Ive used the liquitex for painting papier maché and worbla for my costumes in the past. It did the job lol. Now a days, I use dollar store paint on my paintings. I wasn't doing much in the waynor paining back when I was costuming.
@@dulainey9453 Noooo!!! I used to think like that, but the difference in the quality of paint when you spend a bit more is amazing! Although the Liquitex & Golden..... meh!
@@AnthonyCrammen I guess if I were selling the pieces, I'd drag myself to the more pricier ones, but I only do them as gifts and for insta, so I'm not too fussed and no one complains so I get away with it haha
Hi 🙋♀️Rose Madder is transparent because this is a transparent pigment, not because the paint is “made badly”. Some pigments are transparent, others are opaque, regardless of manufacturer or price point, this is the nature of the pigments and is no indicator of quality. For a fair test maybe you should have bought paints with the same pigment from all the different brands instead of “reds”. Hope this helps 🤗
Very entertaining video! ;) Just one thing: it's not "fair" to compare paints with their true main property being transparent (crimsons!!) with paints that are "naturally" opaque (cadmiums)! They are not worse brand/quality, they are just different paints for different purpose! If you say they are not as good because they are not as opaque, you will just give the wrong idea to people... Those paint are not for coverage but for their tinting/mixing power! Thank you for the video!
Not to mention heavy body paints vs non AND using what looks like a thirsty watercolor round brush. This would have been a fair comparison if he chose same pigment color and used the heavy body acrylics with the medium required
I think a good way for a beginner to think about Golden is as "concentrated paint." It has more pigment (the expensive part) and less binders (which is possibly why you didn't like how it pulled down the page.) If you would like to try Golden, but make it last longer, maybe learning a little about adding paint mediums to it. It really is a marvelous, pigment-saturated paint.
I agree. Golden is my favorite paint to use. The texture is unrivaled and it mixes beautifully with the various golden mediums, too. You can water it down and do washes and the color just glows on the canvas. Worth every penny.
I agree. My first set of quality paint was golden and still haven't found anything better. Still haven't used up most of the paint lol, bought the heavy body ones and a medium that makes it more workable for me and fluid but still excellent coverage. Recently purchased some fluid Goldens just to try out👀 plus the black Friday sale just made me....
Yes, it's exactly that. Marvellous paint. Lascaux is good as well, but I still like Golden better. Fine art silkscreen prints, painting on metal or anything else. Easy to work with because of pigment quality and concentration. Worth every penny. :)
The liquitex, the golden, and to a level the Amsterdam Expert are heavy body paints. They are designed to be watered down or applied thickly for impasto effects. If that isn't what you are looking for, you might like the Golden SoFlat or Golden Fluid lines.
Also the opacity test is usually done with black stripes behind. Opacity isn't so much about the paint quality sometimes, rather the pigment. My suggestion would be picking a pigment (PB 15:3 for instance) and only comparing opacity between paints of that pigment. Additionally some people want transparent paints.
But the most important part is pigment load, and this is the hardest one to test. You need to mix it with a control white to see how light it gets. If the paint has a lot of pigment, it will be harder to mute using titanium white. This is where the expensive paints really shine, and is why they are so strong and vibrant. There is more pigment/colour in them!
You're ranking is pretty good, except heavy body paints get unfairly treated. I would put Winsor and Newton down a bit myself, as outside UK they are expensive compared to what you get. Amsterdam is great value. As mentioned before, deffo look at Liquitex Acrylic Gouache (it's not really Gouache), Golden Fluid, and also Senellier Abstract, which is really fast drying, great value, and has a soft body variant which is more fluid.
Professional artists are highly interested in an excellent lightfastness. They don’t want their sold artworks last a few years. Golden and Liquitex are expensive also for that reason.
Galeria is the best quality of the non artist grade acrylics. By a long margin. It is even obvious in this test, on the water part. The materials are far better than the cheap grades.
@@Ross_mo Absolute worst paint in this list is that crap, even their main page still list the Black 3.0 which was a total fiasco and lies, Black 3.0 is not the world blackest paint or even close. They paid a lot of influencers and artist to hype it up as just one of the many issues with their crap paint.
@@scottman572 you are the first person i have seen to say Semple's paint is crap, i'm kindof intrigued as it does seem a little too good to be true, can you elabarate on the fiasco and lies?, do you know firsthand of an influencer being paid aside from hearsay?. Genuinely curious!
