These are perfect for sketchbooks bc your pages don’t stick together. You can use pan pastels, oil pastels, color pencils, just about any media over it. I love the jars and they are much cheaper than golden’s goflat
Sometime commenter FROM USA Michigan. So glad you demo Flashe paint. I especially appreciate that you described the feel of it. I'm one of those who finds the feel important.
Hi, thanks for this vieo. I use flashe vinyl paints and have nearly the full color range. For me it works much better than acrylic gouache. Dries less fast so you can work longer. The best thing: you can put colored pencil or pastels or regular gouache on top of it. Perfect medium for mixed media artists. ...bonus cheaper than gouache or acrylic gouache. Blending medium for watercolor/gouache (Winsor & Newton) works too. Greetings from Germany
Lurker from Canada here! Sandi Hester, who has a great channel called Bits of an Artist's Life, used to use these paints several years ago as she favours a matte appearance. She has moved on to Liquitex soft body and I'm not sure why she abandoned the Flashe paints.
I first came across Flashe paints in a book about interior decorative painting, wall treatments and murals. This was about 40 years ago. The author extolled its virtues, stressing the matte finish and its washability.
Oh interesting, I definitely see how Flashe could be very useful in interior decorative painting. It can be so crisp, flat, and clean! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Hi from Australia…From their Web page- Flashe Vinyl needs no introduction. Launched in 1954, it was the Europe’s first synthetic paint. This premier range features 76 exceptionally vibrant tones in one iconic palette. As versatile as it is revered, Flashe can be used on almost any surface for a consistent matt finish. Made with high quality, single pigments wherever possible, Flashe is designed for mixing. Thanks for introducing these interesting paints Prof! 👍🏻
You were playing with a staple of Roy Lichtenstein's studio. When we were making prints with him it was important to match our print colors to his canvas colors. To illustrate this, Roy painted his favorite colors on art paper. He cut them in half and sent us the colors with a ring to hold them. Some of the colors were mixes he made to achieve specific colors so we named our inks accordingly so we had New Light Green (kind of a bright pistachio green) and Roy Dull Blue (a heavily pigmented ultramarine).
Thanks for sharing your insights into this collaboration, that is so cool! And also very thoughtful and smart of Roy to send you the actual colors painted on paper for you to go off of. What were some of the other color names? -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
I'm sorry, I don't know how to post photos because I'm old. I was a master printer at Gemini G.E.L from 1985 to 1995. I was soon put in charge of maintaining the inks as manufacturers were ( and still are) going out of business. The only cans I could find are R.L. Dull Red, R.L. Dull Blue, and R.L. New Light Green. R.L. stood for Roy Lichtenstein, the Dull refers to a dulling agent the shop manager wanted included (but it never had any, he just used too much varnish to print litho)
I used Flash Vinyl paints for my 2D design class, which was basically a color theory class. I think they're the reason I got into gouache. I like the texture.
Never heard of it but very interested in viewing this video. Love working with mixing different mediums because of using pastels. Sounds like this would be a marriage.🤔
Never heard of this, so was curious to see what it's like. It's fun watching you test it out in various ways, just as I was thinking "I wonder what would happen if ..." Not a paint for me, but now I know, and enjoyed myself.
@@artprof The most fun part for me was seeing how the paint laid down when you were doing the colour swatches, and your description of how it felt on your brush! That part of them I'd like, velvety, smooth, and the satisfying way they self-level. Speaking of brushes, what is the brand of that filbert you were using? Looked like badger hair, which I love most, but the ones I have don't have enough bristles and this one looks like it's got plenty. Thanks for your videos!
@@artprof Hey, asking again because it's important to me. Can you please let me know the maker of the filbert you used in this demo, if it's badger, and what size it is?
Oh great. I've been meaning to try out Flashe. Really like Lefranc Bourgeois for their very affordable, very decent acrylic paint. Not quite as good as W&N professional of course, but great for large scale pieces. Also, rarely get to watch live, but I'm generally a lurker and am German living in Spain.
Thank you so much for this demo. Perfect timing. Been looking for permanent matt, opaque colours for a while so I'm gonna order some Flashe paints right now! The fact that you can use coloured pencil on them sold it for me. Acrylic gouache is no good for that. I have loads of standard acrylics so I could use them for the underpainting, colour placement etc, then Flashe on top. Then transparent acrylic for glazing if required. OOOH - can't wait! 😛 (Scotland)
I think Flashe is said to be the first synthetic vinyl or polymer paint, before acrylics. Also said to had somewhat succeeded Casein as a flat, non-reflective, one coat paint for stage design flats.
