The fluid acrylics line from Golden are a highly intense and permanent paint with the consistency similar to that of heavy cream. The pigment strength used in these paints is very similar to the pigment load that is used to make Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics. The only real difference is the consistency. These paints are produced using lightfast pigments and not dyes and contain no fillers or extenders.
You may be thinking why bother with fluid acrylics? I can just dilute my regular acrylics with water and produce the same kind of paint. Actually, this is not recommended because your colors will lose intensity when watered down this way.
These paints are manufactured with the highest possible pigment loads. This creates paints that have incredible paint dispersion qualities, amazing tinting strength, durability, flexibility and excellent adhesion. The unique consistency of these paints allows for even brush load and long uniform brush strokes.
These paints are suited for all types of painting applications including spraying, staining, brushing and for use with fabrics. When mixed with Golden Acrylic Flow Release medium, you create a paint consistency that closely mimics the properties of watercolors.
Because of the thin consistency of these paints, all sorts of interesting techniques are possible including pouring, dripping and puddling of the paint. If for whatever reason you wish to thicken these paints , you can easily add any of Golden’s awesome line of Gel mediums.
Golden Artists Fluid Acrylics are available in a large assortment of beautiful colors including Iridescents. You can purchase these paints online from Dick Blick, using the links below.
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Golden Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylic colors with a consistency similar to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, not dyes, they offer very strong colors with very thin consistencies, and contain no fillers or extenders. Golden Fluid Acrylics are ideal for spraying, brushing, and staining.
Golden Artist Colors, Inc., started creating Golden Fluid Colors on a custom basis for artists requesting a low-viscosity, pigment-saturated paint. Some of these artists wanted to pour, puddle, and drip their acrylic paints, others wanted to stain, using the acrylics as an alternative to watercolors, and still others wanted to use the paints for spray application.
Many artists were already thinning Golden Heavy Body Acrylics with water to achieve these effects. Although simply adding water or medium met the needs of most artists, some felt the resulting paint was not strong enough. These artists desired an undiluted acrylic paint that would provide optimal tinting strength and coverage.
Eventually, the popularity of Golden’s Fluid custom formula reached a point where the company was able to introduce it as a standard line of products.
Unlike mixtures of heavy-bodied paints and water, which produce weak color and films by dilution, Golden Fluid Acrylics contain high pigment levels suspended in an acrylic polymer vehicle. The result offers fine dispersion, high tinting strength, durability, flexibility, and good adhesion.
Golden Fluid Acrylics are formulated similarly to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, the main difference being the viscosity or consistency at which the paints are finished. Therefore, the pigment load or color strength of Golden Fluid Acrylic paints is comparable to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics. In fact, because of the greater leveling of Fluid Acrylics, some artists believe Golden’s Fluids are actually stronger than the Heavy Body colors.
Golden Fluid Acrylics load a brush more evenly than thicker paints, and they flow consistently off the brush, allowing for longer, more uniform brush strokes. When a heavier stroke is required, the Fluids can be blended with any of the Golden Gel Mediums. Soft, Regular, Heavy, or Extra-Heavy Gels will all thicken the paint to various extents. Because of the thin consistency and potency of Golden Fluid Acrylics, they are the easiest of all the paint systems to incorporate into powerful gel mixtures.
Golden Fluid Acrylics retain excellent flexibility when dry, greatly diminishing the likelihood of cracking that occurs in other natural and synthetic polymer systems. They also can absorb the constant stress and strain placed on canvas when shipped or as it expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity.
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Anonymous says
These acrylics are top notch. Although the price isn’t ideal, it’s worth the premium.
Dennis Meade says
I’ve recently become interested in using watercolor methods with acrylics and not really knowing what I’m doing, I bought a set a of Winsor & Newton Galeria acrylics. They seem to work OK when I thin them out with water. I was setting up to ask why this worked, but looking back I see that doing watercolor type work is Ok with the fluid acrylics.
I was about to buy the Golden Modern Theory Mixing Set which is Heavy Body and had hoped to try to treat those acrylics like watercolors, but on the Golden web site as well as here , it says it’s not a good idea.