Liquitex Professional Gloss Gel Medium

Increases gloss and extends volume and thickens. Excellent for retaining brush marks while slowing the drying time. Mix with transparent colours for impasto glazes of great depth and brilliance. Excellent for transferring printed images.

What it does

• Increases surface gloss, colour depth and transparency

• Extends your colour further without affecting acrylic stability

• Gives heavy body paint an oil-like colour brilliance

• Increases viscosity of soft body paints, giving a thicker consistency

• Slows drying time and enhances appearance of brush marks

• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality

Use with

• Acrylic paints & mediums

Use on

• All acrylic-friendly surfaces

Techniques

• Painting

• Impasto

• Glazing when used with transparent colours

• Blending & softening edges

• Collaging, decoupage & mixed media

• Photo transfers

• Fully intermixable with all Liquitex products

• Mix with Matte Gel to create a custom satin gel

• Can be thined by diluting with up to 25% water - distilled water will give best results

• Mix as much as you like into acrylic colour to create the viscosity and transparency you want - the more you add, the more transparent your colour will become

• Mix into Heavy Body Acrylic to extend volume and maintain viscosity

• Mix into Soft Body or Acrylic Ink to extend volume and thicken

• This is semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry - when used very thickly it may dry semi-opaque

• Apply with a brush as a collaging glue and fixative

How not to use it

• Do not vigorously over-brush as this can result in a foggy, hazy look when dry

• Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media