OPEN Acrylic Gel (Gloss) is the same consistency as the colours and is used to extend the paints while maintaining working properties.

OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than other acrylics, which greatly facilitates blending, softening, shading, glazing and fine detail. The drying time varies with how thickly the paint is applied. Thicker applications may be worked for hours.

Increase your working time with these slow-drying acrylics, designed specially for working outdoors.

GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics have a unique and relaxed set of working characteristics, expanding the range and techniques possible for acrylic artists. OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than regular acrylics, expanding the time artists have for blending, softening, shading, glazing, and applying fine detail.

The drying time varies on how thickly the paint is applied: thick applications can dry extremely slowly, allowing you to work on your piece for hours. Drying time can be accelerated by mixing OPEN with standard acrylics, or acrylic mediums. Painters can cover their palettes or use sealed containers to use their OPEN Acrylics for more than a single painting session, reducing the amount of paint wasted, and preserving unique colour mixtures.

Use these paints with both synthetic and natural fibres, and expand your range of working options and finishes with OPEN Mediums. Ideal for use with plein air painting, portraiture, monoprinting, and screenprinting.

Increase your working time with these slow-drying acrylics, designed specially for working outdoors.

GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics have a unique and relaxed set of working characteristics, expanding the range and techniques possible for acrylic artists. OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than regular acrylics, expanding the time artists have for blending, softening, shading, glazing, and applying fine detail.

The drying time varies on how thickly the paint is applied: thick applications can dry extremely slowly, allowing you to work on your piece for hours. Drying time can be accelerated by mixing OPEN with standard acrylics, or acrylic mediums. Painters can cover their palettes or use sealed containers to use their OPEN Acrylics for more than a single painting session, reducing the amount of paint wasted, and preserving unique colour mixtures.

Use these paints with both synthetic and natural fibres, and expand your range of working options and finishes with OPEN Mediums. Ideal for use with plein air painting, portraiture, monoprinting, and screenprinting.

Increase your working time with these slow-drying acrylics, designed specially for working outdoors.

GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics have a unique and relaxed set of working characteristics, expanding the range and techniques possible for acrylic artists. OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than regular acrylics, expanding the time artists have for blending, softening, shading, glazing, and applying fine detail.

The drying time varies on how thickly the paint is applied: thick applications can dry extremely slowly, allowing you to work on your piece for hours. Drying time can be accelerated by mixing OPEN with standard acrylics, or acrylic mediums. Painters can cover their palettes or use sealed containers to use their OPEN Acrylics for more than a single painting session, reducing the amount of paint wasted, and preserving unique colour mixtures.

Use these paints with both synthetic and natural fibres, and expand your range of working options and finishes with OPEN Mediums. Ideal for use with plein air painting, portraiture, monoprinting, and screenprinting.

Increase your working time with these slow-drying acrylics, designed specially for working outdoors.

GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics have a unique and relaxed set of working characteristics, expanding the range and techniques possible for acrylic artists. OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than regular acrylics, expanding the time artists have for blending, softening, shading, glazing, and applying fine detail.

The drying time varies on how thickly the paint is applied: thick applications can dry extremely slowly, allowing you to work on your piece for hours. Drying time can be accelerated by mixing OPEN with standard acrylics, or acrylic mediums. Painters can cover their palettes or use sealed containers to use their OPEN Acrylics for more than a single painting session, reducing the amount of paint wasted, and preserving unique colour mixtures.

Use these paints with both synthetic and natural fibres, and expand your range of working options and finishes with OPEN Mediums. Ideal for use with plein air painting, portraiture, monoprinting, and screenprinting.

This medium slows the drying of acrylics. Use OPEN Acrylic Gloss Medium to adjust colour strength and translucency, thinning the consistency of your paint slightly. Adding the Golden Open Gloss medium is a excellent way to maximum working time.

GOLDEN OPEN Thinner contains no binders, and is used to thin the consistency of paint mixes without altering open time. It is also used to maintain and adjust the workability of colours on the palette without the use of water mist and moisturizing palettes.

OPEN Acrylics remain wet for much longer than other acrylics, which greatly facilitates blending, softening, shading, glazing and fine detail. The drying time varies with how thickly the paint is applied. Thicker applications may be worked for hours.

