Acrylic Mediums

Apply Crackle Medium over Jo Sonja's colors to get a fine crazing effect.

Kroma Crackle is a versatile, semi-opaque, acrylic gel medium that develops amazingly unique, organic textures as it dries. It can be applied to both rigid and flexible surfaces including wood, cloth, canvas, and paper.

Pebeo Crackling Effect Modeling Paste is designed to help you achieve a crackled effect when used alone or in combination with acrylic paint.

For use with Blick Artists' Acrylic paints. Types: Gloss Medium, Matte Medium, Gesso Medium, Gel Medium, Acrylic Retarder, Acrylic Remover, Gesso, Modeling Paste, Matte Varnish

Types: Gesso--apply as ground to any surface. Gel--use to achieve glazing, texturing, and impasto effects. Polymer Gloss--apply over painting to produce a glossy surface. All mixable with other acrylic brands.

Chroma Atelier Traditional Mediums contain a traditional acrylic binder that tends to dry quickly and forms a tough, water-resistant skin. Use these acrylic mediums for traditional overpainting and layering techniques, to add texture and structure, and to extend your paints.

These mediums will extend and enhance the performance of Chromacryl acrylic paints. Use them to prepare painting surfaces, achieve effects such as transparent color glazing, slow paint drying time, and add interesting textures.

Golden Gel Mediums offer artists many ways to build texture. They range in consistency from pourable to moldable with varying degrees of sheen and transparency. They can be used to create glazes, extend paints, and change finishes.

Golden Gel UV Topcoats retain brushstrokes while protecting prints, paper, and other materials from fading. Use these gels to add texture or create a clear barrier prior to working with paint or other materials.

Grumbacher 531 Acrylic Transparentizer Gel is a full-bodied acrylic painting medium designed to increase the transparency of semi-transparent and transparent acrylic colors while maintaining the consistency of tube colors.

Gel mediums are ideal for extending a heavy body paint, to create impasto, relief, or sculptural effects.

All New Masters gel mediums can be mixed with New Masters Classic Acrylics and other New Masters Mediums. Choose from Heavy Gel, High Build Gel, Soft Gel, or Standard Gel. 500 ml jars.

Pebeo Studio Acrylic Gel Mediums offer artists unlimited creative possibilities. The technical and plastic qualities of each medium let artists create new materials and textures.

Truly indispensable for optimizing the qualities of Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paints, these acrylic gel mediums can be used to improve the transparency, depth, and quality of colors.

Utrecht Acrylic Gel Mediums are fully intermixable with all brands of acrylic paint and are also an excellent value.

This gel is ideal for use with acrylic color to create moderate to heavy impasto structure. Mix with acrylic color to increase gloss, transparency, and structure without any texture particles. Heavy Structure Gel maintains a satin finish.

Texture gels are granular paste gels containing additives to create special textured effects without affecting color stability or permanence. They are ideal for "natural" textures such as landscape paintings and craft applications.

Golden Interference and Iridescent Heavy Body Acrylics add an exciting range of options to your creative repertoire. Used alone, or mixed with other acrylic paints, they enable you to achieve color effects that are truly spectacular.

Makes all acrylic colors iridescent, while allowing the artist to control the iridescent intensity.

All New Masters gel mediums can be mixed with New Masters Classic Acrylics and other New Masters Mediums. This is a universal pearlescent gel. For best results, add 20% acrylic paint and mix to an even paste.

Pebeo Phosphorescent Gel absorbs natural or artificial light and re-emits it when the lights are turned out. Mix it with acrylic colors or apply it straight from the tube to create amazing luminous effects.

This fun acrylic glaze goes on clear and dries clear to reveal iridescent glitter. Use it alone or over any acrylic paint for an exciting accent.

Utrecht Iridescent Tinting Medium is a medium-bodied acrylic base used to create a smooth, pearlescent, metallic-like effect when mixed into acrylic colors.

Vallejo Pearlescent Medium is formulated with mica. Mix it with acrylic colors to create an iridescent luster, or apply the acrylic medium by itself for a silvery iridescent effect. It comes in plastic bottles.

