The paint you've previously known as Liquitex Medium Viscosity Acrylic Artist Color is now called Liquitex Professional Soft Body Acrylics. Liquitex Soft Body. My local Michael's is running a 40% off sale on Liquitex soft body acrylics. Untill you get into Golden Fluid Acrylics. Liquitex Heavy body can also.

Professional Level Paint Spectrum: 89 Colors Properties: Highly Pigmented, Even Leveling Consistency: Fluid Finish: Satin Soft Body Artist Acrylic Paint, previously referred to as Medium Viscosity, was the original Liquitex acrylic formulation first made in 1955. It is an extremely versatile artist acrylic paint that is creamy and smooth with a concentrated pigment load producing intense, pure color.

The creamy smooth, pre-filtered consistency ensures good coverage, even-leveling and superb results in a variety of applications and techniques. Invision Power Board 1.3.1 Final.

Do you feel you should be using mediums? You’ve probably brought a couple and had a play around, but are you using the right ones? Or is the overuse of mediums doing more harm than good? Acrylic mediums can change the consistency of acrylic paint and allow you more flexibility and creative freedom than any other type of paint. The trick is to use the right ones for the right situation. What is the difference between gels & mediums?

Gels are usually used thickly, to keep shapes and add texture. Mediums are pourable and used to thin out paints and give the Acrylics extra working time for blending Part 1 Acrylic Gels: How to read an acrylic gel label The name is often descriptive of the consistency, binder and lustre finish. For example: • Soft Gel Gloss – Soft (thinner consistency) gel (binder) gloss (lustre) • Regular Gel Matte – Regular (same consistency as regular paint) gel (binder) matte (lustre) • Heavy Gel Semi-Gloss – Heavy body (thicker consistency) gel (binder) satin (lustre) So if you are using a heavy body acrylic and want to make it go further but don’t want to change its consistency, then you can add ‘Regular Gel’ (either in matte, semi-gloss or gloss) This will increase the volume of your paint without having to use loads of pure pigment.

(It will, of course, dilute the coverage quality of the paint) The name doesn’t mean that a soft gel will have a soft finish when it has dried. It just means it has a softer consistency, i.e: thinner consistency, it is a bit misleading. If you think of them in cooking terms mediums are like pouring cream, gels can range from double cream to clotted cream!