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Liquitex Professional Acrylic Satin Gel (237ml)

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  • Designed for use with acrylic paints
  • Provides a satin finish
  • Increases texture
  • Extends volume
  • Flexible & non-cracking
  • Water resistant when dry
  • Permanent
  • Lightfast & archival
  • Translucent, non-yellowing
  • Intermixable with all other Liquitex materials
  • Can also be used for:
  • glazing
  • blending
  • collage & decoupage
  • photo transfers

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Formulated to enhance the creations of artists working with Liquitex Acrylic Paint, but equally effective when mixed with any Acrylic Colour.

Liquitex Professional Satin Gel is formulated especially for providing a satin finish to your work, along with many other benefits, found below.

What is a Medium, how does it work?

Generally speaking, any liquid that changes the consistency of the paint into which it's mixed with may be classed as a medium.
By changing the properties of paint, a medium extends the possibilities of how an artist works with the colour, and affords a plethora of exciting techniques and effects.

Specifically, Liquitex mediums are designed for use with acrylic paints, making them suitable for a range of alternate techniques & producing effects ranging from a thin glaze to a thick impasto, with a myriad of choices in between.
Another benefit is that Liquitex mediums are fully intermixable with their entire range, water resistant, archival, PH neutral, non-yellowing and permanent once dry.

Acrylic Mediums: Exploring The Possibilities gives further information on the Liquitex range of acrylic mediums, and how they can be used.

Click here for a glossary of Acrylic painting terms, including the different types of medium.

Why choose Liquitex Satin Gel?

Although designed to give acrylic paints a satin sheen once dry, there are many other benefits, including:

  • Maintaining paint adhesion, durability and archival quality
  • Extending colour without affecting acrylic stability
  • Giving heavier body paint an oil-like colour brilliance
  • Increasing viscosity of soft body paints, giving a thicker consistency
  • Slowing drying time while enhancing appearance of brush strokes

How to use Liquitex Satin Gel:

  • Mix as much as you like into acrylic colour to create the viscosity and transparency you want
  • The more you add, the more transparent the colour will become
  • Can be thinned by diluting with up to 25% water - distilled water will give best results
  • Mix into Heavy Body Acrylic to extend volume and maintain viscosity
  • Mix into Soft Body or Acrylic Ink to extend volume and thicken
  • Semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry (when used very thickly it may dry semi-opaque)
  • Apply with a brush as a collaging glue and fixative

How not to use Liquitex Satin Gel:

  • Do not shake or vigorously over-brush as this can result in a foggy, hazy look when dry
  • Do not use with any non-acrylic media

Who are Liquitex?

Founded in 1933 in Cincinnati, Ohio by Henry Levison, Permanent Pigments, then producers of oil colours, developed the first water-based artist acrylic paints in 1955.
This new formulation was launched the same year, simultaneously with the new company name "Liquitex" (an abbreviation of “Liquid texture”), which Levison believed better captured the product’s essence.

Today, Liquitex offers a vast array of intermixable acrylic paints, mediums, varnishes, brushes & countless other options to better enable everyone from amateurs, students, hobbyists, artists & professionals to continually explore new and innovative ways of working with Acrylic Colour.

“I’m only happy when I’m trying to create something new”
Henry Levison