Krylon

Liquitex

It looks like Liquitex has water-based spray paint in a can and you can get it from Dick Blick for $7-something a can. Unfortuately, it's not available outside North America.

See: http://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-professional-spray-paint

Some good greens look to be (from darkest to lightest):

• Hookers Green Hue
• Sap Green
• Chromium Oxide Green
• Vivid Lime Green

Other useful colors are:

• Unbleached Titanium (off white)
• Yellow Medium Azo
• Yellow Oxide
• Neutral Gray 5
• Raw Sienna 5
• Raw Umber
• Carbon Black

It's these kind of changes that are motivating me to do an update to the series one of these days. Some of the series, especially the DCC chapter, are getting very long in the tooth (read: ancient).

There's also Montana Gold ...

There's also Montana Gold acrylic spray paint at Dick Blick, for just a tiny bit more than the Liquitex ... and they don't seem to have the North America only restriction.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/montana-gold-acrylic-professional-spray-paints

Some good greens in this line (from dark to light):

• Jungle Green
• Shock Green Dark
• Shock Green
• Shock Green light

Other useful colors:

• Shock White Cream
• Shock Yellow Light
• Easter Yellow
• Iron Curtain
• Terra
• Elm
• Coke

Multiple Sources

Have you tried your local Sherwin-Williams store (not Sherwood as posted above) in most retail markets in the US and Canada? If not on the shelf, ask the store manager to order it for you. Also have seen it at the Wallymart, Hobby Lobby and Michael's here in NE Ohio.

Intereting

Thank you for all the info.

Ken-- it's strange that you're able to find it.  I haven't checked at Sherwin Williams but I'm going to do that.  I have checked at all the big box (and not so big box) home stores and none had it.  One told me they couldn't get it but made it sound like their store didn't stock it.  But I don't even see it on their website anymore.

Joe--thanks for the Dick Blick angle.  Hadn't considered that.  Other than the environmental and clean-up benefits, is there any other benefit?  Does it look any better or is it easier to work with?  The higher cost and the difficulty in getting it is starting to tip the scale against trying it.

Less toxic

Acrylic spray?

    Can one just put a large tip in their airbrush and use bottled acrylic paint? Seems like the control would be better.....DaveB

Not the way I build trees

Not the way I build trees ... I'd need a dozen airbrushes all going at once to do it. I move between rattle cans as fast as you can go. Takes me about 5 min to do a set of trees and there's maybe a half dozen rattle cans of different paint colors involved. And for any given session of making trees, I'll probably use a good dozen different colors all told.

Control isn't an issue ... you just want to get a lot of color on fast. Paint "blobs" just add to the tree foliage texture!

Liquitex acrylic spray paints

Liquitex acrylic spray paints are available outside of the US. In Sweden we have them in both artist stores and in some larger stores.

Krylon H2O Laytex

Don't know much about color selection as I only but the flat black as it makes a wonderful tire on the models I build..but I buy mine at Walmart...

Montana Gold

The acrylic paint might be less toxic, but I picked up a can of this stuff and the propellant seems a lot nastier than other spray cans.  Spray outside or use a respirator.