Tim O'Neil

Photography and the Role of GOLDEN Digital Grounds

By Michael Townsend Over the last few years we at Golden Artist Colors have been hearing from more and more photographers who are experimenting with fine art materials. Through our conversations we began to learn about some new trends in photography. We were fortunate that three professional artists, that we

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SAM & ADELE GOLDEN GALLERY

By: Gallery Director, Jim Walsh Golden Artist Colors has forged unique relationships with artists for decades. Paints, mediums, varnishes, application techniques and archival practices have been explored and developed in collaboration with artists around the world. The opportunity to exhibit some of the works of these artists and collaborations came

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5 New Heavy Body Colors

By: Scott Bennett The following new colors will be available in stores in the early part of 2010. It may be possible some time in the future that they will also be available in the Fluid Acrylics line. All are rated I for lightfastness, Excellent for permanency, and are single

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Sidebar: Darryl Hughto ‘Diamonds’

By: Gallery Director, Jim Walsh ‘Darryl Hughto: Diamonds’ focuses on a body of work by Hughto that had wide exposure in commercial galleries during the period of their execution but that had not been the subject of a retrospective examination in decades. The methodology of the making of these paintings

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Sarah Sands

Technical Services Supervisor, Sarah Sands Close-Up

Mark Golden: Let me start by asking about your first interest in art — was there some time during childhood that you had an avid interest in drawing or any kind of visual arts? Sarah Sands: Nothing passionate.By the time I got to high school I had copied some album

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Drawdown Color Chart Poster Now Available

  When Sarah Sands wrote “The Subtleties of Color” in our last issue of Just Paint (#21) we assembled the entire Tech Support Services team to review the enormous number of exquisite drawdowns that had been created to then generate all the spectral data. All the members, being incredible color

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From Mark Golden

We have an amazing person joining our six member Technical Support Services team, Amy McKinnon. If you have called or emailed GOLDEN, you know these folks provide an unequalled level of technical information. Amy describes in her own words, her journey to find her place here. Ulysses Jackson and Mike

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Seeing is believing

You’d think we had to get hit on the head with a rock to recognize that if we provided visual artists with visual tools, we’d probably make our efforts to share information much easier. Well now we think we’ve got something to more closely meet your needs and desires. Due

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AMY MCKINNON

I am a materials geek, a paint junkie, colored goo makes me tick. For years I thought it made a difference, what kind of goo you pushed around. I thought it defined you. As an artist you often search to define yourself. Your life becomes about self declarations. You must

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The Subtleties of Color

Small Differences That Make All the Difference Every painter knows the dance, taking a few steps back from the painting, their head tilted slightly askew, the eyes pulled tight into a squint, or the hand held in front to block off an area from view. The to and fro of

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