Liquitex Acrylic Effects Mediums

Effects Painting Medium

Texture: Fluid

Sheen: Satin

Relative Opacity: Transparent

Liquitex Airbrush Medium is specifically formulated to thin acrylic colors for airbrush application. Mixing colors with Airbrush Medium will ensure that the colors do not lose their flexibility, durability, and adhesion.

Attributes

• Low viscosity 
• Ready to use pre-filtered and pre-reduced to the required consistency for airbrush techniques, add as much or as little as desired. 
• Formulated for thinning acrylic colors for airbrush application. 
• Ensures colors do not lose flexibility, durability, and adhesion. 
• Easily thins acrylic color or any water-soluble paints to a sprayable consistency. 
• Allows thinned acrylic paint to be sprayed efficiently and retain paint film integrity. 
• Liquitex Airbrush Medium mixes easily with all Liquitex Soft Body Artist Colors to produce airbrush paint with the proper viscosity for airbrushing. 
• Can also be mixed with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Colors. 
• Can be mixed with all Liquitex paint, mediums, and gesso. 

Effects Painting Medium

Texture: Fluid

Sheen: Satin

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• Enhances the workability of acrylic paint on fabric. 
• Controls bleeding of colors thinned with water. 
• Provides a smooth, consistent flow when added to Liquitex Soft Body Artist Color. 
• Prevents uneven application of paint to rough textured fabrics. 
• Reduces stiffness of dried acrylic paint on fabric. 
• Eliminates the need to scrub or abrade rough textured fabrics to enable paint to adhere or penetrate surface. 
• Does not require heat setting. 

Painting on Fabric:

• Begin by adding medium 1:1 with Liquitex® Soft Body Artist Color. Test on fabric to see if you are getting good coverage without bleeding. 

Color Blending on Fabric:

• Mix into acrylic colors to improve wet-on-wet blending techniques. 
• The medium can be added directly onto fabric to blend color. 

Watercolor on Fabric:

• Use Fabric Medium 5:1 with Liquitex Soft Body Artist Color to control color bleeding.

Effects Painting Additive

Texture: Fluid

Sheen: Satin

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• Use in conjunction with any acrylic medium or acrylic color when increased flow and absorption and decreased film tension and friction are important. 
• A flow enhancer that improves the flow, absorption, and blending of any water-soluble paint (i.e. acrylic paint), medium, ink or dye. 
• Minimizes brush marks by reducing friction of paint application. 
• Does not contain a binder. Over thinning of acrylic paint with Liquitex Flow-AidTM and applying to a non-absorbent surface (i.e. gessoed canvas) may result in poor adhesion. Always make a test piece for your particular application and surface. 
• On non-absorbent surfaces, will increase the fluidity and open (drying) time of the paint. 
• On absorbent surfaces, will act as a stain, dye or watercolor. 

Application

• Liquitex® Paint Additives are similar to acrylic mediums in that they are mixed into acrylic paint and acrylic mediums to change consistency, thickness, transparency, sheen, drying time and absorption rate. However, they are different in that they do not contain acrylic polymer emulsion and therefore have no binding qualities inherent in them.

Effects Painting Medium

Texture: Fluid

Sheen: Iridescent

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• Produces a range of iridescent or metallic colors when mixed into acrylic colors. 
• Opaque when wet, transparent to translucent when dry. 
• Will not oxidize. 

