Acrylic Paint Brand Comparison of 8 brands
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Acrylic paint brand comparison video comparing eight different #acrylic brands to determine the best acrylic paint. 5 of which are single pigment colors and the additional 3 I just thought would be fun to add to have a larger selection to be reviewed. The brands are Liquitex Professionals Heavy Body Acrylic, Artist's Loft Professionals (High Viscosity Acrylics), Liquitex basics #acrylicpaint , Folkart craft paint, Utrecht Heavy Body, Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, Academy Acrylic (Grumbacher) and Royal & Langnickel. The single pigment color that we are reviewing is PB29 which is Ultramarine Blue.
This video is in no ways sponsored by any of the brands or the stores I purchased these paints from.
This is my first time painting with the Artist's Loft Professionals, Royal & Langnickel and Academy.
In this comparison video I will be looking at color as is, total coverage, detailed coverage, the ability for a paint to create and maintain a texture, tinting ability (done two ways), price, finished sheen and the difference in the paint tube name.
If you're like me I'm always curious how the different brands will do but sometimes it's hard to branch out from the ones I'm comfortable with. I have often been standing in an art isle (or online shopping) debating branching out but afraid to spend my money on a total dud! What if the paint sucks? How will it mix? What if it drys in a different sheen? What if it takes 6+ coats to cover another color and costs more but performs less?
I always enjoy making these videos as I'm not sure who will end up performing well and who wont. Had some surprising results in today's tests. Some brands I'll be using again and others will not be added to my painting tool box.
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The coverage of the FolkArt is amazing. It covered better than all the others imo
I was wondering when she talked about it comparing it to the others "girl what are you on about, it's so perfectly non streaky". That's one of my biggest pet peeves with acrylic paints, the lumpy uneven streaky some parts being translucent and other parts being opaque inconsistency. Besides, i'm glad the folk art was the one paint that was different than the rest in those regards because it's one of the few options i have when it comes to painting polymer clay because other paints they said tends to never dry perfectly on polymer clay.
I guess it depends on what you're painting but for polymer clay this is perfect for me.
FolkArt has an opacifier in it. The artist grade brands reflect the true nature of the pigment. Ultramarine blue is naturally transparent.
Folk art is not lightfast, and you can’t mix it.
@@EmmaSalisbury-wf6dihow would you go about getting an opaque and even background with ultramarine paint? I’d been trying to figure it out for days, I’ve added 20 layers of liquitex basics acrylic ultramarine paint, and it never dries even. Do you add another color or medium of some kind to it? As in my beginner perspective the folk art example looks like the cleanest and smoothest background compared to the rest.
I’m actually really impressed with the folk art the coverage on this video looks the best and no brush strokes 😯
It drys different but yeah if you are looking for an opaque paint, it’s a good option! It does dry with a different sheen but if that’s not a worry then I say give it a try 😊
@@RachelleByersArt 😀thank you for doing this its very helpful☺
The folkart covered better than all of them. It was the most opaque of all for the least price. I wouldn't dare spend more. For texture I'll just add it to modeling paste. Thanks for the review.
It looks like folkart has a brightener and zinc for coverage in it. Love it.
You can always add a glossy coat to folk art after it dries.
Probably has a tad of white in it.
It has taken me such a long time to find a really simple vid just comparing paint - shade to shade, brand to brand like this. I needed this to help me decide what to get since I am shopping online. Really excellent and incredibly helpful! Thank you!
These videos helped me when purchasing artist grade paints for my painting classes! Thank you so much, I ended up saving a little bit of money 🙏🏼✨
Glad I could help! Thanks so much for watching :) hope your painting classes are going well
I’m guessing that folk art blue used a lot of opacifier or titanium white to give it that one-coat coverage. Hobby paints for plastic miniatures are usually formulated in a similar way. Ultramarine is one of the few pigments that increases in saturation when mixed with white so it slightly benefits from this approach.
Having said that, there’s enough green in the tint of the Folkart colour to make me think it’s a phthalo blue.
