USING AND REVIEWING ULTRA MATTE SOFLAT PAINTS

i have got some news for you i've been hearing from you guys about a new product that golden has come out with they were coming out with it and all of y'all were letting me know and i reached out to them it's acrylic it's a matte acrylic but it's supposed to have the look of acrylic gouache and you guys know that i've been loving the golden matte fluid acrylic well one of you guys reached out to me and told me that golden has discontinued that product i was like what i just found it and just fell in love with it i mean i cannot even tell you how disappointed i am because i really really really really love that product so i reached out to golden was like hey guys i have a youtube channel and everybody's been telling me about this product would y'all be up for like sending me some so i could try it on my channel but they responded and they sent me some okay here's the deal when i went to their website i could not tell which department to send a letter to i mean i did it by email so i just emailed everybody i kind of got cracked up when i was doing it they they heard and they responded so i'm so glad so they sent me some let me grab the ones they sent me well they first sent me three the cerulean blue that fell red and permanent yellow so they sent me a red yellow blue and not even like a great blue for mixing you know i was very thankful this was a real gift i'm not complaining whatsoever but they didn't send me a white so i emailed them again i was like listen i'm so thankful for what you sent me but i can't really do a proper review without a white so then they sent me a white and a bigger bottle too which i was so thankful for was really really really generous then i was also like i kind of need some proper colors so the line came out and i ordered some more it's in this box okay i ordered a bigger bottle of the yellow because i do go through yellow quite a bit because yellow is not as normally it's not as like you need more of it i don't know what i'm trying to say but basically i go through yellow a lot so i'm gonna order some more yellow i ordered a phthalo blue and i also ordered a french ultramarine but they are back ordered that's a color i really needed and i also ordered a pale yellow and a black oh no i have one more in here and a cadmium red dark i'm gonna test all these color swatch them i'm going to be painting with them so i can give y'all like really good feedback on that good morning guys it is friday morning i'm going to grab my tea it's a beautiful spring day the buttercups are blooming and yesterday afternoon i spent hours putting together a bunch of canvases actually i didn't get them all finished putting together i built the frames it is like hard work putting canvases together i mean i'm always like just physical but i have a big blank canvas back here waiting for me well this isn't blank you can see that it's a nice big pink canvas i gessoed it a really pretty fun pink and for me this equals getting a brand new sketchbook i know that can be intimidating for people like a big blank something but for me it's feels like the possibilities that's how i feel i mean it just feels exciting feels like who knows what this is going to turn out to be that's how it feels for me now that does end very quickly but what i did today last night and this morning i spent some time on procreate just gathering my composition my thoughts my color scheme we'll see how that goes usually that doesn't help too much but we'll see but here's the reason i spent a little more time on the front end i have got my new paints the so flat the gold and so flat paints that i'm trying out for you guys i've been playing around with the sew flat paint in my sketchbook but i just now got the rest of the order in for all the colors i didn't want to start a big one until i had like sufficient color range but i don't have a massive amount i didn't want to buy big bottles till i knew if i liked it or not so i feel a little like i just have a limited supply so i feel like i cannot be just going and going and going and going on this canvas you know what i mean like i need to have a little bit of a plan so that's what i've got i am so stinking excited about not only a new blank canvas but trying these new paints i really hope i love them since they did away with my golden fluid matte acrylics i need to love these either way though whether they're aluminum or not i'm gonna have a hot diggity time today doing this so it just feels like a fun day what i'm going to do is resolute to not get sucked into all the little things that i can get sucked into i'm going to post all the stuff when the video comes out and just do it and answer comments and that kind of stuff but man i don't need to get like sucked into instagram land or editing or cleaning up in here or putting together more canvases i just need to stay focused that's what i'm going to do i'm going to film here and there everything is set up well i mean i don't have my paint set up but my canvas is ready for me everything's just ready got my paint and clothes on yeah i mean basically all my clothes are painting clothes at this point okay so i needed to update y'all on all that how exciting this feels probably five minutes in and the excitement will be over and it'll be like oh no but maybe not maybe not maybe not let's just stay look good for my mind sandy okay let's go do it okay i don't know if this is going to show up at all because i used a yellow on top of this pink but basically i got my sketch like just the big shapes that's what i want to get in what i did on my procreate sketch was i put just a cross in the middle of the procreate sketch so i could basically get things in the right hemisphere i've not really done that before but decided to do it on this you know taking something