Liquitex Acrylic Mediums

Liquitex Acrylic Mediums are made from 100% acrylic polymer emulsion that when dry form durable films. They are the binder of acrylic paint and have excellent flexibility and chemical, water and ultraviolet radiation resistance. They are added to acrylic paint to alter the paint handling characteristics, appearance or volume, producing an infinite variety of effects.

Airbrush Medium - A pre-filtered, ready-to-use medium that easily thins any acrylic, watercolor, or gouache to the right consistency for spray application. An excellent choice for color washes and watercolor techniques when used with acrylic colors. Mixes well with other mediums to adjust the body and handling properties. Maintains integrity of acrylics even at high dilutions, and decreases airbrush clogging and paint buildup. Use with Liquitex Soft Body Color for best results.

Fabric Medium - Liquitex Fabric Medium enhances blending, workability, and adhesion of acrylic colors for painting directly on fabric or unprimed canvas. Reduces dry paint stiffness. No heat setting required.

Flexible Modeling Paste - Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste is a matte, opaque preparation of marble dust and polymer emulsion. Dries more slowly than other modeling pastes to a hard, yet flexible surface. Recommended for use on supports with occasional flexing.

Flow Aid Medium - Breaks water tension to improve flow, absorbency and blending of any water based paint, ink or dye and minimizes brush strokes. Use with Liquitex Soft Body color to create very fluid washes without hard edges. Great for staining effects on raw canvas. Note: Be careful not to add more than 25% as there is no binder and it can weaken the stability of the paint film when too much is added.

Glazing Medium - Use Liquitex Glazing Medium when maximum transparency is required to add luminosity and depth to your paintings. This fluid medium can be used to create brilliant glazes when mixed with transparent color. Glazing Medium dries quickly for rapid layering and tends to minimize or eliminate brush strokes. Mix with Slow-Dri Blending Medium or Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder to extend the working time.

Gel Medium, Gloss - Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium is excellent for retaining brush marks while slowing the drying time and adding body to the paint. Mix with transparent colors for impasto glazes of great depth and brilliance. Excellent for transferring printed images.

Gel Medium, Gloss Heavy - Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel Medium is a very thick gel medium that extends working time and increases brilliance and transparency. Mix with acrylic paint to increase body and attain oil paint like consistency that holds brush or palette knife marks.

Gel Medium, Matte - Liquitex Matte Gel Medium is thick gel that imparts a translucent matte sheen when dry. Ideal for creating collages with heavier objects. Combine with Gloss Gel to create a customized satin finish.

Gel Medium, Super Heavy - Liquitex Super Heavy Gel is a super thick gel with high surface drag used to create a stiff oil-like feel. Ideal for creating high peaks and sculptural applications that hold shape when dry, with minimal shrinkage. This gel medium keeps paint workable longer than most other gel mediums. Available in Gloss or Matte

Gloss Medium - Liquitex Gloss Medium is the workhorse of the Liquitex Mediums range. Gloss Medium is an all-purpose medium that performs two functions. It can be used as a varnish and/or a fluid gloss medium. It improves adhesion of paint film and increases color depth, intensity, and gloss. It can also be used as a non-removable varnish to protect the surface and establish an even gloss sheen.

Liquithick Thickening Gel - A thickening gel for water soluble acrylic paint and mediums. Used in small amounts, produces handling characteristics very close to that of oil or encaustic paint. At higher concentrations, can thicken paint or mediums to a cake or sculptural consistency. Drying time will be between 24 hours to 7 days depending upon amount added to paint or medium. Liquithick produces a matte surface sheen when dry.

Modeling Paste - These pastes may be used to build heavy textures on rigid supports and create three-dimensional form which ideal for creating textures when wet as well as be carved on when dry.

Palette Wetting Spray - Liquitex Palette Wetting Spray is an innovative fluid acrylic resin designed to slow the drying of colors. Spray onto your palette or directly onto the surface of a painting. This medium improves color blending and can be used to thin color while maintaining film integrity. Use repeatedly to prevent paint from skinning over.

Pouring Mediums - These pouring mediums are designed to not craze in poured applications, which create even poured puddles and acrylic sheets. Mix with Soft Body Acrylic Color to promote drying with a smooth even colored film.

Slow-Dri Blending Gel - Liquitex Slow-Dri Blending Gel is a heavy body gel used to extend the open time of acrylics by more than 40% for easier blending. Add up to 50% without jeopardizing the strength of the paint film to achieve excellent impasto techniques.

Slow-Dri Blending Medium - Liquitex Slow-Dri Blending Medium is an essential medium for creating softer edges and modeled forms. This medium is used to extend the open time of acrylics by more than 40 percent, giving you an opportunity to really work the paint to enhance color blending. You can add up to 50 percent of this medium, as it contains binder to retain the integrity of the paint film, unlike the additives version.

Slow-Dri Gel Retarder - Liquitex Slow-Dri Gel Retarder is an excellent choice when working in low humidity, or whenever increased workability and blending time of acrylic paints and mediums is desired. Will retain brushstrokes and add body to lower viscosity colors.

String Gel - Liquitex String Gel is a self leveling gel with honey-like consistency. Gently pouring yields a long, constant-flowing string of gel. Mix with acrylic color for interesting application affects, to enhance depth of color, and to increase transparency and flow. Mixed with acrylic color and brushed, color follows the brush creating long streaking effects.

Super Heavy Gel, Matte- Liquitex Matte Super Heavy Gel is a super thick gel which retains high-peaks and crisp brush and knife strokes with very little shrinkage. This medium keeps paint workable longer than most other gel mediums and dries to a translucent matte finish.

Ultra Matte Gel - Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel is a gel with high resin solids that dries to a matte finish. Maintains color opacity and extends paint to double amounts without changing color position. This product is meant to be used with opaque colors where transparency is not desired. Dries to a dead matte finish with absolutely no level of sheen.