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To our old friends and those newly discovering Just Paint, we welcome you. I’m delighted to share our new High Flow Acrylics with you! We’ve worked hard on this product, maintaining qualities artists have enjoyed when using our Airbrush Colors. High Flow Acrylics, our thinnest product line, dramatically extends the range of possibilities beyond Airbrush. … Read more
It’s all about a fear of water, the art of levitation, and the fact that size matters. From there it’s just an issue of context. Down one path are tales of summer pool parties and magic shows; down the other a world of pigment particles coaxed into fluid paint. Considering we are about to pull … Read more
Historically, wood panels were used for paintings long before the adoption of flexible fabric supports. Most of the earliest icons still intact from the 2nd and 3rd century as well as a large portion of the Renaissance paintings were created on solid wood panels. Many of Raphael’s paintings for example are painted on primed wood … Read more
Quality Panels The inevitable questions about plywood include “How do I pick a quality panel for my paintings?” (assuming you’re looking for quality) and “How do I prepare the panels for painting?” A panel good enough for an artist to use should have one side (call it A) whose surface is smooth and free of … Read more
The ease we all feel in picking up a pen and writing something down has facilitated us to translate, transcribe and transform the thoughts in our heads to a tangible surface. While this may work very easily in everyday life, traditional inks can present problems when used within artwork from issues of permanence to compatibility … Read more
High Flow Acrylic Applications: Airbrush The new GOLDEN High Flow Acrylics are an amazingly versatile paint! As one of the folks here in my earlier Research and Development days at GOLDEN, I spent countless hours conducting application testing of the Airbrush Colors, so I have to admit that the idea of a new paint line … Read more
April 13, 2013 marked the opening of an exhibition of works by the Golden Foundation’s 2012 Artists in Residence. These seven talented artists were not only the first to attend the Golden Foundation Residency program in 2012, but were those who marked, with distinction, the 2013 inaugural year of the Foundation’s alumni gallery show, Made … Read more
Heading into our 5th Residency Session of 2013 and feeling invigorated as ever! We certainly learned a lot from year 1 and with the increase from 3 sessions last year to 6 sessions this year, the amount of creativity and energy in the Barn is immense. As an international program, we are excited to welcome … Read more
