Liquitex offers the broadest range of acrylic mediums to spark creativity at every stage of the painting process. Liquitex Gel Mediums enhance thicker paint for impasto techniques while also extending colour volume and increasing transparency. Gels typically dry more slowly than thinner paint films, providing additional workable time.

Gel mediums can modify acrylic paints in various ways, and since they contain acrylic resins, they tend to improve adhesion and durability. Liquitex gel mediums can add texture, enhance colour, and increase transparency within your work. Liquitex Gloss Gel Painting Medium is a transparent medium that dries to a gloss finish. Its viscosity and body are similar to Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Colour, and it dries clear to translucent, depending on the thickness of the application. It is an ideal medium to mix with Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Colour to extend paint, enhance brilliance and transparency of colour, without altering the thickness of the paint.

APPLICATIONS:

AS EXTENDER: Combine with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Colour to enhance volume and increase transparency while keeping the paint viscosity consistent. Combine with Liquitex Soft Body Artist Colour to enhance volume and increase transparency while increasing paint viscosity.

AS GROUND: Use transparent ground for acrylic paint instead of gesso to allow the substrate to be seen. Wash cotton or linen canvas before use to prevent substrate-induced discoloration (SID). When applying Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium to raw canvas, use adequate pressure to force the medium into the canvas weave to ensure proper bonding between the gel and canvas.

FOR COLLAGE: Excellent adhesion for collage and decoupage.

USING POWDERED PIGMENTS: Use as a binder for powdered pigments to create an affordable "student grade" heavy body (thick) gloss acrylic paint or to achieve unique paint films. The pigment must be compatible with the acrylic emulsion.