The Story of Golden Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint

First launched in 1980, Golden Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint is thought for its exceptionally easy, buttery consistency and its capacity to ‘get up’ and retain brushstrokes or palette knife marks on the canvas. Over time, and with the event of recent expertise, the Golden model portfolio has grown exponentially. But, Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint remains to be extremely regarded. To grasp why that’s, we are going to discover the historical past of the corporate and find out how the paintmaking course of permits every Heavy Physique Acrylic color to stay uniquely versatile.

The mixer helps mix supplies collectively to make sure all batches are constant and secure.

The Story of Golden Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint

by Golden Artist Colours, Inc.

The Historical past of Golden Artist Colours

Sam Golden, co-founder of Golden Artist Colours, started his profession as a paint maker in 1936 in Manhattan, the place he joined his uncle Leonard Bocour as a accomplice of Bocour Artist Colours. Sam and Leonard produced hand-ground oil colors for artists, and thrived of their store which served as a gathering house for artists to go to, share concepts, and make artwork. The flexibility to make connections with artists and develop merchandise primarily based on their wants served as inspiration for Sam’s paintmaking profession.

Throughout his tenure at Bocour, Sam was credited with many breakthroughs in paintmaking, together with the primary iridescent artist colors, the primary use of phthalocyanine pigment for artist paints, and the event of the primary artist acrylic paint – Magna – within the late Nineteen Forties. Sam later developed a extra widespread waterborne model of the acrylic, named Aquatec, in 1961.

Golden Artist Colours was based in 1980 by the Golden household: Sam, Adele, Mark, and Barbara Golden.

After over 30 years as a paint maker, inventor, and chemist, Sam retired from Bocour and, alongside along with his spouse Adele, bought a small farm in New Berlin, New York. However after seven years of retirement, Sam had determined on the age of 67 to return to the enterprise he cherished: making paint. In 1980, Sam, alongside Adele and their son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Barbara, based Golden Artist Colours, Inc.

Sam felt acrylic paints had a lot extra potential than merely being the secondary option to oils, which was how the trade seen acrylics right now. Due to this fact, Golden launched Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint as its flagship product and offered it on to artists in New York Metropolis, the place Mark would ship the product proper to their studios every week. Constructing upon Sam’s inspiration of connecting and collaborating with artists, these studio deliveries enabled Mark to ask and study in regards to the qualities and traits artists desired of their paints. These situations of exchanging concepts and brainstorming new ones fostered the expansion of what started working in a small barn on Sam and Adele Golden’s retirement property into the corporate it’s immediately.

Aerial view of Golden Artist Colours, which nonetheless operates on Sam and Adele Golden’s retirement property.

The Acrylic Paintmaking Course of

As a way to make a constant color, step one within the paintmaking course of is to ‘moist out’ the pigment by mixing it with water and surfactants. Many dry pigments are naturally hydrophobic, so the surfactants are used to coax the pigments into mixing. As soon as this combination, referred to as a dispersion, is pretty homogeneous in look, it’s milled easy on a three-roll mill.

The three-roll mill is used to achieve color improvement and tint power by shearing pigment particles to maximise the separation and distribution of the particles all through the dispersion. This step requires a substantial amount of data as to what roll stress, mill velocity, and frequency of milling is required to attain the specified color qualities of the completed items.

Extra substances are added to the paint batch within the mixing cell.

The following step in paintmaking is so as to add the acrylic binder to the colored dispersion earlier than mixing in different supplies, similar to preservatives, pH modifiers, and wetting brokers. These substances are used to make sure it can create a constant, secure product. As soon as added, the paint returns to the three-roll mill to create the closest contact between particular person pigment particles and the acrylic binder.

The ultimate step within the Golden paintmaking course of is the elimination of froth. The creation of entrapped air, or foam, is a identified problem of manufacturing acrylic paints, as surfactants simply foam with agitation. To take away any foaming and make sure the buyer receives a easy, dense product, the paint runs by way of a deaerator. As soon as this step is full, the paint is able to be stuffed.

The three-roll mill is used to achieve color improvement and tint power.

Color Vary and Qualities of Heavy Physique Acrylic Paints

The Golden Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint line comprises the most important assortment of distinctive pure pigments in a 100% acrylic emulsion automobile accessible to skilled artists. With the current addition of 5 new colors, Heavy Physique Acrylics are actually accessible in 150 completely different colors, tints, and shades. This consists of 14 Iridescent, 6 Interference, 8 Fluorescent, and 13 Historic colors. The Historic Colors are formulated to be extra secure mixtures of safer supplies that intently resemble their predecessors; some examples of Historic Heavy Physique paints are Prussian Blue Hue, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Hookers Inexperienced Hue, and India Yellow Hue. There aren’t any fillers, extenders, toners, or dyes added to any Heavy Physique color, or every other acrylic paint manufactured by Golden.

