I’ve been using Natural Earth Paints’ acrylik and fluid acrylik paint, and their acrylik medium for several months now. I’m very familiar with all the major brands of artist’s acrylic paint (Golden, Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, M. Graham, etc.) having used them for decades.
Natural Earth Paints’ acrylik paints and medium are vibrant, work easily, and honestly a pleasure to use! I highly recommend them for children, schools, hobbyists, and professional artists like myself!
I’m attaching a couple of recent paintings I’ve done with them here.
I’m in love with both the natural plant-created aspect of this product, and also the incredible color, rich pigment and its coverage as well. It’s a pleasure to work with, and easy to create new colors when blended. The shipping is not quite as fast as I would like, but worth waiting for and it is beautifully packed with precautions taken to keep it from extreme heat or cold. Very cool and most appreciated!
The intensity of these pigments is incredible! It is so nice to mix your own paint with these. I feel a sense of control in my art world like I never have before. Having been forced to use toxic paints in the past, I feel a special sense of freedom and ease of mind which is conducive to really enjoying my painting
It's super fun and easy to mix my own paint with this. I feel so good knowing I'm not going to kill fish or other wildlife with it going down the drain like the other toxic paints I've used in the past.
This product helps me marry my ethos with my art practice. Originally, I bought the tubed natural acrylik paint when it first came out, and I have to say I was not that excited about it. There were things about using it that were unpleasant. Mostly the caps were hard/painful for me to open. But also, I think that the consistency just didn’t fit with what I like to use. The color selection was not that great at first. Now that they have added magenta, it has helped color mixing a lot. After trying these fluid acryliks, I feel like I have found the solution I’ve been looking for. I hate the idea of using plastic and washing it down the drain. It’s bad for the environment and it’s bad for global temperatures. Most of my art is about the environment, so there was a mismatch. These paints are very easy to use. I like the fluid consistency and there’s something about the vehicle used that makes the colors more intense than the ones in the tubes. This is very helpful in terms of how much color space you can use with these paints. There are still some gaps in colors available, however, this selection is quite respectable, and I feel, with the addition of a few other pigments, I might be able to get off plastic paint altogether. I will say also that the metallics are beautiful. The gold is somewhat transparent while the other two are pretty dense. I’m including a color chart just for your information. I just did some mixes to see what they would do. I think this is well worth the effort and I’ll probably do more. It’s helpful to understand your pigments, so that you feel like you can utilize your own inner voice while you’re painting, I initially bought the 1 ounce just to try them out. Recently I bought the 4 ounce set during a sale. I’m pretty sure I’ll be buying the 16 ounce set during the Earth Day sale. I intend for these paints to take the place of my traditional acrylic eventually. I should also mention, I love the black. It is the same pigment used in Daniel Smith’s lunar black that granulates in watercolor. If you add “too much”water to the black, so that it runs down your canvas, it will start to granulate. I love that effect. So much better than using bone black or amorphous black that most acrylic blacks are because you’re not using charred bones of animals. The one ounce bottles are a little hard for me to squeeze. I’m hoping the 4 ounce bottles will be easier. I like that they are recycled bottles even though I know drives up the price point. This company tries to make the right choices at every step and you have to respect that!
A useful chart showing the actual colour plus what it looks like when mixed with Titanium White Rutile. I shall want to make my own colour chart to see precise colours, but this is a handy guide.
This booklet is exactly what I expected, and very useful. My only issue is that I couldn't find a way to print the .pdf version as a booklet and staple it together. Instead, I will need to cut it down to individual A5 pages and glue along the side to turn it into a book.
I love that this is non toxic but I’m not a fan of adding oil. It made the paint too dark and it took days to dry. I tried adding less oil but the paint was too chunky. When I added more oil, it was too dark and again took almost a week to dry. I really wish I could only add water.
Super smooth and easy to work with! Love that it's nontoxic.
