I have been painting with acrylics for 50 years and started with Liquitex and still use them today. With acrylic paints it really depends on your painting style and what you want to achieve. I use Liquitex along with their medium and mix a very thin layer of paint and build up the surface using this technique. You really have to experiment with paints of any medium to see how it feels and what you can achieve. It's all part of the process of being an artist.

I would rather get a set of golden paints all different iridescent colors than diamonds lol

As a relative beginner I have loved using Golden and it is what my family knows to buy for Christmas, birthday and any other occasions. I have tried Liquitex too and am pretty happy with them and continue to experiment.

I think I really love golden acrylics cause one of my favorite colors are cobalt blue hue, purple red and hansa yellow medium cause I actually love the blending on the colors 🤩

As a professional I use Golden, but mostly I use Golden Open which are a different type of slow drying acrylics that sometimes dries even slower than oils in some mixes. I occasionally mix in other acrylics, liquitex, system3 or amsterdam, but only when I need to use large ammounts or experiment, which I don't do so much anymore. Nice video

Liquitex are better used unmixed or with the Liquitex gel medium. However they do need building up, to bring out their full body. I paint realism on rough surfaces (i.e stone, bone) and i`ll almost always start with Liquitex and then move to Golden or Rembrandt as the detail gets finer, because they allow me to mix them enough to achieve the fluidity that i want, without sacrificing tone and brightness.

I'm definitely a liquitex girl, but this was a great video! 😃 It also helped me understand why I prefer liquitex to golden. I loved hearing why you prefer golden! Thanks for the video!

Hi Saena. Very fine video showdown. Thank you for sharing.👍

Helped me decide which paints to try next. Currently using Blick Studio and a bit of Liquitex, but I think I'll be venturing to Golden.

Great review! Lots of information, answered all of my questions. Thanks for posting.

great review, its so true how it all comes down to how we use the paint and what our styles are. Both brands have pros and cons. I used to paint with Liquitex's heavy and soft body all the time. After a long time away from acrylic painting, I got into Golden's and I love them, I also like to mix in Liquitex's acrylic gouache, they are a niece combo between the two

Short, to the point, filled with lots of good information and examples. excellent video!

Thank you. This explains a lot. I love your attentive audience behind you. That black one is REALLY paying attention.

Thank you, I have just been deciding which brand to buy a lot of colours from, so this was really helpful and showing the pros and cons of both in relation to your style :)

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing your experienced thoughts.

Wonderfully done, Thank You!

Fantastic video. Thanks for posting!

Great review and comparison. Thanks for sharing!

I am so glad I found your video!! I was using liquitex heavy body and found sometimes they didn't "play nice" when blending and I thought it was me!! I have been slowly buying Golden due to the price difference! Thank you so very much!!💕

Thank you so much for this great video! I've been looking for acrylic paint reviews and this is the best one I found so far!! :)

Opening the tube for reuse, golden terrible, Liquitex fantastic

Great video. Great explanations. Thank you.

Excellent video! C!ear and to the point! Bravura presentation!! No wasted time! Highly informative!

Thanks this is great info..just bough the Golden as your info was super !

Haha Thought I’d save a few dollars after a decade away from acrylics I was going to try the Liquitex. After this video, I returned them and went back to Golden heavy body. I loved them then, i love them now!

It is nice to find out that Liquitex would be the better choice for me and my style in lots of texture. I do do some work that requires a more blendable product and it is nice to know that Golden is the better choice for that style. Thanks for the video.

Liquitex all seem to have quite a satin finish where as golden seems to range a lot from almost matt to super gloss. They work well together I use both brands depending on what I need. The Pyrrole orange of liquitex is opaque where as the Golden one is semi transparent

Great review! I prefer Golden too as they feel more like oils.

This was very helpful. I only need 2 colors, since I only use acrylic to create under paintings for my oil paintings.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you very much for this video. I wanted to do a "test" painting on a stretched linen canvas (the less-expensive Dick Blck brand of canvas). My purpose is to test the Golden brand of isolation coat and then the Winsor & Newton brands of acrylic varnish on this painting to get some experience with varnishing. To do the test painting itself I used 2 different colors of Liquitex Basics and I did not like how the paint applies to linen. I'm just a baby in experience terms, I've never painted before. But still I feel a dislike of Liquitex and I wish I had tried Golden acrylic colors or some other brand. Seeing your video helps me learn and understand differences between paint brands.

This was very helpful. Thank you. 🙂

Great info. Very pleasant to listen to. 👍 ( you would be surprised how vocal tone helps with videos, not everyone should do them) Straight to the point, which I love!

This video was very helpful. I think I’m going to try using golden

This was so helpful. Thanks so much!

Great review! Thanks

Thanks for this, I have used both and Golden don't go bad over the years but Liquitex does@

Dang! This turned out great! I love watching these! Going to sub to see more!

This was very helpful

Good comparison. Thanks.

Thank you for specifying why liquitex is good. I do abstract art so will try them out as i need bold colors

Very helpful thank you

Well Done! Thank you.

Very informative video! : )

Very helpful! Thanks! I've always wondered. My style is more like yours. I like using Winsor & Newton Professional as well

thanks you so muchhhhhhhh !!!