My go to preference is still Golden SoFlat, but I do have a few colours in Flashe and after some research the orange neon is one of the most stable, so I do like that one in particular especially for mixing with white. Have you heard of tried Pebeo Mat Pub? There pretty good too.
I live in the UK and when I did Open Studios last year a couple came to visit, she was from the US and he a Brit and he was a very successful artist in the US, where they lived a long time. I did look him up at the time and he sells worldwide, though I confess I have forgotten his name. Flashe is the only paint he uses and he raved about it, trying to persuade me to swap to it. His paintings were beautiful and suited the flat paint. Still haven’t gotten around to trying them, so I might give them a go as normal acrylics drive me nuts ha, ha.
Hi. From nortthern Michigan. I tune in for news on latest cosmetcs like these sundry colored 💋 lipsticks. Certainly enliivens dark mundane wintry moods😂 in the far north hemisphere.
I can discuss every Walking Dead episode. My favorite episodes were Nebraska in Season 2 and The Grove in Season 4 (Look at the flowers Lizzie). And also every episode with Rick in it :D
Hi! I’m in California and have heard of flashe but haven’t tried it. Can you use a painting medium or conditioner to make the paint last? If so, then you could mix colors in a small plastic cup with a popsicles stick. This was a great video!
I'm not sure, but if you want the paint to last you can get air tight containers that are plastic, I know that Lauryn does that to save her mixtures. -Prof Lieu
This is becoming very time-consuming for me😂😂😂 I totally LOST it when he gave that heart wrenching speech to convince the Governor to not take over the prison. 😁 -Prof Lieu
Flashe is great for sketchbook work as well as mixed media because with the flat finish you don't have to protect pages from sticking together. They don't! Ps. I love m Graham gouache. I have added other brands bit my m Graham is my favorite. Also works in dry gouache palette
Oh wow, I hadn't thought of using Flashe in my sketchbook, that's so smart! I hate it when my pages stick together from the acrylic. 😅 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
I have never tried flashe. I have so much gouache, acrylic gouache, professional acrylic and pro watercolors. I can’t invest in more. It’s interesting for me. I’m from Washington.
You can use water to thin out gouache! The cool thing about watercolor & gouache is that you can use them both in the same piece fairly easily-- it makes for a cool effect :D - Mia, Art Prof Staff
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These are perfect for sketchbooks bc your pages don’t stick together. You can use pan pastels, oil pastels, color pencils, just about any media over it. I love the jars and they are much cheaper than golden’s goflat
Great suggestion!!! -Prof Lieu
I love Flashe! I paint mostly landscapes and it's the perfect mix between acrylic and gouache for me!
It was a pleasure seeing you paint 🙏😍👌
Tysm! -Prof Lieu
Sometime commenter FROM USA Michigan.
So glad you demo Flashe paint. I especially appreciate that you described the feel of it. I'm one of those who finds the feel important.
To me the "feel" of the brush is everything! Hard to describe to others though in a concrete way tho😆 -Prof Lieu
Hi, thanks for this vieo. I use flashe vinyl paints and have nearly the full color range. For me it works much better than acrylic gouache. Dries less fast so you can work longer. The best thing: you can put colored pencil or pastels or regular gouache on top of it. Perfect medium for mixed media artists. ...bonus cheaper than gouache or acrylic gouache. Blending medium for watercolor/gouache (Winsor & Newton) works too. Greetings from Germany
Ah yeah, I always thought Flashe was expensive, but compared to gouache, it's a bargain! 😂 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Lurker from Canada here! Sandi Hester, who has a great channel called Bits of an Artist's Life, used to use these paints several years ago as she favours a matte appearance. She has moved on to Liquitex soft body and I'm not sure why she abandoned the Flashe paints.
she struggled to get hold of it. thought she said they discontinued it
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I first came across Flashe paints in a book about interior decorative painting, wall treatments and murals. This was about 40 years ago. The author extolled its virtues, stressing the matte finish and its washability.
Oh interesting, I definitely see how Flashe could be very useful in interior decorative painting. It can be so crisp, flat, and clean! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
I like that oft overlooked word extolled.
Hi from Australia…From their Web page- Flashe Vinyl needs no introduction. Launched in 1954, it was the Europe’s first synthetic paint. This premier range features 76 exceptionally vibrant tones in one iconic palette.
