Golden - Mediums & Varnishes

Made with genuine glass beads, Golden Glass Bead Gel offers a clear, textured acrylic gel effect with a unique reflective quality. Use it untinted for layered texture, mix it with iridescent colours for increased reflectance, or mix it with opaque colours for a sand-like appearance. It blends well with all Golden acrylics and gels. A medium with endless creative possibilities! Contains 8 oz.

Golden Molding Pastes can be used to achieve a variety of effects and expressions. When used in conjunction with acrylic colours, they broaden working properties and expand creative possibilities. Unlike gels, pastes are opaque because they contain Marble Dust or other fillers that create a white or clay-tone finish with a variety of textures and properties. Molding Paste can also be used to create foundations for painting either to create texture over a smoother surface, or to smooth out a textured surface. The absorbent qualities of Molding Paste make it suitable as a ground for nearly every painting and drawing media.

Golden brand gels enables artists to thin paints, control their viscosity, simulate oil textures, as well as create transparency effects or serifs. Because this product is thicker than most acrylics, it must be applied with a painting knife or a trowel, and can be diluted with water.
 
In addition, it enables artists to modify colour properties of acrylics paints and vary his or her techniques. Golden brand gels offer many different finishes.
 
Golden acrylic polymer is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground. Available in various finishes.
 
This Golden brand medium is specially made for airbrushes. It increases the fluidity of acrylics, making the paint flow better through the airbrush. It can also be used to dilute other Golden colours.
 
Supports: Suitable for most surfaces, including canvas and cardboard.
 
Drying time: Depending on thickness.
 
Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.
 
Practical information: Do not store in the refrigerator or the freezer.

Golden brand gels enables artists to thin paints, control their viscosity, simulate oil textures, as well as create transparency effects or serifs. Because this product is thicker than most acrylics, it must be applied with a painting knife or a trowel, and can be diluted with water.
 
In addition, it enables artists to modify colour properties of acrylics paints and vary his or her techniques. Golden brand gels offer many different finishes.
 
Golden acrylic polymer is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground. Available in various finishes.
 
This Golden brand medium is specially made for airbrushes. It increases the fluidity of acrylics, making the paint flow better through the airbrush. It can also be used to dilute other Golden colours.
 
Supports: Suitable for most surfaces, including canvas and cardboard.
 
Drying time: Depending on thickness.
 
Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.
 
Practical information: Do not store in the refrigerator or the freezer.

Golden GAC 200 is a hard, acrylic extender for non-porous surfaces like glass. As the hardest and least flexible of Golden Acrylic Mediums, it is a liquid acrylic polymer emulsion that is useful for increasing film hardness and reducing tack. Used in its pure form, it is limited to applications on non-flexible supports. The amount of GAC 200 used should not exceed 33% of the entire paint mixture. Contains 8 oz.

Fiber paste medium that creates textured paint surfaces.

This medium offers a dry film that has the appearance of rough handmade paper. Skimming the product with a wet paletteknife can make a smoother surface. When dry, it has an off-white colour and isvery absorbent, making it ideal for use with acrylic and watercolour washes orinks. It has a thick, sticky feel in the wet state.

MSA (Mineral Spirit Acrylic) Varnish with UVLS (Ultraviolet Light Stabilisers) is a mineral spirit-based acrylic resin system that forms a tougher, less permeable film than water­borne acrylic varnishes. It can be applied to acrylic, oil and alkyd painted surfaces. It reduces dirt penetration and surface marring, offering an ex­treme­ly level film with less foam and fewer pin­holes. It is removable with mineral spirits after drying and is recommended for interior or exterior use.

This medium is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground.

Usage:  It can be used as a basic binder for the preparation of colour glazes.

Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.

Drying time: up to 30 minutes, depending on thickness.

This medium is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground.

Usage:  It can be used as a basic binder for the preparation of colour glazes.

Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.

Drying time: up to 30 minutes, depending on thickness.

This medium is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground.

Usage:  It can be used as a basic binder for the preparation of colour glazes.

Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.

Drying time: up to 30 minutes, depending on thickness.

This medium is useful for diluting and thinning colours, as well as for increasing their flexibility and hardening their films. In addition, it also helps acrylic colours adhere to nonporous surfaces, such as plastic and glass, and can be used as a ground.

Usage:  It can be used as a basic binder for the preparation of colour glazes.

Tool maintenance: Clean with soap and water.

Drying time: up to 30 minutes, depending on thickness.

Golden GAC 500 is a liquid acrylic polymer emulsion with levelling ability, that forms a hard, glossy film. As the hardest polymer that is suitable for flexible supports, it is useful for increasing film hardness and reducing tack, while maintaining flexibility. A medium with endless creative possibilities! Contains 8 oz.

Golden Pumice Gel Mediums are used to create textured surfaces. The mediums dry to a hard film?–?to increase their flexibility, mix in other Golden Gels or Mediums. They also blend well with Golden acrylic colours. An excellent ground for pencils, pastels and similar drawing media.

MSA (Mineral Spirit Acrylic) Varnish with UVLS (Ultraviolet Light Stabilisers) is a mineral spirit-based acrylic resin system that forms a tougher, less permeable film than water­borne acrylic varnishes. It can be applied to acrylic, oil and alkyd painted surfaces. It reduces dirt penetration and surface marring, offering an ex­treme­ly level film with less foam and fewer pin­holes. It is removable with mineral spirits after drying and is recommended for interior or exterior use.

Golden polymer varnish with UVLS is a water-based acrylic polymer varnish which, once dry, covers acrylic paint with a protective surface which is soft and resistant to dust. 
Thicker than traditional varnishes, Golden polymer varnish with UVLS protects pigments against the loss of brilliance, can be diluted with distilled water, can be applied with a paintbrush or paint gun, adheres to most  porous and non-greasy surfaces and is non-yellowing. 

Important information :
Test the product on a work before using in order to check the compatibility of the solvent with the varnish. Incompatible solvents can coagulate, thicken or dim the varnish.
To maximize the adherence and protection of the varnish, apply an insulating layer before varnishing. 

For application with a paintbrush, use Golden Glossy Gel diluted with water (2 parts of gel to one part of water).

For application with a gun, use GOLDEN GAC-500 medium mixed with Transparent thinner for paintbrush colours (2 parts of GAC-500 to one part of thinner). Wait 24 hours before varnishing.

Do not apply satin or matte varnish to absorbent surfaces, without having previously applied an insulating layer or a coat of glossy varnish.

For application, do not use foam or sponge paintbrushes.

Do not apply more than 2 coats of flat varnish. If a greater number of coats is necessary, start with the application of several coats of glossy varnish and finish with one coat of matte varnish.

Do not mix with paints or mediums.

Suitable for interior applications.

Keep out of reach of children.

Drying time : several days.