LUKAS Acrylic Mediums

Improve your Acrylics - LUKAS Professional Acrylic Mediums

LUKAS has a rich tradition of top quality art supplies, supplying professional quality colors and mediums to artists since 1862. Their high-quality acrylic mediums, pastes, gels, primers, retarders, and varnishes have been carefully created to fulfill any acrylic painter’s needs. Any imagined texture, technique, or even faux finish is capable with one or more of the mediums below. Build up a massive volume of color with structure pastes in a variety of finishes from fine to extra coarse. Obtain specific looks with metallic modeling pastes, pumice pastes, glass beads, or pouring medium. Achieve granular looks with their structure pastes containing quartz sands.

LUKAS manufactures a wide variety of acrylic painting mediums to dilute or extend paint, create different film sheens, and even retard drying time for wet-on-wet techniques. LUKAS also offers acrylic-based mediums for use in pouring paintings, airbrushing, and pastel grounds within an extensive collection of pastes, gels, and mediums. All mediums can be mixed with traditional acrylics for custom effects!

Studio Universal Modeling Paste: V15963, V15964

Modeling paste created under the LUKAS Studio line, this modeling paste creates nice thicknesses of structure on the artwork. Dries an opaque greyish color. Contains aqueous acrylic resin dispersion (copolymer), fillers, and additives

Retarding Medium: V15978

Retarding medium slows the initial drying of the paint film, and the acrylic colors it is mixed with. Depending on the amount added, the drying can be delayed longer, allowing for wet-in-wet techniques. The medium contains an aqueous solution of various humectants and additives.

Pearl Structure Gel, Extra Fine: V15990

A milky white acrylic gel with pearlescent pigments dries a silvery-white, slightly transparent with intense pearly reflections.  The color spectrum ranges from silver-white to light green to purples. The medium contains acrylic resin dispersion (pure acrylates) and pearlescent additives.

Model Paste Set of 5:  V16004

Set of five 125ml tubes includes the following mediums: Studio Universal Modeling Paste, Studio Light Structure Paste, Studio Extra Coarse Sand Modeling Paste, Crystal Gel, and Golden Modeling Paste.

Color Cleaner:  V15991

A cleaner formulated explicitly for Airbrushes and spray guns. Run Color Cleaner through the airbrush or gun after each color change, to reduce clogging of the nozzle. The medium contains surfactants, water, silicate, cleaning agents, and additives.