost an equal number of the two types of responses to this thread. Again, I really don’t mean to undermine anyone, but I do feel like the OP got a lot of the sort of response that tends to scare folks away.
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February 28, 2008 at 11:29 pm #1098294
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