I have Chromacryl that is so thick it comes in jars only and has 4 basic mediums to add . It looks more like oils. I also have Matisse colours that are very highly pigmented and cheaper than Golden. I use Matisse flow acrylics as if they were egg tempera but without messing with egg yolks and you have more options if you want a longer dry time with some retarder. I also use Atelier because of the variation in open times.They are not as highly pigmented as Matisse. I also have specific colours that are only available in any particular brand. That's it , 3 aussie brands in the main ,from downunder.Cheers

I was just working with my new Liquitex Basics and noticed they didn't want to mix or blend. They seemed to have pigment reactions. Now I feel more confident in my observations. I will go with Golden on y next class supply list.

That’s because you’re supposed to use liquitex own - fluid airbrush medium/flow aid rather then water to thin there line of paints out (heavy body) - then Golden who can be thinner with water . Also liquitex have there soft body line, as well as there new gouache line to rectify the problem.

Heavier pigment load usually works better economically, despite higher price. I like a combination of painting methods, so tinting strength matters when thinning with a lot of water, or when adding texture / moulding/ impasto medium. I include glazing medium though, in very watery mixtures, because I read that the binding ability of the paint suffers with a lot of water

don't thin acrylics with just water, it breaks down the binder it loses it's ability to hold to the surface. use airbrush medium instead. skim-milk consistency, watery but has binder and will get same results. absorbent surfaces with mechanical adhesives like uncoated canvas or paper are the exception.

my art professor made us buy golden with like 10 colors. now I'm broke. mine were $23 CAD but thank God for student discounts

I expected to see two paintings at the end to show how each paint actually looked.

Thank you for this very informative video! I’ve spent weeks trying to decide which acrylic paint to get. I miss using oil paint and want something as close to that as I can get without being too expensive :( golden looks way better in this video, you’re helping me finally decide! :)

Do you worry much about the Plus side (1 to 3 plus signs)? If I spray my painting afterwards, will this help?

Love it and subbed! I do a similar kind of thing!

Thanks for the comparison. Have you ever used Arteza acrylics? I've recently switched to those from the Walmart brand and am thrilled but wonder how those compared to the two you did in this video.

Both companies, and their respective products, are excellent! Top shelf! Golden's customer service far surpasses Liquitex from my experience...Liquitex didn't even come close....

Golden have a fantastic customer service, impressed, the color is heavily pigmented, the web site is a gold mine, i use all the different consistency except the high loads, the high flow black in molotow marker is exceptionnal, love the single pigment paint witch use high performance pigments, they have replace the cap of the tube, and sell a tool for open easely all the tubes, happy to find a company that make a very high quality products rather than make proctuct only for profit, the only real cons is the very high Price un France, for the rest a reference i think, like the philosphy of the company too

I started out using Liquitex but was frustrated with color mixing. I switched to Golden heavy body acrylics due to the recommendation of a friend who is a professional artist and could not be happier. The small difference in price is not a benefit if you can't the results that you want from a particular product.

I’m so glad I saw your video. If I were to purchase Golden, how do I know if it’s a mixable paint?

Do you have a video showing different student grade acrylic paint? I would like to study acrylic painting. Thank you.

Can i use this GOLDEN ACYLIC paint inside of my AQUARIUM on my 3D printed decorations.. and use it as a protective sealer as well..

I just bought Yellows (Lemon or counterparts that are similarly opaque) from Mont Marte, Pebeo (Studio), Amsterdam (Standard), Liquitex (basics), and Golden (HB). When it comes to pigment load, price per mL, and body, Mont Marte's Dimension Acrylic > Lemon Yellow wins for me. It outperformed everything except for Golden heavy-bodied acrylics and Liquitex HB. Dimension acrylics from Mont Marte retains their shape and therefore, preserve your brush strokes. It is worth a try. The only downside is that it's too glossy.

Will you do more professional acrylic brands such as; winsor and newton professional acrylic, matisse structure acrylics, lascaux artist acrylics, holbein heavy body acrylic, maimeri brera acrylic, chroma atelier interactive acrylics, old Holland new masters acrylic, m Graham acrylics, schmincke primacryl acrylic, daler rowney cryla, av vallejo artists acrylic.

I'd be interested in a review of M. Graham acrylics.

Have you tired Liquitex or Golden? If not what is your favorite brand of acrylic paint?

I have had problems with Liquitex paints getting too thick to get out of the tube. They were not old. I especially had problems with Ultramarine Blue, but have had this issue with many of their colors. I contacted them and they said they would send some replacements, but they never did. So I no longer ever buy Liquitex heavy body paints. The soft body ones have been fine. I usually just stick with Golden as I've never had any problems with them and their pigment load is so high.

Hi i have a set of 6 heavy body golden Tubes but i cant get an brown. Is it even possible to to it with phthalo blue, magenta and benzimidazolone yellow? Everytime it looks either to blue or green. And shading with these thic colors is also very difficult do you have a tipp?

