Liquitex - Professional Acrylic Gloss Super Heavy Gel 237ml
Designed for use with acrylic paints
Extra heavy body gel
High gloss finish
Enhances blending, translucency, adhesion & flexibility
Slows drying time
Formulated to enhance the creations of artists working with Liquitex Acrylic Paint, but equally effective when mixed with any Acrylic Colour, Liquitex Professional Gloss Super Heavy Gel produces a brilliant gloss impasto, enhances blending, slows drying time and increases translucency, adhesion and flexibility.
What is a Medium?
Any liquid which changes the consistency of the paint it is mixed with may be classed as a medium. Liquitex mediums are designed specifically for use with acrylic paints, and produce effects ranging from thin glaze to thick impasto, with a variety of choices in between.
Why use a Medium?
By changing the properties of paint, a medium extends the possibilities of how an artist works with the colour, and affords a plethora of exciting techniques and effects.
Acrylic Mediums: Exploring The Possibilities gives further information on the Liquitex range of acrylic mediums, and how they can be used.
Why choose Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel?
The thickest gel within the range, Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel has incredibly dense, extra-heavy body, providing high peak retention and crisp brush or knife strokes. Mix with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Colour to create impasto effects and to obtain an elevated surface drag, similar to that of oil paint. Drying to a transparent or translucent finish, depending on the thickness of application, Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel keeps paint working longer than other gel mediums, and gives very little shrinkage during drying time.
Fully intermixable, all Liquitex Mediums are water resistant and ph neutral when dry, non-yellowing and permanent.
How do I use Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel?
An extremely versatile medium, Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel can be used as:
An Extender: Mix with Liquitex Soft Body or Heavy Body artist colours, to extend volume and increase transparency, viscosity, body and colour brilliance.
An Adhesive: Use to provide excellent adhesion for collage, decoupage and mixed media.
A Ground: Use when creating a sculptural ground, ensuring adequate pressure is applied to force the gel into the raw canvas, to enable proper bonding.
A Binder: Use as a binder for powdered pigments, to make an inexpensive extra-heavy body acrylic paint, and with additives such as sand, sawdust and stone.
The following video shows how Liquitex Gloss Super Heavy Gel can be used:
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Can you explain some of the terms used when painting with Acrylic Mediums?
Click here for a glossary of Acrylic painting terms, including the different types of medium.
Who are Liquitex?
Founded in 1933 by Henry Levison, Permanent Pigments, an oil colour producing company from Cincinnati, Ohio developed the first water-based artist acrylic paints. Their new formulation was launched in 1955, under the new company name Liquitex, an abbreviation of "Liquid texture", which Levison believed better captured the product's essence.
Today, Liquitex offers a vast array of intermixable vibrant acrylic paints and mediums, enabling artists to continually explore new and innovative ways of working with Acrylic Colour.
