Black 3.0
With my recent excursion into black painting, I have been searching for the darkest, mattest black possible. To achieve a matte black I have been laboriously grating charcoal into my paint. It’s a slow process and charcoal isn’t cheap! However, my charcoal scraping days are over as I’m currently awaiting the arrival of Black 3.0 - The World’s Blackest Black.
Black 3.0 is the creation of artist Stuart Semple sold on his website Culture Hustle. I’m currently using Daley Rowney Graduate Black but it does reflect light. I’m curious to see how the Stuart Semple paint compares. Although it’s perhaps not paint I could use to paint an entire canvas since Black 3.0 cost £19 a bottle compared to my Daley Rowney which costs £2.95, which makes Black 3.0 only suitable to use on small areas.
“Stuart Semple is behind our creations, he’s a renowned British artist, who has been making paintings and doing art shows around the world for about 15 years. A bit like painters used to do in the old days, Stuart made his own materials to use in his work (initially looking for the most vibrant colour palette out there). Stuart’s materials all had special qualities and he started to call them ‘the artyist art materials’. He made powders like the world’s pinkest pink & glitteriest glitter. ”
Black 3.0 is a follow on, not surprisingly, from Black 2.0 and promises to absorb all light, kinda like a black hole.
There are other paints in the collection such as glitter, neons and metallics. His metallic collection, Heavy metal, acknowledges how crap acrylic metallics normally are and promises his are properly metallic. I use a lot of metallic paint in my art so this will likely be what I try next.
However, I will of course report back on just how black this Black 3.0 really is….