As a water fluid painter on raw canvas I was eagerly anticipating NEP’s fluid paint. It did not disappoint. The texture is a medium weight fluidity and the color is richly saturated. I look forward to continuing to experiment with the fluid technique I am perfecting using these paints.
These are the BEST!! As a professional artist, I’m transitioning to eco-friendly acrylics and these are my “go-to” paints. The only thing I can say is that I’d love to see the black in larger tubes too!!
I've been painting over 40 years and I've only recently started mixing my own paints. I bought the sample pack to show my class how to mix their own egg tempera for an assignment. I love the palette, but what stands out is the quality of these minerals. So happy I found Natural Earth Paint.
Paint is wonderful to use and I plan on purchasing more in the future thanks for such a wonderful product!!
I have been looking for a better option for acrylics for a long time. I love that the paints are safer health wise, and more environmentally friendly. The colors are vibrant and wonderful, as good as any other paints. I am happy to support your company and will use your paints from now on. I would like to explore more of your products as well.
Thank you!!!!!
I love these paints! They are so smooth and great to work with.
I did a quick little doodle before I venture into a bigger project.
I received my order for pigments and was not disappointed. The pigments are just as they promised and are excellent! I will be ordering more soon! Thank you!
I bought 4 colors to try & really like them. They are more opaque than the other acrylics I have used. They seem to dry a little faster on my wet palette but I can work with that. They mix well with my other acrylics but I hope to reduce those and eventually phase them out. The only drawback for me is that I paint landscapes featuring water a lot & could use more blues & greens like phthalos. I love that these are more earth & health friendly.
I was painting with standard fluid acrylics and mediums. Even though I’m an environmentalist and had dreamed about painting with natural paint , I was worried they would be too expensive and difficult to obtain. But when my hand broke out with burns and welts from the chemicals, I knew it was time to make the change. I use Natural Earth acrylik medium to both thin and extend paints and to mix my own acrylic paint using powdered pigment. And so far, I am loving the effect; and I feel good about the nontoxic element as well.
Whatever the medium, these pigments are vibrant, non-toxic and easy to work with. These are now my go to pigments for all of my projects!
I absolutely loved painting with the Valentine's Craft Kit! I love how it was so thoughtfully designed with little artists in mind! The paint washes off clothes so easily which is great for indoor crafting sessions! Would definitely recommend!
Purchased for use with my students while we created art from natural materials (these products fit the theme). The kids had fun mixing the pigments and the paint worked perfectly- beautiful colors.
As an (now retired) art teacher and grandmother, for years I struggled with the issue of unhealthy paints for kids, and for myself as an artist. Several years ago I chanced upon Natural Earth Paint when I was searching for alternatives. The paints are rich and colorful and I have no worry about toxins to students/grandkids, myself, or to the earth! That's how things should be! Thank you to the brave women who had the vision of this business! It would be helpful if the children's paints came in resealable packets and not plastic (I know there is a paper bag for bulk order) and I will say the color red isn't great, but, regardless, I'm a devoted customer and will continue to buy paints from Natural Earth Paint and I recommend it to my artist friends and other teachers and grandmothers out there! We need to be the change we seek...it's our choices now that are very critical to live in balance with this beautiful planet. Mahalo Nui Loa !! I highly recommend all their products!!!
I can’t believe these are non toxic! There is no other paint like this out there.. anywhere! I love using fluid acrylics and golden is my go to, but now I love folding these colors into the mix. You cannot beat the price for all these bottles of paints. These are very much mineral based colors, so you don’t get streaking - and the vibrancy for everything is terrific. The scarlet red is incredible, French turquoise and ultramarines beautiful and the mica paints are so cool! The earthy colors like yellow ochre and Venetian red are amazing! All paints dry very matte (except the mica sparkles), kind of like watercolor. They mix perfectly with my golden fluid acrylics. If I want to add extra shine, I add an isolation coat or gloss medium on top and voila you’re looking at some beautiful refraction! The black is very dark but not as black as carbon black, and the silver mica is more of a gun metal silver, but all these add an interesting variety to my paints!
