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Acrylic Paints

Golden Heavy Body Acrylics

These 100% acrylic, smooth, thick colors are offered in a large assortment of unique pure pigments.

There are no fillers, extenders, opacifiers, toners or dyes added. They render excellent permanency and lightfastness. Each color is formulated differently depending on the nature of the pigment. Colors that tolerate higher pigment loads dry to a more opaque, matte finish. Colors that are more reactive and do not accept high pigment loading dry to a glossy finish and tend to be more transparent.

Golden Fluid Acrylics

These highly intense, permanent colors have a consistency similar to heavy cream.

They are produced from lightfast pigments, not dyes. No fillers or extenders are added. Fluid Acrylics contain high pigment levels suspended in an acrylic polymer vehicle.

Golden High Flow Acrylics

These acrylic paints have an ink-like consistency that lends itself to a wide range of techniques.

From fine line detail work to broad strokes, these acrylics are suitable for many different applications including calligraphy, mixed media, airbrush, refillable markers, technical pens and brushes. Designed for artists who want to achieve fine line detail, standing effects and level colors. The line includes natural earth colors, core colors, iridescent colors and fluorescent colors.

Golden Open Acrylics

OPEN Acrylics feature a remarkable ability to remain wet on the palette and resist skinning

during long painting sessions. Working time varies according to how thickly the material is applied. Thin applications tack up, allowing additional layers to be applied and blended. Thicker applications may be worked for hours. They are versatile and can be used for techniques where acrylics are normally challenging to use including portraiture, plein air painting, monoprinting and screenprinting.

Amsterdam Acrylics

A versatile and extensive range of acrylics with a thick consistency and a quick drying time.

Amsterdam acrylics are highly permanent, haveexcellent lightfastness and mix well with other brands of acrylic paint. Tubes are recyclable. Proudly crafted in Holland.

Montana Spray Color

Montana GOLD provides superb handling along with the most extensive range of colors.

Perfect for photorealistic works, the flexible, acrylic-based matte formula works well on wood, concrete, metal, plastic, canvas, glass and many other surfaces. Specialty cans such as surface primers, varnishes and cap cleaner extend creative possibilities even further. This versatile, fast drying spray color provides excellent opaque coverage of pure, brilliant color. The spray cans work with a level cap system, allowing both low- and high-pressure performance in the same can. By just changing the cap, artists can go from low-pressure output for working in thin lines and fine detail, to high-pressure with a high output for easily filling in larger areas. It is suitable for indoor work, as the atomized spray is reduced to a minimum and is nearly odor-free. The paint is also 100% lead and CFC free. The cans feature a colored ring at the top of the can that identifies the color inside and may also help the artist visualize the color mix of their artwork. The acrylic-based formula allows for ease of working in mixed media.

Montana Paint Markers

Montana Acrylic Markers feature brilliant water-based, pigmented, acrylic matte colors

that are compatible with and match the colors that are available in the Montana Gold spray paint range. The optimum flow control pump valve system allows accurate handling and application. The markers come in a variety of nib sizes; the extra-fine and fine nibs are the best choice for fine detailed work. The ink is lightfast, water-proof and abrasion-proof allowing application to almost any surface including canvas, wood, metal, walls and glass. The ink is also ideal for brushwork and airbrush. Acrylic refill inks are available in 25ml and 180ml bottles allowing artists to refill their pens, mix and match their own custom colors and fill a range of empty markers. For interior and exterior use.

Marabu Acrylic Spray Paint

These acrylic pump spray paints were developed for a variety of applications and techniques.

The vivid colors are ideal for creations on canvas frames, cards, scrapbook and art journal pages, as well as for stenciling, interesting color transitions, backgrounds and much more.

Economy Acrylics

These non-toxic and non-separating medium-bodied studio acrylics offer excellent mixing characteristics

and dry to a water-proof satin finish. Ideal for large applications, schools, clubs, painting parties and other bulk needs.

Gamblin Oils

Gamblin Artist Grade Oil Colors are made from pure pigments and the finest refined linseed oil.

Each color retains the unique characteristics of the pigments, including tinting strength, undertone and texture. The luscious colors and contemporary mediums are true to historic working properties, yet safer and more permanent.

Winsor Newton Artist Colours

The most recognizable features of these artist-quality colors are the extreme fineness to which the colors are ground

and the high-pigment content. These qualities provide an exceptional degree of tinting strength. All of the colors are wax-free, allowing the paints to retain their brilliant appearance and smooth consistency.

M. Graham Oils

These 100% acrylic, smooth, thick colors are offered in a large assortment of unique pure pigments.

Grumbacher Pre-Tested Oils

Carefully selected pigments are ground in refined linseed oil. Grumbacher Pre-Tested Oil Colors offer

the artist high tinting strength and brilliant color. Each tube conforms to ASTM standards for lightfastness and quality. Permanent and intermixable.

