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Welcome to the 35th edition of our Just Paint newsletter. We have made significant upgrades on JustPaint.org to offer much more rapid updates to our technical resources for artists. Instead of waiting for the semi-annual Just Paint print edition, we now offer monthly articles online. Our annual print edition (also available digitally) will continue to … Read more
We’ve just passed several milestones here at GOLDEN. In June we celebrated our 35th year in business and Barbara and I, our 40th wedding anniversary. Both events began on my folks’ farm and the home of Golden Artist Colors. This year also marks some wonderful beginnings. QoR® Watercolor has had an exciting inaugural year and … Read more
Welcome to Just Paint #32. Several readers have asked for articles less technical in nature. We hear you and recognize our responsibility to our customers. Our online videos attempt to provide artists with clear directions and approaches to working with our materials. We will continue to provide these resources, reducing the complexity of our materials … Read more
Welcome to Just Paint #31. If you regularly read Just Paint, you know our passion for what we do extends well beyond paintmaking. Our mission is “To grow a sustainable company dedicated to creating and sharing the most imaginative and innovative tools of color, line and texture for inspiring those who turn their vision into … Read more
Dear Just Paint readers, We’ve just reached our 30th edition of Just Paint and with it, just a moment of reflection on what we have tried to create with our newsletter. First, a huge thank you to our Editor for the last 20 issues of Just Paint, Jodi O’Dell. Without her dedication to this process, … Read more
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
Each time we discuss the planning of our next Just Paint, the entire Technical group waits in anticipation of having their projects accepted for inclusion. We try to plan at least a year in advance because a good deal of watching paint dry often accompanies the work. In writing about cotton fabric supports I began … Read more
You would have thought that by now we would have figured out how acrylic paint dries. We’ve taken several stabs at this in our Just Paint #6 and in a paper for the American Institute for Conservation symposium in 2002. Yet we continue to get the pretty obvious question, “So how long will it take … Read more
Twenty-six issues of this technical newsletter and I am delighted to share we are still continuing the dialogue on color! After the success of Sarah Sands’ article on the ‘Subtleties of Color’ (JP 21), we recognized the value of continuing to provide more color resources for artists. The Tint & Glaze Poster was the first … Read more
Just Paint 25 comes at a time when we’re able to share many projects that have come to completion. We are delighted to announce the opening of the Golden Foundation Artist Residence, which I know will serve as a tremendous resource for professional artists and allow for continued conversations with artists, which has been the … Read more
