acrylic

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Recent Examples of acrylic Four soft white faux peonies are included in a clear glass vase that even has acrylic at the bottom to give the illusion of water. Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024 Case in point: This particular watercolor paper pad and acrylic paint set, which is a top pick from a painter and available on Amazon. Alexandra Folino, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2024 The sign is made of high-quality, flexible LED light strips and a 0.2-inch-thick transparent acrylic backboard. Nora Colomer, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024 The amber acrylic AllModern coffee table is easily converted to a side table when flipped over and the entryway console is actually a slim piano that Kut’s partner sourced from Facebook Marketplace. Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for acrylic 
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Noun
  • The watercolor by painter Amy Park that Rickard sourced from art advisor Annie Wharton reinterprets select Ed Ruscha imagery of buildings on Sunset Boulevard.
    Jessica Ritz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025
  • As the Huntington does via its framing of watercolors by Constable and Howard, the Broad enforces a distinction between art (contemporary) and science (anthropology), and inadvertently suggests an intriguing possibility.
    Red Cameron, Artforum, 1 Jan. 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, 26 July 2024
  • Her works are softly abstract; powdery colors form cloud-like shapes that might be superimposed with free-handed linear strokes in acrylic, gouache, oil stick, oil pastels, and graphite.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Featuring a swirl of pastels, the piece was characteristic of the artist, who is known for colorful, frenetic works that appear abstract but reveal distinct and often explicit figures, when observed closely.
    Maggie Lange, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But hitting the balmier Cali weather for the awards ceremony, JLo leaned into pastels and softer hues, taking them from her flowing dress to her glowy makeup.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The 2020 diptych of folklore and evermore showed Swift spreading her songwriting wings, and this track — written from the perspective of someone who’s mulling over a holiday fling with a long-ago ex — is one of her best recent offerings.
    Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Upstairs, a second office painted in jade features a 1970s cowhide screen that Driver found at Marche Paul Bert in Paris and a Nike Schroeder diptych, which was the first piece of art Driver purchased years ago for the clients’ first home.
    Lindsay Talbot, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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