• See the full range of colors plus five tints and four glazes
• Vivid six-color process printing (fires up the orange, red and green)
• BIG 26" tall by 39" wide, on quality coated 100 lb stock with 94 brightness
• Pigment ID and Lightfastness ratings for all colors
• Totally new! First edition quantities are limited!

With thousands of hours of paint research all on one page, the GOLDEN Tint & Glaze Poster has valuable comparative information about colors as they transform through tint and glaze mixing. It's a comprehensive reference that every painter can use.

The GOLDEN Lab wanted a systematic representation of paints drawn out to consistent tints (mixtures with Titanium White) and glazes (mixtures with clear medium). 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 we took spectrophotometer readings over white, and for the glazes and masstone black. Now the 900 mixtures, plus the original 100 colors, become 1500 unique color readings.

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

To overcome the limitations of regular four-color process printing, we found a special six-color process that elevates the richness of the printed spectrum in the orange and green range. While it's impossible to duplicate the unique color quality of a Cobalt Blue or a Cadmium Orange without using those pigments, this printed version gets closer than we had imagined a printed color chart could ever get. We'll be the first to admit it's not perfect, but we think this tool will be extremely helpful to artists everywhere.

The first edition is only available direct from the GOLDEN factory in New Berlin for $9.95 plus shipping and handling (sales tax in NY and CA). This offer is good while supplies last.