Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel is an acrylic medium that gives acrylic paint an oil-like consistency. It is dense and buttery, and it holds knife marks and dimensional texture for impasto techniques. The extra heavy formula raises viscosity a great deal while staying transparent, so colors stay brilliant instead of chalky or diluted.
The gel keeps paint open longer than standard mediums. This gives more time to work edges and blend transitions in thick passages or heavy gradations. As a binder, it holds pigments and additives such as sand, pumice and crushed stone in a stable matrix for textured surfaces that resist cracking and separating.
Mix it into paint to control thickness, or apply it straight from the jar as an underlayer for dimensional glazing. The gloss finish intensifies color saturation.
- Brand
- Liquitex
- Type
- Acrylic gel medium, extra heavy
- Finish
- Gloss
- Texture
- Dense, buttery, holds knife marks
- Transparency
- Stays transparent
- Working time
- Stays open longer than standard mediums
- Can be mixed with
- Acrylic paint, sand, pumice, crushed stone
- Uses
- Impasto, dimensional glazing underlayer, textured surfaces