May- Get outdoors and paint

It’s not always easy to get outside and paint, but as spring arrives and the weather improves, it’s worth making the time.

We’ll share practical tips and reliable materials to help make your outdoor painting sessions smoother, more productive, and more enjoyable.

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Useful Information for your next outdoor painting adventure.

Take a look at these articles before you head outside. They’re packed with practical tips, helpful techniques, and insights to make your time painting outdoors more productive and enjoyable.

QoR Half Pan Travel Sets

If you’re looking for an easy way to take watercolors on your next plein air adventure, the QoR Mini, packed with half pans of rich, luscious color—is ready when you are.

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OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics for Plein-Air Painting

OPEN Acrylics dry much slower than regular acrylics making them the ideal choice for plein-air painting. Dive deeper into what makes them special.

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Estimating Paint Amounts for a Mural

A more detailed breakdown of how to calculate quantities, account for surface type, coverage rates, and job complexity.

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Seasonal Swatches

Revisit these live events using limited palettes to capture the distinct mood of each season. From crisp winter neutrals to the vibrant greens of spring, these sessions explore how a limited palette can create a surprisingly wide range.

The Colors of Fall using QoR Watercolors

Located in central New York, Golden Artist Colors is surrounded by vibrant fall foliage that inspired this limited mixing palette.

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Winter Color Mixing - QoR Watercolors

Join us as we use a limited palette to mix and capture those cool hues, soft neutrals, and quiet contrasts using QoR Watercolors.

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Spring Color Mixing - Acrylic, Oil and Watercolor

In this video our Education Team swatched out a spring palette for acrylics, oils, and watercolors. We looked at a minimal palette of colors across all three mediums, and demonstrated how to mix a variety of colors for spring plein air painting.

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CURATED FOR THE OUTDOOR ENTHUSIAST!
For painters on the go. These are a perfect selection of colors for painters that love to get outdoors.

Williamsburg Landscape Colors

An excellent outdoor palette that allows artists to produce the wide variety of hues, shades, and tints encountered in nature.

OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics Landscape Set

The GOLDEN OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics Landscape Set is an excellent outdoor palette that allows artists to produce the wide variety of hues, shades and tints encountered in nature.

QoR Urban Sketch Half Pan Set

Designed as a versatile foundation for urban sketching, this palette pairs granulating and non-granulating colors to offer a broad mixing range.

PanPastel Landscape Sets

With a variety of options PanPastel has a set that meets your needs for landscape painting.

Golden Paintworks Mural Paints

Built to withstand what Mother Nature throws at them. Mural paints are built for outdoor use. Buy Now!

Slow-Drying Acrylics on the Go.

OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics combine extended working time with easy water clean-up, an uncommon pairing that makes them ideal for plein air painting. Unlike traditional acrylics that can dry rapidly, sometimes too quickly in outdoor conditions, OPEN Acrylics provide an extended working time.

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Muralist Round Table Discussion

Three muralists come together to discuss the processes and challenges behind creating large-scale public works, offering insight into both the creative and practical realities of mural painting.

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Compact Format. Professional Performance.

QoR Watercolors are an ideal companion for plein air painting with their range of mini half pan sets designed for artists on the go. That's not all though, you'll also need the right brush, palette and watercolor paper..

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Mixologist of the Month

Name: Cathy
Department: Materials and Applications Specialist
Time at GOLDEN: 12 years

Two retired GOLDEN colleagues and I meet monthly to create a 6" x 6" painting using a “blind” selection of three Golden colors, plus Titanium White. Because this limited palette approach contrasts with my usual process—where subject drives color, I often preview the mixing range using the virtual paint mixer. This helps guide my subject choice. Here is a nice neutral brown mixed from April’s colors.

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Try our Virtual Paint Mixer for Yourself!
Take the guesswork out of color mixing! The GOLDEN Virtual Paint Mixer helps you dial in those tricky mixtures. Create a free Studio Assistant account to save your favorite mixes, build custom palettes, and much more.
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