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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
$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 Gloss Waterborne Varnish
$10.95Golden Gloss Waterborne Varnish provides a layer of protection that resists retention of dirt and dust. A true “varnish” can be removed to facilitate cleaning, and Waterborne Varnish is removable in addition to containing...$10.95 -
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 -
Golden Extra Heavy Gel Matte Medium
$16.30The 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...$16.30 -
Golden Extra Heavy Gel Semi-Gloss Medium
$16.30The 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...$16.30 -
Silverpoint/Drawing Ground, 8 oz
$18.63Silverpoint/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...$18.63