I'm not sure you can compare paints using different pigments- some pigments are transparent like rose madder and some are opaque like cadmium- so just because the rose madder is transparent doesn't make it bad- its supposed to be.
Exactly this, thank you! Came here to say the self-same thing. If I were some of these manufacturers, I'd be issuing a take-down notice, frankly! 😂🎨 Better off testing a universal colour like Burnt Umber, otherwise it's like comparing acrylics with watercolours. Once again, many in the comments section are better informed than the one making the actual video (who's meanwhile raking in all the £££ from) dishing out a load of muppetry. 🙄 Sometimes I even wonder if they do this on purpose, simply to generate loads of comments - which YT's algorithm then classes as 'engagement' - which gets them on the front page. What a time to be alive...
@@221b-Maker-Street I wouldn't usually reply to such an arsey comment but you've caught me at a lovely time. A review is exactly that, I tested paint to see which one I liked the most, I still stand by my personal decision. You also refer to a 'universal colour', every brand uses different shades/names/formulas, and although I tried my best to get the same 'red' colour it was almost impossible based on the different companies. You are mixing up fact with opinion, you might loveeeeeee a certain paint, doesn't mean I will and vise versa. I also made very little money from this video not that that's any of your buisness. And if you think leaving comments etc gets my video shown to people and you're not happy about it, why leave one? I'd prefer you didn't. Next time take your shitty comment and shove it up your arse. Cheers!
@@AnthonyCrammen that was criticism, not hate- they are just informing you, A hate comments you be calling you names saying “this video sucks I can’t stand this guy!” Or something like that. This is generally a person wanting to help.
@@Flicker_thefo0x This person edited their original comment that they left which was incredibly arsey and bitchy which is why I responded, I can take criticism when it is constructive, the earlier comment that they left was not.
Oh no problem! You could struggle with the bottles, as I do, and I don't have poorly hands so I can imagine it would even harder for people with arthritis.
(This is a might long, so if you don't want to read it all, I totally understand. It's also pretty irrelevant once I get into the enumeration. TL;DR: I'm a hairy wizard) @@AnthonyCrammen it can be difficult at times. Ironically, throughout my life, amongst my family and I, I have notoriously had a ridiculously strong grip, to the point where my dad would come.to his 9 or so year old daughter, and ask her to open the pickle jar. I am the only woman in my house of 3, am the only one who is physically disabled, and still I have both the mens (a full grown one and an 11 year old) bring me pickle and jam jars to open when they can't get them. Now a days, however, I'm not as reliable as I used to be. I have a lot of swelling in my hands and I do get days where they just hurt too much, or are too swollen to open anything. So your heads up is still very helpful. Bit of a side note, other than opening jars, I have a few other uncanny talents i often get bothered to preform. And I don't mean the obvious that all us artsy folk get (make me a picture, can you help me paint my ______, can you draw my ________, do I really have to pay you for _______, make me a coooostuuuuume, etc.) I am the one that: 1. Fixes things: I can sew, knit, paint, and have a billion different kinds of glue, adhesives, tape, gesso, paint, threads, fabrics etc. I also am really good at getting things put back how they originally were. I was always really popular with the bosses at l the retail jobs where I worked because of it. I would get people telling me they've never seen anything like it and I've actually had people crowd me over it. No one believed it was possible, but the fan went back into the box. I have been called a witch on more than one occasion over it haha. 2. Finds things: I quite often say "I'm the one who finds things." I shit you not, I have this knack of just kinda knowing where things are. Now when I try to show this uncanny talent off, I often end up.jinxing myself, *however* I absolutely did find my parents' keys once, from an over 2 HOUR DRIVE away. My dad called me as a panicked last stitch effort to find his car keys. I had been to their house earlier that week, and they wondered if I had seen him put them somewhere they hadn't thought of. I told him "they're in the crack between your beds." (Instead of a big bed, my late parents got my grandparents' bed(s) which were actually, really two fancy remote controlled hospital type beds pushed up beside one another in a custom made bedframe.) My dad told me he had already looked there. I told him to look again. They couldn't believe it. I think that one creeped them out a little. It's about a decade or so later and I sometimes say "I find things. It's what I do." 3.Untangle things: string, thread, yarn, chain, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, cords, slinkys... if you can tangle it, I, for whatever reason, can untangle it. I maintain that all of this is because I have an inhuman amout of patience for tedium. Most tasks where people would havr given up long ago, I seem to just keep trying. Well except for.the finding stuff. I can't explain that... nor the jars. Lol hope.you got a kick out of that. If you did read to the end, well thanks man! ♡♡
It sounds like you have a sixth sense when it comes to finding stuff! 😅 And they always say patience is a virtue to that's good! It's one thing I completely lack! 😂😂 I bet it is tough suffering with a disability but the fact that you still try and make things work is important! Just because you struggle with certain things doesn't mean you can't kick someone's arse at other things who don't have a disability! 😁 And also Stuart got in touch on Twitter and said he's developing a new lid for the bottles, so hopefully it'll make opening them easier for people who do struggle! 😊😊
@@AnthonyCrammen that's so awesome! Yeah, I've been told I'm psychic. It's weird because I'm very science and logic based, but I have many times just known things I couldn't possibly have known. I also have a natural talent for cold reading. I give people eerily accurate Tarot card readings too.
