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(More customer reviews)Golden, an American company that specializes in acrylic paints, is known as one of the best brands to use for professional painting with acrylics. This set is a good value and contains six 22 ml tubes of Hansa Yellow Opaque, Pyrrole Red, Quinacridone Magenta, Phthalo Blue G.S., Phthalo Green B.S., Titanium White. One can save considerably by starting with this set.
Golden Heavy Body has been an industry standard, but now a new line has been introduced: "Open" paints -- so called because they stay open (workable and not dry) longer. One of the potential drawbacks of painting with acrylics is that their fast drying time makes it hard to blend colors over time or paint out doors (plein air painting). The Open line of paints by Golden solves this problem by dramatically extending the drying time of the acrylic paints. Even when the paint dries, one can add a bit of water, thinner, or more Open paint to rework the paint and loosen it for further painting.
Many painters have reported that painting with Golden Open acrylics allow them to paint more in the style of oil paints rather than acrylics. Personally, I find these paints a joy to work with. They are very smooth and workable, and the fact that they stay wet for so long allows for an easier, more relaxed approach to acrylic painting, and also makes brush and palette cleaning much, much easier. Although the Golden Open line is somewhat smaller than the Heavy Body line, Open paints can be mixed with other Golden acrylic paints and mediums, with a corresponding speeding up of drying time. This makes these paints very versatile.
The only possible drawback is that the paints do stay wet and workable for a long time. Golden recommends waiting 30 (!!) days before varnishing. So far, I haven't run into any problems regarding this, but it depends on your taste and practice.
I'm very happy with this line, and will continue using them.
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Golden Open Acrylic intro set contains six 22ml tubes in plastic case with Application Guide. Colors included are: Hansa Yellow Opaque, Pyrrole Red, Quinacridone Magenta, Phthalo Blue (G.S.), Phthalo Green (B.S.) and Titanium White
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