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I jumped into canvas for a change of pace and I’m trying acrylic fir the first time so I have NO reference as to quality and characteristics. My problem is that the acrylic I’m using isn’t pertinent enough. My dry colors are smeared away by new applications of fresh paint. I can only brush over a dry color for two seconds before it starts to smear off the canvas. The brand is Sax off amazon. I’m a long time artist of many sorts especially enamel paint so I want to know if it’s me or the paint. For example, is liquitex basics pertinent once it dries?

Golden Cadmium yellow at Blick is 11.39 2 oz. Cad yel is the only Cad I feel I need for its opacity. For me, part of the fun and adventure of painting is experimentation with paints. I have my cheap favorites and some better quality favorites. Golden is good quality no doubt, but I don't feel I have to have that for everything. I also like Utrecht. If I do a painting that fails, its not the paint.

Hi. How do mix Golden heavy body paint for fluid art, do you use floetrol?

I had the same thing whit liquitex heavy body. I switched to liquitex basics and i was suprised. All the problems you,ve mentiont whit the liquitexheavy body disapeared😊i use only liquitex basics acrylic paint now. I don,t wana use any other brand of paint or the heavy body paint of liquitex

Golden May be more expensive but with their high pigment load you use less and the tubes last longer.

Hey! Great video thank you quick question is golden paints all colors safe to use i cant find any information about this :( i have cystic fibrosis so i have to watch out for my breathing while using paints thank you

your monark is juste beautifull

GOLDEN ALL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please do a Winsor Newton pro vs Golden video 🙏

Great discussion! I would just ditch the music -- very distracting. And really, you're interesting enough and don't need filler.

Wouldn't Golden Heavy Body do well with the palette knife?

Great tutorial Madam. So according to you Liquitex Acrylic heavy body is good for abstract painting right ? Thank you

Not sure if you'll see this ... but is there any major difference between student vs pro Titanium White ... is it worth paying more for pro white?

I read somewhere that a certain artist didn't like Liquitex because of the type of tube it uses. Air gets sucked into it after squeezing out a dollop onto your palette, which makes the paint in the tube lose the consistency it had when the paint was new. In your experience is this a concern?

I didn't like liquitex too the first time i tried them but i changed my mind . I'm not a expert but for me they are both good . The only difference i find it is that some colors from liquitex have a strange formulation that i try to avoid these specific one (Some violets are very ugly ) but they are also cheaper than golden and other brand than so far so good . The brands i use the most are Golden and Winsor and Newton . But I think that the Artist acrylics by W&N are even higher quality than golden because they have 0 color shift , they stay wet a little longer and some colors like Yellow Ochre are by far more pigmented and intense than golden and all the competitor . The only bad side of W&N artist acrylics is that they are harder to find than golden they have less color and they make only heavy body acrylics . I think if you try W&N Artist Acrylics you will like them even more than golden . They are perfect for your painting style . Nice Review btw 😊

Can.you give exemples for the non mixing liquitex? You could have titled the vidéo why I don't like liquitex. Are you financed by golden??

Do either of these brands have an odor?

It’s interesting that Liquitex makes no claim to being archive-able. I wonder if it would fade with time.

which one is better, im not interested in transparency and blending at all, im looking for flawless opacity

I love your painting of the Monarch Butterfly. When I was growing up in NZ, there were many of them (they migrate). I haven't seen any in Melbourne. I have a friend who's an important Australian artist tho' his style is not really appreciated here (I will link his site). He was using Matisse, but after I introduced him to Golden, he immediately switched to Golden. One factor in this was that he can get the Golden in pots. I think you should try Holbein, a Japanese brand founded in 1900. The acrylics are not quite so common in the USA but Blick has them. They do have lead tubes but, which I know you don't like (the Matisse structure tubes are tin). I thought Holbein were the best acrylics I have ever tried. A lot of artists have a down on Jo Sonya's as they are marketed as a craft paint, are mostly mixtures, and are very cheap - and also very sticky. They are all flow and go on very smoothly. But when I show ppls my swatches, and ask them to pick out the nicest colours, it's Jo Sonya's all the way. They don't pick a single paint from another brand. You can get them from their warehouse in CA very cheaply. I also tried Old Holland acrylics and was NOT IMPRESSED. www.michaelberry.com.au

which is more glossy

I wonder if there is a way to combine acrylic paint with my oil pastel paintings ...off to michaels i guess 😂

Thanks for the useful review, but your music was so loud I had trouble hearing what you were saying.

Never seen that Golden brand here in Europe. Liquitex is well known though.

Liquitex heavy body paints cant be used with water especially not with that much, only with medium!

Hey, maybe you know this by now but maybe you don’t so Imma just say it. you are comparing golden which I am pretty sure is a soft body with liquitex line HEAVY BODY you should have bought liquitex basics or liquitex soft body for this comparison. Have you tried (W&N) GALERIA or & What do you think about it? I am looking for a nice gold and a nice lavender/bright purple. Never realized how different all gold-paints are until I decided to do a bunch of paintings with a lot of gold. Do you recommend any particular gold?

I like liquitex

Never heard of Golden until today -- I don't think it's available where I live.

Golden Open paints are slow drying like oil.

I*ve see Golden as high as 22$ + / 2oz. Tube,but well woth it!(use a coupon).