Acrylic Mediums & Varnishes
Acrylic paints are remarkably versatile and can be mixed with a large variety of mediums to create different characteristics. Gel mediums increase flow, molding pastes build texture and dimension, fluid mediums help control transparency and viscosity, texture gel mediums create 3-dimensional effects, and pouring mediums form brilliant poured color films! Don’t forget a varnish to add a protective layer to your finished artwork.
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Natural Acrylik Medium, 16oz
$34.95The Natural Acrylik Medium has a plant-based formula made with naturally archival ingredients. Just like conventional acrylic mediums, this Natural Acrylik Medium has many uses such as varnishing, adhering, collaging, mixing with natural pigments to make...$34.95 -
Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium
$30.75Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium increases gloss, extends volume, thickens, and extends open time of acrylic paint. It has the same body and viscosity of heavy body acrylic paint and it dries clear to translucent depending on the thickness of application...$30.75 -
Liquitex Modeling Paste
$30.75Liquitex Modeling Paste is a putty made from 100% acrylic polymer and marble dust used to build texture and structural form. Intended for application on rigid supports, it dries to a very hard 'stone-like' opaque white matte finish that you can...$30.75 -
Golden Clear Granular Gel Medium
$19.35Golden Clear Granular Gel Medium has course acrylic granules to create very distinct or subtly textured surfaces with a rough grain-like effect. It has excellent clarity and durability, and a thick consistency that can be mixed with other acrylic...$19.35 -
Golden High Solid Gloss Gel Medium
$19.35Golden High Solid Gloss Gel Medium is similar in body to Heavy Gels, yet it contains more acrylic solids and shrinks slightly less than other gels. It blends well with colors and retains brush strokes upon drying. 8 ounce jar.$19.35 -
Silverpoint/Drawing Ground, 8 oz
$19.35Silverpoint/Drawing Ground is formulated with 100% acrylic with high levels of titanium dioxide to prepare surfaces to readily accept marks from a metal stylus. It can be brush or spray applied to paper, primed canvas, wood or any surface that will...$19.35 -
Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel
$18.95Gloss Heavy Gel is an extra heavy body medium that gives acrylic color a high degree of drag and density. When mixed with this gel medium, acrylics will look and feel more like oil paint. Gloss Heavy Gel retains brush and palette knife marks, making it...$18.95 -
Liquitex Gloss Medium
$18.95Liquitex Gloss Medium increases gloss, transparency and color adhesion. It lowers viscosity and thus extends color. Designed exclusively for use with acrylics, this non-yellowing fluid medium is good for blending, glazing and as a collage adhesive. It...$18.95 -
Liquitex Iridescent Medium
$18.95Liquitex Iridescent Medium is a fluid, transparent medium designed to make any acrylic color iridescent, while allowing the artist to control the intensity. Mix the medium with small amounts of color, gradually adding more until the desired...$18.95 -
Liquitex Liquithick Thickening Gel
$18.95Liquitex Liquithick Thickening Gel is an archival additive specially designed for acrylic paint and mediums. Used in small amounts, Liquithick produces handling characteristics very close to that of oil or encaustic paint. At higher concentrations,...$18.95 -
Liquitex Matte Gel Medium
$18.95Matte Gel Medium has the same body and viscosity of heavy body acrylics and when mixed with color, it reduces shine, thickens, and extends open time. Adding volume, this medium can be used to create striking impasto effects. It dries clear to...$18.95 -
Liquitex Matte Mediums
$18.95Liquitex Matte Mediums create a matte, non-reflecting finish when added to acrylic colors. Mix into any acrylic paint to increase transparency and extend color, increase matte sheen, increase film integrity, ease flow of paint and add flexibility...$18.95 -
Liquitex Natural Sand Gel Medium
$18.95Liquitex Natural Sand Gel Medium is a finely textured gel that dries to a glossy "beach sand" finish. Natural sand particles add structure to this 100% acrylic polymer. It is highly flexible and adhesive, will not chip or crack on canvas, and can be...$18.95 -
Liquitex Pouring Medium
$18.95Liquitex Pouring Medium is a flexible, non-yellowing medium that creates even poured puddles, thick and flowing applications of color and acrylic skins. Upon drying, the medium does not craze (unwanted surface defect from uneven drying), crack or hold...$18.95 -
Liquitex Slow-Dri Gel Retarder
$18.95Liquitex Slow-Dri Gel Retarder provides increased workability and blending time of acrylic paints. It will retain brushstrokes or palette knife markings, and when mixed with less dense paints, the paint's thickness and body will increase. 8 ounce...$18.95 -
Golden Clear Tar Gel Medium
$17.75Clear Tar Gel is designed to yield a putty, tar-like feel in a colorless gel that can create fine detailed lines by “dripping" it over surfaces. It will continuously flow from palette knives or other tools. This gel has an extremely resinous and...$17.75 -
Golden Glass Bead Gel Medium
$17.75Golden Glass Bead Gel Medium is made with genuine glass beads and offers a very unique visual effect like that of condensation on cold glass. For the best and most visible results, apply this gel in thin films to allow for the mono-layer of glass...$17.75 -
Liquitex Bio-Based Gloss Gel Mediums
$17.60Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium increases gloss, extends volume, thickens, and extends open time of acrylic paint. It has the same body and viscosity of heavy body acrylic paint and it dries clear to translucent depending on the thickness of application...$17.60 -
Liquitex Bio-Based Gloss Mediums
$17.60Liquitex Gloss Bio-Based Medium increases gloss, transparency and color adhesion. It lowers viscosity and thus extends color. Designed exclusively for use with acrylics, this non-yellowing fluid medium is good for blending, glazing and as a collage...$17.60 -
