Description
Amsterdam Acrylic Medium Matte
Do you want to experiment with your paint? Use AMSTERDAM acrylic mediums, available here in a matte finish. Combine acrylic paint with one of Amsterdam’s acrylic mediums and see how the character of the paint changes. With the mediums you can make the paint thicker, glossier, thinner or more matte… They are also suitable for gluing various types of material. If you mix the paint with a medium the color becomes somewhat lighter; however, once dry, the paint will have its original colour again. A medium does not have any pigment and when wet it is milky white. When dry a medium is completely colorless and transparent again. Adding a medium makes the paint film even more elastic.
Acrylic Medium Matte
Purpose: Thinning acrylic paint and reducing the degree of gloss while retaining the durability of the paint film.
Composition: Acrylic resin dispersion, matting agent (silica).
Qualities:
- Milky white, but once dry colorless and transparent
- Shake well before use
- Reduces the degree of gloss
- Does not affect the drying time of the paint
- Increases the flexibility of the paint film
- Can be thinned with water
- Waterproof when dry
- Can be mixed with acrylic paint in any ratio
- Use at temperatures above 10° C
- Store frost-free. Cannot freeze.
- Also available in a gloss finish here.
Royal Talens supplies Gel medium, Heavy gel medium and Extra heavy gel medium, all in both glossy and matt varieties.
Gel medium is as thick as Rembrandt and Van Gogh acrylic colours and a little thicker than Amsterdam acrylic colours. In terms of consistency, Gel medium is thicker than the above types of paint, the gel does not flow so easily.
The addition of Gel medium to a paint allows for a clearer brush stroke/structure. Heavy gel medium increases the brush stroke even further. Using Extra heavy gel medium it is possible to apply very sharp structures and extremely thick layers.
Furthermore, all gels, pure or mixed with paint, due to their large adhesive capacity are ideally suited to incorporate materials such as sand, sawdust, paper, wood, stone, etc. in the paint.
