Mark Golden on Paint

Just finished up the last day of a three day symposium at the Tate called; Modern Paint Uncovered (MPU). What a wonderful collaboration between the conservation scientists, practicing conservators and a few other related fields, including curators, educators, material manufacturers. Tom Learner and all the folks at The Tate, put on an incredible event… thank […]

We have been visiting back and forth between Buffalo State Department of Conservation and Golden Artists Colors for many years now. Each time James Hamm and students come to visit it is a wonderful occasion to share what we are both doing. This last week James was joined by his colleagues Judy Walsh and Greg […]

The amount of information we don’t know about your art materials is unfortunately a great deal more than you might think. We are still trying to understand the mechanics of surfaces and grounds. Still trying to understand the effects of oils ove…

I went to Robert V., our Blog guru, the other day to tell him that with the special secret code on the blog site to deter spammers, I couldn’t tell if the code wanted me to put in a letter ‘O’ or a number ‘0’. And I was constantly picking the wrong…

I have shared so often with you folks. Artists almost always assume that if you’re having some unexpected problem with the material it was your fault. More often it is simply not having the right material or information to achieve what you know you wa…

The experimental products have been an outgrowth of the work of the Custom Lab. These products have either been materials that have been requested by our customers or they have been generated internally by lab staff as they investigate new materials for…

The band inside the shop we lovingly refer to as the “Masstonesâ€?. Others in the shop call us the Undertones or No Tones. You know it doesn’t matter as long as you’re making music. It truly is a wonderful thing to make music to…

A customer reading the recent blog and commentary shared in a private email that she enjoys the Golden Acrylics but wonders why the paints are not less expensive. I was thankful for her sensitivity to the question not to pose it in the blog, but I thoug…

We just finished a weekend of Board meetings for the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. It is a currently a private, non-profit 501C-3 foundation, that began in 1997 as a tribute to my parents and a way to provide another resource to the commun…

What makes an artists paint high or low quality?

I used to have a very narrow view of this question. The answer was simply a matter of very few qualities with little room for nuance. It was basically how much pigment was in the system and is the…