As versatile as it is revered, Flashe can be used on almost any surface for a consistent matt finish. Made with high quality, single pigments wherever possible, Flashe is designed for mixing.
Thanks for introducing these interesting paints Prof! 👍🏻
Thank YOU for this insightful comment! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Never heard of it, no less used it. I love your printing stuff.
You were playing with a staple of Roy Lichtenstein's studio. When we were making prints with him it was important to match our print colors to his canvas colors. To illustrate this, Roy painted his favorite colors on art paper. He cut them in half and sent us the colors with a ring to hold them. Some of the colors were mixes he made to achieve specific colors so we named our inks accordingly so we had New Light Green (kind of a bright pistachio green) and Roy Dull Blue (a heavily pigmented ultramarine).
Thanks for sharing your insights into this collaboration, that is so cool! And also very thoughtful and smart of Roy to send you the actual colors painted on paper for you to go off of. What were some of the other color names? -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
I'm sorry, I don't know how to post photos because I'm old. I was a master printer at Gemini G.E.L from 1985 to 1995. I was soon put in charge of maintaining the inks as manufacturers were ( and still are) going out of business. The only cans I could find are R.L. Dull Red, R.L. Dull Blue, and R.L. New Light Green. R.L. stood for Roy Lichtenstein, the Dull refers to a dulling agent the shop manager wanted included (but it never had any, he just used too much varnish to print litho)
The bright pistachio green sounds amazing, is there a picture of it?
I used Flash Vinyl paints for my 2D design class, which was basically a color theory class. I think they're the reason I got into gouache. I like the texture.
Very cool! Maybe if we used flashe instead of gouache I would have liked it more...😆 -Prof Lieu
Never heard of it but very interested in viewing this video. Love working with mixing different mediums because of using pastels. Sounds like this would be a marriage.🤔
I’ve been researching Flashe but haven’t bought them yet. Very excited to give them a try
Never heard of this, so was curious to see what it's like. It's fun watching you test it out in various ways, just as I was thinking "I wonder what would happen if ..." Not a paint for me, but now I know, and enjoyed myself.
Yes, often I learn about new materials that I know I won't use, but it's still fun to watch other people do it! -Prof Lieu
@@artprof The most fun part for me was seeing how the paint laid down when you were doing the colour swatches, and your description of how it felt on your brush! That part of them I'd like, velvety, smooth, and the satisfying way they self-level.
Speaking of brushes, what is the brand of that filbert you were using? Looked like badger hair, which I love most, but the ones I have don't have enough bristles and this one looks like it's got plenty. Thanks for your videos!
@@artprof Hey, asking again because it's important to me. Can you please let me know the maker of the filbert you used in this demo, if it's badger, and what size it is?
Rhenish filberts! I don't think it's a badger brush? I think it's an 8? I could be wrong though, my brushes are all stained and old hahah! -Prof Lieu
love flashe paints. blick recently lowered there prices of the jar so finally got to try it. its so smooth and doesn't dry as fast as acryla gouache.
Oh that's awesome! It's so rare to see prices lowered these days, thanks for the heads up! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
I may try flashe. Looks exciting.
Let us know what you think! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Oh great. I've been meaning to try out Flashe. Really like Lefranc Bourgeois for their very affordable, very decent acrylic paint. Not quite as good as W&N professional of course, but great for large scale pieces.
Also, rarely get to watch live, but I'm generally a lurker and am German living in Spain.
Great to meet you, thanks for tuning in! ❤️ -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Thank you so much for this demo. Perfect timing. Been looking for permanent matt, opaque colours for a while so I'm gonna order some Flashe paints right now! The fact that you can use coloured pencil on them sold it for me. Acrylic gouache is no good for that.
I have loads of standard acrylics so I could use them for the underpainting, colour placement etc, then Flashe on top. Then transparent acrylic for glazing if required.
OOOH - can't wait! 😛 (Scotland)
Have fun!!!! -Prof Lieu
I painted the exterior of my house with a vinyl paint. It went on like a dream. 😊 Mukilteo, Wa. USA
What brand? How is it weathering? I’m south of you.
I think Flashe is said to be the first synthetic vinyl or polymer paint, before acrylics. Also said to had somewhat succeeded Casein as a flat, non-reflective, one coat paint for stage design flats.
Just ordered some today to give them a try!
Hooray! Let us know what you think! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
maybe it would be useful and an underpainting or just the roughing in with acrylic on top.
I love Flashe paint. I like to mix it in layers with acrylic and gouache etc mixed media. It dries Matt, 😊which is nice sometimes.
