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The ultimate guide to Golden Artist Colors – the award-winning American paint brand

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Golden Artist Colors have seen huge growth in the last decade, but are they any good? Here’s our guide to this fascinating brand of artists paints.

If you’ve visited your local art shop recently you’ve probably seen a new display in the acrylic paint section. Golden Acrylic Paints are everywhere, which has probably left you with one question; are these paints any good? As artists we are always looking for the highest quality materials at an affordable price, so we’re going to dig a little deeper into the brand to get you the answers you need.

 

 

1. Who makes Golden acrylic paints?

Golden acrylic paints are made by Golden Artist Colors, an American artist’s paint company.

 

2. Which are the best acrylic paints?

The best-rated acrylic paint on Amazon.com is Heavy Body Acrylic Paint by Golden in 5 Ounce Tube Titanium White with 1788 reviews and a 4.9 out of 5 star rating.

 

3. Who are Golden Artist Colors?

Golden Artist Colors was founded in June of 1980 by Sam Golden in New Berlin, New York. Sam, then aged 67,  began making paints for artists in a renovated barn, using his expertise gained while working at Bocour Artist Colors. Sam Golden described the business as ‘making tools for artists’, and professional artists were the first loyal users.

The company saw growth and expansion until 2002, when the employees of the company became majority owners. The paints are still made on the same site in New Berlin today, but the products now have global distribution and cover a whole range of mediums.

A full history of the company can be found here.

 

4. Where are Golden acrylic paints made?

Golden Acrylic Paints are made in the Golden Artist Colors factory in New Berlin, New York, United States.

 

5. What products do Golden Artist Colors make?

Golden Artist Colors are best known for their innovative acrylic-based paints and mediums. However, their full product range is quite extensive now, extending to oil paints (They also own the Williamsburg brand of oil paints), fluid paints and a whole host of other mediums and artists products like molding paste, gell and gloss.

 

6. Where to buy Golden Artist Colors online?

You can buy Golden Artist Colors at many independent art supply shops in the US, UK, France Spain and Germany.

Online there are lots of places to buy, including Amazon, online art supplies retailers and

Golden Artist Colors also have an easy tool to find your nearest stockist here.

 

7. What do artists think of Golden Artist Colors?

Golden Artist Colors were original designed as artist quality paints, and from what other artists are saying they do appear to live up to that.

Twitter user @seateaparty ranks the quality of Golden Artist Colors Acrylic paints as higher than Winsor & Newton.

Used the 3 brands I have
Although the Windsor and newton ones I cant open (tbh dont get them-theyre not the best, for higher quality acrylic go for liquitex or golden artist colors) pic.twitter.com/cLEMjv39JK

— Cat Feepies (@seateaparty) August 28, 2019

Twitter user @evyparkart also really enjoyed using Golden brand paints.

Palette snaps 🎨

Halfway through the painting, I bought a tube of Golden Open acrylics (titanium white) and I love it so much!
Mixing just a tiny amount with my usual acrylics slows down drying time and makes them feel like oil colors.

Anyone else using them? #acrylicpainting pic.twitter.com/kXiXTfTpAe

— Evelyne Park (@EvyParkArt) July 26, 2021

 

8. Are Golden acrylic paints good?

Golden acrylic paints have received excellent reviews, making them a well-respected brand of acrylic paints for an affordable price. The most common thing that artists liked about the paints was their consistency and pigmentation. The most common problem we discovered was that some artists found the colours to be limited in some sets, so pick carefully or buy individual tubes if you are less confident mixing your own colors.

Golden acrylic paints reviews

On Amazon too, the reviews are consistently 4 stars and above for most products from Golden.

We looked at the reviews for the Golden Color Mixing Set of 8, Classic Theory set of acrylic paints. This set of 8x 2oz tubes of oil paints is designed for artists who want to start exploring color theory, and includes a range of colors traditionally found in landscape and portrait painting in the 19^th century.

This set has an overall rating of 4.8 stars out of 5 from 226 ratings.

Here are some comments  from the best rated reviews on this set:

• The color intensity can’t be beat.
• The consistency and richness is remarkable and so enjoyable to paint with.
• I love the viscosity of the paint and it can easily be watered down if you like thinner oils.
• The highest pigmented paint I’ve ever used.
• Gorgeous, gorgeous saturated colors, like butter.
• Dense viscosity, vibrant, true, and painterly

Here are some comments from the worst rated reviews on this set:

• Some of paints were odd colors
• This is not the quality of real golden. I have many of their products. I’m very upset.
• There was no black!

All of the Golden Artist Color paints we found on Amazon followed a similar pattern with excellent overall reviews and very few substantiative criticisms. Artists like the texture, consistency, layering ability and pigmentation of the paints.

 

9. Are Golden acrylic paints toxic?

Golden Acrylic Paints are labelled according to ASTM D 4236, Standard Practice for Labeling Art Materials for Chronic Health Hazard. You can find a comprehensive guide to the labelling and toxicity of Golden Artist Color products here.

 

10. Are Golden acrylic paints waterproof?

Although they will offer some water resistance, like all acrylic paints they are not fully waterproof.

 

11. Which are the best Golden Artist Color acrylic paints to buy?

It can be difficult to know where to start when you are trying a new brand of paint, so we’ve selected three of the best sets to get started with.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]

1.Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Introductory Set (0000074-0)

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This set comes with 6x 22ml tubes in Naphthol red light, hansa yellow medium, titanium white, mars black, permanent green light and ultramarine blue. If you’re just looking to get started with a basic but professional quality range of usable colors, this is the set for you.

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2. Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint – Set of 10 Iridescent Acrylic Paint 1 Oz

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If you are looking to experiment in your art, this set of 10x 1oz metallic paints is the place to start. The paints have a high quality luster finish and come in a full range of colours:  Gold, Bright Gold, Gold Deep, Silver, Pearl, Copper, Copper Light, Micaceous Iron Oxide, Bronze, Stainless Steel.

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3. Golden Modern Theory Color Mixing Set

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This set of 8x 2oz tubes contain colours suitable for modern compositions based on clean and intense color blends that retain their brilliance. As a starter set these would be fab, this is a great place to start your collection and the range of colors included makes them super versatile too.

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