I use the Stuart Semple paints and they are lovely. I use a little bit of Vaseline or lip balm around the mouth of the jar and it makes it much easier to get the cap off and on. This works on tube paint too.
Ah that's a good tip! Stuart got in touch on Twitter and said he's developed a new top for the paints, so we shouldn't have that issue in the near future 😁😁
I've been trying to find a good review that included Amsterdam - thank you so much. Also, I appreciate your comparing Potion, which is kind of intriguing.
You are absolutely fabulous! First time viewer lifetime fan! I can't wait to use a few of these paints you reviewed. Keep up the amazing inspirational videos
Thank you very much, Anthony! These days I am restoring my hand as I haven't painted for ages - since I switched to photography in 1990s and began to shoot fashion for major glossy magazines. Recently I found my old set of White Nights watercolour and started experiments in fashion illustration. By the way, I am not a novice in figurative art: graduated from an art school and continued to study graphic design and drawing anatomy in university. Acrylic would be the next step to go. I wasn't sure if I needed it right now and if so, which brand to choose. After watching your video I went to Jackson's website and put together my virtual imaginable palette of Amsterdam Standard paints. The easiest way of doing that was placing colours in the basket and analysing the palette later. The bare minimum I needed cost around £80. I looked at the basket, then again... and again... and pressed Checkout... I didn't mean to buy the paints initially - just to think of the right colours. Anthony, if art shops owed you a pint after each deal because of your videos, you could open a pub. Thank you!
As a full time artist I can say that quality in materials matters. Fine art is expensive and expecting people to pay money when not using top of the line paint is unacceptable. I enjoyed this review, in my opinion, liquitex heavy body is close to the top in the realm of plastics. If you want the most beautiful, rich and thick paint with highest pigment load, it’s going to be oil paint.
Yes, i agree i use only highest quality canva and paint acrylic paint, liquitex is good but golden is a little bit better, the quality of pigments they use is mayby the best aviable, and they put the maximum in the tube, the binder they is highest quality too
It’s a good trick though isn’t it? Imagine the rage of clients when their million dollar paintings completely disintegrate in 100 years. Of course, by that time, you’ll be safe and secure in shady oaks cemetery.
Thank you for another brill video. Core I can see what you mean in your latest video about people’s comments. People do take their paints really seriously lol. I won’t mention my £1 shop paints as people might have heart failure lol. Thank you for being you and making my days brighter and more cheery xxx
Ah no problem Shelby! 😊 Haha I know right?! Oh they'll have your life if you have the nerve to use £1 paints 🤣🤣 Aslong as it gets the job done then that's all that matters! 😁😁
Just finished watching your video. I do have to say I actually enjoyed it. At first I was like hummmm I don’t know about this but then I found myself and my wife laughing at some of your comments. Very entertaining. So from one artist to another I’m gonna share a tip what I do with my caps drying to the tubes or bottles. ( heard you mention you don’t like it when the cap dries on the bottle.)When I open a new tube for the first time I simply smear some Vaseline around the threads of tube. Bam!!!!……problem solved. No more trouble opening up the paints
Brilliant as always.... informative and fun! You should be a presenter on TV.... you're better than a lot of them. I might even try out the 2 paints that came first and second!
