Liquitex Professional Flexible Modelling Paste

A matte, opaque preparation of marble dust and polymer emulsion. Dries to a hard yet flexible surface. Use to build heavy textures and three-dimensional forms. Recommended for use on supports with occasional flexing.

What it does

• 100% acrylic polymer and marble dust putty builds flexible form and structure

• Dries to a very hard yet flexible opaque white matte finish, on supports that may be subject to some movement

• Can be used on its own, mixed with colour or painted once dry

• Dries more slowly than other modelling pastes

• Gives minimal shrinkage

• Can be overpainted with acrylics, oils, watercolours, graphite or dry pastels

• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality

Use with

• Acrylic paints & mediums

Use on

• All non-oily, absorbent surfaces

• Techniques

• 3D modeling

• Sculptural applications

• Mixed media

• Paper-mache

• Fully intermixable with all Liquitex products

• Apply with knife or tool

• Tint with acrylic colour to make a coloured paste

• Can be handled like clay - for best results remove the lid to let some of the water slowly evaporate until you get the texture you want

• For sculptural texture, build up in thin layers (each no more than a quarter of an inch thick), allowing each to dry

• Dry slowly by covering loosely with plastic wrap to avoid shrinkage cracks

• If cracks appear, allow to dry and fill in with another thin layer of paste

• Overpaint once dry with acrylics or most other media

• To use as a slightly flexible ground - apply a thin layer to rigid surface with knife/trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed

• To make an absorbent ground, mix 1 part Modelling Paste to 3 parts Liquitex Gesso, apply with a trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed

• For paper-mache, soak paper in a 50/50 mix of Modelling Paste and Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel

• Can be mixed with acrylic-compatible powdered pigments or aggregates

How not to use it

• Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media

• Drying too quickly will cause cosmetic (not structural) cracks