@Nicholas Caldwell I always feel like when I have the craft paints in there it's like cheating. They almost always cover faster than the professional grade paints but that's really the purpose...to cover craft projects like ceramic figures or wood panels in as few of coats as possible (otherwise they wouldn't be so popular for craft projects).
Some other features I check for is how the paint does when thinned out to a wash, how it does for fine detail, and how much color shift there is between wet and dry with tints
This was SUPER helpful! I have been painting for less than two years, and never have used heavy body. Now that I have a wee bit of experience, and a few more dollars, it's time for new paint! I just subbed, and will be looking through your videos. Thank you so much for doing this! 🥰
This is one of the most informative videos I have seen on this. I'm so impressed with the way you done this with your chart and a different ways you've done the ultramarine blue. Awesome 👍👍👍👍
Thanks you so much for this comment @bobbyhaddock2242
I was feeling iffy about the folkart but this video helped me make up my mind, ill get it. I need the paint to be matte finish and water based because any other finish or base would react with polymer clay and never fully dry, but some pictures on the internet bugged me because i hate when paint is applied looking streaky, like some areas are translucent and other parts are more opaque. I'm used to the liqutex brand but i wanted to use something else since i think my liquitex wasn't the greatest for my polymer clay works. As soon as i saw the folkart look one consistent streak i was already sold. When it comes to polymer clay i don't have much acrylic paint options but based on what i saw this is it for me. I also like that it's not that thick right out of the bottle, i also hate when they're too thick because it makes the projects look too lumpy.
Besides, i don't mind that it's not as deep a blue next to the others, i can always find a way to richen it, besides how often will i need to make anything that blue? I'm looking to detail sculptures not painting the whole thing in thick paint.
Have you tried out the paint? How did it turn out?
@@RachelleByersArt Not yet on my to get list.
Exactly what I was looking for! Perfect comparison chart! Thank you so much.
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching @Jenna Santos
Thank you for these tests!! We all know how much effort it takes to make a chart, not to talk about making a video!!! Thank you again!!
Just a few thoughts...
One of Ultramarine paint's main property is being transparent! Using mostly for tinting/color mixing and not for it's coverage!
Testing it for coverage should be opposite than in your test: the less opaque, the best the paint is...
Also it would be helpful in my opinion to test their mixing power/property with colors that would show their bias: in this case with red or yellow. What purple/green they would produce, how greyed the new colors would be...
And just one more: high viscosity paint means high "flow"!! They are the opposite of heavy body so don't be surprised in the future if they will be runny! ;)
Thank you again and waiting for your future tests!!!
Thanks so much for watching and for your feedback.
Hello Rachelle Byers Art. I am going to try Winsor and Newton galaria acrylic paints. Liquitex acrylic basics paints are fantastic and i loved painting whit them but they are super expensive and i am still learning. I looked for a cheaper but same quality brand and Winsor and Newton came close to liquitex basics in my opinion and is cheaper. I love that you compare the diffrent acrylic painting brands whit eatch other. Keep on doing it please👋🏾👍🏾🖐🏾😁😊
Final entry. I finally reached Grumbacher Tech Dept. and talked at length about their paint. They confirmed they are using a newer formula that is only comprised of Hues in their acrylics. So no more single pigments like what I was using and no more cadmium paints. I was very disappointed of course since their paint is more costly then every other competitive paint. So I guess my budget paint will have to be liquitex basic from now on :( Nothing wrong with that of course but the higher pigment of the Grumbacher was an advantage. But now just a couple more layers and half the price of liquitex makes it a sweet deal. Fare thee well and have a nice day :)
Thank you - great test and comparisons!
Glad you liked it!
that utrecht ultramarine is just gorgeous, this was really helpful, thank you!
@maikhra thank you so much for watching and I'm so glad to hear that this was helpful!
Thank you for this video. It's interesting to me how similar the golden and Liquitex Professional seemed to perform. That is nice to know. I also enjoy to cap on Liquitex professional tubes better compared to Golden.