It’s really hard to have a complete test- like what were the light fastness and how do the colors hold up over time. I do appreciate what you did and it was really interesting. There are also a lot of good comments from the people that saw the video👍😊
First impression the Windsor Newton one looked velvety. I kinda ooo'd at that one. The pricey one. But if the colour is different I guess that's why. I really want to try those Culture Hustle ones one day! All of them!!!
I've always used the cheapest acrylic paint I could find, such as; Folk Art, DecoArt, Americana. These are all crafting acrylic paints. My husband, just recently, put his foot down and bought me a box of Arteza paint. I tried them out and, to me, they seem as thick and rubbery as oil paint. I think I'll stick to my $.50 bottles.
I just LOVE your video. Besides having great material, your presentation is enjoyable, funny and natural. Thanks for doing the work so I didn’t have to.
Thank you so much for doing this video because as an Artist you can't always get to test out all the paint for cost reasons it's been a big help- If you were ever doing another paint test, it would be even more helpful if you were to use the same colour for all the makes- such as cobalt blue or another classic colour which is used in all the makes, to see a bigger comparrison all the best - thank you again for the video! :)
I’ve been using Amsterdam and W&N standard series for Dutch pours ala Rinske Douna and have just this week tried them for the first time on a standard acrylic painting. They seem a middle of the road quality for a beginner like myself and I’m happy with them at the mo. TFS all the testing and making it enjoyable! New subbie.
Just getting back into painting and have really been wracking my brain trying to figure out what paints to invest in because this is the first time I'm actually taking painting seriously as it's just been a side hobby for me but I literally cannot wait to get my Culture Hustle/Stuart Semple paints! This video was extremely helpful!
I enjoyed your video. Entertaining and fairly biased, but I'm not judging, it was fun. I have never used nor heard of some of your brands but that is most likely because I'm in the states. To be honest I love Golden paints. I use their Heavy body line, Fluid acrylic line, Golden Open and I really dig their Gel mediums for those times you want a really really heavy body paint for textured pieces. I've used Liquitex Heavy body Acrylic paints too. And some of their colors are awesome - Iridescent colors: Gold, Bronze, Pearl, Silver are super. But then more standard colors in the Heavy Body line: Burnt and Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Blues, Reds and Greens the texture is inconsistent and are often out of the tube like cottage cheese. Very hard to paint with, gooey and will not blend. So bad that I gave them away to another painter and advised them to contact Liquitex and see if they would exchange for new paints. I just didn't want to fuss with them anymore. Now, same brand different level Liquitex Basic Acrylic paints (less expensive and bigger tubes) are thinner and have slightly less pigment but I think they behave better than their supposedly better counterparts. I use their Titanium white and Buff fairly exclusively. Just more bang for the buck. Ohh and I do really love Liquitex mediums, just awesome products. I have Winsor Newton Professional for a few colors, Cerulean blue and Paynes Gray are lovely but for the price.... its a teeny tiny tube. But if you need the color and mixology is not your strong point, you do what you need to do. Now a new brand that I'm trying out is abstract innovative acrylic (they have all lower case) by Sennelier, a 120ml or 4oz bag (yes different, its a bag not a tube or bottle) was way less expensive for Yellows. The prices were all in the 6 - 7 dollar range on Amazon. I love Golden Cadmium Yellows, but the price point makes me pause - a long long pause. So I looked around and found Sennelier abstract. I am starting with them in a Cad Yellow medium hue and Cad Yellow deep hue. I also picked up a Paynes Gray (sold out with Golden, so Sennelier gets a shot), a Warm Gray (which looks like a color I'd use to paint an old wall with stones poking thru), Blue azure (a lovely light blue) and Orange Saturne (a red orange - I wanted Indian yellow and this was the closest I could get in stock). They are a heavy body paint that does (so far, I've only played with the yellows) keep brush strokes and covers nicely. Enjoyed your video and have subscribed for more entertainment!
