Watercolor Mediums

Why should watercolor painting be limited to paper? Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground enables you to use watercolors on canvas, other fabrics, wood, plaster, and hardboard, and even metal, plastic, and glass. Brush it on and let it dry to create an ideal, absorbent surface on virtually any material.

Like QoR Modern Watercolors, these grounds combine the best of tradition with the latest technical advances, resulting in remarkable quality and performance.

This ready-to-use watercolor binder is ideal for producing your own watercolors in small batches. Just add dry pigment to the binder and mix with a palette knife, using a simple mixing ratio. Contains gum arabic and oxgall. 200 ml jar.

Increases watercolor brilliancy, gloss, and transparancy, giving greater depth to color. Also slows down drying time of paint, and can be used for controlling spread when painting wet-on-wet. Bottle.

A non-removable, transparent liquid mask, the Winsor & Newton Watercolor Permanent Masking Medium is excellent for detail.

Formulated with the same high quality standards that distinguish their renowned paints, this professional gum arabic is designed especially for use with Da Vinci Artists' Watercolors, but works well with any watercolors.

Daler-Rowney Gum Arabic increases the brilliance, gloss, and transparency of watercolor paint, which gives greater depth to each color. Gum Arabic also slows the drying time of paint, and can be used for controlling spread when painting wet-on-wet.

Holbein Gum Arabic Medium is an artist-grade medium that enhances gloss and transparency when mixed with watercolors. Mixing Gum Arabic Medium with opaque colors such as gouache and poster colors also increases transparency.

Use Holbein Gum Arabic Paste to introduce unique visual effects into paintings. This artist-grade medium results in an impasto effect when mixed with watercolors.

Let your creativity take over as you make your own transparent watercolors, washes, stamping, and calligraphy inks with Jacquard Gum Arabic. A versatile binder medium, it mixes easily to produce glossy paints with colors that are more vibrant and transparent. It also extends drying time and cleans up with water. Available in 0.08 oz and 1 oz sizes.

Use Aqua Collage pure or mix it with watercolor on your painting. Then strew or press the elements you're using - for example, textiles, silk paper, pigments, sand - into the wet medium. It is best suited for use with lightweight collage materials.

Aqua Fix can be mixed with watercolor paint in lieu of water or applied over a watercolor wash. It makes the surface waterproof and allows successive washes of color that do not disturb one another - colors remain clean and vibrant.

This ready-to-use gouache binder is ideal for producing your own gouache colors in small batches. Just add dry pigment to the binder and mix with a palette knife, using a simple mixing ratio. Contains gum arabic, dextrin, and a wetting agent. 200 ml jar.

This ready-to-use watercolor binder is ideal for producing your own watercolors in small batches. Just add dry pigment to the binder and mix with a palette knife, using a simple mixing ratio. Contains gum arabic and oxgall. 200 ml jar.

Increases watercolor brilliancy, gloss, and transparancy, giving greater depth to color. Also slows down drying time of paint, and can be used for controlling spread when painting wet-on-wet. Bottle.

Formulated with the same high quality standards that distinguish their renowned paints, this professional iridescent medium is designed especially for use with Da Vinci Artist Watercolors, but works well with any watercolors.

Mixing Holbein Watercolor Medium with watercolors facilitates fine line and stroke development by improving flow.

This opalescent medium increases watercolor transparency and brightness. It improves adhesion and spreads the brush stroke.

This medium increases the gloss and brilliance of watercolor. It can be applied over dried watercolor or mixed with color prior to painting. Aqua Gloss retards drying time and remains water soluble.

Slows the drying of watercolors allowing more time for blending techniques. For maximum effect, dilute watercolors with medium only, but water can also be added.

This spray medium disturbs the surface of watercolor paint and creates interesting patterns. It should be used on wet or damp watercolor for maximum impact. When applying the spray, areas of the painting that must remain white should be masked.

Schmincke Aqua Granulation Spray Medium is a watercolor medium that creates granulated effects in non-granulating watercolors. This 15 ml glass bottle has a pump-spray applicator with a fine atomizer. Apply the medium onto wet watercolors, which will quickly take on an aggregated, flaked appearance.

