What Is The Best Acrylic Paint? (Liquitex, Culture Hustle, Golden, Ara, Amsterdam & More)

Does anyone use any of these paints? 🤔🤔

This is very helpful. I’ve been surprised to find so few paint comparisons and swatching for acrylic than the endless encyclopaedia for watercolours. I’ve watched so many videos like that, I was wryly amused by “important stuff, acrylic paint!”

I’ve been asked to make a big painting and my acrylics are old student ones so I’m suddenly deep-diving to buy something decent. Just a shame I’m allergic to the stuff so out comes the mask 🤦🏻‍♀️ good to know when one smells strongly, I can avoid that.

I’ve seen people rave about those pricier brands, but I think they’re cheaper in America maybe. I like Jackson’s a lot, their watercolour is good, Winsor and Newton, and Talens too. The cheaper ones here that weren’t as good were all the student range. Jackson’s does a professional one too which is fairly cheap.

Fantastic and very entertaining video. Thank you.

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I didnt try them all but i used extensively Golden , liquitex, daler rowney and winsor and newton . My favorite paint is "winsor and newton artist" and the one i use more often. Its just the right consistency and really smooth but a lil expensive.

The coverage power is influenced by the quantity and the kind of pigments inside the paint btw . Comparing a cadmium red (hue) from a cheap line to a real cadmium from a expensive one is pointless. Same if you compare a naphtol red with a real cadmium from the same line they are different colors ....

The video is interesting tho. I wanna try amsterdam expert now 😢. You should check also daler and rowney "cryla" is their artist grade line . System 3 is a "student" grade paint , so use less and cheaper pigments than "Cryla" . System 3 Is on average far more transparent and less smooth. In your country should be cheaper and a good deal for the money .

Good work tho interesting video 😊

Thanks for letting us know about the price and quality

Unlike some of the people in this comment section who come off as acrylic snob know-it-all's , I really appreciated this review. As a person who is not quite as informed on the ingredients in paint, what medium to mix with which type of paint, whether it's supposed to "transparent,""its pigment load," or it's "light fastness." But rather, someone who just wants to go buy some decent paint that is pigmented right out of the bottle and that, hopefully, remains pigmented when it dries down. I don't yet care about all of the other stuff. I just want to try my hand at it for now and if after I try it out and if decide I like it, then I will take the time to learn all of the other things. But for now, all I wanted to know was which paint is good. I kind of assumed that was the point of the video though. I mean, you didn't say one way or the other but I feel like if you were going to judge a paint based on how it worked when used "properly" then you would have said or did, just that. However, since you didn't, I guess comon sense deduced that, that was not your intent. Especially given that, you know, the title is "What is the Best Acrylic Paint?" and not "What is the BEST Acrylic Paint for Professional Artists?" But what do I know. 🤭😉🤣

I have been using Golden almost exclusively since my Art Restoration days back in the 2000's. Its applications work well in the area of ceramic repair, and I even use them on my fantasy miniatures for gaming. Now I use them on my paintings which are done on black canvas. I would try the Raygun but i really don't like the look of the bottle. looks messy. I will subscribe in hopes you may do a similar video using the same paints on a black surface?

If I use acrylic I want to use them particular to their own characteristics and not as a substitute for what other mediums have, that is that the acrylic drys quick, are matt, flat, noncombative when using sharp lines and outlines, good covering power, for that i found liquitex soft body to be the best for that.

You're fun, Anthony. The jerks who are "just giving a critique" can go lick their own holes.

I just LOVE your video. Besides having great material, your presentation is enjoyable, funny and natural. Thanks for doing the work so I didn’t have to.

It’s really hard to have a complete test- like what were the light fastness and how do the colors hold up over time. I do appreciate what you did and it was really interesting. There are also a lot of good comments from the people that saw the video👍😊

The last two seemed dry because they have less filler. You have to add water or some other solvent.

Hi Anthony! Thank you so much for this I finally found somebody who’s feel the same way I do about Liquitex and golden! I had so much fun watching your video. I love your humor it’s very similar to my home.
So I really appreciate that. I am right now I’m trying to learn but maybe this is something you’ve already made a video about but if not maybe make one like which color green (or blue or red) do you get for watt? Which one is more opaque ? Because what I end up doing is I buy I keep buying more different shades in it and I could just when I could’ve just bought the right one in the first place and they don’t let you taste test …(oh my God now who sounds like they’re sniffing paint )They don’t let you test in the store so end up spending way more money I’m trying to find the right thing and I can’t find a video that tells me that on those things that compare brands like you did but not colors themselves and white one is named what it is that would be interesting to OK enough rambling out of me. Thank you again for your video. I can’t wait to watch some more of them.🎨

