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New GOLDEN Tint & Glaze Poster: On Sale Now

Golden Artist Colors recently introduced the Tint & Glaze Poster, an impressive color tool for every painter that features a full range of GOLDEN Acrylic Colors, each showing five levels of tints mixed with white and four glazes mixed with medium. With thousands of hours of paint research all on one page and almost one thousand swatches of color, the poster has valuable comparative information about colors as they transform through tint and glaze mixing.

"We're pleased to be able to offer this kind of resource to artists," said Golden Artist Colors' Creative Director, Christopher Farrell. "We used a special six-color printing process, elevating the richness of the printed spectrum in the orange, red and green range, allowing this printed version to get closer to the real color than we had imagined a printed color chart could ever get."

The GOLDEN Lab wanted a systematic representation of paints drawn out to consistent tints and glazes. This exploration started with research on a few dozen colors conducted for the "Subtleties of Color" article in Just Paint 21. A few dozen colors turned into several dozen and finally one hundred colors, each mixed precisely to create five tints from 10:1 to 1:10 paint to white ratio and four glazes from 1:1 to 1:50 paint to medium ratio. That's 900 paint mixtures that were then drawn out to a precise thickness on test cards. From there, spectrophotometer readings were taken over white, and for glazes, masstone black. Now the 900 mixtures plus the original 100 colors become 1,500 unique color readings.

Those readings have been translated into a 26" tall by 39" wide poster that includes the color names in English, French, German and Spanish. It also includes the pigment ID numbers and ASTM lightfastness ratings, along with the range of tints and glazes that were created. Also added were the Neutral Gray masstones over white and black, making this a complete reference of the standard colors available in GOLDEN Heavy Body colors.

Get your poster now from the GOLDEN Web site http://www.goldenpaints.com/products/promotional/tintAndGlazePoster or check with your local art supply retailer to see if they are stocking the poster, which will save you shipping and handling costs.

About Golden Artist Colors,Inc.

Located in its 100,000-square-foot facility in rural Columbus, N.Y., GOLDEN's 147 employees are committed to producing materials that encourage exploration of form and concept, while assuring archival integrity. GOLDEN takes pride in the fact that its Custom Lab is the only facility of its kind, dedicated to designing products to the specifications of individual artists. Developing paints to meet exacting criteria is the specialty of GOLDEN's custom operations. As a natural progression from its initiatives in the fine arts market, GOLDEN established Paintworks, the commercial paint and coatings division of Golden Artist Colors, Inc. It provides commercial and OEM clients with paint making technology, toll manufacturing and integrated solutions. GOLDEN Paintworks can design a full solution to a coatings project based on its expertise designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling high performance paints and coatings. The company also assists customers with complex production, packaging nd regulatory issues. The company is not only committed to its customers and local community, but to its employee owners as well. In April 2010, GOLDEN employees became the majority owners of the company and in 2008, the company became a 100% Tobacco Free Campus for staff and visitors. In May 2010, Golden Artist Colors purchased Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors. For more information about Golden Artist Colors, Inc. and its comprehensive product offering, call
1-800-959-6543 or visit the company's Web site at www.goldenpaints.com. For more information about Williamsburg, go to www.williamsburgoils.com.