Heavy Gels are thicker than Heavy Body Acrylics and may be blended with colors to increase body.

These gels blend with colors and make them feel more oil-like by retaining brush strokes. The gloss offers less shrinkage than the matte which dries to a cloudy, waxlike finish.

Gives a matte transparency when mixed with colors.

These pastes dry to a hard, opaque film. Although still flexible, they are more rigid than the gels and able to hold stiff peaks. The Light Molding Paste offers significant weight reduction when building thick layers. It is soft, very flexible and dries to an opaque, matte finish. The Hard Molding Paste provides the hardest opaque, matte finish. It blends well with color and is useful for creating tough, durable finishes. The dried film can be carved.

A flexible protective finish for fine artworks, removable for conservation purposes, offers excellent dirt, dust and moisture resistance. Contains Ultra Violet Light Stabilizers (UVLS) providing archival protection, reducing light damage. Gloss varnishes tend to make colors appear more saturated (darker), while satin and matte will have the opposite effect (lighter).
Inflammable. Harmful by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed. Irritating to eyes and respiratory system.

Use Open Acrylic Gel to adjust color stength and translucency while maintaining consistency and maximum working time. Compatible with Open and Golden Acrylics.

Use Open Acrylic Medium to adjusts color strength and transluncency while producing more fluid mixtures with increased flow. Compatible with Open and Golden Acrylics.

Thinner replaces materials that evaporate from paint on the palette during long painting sessions. Use thinner to adjust and maintain the working properties of colors and reduce brush drag.

This general purpose liquid medium is useful for creating glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss and translucency and increasing film integrity. It is oil-like and resinous in nature, promoting flow and leveling.

Pumice Gels with various grades of gritty textures which dry to hard films.

These gels are creamy like Heavy Body Acrylic colors and are ideal for extending paint and regulating transparency.

Retarder is an additive used to increase the drying time of acrylic paints. Useful for “ wet-in-wet” techniques and reducing skinning on the palette.

Designed to produce a clear even film, this gel dries to a flexible, high gloss film while imparting a leveling quality to acrylic colors.

These pourable gels produce brilliant glazes when mixed with color. They can be used as a base for wet blending of color or as a glue for collage work. Soft Gel is recommended as a nonremovable isolation coat before adding removable topcoat varnishes.