Acrylic Mediums

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

Mix Blickrylic Gel Medium with acrylic paints to increase viscosity and build body and texture. Ideal for creating impasto effects with a brush or palette knife, this versatile gel medium is also ideal for any technique that requires thicker paint. Layer one or more coats under or over acrylic paints to create textural, three-dimensional effects.

Golden Acrylic 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.

The Liquitex Acrylic Mediums Introductory Set offers a great chance to try out six Liquitex best sellers and innovative products in a 100 ml (3.38 oz) size. It includes one jar each of Clear Gesso, Slow-Dri Medium, Flexible Modeling Paste, Gloss Super Heavy Gel, Pouring Medium, and High Gloss Varnish.

Liquitex Fluids Acrylic Mediums can be used as an extender and fixative for Liquitex Acrylic Paints, giving increased flow without affecting paint stability. Matte Medium can be used to maintain opacity and extend opaque colors to double amounts without changing the color. Matte Medium is ideal for large projects where transparency is not desired.

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

Achieve amazing textures and patterns with Golden Crackle Paste. This thick, opaque medium cracks as it dries. Crack size increases with thicker application. It can be tinted with acrylic paints before application or painted over once dry.

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.

Give your paintings a dramatic crackled surface texture by mixing Liquitex Effects Acrylic Crackle Paste into color or using it alone. This effect remains structurally stable when used on rigid surfaces.

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

Amsterdam Acrylic Gel Mediums are ideal for increasing the viscosity and transparency of acrylic colors. Milky white when fluid, they can be used to thicken paint and create textured brushstrokes with a transparent matte or glossy finish.

Blick Artists' Acrylic Mediums are designed especially for use with Blick Artists' Acrylic. Made in the USA.

Mix Blickrylic Gel Medium with acrylic paints to increase viscosity and build body and texture. Ideal for creating impasto effects with a brush or palette knife, this versatile gel medium is also ideal for any technique that requires thicker paint. Layer one or more coats under or over acrylic paints to create textural, three-dimensional effects.

These thick, fast-drying, waterbased acrylic gels are designed to exaggerate paint structure, create texture, as well as extending the acrylic paints without altering their consistency. Chroma Atelier Traditional Gel Mediums are available in two thicknesses, Regular and Heavy.

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 Acrylic Clear Granular Gel Mediums are made with coarse acrylic granules. This gel medium dries to an extremely rough crushed-glass appearance. It offers artists a to build texture. It is composed of 100% acrylic polymers similar to acrylic paint.

Golden Acrylic Clear Tar Gel Mediums is designed to produce a stringy, tar-like feel. This gel is excellent for ''dripping'' over surfaces. The more it's mixed, the stringier it becomes. Letting the mixture sit before use allows foam bubbles to rise.

Golden Acrylic 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 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 Golden gels.

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.

Thicker in consistency than Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, the Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums hold peaks and dry translucent. They're ideal for thickening, altering sheen, and increasing translucency of acrylic paint. Golden Heavy Acrylic Gel Mediums can be thought of as colorless paint, as they are composed of 100% acrylic polymers similar to acrylic paint.

One of Golden's thickest gels, Golden High Solid Acrylic Gel Mediums hold high peaks and are useful for simulating oil paint behavior. They contain less water and more acrylic solids, so they shrink less than other gels. The mediums retain texture, brushstrokes, and tool marks.

With a consistency similar to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, Golden Regular Acrylic Gel Medium regulates translucency without affecting consistency, hold moderate peaks and textures, and are ideal for glazing.

Thinner than Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors, the Golden Soft Acrylic Gel Mediums are moderately pourable, hold only slight peaks, and are ideal for glazing and other techniques that require transparency. Thinned with water at a 2:1 ratio, it can also be used to create an isolation coat over acrylic paintings to seal the surface, lower the absorbency of the surface, allow for a more uniform varnish application, and protect the acrylic paint during varnish removal.

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.

Holbein Acrylic Gel Mediums offer professional quality at an affordable price. When mixed with acrylic paints, they give you a myriad of different ways to alter texture, sheen, transparency, viscosity, and depth.

