Gel Medium - can be used as an extender mixed with color
Great with translucent... and can be used with color as a glaze
Or straight out of the jar (MM4 from Matise)
Can do scraffido
Economical
Used with a brush it will leave a brush stroke and hold its peak
Liquitex, Golden and Matise are basically the same
Soft Gel - does not retain much shape or texture
Heavy Gel - does retain shape
Glass Bead Gel - dries clear... great for sand and extra texture
Matte Gel Medium - will give you texture or can be used like a glue to adhere papers or fabric.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Matte Medium
Matte Medium can be an extender for paint... can self level
It's a great glue... acrylic polymer (M5)
Texturing a canvas before painting video
Stretch or rip cheesecloth... apply to canvas with gesso
Tear tissue paper and glue it down with white gesso.. put tissue underneath and on top to get wrinkles.
Put a stencil (one without a design - use all or just parts of the stencil) down and either use gesso to get texture or modeling paste applied with spackling knife.... just go for random texture
Can use free form spackling ... do edges
Get all air bubbles out of paper
Put Gesso in a squeeze bottle and drizzle on canvas
use lids
stamps
can use random spackling or modeling paste
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