BLACK 2.0 - The world's mattest, flattest, black art material by Stuart Semple

These false claims make me very angry. You spend so much money to get an overpriced dark grey paint. I bought it on a different site than Amazon. Straight to the point: any Jet Black by good companies such as Turner Acryl Gouache will be darker and as matte than Culture Hustle's 3.0 (and let's totally forget their failed 1.0 and 2.0). They also claim it's lightfast but don't state which pigment was used. Why should we believe them? It's not the first time they make fake claims.

Really deep flat black, awesome look

If you leave this paint 'flat' (without a clear coat) it will not be as black as you might expect. A "flat" surface simply means that all light hitting it is either absorbed or reflected back out in a scattered fashion, hence the non shiny flatness look. If you put a shiny clear coat glaze over it WILL LOOK DARKER but again there will be shiny spots where the light source is reflected back out in a columnar fashion to the eye when seen at tangent angles.The trick is to absorb ALL the light falling on the surface of the paint. This paint did not do this for me.The closest thing to this end (non reflective black) is a well made black velvet cloth.I am giving it five stars (assuming it holds) because I would like the optomistic minds to see this information. It is actually a negative five stars.

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I can’t describe how satisfying Black 2.0 is to paint with. It’s black, sure. I mean, yeah, it’s black black. But the even more amazing thing about it is how smooth it goes on, and such amazing coverage! It’s almost like the thing you’re painting is disappearing. I’ve been looking around the house for things to paint black, just to paint them black. Wife is not thrilled about this, by the way.This is probably the blackest paint you’ve ever seen, until Black 3.0. So I’m going to rag and brag on both Black 2.0 and Black 3.0 now. Black 2.0 looks gray compared side-by-side with 3.0. But 3.0 is awful to work with, in my opinion. The best thing to do is prime whatever you want to paint using Black 2.0 and put a top coat of 3.0 on it. Even then, sometimes the 3.0 tends to have whitish- I don’t know what- like, residue lines on it. I can’t explain, it’s like maybe the water I diluted with was contaminated (but I use DI water, and clean my brushes with DI) or it leached something out of the object. Anyway, with enough fuss you can get the thing coated, but not with the same joie de vivre as Black 2.0. And a dab of 3.0 will not have anywhere near the same coverage as 2.0. BTW, you can tell that Black 2.0 and 3.0 are totally different fundamentally, not just a tweak in the recipe, by how they clean up. A molecule of Black 2.0 will turn your whole sink black, but 3.0 cleans up easily.

I applied the matt, flat black ink on the interior walls of a mechanical focusing ring adapter for camera lenses to cover all bright polished and shiny faces in order to prevent unwanted light reflection. I recommend the Stuart Semple black.