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Try our NEW acrylic paint mixer
Our newly enhanced mixer allows acrylic and oil artists to create personal palettes so you can mix with the paints in your studio, plus instant complementary mixtures, graphic and numeric inputs, and much more!
Tips for Acrylic Spraying and Airbrush
Mike from GOLDEN Product Support guides you through the ins and outs of preparing acrylic paint for spraying. While thinning is usually necessary, the solution may not be as simple as just adding water. Explore the options for getting the results you want when using acrylics in an airbrush or other spraying tool.
Fluid Acrylics - Snap Shot
Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylic colors with a consistency similar to heavy cream. Produced with only lightfast pigment, not dyes, they offer very strong colors with a fluid consistency. No fillers or extenders are added and the pigment load is comparable to GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics.
Spraying Acrylic Paints
Thinning acrylic paint for spraying through and airbrush or other spray painting systems is a common practice, but what is the best way to thin acrylic paint for spraying? Mike from Golden Product Support takes you through the options and exposes the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Fluid Acrylic Colors Overview
Equal the intensity of GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics but with an even, flowing characteristic useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying (particularly when mixed with GOLDEN Airbrush Medium), staining techniques and many others.
Fluids blend easily with all acrylic colors, and readily tint gels, mediums, gessoes and grounds. Fluid Acrylics are extremely versatile, and ideal for fine brushwork, glazing, staining, water media techniques and many more. Mix Fluid Acrylics with Airbrush Medium for airbrush application of artwork including textiles.
Fluid Acrylics Mixing Set
Mixing is easy with the intuitive split primary method. A warm and cool choice of each primary color in addition to other key colors allows the artist to mix an extensive range of colors.
Fluid Acrylics Intro Set
This balanced selection of colors provides an excellent starting point for artists looking to explore the working properties unique to each of our acrylic color lines.
How to make a replacement mixture for discontinued Quinacridone Crimson
Unfortunately, there is no perfect replacement for Quinacridone Crimson at this time, but a blend of Transparent Red Iron Oxide (PR101), Quinacridone Magenta (PR122) and Phthalo Green BS (PG7), as shown here, should get you into a similar range.
You can learn more about pigment discontinuations in a JustPaint.org article called "The Life of Pigments in Fine Art Paints" and try out your own replacement blends with our Virtual Color Mixer. Both of these resources are linked below in this caption.
Virtual Color Mixer - goldenpaints.com/mixer
Learn more pigment discontinuations -
justpaint.org/the-life-of-pigments-in-fine-art-paints/
How to make a replacement mixture for discontinued Quinacridone Burnt Orange
Unfortunately, there is no perfect replacement for Quinacridone Burnt Orange at this time, but a blend of Transparent Red Iron Oxide (PR101), Quinacridone Magenta (PR122) and Phthalo Green BS (PG7), as shown here, should get you into a similar range.
You can learn more about pigment discontinuations in a JustPaint.org article called "The Life of Pigments in Fine Art Paints" and try out your own replacement blends with our Virtual Color Mixer. Both of these resources are linked below in this caption.
Virtual Color Mixer - goldenpaints.com/mixer
Learn more pigment discontinuations -
justpaint.org/the-life-of-pigments-in-fine-art-paints/
How to Mix a Replacement Color for Discontinued Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold
The rumors are true – Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold (PY150, PO48) in all GOLDEN acrylic lines is being discontinued due to the unavailability of PO48. Unfortunately, there is no perfect replacement for Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold at this time, but a blend of Transparent Red Iron Oxide (PR101) and Nickel Azo Yellow (PY150), as shown here, should get you into a similar range in the masstone with a glowing orange undertone.
We are working to find a good replacement for this color space. In the meantime, you can learn more about pigment discontinuations in a JustPaint.org article called "The Life of Pigments in Fine Art Paints" and try out your own replacement blends with our Virtual Color Mixer. Both of these resources are linked below in this caption.
This will also impact Williamsburg Artist Oil Colors Quinacridone Gold Brown and QoR Artist Watercolors Quinacridone Gold and Quinacridone Gold Deep but we have sufficient inventory to keep these colors available in Williamsburg and QoR through early 2024.
Virtual Color Mixer - goldenpaints.com/mixer
Learn more pigment discontinuations -
justpaint.org/the-life-of-pigments-in-fine-art-paints/
Label / Color chart Iconography - symbol guide
Explanations and definitions for the lightfastness and opacity symbols.
Fluid Acrylic Colors
An overview of the History, properties and application of Fluid Acrylics
Watercolor effects with Acrylics
Making Dry Paint Skins with Fluid Acrylics
Acrylic skins are dry acrylic paints, mediums (or a combination therein) that is not attached to a substrate.
Layering and Mixing with Iridescent and Interference Acrylic Paints
As with any new technique, some experimentation and playing might be needed when learning how to use iridescent and interference paints, as they do not behave like regular pigments with mixing and in general use.