Scholarly Articles

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

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

How to use acrylic mediums and gels to preserve dried organic materials, such as grasses and flowers.

Adding water to the process of sanding acrylics lubricates the surface to reduce the build up of heat, and softens the acrylic, making it easier to ab...

Create more successful and satisfying pouring art through a better understanding of fluid acrylic medium.

In this article we provide some insight into the product development lifecycle and testing methods used at GOLDEN.

Updating the use of oils over acrylics with recent testing from the GOLDEN laboratory.

An informational chart which organizes Williamsburg colors, Extender Medium and Oil Grounds into four categories of oil content by volume.

A comprehensive study of ASTM standard D4302 to improve our understanding of oil paint lightfastness and to ensure the accuracy and comprehensiveness ...

Our Lab tested a few commonly used painter’s tapes to see how they hold up to lightfast testing. This article explains the methods we used, observatio...

GAC 200 is Golden Artist Color’s hardest acrylic binder. When added to acrylic colors, it imparts a toughness to paint layers and helps them lock down...