Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Slow Drying Medium - Clear acrylic medium which increases the drying time of colour by up to 4 times when used with Winsor's own artist acrylic paints. Dries with a slight sheen. Galeria Iridescent Medium – A translucent acrylic gel with an iridescent pigment for creating a shimmering prismatic interference effect with paint. It can be applied directly to work or mixed with acrylic paints to make iridescent colours. I’m using a Permanent Alizarin Crimson. Again, this pigment has a great transparent quality, which will also work well in the later glazes. Gels tend to be transparent and increase body, those gels with aggregates have bits in them to change the texture and to produce unique textural effects.

I'm using glazing and blending medium here and I'm using Burnt Umber because it's a beautiful, transparent pigment. Burnt Umber comes from Umbria, it's a clay that's been burnt so that it's got a much richer, deeper, darker tone. I'm just mixing it into the Glazing Medium here and you can see that it's got a really lovely strong transparency. How dark you want your glaze to be depends on how much pigment you decide to use and you can build up layers of Glaze. Suitable for a variety of surfaces and developed to provide pearlescent effects when added to colour. Most effective when used with transparent colours over dark under layers. All four impasto mediums when mixed with Daniel Smith paint made the brush harder to rinse than with just neat paint, but washing was rated good. I’ve chosen this blue because it also has a lovely transparent quality to it, which will make it handy in the later stages of the painting for the clear final blue glazes.It also enhances the adhesive properties of the paint, which makes it suitable for collage work. Gel mediums are available in different types, like gloss & matte, and also different textures. If you add enough glazing medium to the more opaque colors, they will eventually become somewhat transparent too. The Recommended Ratio of Glazing Medium to Paint To glaze, you’ll need a glazing medium and a brush. Mix the glazing medium with your paint to create a transparent layer. Then, apply the glaze over your base layer, using smooth brushstrokes to spread the paint evenly. You can build up multiple layers of glaze for even more depth and richness.

It was opaque but still slightly more transparent than I expected as you can see from the swatch on the left. Remember that the color of your glaze will dry to look a bit different from how it looks at this point. If you are unsure, paint a bit of your glaze onto a scrap piece of paper and allow it to dry. This will give you an idea of whether you like the final look of your glazing. For some of the finer details, I dip the brush into the Acrylic Glazing Liquid Gloss. This helps when you want to increase the flow of the paint yet still keep the body. Having an acrylic medium is crucial when learning how to glaze with acrylics because it keeps the viscosity and paint film of the thin application. Step #3 – Mixing a Tonal Colour String I’ve prepared the canvas board by painting a coloured ground over the white surface using a mix of Titanium White and Raw Umber. Start with some Titanium White and then add a little Raw Umber just to tint it, using the palette knife to mix, aiming for a colour that’s a light grey tone.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. Once the underpainting has been established, I introduce Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) onto the palette. GOLDEN Wetting Aid - Surfactant solution that decreases the surface tension acrylic paint and increases flow whilst greatly reducing paint mark retention. Ideal for when smooth application and thin paint layers are required. The traditional name for a bodied medium is megilp – this is a gel that does not self level and will hold a nice texture. It was quite common in 19th-century painting studios and JMW Turner was known to love it. Gel glazes can be applied with a knife and will be more luminous than ones made with general-purpose mediums. Most gels are made by chemical reactions (traditional megilp is gelled mastic) but some mediums are bulked out with inert fillers such as chalk which allow interesting textural effects. Glazing mediums slightly increase paint drying time, have self-levelling qualities, increase flow and dry with a smooth finish.