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Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics - Mars Black, 2 oz Tube
Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint
SKU 00620-2043
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Product details
- Size
- 59 ml
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.
Mars Black
- Pigment code
- PBk11
- Type
- earth
- Chemical name
- iron oxides
- Chemical formula
- FeO or Fe2O3
- Properties
- Mars Black is an opaque black with a strong and cool masstone, a slightly warm tint, and a warm brown undertone. It is not as black as Ivory Black, but it dries more quickly and has three times the tinting strength. Mars Black is normally the only black available in acrylic form and that is safe to over paint. It can be used in all media without reservation and is widely used as an alternative to Lamp Black and Ivory Black.
- Permanence
- Mars Black is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
- Toxicity
- Mars Black has no significant hazards and is the only major black pigment considered non-toxic.
- History
- The word Mars refers to the Roman god of iron and war. Mars Black was developed in the early 20th century from inorganic, synthetic iron oxide.
- Description
- Black Iron Oxide, Iron Black, Magnetic Oxide, Mapico Black, Mineral Black. Sometimes labeled as Vine Black.
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