from a smaller to a bigger like this and i think it's worked out well so what i'm gonna do now is basically block in some main color and then start working from furthest to nearest so basically like this outdoor scene here that's furthest away so like in real life outside would be furthest but then i'm going to be painting like the window on top and then things like the rug which are you know under the table so that way i can just kind of do the pattern and then i'll do like the cat on top and that kind of stuff i also sometimes need to get like the color theme more it's really more about value but i just need to kind of get the colors on there so i want to get some of that background color and then i'm just going to keep start working oh my nails kind of match my painting but it's still in fun stage i mean just this yellow and pink heck i feel like i could just use that and it would be gorgeous guys i feel like i'm having a heart attack okay i know i'm barely into the painting i'm loving this paint yes i'm thinking big shapes big colors get things in trying to spread color around all that so this is my window chairs couple pictures blah blah blah hot doggity now listen i'm gonna say this it's really early in the game it's really early it's really early so i can't you know i gotta save my reserve but right now i've been so much fun loving it smooth and buttery and all the things i'm happy to get back to paint hands i'm tired i can tell it's lunchtime but that's going good wow it's like i cannot stop i did not mean to paint for this long i can tell in my body i'm like everything's sore it's gonna be a advil or a leave day i think for sure but still too soon to tell but at least the experience of this paint i'm loving i'm loving that i don't have to do 50 million layers i usually only have to do two if i want something to feel not so i transparent like i need to look at it excuse me i don't want it to look like a sketchbook i don't think maybe i do it does seem to have a little more of an odor i'm hoping that's not gonna be an issue i feel a little long i'd be terrible if i love the paint but the odor of it got to me yeah i do feel a little congested i forgot to show you that where i am in progress because i have not picked up the camera at all guys whoops oh shame shame shame shame i just really got into it but i did warn you that i wasn't gonna be picking it up much but here i am or here's the painting here i am too all right here's my mess fun mess and then here's the painting so far still a lot of the under underpainting showing and there's still a lot to be done but there she is so far the madness of it i may need a nap i'm dog tired fun fun fun morning all right i'm gonna clean up i need to clean my brushes clean my palette go make lunch maybe take a nap it's almost three o'clock i've got to call it a day i've painted for way too long for my body i'm going to be hot mess but i could not stop i was having so much fun on this painting now here's the negative by lunchtime i was coughing like crazy i have very very very very very sensitive lungs and i and it's spring and i have lung issues already i could definitely tell there was a strong smell and grady could tell it too when he came in it's a real bummer i don't know if it's with these ultra matte paints you know the paveo pe bo paints that i tried a while back they had a really strong smell too and these are affecting me it's a real bummer i am probably going to let the company know well i'm definitely going to let the company know but i do love the paints here's what grady did for me um he put a fan in the window and crack the window no i have bad allergies too so it's not like the best narrow but this afternoon i definitely could tell a difference i'm going to paint some more with them because i am enjoying them and i want to give you all like full review and be able to tell that this is affecting me i mean i kind of feel like if this is going to affect me i might as well paint with oil paints but maybe this kind of thing will work if this works grady you know will work on something more permanent and nicer and effective that's just what he does he's awesome about like really taking care of me and making sure that things are like done well i mean he wants me around for a while and doesn't want me coughing and sick so i mean heck if they can do this in one day can you imagine yeah anyway so you know when you can definitely tell the fumes are strong i mean grady came in here and he was like i definitely can smell something i hate to say anything negative about things you know especially things that i've been like talking to you about that i'm so excited about i'm gonna tell you all about but i need to tell you i need to be honest about it so i just want you to know like don't go out and buy 50 million i think you need to buy just a few and try them to see i feel like i'm a little high too after uh before lunch i was definitely like i'm slightly like high slash sick i've painted all day long and it's been so much fun let me show you the painting up close and personal here's what's going on i still have a lot to do to the table i'm super happy with my outside scene and i'm still working on these figures i had a plant here that i was going to put that kind of went over the window but i like the window so much i don't i didn't want to do that and i'm kind of feeling like this gives you an area for your eye to rest and balances with over here and then this is busy and this is busy so that balance is sounding very hoarse because all my painting with toxic paints oh i think i'm getting a little bit of a headache too okay this is our setup i have plastic right there and coop sticking his head out the window he's cracking me up is there something out there bud i think so mom i'm getting some fresh air creepy are you