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GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylic Neutral Gray N4 is a darker-than-middle-value neutral gray precisely balanced for artists who want dependable control over value without introducing a noticeable warm or cool color bias. 🩶🎨⚖️ Sitting between the very dark N3 and middle-value N5, N4 provides an incredibly useful dark gray for tonal studies, shadows, underpainting, color adjustment, and carefully structured value relationships. 🌑🌗🖌️✨
Precisely matched to Munsell Gray, N4 gives artists a reliable reference for exploring and controlling value. 📐🩶🎨 Its semi-opaque coverage provides useful hiding power while retaining enough openness for layered applications, making it a versatile alternative when black would be too aggressive or a middle gray simply isn't dark enough. 🖤➡️🩶✨
COLOR CHARACTERISTICS 🩶🎨✨
Darker-than-middle-value Neutral Gray 🌑🌗
Precisely matched to Munsell Gray 📐🎨
Carefully balanced neutral character ⚖️
Semi-opaque coverage 🖌️✨
Satin sheen
Excellent lightfastness ☀️🏆
Excellent for controlled value adjustment 🌑🌗🌕
Series 1 🎨
PAINT CHARACTERISTICS 🎨🖌️
Thick Heavy Body consistency retains brushstrokes, tool marks, and impasto peaks 🖌️⛰️✨
High pigment load provides rich, dependable color 💥🎨
Semi-opaque character offers useful coverage while remaining versatile for layering ✨🖌️
Dark neutral value provides greater control than reaching immediately for straight black 🖤➡️🩶
Excellent for adjusting value while minimizing unwanted shifts in hue ⚖️🌈
Can be extended or modified with GOLDEN mediums, gels, and pastes 🧪🎨
Compatible with all GOLDEN acrylic products 🤝🌈
IDEAL FOR 🩶🎨✨
Value studies and tonal painting 🌑🌗🌕
Grisaille and monochromatic work 🩶🖼️
Shadows and darker neutral passages 🌑🖌️
Adjusting the value of color mixtures 🎨⚖️
Portrait and figure painting 👤🎨
Underpainting and compositional studies ✏️🖼️
Landscapes and atmospheric shadows 🌲🌫️
Mixing sophisticated neutrals 🌈🩶
Abstract and contemporary painting 💥🖼️
Artists working with Munsell-based color and value systems 📐🎨
Anyone who needs something darker than middle gray without letting black storm in and fuck up the whole meeting 😂🖤🚪
CLEAN UP 🫧🚿
Wash hands, brushes, and tools after use with warm, soapy water. 🧼🖌️ Thin, dried acrylic may be dissolved with isopropyl alcohol, although pigments may stain some surfaces.
STORAGE 📦🌡️
Store between 50–85°F (10–30°C). Avoid repeated freezing and thawing or prolonged exposure to temperatures above 120°F (49°C). Keep the tube opening clean and securely closed to minimize water loss. 🔒🎨
SPECS 📋🎨
Color: N4 Neutral Gray 🩶
GOLDEN Color Number: 1444
Pigments: PW6, PBk9 & PBr7
PW6 (77891): Titanium Dioxide Rutile
PBk9 (77267): Amorphous Carbon produced by Charring Animal Bones
PBr7 (77491): Calcined Natural Iron Oxide
Transparency: Semi-Opaque ✨
Sheen: Satin
Lightfastness: Excellent ☀️🏆
Viscosity: 20,000–24,000 CPS
Series: 1
Munsell: 9PB 4.2/0.1
Size: 2 fl oz (59 mL)
Manufacturer Item: 0001444-2
UPC: 738797144422
FINAL NOTE 🩶🌑🎨
Neutral Gray N4 is basically the responsible adult standing between N3's dark-and-brooding bullshit and N5 sitting comfortably in the middle. 😂🩶⚖️ Dark enough to build serious shadows and depth, but controlled enough that it doesn't bulldoze a mixture the way black sometimes can, N4 is one seriously useful stop on the value scale. 🌑🌗📐 Whether you're studying values, building shadows, neutralizing color, or just trying to keep the whole damn painting under control, N4 understands the assignment. 😂🖌️🩶🎨✨




