The colors are beautiful. There is no toxic smell and the paints are easy to work with. I have been hoping to find a more environmentally friendly paint for a long time.
I decided to try this natural acrylic paint after having bad experiences with oil and standard acrylic paint. I finally decided to just go ahead and try out this because I didn’t want to give up on painting altogether. You are paying a premium compared to regular heavy body acrylics, but you are getting your health back. I normally have sore throat when working with any type of paint, including acrylics, but this has been the least harmful paint that I have ever worked with. Buy these imperfect tubes to give you an idea of how well these perform compared to conventional paints. I promise that you won’t be disappointed.
I love that I can buy one pigment and make multiple art supplies with it (and it's non-toxic to boot). So far I've mixed the pigments with the natural acrylik medium and used them for silk painting, thinning the paint slightly with water. I also did a little block printing on the silk using the mixture without thinning it.
I also mixed some water color paints using the recipe in the pigment package, and found that some colors were a little grainy, while others were quite smooth. I purchased the glass plate and muller for better mixing but have yet to try it out.
I was looking for a quick and easy way to paint on fabric with natural ingredients that are washable, this fit the bill!
I combined earth pigments with this acrylik medium and painted a silk scarf that I love (and it's hand washable). Thinning it slightly with a little water made for easier silk painting, but too much water interfered with its ability to adhere to fabric. The paint does affect the hand of the fabric somewhat, but any acrylic paint will do that. This medium behaves similar to other acrylics and I would choose this over synthetic stuff any day!
I even did a little wood-block printing with it on the scarf.
An absolutely fantastic product! Cleans brushes and is an excellent paint thinner as well. My 15 year old grandson is showing interest in oil painting . Feels so good to share the Eco-Solve with him and know he will never have to be exposed to mineral spirits !
I got these to try in encaustic medium. They mix well and are vibrant 😊
We love this face paint. Rich colors. Gentle on the skin. Customer service is excellent too!
I have no problem making my own watercolors with Natural Earth pigment, but my first attempt at watercolor gouache is a different story. I’ll try again, there is plenty of impasto medium in the package. I’m sure my inexperience is to blame. I’ll get there! I saw you featured on JacksonArt today! That must me so exciting! You’ve earned it, your products are fantastic!
These pigments are ready for creating paint. What I mean by that is I don’t have to mull the paint. At all. The pigments are so fine that I can mix with a palette knife and have quality paint! I don’t have a lot of experience making watercolor but these pigments make it easy. I saw you featured on JacksonArt today! That must me so exciting! You’ve earned it, your products are fantastic!
So far, the mica pigments are the easiest for me to make water color paints. I’m going to make some for my daughter and also for random gifts for people who are interested! I saw you featured on JacksonArt today! That must me so exciting! You’ve earned it, your products are fantastic!
Typical solvents give me headaches, this does not. Will buy again.
I love the Natural Earth Paint Acryliks, especially working with Micas. I appreciate the ever-expanding color options and their viscosity.
cleaning out my paint supplies to have no toxic exposure your paints arrived what a joy colors lovely and bright i used them on unprimed canvas with a rollar and wetness they applied well after drying the colors didnt fad the application flowed well thank you i brought them to my art class and the class and teacher very impressed they too will order thanks for making us safe wishing joy and wellness nancy
Haven't tried them all yet, but what I've tried are incredible.
I’m new to oil painting, but mixing my own colors has been super easy using this walnut oil. Clean lovely consistency. And the paint goes on beautifully.
I have been searching for a more eco friendly way to glue papers for collage and junk journaling. It was kind of fun to mix up the glue itself, it really thickened up overnight. It is very transparent and applies easily. There is less wrinkling compared to when I have used watered down PVA glue and applied with a brush.
These paints seem to handle reasonably well, but I can see how the chemicals other manufacturers put into their acrylic paints make them work extremely well, better than these. But of course the downside are the toxins and fumes involved with them. My acupuncturist who is extremely good at testing products for toxicity found these to be ok for me to use, unlike other brands of regular acrylics he has tested for me.
The issue I have with these is mostly the labeling. First, these are not professionally labeled, there is no information on the tube about the pigments used. No lightfastness info either. This information and more should be on the tube, not just on the website. Some of the paints are poorly named. For example, Emerald Green is not an Emerald Green, it's a Chromium Oxide Green. The tube should state this, it will give a clearer picture of what you are buying and working with.
Other issues:
Royal Blue is misnamed and in poor usage, it should be Pthalocyanine Blue which follows the PB15:3 used in the paint. Then I'd know it's a green-blue. Royal Blue could be almost anything.
Same with Magenta, I want to see "Quinacridone Magenta PR122" so I can better understand what it is. Ultramarine Blue has the correct name and is correctly produced as a standard violet-blue, but needs PB29 mentioned on the tube. "Scarlet Red" doesn't tell me much, it should be PR254 Pyrrole Red, then I can get an understanding that it's probably an orange-ish red. PBK11 is Mars Black, not Black Ochre. Ochre implies (to me) that it has a yellowish tint to it. "Brilliant Yellow" --what is that? Please use trade names instead of pretty yet vague labeling. And on and on. But this is maybe a young company? So hopefully time will lend a more solid product with clearer labeling, and a more complete selection of the range of acrylic colors and mediums available on the market.
Lastly, clicking on a color dot on a computer monitor is not a very good way to select a color. I want to see a color swatch with the correct paint name plus pertinent technical information all together.
Still, despite my criticism I'm grateful there is now a decent alternative to toxic acrylic paints. I hope time and experiential usage data will show these to be stable and we will find that we don't really need all those toxic additives to create a quality professional artists paint.
The Natural Acrylik Medium works well overall, but this one is fairly glossy. I hope to see a matte version of this in the future. This should be further labeled something like "gloss gel" along with the "Natural Acrylik Medium" label. It's good for light collage (like papers), and of course it doesn't have the toxins that most other acrylic paint manufacturing use. It's amazing that they are using glass for the jar instead of plastic. The only real issue I had is that it remained somewhat sticky after 24 hours when used more thickly.
These are beautiful paints! But when I opened the box and looked at all the plastic bottles I thought what’s the point now? The same types of solvents, resins, flow enhancers, curing agents and so on are used to make the bottles, as are used in plastic based acrylic paints. So what’s the point of buying this paint ? If the company used aluminum tins or tubes I would have kept this set. I’d like to see them make efforts to correct this discrepancy. (I don’t use powdered pigments with animals in our home btw)
These are beautiful paints! But when I opened the box and looked at all the plastic bottles I thought what’s the point now? The same types of solvents, resins, flow enhancers, curing agents and so on are used to make the bottles, as are used in plastic based acrylic paints. So what’s the point of buying this paint ? If the company used aluminum tins or tubes I would have kept this set. I’d like to see them make efforts to correct this discrepancy. (I don’t use powdered pigments with animals in our home btw)
I work in an egg tempera method but using the acrylik mediu instead of egg to mix with the powder pigments.
This was actually for my daughter. She loves your product because she will not use ‘regular’ paint. She’s excited to get it!
I really love this little ebook with recipes for making art supplies. I recently made watercolor paint and really enjoyed the process and the result.
