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Slow-drying acrylic paint that enables painters to explore techniques
Golden Open Acrylics are a slow-drying paint that enables painters to explore techniques traditionally reserved for oil paints. The slow-drying quality of Golden Open acrylic paint gives artists longer working time for easier blending and even subtractive techniques. OPEN paints are compatible with regular fast-drying acrylics and clean up with soap and water like regular acrylics. Slow-drying paint with a slightly softer consistency and formulated with an optimum balance of pigment load and 100% acrylic polymer dispersion.
Key Features:
Resists skinning, remain wet on the palette for extended periods
Feels like no other paint
Stays wet longer
Expands the boundaries of acrylics
Formulated with an optimum balance
Tubes: 2oz. & 5oz. / Jars: 4oz. & 8oz.
Titanium White: 32oz. Jar
100% acrylic polymer dispersion
Perfect For:
A uniquely relaxed set of working characteristics and versatility
Allowing artists to explore a wider range of techniques
Portraiture and landscape painting
Softening, shading, glazing, and creating fine detail
Plein air painting, mono-printing, and screen printing
Drying time can also be accelerated by mixing OPEN with faster-drying acrylics like our Fluid and Heavy Body colors
Reducing the amount of paint wasted and preserving color mixtures for future use
Slow-drying acrylic paint that enables painters to explore techniques
GOLDEN Open Acrylics are a slow-drying paint that enables painters to explore techniques traditionally reserved for oil paints. The slow-drying quality of Golden Open acrylic paint gives artists longer working time for easier blending and even subtractive techniques. There is a unique thinner and mediums for use with OPEN, but the paints are compatible with regular fast-drying acrylics and clean up with soap and water like regular acrylics.
Open Acrylic is formulated with an optimum balance of pigment load and 100% acrylic polymer dispersion to produce a paint with a uniquely relaxed set of working characteristics and a versatility that allows artists to explore a wider range of techniques such as portraiture and landscape painting that rely on softening, shading, glazing, and creating fine detail.
Increased working time of these colors expands their range to include more traditional techniques once only possible with oils
Key Features:
Resists skinning, remain wet on the palette for extended periods
Feels like no other paint
Stays wet longer
Expands the boundaries of acrylics
Formulated with an optimum balance
Tubes: 2oz. & 5oz. / Jars: 4oz. & 8oz.
Titanium White: 32oz. Jar
100% acrylic polymer dispersion
Perfect For:
A uniquely relaxed set of working characteristics and versatility
Allowing artists to explore a wider range of techniques
Portraiture and landscape painting
Softening, shading, glazing, and creating fine detail
Plein air painting, mono-printing, and screen printing
Drying time can also be accelerated by mixing OPEN with faster-drying acrylics like our Fluid and Heavy Body colors
Reducing the amount of paint wasted and preserving color mixtures for future use
Available in sets
Introductory Set of 6 + Thinner - Includes Six colors in 3/4 fl. oz. / 22ml Tubes (Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Green Light, Carbon Black* and Titanium White) and one 1 fl. oz. / 30ml Bottle of OPEN Thinner.
Landscape Colors Set of 8 + Thinner - Includes Seven colors in 3/4 fl. oz. / 22ml Tubes (Cadmium Yellow Primrose*, Yellow Ochre**, Cadmium Red Light*, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Ultramarine Blue, Manganese Blue Hue, and Sap Green Hue**), one 2 fl. oz. / 59ml Tube of Titanium White and one 1 fl. oz. / 30ml Bottle of OPEN Thinner.
Set of 8 Mixed - Modern Theory Colors - This eight-color set Includes: (22 ml) Benzimidazolone Yellow Light, Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Quinacridone Magenta, Anthraquinone Blue, Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), (59 ml) Titanium White, (30 ml) OPEN Thinner, and a color mixing guide.
Mixing Set of 12 + Thinner - Includes Twelve colors in 3/4 fl. oz. / 22ml Tubes (Benzimidazolone Yellow Light, Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Quinacridone Magenta, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade), Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade), Raw Umber*, Titan Buff, Carbon Black**, Titanium White) and a 1 fl. oz. / 30ml Bottle of OPEN Thinner.
How long does it take for Golden Open acrylics to dry?
Open typically dries in 3-5 hrs. To control viscosity while maintaining the maximum working time Use OPEN Mediums and Thinner. To accelerate drying time, OPEN Acrylics may be blended with faster-drying Golden Acrylics, Gels, and Mediums.
OPEN Acrylics resist skinning, remain wet on the palette for extended periods, and exhibit a remarkable versatility that allows them to be used directly from the tube for plein air painting, mono-printing, and screen printing.
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