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Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics - Quinacridone Magenta, 5 oz Tube

Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint

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Product details
Size
150 ml
Blick SKU
00620-3625
About this product range
  • Renowned professional quality
  • Pure pigments in high concentrations
  • 100% acrylic emulsion; no fillers, dyes, or opacifiers
  • Highly lightfast and permanent
  • Made in the USA

For artists seeking brilliant color, rich textures, and lasting performance, Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors are among the world’s very best. Golden's original acrylic line, the Heavy Body range includes the widest selection of single pigment colors in an acrylic format. Custom-milled to bring out the best qualities of each pigment, the resulting range includes glossy, transparent, matte, and opaque finishes—100% free from fillers or matting agents. The result? Complete color clarity and purity, straight from the tube.

Celebrated for their ability to hold brushstrokes and palette knife textures, these colors can also be extended with mediums for luminous, fluid glazes. No matter your technique, Golden Heavy Body Acrylics deliver reliable performance and striking results.

Pigment information

General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.

Quinacridone Magenta

Pigment code
PR122
Type
organic, quinacridone
Chemical formula
C22H16N2O2
Properties
Quinacridone Magenta is a semi-transparent and powerful bluish red with an impressive mixing range. It makes an excellent glazing color and is one of the bluest of the Quinacridone colors. The pigment's properties vary considerably, depending on how it is ground. Quinacridone pigments have relatively low tinting strength in general. For this reason, quinacridone colors are often expensive, because more pigment is required in the formulation.
Permanence
Quinacridone Magenta offers very good lightfastness in most media, but some have argued that it is less lightfast in watercolor form. Although Quinacridone Magenta received only a passing grade of "fair" under ASTM test protocols, other test results have rated the pigment very good to excellent. Transparent reddish violet pigments in general have more problems with lightfastness than any other range of colors. PR122 is often used as the Magenta of CMYK (four color) process printing because it offers a better tradeoff between tinting strength and lightfastness than other pigments in its class.
Toxicity
Quinacridone Magenta has no acute hazards. Overexposure to quinacridone pigments may cause skin irritation. Quinicridone pigments contain a compound found to be a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant.
History
Quinacridone Magenta came from a red violet aniline dye that was first produced in 1858 by Natanson. It was called Magenta to commemorate a battle in Magenta, Italy. Over time, Magenta became the standard color name for a deep, violet red. Although quinacridone compounds became known in the late 19th century, methods of manufacturing so as to make them practical for use as commercial pigments did not begin until the 1950s. PR122 has become particularly popular in the formulation of Magenta for CMYK process printing.
Description
Acra Red, Quinacridone Violet (PV19), Thalo Red Rose.

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