Liquitex

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

• Lightfast & archival
• Permanent
• Non-yellowing
• Water-resistant when dry
• Intermixable with all Liquitex products

• Contains 237 ml (8 oz)
• Can be used with acrylic paints
• Can be used on all acrylic-friendly surfaces (rigid supports only)
• Can be mixed with acrylic colour (using no more than 15% paint to 85% medium)
• Cracking will vary depending on how thickly you apply it (the effects will be more obvious on thicker applications, but will take longer to dry)
• Recommended techniques: crackled texture, vintage look

• Do not dilute with water
• Do not force dry with a fan or heater, as this may result in less or no cracking.
• Do not try and slow the drying time by adding a slow drying medium, as this will affect crackling effect.
• Apply paste evenly to surface with a palette knife
• Let dry for at least 24 hours before painting over
• When using on wood, seal with a base layer of fluid/gel medium and let dry before Crackle Paste application.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

Liquitex Heavy Body paints have a thick consistency for traditional art techniques using brushes or knives, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking techniques. Their high pigment load produces rich, brilliant, permanent colours, which can be mixed easily.

This set contains 12 x 59 ml tubes in the following classic colours:

• Yellow Light Hansa
• Naphthol Red Light
• Quinacridone Magenta
• Ivory Black
• Emerald Green
• Phthalocyanine Green (Blue Shade)
• Phthalocyanine Blue (Green Shade)
• Brilliant Blue
• Bronze Yellow
• Dioxazine Purple
• x2 Titanium White.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

Great for creating unique splatter effects. Offered in round and flat to create different marks. Ideal with soft bodied acrylics or acrylic inks. Drag through mediums for unique effects.

• Sizes: Round and Flat

• Ferrule: Stainless steel

• Handle: Black contoured satin

• Brush type: Flexible plastic

Care:

Caring for paintbrushes is essential to prolongling their lifespan by keeping them in good working condition.

Acrylic: clean in soapy water and rinse in warm water.  

• High viscosity
• Highly pigmented
• Satin finish
• Holds knife marks and brush strokes

• All painting techniques
• Impasto
• Texturizing with brush or palette knife
• Alla prima

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

Basics Acrylics give you the perfect balance of quality and economy. Made for all artists, Basics Acrylics are student-quality – this means they are made with the same lightfast, fine art pigments used in the Liquitex Professional range, but just a lighter load. Ideal for so many uses: if you’re a beginner, if you’re on a budget, perfect for underpainting or sketching if you’re a serious artist, and even for colour scoping and exploration if you’re a creative professional.!

Premium acrylic gesso used to prepare painting surfaces for acrylic and oil paint.

Texture: Fluid
Sheen: Matte
Relative Opacity: Opaque

• Non-yellowing
• Flexible and non-cracking
• Provides the perfect 'tooth' and adhesion to a wide variety of surfaces such as canvas, paper and wood
• Excellent base coat primer for many applications, such as canvases, murals, etc.
• One coat is usually all that is required.

Application :
Use undiluted or thin up to 25% with water. When thinning more that 25%, use an equal mixture of water and Liquitex Matte Medium to thin gesso. Tint with up to 10% Liquitex Soft Body or Heavy Body Artist Colours.

Basics Acrylics give you the perfect balance of quality and economy. Made for all artists, Basics Acrylics are student-quality – this means they are made with the same lightfast, fine art pigments used in the Liquitex Professional range, but just a lighter load. Ideal for so many uses: if you’re a beginner, if you’re on a budget, perfect for underpainting or sketching if you’re a serious artist, and even for colour scoping and exploration if you’re a creative professional.!

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

Basics Acrylics give you the perfect balance of quality and economy. Made for all artists, Basics Acrylics are student-quality – this means they are made with the same lightfast, fine art pigments used in the Liquitex Professional range, but just a lighter load. Ideal for so many uses: if you’re a beginner, if you’re on a budget, perfect for underpainting or sketching if you’re a serious artist, and even for colour scoping and exploration if you’re a creative professional.!

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

• High viscosity
• Highly pigmented
• Satin finish
• Holds knife marks and brush strokes

• All painting techniques
• Impasto
• Texturizing with brush or palette knife
• Alla prima

• Lightfast & archival
• Permanent
• Non-yellowing
• Flexible & non-cracking
• Water-resistant when dry
• Intermixable with all Liquitex products

• Contains 237 ml (8 oz)
• Semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry
• Can be used with acrylic paints and mediums
• Can be used on all acrylic-friendly surfaces
• Can be thinned by diluting with up to 25% water
• Recommended techniques: painting, collage and mixed media, photo transfers

• 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

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

• fluid viscosity
• fine art pigments
• highly versatile
• no dilution needed
• easy blending
• satin sheen

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

• High viscosity
• Highly pigmented
• Satin finish
• Holds knife marks and brush strokes

• All painting techniques
• Impasto
• Texturizing with brush or palette knife
• Alla prima

• High viscosity
• Highly pigmented
• Satin finish
• Holds knife marks and brush strokes

• All painting techniques
• Impasto
• Texturizing with brush or palette knife
• Alla prima

The world’s first non-cadmium acrylic with the same performance, vibrancy, and lightfastness as cadmium paints. Professional quality featuring a thick consistency and a high pigment load that produces rich, brilliant and permanent colours.

Ideal for traditional art techniques, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time.

• Professional quality paint
• Exceptionally smooth, thick, buttery consistency with a satin finish
• Retains brush strokes and palette knife marks
• Flexible when dry; thick films remain free of cracks and chips

Uses and techniques:

• Impasto: Thick applications with brush stroke and knife marks
• Traditional acrylic painting on canvas or panel
• Experimental acrylic painting
• Collage and mixed media
• Acrylic printmaking, including screen printing, mono prints, block prints, etc.

• fluid viscosity
• fine art pigments
• highly versatile
• no dilution needed
• easy blending
• satin sheen

Large, comfortable non-slip matte finished handle crafted from the highest quality wood has been paired with top-of-the-line synthetic bristle heads. The result is artist quality brushes that offer excellent durability in large scaled applications that require rugged tools. The paddle brush's shorter bristles allow for easy movement of thick colour and mediums. Useful for broad marks and edges.

Freestyle Large Scale Brushes meet the expanding needs of acrylic artists working in grandiose scales. 

Brush specifications:

• Sizes: 1 inch, 2 inches, 3 inches and 4 inches in width

• Ferrule: Stainless steel

• Handle: Contoured Black Satin

• Brush Type: Synthetic

Techniques & Applications:

• Large surface covering

• Move thick mediums

• Spreading thick colour

• Smudging

• Scumbling

Care:

Caring for paintbrushes is essential to prolonging their lifespan by keeping them in good working condition.
  

Acrylic: clean in soapy water and rinse in warm water.
 

Practical information:
 

Never let dry before cleaning.
 

Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and keeps the supple shape of the paintbrush.