Application:

• Mix with small amounts of color, gradually adding more color until desired iridescent quality and transparency is achieved. 
• Transparent and translucent colors work best however opaque colors can also be used. 
• Color will become more transparent as a percentage of medium increases. 
• Colors increase in their iridescent quality and become much more reflective upon drying. 
• For the mother of pearl color, use directly from the container. 
• For use on fabric, thin 50% with water 

Effects Painting Additive

Texture: Thick

Sheen: Matte

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• A thickening gel for water soluble acrylic paint and acrylic mediums. 
• Used in small amounts, produces handling characteristics very close to that of oil or encaustic paint. 
• At higher concentrations, can thicken paint or acrylic mediums to "cake" or sculptural consistency. 
• Drying time will be between 24 hours to 7 days depending upon the amount of Liquitex Liquithick added to acrylic paint or acrylic medium. 
• Liquitex Liquithick does not increase transparency. 
• Liquitex Liquithick produces a matte surface sheen when dry. 
• Paint and medium shrinkage will occur in proportion to the amount of Liquitex Liquithick added. 
• Archival 
• Contains a unique polymer 

Application

• Liquitex Paint Additives are similar to acrylic mediums in that they are mixed into acrylic paint and acrylic mediums to change consistency, thickness, transparency, sheen, drying time and absorption rate. However, they are different in that they do not contain acrylic polymer emulsion and therefore have no binding qualities inherent in them.

Effects Painting Additive

Texture: Fluid

Sheen: Satin

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• Fluid consistency that thins all acrylic paint and mediums. 
• Increases ‘open‘ (working) time of acrylic paint. Reduces paint skinning-over on a palette. 
• Increases blending time, making blending of colors and detail brushwork easier. 
• Mix with Liquitex acrylic paints and mediums to retard drying time up to 50%. 
• Fluid consistency, made to be used with Liquitex Soft Body Artist Color and Soft Body mediums. 
• May also be used with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Color and Heavy Body gel mediums, however, thickness of paints and mediums will be reduced to a more fluid consistency. 
• Archival 

Directions

• Do not mix more than 25% per volume into acrylic paint and acrylic mediums or paint may not fully dry. 

Application

• Liquitex Paint Additives are similar to acrylic mediums in that they are mixed into acrylic paint and acrylic mediums to change consistency, thickness, transparency, sheen, drying time and absorption rate. However, they are different in that they do not contain acrylic polymer emulsion and therefore have no binding qualities inherent in them. Only limited quantities (usually up to 25%) of any additive can be added into the color before harming the paint film.

Effects Painting Additive

Texture: Thick

Sheen: Satin

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• For all acrylic paints and acrylic mediums 
• Similar to Liquitex Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder, except in gel (Heavy Body) thick consistency. 
• Designed to be used with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Color and Heavy Body mediums. 
• May also be used with Liquitex Soft Body Artist Color and Soft Body mediums, however, thickness of acrylic paints or mediums will be increased. 
• Archival 
• Increases blending time 

Directions

• Do not mix more than 25% per volume into paint and mediums or paint may not fully dry, have poor adhesion and excessive shrinking. 

Application

• Liquitex Paint Additives are similar to acrylic mediums in that they are mixed into acrylic paint and mediums to change consistency, thickness, transparency, sheen, drying time and absorption rate. However, they are different in that they do not contain acrylic polymer emulsion and therefore have no binding qualities inherent in them. Only limited quantities (usually up to 25%) of any additive can be added into the color before harming the paint film. 

Effects Painting Medium

Texture: Thick

Sheen: Glossy

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• A self-leveling gel with a syrupy, honey-like consistency 
• Enhances depth of color and increases transparency and flow 
• Dries glossy and transparent 
• Permanent, non-yellowing, flexible and water resistant when dry 

Application

• Pouring or dripping the gel from above produces a long, string-like application. 
• Mix with acrylic color and brush to create long streaking effects, as well as to enhance the depth of color.

Effects Painting Medium

Texture: Thick

Sheen: Glossy

Relative Opacity: Transparent

• A self-leveling gel with a syrupy, honey-like consistency 
• Enhances depth of color and increases transparency and flow 
• Dries glossy and transparent 
• Permanent, non-yellowing, flexible and water resistant when dry 

Application

• Pouring or dripping the gel from above produces a long, string-like application. 
• Mix with acrylic color and brush to create long streaking effects, as well as to enhance the depth of color.