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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Liquitex Pouring Medium
$17.25Liquitex 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...$17.25 -
Liquitex Acrylic Varnishes
$11.20Liquitex Acrylic Varnish protects completed acrylic works from harsh elements, dirt and other impurities in the environment and shields colors from ultraviolet light. Offered in different finishes, Liquitex varnish can be used to change or unify a...$11.20 -
Golden Soft Gel Mediums
$16.30Golden 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,...$16.30 -
DecoArt Fabric Painting Medium
$3.28When mixed with acrylic paint, DecoArt Fabric Painting Medium produces a washable, permanent paint for fabrics. It improves penetration and bonding to the fabric and helps to prevent cracking, peeling and fading. It will not dilute the color and it...$3.28 -
Golden Matte Medium
$15.59Matte 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...$15.59 -
Liquitex Matte Mediums
$17.25Liquitex 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...$17.25 -
GAC Acrylic Polymer Mediums
$15.59GAC (short for Golden Artist Colors) Specialty Acrylic Polymers are based on 100% acrylic polymer emulsions. GACs are designed as mediums or modifiers of acrylic paints. They can be blended with Golden Acrylic Paints to extend the paint, regulate...$15.59 -
W&N Acrylic Flow Improver
$11.95This additive increases the flow of acrylic colors, which allows for the application of flat, even color without changing color strength. Flow Improver is also very effective for hard edge painting techniques, staining and watercolor techniques. Acrylic...$11.95 -
Golden Gloss Medium
$16.30Gloss 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...$16.30 -
Golden Fluid Matte Medium
$15.59Fluid 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...$15.59 -
Liquitex Gloss Medium
$17.25Liquitex 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...$17.25 -
Golden Molding Pastes
$15.59Molding 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...$15.59 -
Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquids
$11.98This Glazing Liquid, originally designed for interior decorative finishes, is a slow-drying acrylic medium that brushes onto many standard and alternative surfaces very easily. When mixed with acrylic colors, it retains its slow-drying quality, allowing...$11.98 -
Golden Acrylic Retarder
$10.95Golden Acrylic Retarder is an additive used to slow the drying time of acrylic paints. It is very useful for “wet in wet" techniques and for reducing any skinning of the paint on a palette. Simply mix in with the desired color to prolong its...$10.95 -
Golden High Flow Medium, 1 oz
$5.10High Flow Medium is a 100% acrylic binder system that is designed to modify Golden High Flow Acrylics for increased transparency and film hardness. Engineered to meet the highest standards of professional airbrush illustrators, it possesses...$5.10 -
Golden Airbrush Medium
$9.50Airbrush Medium is designed to modify Golden’s Acrylic Colors, especially their Fluid Acrylics, for easy and effective use in airbrush/spray applications. The medium brings the paint to the proper viscosity and successfully decreases clogging and...$9.50 -
Golden Regular Gel Mediums
$16.30With 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...$16.30 -
Gamvar Gloss Picture Varnish
$16.95Gamvar Gloss Picture Varnish is a protective semi-gloss 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 finish. Gamvar is virtually odorless and can be...$16.95 -
Golden Clear Leveling Gel
$16.30Golden'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...$16.30 -
Golden Fiber Paste
$16.30Fiber 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...$16.30 -
Golden Heavy Gel Mediums
$16.30With 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...$16.30 -
Liquitex Fabric Medium
$11.20Liquitex Fabric Medium makes acrylic paints workable on all kinds of textiles. The finished products do not require heat setting and can be machine or hand-washed once dry. This medium makes color adhere to fabric, while being flexible and providing...$11.20 -
Liquitex Matte Gel Medium
$17.25Matte 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...$17.25 -
Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel
$17.25Gloss 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...$17.25 -
Liquitex Modeling Paste
$27.95Liquitex 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...$27.95 -
Golden Clear Granular Gel Medium
$18.63Golden 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...$18.63 -
Golden Crackle Paste
$16.30Crackle 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,...$16.30 -
Golden Pumice Gel Mediums
$16.30Golden 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...$16.30 -
Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium
$27.95Liquitex 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...$27.95 -
Golden Extra Heavy Molding Paste
$16.30Golden 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...$16.30 -
Liquitex Iridescent Medium
$17.25Liquitex 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...$17.25 -
Liquitex Slow-Dri Blending Medium, 8 oz
$17.25Slow-Dri medium provides acrylic paints with superior surface blending and increase working time up to 40%. Any amount of the medium can be mixed with acrylic color for achieving desired working times without jeopardizing the strength of the paint...$17.25 -
Golden High Solid Gloss Gel Medium
$18.63Golden 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.$18.63 -
Golden Silkscreen Medium, 8 oz
$11.98Silkscreen Medium is a water-based additive to acrylic paints for silk-screen application onto paper, wood and other suitable fine art materials. It increases the working time and prevents paint from drying in the screen too quickly. Note it is not...$11.98 -
Mod Podge Spray Acrylic Sealer
$12.50Mod Podge Spray Acrylic Sealer provides a durable, clear coating that reliably seals artwork. Its powerful formula works with prints, paint, lacquer and varnish. This is a final sealer to be applied on fully dried materials. Made in the U.S.A...$12.50 -
Golden Acrylics Wetting Aid
$9.50Golden Acrylics Wetting Aid is an additive used to increase the slickness and flow of acrylic paint. It does so by reducing the surface tension of the water in the acrylic emulsion. Use to achieve rich stains on porous surfaces such as paper and canvas.$9.50 -
Golden Clear Tar Gel Medium, 8oz
$16.99Clear 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...$16.99 -
Golden Glass Bead Gel Medium
$16.99Golden 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...$16.99 -
Golden MSA Solvent, 8 oz
$11.98Golden MSA Solvent is used for tool and paintbrush clean-up, as well as for removal of MSA varnish once dry for restoration purposes.$11.98 -
Liquitex Liquithick Thickening Gel
$17.25Liquitex 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,...$17.25