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Kids ‘washable paints’: Are these water based or acrylic? Is there a difference? Can the two be mixed?

I have a set of kids washable paints made by Battat (a company out of Montreal, apparently.) They’re bottles of blue, green, yellow, and red, and they came with little rubber mixing cups and brushes to match.

I’ve been using them with no difficulty to paint crafts, but now I need to buy some white to use to mix with them, but I’m not sure if I need to buy water based or acrylic. The paint bottles do not say, they just say “washable paint” and I can’t find any decent info on this brand when Googling.

The paint itself as a thin, slightly gloopy consistency, and mixes well and washes well. I’m going shopping tomorrow for the white craft paint, but I’m just not sure whether I need water-based or acrylic, or if there’s even a difference. Would it matter whether the two were mixed together?

Thanks.
Thanks Invisigoth. I just got confused because some of them say ‘water based’ and some just say ‘acrylic’, and I wasn’t sure whether there was a real difference or not. And yeah, the link looks about like what I have.

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One Response to “Kids ‘washable paints’: Are these water based or acrylic? Is there a difference? Can the two be mixed?”

1. Invisigoth says:

   December 15, 2010 at 6:58 pm

   acrylic paint is water based.

   you can mix very thin acrylic paint with watercolor and gouache. As long as the paints you are using are water based then I don’t see why you couldn’t mix the acrylics with them.

   the kids paints that you are using may be watercolor or gouache (designer’s watercolor paint–it’s opaque where watercolors are transparent) or more likely Poster Paint.

   mixing an acrylic paint with a non acrylic water based paint will make the nonacrylic paint take on acrylic qualities–it will be more plastic when it dries, if the paint has a transparent quality like watercolor then it will become more opaque like the acrylic.

   before you start adding the acrylic paint to your paint, mix some of the acrylic paint with water until it is the consistancy of the paint you already have.

   craft paints are usually acrylic paints that have water added to them.

   edit:
   Is this the product you have?
   http://www.sensationalbeginnings.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=A+1+6495+B
   It’s poster paint which is tempera paint pigment and water. in medieval times egg yolk or honey and milk or water was mixed into tempera paint pigment to make the paint thicker and have a quality similar to oil paints but with easier clean up.

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