Liquitex Professional Matte Fluid Medium - 237 ml

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By the end of this article, you should have a good grasp of the most common mediums and additives you might find useful additions to your toolbox, and how they might benefit your future painting endeavours. Matt & Gloss Medium If you are using colours that dry with different finishes (such as GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylic) you can mix some medium into those paints to give all the colours you are using a uniform finish once dry. Liquitex Profession Glazing Medium - Glossy medium that dries with a clear finish when used neat. Use with acrylic paint to create glazes or acrylic ink to make smooth acrylic washes. Acrylic paint is an incredibly adaptable medium and benefits greatly from a broad selection of pastes and gels that can be used to increase viscosity, create shimmering effects and so on. Here are selection of some of those mediums:

Daler Rowney Simply Gesso - an economically priced student quality gesso primer fit for use on paper, canvas and wooden board.Flow improver is an additive that decreases the surface tension of acrylic paint and increases its flow. Some brands have their own name for flow improver such as; flow aid and wetting agent, but they are all inherently the same thing. GOLDEN Gloss/Satin Glazing Liquid - Highly fluid acrylic glazing medium which can be used to thin acrylic colour without diluting pigment strength. Use to create highly transparent glazes when mixed with acrylic colour and comes in Gloss and Satin finishes. Liquitex Professional Acrylic Mediums - High quality artist's acrylic medium for extending colour and increasing transparency. Available in Matt and Gloss

Winsor & Newton Galeria Varnish - Dries in a clear protective resinous film and offers protection from light, dust and surface damage. Apply with a brush in multiple thin coats. Liquitex Professional Clear Gesso - premium quality gesso that provides good adhesion and absorbency for acrylic paints whilst drying clear and thus preserving the surface's original colour. Galeria Iridescent Medium – A translucent acrylic gel with an iridescent pigment for creating a shimmering prismatic interference effect with paint. It can be applied directly to work or mixed with acrylic paints to make iridescent colours. Retarder or slow drying medium is a gel additive that increases the drying time of acrylic paints by decreasing evaporation speed of the water in the acrylic paint. This allows for acrylic paint to be worked and blended for longer before drying and facilitates the alla prima (wet-on-wet) technique, which is usually reserved for oil paints and their naturally slower drying time. It also keeps paint usable on the palette for longer.

Liquitex Professional Pouring Medium - This medium increases flow and maintains colour strength for pouring techniques, creates marbling effects and colours do not bleed into each other when pouring. Dries with a high gloss finish. Flow Improvers must be diluted with water, when used this way the thin acrylic colour and increase flow without separating the binder from the pigment. Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Gesso - a range of superior artist quality gesso that provides excellent absorbency, adhesion, coverage and tooth in fewer coats. GOLDEN Polymer Varnish w/UVLS - Robust acrylic polymer varnish with UltraViolet Light Stabiliser (UVLS) designed to give maximum protection against prolonged exposure to UV light sources. Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Slow Drying Medium - Clear acrylic medium which increases the drying time of colour by up to 4 times when used with Winsor's own artist acrylic paints. Dries with a slight sheen.

Sometimes referred to as "acrylic painting medium" consists of the acrylic binder used in paints without any pigment in it. When mixed with acrylic paint they extend the paint, increase the transparency and maintain no colour shift from wet to dry. Think of it as mixing transparent paint into another colour, you get more binder but not more pigment. GOLDEN Clear Self Levelling Gel – A fluid acrylic medium which increases flow and imparts a smooth level finish to the paint it is mixed with. Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Mediums - An economical acrylic medium for increasing transparency and extending colour.

What Are Acrylic Mediums

GOLDEN Retarder - Slows water evaporation from acrylic paints and increases open time up to 40%. Mix with paint on palette to prevent skinning and keep colours workable for longer over extended painting sessions. Galeria White Gesso Primer - high quality acrylic primer providing a suitable base layer for painting on top of that acts to seal the support and provide adhesion for paint. Liquitex Professional Slow-Dri Blending Gel - An acrylic gel medium that slows drying time, boosts workability for up to 40% longer. The medium softens edges and increases blending potential for acrylic paint. For a comprehensive guide to varnishing take a look at our blog all about varnishing here: Varnishing Acrylic Paintings verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{

Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Mediums - Artist quality acrylic medium for increasing transparency, flow and extending acrylic paint. GOLDEN Wetting Aid - Surfactant solution that decreases the surface tension acrylic paint and increases flow whilst greatly reducing paint mark retention. Ideal for when smooth application and thin paint layers are required. Montana Varnish Spray - A clear protective varnish with built in UV resistance to reduce fading. Increases durability, protects against the weather and will not yellow with age. This canvas has been primed with white, clear and grey gesso and then left unprimed on the far right side. You can see how the paint has bled into the unprimed space and gives a fuzzy edged finish.Glazing mediums slightly increase paint drying time, have self-levelling qualities, increase flow and dry with a smooth finish.