Acrylic Colour - Mediums, Texture Gels & Varnishes
With the help of mediums, acrylics may be used in a fluid, gestural manner (much like water colour) or in heavier applications (as with oils) or they can be shaped and carved, used for print making or in virtually any other technique imaginable.
Mediums can help you to:
- Keep your colours brilliant
- Improve colour durability and adhesion
- Extend the colour
- Bring transparency and depth to the film
- Improve flow and "brush-ability"
Artists' Acrylic and Galeria have their own ranges of mediums. However, both ranges can be used together on the same painting and bring versatility and stability along with the dependable quality that artists have come to expect from Winsor & Newton.
For advice on when to use each medium, see our usage chart.