PROFESSIONAL HEAVY BODY ACRYLIC PAINT

398 VIRIDIAN HUE PERMANENT

This is a deep, cold blue-green multi-pigment hue. Highly opaque, it recreates the true viridian pigment patented by Guignet of Paris in 1859 and celebrated for its excellent permanence. Viridian was used by 20th-century masters, including Van Gogh, Kandinsky, and Klee.

• Pigment name: PBr7 Natural Iron Oxide, PG7 Phthalocyanine Green
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Series: 1A
• Opacity: Opaque
• Colour code: 398
• Thick, Rich; Highly Pigmented with Satin finish; Flexible when dry
• Includes 2-oz / 59ml tube of acrylic paint
• Intermixable with Liquitex Professional Acrylic Paint Colours and Mediums.
• Conforms to ASTM D4236; Safe for educational use

Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint has a thick consistency, suitable for traditional art techniques using brushes or knives, as well as experimental, mixed media, collage, and printmaking applications. Impasto applications retain crisp brush strokes and knife marks. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time. High pigment load produces rich, brilliant, permanent colour.

• Exceptionally smooth, thick buttery consistency
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Great for thick/impasto applications and painting techniques
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

USES AND TECHNIQUES

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional Acrylic Painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental Acrylic Painting
• Collage and Mixed Media
• Acrylic Printmaking: Screen Printing, Mono Prints, Block Prints