I used their normal mat acrylics and love them because they are super mat. since I do not like to paint with shiny acrylics anymore.
My go to preference is still Golden SoFlat, but I do have a few colours in Flashe and after some research the orange neon is one of the most stable, so I do like that one in particular especially for mixing with white. Have you heard of tried Pebeo Mat Pub? There pretty good too.
Ooh might be worth a try! Thanks for letting us know :) - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I live in the UK and when I did Open Studios last year a couple came to visit, she was from the US and he a Brit and he was a very successful artist in the US, where they lived a long time. I did look him up at the time and he sells worldwide, though I confess I have forgotten his name. Flashe is the only paint he uses and he raved about it, trying to persuade me to swap to it. His paintings were beautiful and suited the flat paint. Still haven’t gotten around to trying them, so I might give them a go as normal acrylics drive me nuts ha, ha.
Huh, I would have loved to see his work! I'm so curious by how different artists handle Flashe, since it's so matte. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
@@artprof I wish I could remember his name, he lives locally so if I see him I will ask him.
Hi. From nortthern Michigan. I tune in for news on latest cosmetcs like these sundry colored 💋 lipsticks. Certainly enliivens dark mundane wintry moods😂 in the far north hemisphere.
I can discuss every Walking Dead episode. My favorite episodes were Nebraska in Season 2 and The Grove in Season 4 (Look at the flowers Lizzie). And also every episode with Rick in it :D
Have you watched an episode and skimmed through it just to watch the Rick parts? 🤣 (not me doing that) -Prof Lieu
@artprof Nope, but I watch Rick compilation videos on RUclips all the time to get my Rick fix 😂
@@anonofish576 omg don't give me another rabbit hole of Rick Grimes..😂 -Prof Lieu
@@artprof You should really consider watching a few 😂❤️
Hi! I’m in California and have heard of flashe but haven’t tried it. Can you use a painting medium or conditioner to make the paint last? If so, then you could mix colors in a small plastic cup with a popsicles stick. This was a great video!
I'm not sure, but if you want the paint to last you can get air tight containers that are plastic, I know that Lauryn does that to save her mixtures. -Prof Lieu
Rick Grimes is the love of my life, never goes a day without looking at him
This is becoming very time-consuming for me😂😂😂
I totally LOST it when he gave that heart wrenching speech to convince the Governor to not take over the prison. 😁 -Prof Lieu
@@artprof ❤️ Enjoy Prof
Flashe is great for sketchbook work as well as mixed media because with the flat finish you don't have to protect pages from sticking together. They don't!
Ps. I love m Graham gouache. I have added other brands bit my m Graham is my favorite. Also works in dry gouache palette
Oh wow, I hadn't thought of using Flashe in my sketchbook, that's so smart! I hate it when my pages stick together from the acrylic. 😅 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Never heard of it. Dolores from Nashville Tn.
I have never tried flashe. I have so much gouache, acrylic gouache, professional acrylic and pro watercolors. I can’t invest in more. It’s interesting for me. I’m from Washington.
Yes, it's so easy to become a pack rat of supplies, they're all so tempting! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
i'm wondering how this compares to acryl gouache .. seems like same type of thing .. thx for this demo 😁👍norakag
Flashe has a really buttery silky texture- for lack of a better word, it feels more fatty than acryl gouache. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
@@artprof thanks for the response .. sometimes i feel so overwhelmed and spoiled for choice lol but it's a nice " problem" to have 😁😁 Norakag
Amazon has it and there is a green and one like a rose
Mix the black with yellow to get verde gris
What do you use to thin out gouache? I love the brush strokes using watercolor, but I am interested in trying new mediums.
You can use water to thin out gouache! The cool thing about watercolor & gouache is that you can use them both in the same piece fairly easily-- it makes for a cool effect :D - Mia, Art Prof Staff
@@artprof Thank you!
Pam From California
they come in 16 oz jars also.
you got some great greens but it's all I can do to not bring out my pencils and start drawing on the monitor.
I was viewing your video after the fact and so I stopped in the middle of it and bought the paint off Amazon.hahahaha
Black mixed with any primary
I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead - the original series anyway. Daryl Dixon is my fave...
Does it need to be shook up first?
I don't think so, it came out fine out of the tube! -Prof Lieu
I’ve seen it on Jackson’s
Also found in Blick and Artist Craftsman stores.😊
Mix black with all to see what happens. Supposed to be green
never heard of it.
Colorado USof A