I just typed: the best red acrylic paint ...search and voila! You got a new subscriber :) Great video, entertaining, fun to watch, yet informative, you made me laugh at 1am morning, so I scared my husband..:) Well, going to buy the Amsterodam standard :)
Great fun watching this. Your presentation is refreshingly different and very entertaining. Well done! However, technically it was a good bit off! The best way to demonstrate transparency and even coverage is to paint a thick black line (for example), allow to dry then layer the reds on top. Also, applying acrylic paint straight from the tube (and diluted) onto unprepped paper didn't help at all. A base coat of gesso is more suited to acrylics and would give true results regarding ease and 'smoothness' of application. Then there's things like light-fastness, single pigment or mixed, additives, fillers, etc, to consider - all the important stuff that matters when it comes to the quality and pricing of each product. In all, it would have been fairer to call it 'my fave most opaque (red) acrylic paint' or something like that. That would have got you 'off the hook' so to speak, lol! Anyway, please accept this as constructive criticism. I still enjoyed the vid!
The Amsterdam Expert Is the real deal for the masters of the world. The colors stay very good for the long times with U.V. Light. Only the best is good inoff. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I love the brand Liquitex Basics Studio,s. The paint is so smooth,colourfull,it blends well whit other colours, it applies very well on canvas and watercolour paper and you don,t have to use allot of paint to get a good coverage. Its my favoriete paint brand.
Tysm for making this review. I use the liquidex one and I always have this problem with it, i thought it was just my technique but after seeing this video I noticed it was the paint itself😭😭😭. Not only that it’s very expensive for 6 bottles. I probably shud just use the Amsterdam one instead.
I have used the raygun paint and put a little clingfilm over the top before screwing the lid back on! that has helped a lot with being tight etc! hope that helps :)
Thanks for the tip Lilly! I got in touch with Stuart who owns Culture Hustle and he said that he was going to be making changes to the lids because of the issue, so hopefully they'll be a little easier in the future! 😊
@@AnthonyCrammen thinking about getting the paints = hanging your nose over the paints! I have a £10 voucher from culture hustle, so might treat myself with that, plus a birthday coming up!
Cool vid, made me chuckle!!! Another factor which I understand affects the price is colour-shift when drying. In theory it can be a danger that the cheaper paints darken more when they dry.
Transparency/opacity is not a fair measure of quality. Some colors/hues/pigments are meant to be sheer/Transparent. So even the most highest quality of paint ever made, may be translucent, depending upon the pigment used. Just a quick note just in case anyone is happening upon this video late, as I have ❤ ❤❤❤ no hate at all...just a quick comment to add that feels relevant.
some colours are MEANT to be transparent. Those are glazing colours, some of them are called 'lake'. They are also used for subtler tints in mixes. I would suggest testing the same red for every brand. That can be tricky due to way companies sell the same colour under different names. For pro paints you get a pigment number on the tube, and that's a fairly reliable guide to colour. But, cheap colours are usually a blend of various pigments or dyes (often called 'hue'), not a single pigment like the pro paints. Hues are more likely, I am guessing, to go muddy in mixes, or have weird tinting qualites. Cheap colours are essential for learners and students though
Thank you for that. I have used Jackson's paints for ages and now that I am painting more abstracts, am finding the quality just not to my liking at all. It is dry, chalky, some colours better than others. I have also used Golden and occasionally System 3, none of them very nice. Not buying any more of these. So your tests were really helpful to me. I'm going to try Amsterdam and hope to find better performance.
Cute video! I’ve only watched the first portion, but can’t wait to hear your verdict. I will say right off the bat, I agree with what some other people have said- you really should attempt to gauge lightfastness to some extent because that’s one of the biggest factors that separates student grade from professional grade. Also, a big point I think is that you probably should’ve compared pigment to pigment- ie. Tested the exact same color in each paint. Testing all reds is good for example, but you probably should’ve done all the *same* red so you get a better idea of the varying levels of pigmentation. Viscosity may have some impact as well. In professional grade paints, there shouldn’t be much difference in a given line between their soft body vs. heavy body in a certain pigment for example, but I would imagine it could be a factor in less expensive paints where pigmentation is more inconsistent overall.
Okay, I hate to comment on my own comment, but yeah, in watching more of the video... you really need to compare pigment to pigment. I’m certainly not an expert in pigments or in the production side of paints, but I’ve always heard that different pigments (even in the same color groups) vary in natural levels of opacity or how they interact with light. Just because one is more translucent than another, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a lower quality. It could be somewhat due to the nature of the pigment(s) involved. It makes it harder to use a side by side comparison of different colors as a determination of quality. Awesome video man! I can’t wait to try the Ara paint and that other one you really like. I don’t think I’ve seen them for sale anywhere here before.