What paint grand would you recommend for abstract art for a beginner? i've recently gone to five below and bought a pack of paint to explore my creative side. I loved it and it was very therapeutic. Although its fun, i imagine myself evolving as i add more fuel to the new found passion. I know it's an investment but things are pretty tight at the moment and i'd just like to hear some input from you and the community. Thanks
I think it depends on your end goal for your abstract painting. What style do you plan to paint in?
your so lucky to be able to buy all these paints. Great way to use them . I love these comparisons.
What do y think of master touch paints?
I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised with masters touch paints!
Thanks doing this. So helpful when purchasing new colors!
Thanks so much for watching! Appreciate your support. Glad you found the video helpful 😊
Wonderful test....I appreciate your efforts.
Thank you!
I love watching these as a professional artist. As the best the three brands are ones I used for decades
Thank you! Really appreciate that
Folk Art is for decorative painting. It has more of a gouache consitency
Thank you! I was looking for this video!!
No Winsor and Newton? Aaah😩I would have love to seen if the Winsor and Newton galaria acrylic cobalt blue is has less or more pigment. Too bad😊 still very good learning video about diffrent brands of paints and there colours👍🏾🖐🏾😁👋🏾😊
Folk Art looks to be the best for my purposes! I want a smooth, flat surface.
OO-trekt. I was surprised at how well the folk art did. The colour is not that nice; I think there's a fair bit of chalk in there. But the coverage was excellent.
I would have liked to see you include the two Australian brands Jo Sonya's and Mattisse, not because I am a big supporter of Australian things, but because they really are good brands. Jo Sonya's, which used to be a rather poor craft brand, is now very good. Some people having been raving about it on RUclips. Matisse has some cons - the Structure heavy body are in lead tubes, which is a big no-no for acrylics (and they have fiddly caps - YAY for your comment on caps), but I genuinely think their ultramarine is the most beautiful around.
Hi @Thomas Kent. I have added both of those to my list and will try to incorporate them into upcoming comparison videos. I did just do a video that included a comparison of Atelier. ruclips.net/video/GIy-2Myi2wI/видео.html . Here's the link in the event you'd like to check that out.
Folkart craft paint looks the best to me ..yes not that deep blue but looks amazing on video
The folk art preformed better than I thought it would!
I am dying to find more acrylic paints with a matte finish, and after seeing Folk Art's capabilities, I think I have found my baby. ❤
So glad to hear this helped!
Thank you for referring me to this link, very helpful.🦋🌷🧸
I noticed the thumbnail in my watch next list near the top of the list so would have seen it soon anyway, that it I watched it last night and forgot to comment. 😁.
You’re welcome 😊 Thanks so much for watching!
Great video! Definitely will try some of these brands that you have shown. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
These are great comparisons, I hope you’ll do more! Right now I’m tying myself in knots looking at pigment info for galleria and system 3, trying to work out which will be best for my way of working. It’s great to see you demonstrate. My biggest problem is not knowing which are the best match complimentaries for my choices of primary, as I often like the op art approach of using them side by side to make magic happen. Frustratingly I have worked all that out by experience with a set of W&N watercolours, but find that the galleria acrylics don’t always use the same pigments. 😥 Do you enjoy experimenting that way?