Winsor Newton Winton Oils

Quality oil colors that contain traditional pigments at a modest price. The large tubes have a wide neck

opening and an easy-to-grip cap. A tremendous value in all sizes.

Winsor Newton Artisan Water-Mixable Oils

Windsor newton Artisan Oil Colours combines the consistency and pigment strength of genuine oils

with the convenience of water-soluble paints.

Gamblin Artist's Colors Dry Pigments

The same pure pigments used to make Gamblin Artist s Oil Colors are in this collection of dry pigments.

There are no adulterants. Each color retains the unique characteristics of the pigment, including tinting strength, undertone, and texture. Offered in 4 oz. (118ml) jars.

Gamblin Gamvar Picture Varnish

Gamvar Picture Varnish saturates and gives greater depth to the colors in your painting and gives your work

a unified and protective matte, semi-gloss or satin surface. Developed in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Gamvar goes on water-clear, stays water-clear and can be easily and safely removed with Gamsol. It is virtually odorless and ready to apply. It can be applied when the thickest areas of your painting are thoroughly dry and firm to the touch.

Winsor Newton Oilbars

Oilbars are genuine oil colors in a solid stick. They offer artists an exciting and versatile way of painting

and drawing - from sketching to sgraffito to use in combination with tube colors. Convenient and easily portable, they combine the rich, buttery consistency of tube oil color with the immediacy of pastels and charcoal. Developed by artists for artists, they are made from quality artists grade pigments, oils and specially selected waxes. A broad range of colors expands creative options for artists palettes. The color range harmonizes with all other Winsor & Newton tube color ranges for effortless transitions between them or combining with them. Colors transfer to canvas with little pressure, further freeing artists to create bold gestures or subtle passages. Their formulation features extended time before skinning for more convenience and less waste.

Winsor Newton Professional Watercolors

The pigments used in these colors are the finest available and great care is taken to retain their individuality

when they are combined with the most suitable gums, wetting agents and preservatives. They contain the maximum pigment content consistent with good handling qualities, achieving the highest possible tinting strength, quality and reliability.

QoR Watercolors by Golden

QoR (pronounced core) watercolors feature an advanced archival, water-soluble binder, Aquazol,

that supports greater pigment loading than traditional watercolor binders. This allows QoR watercolors to provide more pigment strength and vivid depth of color in every brushstroke, while retaining the best qualities of traditional watercolors. The binder is used within the conservation community for painting restoration, and is more flexible and less brittle than traditional watercolor binders, offering improved flexibility and adhesion. The vibrant, intense colors flow well, produce incredibly smooth transitions and stay brilliant even after they dry. They also have excellent resolubility in water and have great glazing qualities. Available in 11ml tubes.

Daniel Smith Extra-Fine Watercolors

These extra-fine watercolors span the color spectrum from the historical to natural earth and quinacridones.

Outstanding color strength, extremely vibrant colors and excellent brushing properties make these paints desirable for any watercolor artist. The pigments are procured from every continent except Antarctica, and the paints are manufactured in Seattle, Washington.

PrimaTek Watercolors are made from naturally occuring pigments, reviving the tradition of making paints the way the Egyptians and other cultures did but with modern technology. Sourced by geologists, these unique pigments have amazing and interesting granulating properties. The luminescent watercolors add a touch of special color found in nature that regular colors cannot match. They're made from mica pigment, thin transparent particles coated with highly reflective metal oxides. They show best as glazes over darker colors and are excellent mixed with other colors adding a bit of their luminescent glow. The duochrome colors contain one pigment that bounces between two colors causing a color shift. Interference pigments display a subtle sheen and they cause refraction where a particle of light enters the paint/pigment matrix and scatters light. Iridescent colors reflect light and their semi-transparent quality adds a fascinating sense of depth to artwork. Pearlescent colors add opalescence - like an opal or pearl - to the color it's mixed or glazed with.

Holbein Artists Watercolors

This extra-fine, European style transparent watercolor, known for its purity, permanence and brilliance,

preserves the brush handling qualities inherent in Japanese watercolor techniques. Because it contains no oxgall, animal by products or other dispersing agents, Holbein watercolor moves slowly, allowing for greater color density and brush control. It has a creamy texture that remains smooth when dry and will not crack, crumble, chip or mold in the palette. To use, simply fill the wells of a palette with the desired color, permit to dry, then wet the color as if it were a pan color.

M. Graham Watercolors

Why Honey? As an essential ingredient in our binding medium, honey contributes to moistness for smooth,

easily controlled applications, increased pigment concentrations, and freedom from over reliance on preservatives. Because of the honey medium, our watercolor resists hardening on the palette, or in the tube. It dilutes easily, often after months of disuse.

Hydrus Fine Art Watercolors by Dr. Ph Martin

Brilliant, lightfast, non-toxic, archival and AP approved liquid watercolors in 1 oz. dropper bottles.

The dropper bottle allows for repeatedly mixing exact color shades by mixing the same number of drops each time. Great for calligraphy dip pens, technical pens and airbrush in addition to watercolor.

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