funny are you funny i'm pretty funny that's pretty nice in here with this window open i don't know but happy boy you see my happy room yeah all right i gotta get back to painting all right well i picked it oh boy wow we got that going on sorry about that show you where i am i'm adding more things to the table i'm adding more things to the background the paint is definitely strong smelling and feeling a little toxic kind of a bummer and i'm not sure yet if i like the ultra madness let me spray this while i'm talking to you guys i don't want things to dry out uh yeah i think i am liking it i don't know that it's going to be a long termer with these so flat paints i'm not loving that i'm having to open the window and put a fan we'll see how i feel tomorrow after painting a good bit i'm already kind of getting a little right now i just want to paint so that's what i'm going to go do hey coop you're my way bud that's my spot hey guys i got a package today from one of you guys heidi sent me some paints that she got and realized i'm not gonna like these she's realized that she likes to use tube paints instead of like paints in the jar and she wanted to send them to me and they were like unused let's open this box i'm pretty excited heidi there are so many paints in here oh my goodness what oh and she stuck a gouache in here what oh a color i don't have either okay let me get all this out oh and there's a card heidi oh my gosh there are so many paints okay so this is the sew flat line oh my gosh wow wow okay okay guys there are 15 million colors these are also going to be great for our camping trips because i paint outside a lot until it gets like blazing hot and the size tubs are going to be great man there's some great colors uh let me put them together in their little families what about this one wow i think most of these have not even be been opened this would be so fun to swatch these okay this red violet i'm pretty excited about this color yeah that's gonna be a fun color i don't really get purples but recently i did buy purple i mean there are so many wow wow wow wow let me see if i can even just hold them all okay it's so it's not even just like so many it's like so many with like good good colors look at what she sent me guys this is redonkulous i mean it there's so many here heidi thank you golly moses thank you i mean this was a real gift and a real treat and i cannot wait to use them i'm going to be painting outside soon with my niece we're going to do some more sketchbook work and these are going to be perfect and i do really love these for my sketchbook okay guys let me show you what i did i decided to line everybody up because i haven't done a proper color swatch yet for my so flat paints the paints that i was sent as a gift are duplicates of colors that i already have so i thought i'll put those on top and of course i had to like color chart you know put everybody in the right order and then i'm going to swatch it in the sketchbook that i will mainly be using them in i'm gonna just do that here [Music] wow that's a nice yellow very buttery i like these three yellows very different after i'm done i'll go back and label what everything is what i like to do if there's like a little sealer thing on that when i'm doing my color swatches is take that off and then i use that for my swatch anything that's still left there that i don't use a scrape and put back in there i'm so cheap paint is expensive so we gotta save every drop these colors are really really beautiful guys and then we do the scrape save every speck of paint and i like to keep this clean up here so the lid comes off easy i usually wipe that off [Music] wow that is just like chocolate wow that's pretty that brown and green are gonna look so pretty together they're gonna be happy sitting next to one another for sure yeah they are friends i mean look at these colors on this page guys only two colors left i'm dying to see what this purple looks like guys it's called red violet wow i'm dying i've been into purple lately i don't know what's happening to me i'm not a purple person wow that's gorgeous i cannot wait to see what that looks like with the white i've mentioned in other videos i like having a black in my palette especially my sketchbook it is nice to just have a good old straight black but black and yellows make gorgeous greens [Music] [Music] i want to give you my final thoughts about this paint i'm definitely going to use them up i will not be repurchasing them they are way too toxic even outside i can smell them they don't seem to make me cough when i'm outside the fact that i can still smell them is pretty bad number two i do love the consistency of them in the potency of them i love them for my sketchbooks that's what i'm going to continue using them for is sketching in my sketchbooks it's wonderful i like it even even better than my flash paint or the golden matte fluid acrylics which is discontinued because i don't have to do as many layers and it just has this kind of postery effect that i love my sketchbooks i'm not sure that i love them for painting this painting's turning out really nice but it does have a little bit too much of a madness for me i am liking a little bit of transparency so as i build those layers some of the layers show through and this is like especially when you put a second layer it is it's very opaque and has some power to it but i would say if you have any kind of health issues or are concerned about toxicity this is not the paint for you especially if you're going to be painting indoors now if you're just going to be painting outdoors all the time fine but i have literally i've got a decent sized studio i've literally had the windows open fan in the window i've tried the fan in different places guys it's just they're they're strong they're very very strong and