I actually do enjoy experimenting this way. It's definitely been eye opening on a a few of the brands that I would've thought would perform better than they have over the course of my testing. Thanks so much for watching @Jo Jojo
well, Ultramarine is not an opaque pigment. Perhaps the goal is not to give perfect coverage. Perhaps you want to glaze and actually have it be transparent. If you used an opaque pigment, I could see comparing the coverage. Its not totally useless, you learn alot between brands, I love the value of Utrecht oil paints and they seem to be "The best value of the good ones"
That’s why I do these. I think when people pick paints they need to understand what their goal is…do you want your paint to be opaque, are you doing washes, do you plan to mix them with other colors? Knowing that is, IMO, the first step to figuring out what you need
I thoroughly enjoy your comparison videos. They are always excellent. However as a Grumbacher fanboy I am hypersensitive about their product because of it's excellent value. So when you said it didn't have any technical data about it's composition i blew a fuse. Right where your finger pointed at the item name on either side of that in small print are the specs. It is a PB29 only paint with a light fastness of 1. It should have been in the category on the left. Although I'm sure the results would be very similar, the sub conscious thought that it was in a "Cheap" paint category may have caused a bias. As you mentioned numerous times your surprise at it's result. In your other videos it has also placed well. I would never expect it to compare with Golden, Utrechts or Liquidtex Pro, but it paints very well and for price and availability it's a bargain. It's also made in U.S.A. and has a high pigment content for a student grade paint. It's similar to Winsor and Newton galeria but a little better :). I could go on and on about it since the paint brushes in my opinion are far more critical to actual painting then the paint. I do paint with Princeton Catalyst Polytips so its not that I'm cheap heh heh...Just a Grumbacher fanboy. Sorry for the rant. keep up the good work! Update No1...It looks like I was wrong about my Grumbacher paint. It apears that they have a new formula and It's in the plastic tubes. All the plastic tubes are Hues. I've contacted Grumbacher about it three times and am still waiting on a reply as to wether the aluminum tubes that I use are still made in single pigments and still available. If i ever get a response i will make another update. P.S. I do actually use Golden acrylics in primarys in warm and cool colors but only sparingly on special projects, because they are way too expensive for casual painting.
Yay! Blue! A color I can see correctly! 😁 Thanks for the overview!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
After all those coats and the first 5 still aren’t covered says a lot. At least from this view
Agreed!
So great that you do these 😊. It’s such an awesome and helpful idea and very well executed too!! Also they’re hilarious too when you talk about the ones you aren’t impressed with, like the folk art “there’s something in this one..” 🤣
I’m a very transparent person so if I don’t like something I’ll say something 😆😊I suppose that would the a downside if I were ever sponsored because I won’t change my opinion just because someone’s paying me. Like I have no problem saying I wouldn’t waste $9 on the Artist’s Loft Professionals when I had better results with the other “cheaper” brands.
Thanks for your continued support!
@@RachelleByersArt yeah that makes sense, I never thought about that, it would be a downside, haha it would be great if they came to a compromise and let you come out with your own series or line or whatever it’s called and then it not be released until it got your approval, imagine that! 😊, anyway of course I’m happy to support! Keep making good content!
@CenturianEagle I should’ve clarified, it might be downside for the sponsor wanting to sponsor me 😆 I guess I’d have to make it abundantly clear that I’m not going to suggest something I don’t genuinely like! I also can’t fathom having my own line in some thing but that would be amazing!! maybe someday 😊
@@RachelleByersArt haha yeah. And yes, maybe someday!! 😊
Round one went to folk art to me. Basically complete coverage right off the bat. I don’t love thin paint but the others seemed much thinner for wayyy more $
Definitely way more dollars!
Very interesting video! Could someone tell me what PB stands for???
I believe it stands for Pigment Blue
@@RachelleByersArt Ohhhh thank you very much!!!
@@cristymercader3422 you’re welcome!
Great test. I have just ordered a set of 24 Acrylic paints by Royal Talens (Amsterdam Standard) so I will test them out. I have used Royal & Langnickel watercolors and gouache paints and they are pretty good value for money actually. Happy painting :-)
Happy painting to you as well!
Isn't the brush contaminated
Thank you for trying the palette knife with each paint. Also, did you happen to notice the lightfast rating
Thanks @lorrane as far as the lightfast rating I will look that up and get back to you. Are you wanting to know for are particular one or for all of them?
That folk art feels like it’s an acrylic gouache
I never thought of it that way but that’s a good point
Thanks a lot for your hard work in making this video!
Thank you, I really appreciate that! There’s a lot of time and planning that go into these comparison videos.
I would encourage you to try out Nova Color Paints. Not only is the price competitive, it is 100% made in USA, it is high end professional paint, and the pigment load is higher than paints I have tried at 3X the price. The only downside, but helps with the price, it is only available directly from the manufacturer.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will definitely have to try Nova @James Simms
I am going for the liquitex basics acrylic paint. I worked whit liquitex basics before and i fall in love whit them. I am now testing arteza acrylic paint and i can tell you i am going back to liquitex basics acrylic paint. They are better than arteza and they don,t have a plastic finish whitch arteza paint has.
