When colour-concentration is of key importance in your work, you should use as little medium as possible, and start with a paint which is closest to your required consistency. While it is possible to mix consistencies, like using a heavy body medium with a soft body acrylic, more medium will be required and as a result, the colour will be less strong. Equally, If you wish to thin your acrylics but keep the intensity of colour, it’s best to start with a thinner paint and add a little fluid medium to extend it further. Dries to a hard, stiff film, making it useful for priming canvases if stiffness is required. It can be used as a rabbit skin glue alternative. GAC 500 Homemade texture paste doesn't last as long as the store bought kind so don't make big batches. Put your leftover mixture in a tightly sealed container to preserve. |Yes, Acrylic Ink can be used in your airbrush. We recommend you use it with Liquitex Airbrush Medium for optimum atomisation. Always remember to clean it out immediately after use as you would with any other acrylic media.

The medium has a lot of potential, but requires some practice to understand. Apparently, using heat alongside will create interesting effects, so it would be interesting to experiment with this. Mixing water with the mediums did little to improve it in any way. strongly absorbent. If necessary, absorbency can be reduced with an acrylic binder or acrylic painting medium. Each tile was scanned at 300dpi, and then reduced in Photoshop to 72dpi for the web, no other digital editing done. Each was coated with a single coat of Amsterdam Standard Titanium Buff Light acrylic paint and allowed to dry completely It was easy to skim the top of the surface with a wet palette knife, to decrease the texture with both the pure paste and also the paste that had been mixed with acrylic. I was surprised at how smooth you could make the surface.

It was very difficult to make it smooth and show up tool marks very distinctly. It would be very useful if you wanted to create distinct levels within a piece.

Clear Tar Gel, Leveling Gel and Glazing Liquid affect paint’s viscosity, flow and drying time, but all are levelling, smooth and transparent. It mixed easily with fluid acrylic, I chose a transparent Quinacridone Magenta, that created a gorgeous glaze, or rather lens, over an earlier painted mark.The texture, when wet, feels like wet paper pulp. Once dry, it feels exactly like a rough handmade or lightly processed, recycled paper pulp, I would not say it gives exactly a manufactured paper feel even once dry. It is an off white colour when dry, making for a nice ground. If you want to make colored modeling paste, just add a little bit of acrylic paint to your mixture (or substitute the white acrylic paint with a colored acrylic paint in the recipe that includes white acrylic paint as part of the recipe).