You can’t compare paints with different pigments. Different pigments have different properties like opaqueness, tinting power, etc. These are not just ‘red’ paints. ‘Hue’ also means it’s a synthetic substitute for expensive mineral pigments like cadmiums. 🤦‍♀️

Liquitex were the first manufacturer of acrylic paint. I've used both their soft body and heavy body paints. The latter has the best designed caps of any acrylic tube paint. Golden have easily the worst designed caps, as they are very hard to screw back on. They tried to address this problem with a new cap, which was even worse than the original, and was, after many complaints, eventually withdrawn. Unless things have changed, I would only ever buy Golden again in 8 ounce jars. Winsor and Newton are a close runner up to Golden in caps that won't scew back on. They were late to produce an acrylic paint.and their first two versions were crap. Their present artists acrylic is the third version. Having wasted a lot of money on the first two, I'm not going to waste any more on the third. Rowney were the first European manufacturer of artists acrylic in 1963, and, unlike Winsor and Newton, they got it right first go. Also their FW acrylic inks are easily the best on the market

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The professional brands will let you know on the packaging if the color is transparent, semi transparent or opaque

When I buy a new paint to try I get a white, blue, yellow and magenta, and a color or two that are specific for their brand. Some colors are meant to be transparent for glazing, and some are opaque, you need to know what the color is meant for before judging it

Using a crimson and said is transparent... Captain Obvious!

Are Amsterdam standard acrylics matte or satin??

You’re funny! Thanks for the video!

Thank you

I found your review video extremely entertaining , your deliberation brilliant 🤩 I actually watched the entire review until the end 😅 most times I start a video and within a few minutes the reviews are dull , yours was never dull and boring ! So thankyou 👏👏👏👏🫵🏼

Vallejo paints are quite nice imo but then they ruin them and their mediums by putting in this obnoxious perfume that smells like medicine candy that makes me sneeze and cough because it's so strong, the whole room will smell of this crap.

Thank you for this vid! Very helpful :)

I would love to see a video like this but with titanium white (with pigment pw6 for fair comparison) as well;

A really underrated paint is Kingart. It’s like £2 per 100 ml but it’s really pigmented, has a lot of colours, and really really opague

I could not understand which one was the best, can anyone tell me.

Nice review/s. We all enjoy paints lol just lovely! Price can vary due to if the paint is lightfast as well just fyi andcertainpigmentsaremoreexpensive than others. Have a great night

This was hilarious and actually a lot of help. I know a lot more about quantitative analysis than I do about painting and this was a very well designed experiment.

I stopped buying acrylic paint and now just go to the hardware store and buy emulsion paint I get the 3 colours and mix them myself, £15 per 3 ltr.

Why did you compare DIFFERENT REDS?? The red for the Golden was the absolute most dull red on the market!!!! You didn't give it a possible chance!!! CHARLATAN!!!

If you think that is expensive acrylic, you should check miniature painting acrylics cost per 100ml

Your video is very helpful and also funny 😁👍 thank you for the effort and the upload. I do get confused with all those million brands out there to choose😀 Overall my favourite is Amsterdam Acrylics✌️

How about Sennelier ....

Thank you. But what about Elements brand 🤔 I like it. AND Icon.

Red paint is the one of the more expensive colors

Cool vid, made me chuckle!!! Another factor which I understand affects the price is colour-shift when drying. In theory it can be a danger that the cheaper paints darken more when they dry.

I love transparent colors, always looking for them 😍

You also want to see how those acrylics age.

Terrific

You are absolutely fabulous! First time viewer lifetime fan! I can't wait to use a few of these paints you reviewed. Keep up the amazing inspirational videos

That's funny because out of all the paints tested the one you picked as best is the only one I can't get locally?! I'll stick with my tried and true (and awesome) W&N professional. Although the heavy bodied Liquitex is soooo buttery 🧈 and my other favorite.

Fantastic video,,, Quiet entertaining to be honest,, I laugh out loud,,, Thank you. Anthony. with love from Toronto

I use acrylic markers like posca and molotow and I'm looking for tubes of paint that is similar coverage, anyone any recommendations?

One important factor you did not mention, which I am afraid would cost additional dollars to determine, is variation of the consistency and color of each paint as new lots of paint are manufactured. To get great consistency may cause high additional $$$ which would make a paint more expensive per tube. As a painter, I want to know what to expect if I am going to buy the same paint type multiple times. Thoughts.

The video I first saw that led me to your channel.
I wish you’d do this again with all the same pigment and not just a ‘red’.
Some are meant to be transparent so it’s tough to compare.
If you use something like ultramarine blue or the like you’d get a true comparison.
Love your channel tho.

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my favorite beginner acrylic paint is apple barrel with over 200 something colors within a cheap budget but am looking for something with more uff cause I wish to experiment with different acrylic paint to see what I may like other than apple barrel