Mix with acrylic color or apply over the top of dry color to give a unique effect of "light interference." Use on a variety of surfaces to create stunning pearlescent effects.

Create puddles, drips, ribbons, and more with Chroma Atelier Pouring Medium. This self-leveling medium makes acrylic paint pouring techniques easy and fun. It thins paint so it pours easily to form smooth, even puddles. Dries to a beautiful gloss finish.

Create a smooth, high-end finish for your acrylic paintings with DecoArt Clear Pouring Topcoat. Ideal for canvases, wood panels, and other flat art surfaces, this topcoat flows into a thick, self-leveling, crystal clear coating. Convenient one-step formula.

DecoArt Pouring Medium is a fluid additive specially formulated to enhance paint flow. This medium thins acrylic paint to the ideal consistency for pouring, without sacrificing adhesive properties or slowing the drying time. Its flexible film won't crack or craze.

Use Demco Acrylic Silicone Oil to make cell effects in your next acrylic pouring work. Just add a few drops this acrylic painting medium to a mixture of pouring medium and fluid acrylics, and pour the mix onto your painting surface.

Liquitex Pouring Medium creates even puddles, poured sheets, and flowing applications of color without crazing or cracking. The paint film dries without holding bubbles.

Combine Pebeo Silicone Oil with acrylic paints and pouring mediums to create mesmerizing, cell-like effects. The bottle cap has an attached dropper for precise application.

This glossy, transparent, non-yellowing fluid medium is ideal for use with acrylic paints and silicone oil, which creates cell-like effects in paint. Pouring Medium can also be used as a varnish over a finished piece.

Create unique designs by mixing this marbling medium with acrylic craft paint. Colors stay true and won't mix together. Great on canvas, ceramic, wood, metal, terra cotta, glass, and more.

Tri-Art Self-Leveling Gel is the ideal medium for creating thick, level glazes without brush strokes. When used to extend colour it will impart its self-leveling properties to other Tri-Art Acrylic products.

Add Tri-Art Liquid Glass Cell Flow Medium to dirty paint pours to create mesmerizing cell-like shapes in the paint.

Create perfect paint pours with Tri-Art Liquid Glass Pouring Medium. Combine it with fluid acrylics to create exciting effects and even flow and suspension. It dries to a very hard, clear, smooth, and glossy finish without crazing.

Quick-drying Vallejo Acrylic Fluid Medium dries flexible and waterproof. It's available in Gloss, Matte, and Satin formulas and comes in plastic bottles.

Self-leveling Vallejo Pouring Medium is ideal for techniques of dripping, pouring, and direct application on large surfaces. The acrylic medium dries to a clear, flexible, glossy finish, which is permanent, non-yellowing, and water-resistant when dry.

Chroma Atelier Traditional Mediums contain a traditional acrylic binder that tends to dry quickly and forms a tough, water-resistant skin. Use these acrylic mediums for traditional overpainting and layering techniques, to add texture and structure, and to extend your paints.

Fredrix Powdered Marble Dust can be used to make acrylic modeling paste, glue base gesso, and all water and oil dispersed paints. It is made from pH neutral basic calcium carbonate.

Molding Pastes, also called Modeling Pastes, can be used to add textured relief to a painting. Create thick impasto layers, Mix them with other products, such as Golden Acrylic colors. They are water-based, formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsions.

This is a flexible, durable paste for creating textured surfaces to be over-painted with oil or acrylic paints. Apply it to canvas, wood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, masonry, and other surfaces.

Use Holbein Acrylic Modeling Pastes to build up richly textured surface forms on canvas, board, or other painting substrates. They come in a number of specialized formulas.

Lascaux's modeling pastes offer the artist a ready-to-use paste to build structure for relief painting. Used with a spatula or painting knife, both pastes dry without cracking, even when applied in thick layers.

Use these modeling pastes to create interesting, textured surfaces. The Coarse Modeling Paste features a fantastic gritty feel and good, even application. The Fine Modeling Paste has a creamy consistency and can be used to build up textural effects.

