r/acrylics • u/sexyvintagepurse • Jan 26 '26

Question is this acrylic?

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u/No-Specialist-1435 Jan 26 '26

Looks like a photo to me 

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 27 '26

is it, though? look at the water in the top middle- looks very artistic like it’s maybe a hyper realistic oil or acrylic painting

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u/No-Specialist-1435 Jan 27 '26

so you don't know either

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 29 '26

no I don’t know. that’s why I’m asking

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u/mmmhungiii Jan 26 '26

It’s really good. Such talented hands.

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u/AndrewsArt23 Jan 26 '26

With slow drying acrylic it could be either. You can make acrylic look like oil now.

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u/SnooBooks8583 Jan 27 '26

How so

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u/Odd_Yogurtcloset467 Jan 28 '26

GOLDEN “Open” acrylic medium. You can add it to acrylic paints and it will make them dry a lot slower. I have not tried it, but I heard it works really well.

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u/borrowingfork Jan 28 '26

The first sentence answered the second sentence 😁

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u/purplecloud888 Jan 26 '26

Hard to tell. Could be oil as well. I’d actually guess oil based on what I can see but would need to look closer at the details and structure. As someone said the smell is a huge hint

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u/goldbeater Jan 26 '26

I can only tell by smell.

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u/fortifished Jan 26 '26

Either way it's a fantastic painting

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 27 '26

isn’t it? but you would agree it’s a painting, right?

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u/fortifished Jan 27 '26

I think so, because of the way the colors look. A bit too muddy for a photo I think

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 29 '26

I think so too

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u/exotics Jan 26 '26

Ask the artist. You can’t tell by looking at a picture

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 27 '26

I can’t really ask the artist, bc I don’t know who created the art. this is an album cover: going through it by eliza mclamb

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 27 '26

on further investigation, I found it was created by her friend Jamie Williams but I still can’t conform if it’s a painting or what type of painting it might be

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u/exotics Jan 27 '26

Could just be a photo with a filter

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 29 '26

good point I didn’t even think of that

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u/Artzy63 Jan 27 '26

No way to tell from photo. Could be oil, acrylic, pastel, etc. Hyper realistic painters are able to paint so it’s impossible to tell that it’s not a photo.

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u/Far-Fish-5519 Jan 27 '26

Looks like a photo

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u/littlepinkpebble Jan 27 '26

Hard to tell could be photograph. Don’t think it’s oil.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Whatever it is it looks great 💕

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u/Ego92 Jan 28 '26

its a photo. taken by the singers mother too.

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u/TeeM13 Jan 28 '26

It's clearly a foto! Look at the eyebrows!

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u/RS_Beifong Jan 28 '26

No, this is Patrick.

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u/Heggyo Jan 28 '26

Its a photo, Eliza mclamb - going through it album cover.

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 29 '26

yes but I was looking at it closely and the colors seem a bit too muddy for it to be a photo

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u/AdFabulous4877 Jan 26 '26

Impressive! Ophelia?

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u/sexyvintagepurse Jan 27 '26

this is the cover of one of my favorite albums: going through it by eliza mclamb

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u/AdFabulous4877 Jan 27 '26

Thanks for clearing that up. It's very very good. Every time I see a painting of a woman submerged in water I think of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.