My First Reaction to Golden Open Acrylics: Painting Supply Review
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
- Could these be the slow drying acrylic paints that I have been yearning for my entire life? See how these acrylic paints compare to other acrylic painting supplies and brands I have tried in the past. Thank you so much Slate for sending me these supplies!
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I live in a desert, acrylics dry super fast, so I’m glad you’re doing a review on it.
As I mentioned in the previous post, The Open Thinner is not a Medium, as it is meant to literally thin and dilute your Paint in application. You can’t paint with it as more than 25% mix of your paint. The Open Thinner doesn’t actually ‘dry’ per se. it simply thins the binders of your acrylics. So you can use it with both the Heavy Body and Open paints. But don’t use it as a primary mix. Use the Open Mediums for that. I have done an experiment of just leaving a drop of Open Thinner on a glass palette unused. It took a long time to ‘dry. And its ’dry state’ was more of it transitioning to what was essentially a slippery film on the palette. So needless to say, that would do very unstable things to your paint if you use too much. If you have a daub of paint on your palette and it’s starting to set up, a small single drop of the Open Thinner, mixed in, will reactivate the creamy quality of the Open Paint. And again, it can be used similarly with the Heavy Body Acrylics too, also extending its dry times a bit. Using the Open Medium with a Heavy Body paint, literally converts it into an Open Acrylic.
I forgot where I read about it but Golden Open is highly recommended for use with gel plates and I’m sure you can imagine why. Thanks for the review.
Golden Open paints are highly marketed for Plain air painting. I received a free sample to try and will be heading outside with them 😊 so this was interesting. Thanks
Those are just their mixing colors they also have landscape colors and other colors those are cheaper because they come in a set and can be mixed with regular acrylic colors to make them more opaque
Concerning the choice of colors, I think the idea is that you have a warm and cold temperature for each color.
Watching this a month later...I don't use acrylics that much but working on learning oils...the sketching lightly w/the paint is something I'm def gonna try. Thanks!
I love Golden fluid acrylics. They dry pretty but are highly pigmented
I agree about the packaging! What a hassle! In my experience phthalo blue (green) has a much greener tone. That’s kinda strange.
Have you tried Acrylic gouache, it works like an acrylic paint (smooth - feels like open acrylic with open thinner) & when you thin it, you can combine with watercolor techniques (even granulates) in one painting.
If you paint more in a style of ‘layering and glazing’ to build up your colors, as you normally might do in traditional oils, that’s where the Open Acrylics really excel. You can absolutely lay it on thicker for more vivid color and coverage, but it will take substantially longer on the drying times.
Love ❤️ this painting and your style!
Understanding which colours are opaque and which are transparent makes a big difference with these open colours. If I want more body I mix with heavy body. The puzzling Pthalo blues lean blue of red, when mixing the red shade will mix cleaner purples with magentas. And the green one will lean to more green shades when mixed with yellow. I prefer the thinner consistency as most acrylics especially the thicker ones do not lend themselves to going where you want to put them! I like glazing with transparent colours so I liked these. I have bigger tubes than yours and the paint is not as runny, maybe the binder settles a bit. I have those water soluble oils but have not dared to try them yet! I think I do not want the oil painting door to close on me if I do not get on with them. In the meantime I like the versatility of these paints they work well on canvas, acrylic papers and are fantastic on a gelli plate. The streakiness could be because of your surface.
I’m a BIG fan of open acrylics, since I live in a dry climate these are basically usable lol ! They are more transparent compared to other acrylics, but I like that about them because they are great for glazing, and I like to take my time layering in general. I love the open medium to use with my other acrylics to help them last longer!
High flow is fun to work with… I think you’d love them if you like layering
People often compare the viscosity of a good oil paint to a softened butter. I would compare Open Acrylics to more of a ‘lotion’ viscosity. But a cool thing about the Golden Paints, is that you can purchase almost all of the equivalent colors in both the Heavy Body and the Open variations. So you can easily blend the different viscosities to suit your paintings needs and feel. Which will adjust the drying times too. Plus when you add the Open Mediums and Open Thinners into the mix, it can really expand the flexibilities of the paints.
This got me to read some info on Open products. Then i tried them while watching. Yes, definitely good for thin layers and soft edges.
Incognito Open paint! I would definitely swatch each on paper and glue a tube-width swatch at the tube ends. Likely also a wide dab on the cap.
I use open, but I’ve never bought any sets. I’ll buy the colors that I want some open stock and some of the ones that are labeled. Heavy acrylic.