Glazing: Glazing Mediums

Glazing Medium and Gloss Medium & Varnish

  • Recommended medium to use for standard glazing techniques.
  • Dry film clarity produces transparent, brilliant glazes.
  • Use alone or mix with GM&V to create iridescent (opalescent) glazes. Transparent colors and translucent colors work best.
  • Produces transparent - translucent, heavy, brilliant glazes.
  • Produces translucent - opaque, heavy, matte glazes.
  • Mix with Gloss Gel Medium to achieve the desired level of gloss/matte sheen and increase transparency.
  • Produces transparent-translucent, extra-heavy, brilliant glazes.

Texture Gel Mediums

  • Resin Sand Glazes: Mix with Glazing Medium or GM&V to create a "rough" texture, transparent to translucent glazes.
  • Glass Bead Glazes: Mix with Glazing Medium or GM&V to create a "reflective bead" texture, transparent to translucent glazes.
  • Black Lava Glazes: Mix with Glazing Medium or GM&V to create "black speckled", transparent to translucent glazes.
  • Mix the above Texture Gels with any glazing medium for additional effects.

GLAZING ADDITIVES

Flow-AidTM Flow Enhancer

  • Mix Flow-AidTM Water with Glazing Medium or GM&V and Soft Body Concentrated Artist Color to achieve glazes and varnishes that are less sticky and can be brushed on easier and thinner with less evident brush marks and more open time for blending.
  • Achieve deeper saturation of color in watercolor technique and blending of colors.
  • Thins Heavy Body Artist Color so that it flows more readily and acts more like Soft Body Concentrated Artist Color. The resulting thinned mixture will have a lower pigment load and therefore lower tinting strength than the Soft Body Concentrated Artist Color.

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