Thank you so much for being “cheap” good to see that money is not everything it makes it hard when everyone wants the most expensive pint and you so abstract which need loads of paint makes me scared to start up again. So thank you for this ! 🤗
Very interesting, I’m not familiar with the culture hustle or what ever it is called 😂 and I might try them out. I switched from oil to acrylic a little while ago and I’ve been using the more expensive Windsor and Newton which is quite nice. I hope you have a project in mind involving lots of red paint now lol x
Hi Anthony! 😊 I liked the 4th one on your colour chart, don’t know which one it was 🤷♀️ I love your videos that much I will even watch your paint dry 😄❤️xx
This is very helpful. I’ve been surprised to find so few paint comparisons and swatching for acrylic than the endless encyclopaedia for watercolours. I’ve watched so many videos like that, I was wryly amused by “important stuff, acrylic paint!” I’ve been asked to make a big painting and my acrylics are old student ones so I’m suddenly deep-diving to buy something decent. Just a shame I’m allergic to the stuff so out comes the mask 🤦🏻♀️ good to know when one smells strongly, I can avoid that. I’ve seen people rave about those pricier brands, but I think they’re cheaper in America maybe. I like Jackson’s a lot, their watercolour is good, Winsor and Newton, and Talens too. The cheaper ones here that weren’t as good were all the student range. Jackson’s does a professional one too which is fairly cheap.
Maybe they are sometimes overprized, but the expensive paints have more quality lasting pigments that don't change as mucg over time. The cheap studio paints can often turn more yellowish or grey. Opaque is nice but some colors are transparent for those who paint with transparent layers.
Lmao you look like a mad scientist, love it! I have tried several brands the (Academy acrylic, liquitex, galleria and Artist loft). The thicker paint has to be watered unless your looking for texture. With brands like Artist loft you may have to use more for complete coverage. I’m thinking you really have to be sure your using the whole tube/container, paint is freaking expensive!!! Thank you, I saw a couple new to me brands. Very helpful as always you’re amazing 🤩! Until next time 🤗🥰
I find the more expensive paints seem to be made to use a medium with them. In my experience they perform far better with a gel added to some of them, then a fluid medium as I paint, and layers of leveling gel between. Probably just my method, rather than the paint.
you can t compare paints like this. you pay that much money for golden because simply it is filled with perfectly carfted rare pigments which are quite lightfast and brilliant even their tints.
I wasn't in love with the Golden, it was quite nice with some water, just really expensive! Oh I'll have to have a look at those brands at some point! 😁😁
@@AnthonyCrammen Reeves is economical but can be quite transparent. I learnt a tip from superraedizzle that if you mix transparent paint with some clear gesso it makes it opaque. So I do that a lot.
Thanks for an interesting review, but would you consider to paint over a black line, so we can see the transparancy? And paint on a black background? The problem is, it seems, that this is where the paints really are different, and where expensive colors like Golden shines...
Great video. Really enjoyed it. Can tell you really enjoy your paint. Your prices are a little on the high side, e.g. you can buy Liquitex Heavy body paint from Jacksons 59ml for £12.30. Keep them coming xx
Thanks Anne. I used Jacksons for my prices but used their RRP to get the prices per 100ml so it might be a bit off and yeah you can of course get them cheaper if you hunt around, it would just take me ages to find the best price for every paint I used 😅😅
Pure cadmium pigments are one of the most expensive pigments, whatever brand you use. The cheaper brands would use a hue, but you can get get cheaper reds in the more expensive ranges eg, Napthol Red in the Liquitex range is half the price of the cadmium red. Hope that makes sense.
I just want to point out that in some places due to import costs your price comparisons can be upside down. In the United States Windsor & Newton is not inexpensive and Liquitex and Golden are not nearly as expensive as you found them to be. (Windsor & Newton Professional series, Liquitex and Golden all cost about the same here.) Many of the brands that you tested are not available here at all. I did a similar acrylic paint comparison myself this past summer with brands that are readily available where I live. I love the heavy saturation of the Golden heavy body acrylics and have found their quality to be most consistent from tube to tube. As a result, I use Golden heavy body paints exclusively at this point.