i've also been hearing this from other artists so i know i'm not the only one in fact i've had several people that have just opened them and sent them back because they were like they kind of had the the effect that i did with the pabeo or pbo i highly say that paint where it was just like really strong so i just really want you to know that especially if you have lung issues like i do i want you to be careful with these things i have reached out to the company i let them know my experience and they responded really kindly and then said they were sending it over to some other department i can't remember what it was and that they would get back with me and i also left a comment on blick and up to this point they still have not posted any comments and i left two or three comments with did the whole process and they even gave me a response it was an auto response but basically it was like this will be up in two to three days that was months ago now there aren't any comments so maybe they just haven't got to them yet i don't know but that was a little bit of a bummer i did ride the company also yeah because i just think we need to be having some healthy paint out there you know what i mean i have been loving this paint for my sketchbooks and i want to show you some of the sketches that i've been doing and i will just continue to use the paint up and that'll be fine but i will not be repurchasing no no no no there are some other options that are still out there that i'm planning on trying i'm going to find the paint for me i'm determined in the package that they sent me they also sent me this really good color chart i thought this was very helpful the paints that i do have they look very similar to this i mean it's a good match is that what i'm trying to say so yeah it's a good color chart but let me show you the painting and let me show you my finished sketches i did these sketches in my really good stillman and byrne hardback cover sketchbook so this painting was done with the sew flat and i think you guys have seen this one before at least on my instagram you have but you can tell just how beautifully matte it is you can also see that it is like this color that i used here it's kind of transparent so you can still get some transparency to it it's just that if you if you want it matte you can put in a second layer i'm quite sure this i did a second layer look how chunky blocky map it is now this i did in my flash paint you can see a little bit of the difference and see how it's still matte but there's probably there's a little more transparency i think i've showed you guys this one i know i have on instagram this right here is not done i've got some writing and a little bit more that i want to add to this i'm going to talk about this in another video but this was also done with my so flat and painted this outside again you can see there there's some transparency in places but there's also just some real nice madness about it is that a word madness this is done with my so flat and my matte fluid acrylic i don't remember why i did a mixture but probably because i started coughing and switched over this is my flash and then this right here was done on our camping trip and this is the so flat this is my favorite little corner of this painting right here i love this just the colors this kind of goes with my under the table theme that i've been doing in my big paintings and then look at it a little mouth i'm definitely going to be adding some mice to my paintings and then that was the last one in this sketchbook i've done with the so flat let me just show you around the painting so this is in my under the table series i love the rug and you guys are always looking for the plug there's my plug and look who entered so i don't have anything major under the table except this gorgeous rug but this guy is headed under the table and we know in this series there lives some cats so i thought that was appropriate actually there's a cat up there let's look at the table there's just little things like this cup that i love the grapes were super fun i'm getting far more pattern in my paintings lately and i'm loving that like this table cloth napkiny thing back here really pretty just yeah it's been fun to incorporate some pattern and texture i also did a couple landscapes basically and i love this one right here i feel like this turned out so good i've got a couple figures it's like the farmer and his wife and their cat i mean look how cute is that cat that's one of things i've been loving about this style of painting i'm getting to put in everything that i love interior still life landscape figures animals did already say animals all the things and then i got a couple other figures in with the paintings and this is kind of me and grady i'm also getting to do like whimsical which is really fun and then basically i put in another landscape out the screen door there it feels very mane and i loved kind of how the screen door look is i'm just thrilled with the painting let me know what you think the other thing i wanted to show you was the edge i left it this really pretty pink and it really looks nice with the painting so basically it's kind of the color of the curtains and i love paintings where you can see the marks like of the painting marks on the edges so yeah there's that and if you've used this paint have any experience with it leave us a comment below and let us know what your experience was with this paint we would all really appreciate that all right guys i'll see you back here real soon

Channel: Sandi Hester

Views: 6,804

Rating: 4.9541283 out of 5

Keywords: Golden paints, matte paints, SoFlat, SoFlat paints, #soflat, #soflatpaints

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Length: 26min 14sec (1574 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 16 2021