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Hard Edge Techniques using GOLDEN Products
How to achieve hard edges with Golden Acrylics and Mediums using various techniques. For more information about any of the Golden products, be sure to visit our website: http://www.goldenpaints.com/technicaldata/techsheets.php or contact Technical Support [email protected] 800-959-6543 607-847-6154
Heavy Body Acrylics - Snap Shot
The first acrylic colors offered by GOLDEN, Heavy Body paints are known for their exceptionally smooth, buttery consistency. The Heavy Body palette includes the largest assortment of unique pure pigments in a 100% acrylic emulsion available to professional artists. These colors offer excellent permanency and lightfastness. There are no fillers, extenders, opacifiers, toners, or dyes added.
GOLDEN Acrylic Demo
A comprehensive overview of the Golden Artist Colors product categories and properties.
Heavy Body Acrylic Colors Overview
The first acrylic colors offered by GOLDEN, Heavy Body paints are known for their exceptionally smooth, buttery consistency. The Heavy Body palette includes the largest assortment of unique pure pigments in a 100% acrylic emulsion available to professional artists. These colors offer excellent permanency and lightfastness. There are no fillers, extenders, opacifiers, toners, or dyes added.
Each Heavy Body color formula reflects the qualities of its pigment. Colors that tolerate a higher pigment load dry to a more opaque, matte finish. Colors that are more reactive and do not allow as much pigment loading tend to have a glossier, more transparent, finish. Because Heavy Body colors contain no matting agents, the gloss of each color will be different.
Heavy Body Acrylics Traditional Mixing Set
A selection of historically significant colors ideal for mixing the range of colors needed for figurative painting.
Heavy Body 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.
Heavy Body Acrylics Essentials Set
Six versatile, foundational colors capable of mixing a full range of hues, tints and shades.
Heavy Body 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/
Classic Color Mixing Poster
Cool to Warm Listing for GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics
Heavy Body Accelerated Lightfastness Data - PDF
Color Mixing Modern - Acrylics
Label / Color chart Iconography - symbol guide
Explanations and definitions for the lightfastness and opacity symbols.
Clean Color Mixing
Color Mixing Guide
Color Mixing with 8 Curated Acrylic Colors
Color Wheel
Heavy Body Acrylic Colors
Overview of the, history, attributes and uses for Golden Heavy Body Acrylics.
Munsell Notation listing - Heavy Body Acrylics
Neutral Grays
Safe Handling and Transportation of Acrylic Paintings
Tips on How to Safely Handle and Transport Acrylic Paintings
Super Textural Painting with Acrylic
We explore a variety of ways to create highly textured surfaces using acrylic paints, mediums and collage.
Tools for Texture
Artists have used feathers, bone, hair, twine, plants, metals... Every tool is designed to achieve a desired result.
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.
Alternative Color Mixes for Discontinued Quinacridones
How to mix colors to match discontinued Quinacridone Crimson, Quin/Nickel Azo Gold, and Quin Burnt Orange colors.