If I use acrylic I want to use them particular to their own characteristics and not as a substitute for what other mediums have, that is that the acrylic drys quick, are matt, flat, noncombative when using sharp lines and outlines, good covering power, for that i found liquitex soft body to be the best for that.
Golden IS a cheaper in the us, and i think it IS one of the best acrylic on the market, if you want to compare try the fluid ones instead of heavy body ones, you Can mix them to achive the desired consistency the flow will be better, and you will have incredible opacity if you choose the Real cadmium, the opacity depend on the pigment, the Real cadmium have the best red opacity, the pyrolles are not so far, especialy the light red pr255 from golden very opaque for a red, The quinacridon are more transparent but make very good glaze, and a thing golden use the highest quality and lightfast pigments and try to make the maximum in tube and Mill it into the finest paint, the application depend mostly on the viscosity you use canva and the brush also, in fact it is the combinaison of the three, if they are the highest quality like Rosemary and co brush, mastertoile canva, and have the right caracteristic, you Can have an extremly smooth application i work with golden and they are exceptional, i have compare with most brand tested here, having the same pigment Number and nearly the same color, there are no better some are close, the cheap like system 3, Amsterdam and other fine paint are worst, no comparison, More than this the golden website is clearly the best i've Seen, no silly marketing, but technical informations about product, virtual mixer, just paint newsletter acces, usefull demonstration video Many of things that the other don't tell, Some put in large "We make paint since 10000 years" but who care?! And finaly the customer service is very good, one of the best i've seen realy Ara, liquitex, w&n artist, is good to, they are other brand i want to test but only extra-fine paint, holbein, tri-art, matisse, structure, kroma, Stuart semple
not fair to compare rose madder, which is a semi transparent pant. I have Liquitex and Golden, *LOL* I've used amsterdam and hated it.. weak strength pigmentation. but to do an accurate comparative test, use the SAME COLOR in every paint company. pick a transparent, ( which I'm guessing you hate because it doesn't suit your style. ) But you have to check the pigment color index number.. Like Ultramarine blue is PB 28 try that in different brands..and wow you will really see the difference . The lower priced paints geneerally have less pigment in them and more "filler" though right off the top of my head I can't remember what the names of the filler are. I'm not a fan of Winsor Newton either. though I've used them more in watercolor.. they're fine. but acrylic.. no thank you. Happy Painting. you also might find that the cheaper paints will sometimes vary from the same color in different batches. That's what happened with an Amsterdam paint, I ran out, got another, and it was WAY different.
I couldn't buy the paints in exactly the same colour as some brands don't sell the same colours. I also did try to buy all paints that were opaque, but yeah that's why it's an unofficial official paint test, just a bit of fun and based on how I felt 🙂
@@AnthonyCrammen when I was introduced to the color pigment information, *L* I went through all my paints. I found that if left to my own devices.. I would gravitate to a specific color, and didn't realize, sad to say, this translated into all paint media, but threads too.*L* I love PV 19 and it has so many different names. it's dizzying. and since it's a quinacridone the nature of it has a wide range, of intensities and leans (warm or cool) . amazing what they can do with a chemical compound I flat out love color. glad you do too, you do make it entertaining. I didn't mean to come across sideways.. *L*
I get that! For me it was just a fun little paint test to see which 'red' acrylic paint I liked the most. I could of gone into pigment, lightfastness and all the other details but the video would be 2 hours long and take me days to make 😂😂
Yes. I felt Golden was a bit unfairly dinged for the high price chosing the most expensive, genuine Cadmium pigment. Their Pyrrole Red is my favourite and is a bit cheaper. Their Cadmium Red Hue and the Primary Magenta are considerably cheaper and would have made a better comparison. Reds in general are hard to compare. Loads of different pigments and pigment mixes, and the naming schemes different companies use are just a mess. And it doesn't help that the two historically most well known pigments, Rose Madder/Alizarin and Cadmium are not really suitable to modern paints. The first because it isn't that lightfast, and the second because it is toxic (and expensive). So for both you usually get a mix of several pigments that try to recreate either the properties OR the hue of the original one. Cadmium you can still get (expensive) but while it is very covering, it isn't a very nice mixer, tends to make muted mixes. For coverage pyrroles and various mixes are good (things labeled "primary whatever" are usually good for that), and for mixing the very transparent Quinacridones are the "cleanest".
