Golden Artist Acrylics Home

Explore our Products

Heavy Body Acrylics

The first acrylic colors offered by GOLDEN back in 1980, Heavy Body paints are known for their intense color and exceptionally smooth, rich consistency. Our fomulation excludes fillers or matting agents, so the sheen varies from color to color reflecting the qualities specific to each pigment.

OPEN Slow-Drying Acrylics

With a slightly softer consistency than Heavy Body, the increased working time of these colors expands capabilities for traditional painting techniques typically reserved for oil colors. In environments where most acrylics dry too fast, OPEN Acrylics provide a more manageable and relaxed painting experience.

SoFlat Matte Acrylics

A matte paint that has a flowing consistency, offering exceptional coverage and a leveling capability as it dries. Our formulation emphasizes opacity and saturated color, making SoFlat ideal for color field and graphic painting techniques.

Fluid Acrylics

Even, flowing acrylic colors useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying, staining techniques and more. Fluid colors maintain the pigment load of Heavy Body colors in a more brushable, leveling, lower viscosity paint.

High Flow Acrylics

Incredibly versatile, ultra-thin acrylic paint with ink-like consistency - High Flow Colors are formulated to work with airbrushes, refillable markers, dip pens or fine brushes for drawing, staining, pouring, calligraphy and more.

Fluorescent & Phosphorescent Colors

Fluorescents are intense, brilliant colors produced from dyes surrounded by a polymer coating that glows brilliantly under black (UV-A/ultraviolet) lighting. Our Phosphorescent Green re-emits a bright, greenish glow in the dark after being charged under longer wavelength lighting.

Interference & Iridescent Colors

Iridescent colors can be used alone or with other colors and mediums for nontarnishing metallic effects. Interference colors are more transparent and utilize similar mica-based pigments to create a unique color shift when viewed from different angles.

Additives

Additives can be used to modify properties of acrylic paints and mediums by increasing drying time or increasing the flow of the paint.

Fluid Mediums

Fluid Mediums provide infinite opportunities to control and modify acrylic colors, or for surface preparations and coatings. They can be used to adjust transparency, viscosity, surface sheen and more.

Gel & Paste Mediums

Gel Mediums and Pastes are used to achieve a variety of effects and textures. Acrylic mediums can extend paints or alter the working properties of acrylic colors to expand creative possibilities.

Gesso & Grounds

Acrylic grounds, including gesso, prepare surfaces for painting and drawing in a wide range of media. WIth this range of products, artists can create and control the precise surface qualities needed for their work, and explore new or improvised supports.

Varnishes & Top Coats

Varnishes and coatings unify the surface quality and protect paintings from dust and ultraviolet light. Varnish provides removable UV protection, while coatings provide non-removable protection to extend the life of acrylic paintings.

Acrylic Sets

Sets provide a convenient and afforable way to explore the variety of working properties of GOLDEN acrylic colors and mediums.

Featured Content

Rheology: Understanding the Feel of Acrylics

This article on Rheology will elaborate on the “feel” of acrylics and how that affects our painting.

A Slow-Drying Additive for Acrylic Painting

Learn how adding Retarder into acrylic paint increases the amount of painting time, improving blending, shading and more

Super Textural Painting with Acrylic

We explore a variety of ways to create highly textured surfaces using acrylic paints, mediums and collage.

All related articles

SoFlat Colors: Markers, Spraying, and Masking

Mike from our product support team will demonstrate steps for applying SoFlat colors with markers, airbrush, atomizers and other spraying devices, ...

Rethinking Acrylics for Plein Air

Greg from our product support team will take you through the unique qualities of GOLDEN OPEN Slow-Drying acrylic paints and their suitability for p...

Creating a Smoother Canvas Surface

Creating a smoother canvas surface can be easy with Molding Paste. This preparation works well for oils, acrylics, and other media and creates a su...

All related videos

Stay Informed

Latest News

Golden Artist Colors Partners with Esteemed Watercolor Artist, Ali Cavanaugh, to Launch its New Portrait Colors Set

GOLDEN is incredibly excited to share the launch of its brand new QoR Artist Watercolors Portrait Colors Set in partnership with award-winning waterco...

Our Votes, Our Stories Exhibition at The SAGG at Golden Artist Colors, Oct. 14

Our Votes, Our Stories. reflects on historical barriers and voter suppression.

Recommendations for Leaky High Flow Acrylics Caps

We’ve recently received messages from several artists regarding leaky High Flow caps.

GOLDEN Adds 20 Colors to SoFlat Matte Acrylics Product Line

Golden Artist Colors expands its SoFlat Matte Acrylics line, adding 20 new colors and providing artists more options for rich, matte color.

See all our latest news here

Materials & Application Support

Our role in the arts community has been to provide artists with the best tools to meet their needs. This includes an obligation to provide the most complete information available on artists' materials from our laboratory, research, and collaboration with other innovators and material scientists.

Please use this resource to obtain information regarding art materials in general, and GOLDEN products in particular. We cover product labeling, guidelines for safe use of art materials, waste disposal and environmental impact. We also provide links to other information that we have found helpful. If you don't find what you need, please contact us.

Product Use Support Health & Safety Frequently Asked Questions

Explore

Inspire

Learn