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

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 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.

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.

Liquitex Gloss, Matte, and Ultra Matte Mediums can be used as an extender and fixative for Liquitex Acrylic Paints, giving increased flow without affecting paint stability. They can be mixed together in any proportion to create a semi-gloss or satin medium. 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Liquithick Additive 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. Liquithick is ideal for creating textural effects and dries to a matte surface finish.

Liquitex String Gel 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 String Gel is best when mixed with soft body acrylic or acrylic ink paints. It can be intermixed with other Liquitex products to achieve unique 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.

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.

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.

Formulated with glittering mica, Liquitex 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 Iridescent Medium as needed into acrylic colors to create the iridescence and viscosity you desire, or use alone to add shimmering highlights. Liquitex 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. It thins paint so it pours easily to form smooth, even puddles. Dries to a beautiful gloss finish.

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.

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.

Golden Pouring Medium is a low-crazing extender for creating acrylic pours and puddles. This medium has a gloss or matte finish with good flexibility. It also improves adhesion to chalky surfaces.

Golden Clear Leveling Gel is a thick, fluid acrylic medium designed to produce an even film with excellent clarity. It has a unique resinous, stringy consistency resulting from the leveling property.

The hardest and least flexible polymer. Mix Golden GAC 200 Hard Acrylic Extender Polymer Mediums with acrylic paints to increase film hardness and reduce dry film tack. Use to adhere acrylic paints to nonporous surfaces such as glass or plastic. Dries to a clear, gloss finish.

Golden GAC 500 Self-Leveling Acrylic Polymer Mediums adds a self-leveling working quality and dries to a high gloss finish with good transparency. Increases mar resistance, and decreasing dry film tack.

Use Golden GAC 800 Low Crazing Acrylic Extender Polymer Mediums when puddles must dry with the same evenness and smoothness as when wet. Dries with good gloss and flexibility but with moderate clarity. Also ideal for priming chalky surfaces.

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

Great for artists of all skill levels, this paint set includes everything you need to create unique paintings. It features pre-mixed fluid acrylics that contain Pebeo Studio Acrylics Pouring Medium for smooth, bubble-free results.

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 a smooth flow of color with Sargent Art Acrylic Pouring Medium. Mix it with Sargent Art Acrylics and other scholastic and student acrylics. The medium is safe, non-toxic, and made in the USA.

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 Final Finish Mediums are a self-leveling polymer, formulated to unify the luster of a finished painting. Its thin, water-like consistency prevents brush marks. It is best applied with a large, soft-hair brush

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.

Make cells appear in your paint pours. Silicone Oil Cell Medium creates cell shapes when mixed with Vallejo Pouring Medium and Vallejo Acrylic Artist Fluid Colors. Pour the mixture of paints onto any surface, and then apply heat with a kitchen blowtorch at a distance of 8" (20 cm).

Modeling Paste can be used to create a textured ground for painting, for collage, for relief sculpture, etc. It dries opaque white, hard, and stiff. Apply it to rigid surfaces only, and in thin layers to avoid cracking.

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.

Use Golden Molding Paste Mediums to add textured relief to paintings. Mix them with acrylic mediums and paints, such as Golden acrylics, to create thick impasto layers. This modeling paste is waterbased, non-toxic, and 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.

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.

Formulated with marble dust and polymer emulsion, Liquitex Modeling Paste dries to a stone-like texture with a matte, opaque finish. Ideal for creating rigid textures and 3D forms, it is fully intermixable with any Liquitex product, readily accepts paint or stains, and can be carved or sanded once dry to achieve your desired shape.

Build up solid forms and high reliefs with Pebeo Modeling Pastes, which may be tinted with acrylics or overpainted after hardening. They dry to a matte finish, will not crack, and may be sculpted once dry.

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.

This paste is formulated to have the least possible effect on color change from wet to dry. It remains flexible on a variety of surfaces.

Add special effects to your artwork with Amsterdam Acrylic Glow in the Dark Medium. Formulated with phosphorescent pigments, any areas painted with this unique, waterproof medium will glow in the dark after application. Length of the afterglow depends on the time of exposure to light.

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.

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.

Dilute and extend colors, and increase flexibility and film integrity. Wets out solids more readily than other polymers, and is useful for artists making their own paints. Achieve complete technical control over your acrylic paints and painting environment with Golden GAC 100 Primer Extender Acrylic Polymer Mediums.