Golden

Golden Acrylic Gesso is a ready-to-use liquid ground formulated for the use of acrylics on any commonly used painting surface. It’s flexible and can be applied in thin layers to conform to a variety of textured surfaces without cracking.

Golden's Archival Spray Varnish provides a protective finish layer for fine artwork, removable for conservation purposes. Offers excellent dirt, dust, and moisture resistance. Contains ultraviolet light filters and stabilizers (UVLS).

Golden Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylics with a consistency close to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, they offer strong colors with thin consistencies. No fillers or extenders. Ideal for spraying, brushing, and staining.

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.

Incredibly flexible, Golden High Flow Acrylics have an ink-like consistency that lends itself to a wide range of techniques — painting, drawing, staining, glazing, inking, hand-lettering, airbrushing, and more.

Golden Interference and Iridescent Heavy Body Acrylics add an exciting range of options to your creative repertoire. Used alone, or mixed with other acrylic paints, they enable you to achieve color effects that are truly spectacular.

Use Golden Matte Mediums to extend acrylic paints while promoting even flow and leveling, and maintaining the film's stability. These 100% acrylic polymer liquid mediums also decrease gloss and increase translucency.

Golden Open Acrylics offer an escape from the studio, allowing acrylic artists to experience the warm sun and fresh spring breeze of plein air painting.

Golden A-Z Acrylic Sets include a selection of Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, Fluid Acrylics, Open Acrylics, and High Flow Acrylics, as well as pastes, gels, and mediums. By following the included instruction guide, artists can experience the unique properties and possibilities of each line.

Golden Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylics with a consistency close to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, they offer strong colors with thin consistencies. No fillers or extenders. Ideal for spraying, brushing, and staining.

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.

Incredibly flexible, Golden High Flow Acrylics have an ink-like consistency that lends itself to a wide range of techniques — painting, drawing, staining, glazing, inking, hand-lettering, airbrushing, and more.

Golden Interference and Iridescent Heavy Body Acrylics add an exciting range of options to your creative repertoire. Used alone, or mixed with other acrylic paints, they enable you to achieve color effects that are truly spectacular.

Golden Open Acrylics offer an escape from the studio, allowing acrylic artists to experience the warm sun and fresh spring breeze of plein air painting.

Developed for professional muralists and theme designers, Golden Paintworks Mural and Theme Paint offers a range of extraordinary capabilities for exterior and interior artwork and design.

Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylics are rich, saturated acrylic colors that dry to an even, highly opaque, glare-free finish. Specially formulated to produce uniform fields of matte color with minimal coats, they boast a smooth, viscous fluid consistency, brush on flat with fewer strokes, and photograph beautifully when dry.

Acrylic liquid dries to a porous, paper-like surface with high absorbency. Applied over gessoed canvas for staining techniques and watermedia applications with acrylic or watercolors. White and Off-White.

Golden Acrylic Gesso is a ready-to-use liquid ground formulated for the use of acrylics on any commonly used painting surface. It’s flexible and can be applied in thin layers to conform to a variety of textured surfaces without cracking.

Golden Black Gesso is a ready-to-use liquid ground formulated to add “tooth” to canvas, board, and other commonly used painting surfaces. Apply it in thin layers to create a flexible, non-cracking, textured surface.

Apply this translucent acrylic ground to paper, board, or any surface you wish. It provides a rough, "gritty" tooth, making it perfect for use with pastel, graphite, chalk or charcoal, and for the preparation of canvas and other supports for pastels.

Golden Sandable Hard Gesso is formulated with 100% acrylic dispersion polymer. Sand it to create surfaces that are smoother and more even than those created using regular gesso.

Formulated to meet the unique needs of metal point artists, Golden's Silverpoint/Drawing Ground offers a metal receptive ground, applicable to a range of drawing supports. A single coat of Silverpoint/Drawing Ground provides a smooth, durable surface.

Golden Acrylic Clear Granular Gel Mediums are made with coarse acrylic granules. This gel medium dries to an extremely rough crushed-glass appearance. It offers artists a way to build texture. It is composed of 100% acrylic polymers similar to acrylic paint.