Gel Mediums offer many ways to build texture. GOLDEN offers five consistencies from our most viscous Extra Heavy Gel to Soft Gel. Each gel is available in Gloss, Semi-Gloss and Matte finishes. They can be used to create glazes, extend paint and change finishes. Gels are essentially colorless paint, as they utilize the same 100% acrylic polymers as acrylic paint. Gels are also excellent adhesives for collage and mixed media, they dry with excellent flexibility with chemical, water and UV resistance.<\p>

Dip fabric into the medium, and then drape, wrap, or lay the material around an object, armature or wire sculpture, and allow it to dry. Jacquard’s Fabric Sculpting Medium dries fast, but slowly enough to allow plenty of open working time. Once dry, Jacquard’s Fabric Sculpting Medium has a matte finish.

It adheres to most porous and semi-porous surfaces, including already hardened fabric, and is perfect for mixed media applications. Jacquard’s Fabric Sculpting Medium can be used to make fabric sculptures, lamp shades, collages, and much more. Try stiffening fabric onto paper, wood, clay, metal wire or canvas.

It can also be used as a fabric glue. Dilute with water up to 25% for a softer hand.

Glossy or matte? Now artists have a choice when it comes to pouring acrylic colours! NEW GOLDENColor Pouring Medium Matte, which provides a low luster finish on colour pours.

New GOLDEN Color Pouring Mediums open the door to new creative possibilities, allowing artists to choose from pours with a high-shine glossy finish or a velvety matte surface. These leveling, low crazing extenders form an intuitive pair of products that offer artists choice and flexibility in their pouring endeavors.

Mix these mediums into Heavy Body, Fluid, or High Flow Acrylics to extend paint and increase flow for pours that hold their edges when poured wet into wet. In addition to extending colors for pouring, this versatile medium is useful for improving adhesion to chalky surfaces like plaster or weathered paint.

To use, gently mix 10 parts Color Pouring Medium with 1 part acrylic color, allow mixture to sit covered (ideally overnight) to eliminate air bubbles. Pour close to the surface to reduce air bubbles. Paintings may need to dry for a few days before moving and tenting is recommended. Do not pour thicker than 1/8” (3mm) or attempt to accelerate drying or crazing may result.

For detailed instructions on pouring paints using GAC800 (aka Color Pouring Medium Gloss), see GOLDEN's application guide, their videos featuring a big pour, and their detailed article called Understanding the Techniques of Pouring Acrylics in JustPaint.org.

They have also created a supplement to our application guide that addresses popular techniques and additives along with their recommendations for pouring.

Glossy or matte? Now artists have a choice when it comes to pouring acrylic colours! NEW GOLDENColor Pouring Medium Matte, which provides a low luster finish on colour pours.

New GOLDEN Color Pouring Mediums open the door to new creative possibilities, allowing artists to choose from pours with a high-shine glossy finish or a velvety matte surface. These leveling, low crazing extenders form an intuitive pair of products that offer artists choice and flexibility in their pouring endeavors.

Mix these mediums into Heavy Body, Fluid, or High Flow Acrylics to extend paint and increase flow for pours that hold their edges when poured wet into wet. In addition to extending colors for pouring, this versatile medium is useful for improving adhesion to chalky surfaces like plaster or weathered paint.

To use, gently mix 10 parts Color Pouring Medium with 1 part acrylic color, allow mixture to sit covered (ideally overnight) to eliminate air bubbles. Pour close to the surface to reduce air bubbles. Paintings may need to dry for a few days before moving and tenting is recommended. Do not pour thicker than 1/8” (3mm) or attempt to accelerate drying or crazing may result.

For detailed instructions on pouring paints using GAC800 (aka Color Pouring Medium Gloss), see GOLDEN's application guide, their videos featuring a big pour, and their detailed article called Understanding the Techniques of Pouring Acrylics in JustPaint.org.

They have also created a supplement to our application guide that addresses popular techniques and additives along with their recommendations for pouring.

Get a head start with GOLDEN acrylics!

This Acrylic Explorer Starter Set of 14 contains samples of GOLDEN’s Heavy Body Acrylics, OPEN Acrylics, Fluid Acrylics, and High Flow Acrylics, as well as an assortment of acrylic gels and mediums, ideal for trying out a wide assortment of GOLDEN products at an economical price.

