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NEW 37 Golden High Flow Colours

Date: 22-02-2023
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 By Evan Woodruffe

Golden High Flow Acrylic now with 37 NEW COLOURS offer even more possibilities to your art making.

New colours have been added to the High Flow fluorescent and iridescent selection, and the on-trend pastel tints, already very popular in other Golden ranges, have also been introduced. There’s so much colour  in this expanded palette, and such a versatile paint, so let’s see what they can do.

High Flow Acrylics are an ultra-thin paint with ink-like consistency that are incredibly versatile. They can go directly from bottle to brush, airbrush, refillable marker or dip pen and work great for drawing, staining, dripping, pouring, calligraphy and colour washes. While it acts like an ink, it’s an acrylic so can be combined with all the other GOLDEN Acrylic colours and mediums to produce almost every imaginable possibility!

With High Flow Acrylics, artists have so many options for exploration.  From fine line detail work to broad strokes, High Flow Acrylics have an ink-like consistency that lends itself to a wide range of techniques. They flow smoothly from a soft brush, but why stop there? High Flow is also used through refillable markers, dip pens, technical pens, airbrush, and directly from the bottle for stains and washes.

Putting an artist’s quality colour into a pen is revolutionary. Now you can combine the exploratory action of drawing while laying acrylic paint down. Whether sketching, applying fine detail, or “taking your line for a walk” as artist Paul Klee called drawing, running High Flow Acrylic through a refillable marker or dip pen allows you to work directly with colour, and across any grease-free surface.

High Flow through a pen offers you easy outlining, filling, and detailing over paper, wood, canvas, textiles, gesso, pastes and gels, over existing acrylic paintings, even onto metal. For finer work using dip pens and fine-tipped refillable markers, smooth surfaces work best, while the broader nibbed markers work well on rougher surfaces, where the texture and the application play together for rougher effects.

Absorbent and rougher surfaces, such as rough paper, Gesso, Absorbent Primer, and Fibre paste, cause drag and create broken lines. Smooth surfaces, such as gloss mediums and gels or smooth and surface sized papers, allow for a slick and fast drawing ability. It is relatively easy to get the kind of line quality and feel that you want by matching the marker with the right painting ground. As with any new painting technique or material, testing and experimenting is necessary to find the matches that work best for you.

Some of the new colours use pigments with a large particle size. These include all the Iridescent colours, Fluorescent colours, and some of the inorganic mineral pigments, such as Cobalt. While these colours perform well for a while in most pens and markers, it’s best to avoid the finest nib widths, and they will require greater maintenance while working.

Eventually, however, the tips will trap too many of the larger pigments and the flow will decrease. If using these colours, make sure to have replacement nibs or tips on hand. Adding a few drops of Acrylic Flow Release mixed with water will greatly improve the flow of these larger pigment particle colours. Alternatively, use these colours with a dip pen.

Similarly, while the more standard colours work well with even the finest airbrush models, the large particle size of these Iridescent, Fluorescent and certain mineral pigments limits their use to models with a 0.5mm nozzle size or larger.

High Flow Acrylics can be used for textile work intended to be laundered, but require the addition of GAC 900, Golden’s heat-set fabric medium. This is an easy 1:1 mix and essential to prevent colour wash out during laundering otherwise. The addition of GAC 900 also helps to thin the paints and add some additional retarders to improve penetration into the fabric.

High Flow Acrylics work exceptionally well straight from the bottle to create large fields of colour. They flow readily across a surface and are easy to push around with soft brushes on raw or primed canvas, watercolour papers and other painting supports. While they can be diluted with water or modified with Airbrush Transparent Extender or other fluid acrylic mediums, used full strength they will produce intense colour.

For really strong staining and bleeding effects, apply High Flow Acrylics to already wet surfaces. Mix water with a little GAC 200 and paint this down first. Different pigment sizes and densities will cause each colour to push or yield into the next, producing fascinating wet into wet effects. Just as with other staining techniques, it is important to understand the absorbency of your substrate. On unprimed canvas, for example, the sizing used to weave the canvas may prevent the immediate penetration of the stain, so either pre-wetting the canvas to create a broader stain or adding a small amount of Acrylic Flow Release to the High Flow Acrylics may be necessary to create a more controlled penetration of the canvas.

Now you probably have some exciting ideas bubbling away about how you can use Golden High Flow Acrylics… but which colours will you choose? These are a few of our favourite from the new additions:

Cobalt Blue

Used pure, this precious blue pigment offers a quiet intensity, and provides an almost neutral blue for inspired colour mixing. Cobalt colours tint with white to make unique soft tones.

Light Phthalo Blue

A bright, clean, pastel blue, a perfectly on-trend tint that will liven up any painting.

Titan Green Pale

An unusual pale green with plenty of colour complexity and a beautifully soft tone.

Paynes Grey

Everyone’s favourite for shading and creating dark areas with more depth than black.

Fluorescent Orange-Yellow

This new fluorescent will seduce with sheer sun power – use wearing dark glasses!

Iridescent Bright Gold (Fine)

Bring the bling with this shimmering gold, especially for details and filigree with brush or dip pen.

 

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