In an effort to provide customers with a broader range of colours that have been in use for hundreds of years and were considered essential to the working palettes of past masters, GOLDEN has added six new colours to its existing Historical Heavy Body Acrylic product line. As the pigments originally used to produce these colours were found to be unsafe or vulnerable to the effects of light and weather, they had not been offered in GOLDEN's line of pure pigment colours. Recognizing the popularity of these colours within some palettes, GOLDEN has recreated these in a safe, reliable form, meeting the conservation requirements of fine artists.

The Historical Heavy Body Acrylic line extension will feature the following six colours and will be available in 2 oz. tubes and 4 oz. through gallon sizes.

Aureolin Hue
Azurite Hue
Cobalt Violet Hue
Terre Verte Hue
Smalt Hue
Viridian Green Hue

There are also two Historical Colour sets available, offering artists the full experience of this new product line as a more cost-effective package. The 22 ml tube set will appeal to the artist who is curious about these colours and the 2 oz. tube set provides an excellent opportunity for artists to add this classic range of colour to their working palettes. The sets include Naples Yellow Hue, Indian Yellow Hue, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Prussian Blue Hue, Manganese Blue Hue, Sap Green Hue, Hookers Green Hue, and VanDyke Brown Hue. A tremendous amount of research was conducted in order to ensure GOLDEN Historical Colours shared the working properties of their predecessors. The professional expertise of art historians, museum curators and its own technicians was utilized during this process. Considerations for masstone, undertone and tint were included in the matching process in attempts to as closely match the overall colour qualities as possible. As a result, Contemporary artists can now explore the profoundly distinct qualities of historically significant colours while enjoying the advantages brought about by modern chemistry: lightfastness, safe use and permanence.

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