Fabric Painting: Fabric Painting and Liquitex Products
- Liquitex® Professional Grade Acrylic Colors are the most permanent paints for fabric. Available in two viscosities, they offer the largest assortment of pure pigments of any professional quality acrylic paint. Their exceptional quality, durability, adhesion and lightfastness allow artists to:
- Achieve permanent colors without heat setting, steaming or chemical fixing.
- Stencil, watercolor, airbrush, marble, stamp, silk-screen, dye or stain.
- Paint on cotton, cotton-poly blends, woven, knitted, felt, terry cloth, silk, velvet, velveteen, corduroy, flannel, suede and leather and most synthetics.
- Ideal for most fabric painting techniques, especially lightweight or textured fabrics.
- Colors dry to a smooth, even surface with good leveling and few brush marks.
- Use for flat large area coverage, fine line detail, airbrush, stencil, watercolor, staining, dying, silk screen, calligraphy and marbling.
- Creamy consistency allows for mixing easily with water and mediums.
- A heavy bodied paint that has an exceptionally smooth, thick buttery consistency.
- When dry, retains brush stokes and palette knife marks. Excellent for impasto.
- Flexible when dry, allowing builtup surfaces to remain free of cracks and chips.
LIQUITEX MEDIUMS
- Enhances workability of acrylic paint and eliminates stiffness of dry acrylic paint on fabric.
- Prevents uneven application of paint to rough textured fabrics and controls color bleeding.
Flow-Aid® Flow Enhancer
A flow promoter and wetting agent that improves flow, absorption and blending of colors.Liquitex Gloss Medium & Varnish
Mix into colors to increase transparency, gloss and to add flexibility and adhesion to paint.Liquitex Slow-Dri Blending Fluid Medium
Mix into colors to slow drying, increase transparency and gloss, and add flexiblity and adhesion.Liquitex Matte Medium
Creates a matte or dull, non-reflecting finish when added to acrylic colors.Iridescent/Pearlescent Tinting Medium
Produces an entire palette of iridescent or metallic colors when mixed into acrylic colors.Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium
Mix into colors to add gloss, flexibility and adhesion to paint, use for dimensional line work.Liquitex Matte Gel Medium
Mix into Heavy Body colors to add dullness, satin sheen flexibility and adhesion to paint.Gloss Heavy Gel Medium
Mix into Heavy Body colors to add gloss, thickness, flexibility and adhesion to paint.Liquitex Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder
Increases drying time, aids color blending, keeps paint in silk-screens from drying.Liquitex Slow-Dri Gel Retarder
Similar to Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder in a gel formulation. Use in silk-screen and color blending.Airbrush Medium
Thins colors to a sprayable consistency and decreases clogging and paint buildup.