Description
Amsterdam Acrylic Medium – Gloss
Do you want to experiment with your paint? Use AMSTERDAM Acrylic medium, available here in a gloss finish. Combine acrylic paint with one of Amsterdam’s acrylic mediums and see how the character of the paint changes. With acrylic mediums you can make your paint thicker, glossier, thinner or more matte. They are also suitable for collage and gluing various types of material. If you mix acrylic paint with a medium, the color will become 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.
Amsterdam Acrylic Medium Gloss 75 ml and 1000 ml
Purpose: Thinning acrylic paint while retaining the durability of the paint film.
Composition: Acrylic resin dispersion.
Qualities:
- Milky white, but once dry colorless and transparent
- Increases the degree of gloss
- Does not affect the drying time of the paint
- Increases the elasticity 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
Mediums are used to change the properties of the paint, for example the thickness, gloss, flow, drying time, transparency and durability. If an extreme thinning is required, it is advisable to use acrylic medium instead of water as the addition of large amounts of water can release the pigment from the binder into the paint; the pigment would then lie unprotected on the painting and could rub off.
Acrylic Medium, Gel Medium, Heavy Gel Medium and Extra Heavy Gel Medium can be added to the paint limitlessly.
The binder for both acrylic paint and acrylic mediums consists of a dispersion of acrylic resin particles in water. As long as the binder contains water, the binder is white. When all the water has evaporated after drying, the acrylic resin particles in the binder form a continuous colourless transparent film and the white will have disappeared. This explains why the acrylic paint colours become darker as they dry. When mixed with a medium the wet paint therefore also becomes a little lighter; once dry the colour is the same as pure dried paint.
WHEN CAN A GEL MEDIUM BE USED?
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.
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.
