Now then, fellow Acrylicists.......

Using highly diluted acrylics is a good stepping stone from watercolours imho. You get some transparency which you miss when your first try opaque paints.  Having used oil for 6 months I've almost forgotten how to paint with acrylic, and I've some unused Golden Open ones I bought to see how good at blending they are. I popped into the Van Gogh NG exhibition again before a concert yesterday.  Having looked at some of my unfinished oils...they seem so dull!  I must experiment more, perhaps an acrylic excursion might solve that.

Golden Open? I'll let you know, Robert. It was a small pack, so by necessity a limited palette. Will try today...

This is not a proper review, in that I haven't used acrylic for at least 6 months.   I made the mistake of using a W&N A4 acrylic pad, which is non absorbent.   They recommend you use "Open" thinner with the paint, I don't have any, so I used the acrylic flow improver that I do have...which kind of spoils the purity of the exercise.  I stopped using that pretty quickly as paint was slip sliding all over the place.  NB, this paint does lift off the page even after 60 mins, using thinner. It comes out of the tube quite thin (but remember, I'm used to oils), I'd say something thinner than System 3.   The tubes have a paint stroke on them, so you can tell how transparent the colour is. (although mine was a cheap intro set, so I didn't have that choice).  The Yellow is very thin. Very difficult to mix a green with anything but the black. It stays wet on the page for about 30+ mins, remains tacky & doesn't dry for 3 hours. So blending was fine. The palette paints stayed usable all afternoon, especially where I'd mixed a flat area using a drop of flow improver. Apparently if a closed palette is used it stays wet for weeks.  I expect they are very useful for plein air on a hot day. I might try them one more time on canvas paper, rather than smooth acrylic paper. The stay wet times I've mentioned may well be shorter. Other than that I don't think I'll persevere with them, as the colours I have aren't my favourites. And part of me wonders if using the flow improver on ordinary acrylics would serve the same purpose. As you can see I got fed up with it by the end. Definitely the wrong surface.

You’ve got it right! He introduced Rebecca Seymour in his business as a partner and so it did indeed become Wallace Seymour… I think Rebecca may be more involved with the marketing above anything else. Anyway, they still produce and sell both the pots and tubes of acrylic.