Truly indispensable for optimizing the qualities of Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paints, these modeling pastes allow for the creation of coatings and relief.

Use modeling paste for building up surfaces. It has a high viscosity, good for achieving stiff peaks and crisp, rigid texture. Once fully cured, it can be sanded or carved. Use it alone, or in combination with gesso, to create textured grounds.

This flexible medium thickens color and allows artists to build up depth in layers after allowing each to dry. Modelling Paste can be mixed with color or used to overpaint. This opaque medium may lighten some colors, and it dries to an even, matte finish.

Types: Gesso--apply as ground to any surface. Gel--use to achieve glazing, texturing, and impasto effects. Polymer Gloss--apply over painting to produce a glossy surface. All mixable with other acrylic brands.

Golden's GAC Mediums are the raw materials from which other acrylic mediums are created. Use them to modify the working characteristics and appearance of Golden Acrylics and other acrylic paints.

Golden Gloss Medium is a general purpose liquid polymer for creating thin, fast-drying glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss, and increasing film integrity. It's oil-like and resinous, promoting flow and leveling.

Use polymer and matte mediums to extend and thin acrylic paints, while promoting even flow and leveling, and maintaining the film's stability. Mix gloss and matte mediums to create a custom satin finish.

These artist-grade acrylic mediums can be used to alter paint characteristics such as flow, transparency, gloss, and drying time for a virtually endless array of creative effects.

Holbein Acrylic Mediums offer professional quality at an affordable price. They can be mixed with Holbein Acryla paints or any good-quality acrylic to extend paint volume and improve flow.

Create a myriad of unique, customized textures, finishes, and special effects with Lascaux Acrylic Mediums, formulated with the same dedication to performance and quality as Lascaux Acrylic Paints. All mediums are acrylic-based and can be safely mixed together.

Liquitex Acrylic Mediums are made from 100% acrylic polymer emulsion and form durable films when dry. They alter the handling characteristics, appearance, or volume to produce an infinite variety of effects.

Add texture, adjust paint flow, and alter the working properties of your Basics Acrylic Colors and other student-grade acrylic paints with Liquitex Basics Acrylic Mediums. Developed for students and artists who require dependable quality at an economical price. Certified AP non-toxic.

Use with Liquitex colors as a painting and glazing medium, and as a final picture varnish.

Use Gloss Medium and Matte Medium to change the surface and finish of M. Graham Acrylics, or acrylic paints of other manufacturers. Like all polymer mediums, they dry to a clear finish. The matte medium will appear more cloudy.

All New Masters mediums can be mixed with New Masters Classic Acrylics and other New Masters Mediums. These are mediums without thickener for increasing the fluidity of acrylic paint. They dry as durable transparent, matte, or satin films.

Hollow acrylic microspheres work to scatter light and radically increase hiding power. Milky and translucent when wet, Opacifying Medium dries to an optically opaque matte finish. It can be mixed with acrylic colors in any proportion.

Use polymer mediums for extending any viscosity of acrylic paint. Polymer mediums are translucent when wet, and they dry to a clear, flexible film which has excellent resistance to water and ultraviolet radiation.

Medium-bodied Utrecht Acrylic Gloss and Matte Mediums are fully intermixable with all brands of acrylic paint and are also an excellent value.

A medium of intermediate viscosity, quick-drying Vallejo Medium is flexible and waterproof when dry. It's available in Gloss, Matte, and Satin formulas and comes in plastic bottles.

Winsor & Newton Galeria Polymer Mediums

Matte and Gloss Varnish, Extender. Matte Varnish - Provides a protective finish coat of toughness and flexibility. Clear and non-yellowing. Strong enough to resist chemicals, heat and abrasion. Cleans easily with water. 8-oz

Breaks the surface tension of water, increasing its ability to soak into porous surfaces. This allows the acrylic painter to achieve rich stains on surfaces such as watercolor paper and unprimed canvas.

Increases the flow, absorbency, and blending of any water-based paint, ink, or dye, while minimizing brush strokes.