Golden Acrylic Clear Tar Gel Mediums is designed to produce a stringy, tar-like feel. This gel is excellent for ''dripping'' over surfaces. The more it's mixed, the stringier it becomes. Letting the mixture sit before use allows foam bubbles to rise.

Golden Acrylic Gel Mediums offer artists many ways to build texture. They range in consistency from pourable to moldable with varying degrees of sheen and transparency. They can be used to create glazes, extend paints, and change finishes.

Mix Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid with Golden Acrylics to make glazes for faux finishes on walls or furniture, or for glazing in fine art painting.

Golden Pouring Medium is a low-crazing extender for creating acrylic pours and puddles. This medium has a gloss or matte finish with good flexibility. It also improves adhesion to chalky surfaces.

Golden Retarder is an additive for slowing the drying (open) time of acrylic paints and mediums. It's useful for "wet-in-wet" techniques and for reducing skinning on the palette.

Golden Acrylic Silkscreen Medium is a waterborne system designed to blend with Golden acrylic paints for silkscreen application. It increases the working time and slows the paint’s drying time in the screen.

Mix Golden Airbrush Mediums with acrylic colors to alter their working properties and appearance. These mediums also help to make the airbrushing process easier by reducing clogging and paint build-up on the tip of the airbrush.

Golden Clear Leveling Gel is a thick, fluid acrylic medium designed to produce an even film with excellent clarity. It has a unique resinous, stringy consistency resulting from the leveling property.

Achieve amazing textures and patterns with Golden Crackle Paste. This thick, opaque medium cracks as it dries. Crack size increases with thicker application. It can be tinted with acrylic paints before application or painted over once dry.

Golden Extra Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums holds peaks well and is ideal for impasto techniques. Along with the High Solid Gel, it's the thickest of the Golden gels.

Golden Fiber Paste is opaque and fibrous, and creates a rough, flexible, paper-like surface on canvas and board. Use it as a ground for dry media, watercolors, digital imaging, and painting. Fiber Paste can also be combined with acrylic colors and gel mediums.

Dilute and extend colors, and increase flexibility and film integrity. Wets out solids more readily than other polymers, and is useful for artists making their own paints. Achieve complete technical control over your acrylic paints and painting environment with Golden GAC 100 Primer Extender Acrylic Polymer Mediums.

The hardest and least flexible polymer. Mix Golden GAC 200 Hard Acrylic Extender Polymer Mediums with acrylic paints to increase film hardness and reduce dry film tack. Use to adhere acrylic paints to nonporous surfaces such as glass or plastic. Dries to a clear, gloss finish.

Harden, sculpt, and shape fabrics with Golden GAC 400 Fabric Stiffener. An alternative to rabbit skin glue, this medium can be used to prime and reduce the flexibility of canvas, cotton, linen, and more. It can also transform lightweight fabrics into freestanding forms.

Golden GAC 500 Self-Leveling Acrylic Polymer Mediums adds a self-leveling working quality and dries to a high gloss finish with good transparency. Increases mar resistance, and decreasing dry film tack.

Use Golden GAC 800 Low Crazing Acrylic Extender Polymer Mediums when puddles must dry with the same evenness and smoothness as when wet. Dries with good gloss and flexibility but with moderate clarity. Also ideal for priming chalky surfaces.

Golden GAC 900 Fabric Medium is ideal for clothing artists. Blend it with acrylic colors to create fabric paints. When heat-set properly, this medium offers a very soft hand and laundering stability.

Golden Glass Bead Gel is a clear acrylic gel with small, densely packed glass beads. This medium adds texture and luminous effects similar to condensation on glass.

Golden Gloss Medium is a general-purpose liquid polymer for creating thin, fast-drying glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss, and increasing film integrity. It's oil-like and resinous, promoting flow and leveling.

Thicker in consistency than Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, the Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums hold peaks and dry translucent. They're ideal for thickening, altering sheen, and increasing translucency of acrylic paint. Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums can be thought of as colorless paint, as they are composed of 100% acrylic polymers similar to acrylic paint.

