Choosing the Perfect Paint for the Way You Paint
With five different acrylic color formulas, GOLDEN offers a full spectrum of painting experiences. See below to learn which is best for different techniques and effects.
GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics have an exceptionally smooth, thick consistency that retains brush and knife marks. The qualities of each pigment take center stage, resulting in a range of sheens and opacities from transparent colors for glazing to dense, opaque colors with excellent coverage.
Ideal for: Holding texture of brushstrokes, clean color mixing
GOLDEN Fluid Acrylics are even, flowing acrylic colors useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying, staining techniques and more. Fluid colors maintain the same pigment load of Heavy Body in a more brushable, leveling, lower viscosity.
Ideal for: Detail painting, pouring and staining
OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics have a dramatically increased working time, so artists can more easily explore techniques such as soft gradients, shading, glazing and blending. OPEN is also great for printmaking techniques like gel plates, linoleum blocks, and screen printing.
Ideal for: Portraiture, plein air, and printmaking
High Flow Acrylics are incredibly versatile, ultra-thin acrylic paints with an ink-like consistency that can go directly from bottle to airbrush, refillable marker or dip pen. They work great for drawing, staining, dripping, pouring, calligraphy and color washes.
Ideal for: Washes, drips, and drawing, and can be used in pens, markers and airbrush
SoFlat Matte Acrylics have a unique combination of matte sheen, increased opacity and leveling properties sought after by artists using gouache. Emphasizing its opacity and saturated color, SoFlat is ideal for color fields and graphic painting techniques.
Ideal for: A flat, matte finish for color fields and graphic painting techniques
GOLDEN Acrylics - Which is Right for You?
GOLDEN Acrylic Color lines offer a wide range of formulations, giving artists the freedom to create and choose how they want to paint. With five distinct color lines—all fully intermixable—you can mix and match confidently across products.
We strive to keep colors consistent from line to line, no matter which formulation you choose. The only exception is SoFlat Matte Acrylics, where formulations prioritize opacity and an ultra-matte finish.
Explore them all and find the perfect paint pairing for your technique.