Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Sets

Golden's Acrylic Sets make exceptional gifts, and are appreciated by students and professionals at all levels.

Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics are known for their exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency, and for their excellent permanency and lightfastness. These paints have the ability to "stand up" and retain brush strokes or palette knife marks on the canvas.

Heavy Body Artist Acrylics also contain the largest assortment of unique pure pigments in a 100% acrylic emulsion vehicle available to the professional artist. They contain no fillers, extenders, opacifiers, toners, or dyes.

Each Golden Heavy Body color is formulated differently depending upon the nature of the pigment. Colors that tolerate higher pigment loads dry to a more opaque, matte finish, while colors that are more reactive and do not accept high pigment loading dry to a glossy finish and tend to be more transparent. Since Heavy Body Acrylics contain no additives, such as matting agents, the gloss of each color will be different.

All Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors are thixotropic in nature. This means that when brushing or stirring, the paints actually lose viscosity and feel much thinner. The faster the paints are moving, the thinner they feel. Returned to a state of rest, Golden Heavy Body Acrylic paints gradually increase in thickness until they are again restored to their formulated viscosity.

Golden Heavy Body Acrylics retain excellent flexibility when dry, greatly diminishing the possibility of cracking that occurs in other natural and synthetic polymer systems. They also can absorb the constant stress and strain placed on canvas when it is shipped, or as it expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity.

A hand-painted color chart is available upon request.

See Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics 2oz for replacement colors and open stock.

Blues, Set of 3 NEW! — Embark on your own Blue Period with this limited edition set. It includes three .75 oz (22 ml) tubes of color, including Anthraquinone Blue, Cerulean Blue Deep, and Smalt Historic Hue.

Introductory Set of 6 — Highest quality paint in a small size! This compact set is ideal for the beginner or for the traveler. It contains six .75 oz (22 ml) tubes of colors Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Green Light, Hansa Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Mars Black, and Titanium White.

Modern Theory Mixing Set NEW! — Mix a wide range of remarkably clean, intense color blends that retain their brilliance even in the thinnest wash or glaze. The set contains eight organic, modern colors in a 2 oz (59 ml) size, including one each of Hansa Yellow Light, Hansa Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Quinacridone Magenta, Anthraquinone Blue, Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), and Titanium White.

Principal Set of 6 Colors — This set contains six 2 oz (59 ml) tubes of colors Carbon Black, Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Quinacridone Magenta, Hansa Yellow Medium, Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), and Titanium White.

Principal Set of 8 Colors — This set contains eight 2 oz (59 ml) tubes of colors Hansa Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade), Quinacridone Magenta, Titanium White, Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), Zinc White, and Yellow Ochre.

Provocative Yellows Set of 3 Colors NEW! — This limited edition set contains three .75 oz (22 ml) tubes of Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics, one each of Bismuth Vanadate Yellow, Nickel Azo Yellow, and Aureolin Hue.

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Blues, Set of 3  NEW!
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Blues, Set of 3  NEW!
Introductory Set of 6
Modern Theory Mixing Set  NEW!
Modern Theory Mixing Set  NEW!
Principal Set of 6 Colors
Principal Set of 8 Colors
Provocative Yellows Set of 3 Colors

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Golden Heavy Body Acrylics were the first products introduced by Golden Artist Colors, Inc., in 1980. Initially, the Heavy Body line was sold directly to artists in Manhattan in quart and gallon containers. Pints, 8 oz, and 4 oz jars soon followed, as the products gained more and more popularity with professional artists. Tubes of Golden Heavy Body Acrylics finally appeared on the market in 1990.

In 1980, it was considered unusual to contain a heavy body, high-viscosity paint in a jar. Almost all of the literature written about acrylic paints at that time implied that jar colors were thin, and tube colors were thicker.

Actually, the first waterborne acrylic paint was thin, similar in consistency to house paint. Only after technological improvements allowing for thicker paint formulations occurred could artist acrylics be sold in tubes.

Since Golden got its start by directly supplying professional artists, the company provided Heavy Body Acrylics in larger-size containers. As Golden products became widely accessible, jars and tubes provided more size and packaging options for a growing group of artists with a variety of needs.

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Item Description Size     PricePrices, promotions, and availability may vary by store, catalog, and online. Qty MSDS 
00620-1039 Introductory Set of 6  .75 oz    List $28.95 $20.27 Material Safety Data Sheet available 
00620-2089 Modern Theory Mixing Set NEW!  2 oz    List $71.95 $50.37   
00620-1009 Principal Set of 6 Colors  2 oz    List $53.95 $37.94 Material Safety Data Sheet available 
00620-0019 Principal Set of 8 Colors  2 oz    List $67.95 $47.57 Material Safety Data Sheet available 
00620-4009 Provocative Yellows Set of 3 Colors NEW!  .75 oz    List $9.99 $4.99   
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