Liquitex Additives Liquithick Thickening Gel adds incredible structure and thickness to your paint, allowing you to achieve a wide spectrum of viscosities. The more you add, the more weight and thickness your paint will achieve. Liquitex Additives Liquithick Thickening Gel is ideal for creating textural effects and dries to a matte surface finish.

Liquitex Basics Acrylic Gel Mediums improve acrylic color blending, extend paint volume and drying time, and increase paint transparency with this thick, transparent medium. It also works as a glue for paper or canvas, and for photo transfers. Available in Gloss or Matte finish.

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 Starter Set. Certified AP non-toxic.

Liquitex Effects String Gel Medium creates viscous, honey-like strings of color and a consistency that dries to a textured form with a wet-shine gloss. Add to paints to extend color and increase surface gloss, color depth, and transparency—once mixed, they can be poured, dripped, or brushed out to achieve different effects. Liquitex Effects String Gel Medium is best when mixed with soft body acrylic or acrylic ink paints. It can be intermixed with other Liquitex products to achieve unique effects.

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

Liquitex Slow-Dri Gel Additive thickens acrylic paints and mediums while extending working time by 40%, allowing you to blend colors and create detailed brushwork for longer. Fully intermixable with all acrylic paints and mediums, this gel retarder increases viscosity without affecting transparency. It is ideal for impasto techniques and retains brush and knife marks.

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.

Gloss Gel Medium is, in essence, high viscosity paint without pigment. Formulated from 100% pure acrylic polymer emulsion, it is white when wet, and dries to a glass-clear, glossy and flexible film.

Utrecht Acrylic Gel Mediums offer acrylic painters an array of options for altering the luminosity, texture, workability, and sheen of their colors. These gel mediums are fully intermixable with all brands of acrylic paint and available in a range of formats for artists working in any scale.

Utrecht Opaque Gel Medium is a thick, heavy-bodied acrylic emulsion used to heighten opacity and increase body when mixed with acrylic colors. It will retain brushstrokes and can be used to create thick textures and impasto effects.

Add Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic Gel Mediums to Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylics to maintain paint viscosity and hold brush and knife marks. Choose from gloss or matte finish formulas.

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.

Achieve a striking metal effect by mixing Liquitex Acrylic Effects Metallic Mediums into your acrylic paint — or use it alone to create surface highlights. Available in Gold or Silver.

Liquitex Basics Acrylic Iridescent Medium provides pearlescent effects when added to acrylic colors. Mix it with acrylic color before application or apply it on top of a dry painting to add shimmer to your work.

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 Starter Set. Certified AP non-toxic.

Formulated with glittering mica, Liquitex Effects Iridescent Medium can be used to give your acrylic colors a smooth, iridescent finish while increasing transparency, slowing drying time, and extending color. Mix as much Liquitex Effects Iridescent Medium as needed into acrylic colors to create the iridescence and viscosity you desire, or use alone to add shimmering highlights. Liquitex Effects Iridescent Medium can also be thinned by diluting with up to 30% water—distilled water will produce the best results.

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.

Use Sargent Art Acrylic Pearlescent Mixing Medium with Sargent Art Acrylics and other scholastic and student acrylics to create pearlescent paint effects. Mix small amounts of acrylic paint with Pearlescent Mixing Medium.

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.

Amsterdam Acrylic Pouring Medium is an extender ideal for creating acrylic pours and puddles. Suitable for use with acrylic paint or ink, it dries to a colorless, flexible, high gloss finish and is water-resistant when dry. It can be thinned with water or thickened with acrylic binder to create a custom consistency for any pouring project.

Create puddles, drips, ribbons, and more with Chroma Atelier Pouring Medium. This self-leveling medium makes acrylic paint pouring techniques easy and fun.

Create fun and easy paint pours and fluid paintings with Chromacryl Pouring Medium. Mix it with Chromacryl Fluid Acrylics and Students' Acrylics and pour onto a flat painting surface — it’ll thin paints to make smooth, even puddles.

Daler-Rowney FW Acrylic Ink Pouring Medium is the first pouring medium designed especially for use with Daler-Rowney Acrylic Inks. Perfect for all pouring techniques including swirls, puddle pours, dirty pours, flip cup, and the swipe technique, it’s suitable for use on canvas, wood, and other primed surfaces. Inks combined with this medium dry to a smooth, even-colored film with a glossy 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.