* Hi.
I am so proud to announce that I have bought the world's blackest, darkest, most light-absorbing paint in existence.
It's called Black 3.0.
And I'm sure most of you guys have never even heard of this paint,
let alone the crazy backstory that is involved with the creation of this paint.
And if you haven't ever heard of a backstory, buckle up, you're in for a wild ride.
Back in 2017, Surrey NanoSystems
created Vantablack.
Now, Vantablack is not a paint. It's a lab-grown material that absorbs 99.96
of all light. Originally, it was designed for spaceships, satellite, Aerospace technology, and other things I am too dumb to understand.
And when you look at Vantablack, it doesn't even look real. It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Now, the technology of Vantablack was
very difficult to make. You had to make it in the lab under the very specific conditions of the Surrey NanoSystems,
it was toxic and it was very expensive to make. Enter in Anish Kapoor.
And I hate to admit it,
because I am an art channel, but I had no idea who this guy was. If you're from America in the Chicago area,
you might have recognized this specific artwork of his, that big bean thing. Very rich, very popular artist.
He ended up scoring a whole entire exclusive
licensing bill with Vantablack where he would be the only person who would work with this laboratory in creating artwork that has
Vantablack in it and to put it lightly, the whole entire art community saw it as
a real dick move.
But you have to remember, these are scientists that have absolutely no intention of working with art
so they were just kind of like, eh, okay, you, you have millions of dollars that can continue funding us,
you - you can have it.
And this p*ssed off one artist in particular, Stuart Semple.
Out of one hundred percent complete pettiness of Anish Kapoor having the world's blackest black, Stuart Semple created the world's pinkest pink.
And he made the pinkest pink available to any single person in the world who wanted to buy it.
Except for Anish Kapoor. His pettiness went so far,
in order for you to purchase the world's pinkest pink, you basically agree to a waiver saying that you are not
affiliated or you are not Anish Kapoor in any way, shape or form and you will not give the product to Anish Kapoor.
Like, how petty is that?
Now, this really really really p*ssed off Anish Kapoor
so he posted on his public Instagram a picture of him basically flipping off Stuart Semple using his own product.
So completely out of anger retaliation, Semple went after the prized possession Vantablack,
and he basically recreated a rival paint called black 3.0.
Unlike Vantablack, it is completely safe. It's very cheap in price, coming in at only $22,
and it's made out of one of the most simple art supplies known to man, acrylic paint.
So just to sum it up, not only did Semple create the blackest paint in existence,
he also created the most petty paint in existence.
And the story ends very ironically because in the end, it didn't even matter,
all of this stuff, because in 2019, MIT and an artist named Diemut Strebe,
they ended up making an even darker material with a light absorption of
99.9996% of all lights, making it darker than Vantablack.
Now, even though this is technically not the "darkest material in existence,"
it is the darkest paint in existence. Even though I'm an art channel and I've worked with literally hundreds of different types of paint,
I've never worked with anything like this. So yeah, without further ado let's get this party started!
*Music*
Black 3.0.
Oh, yes, that packaging! Oh! Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful.
This is probably the most unique packaging I have ever seen for a paint, which is absolutely fantastic.
Now, on the sides it has instructions on how to use it.
"Keep out of reach of kids and animals" - I'm talking to you, Miss Bowie! "Do shake well before use."
And first, I'm gonna go in with the cheapest black paint that I have, this is the Crafters' Square acrylic paint.
I picked it up for one dollar at the Dollar Tree.
And I picked it - oh! Oh my god, it's so watery! I've never seen acrylic paint that's this watery.
And the reason I'm choosing this paint is because it's probably one of the most least pigmented black paints that you're gonna find out there,
so you'll really get an idea of how dark this paint is in comparison.
So yeah, let's see.
Oh god, this paint is horrible. It looks like jelly or something. Oh my god.
All right, now let me pour a little bit of the black 3.
Okay, so here it is. I'm gonna give it maybe about 10 minutes to dry and I will be right back.
I think it has to dry completely down in order for you to like, get that full light absorbing tendencies, so I will be right back.
So here's the Dollar Tree black and here
is black 3.0. It's absolutely incredible!
Now, the camera just isn't gonna do justice to what it looks like to the naked eye because in person, it looks insane!
It's 100% completely matte, completely black. To me,
it looks exactly like charcoal or even like, a black velvety texture, but unlike charcoal nothing gets on your hand,
it completely dries down and sticks to whatever object you paint it to.
Even my boyfriend freaked out when he saw it!
-And then right underneath that is the world's blackest paint. -Okay.
Yeah.
Whoa!
Yeah!
Now, one of the things that makes Vantablack just absolutely fascinating is its ability to make a 3D object look 2D.
And since black 3.0 can absorb 99% of all light,
I'm very curious to see if we can recreate that same exact effect with these pumpkins.
So I'm going to paint one of these pumpkins completely in black 3.0 and we'll see what the results are.
Okay, sorry for the weird angle, it's just that I don't want you guys to see where I live because...
privacy.