Liquitex Palette Wetting Spray slows the drying time of acrylic color on palette or canvas. It also improves color blending. Simply spray and re-spray as needed to prevent acrylic paint from skinning over.

Liquitex offers a variety of specialty products, including Fluid Mediums, Gel Mediums, Texture Gels, and Additives that have been specifically designed for various techniques and applications, and to achieve special effects.

This clear-drying gel has characteristics similar to Slow-Dri Blending Fluid. Use it where retention of brushstrokes and impasto effects are desired. It increases the "open" working time up to 40%.

Reeves Artist Painting Medium is designed to thin acrylics and increase flow. It enhances adhesion and durability and increases transparency, intensity, and gloss. Shake well before use. 75 ml (2.5 oz) bottle.

Truly indispensable for optimizing the qualities of Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paints, these acrylic fluid mediums create a wide variety of effects and have an adhesive property that adapts well to collage and inlay work.

Utrecht Illuminating Medium is a light-bodied acrylic medium that increases the chromatic intensity of acrylic colors of all opacities. Use it to enhance focal points or to produce a greater effect of light overall.

A dense, heavy-bodied acrylic paste, Utrecht Modeling Paste Extender can be mixed with acrylic colors for impasto techniques or applied straight from the jar to create textured grounds.

A highly economical medium, Winsor & Newton Galeria Extender increases the volume of paint and maintains opacity. Colors will dry to a matte finish. This is a great product for those with limited budgets.

Winsor & Newton Galeria Flow Improver is an additive that loosens the surface tension of water within the acrylic film. It increases flow, allowing the artist to apply areas of flat color evenly.

Winsor & Newton Flow Improver increases flow and workability on non-absorbent surfaces for flat, even color and hard edges. No reduction in color strength occurs when mixed with Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic. Dilute in water to a ratio of 1:20.

Add Acrylic Retarder to color to slow drying.

These fine products from Chroma allow you to gain control over the painting process. They make working with acrylics easier and allow you more flexibility without requiring you to learn new techniques.

These mediums will extend and enhance the performance of Chromacryl acrylic paints. Use them to prepare painting surfaces, achieve effects such as transparent color glazing, slow paint drying time, and add interesting textures.

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 reducing skinning on the palette.

These mediums were developed specifically for use with Golden Open Acrylics. Use them to add versatility and extend working time while painting.

Use Slow-Dri Retarders with Liquitex Acrylics to extend drying time. Slow-Dri increases transparency when floating, shading, blending, and washing colors.

Maimeri Acrylic Retarder is a translucent gel that increases the drying time of acrylic colors. It increases brightness without altering viscosity.

All New Masters gel mediums can be mixed with New Masters Classic Acrylics and other New Masters Mediums. This gel slows the drying time of acrylic paints. It has the same viscosity as the New Masters Classic Acrylics.

Truly indispensable for optimizing the qualities of Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paints, these acrylic retarders extend working and drying time.

Tri-Art Retarder is a water based product designed to slow down the drying time of acrylic colors. Mix it with colors and mediums at up to 15% concentration to increase open time and allow for greater manipulation.

Utrecht Retarder Gel Medium slows the drying time of acrylics, enabling you to execute techniques normally limited to oil painting, such as working wet-on-wet.

This translucent gel extends the drying time of acrylic colors.

Use Slow Drying Medium in a maximum ratio of 1:1 to increase drying time up to twice the normal time. No color shift occurs when mixed with Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic. This medium also increases transparency and depth while maintaining viscosity.

Use System 3 Acrylic Screen Printing Medium in conjunction with System 3 Acrylics for a safe, solvent-free alternative to traditional printmaking. System 3's rich pigmentation assures the strong, clear color definition demanded by professional printmakers.

Golden's Silkscreen Medium is a waterborne system designed to blend with Golden Acrylic colors for silkscreen application. It increases the working time and retards paint from drying in the screen.

Golden Glass Bead Gel is a clear acrylic gel with small, densely packed glass beads. It adds texture and luminous effects.