The Advertising and marketing Manufacturing Group hand-paints Golden Acrylic color charts, gel boards, and extra.

When formulating Heavy Physique paints, Golden consciously broke the mould of the acrylics made up to now by selecting to not unify the sheen throughout the product line. As an alternative, every Heavy Physique color is formulated in another way relying on the character of the pigment, main every color to have its personal degree of matt or gloss. Colors that tolerate excessive pigment hundreds dry to a extra opaque, matt end, whereas colors which are extra reactive, and don’t settle for excessive pigment loading, dry to a shiny end and are typically extra clear. Heavy Physique acrylics comprise no components, similar to matting brokers or opacifiers, which permits the colors to retain their clearest and cleanest high quality, particularly when utilized in washes or glazes. The Heavy Physique product line affords glorious permanency and lightfastness, except the fluorescent colors.

As soon as made, the paint is able to be stuffed and labeled as a completed good.

Mixing Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint with Mediums, Gels and Pastes

Whereas every color within the line brings its personal distinct sheen and opacity, Heavy Physique Acrylics may be blended with quite a lot of Golden mediums, gels, and pastes to create much more distinctive and particular results. All Golden mediums retain the movie integrity of the acrylic, and, in some circumstances, really improve the sturdiness of the paint movie.

Golden Fluid Mediums can be utilized to decrease the viscosity of Heavy Physique Acrylics, whereas additionally including a myriad of distinctive prospects to the working properties and sheen of the paint floor. For instance, the slow-drying method of Gloss or Satin Glazing Liquid can be utilized to create all kinds of glaze and ornamental finishes. Equally, GAC Specialty Acrylic Polymers can be utilized to increase colors, regulate transparency, create glazes, improve gloss, and extra.

Golden Acrylic labels are hand-painted to point out the qualities of every color.

Golden Gel Mediums provide some ways to construct texture in acrylic paints. Though they seem milky white when moist, Golden Gels dry clear. Smooth, Common, Heavy, and Further Heavy Gels can be utilized to control the physique of Golden Heavy Physique paints in addition to their capacity to carry peaks or software marks. Different gels, similar to Pumice Gel or Clear Granular Gel, are nice for including texture to acrylic paints.

Not like gels, Golden Pastes are opaque and dry to a white or clay-tone end; due to this fact, mixing any Heavy Physique colors with a paste will create a tint. Golden Pastes, similar to Mild Molding Paste, Exhausting Molding Paste, and Fiber Paste, can be utilized to attain quite a lot of results and expressions. Mild Molding Paste is designed to carry stiff peaks for extremely textured surfaces, and its capacity to simply mix with Heavy Physique Acrylics makes it a fantastic selection for impasto results. Compared, Exhausting Molding Paste is beneficial for creating robust, sturdy finishes, and may be carved with hand or energy instruments when dry. Fiber Paste, which resembles handmade paper when dry, has an absorbent nature and is good for acrylic washes.

The ultimate step within the paintmaking course of is deaeration. A carry is used to dump this HB Mild Magenta right into a funnel connected to the machine.

Utilizing Heavy Physique Acrylic Paint with Different Mediums

Though every line possesses its personal distinctive qualities and traits, all Golden product traces have been purposefully created to work as a system. This implies Heavy Physique Acrylics can be utilized in tandem with every other Golden acrylic line, and even with the opposite Golden paint manufacturers: Williamsburg Artist Oil Colours, QoR Artist Watercolors, and PanPastel Artist Pastels. The flexibility to have all these completely different supplies, textures, and viscosities work collectively on one substrate makes for infinite prospects in mixed-media items.

This paint is coming off the three-roll mill.

So, why are Golden Heavy Physique Acrylics nonetheless extremely regarded? They proved that acrylic paints are a lot greater than only a secondary product to oils. Formulating every Heavy Physique color to mirror the qualities of its pigment demonstrates how a lot selection naturally exists on this paint line. Nonetheless, the artistic prospects improve exponentially because of the paints’ capacity to intermix with merchandise throughout the assorted Golden paint traces and mediums. By offering all of the sources – similar to completely different mediums, informational articles, and how-to movies – to make paints behave as every artist needs, Golden continues to embody the idea that impressed founder Sam Golden: collaborating with artists to make the instruments they need and wish.