@@DinksDinersArtbox Heheh - wrote my comment before reading this, and I was on the verge of mentioning PV 19 wrt best allround red mixer. Probably the best tool for trying to get those Alizarin properties. But Pyrrole Red, PR 254, has that extra redness and coverage to it.
Thanks for this, and as noted by others, technical features of paints do matter (pigment load, transparency) so you are sort of comparing apples and oranges (sorry reds and reds); in the end it's horses for courses. I liked that you compared same manufacturer for their two types of paints as much is made of the difference between so-called student and professional and this may be branding and and not pigment load: but there is as far as I know, no information on pigment load to compare paints directly on this basis. (psst, a commercial secret maybe). Obviously a lot of brands didn't get covered, such as DR Cryla which is very good paint. ARA is an interesting paint (developed by an art school) with high pigment load and fluid properties; I like how it glazes and breaks down in water -- pips most of the 'student' stuff. Good on you for this review!
Windsor and Newton was the only one I was familiar with here in Australia, but I don't think I've ever bought it. I usually get Chromacryl, it's a mid range paint. I can't bring myself to spend heaps (I'm cheap too).
This is a very fun review but you should really only compare the same pigment between brands. There is nothing about acrylic paint that says it should always be opaque; it's not gouache. Acrylic paint runs the whole gamut between super opaque paint like Cadmium Red and very transparent paint like Quinacridone Red. Thus it makes no sense to compare the opacity of paints across brands if you're using different pigments. There is pretty much always a little square indicator on the tube that marks the transparency of the paint: A full black square is rated opaque, a half black square is semi-opaque/semi-transparent, and an empty square is transparent.
Your deliberation bit was funny, then corny, then funny again. I hate that you actually made me laugh and stick around til the very end (usually i skip to the main parts of a review video). Great review, 9/10!
the reason winsor & newton galeria is so much cheaper than the professional series is because of the pigment used in each paint. professional uses a pure cadmium pigment (which is one of the most expensive pigments btw), as galeria uses "just" a synthetic one. so comparing the price doesn't make much sense. it is also kinda pointless to compare the color of paints that use entirely different pigments.
Amsterdam Expert series is the best you can get quality price-wise. Heavy body and meant to water down. The Ara cadmiums are also top-notch, be it more fluid than Amsterdam Expert.
I use system 3 scrylic paints. Its like painting with butter snd it mixes well with other colours.. and when you paint in layers it dont peel of the layer underneath it and it merges fantasically. Other paints turns to cement after freezing the left overs on pallet. But system 3 defrost and able to use. Try the Arteza paint thats challenging. It turns to cement when freezed in the freezer and not sble to use again. Takes of the under layer when you paint on it before it dries. And you cant paint realism with it. The pogments transparent. I painted 10 lauers before i got the pigment on a black background. Very fraustrating. Galeria paint is like the arteza paint. Golden is pigment beautiful and can dilute it with loafs of water and it still goves colour smooth just like system 3 acrylic. Its buttery and great to work with. Liquitex paints dries fast and cannot be worked on top to bring up under colour. But its vibrant. I love system 3 acrylic. Can paint water and plastic and skin realistically 😊😍
When I buy a new paint to try I get a white, blue, yellow and magenta, and a color or two that are specific for their brand. Some colors are meant to be transparent for glazing, and some are opaque, you need to know what the color is meant for before judging it
Nice review/s. We all enjoy paints lol just lovely! Price can vary due to if the paint is lightfast as well just fyi andcertainpigmentsaremoreexpensive than others. Have a great night
Your video is very helpful and also funny 😁👍 thank you for the effort and the upload. I do get confused with all those million brands out there to choose😀 Overall my favourite is Amsterdam Acrylics✌️
One important factor you did not mention, which I am afraid would cost additional dollars to determine, is variation of the consistency and color of each paint as new lots of paint are manufactured. To get great consistency may cause high additional $$$ which would make a paint more expensive per tube. As a painter, I want to know what to expect if I am going to buy the same paint type multiple times. Thoughts.
actually, can u plz tell me what is the quantity of Winsor and newton Galeria paints that u bought and reviewed in this video, am looking to buy this one, and hoping that u answer my question
