Golden Iridescent Artists Acrylics can be used alone or with other colors, gels and mediums, develop nonfading, non-tarnishing metallic finishes. Iridescent Pearl is extremely useful for mixing with other colors for pearl-like qualities. All GOLDEN Mica Flake products offer larger particles for more textural metallic surfaces. Iridescent Stainless Steel and Micaceous Iron Oxide are made with highly reflective metallic pigments. Golden Iridescent Artists Acrylics are offered in a variety of colors. Some of the 8 colors are offered in the coarse size, without appearing " glitter-like." The Golden Iridescent and Interference Colors achieve their reflective properties by synthetically reproducing several natural phenomena-the nacreous, or pearlescent, qualities found in fish scales or the dust of a butterfly's wing, and the shiny and reflective qualities found in certain metals and minerals. "Coarse" Iridescent and Interference Colors are simply larger particle size versions of our "Fine" Iridescent and Interference products. Coarse colors in the Iridescent line include Copper, Copper Light, Gold and Pearl. The Coarse Interference Colors are Blue, Gold, Green and Red. All of Golden's Iridescent Colors produce a luster quality by themselves, or when mixed with other colors and mediums. The Golden line of Iridescents can be separated into 3 groups based on chemical composition. Group I: These colors are derived from mica platelets. They are then coated with an extremely thin layer of titanium dioxide. Refraction and reflection of light at the titanium dioxide layers produces various colors and pearlescent effects. Group I pigments include:

• Interference Colors
• Iridescent Pearl (Coarse and Fine)
• Silver

Group II: These colors are also derived from mica platelets, but an iron oxide coating causes Group II pigments to possess hues in addition to pearlescent qualities. This group includes:

• Iridescent Gold (Coarse and Fine)
• Iridescent Copper and Copper Light (Coarse and Fine)
• Iridescent Bronze

Group III: A third group consists of reflective colorants that do not fit the above descriptions, including highly metallic pigments:

• Stainless Steel (Coarse & Fine)
• Micaceous Iron Oxide
• Mica Flakes (all varieties)

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