Golden Open Acrylic - Sap Green Hue, 5 oz. Tube

Golden Open Acrylics offer an escape from the fast drying characteristics of traditional acrylic paint, allowing artists to explore a wider range of techniques such as portraiture and landscape painting that rely on softening, shading, glazing, and creating fine detail. Open Acrylics resist skinning while remaining wet on the palette or canvas for an extended period, allowing them to be used for en plein air, monoprinting, and screenprinting applications.

Open Acrylics may be blended with other Golden Acrylic Colors, Mediums and Gels, with the open time of the resulting mixtures being proportionately reduced. To maintain the maximum working time of Golden Open Acrylics, use Golden Open Acrylic Mediums and Thinner.

Sap Green Hue - When creating this Sap Green Hue, Golden wanted to make sure that the color was distinctly separate from another color blend, Jenkins Green. This was achieved by blending Transparent Red Iron Oxide, Nickel Azo Yellow, Pthtalo Green Yellow Shade and adding a tiny amount of Carbon Black to get a deep yellow green. While the masstone is somewhat cool and dark, the undertone is warm and vibrant.

Sap Green was originally made of the small berries from any shrub in the Buckthorn family, of which there are a handful of varieties. The Buckthorn is native to the near east, but has been cultivated in Europe since Roman times. The ripe berries could be used to make a pink dye, while the unripe berries produce a yellow juice or sap used to dye cloth and to make a yellow pigment called Sap Green.