May I ask which Arteza acrylic paints you tried out? I see they have a few different types and I've been curious about their performance
Hello Rachelle Byers Art. I have the acrylic 60 paint set
Very useful video for beginner keep sharing your knowledge with us stay connected 👍
Thank you!
The folk art one looks like it has a little white in it hence it covered your little image more than the others
Yeah that’s the downside of craft paint, not knowing what all is adding in there for additional colors
Good rewiew, you actualy do the best paint rewiew i have Seen on youtube
Not surprise golden is one of the very best acrylic you Can find, when you test golden all other are behind most of the time
Wow, thank you! I really appreciate that!
@@RachelleByersArt
some compare paint that not use the same pigment and Say the one is better, but it's not fair in your test you compare mostly pb29 and color that have the same Shade of pb29, the covering test is not bad, i think there lot improvement for making better test, but it is very instructive
i try to find how i Can exactly pick the same amount of color for compare paint, not find a solution yet, i have some Idea to make paint brand rewiew to,
speak about class of pigments : quinacridone, phtalocyanine, pyrole, cadmium ect...
I think The craft paint use opacifier, and add phtalocyanine blue pb15, to boost the color this class of pigments have very high tinting power more than pb29
Thank you. I had done the black circle test on other paint brand comparison videos that were a lot lighter so it made more sense but when I was creating this video I wasn’t sure how I wanted to address that since this is a much darker color (than the yellow and the red I had done previously) ended up deciding to do it still to see what happened 🤷🏻♀️
@@RachelleByersArt the black circle is good with this pigment to, but it work best with light color, Trying other type of pigments will be grood, i use more than 30 monopigment paint, mostly golden
Folk art is a craft paint as opposed to an arti artists paint
That is correct
No no no the lids on liquitex are awful! I had many tubes ruined because the lid was so stuck, and i had nothing to grip when unscrewing the cap...completely awful design... I also can't stand Golden as well...ive had so many caps break in half! They need better quality control!! The best lids are the flip caps like on liquitex basics!!!!
The folk art probably has an opacifier like titanium white in it
Agreed
I am 11 days old. I need best paint. I bought hobby lobby brand and wn galeria student. I need/want better
Did you get the masters touch through hobby lobby?
@@RachelleByersArt yes I did on the frequent forty percent sales. You have to look at every brush and cherry pick.
@RachelleByersArt they are having a close out seventy five percent off right now on art things as they are not going to carry winsor and newton or grumbacher. The sales been going on now a month so call first and ask if any is left
It seems you refuse to admit folk art won when it came to coverage of the black and details. Why is that? I know it wasn't as dark as you were wanting. However, I would add a tiny bit of black to darken it the desired color.
Because ultramarine isn't made to be opaque. There has to be a bit of filler or white in it hence it's chalkyness. It's not good unless you enjoy cracking and poor mixing. I've gone the craft paint route years ago and it's not worth it. Just trying to help.
Also why is Folkart 10 euro here when it’s barely a dollar over there ! 🥺🥺🥺
Most likely to cover the costs of shipping, import and handling. Sometimes you pay more for shipping+import than the actual product itself, which is a pain indeed.
Edit: plus, if it's in physical stores, most likely they will raise the price a bit too so they can profit and pay worker salary from them too (I work as a cashier, that's basically how it works with imported goods. For US people it's gonna be the same when buying our EU products)
I agree @TheWhiteWolf there are products I want to try that are EU products that cost me easily triple what they "should" cost
@MeanLittleDutchGirl I truly feel your pain! There are products I really want to try that are easily triple the price here because they are a EU product.
I’m team folk art by a long shot. The rest just don’t impress at all
I think it depends on what your painting intentions are
Its so cute to here americans say Dutch things 😂 the g just always sounds so wrong 😂😂
Thanks @MeanLittleDutchGirl for calling me cute ;) sorry to have mispronounced it.