Set contains:
• 3 x 15 ml Fluid Acrylics, Quin./Nickel Azo Gold, Fluid Iridescent Bright Gold (Fine), Fluid Teal
• 2 x 15ml High Flow Indigo (Anthraquinone), High Flow Fluorescent Pink
• 3 x 30 ml Heavy Body Benzimidazolona Yellow Medium, Heavy Body Quinacridone Magenta, Heavy Body Titanium White
• 2 x 30ml OPEN Alizarin Crimson Hue, OPEN Phthalo Blue/G.S.
• 4 x 59 ml Clear Tar Gel, Heavy Gel (Matte), Light Molding Paste, Polymer Medium (Gloss)
• 1 x Instruction Guide (Item # 962-0)

Increase gloss, extend volume and thicken, while extending open time - or use as a collaging adhesive.

What it does

• Increases surface gloss, color depth and transparency
• Extends your color further without affecting acrylic stability
• Gives heavy body paint an oil-like color brilliance
• Increases viscosity of soft body paints, giving a thicker consistency
• Slows drying time and enhances appearance of brush marks
• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality

How to use it

• Fully intermixable with all Liquitex Professional products
• Mix with Matte Gel to create a custom satin gel
• Can be thined by diluting with up to 25% water - distilled water will give best results
• Mix as much as you like into acrylic color to create the viscosity and transparency you want - the more you add, the more transparent your color will become
• Mix into Heavy Body Acrylic to extend volume and maintain viscosity
• Mix into Soft Body or Acrylic Ink to extend volume and thicken
• This is semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry - when used very thickly it may dry semi-opaque
• Apply with a brush as a collaging glue and fixative

How not to use it

• Do not vigorously over-brush as this can result in a foggy, hazy look when dry
• Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media

Increase gloss, extend volume and thicken, while extending open time - or use as a collaging adhesive.

What it does

• Increases surface gloss, color depth and transparency
• Extends your color further without affecting acrylic stability
• Gives heavy body paint an oil-like color brilliance
• Increases viscosity of soft body paints, giving a thicker consistency
• Slows drying time and enhances appearance of brush marks
• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality

How to use it

• Fully intermixable with all Liquitex Professional products
• Mix with Matte Gel to create a custom satin gel
• Can be thined by diluting with up to 25% water - distilled water will give best results
• Mix as much as you like into acrylic color to create the viscosity and transparency you want - the more you add, the more transparent your color will become
• Mix into Heavy Body Acrylic to extend volume and maintain viscosity
• Mix into Soft Body or Acrylic Ink to extend volume and thicken
• This is semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry - when used very thickly it may dry semi-opaque
• Apply with a brush as a collaging glue and fixative

How not to use it

• Do not vigorously over-brush as this can result in a foggy, hazy look when dry
• Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media

Stillman & Birn Softcover Sketchbooks provide you with exceptional sketching and drawing possibilities in dry, wet, and mixed media techniques.

The Nova Series contains 150gsm (93lb) heavyweight, toned paper in grey with medium grain that will support mixed media artwork. Its internal and external sizing offers superior handling when erasing for correction and with reduction drawing techniques, and allows the paper to accept ink and light washes with ease.

Benefits of double sizing: exceptional wet strength keeps pigment from penetrating deep into the paper, forcing it to remain high on the surface, resulting the pigments to glow on this paper; slow penetration of wet media (bleed through) allows both sides of sketchbook sheet to be used; sheet surface is protected from abrasive effects of multiple erasures; strengthened surface allows wide range of inking techniques without feathering, blending and layering with colored pencils and pastels.

While the paper inside is the true star, these books can be judged by their covers. Featuring rounded corners to prevent frayed edges, and the sewn bindings result in a flexible spine, allowing the books to open flat for working across two pages.

Nova Series papers are suitable for: colored pencil, ink, gel pens, paint markers, watercolor, gouache, chalk pastels, oil pastels, water-soluble graphite, charcoal, Conté crayon, colored dry pigments, watercolor pencil, soapstone pencil, etc.

The softcover offers a smaller and more lightweight sketchbook when compared to a hardcover relative with the same paper size and number of pages, with a thinner profile and no overhang of the cover, making them the perfect art-on-the-go companion!