But yeah, I'm outside, I have the painted pumpkin and you guys are not gonna believe what it looks like, here.
Okay, so here's the regular
and then here's the painted pumpkin.
Uh, so yeah, I kind of expected it to be a little bit more, I guess, dramatic than what it currently is.
The sunlight was really strong and just naturally on a 3D object it produced shadows
and to be fair, even the Vantablack car you can still see that same situation of light reflecting off of it,
but I gotta say this paint truly shines
or doesn't, depending on how you look at it.
During a low light situation, once it started getting dark outside and I had just a lamp on,
I was blown away by how dark it was. I loved how it looks like a black void that's a pumpkin shape,
it's just so insanely cool.
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait! Don't turn it off just yet! I have to explain what I'm doing.
So I did a video on TikTok and I asked you guys what else you wanted me to do with the black paint,
shameless self-promo part 2,
and someone brought up the comment that they wanted me to put it on a light bulb and see if the light bulb
will absorb the light. I think this more or less has to do with like, an opacity issue as opposed to it
being a light absorbent, but I just thought we'd try it out. So obviously this is my YouTube light for filming,
this is the thing that turns it on. I'm gonna turn this on,
we're gonna turn off the bathroom light and if you see any light, it's radiating from this. Okay, you ready?
One, two, three.
Oh, nothing!
Dang! Okay, go ahead, turn it back on. Dang. Okay,
so yeah, there you have it. Not only does it completely cover up the light but it doesn't radiate any light underneath it,
so that's pretty incredible, right?
Presenting the world's most pointless light bulb.
All right, so now that we know what the black 3.0 looks like against the Dollar Tree paint,
it's not the best comparison. So I went ahead, I went through my massive art supply collection,
I picked out the blackest paints that I think would be even comparable to this black
3.0 and we'll see how drastic or not drastic the difference is between this paint and my other high-quality black paint.
So we're going to start this off with Master's Touch acrylic paint in permanent black.
Now, the Master's Paint, %I would say it's not 100% artist-grade quality. It's like a nice middle between professional and student.
The black 3.0 is way way way way WAY darker than the Master's Touch
but when I tilt my head from a different angle, the Master's Touch surprisingly is darker than the black 3.0.
Next up we're gonna try charcoal.
Oh, wow. I would say that they're very very very comparable.
Oh my goodness. Now that I'm looking at it,
I'm actually really blown away by how much this black 3.0 looks like a liquid charcoal, basically.
Now if you remember earlier from the beginning of this video, I had mentioned Vantablack.
Well, if you guys remember my painting series where I test out the rarest paints in the world,
the person who recreates the paint colors,
he actually recreated a Vantablack which I purchased. Even though this is not technically Vantablack,
this is basically a replica that my paint dealer recreated. From what I can remember, this thing is loaded up with black pigment.
Just on a side note, I got a new cleaning tank and look how clean and beautiful it is!
Right off the bat, the Vblack looks a lot lighter than the black 3.0.
I would say that it has a lot more red and brown.
I'll insert a photo.
Uh, so for the next comparison, we're going to try out an Ohuhu alcohol-based marker, so here we go.
Oh, yeah, no way. That's like, way way way lighter.
This alcohol-based marker is definitely the lightest one out of the group.
Sad, I really thought it would be a lot darker than what it is.
And this brings us to the last comparison.
Now, what you're about to see is the darkest, most pigmented, most
concentrated, most black matte paint that I have ever ever ever used in the history of my whole entire life.
This is the super black India ink by Speedball.
This poor ink man, it's on its last legs as you can see.
Now, if you guys saw the video where I tested out this Vblack, you guys remember that this
India ink was drastically darker than the Vblack and I have a feeling that this India ink is going to be the most
comparable to the black 3. Now, this paint is so concentrated,
you usually want to thin it out, but I'm just gonna go straight in there today.
Okay, so I cannot believe I'm saying this: the black 3.0
is drastically darker than the India ink super black paint.
I did not think that was gonna happen! I had so much confidence in this paint because it is so so so dark
and out of all of these swatches, by far the most equivalent would be the charcoal stick.
and I think there's something there because
this is made out of carbon as well as the Vantablack. If you remember,
it's also made out of carbon absorbing light,
and I think it just gives charcoal that extra impressiveness that it is as dark as like, the most dark paint that's available.
But I think black 3.0 is way way way more versatile because obviously with black chalk you can easily just wipe it off.
That's not the case for black 3.0. You can put it on any surface that acrylic paint will go on.
This paint is absolutely awesome,
this is by far one of the most incredible paints that I have ever purchased in the history of my whole entire life.
As long as you're not Anish Kapoor, I will link the paint down below for you to purchase
if you are interested in that sort of thing.
I definitely can see me painting so many things just pure black with this paint. It is awesome.
This is black 3.0. I can't wait until it just gets progressively darker and darker and darker.
I'll leave my social, second channel, everything down below. And yeah, with that being said guys, thank you so much again -
Try that again. Yeah, with that being said guys, thank you so much again for watching and I will see you next video. Bye!