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.
Been enjoying my new art supplies. I’m in love! Gotrid of all my old paints and mediums because I had to have a (thankfully low grade non-invasive) bladder cancer removed. I read research showing that there’s a 30% higher chance of getting that if you are an artist that paints. I was so grateful to find Natural Earth Paint. Really good quality products and I don’t have to worry about risking my health. Ordering process was pleasant and they made it easy to track my package coming all the way across the country and in a timely manner. Now that I’ve gotten acquainted with the oil paint kit I know what I need to stock up on and what else I would like to try. Looking forward to ordering again.
I tried 3 colors I use on repeat of heavy body natural acrylic paint. They work well out of the tube, diluted with water or medium, and can be used for painting as well as printing. I will now order more colors as I aim to transition to non toxic art materials for my own sake , my customers, and the wellbeing of our planet.
I’ve recently shifted my practice to Oil Painting and was looking for a good solvent free impasto medium. This stuff is so good. Mixes up easily with linseed or walnut oil to exactly the consistency you want for your work. Even better, colors remain true when mixed with this medium. Brilliant. Highly recommend.
I’ve always been an oil painter leaning to realism. So, I went to an art workshop in Scotland. It was a non objective abstract class. We were asked to use non toxic acrylics, especially easier to travel with. I was given your info, thought why not, non toxic sounded good to me. I really fell in love with process of the abstract and using your acrylics gave me the opportunity to work fast without fussing and it was fun. They layer beautifully, opaque or transparent and the colors are rich and mix beautifully. I’ve already ordered more, I plan to continue using. Thank you for working hard to make safer choices for our environment.
I’m new to acrylic-type paints and mediums, after avoiding them for many years because of the chemical odor. I tried using the Acrylik Medium for collage, brushing it on the page before placing the paper, and then brushing on top. The adhesion was great and the surface came out perfectly clear. ✅✅
I haven’t yet tried the medium with my new Acrylik paints, and look forward to that. Thank you Natural Earth Paint for opening this new world of opaque paints to me!
I truly love that these paints are natural and safe, and some of the colors are gorgeous. It's convenient that most of them rinse off with just water, and all of them come off with soap and water. I was surprised how well they stayed on the skin once they dried. I lightly brushed my hand across the design, and it wasn't affected at all. However, the orange I received is more of a brown, and the purple, gold, and brown paints are streaky and don't work well with a brush. Rather than covering an area of skin, they move around on top of the skin, which is frustrating. (See photo and compare the purple to the blue, yellow, and green.) The company did offer to replace the purple paint for me, and they would probably replace the gold and brown paints also, but it doesn't seem worth the effort. I wanted to use these body paints for stencils. and the consistency is actually too creamy for that. I mixed in some corn starch, and that made the consistency much better for stencils (see photos). So I will use up these paints eventually, but having to add in corn starch makes the process a bit cumbersome. Also, the jars and brushes are tiny. The photo on the website is somewhat misleading. The website does specify that each jar contains .4 oz, but the amount is much less than it looks like in the photo. The part of the jar that holds the paint is only an inch in diameter and about a half inch deep. Because 3 of the 10 colors don't work well with brushes, and because the jars are so tiny, I would give the product 3 stars. But the other colors work well and the blue, green, and yellow are gorgeously vibrant, the paints wash off very easily, and they don't have heavy metals. And the company does back up their product, so for that I would give the product 5 stars. The result is a 4-star rating.
It's just the right size for smaller batches of pigment. The lighter weight is easier on my hands.
I am really enjoying this medium for my collage work! Easy clean up, and I don’t have to worry about toxins in the drain. Thank you!