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Liquitex Professional Acrylic Silkscreen Medium (237ml)
- Designed for use with acrylic paints
- Thins heavy body paints for printing
- Retains opacity, adhesion & archival quality
- Permanent
- Non-yellowing
- Lightfast & archival
- Water resistant once dry
- Intermixable with all Liquitex materials.
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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 Silkscreen Medium is formulated especially for Screen Printing or Monoprinting.
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 Silkscreen Medium?
Designed for the express purpose of preparing thicker, heavy body acrylics for screen printing whilst retaining all of their benefits.
This has many benefits, such as:
- Improving colour flow allowing you to print in more detail
- Slowing the drying process, giving you more time to print
- Lowering viscosity of heavier body paints to make the optimum texture for printing
- Extending colour without affecting its acrylic stability or opacity
- Maintaining paint adhesion, durability and archival quality
How to use Liquitex Silkscreen Medium:
- Mix 1-2 parts of acrylic colour with 1 part medium
- For maximum opacity, use opaque colours or add white before adding medium (this may result in a lighter colour)
- In warm conditions, use 1 part colour to 1 part medium
- Clean your screen and equipment promptly after use
How not to use Liquitex Silkscreen Medium:
- Do not let your colour dry on the screen
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.