Golden High Flow Medium thins and extends acrylic colors for spray applications. Blend it with Golden High Flow Acrylics to more easily control transparency and create smooth gradations of color.

One of Golden's thickest gels, Golden High Solid Acrylic Gel Mediums hold high peaks and are useful for simulating oil paint behavior. They contain less water and more acrylic solids, so they shrink less than other gels. The mediums retain texture, brushstrokes, and tool marks.

Use Golden Matte Mediums to extend acrylic paints while promoting even flow and leveling, and maintaining the film's stability. These 100% acrylic polymer liquid mediums also decrease gloss and increase translucency.

Use Golden Molding Paste Mediums to add textured relief to paintings. Mix them with acrylic mediums and paints, such as Golden acrylics, to create thick impasto layers. This modeling paste is waterbased, non-toxic, and formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsions.

Offering the same consistency as Golden Open Acrylic colors, Golden Open Acrylic Gel Mediums are ideal for extending open time and transparency, creating glazes, and improving adhesion and film integrity while maintaining colors’ working properties. Formulated with 100% acrylic polymer dispersion, Golden Open Acrylic Gels have been developed to offer the same optimized working time as Golden Open Acrylic Colors.

Formulated to a lower viscosity than Golden Open Acrylic colors, Golden Open Acrylic Mediums are ideal for increasing flow when a more fluid mixture is desired. In addition to maximizing the working time of Golden Open Acrylics, Open Mediums can be used to adjust color strength and translucency while maintaining consistency.

Golden Open Acrylic Thinner is a waterbased additive ideal for thinning the consistency of Open Acrylic Paint Colors and mediums without altering drying time. It can also be used to adjust the workability of colors on the palette without using water mists, or used as a thin-bodied retarder with Heavy Body or Fluid Colors.

Used for making textures or grounds for drawing, Golden Pumice Gel Mediums dry to a hard film. Blend Pumice Gels with Golden acrylic colors, or mix in other Golden gels or mediums to increase flexibility.

With a consistency similar to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, Golden Regular Acrylic Gel Medium regulates translucency without affecting consistency, hold moderate peaks and textures, and are ideal for glazing.

Thinner than Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors, the Golden Soft Acrylic Gel Mediums are moderately pourable, hold only slight peaks, and are ideal for glazing and other techniques that require transparency. Thinned with water at a 2:1 ratio, it can also be used to create an isolation coat over acrylic paintings to seal the surface, lower the absorbency of the surface, allow for a more uniform varnish application, and protect the acrylic paint during varnish removal.

Golden Wetting Aid is a concentrated additive that reduces the surface tension of water in the acrylic emulsion, improving wetting and increasing the slickness and flow of acrylic paints. Adding Wetting Aid to water improves the absorption of acrylic colors into porous surfaces, allowing you to achieve rich stains on watercolor paper and unprimed canvas. Wetting Aid contains no binder and should only be used properly diluted, per product instructions.

Golden's Archival Spray Varnish provides a protective finish layer for fine artwork, removable for conservation purposes. Offers excellent dirt, dust, and moisture resistance. Contains ultraviolet light filters and stabilizers (UVLS).

Golden MSA (Mineral Spirit Acrylic) Solvent is the ideal solvent for thinning Golden MSA Varnishes, which must be thinned before use. MSA Solvent assures clear, clean, even application time after time. Golden MSA Solvent can also be used to remove MSA Varnish at a later time for restoration purposes.

Golden Isolation Coat is a permanent, non-removable layer that physically separates acrylic paintings from varnish. Apply it between the painted surface and varnish — it ensures an even coat of varnish, and it protects the paint if you choose to remove the varnish.

Discard acrylic and watercolor paint water in an environmentally friendly way with the Golden Crash Paint Solids Waste Water Cleaning System. This paint water disposal kit separates acrylic and watercolor solids from water so the paint doesn’t go down the drain.

The Golden Gripper Tube Opener helps artists open stubborn or paint-coated tube caps with ease. The Gripper is perfect for artists with diminished manual dexterity or strength.