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Golden Matte Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Use Golden Matte Mediums to extend acrylic paints while promoting even flow and leveling, and maintaining the film's stability. These 100% acrylic pol...
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Liquitex Acrylic Varnishes
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Item #: 00618
Liquitex Acrylic Varnishes, made from 100% acrylic polymer emulsions, form durable, permanent films when dry. They have excellent flexibility and resi...
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Liquitex Fluids Acrylic Mediums
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Item #: 00618
Liquitex Fluids Acrylic Mediums can be used as an extender and fixative for Liquitex Acrylic Paints, giving increased flow without affecting paint sta...
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Gamblin Refined Linseed Oil
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Item #: 00456
Pressed from 100% American flax seeds, Gamblin Refined Linseed Oil is must-have medium for today’s oil painter. Pure, light, and very pale, this highl...
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Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid
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Item #: 00628
Mix Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid with Golden Acrylics to make glazes for faux finishes on walls or furniture, or for glazing in fine art painting.
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Golden Interference and Iridescent Heavy Body Acrylic Paint
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Item #: 00620
Golden Interference and Iridescent Heavy Body Acrylics add an exciting range of options to your creative repertoire. Used alone, or mixed with other a...
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Golden Molding Paste Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Use Golden Molding Paste Mediums to add textured relief to paintings. Mix them with acrylic mediums and paints, such as Golden acrylics, to create thi...
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Winsor & Newton Liquin Original Medium
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Item #: 00445
Winsor & Newton Liquin Original is a durable, non-yellowing medium for thinning oil and alkyd colors, and speeding drying time. Liquin Original approx...
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Gamblin Solvent-Free Oil Gel Medium
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Item #: 00456
Since 1980, Gamblin has handcrafted luscious oil colors and contemporary painting mediums that are true to historic working properties, yet safer and ...
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Gamblin Gamvar Varnish
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Item #: 00456
Gamvar is a synthetic resin gloss varnish developed by conservators at the National Gallery. It can be used on acrylic paintings as well as oils. Gamv...
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Golden Soft Acrylic Gel Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Thinner than Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors, the Golden Soft Acrylic Gel Mediums are moderately pourable, hold only slight peaks, and are ideal for ...
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Liquitex Gel Mediums
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Item #: 00618
Gel mediums are ideal for extending a heavy body paint, to create impasto, relief, or sculptural effects.
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Golden Gloss Medium
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Item #: 00628
Golden Gloss Medium is a general-purpose liquid polymer for creating thin, fast-drying glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss, and increasing film ...
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Tri-Art Liquid Glass Acrylic Pouring Mediums
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Item #: 01690
Create perfect paint pours with Tri-Art Liquid Glass Acrylic Pouring Mediums. Combine it with fluid acrylics to create exciting effects and even flow ...
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Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Thicker in consistency than Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, the Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums hold peaks and dry translucent. They're ideal for thicken...
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Dorland's Wax Medium
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Item #: 00428
Adds translucency to oil paints, making them more brilliant. Also used as a final coat on dry paintings, metal sculpture, wood carvings, and antiques....
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Golden GAC 900 Fabric Medium
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Item #: 00628
Golden GAC 900 Fabric Medium is ideal for clothing artists. Blend it with acrylic colors to create fabric paints. When heat-set properly, this medium ...
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Golden GAC 100 Primer Extender Acrylic Polymer Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Dilute and extend colors, and increase flexibility and film integrity. Wets out solids more readily than other polymers, and is useful for artists mak...
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Golden Regular Acrylic Gel Mediums
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Item #: 00628
With a consistency similar to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, Golden Regular Acrylic Gel Medium regulates translucency without affecting consistency, hold...
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Liquitex Modeling Pastes
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Item #: 00618
Liquitex Modeling Paste is a thick, clay-like putty formulated with an acrylic polymer base and marble dust. Use alone or combine with acrylic colors ...
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Golden Extra Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums
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Item #: 00628
Golden Extra Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums holds peaks well and is ideal for impasto techniques. Along with the High Solid Gel, it's the thickest of the G...
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Gamblin Cold Wax Medium
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Item #: 00456
Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium is a soft paste formulated to make oil colors thicker and more matte. Cold Wax Medium is made with beeswax, resin, and miner...
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Golden Open Acrylic Mediums
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Item #: 02013
Formulated to a lower viscosity than Golden Open Acrylic colors, Golden Open Acrylic Mediums are ideal for increasing flow when a more fluid mixture i...
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Gamblin Galkyd Medium
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Item #: 00456
Gamblin Galkyd Medium is an alkyd resin painting medium that increases the fluidity of oil colors and speeds their drying time (thin layers will dry w...
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Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground
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Item #: 02124
Why should watercolor painting be limited to paper? Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground enables you to use watercolors on canvas, other fabrics, wood, plas...
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Winsor & Newton Artists' Spray Varnishes
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Item #: 00486
Winsor & Newton Artists' Spray Varnishes are the easiest way to provide paintings with superior, brushstroke-free protection against dirt, grease, and...
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Golden Acrylic Retarder
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Item #: 00628
Golden Retarder is an additive for slowing the drying (open) time of acrylic paints and mediums. It's useful for "wet-in-wet" techniques and for reduc...
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Gamblin Galkyd Lite Medium
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Item #: 00456
Gamblin Galkyd Lite is formulated to thin oil colors and maintain strong flexible paint films, with a viscosity similar to that of a traditional damar...
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Golden Crackle Paste
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Item #: 00681
Achieve amazing textures and patterns with Golden Crackle Paste. This thick, opaque medium cracks as it dries. Crack size increases with thicker appli...
Flexbond for Worbla Adhesive
Item #: 23942
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Perfect for cosplay creations or around the house, this multi-use glue and primer works with all types of foam, fabric, felt, and more. It dries smoot...
Featured Article
Is Varnishing Necessary?
Only the artist can say what’s right for their art, but there are important practical and aesthetic reasons behind the choice to varnish or not. Even though there are instances when paintings can or should be left without a top coating, most of the time applying varnish to a finished painting is a recommended practice because it protects paintings and enhances artwork appearance.
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Featured Lesson Plans
Face Book
Make an up-close-and-personal sketchbook or journal cover by creating a "face book" out of a cast and painted high relief face. Use quick mache to cast a face mold, then add modeling paste to customize the face. Create a realistic self-portrait, or morph the face into an animal or alien being! Finish with acrylic paint.
Blow up a Butterfly
Create an O'Keeffe-like butterfly wing in close detail using Plike (plastic-like) paper. Next, add pastels along with iridescent and pearlescent mixing mediums to capture the affect of a butterfly's wing in close-up.
Architectural Letters
In this lesson plan, students design and construct a 3-dimensional letter using one of their initials. The surface can be decorated with descriptive words and images that are personally meaningful and unique to the student's identity. Instead of wet, messy adhesive, this process uses paper packing tape to create papier mâché. This tape is inexpensive, easy, and tidy to use, and the finished letters are hard and durable.
Very, Very Simple Decorative Papers
Gathering flowers, leaves, fiber, ribbons and newspapers can expand children’s awareness of their environment. Results are awesome! Make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats.
Embossed Monoprints
Students learn the process of embossing a mono print — an extremely beautiful fine art.
Torn Paper Collage Journals
An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos.
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