Granulation Medium is known for giving a mottled or granular appearance to colors that usually give a smooth wash. For maximum effect, dilute color with medium alone.

A non-removable, transparent liquid mask, the Winsor & Newton Watercolor Permanent Masking Medium is excellent for detail.

Formulated with the same high quality standards that distinguish their renowned paints, this professional iridescent medium is designed especially for use with Da Vinci Artist Watercolors, but works well with any watercolors.

Holbein Iridescent Medium is an artist-grade medium designed to facilitate iridescent and pearlescent effects when used with waterbased media.

This is a sparkling iridescent medium with a pearlized effect. It can be applied pure to dry paint, or mixed with watercolor to create beautiful tints. This medium has retarding qualities, slightly lengthening the drying time of colors.

Mix this medium with watercolors or apply it over a dry wash to give iridescent or glitter effects. It is particularly effective when mixed with transparent colors.

Why should watercolor painting be limited to paper? Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground enables you to use watercolors on canvas, other fabrics, wood, plaster, and hardboard, and even metal, plastic, and glass. Brush it on and let it dry to create an ideal, absorbent surface on virtually any material.

Holbein Multi Sizing Liquid is an artist-grade sizing liquid used to reduce the absorbency of paper. Dilute it with warm water and apply with a broad brush.

Like QoR Modern Watercolors, these grounds combine the best of tradition with the latest technical advances, resulting in remarkable quality and performance.

Priming with these products transforms supports not usually used for watercolor, such as canvas, painting boards, and wood, into suitable grounds for watercolor painting. Available in coarse and fine textures.

Susan Scheewe Wax Resist Sticks are a versatile tool for watercolor artists who want to retain the background color (or underpainting details) of a watercolor painting. They also are ideal for creating shapes or patterns, and for adding special effects such as sunlight, water, texture — even words.

Apply the medium directly to paper and allow it to dry before painting. The preparation then allows dry washes, including staining colors, to be more easily lifted from paper with a wet brush. Ideal for making corrections.

Enhance your artwork with Brusho Mediums. Each medium is specially formulated to be compatible with Brusho Crystal Colours to create new dimension and effects.

Use Holbein Gum Arabic Paste to introduce unique visual effects into paintings. This artist-grade medium results in an impasto effect when mixed with watercolors.

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.

Pasto is a thickening gel that increases the body of the paint, giving pleasing textural lines and adding extra gloss. It is best suited for use with tube watercolor. Pasto dries slowly, reduces the flow of color, and remains water soluble.

Susan Scheewe Wax Resist Sticks are a versatile tool for watercolor artists who want to retain the background color (or underpainting details) of a watercolor painting. They also are ideal for creating shapes or patterns, and for adding special effects such as sunlight, water, texture — even words.

Whether you experiment with one or try them all, each Winsor & Newton Watercolor Medium has a specific property to add to your artistic expression when painting. Aquapasto is a transparent gel medium helps you create impasto effects by thickening and reducing the flow of watercolors and gouaches.

Producing a textured finish for watercolors, this medium can be applied directly onto the paper, or mixed with watercolors first.

Holbein Ox Gall Medium is an artist-grade wetting agent that improves flow and enhances wet-into-wet techniques when mixed with watercolors. It also improves the acceptance of watercolor paints on paper, particularly hard-sized papers.

Just a few drops of Maimeri Ox Gall Medium increases the fluidity of watercolors. Maimeri Watercolor mediums are the finest available, created from the purest ingredients - the best guarantee of brilliance and vibrancy.

This opalescent medium increases watercolor transparency and brightness. It improves adhesion and spreads the brush stroke.

Like QoR Modern Watercolors, these mediums combine the best of tradition with the latest technical advances, resulting in remarkable quality and performance.

This medium increases the gloss and brilliance of watercolor. It can be applied over dried watercolor or mixed with color prior to painting. Aqua Gloss retards drying time and remains water soluble.

This is a natural wetting agent for degreasing of undercoats before painting with watercolors or gouache. It should be used sparingly, and it is suitable as a leveling agent for watercolors.

Ox Gall is a wetting agent used with watercolors. It increases the flow of washes on the painting surface. It can also be used for marbling.