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 also 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.
The GOLDEN MXR (Virtual Paint Mixer) is a tool which allows the artist to virtually experiment with and explore color options within the GOLDEN palette.
I find them expensive but a great value at the same time. These paints are heavily pigmented which means you can dilute them and they still perform perfectly. I have diluted mine 50% with medium and I still get really rich opaque colors. As the product says, they are fluid and I find they work great in squirt bottles when you want to accent your work.
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A solid value
11/25/2012
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Fantastic, a little bit goes a long way
By Trippinhard
from Moscow, ID
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These paints are solid. Most of them are opaque and provide great fluidity and coverage. They just work so well, the tinting with the more transparent ones is excellent. I definitely think these are one of the best types of paints out there.
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10/8/2012
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Best acrylics out there at a great price
By Chris Jay
from NY
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These paints have helped me become a much better painter! From the very first painting I used them for I was in love with them. The pigment is so rich that even when diluting these paints with copious amounts of water they stay "true". My only complaint is that I didn't try them earlier!
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7/15/2012
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Golden Fluid Acrylic -Great product
By bhamflowers
from Birmingham,AL
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Comments about Golden Fluid Acrylics, 4 oz:
color shows very nice, blends well
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Really nice
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7/9/2012
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
love golden
By vic
from santa monica
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Comments about Golden Fluid Acrylics, 8 oz:
I use this product on paper, fabric, canvas. Dries fast.
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4/30/2012
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Using Golden Fluid Acrylics with waterco
By Majicmarjie
from Cape Coral, FL
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I bought the 4 acrylic colors based on Julie Gilbert Pollard's advice in her DVD Painting the Autumn Landscape. She uses the dark mixture to put in the darkest darks and then continues her painting in watercolor. The darks stay put and you build around them. She recommends using Golden so I bought the. Dick Blick had the smallest size, 1 oz, which I wanted. They arrived lickity split and now I am happily painting in my darks without fear of them washing away.
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4/16/2012
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
I love the color selections
By innerklang
from St. Augustine, FL.
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I work on water color paper. These paints are perfect for the type of application I use. I mix them with medium and spray them using a preval sprayer unit. I also do some hard edge painting and they work well straight out of the bottle. I have used them for quite a few years.
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3/20/2012
(2 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
I will be buying this product again
By Chamorrita Jene
from North Pole, AK
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Comments about Golden Fluid Acrylics, 4 oz:
I do digital paintings on canvas and am now enhancing them with acrylic paint to offer my customers another level to beautify their homes.
www.ChamorritaJeneDesigns.com
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3/9/2012
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
4.0
Extensive array of fluid colors
By Jan
from San Francisco, CA
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Works well for tinting and glazing, with good transparency and luminosity. Seemingly very color and hue needed.
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Really nice
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A solid value
1/16/2012
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Golden Fluids are Beautiful
By In -love- with- layered- luminosity
from Tucson, AZ
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Comments about Golden Fluid Acrylics, 4 oz:
As a devoted oil painter, I thought I'd never use acrylic paints! Since I love to layer colors using glazes though, I began experimenting with water base paints for fear of the yellowing tendency of oil base varnishes. It was a frustrating journey because most acrylics did not blend well in a thinned transparent layers. I was faced with blobs and broken transitions, or compromised color intensity. Then I discovered Golden Fluids...I am in love! They retain color brilliance when thinned with mediums and blend beautifully.My finished paintings have the luminous quality I loved in oils, yet I don't have to worry about yellowing or the other technical concerns. I felt like Golden Fluids were costume made for me!
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