GOLDEN OPEN Gels, Mediums, and ThinnerOPEN Acrylic Gel (Gloss and Matte) has a slightly softer feel than our Regular Gel (Gloss) and the same consistency as OPEN colors. It can be used for glazes and to extend the paints while maintaining working properties of OPEN acrylics. OPEN Acrylic Medium (Gloss and Matte) has a lower viscosity and is used to extend paint and maintain properties when a more fluid mixture is desired to increase flow. OPEN Gels and Mediums are compatible with Golden Heavy Body and Fluid Acrylic colors, as well as regular acrylic gels and mediums and will increase open time while altering their consistency. OPEN Thinner contains no binders and is used to thin the consistency of paint mixes without altering open time, or to maintain and adjust the workability of colors on the palette without the use of water mist and moisturizing palettes. |
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Golden OPEN Acrylic Mediums
Categories: Acrylic Additives, Acrylic Mediums, Acrylic Paint
Short Features: Winsor & Newton OilBars
Winsor & Newton Features a ton of videos on new products, artist technique and useful instructions for their art supplies. Creative Coldsnow recently started a Youtube Channel and will be featuring many of these videos. This video is just a short preview of the versatility of Winsor & Newton OilBars. Oil Paint in the form of a stick that allows artists easy transport, and offers artist grade quality pigments and colors. (Shop OilBars)
New Montana Cans!
Categories: Acrylic Spray Paint, New Product Lines
The new Montana GOLD‘s color system has been completly overhauled and optimised by our dedicated team of artist‘s and laboratory expert‘s to make it perfect. With 204 possibilities, Montana GOLD offers the largest and most concise color range available in spraypaint, worldwide.
Montana Gold offers 204 matte acrylic colors in a low-pressure system can, this acrylic spray paint is extremely high-covering, efficient & accurate with perfect handling these cans have the best durability. This quick drying paint is weatherproof no color bleaching, and works on flexible surfaces, perfect for canvas with no cracking.
Encaustics Hot Sticks
Instructional Videos
Enkaustikos Hot Sticks
Enkaustikos will be unveiling a new product in April 2011 called Hot Sticks Encaustic Wax Paint. Hot Sticks feature the same professional quality encaustic wax paints as the Hot Cakes paint line but come in a versatile artist-friendly stick. Hot Sticks will be available in 86 artist colors plus Enkaustikos Wax Medium and XD Wax Medium. They are made with USP grade Beeswax, Damar Resin, and artist-grade pigments, making them ideal for the professional encaustic artist. The unique square paint stick shape allows artists to use encaustic paints in a whole new way. Hot Sticks even work great for printmaking, rubbings, and mixed media techniques.
Encaustics Hot Cakes
Instructional Videos
Enkaustikos Hot Cakes
Hot Cakes are ready-to-use professional encaustic paints that come in a convenient reusable metal tin. The artist-quality colors are made from the most beautiful pigments, the finest Damar Resin, and United States Pharmaceutical Grade (USP) Beeswax. These paints contain no bleach or synthetic adulterants whatsoever. While Enkaustikos has been manufacturing encaustic paints since 1996, the Hot Cakes metal tin was introduced in 2009. Enkaustikos offers two different tin sizes depending on how much paint you desire to work with: 1.5oz Hot Cakes and 4oz Hot cakes. The innovative design won both "Best Packaging" and "Best New Product" at the National Art Material Trade Association's convention in Louisville, KY.
Airbrush Supplies
Air Sources
Compressed air and a connector hose are required to run an airbrush. Two common air sources are aerosol propellant cans and electric compressors. Compressors come in all sizes, but the best ones for airbrushing provide at least 1/3 horsepower. If your compressor doesn't have a storage tank, make sure to get a regulator, to control and smooth out the flow of air.
Aerosol Propellant Cans
It’s wise to have two cans of air. Air cans cool as they're used, and become unusable until they return to room temperature once again. Switching to the second can allows the first one time to warm to room temperature. To turn the air off and on, propellant cans require an adapter (regulator valve) for the top. Use a vinyl hose to connect the airbrush to the propellant.
Compressors
These are the easiest to use but most expensive type of air source. The personal-size compressor equipped with an automatic shut-off and a regulator is very convenient for serious airbrushers. Use a 10' braided hose with a moisture trap to connect the air brush to the compressor (instructions come with the compressor).
Paints
Airbrushes can spray any type of paint that can be thinned to the consistency of milk. Airbrush artists have created airbrushed masterpieces using oils, acrylics, watercolours, gouache, enamels, fingernail enamels, automotive paints, inks, dyes, body paints, face paints, cosmetic and stage make-up, tanning paints, and more. Many of these types of paint are available pre-mixed and ready to go into your airbrush. Others require mixing to flow smoothly through an airbrush.
Make sure you use the right cleaner for whatever paint you're running through your airbrush! Use lots of cleaner, and clean your airbrush often--before and after you start painting, between each colour change, and run cleaner through your airbrush regularly when using multiple "refills" of the same colour--to keep your airbrush running smoothly.
Also, be aware that many paints labelled "non-toxic" become toxic when sprayed through the air (and thus breathed)! Always wear a face-mask in an adequately ventilated space when airbrushing.
Airbrush Basics
What a versatile tool an airbrush is! Miraculously it can make flat objects look 3-D, create soft shadings, make designs appear transparent, do textured backgrounds and much more. Airbrushes come in a variety of different styles at different price levels. The styles of airbrushes are defined by:
Profile (gravity feed or bottom feed). With a gravity feed airbrush, the paint is poured into a cup on top of the body. A bottom feed uses a hose and suction to draw the paint up into the nozzle.
Trigger action (single or dual/double). With a single-action airbrush, you press down on the trigger to get air and paint in a predetermined spray pattern. With a dual-action airbrush you press down on the trigger to engage the air and pull back on the trigger to get paint.
How paint is mixed with air (internally or externally). In an internal mix airbrush the air goes into the body of the airbrush and meets the paint inside the tool where they mix. In an external mix airbrush air and paint meet outside of the brush.
Oil Paint Basics
Amazing Acrylics
Acrylics are an extraordinarily versatile media. They can be used on almost any surface and will dry to be waterproof in only minutes. Use them to create lushly textured impastos or subtle watercolor-like effects. They clean up easily with water and require no toxic or noxious solvents. Colors will not yellow with age.
Available in tubes, jars and bottles, acrylic paints come in two grades, professional and student. Professional paint is more highly pigmented than student, which uses less expensive pigments and extenders so it will fit the student budget.