Liquitex Bio-Based Matte Gel Mediums
$17.60Matte Gel Medium has the same body and viscosity of heavy body acrylics and when mixed with color, it reduces shine, thickens, and extends open time. Adding volume, this medium can be used to create striking impasto effects. It dries clear to translucent...$17.60 -
Liquitex Bio-Based Matte Mediums
$17.60Liquitex Bio-Based Matte Medium is a planet-positive way to give your paint a matte finish. When mixed with color, it reduces shine, while thinning and extending its volume. It also makes an excellent matte adhesive for collage and other materials. It...$17.60 -
Golden Clear Leveling Gel
$16.95Golden's Clear Leveling Gel is designed to increase the transparency and sheen of acrylic paints while imparting a self-leveling quality to acrylic colors. It is formulated with a 100% acrylic polymer emulsion and has a unique resinous and stringy...$16.95 -
Golden Crackle Paste
$16.95Crackle Paste is a thick, opaque material that cracks as it dries. The size and extent of the cracking pattern depends on the thickness of application, and environmental conditions during drying and other factors. It dries to an opaque, matte finish,...$16.95 -
Golden Extra Heavy Gel Matte Medium
$16.95The thickest of Golden gels, Extra Heavy Gel Matte can greatly increase the body of acrylic colors when blended. This gel is excellent for holding peaks, creating thick textures, working with impasto techniques, and creating dramatic depth in a painting...$16.95 -
Golden Extra Heavy Gel Semi-Gloss Medium
$16.95The thickest of Golden gels, Extra Heavy Gel Semi-Gloss can greatly increase the body of acrylic colors when blended. This gel is excellent for holding peaks, creating thick textures, working with impasto techniques, and creating dramatic depth in a...$16.95 -
Golden Extra Heavy Molding Paste
$16.95Golden Extra Heavy Molding Paste contains properties that make it a blend of Golden's Extra Heavy Gel and Golden's Molding Paste. Like the gel mediums and molding pastes, this product blends very well with colors and is excellent for building...$16.95 -
Golden Fiber Paste
$16.95Fiber Paste, with the look of handmade paper, offers an opaque, flexible, rough surface that is ideal as a ground or a texture. The artist can skim it with a wet palette knife for a smooth, paper-like surface. When dry, it has an off-white color and is...$16.95 -
Golden Gloss Medium
$16.95Gloss Medium is a general purpose liquid medium useful for creating glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss and translucency and increasing film integrity. It has a unique feel that is more oil-like and resinous in nature. This consistency allows the...$16.95 -
Golden Heavy Gel Mediums
$16.95With a consistency thicker than Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics, Heavy Gel Medium is designed to be blended with colors to increase body. It also works well for holding peaks and adding distinctive texture. Heavy Gel dries translucent and when added...$16.95 -
Golden Pumice Gel Mediums
$16.95Golden Pumice Gel Mediums are designed to create varying degrees of textured surfaces. They are extremely workable when wet and dry to a dense hard film. They may look rough and gritty in texture but they can be mixed with other Golden mediums as...$16.95 -
Golden Regular Gel Mediums
$16.95With the same creamy consistency as Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics, Regular Gel Mediums are ideal for extending paint and regulating translucency without changing the consistency of the colors. Essentially colorless paint, these gel mediums will hold...$16.95 -
Golden Soft Gel Mediums
$16.95Golden Soft Gel Medium are thinner than Heavy Body Colors. Mix with acrylic colors to produce a brilliant glaze. Soft gels can be used as a base for wet blending or as an adhesive for collage and mixed media. Gels are essentially colorless paint,...$16.95 -
Golden Fluid Matte Medium
$16.45Fluid Matte Medium is a liquid medium designed to extend colors, decrease gloss and increase film integrity. Blend with Golden’s Fluid Acrylics to decrease any gloss without increasing viscosity. Fluid Matte Medium is a very useful general purpose...$16.45 -
Golden Matte Medium
$16.45Matte Medium is a viscous, pourable acrylic medium that works to extend colors, increase translucency and decrease gloss. As a general all purpose liquid medium, it provides an appearance of matte transparency when mixed with colors. The versatile Matte...$16.45 -
Golden Molding Pastes
$16.45Molding Paste can be used to achieve a variety of effects and expressions. Unlike gels, pastes are opaque because they contain Marble Dust or other fillers that create a white or clay-tone finish with a variety of textures and properties...$16.45 -
Liquitex Satin Gel Medium
$16.39Liquitex Satin Gel Medium gives acrylic paint a satin sheen finish, while increasing open time and color brightness. Use it to thicken soft body paint, or to extend the volume of heavy body paint without affecting the paint's stability. The more you add,...$16.39 -
Gamvar Matte Picture Varnish
$16.20Gamvar Matte Picture Varnish is a protective varnish that is ready-to-apply on any painting, oil or acrylic. It gives greater depth to the colors in your painting and provides a unified matte finish. Gamvar is virtually odorless and can be...$16.20 -
Gamvar Satin Picture Varnish
$16.20Gamvar Satin Picture Varnish is a protective varnish that is ready-to-apply on any painting, oil or acrylic. It gives greater depth to the colors in your painting and provides a unified satin finish. Gamvar is virtually odorless and can be easily removed...$16.20 -
W&N Spray Retouch Varnish
$13.75This Professional UV resistant gloss varnish gives temporary protection to recently completed oil paintings. It is quick drying, can be overpainted, balances out surface sheen and allows the paint film to cure through the varnish. Ensure painting is...$13.75