Materials I use

GOLDEN – world’s leading brand for professional acrylic paints and mediums

From the beginning of my art career I have been experimenting a lot with different brands of paints and mediums. It was a long journey and I tried quite a few brands I could pick up at my local art store. At the beggining my choices of art materials were quite price sensitive since budget was limited. But I soon realised that the biggest difference in quality of finished artwork is actual quality of the paint and mediums. So early in my creative process I started investing into highest quality paint I could find. I ran across Golden paints, which are quite pricey, but their quality can’t be compared to anything else I used before. Budget limitation was compensated with cheaper brushes, easel and other smaller artist accessories.

GOLDEN Artist Colors history goes back to 1933 when Sam Golden joined his uncle Leonard Bocour and they started producing oil colors for artists. At the time artists such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and others would go to the shop to get paint. In all these years GOLDEN Artist Colors built a worldwide reputation which is still on the highest level. After I tried GOLDEN, world’s leading brand for professional acrylic paints and mediums, I never looked back. They are priced much higher, but the quality is top notch! The main difference between cheaper hobby acrylic paints and professional grade paints is the actual amount of pigment used in the paint. Pigments are the expensive part of any artist paint. Pigments influence on color saturation, longetivity and durability of paint surface in long term. So the more pigment in the paint, the longer paintings will last without fading. You can read detailed explanation on Wikipedia website.