LQX ACRYLIC MEDIUMS 118ML FLOW-AID ADDITIVE 094376924176
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Professional Mediums

Professional Flow-Aid Additive

Size: 118ml
£12.35 GBP In stock, ready to ship
Overview

Professional acrylic gessoes, mediums, additives and varnishes - to prep your surfaces all the way through to protecting your finished work. Each medium is uniquely formulated to deliver a different result. From gloss gels to experimental texture effects and finishes, each lets you adjust your paint to suit your practice. Additives are binder-free formulas to adjust paint character.
Character
  • Intermixable with all Liquitex colors & mediums
  • Permanent
  • Improves adhesion & durability
  • Flexible & non-cracking
  • Non-yellowing
Techniques

Product information

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Lightfastness | How long will it resist fading?

  • Each pigment is rated on scale by the American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM). Liquitex paints are all rated ASTM I (excellent) or II (very good) and considered permanent and lightfast for 50-100+ years in gallery conditions. Our metallic and fluorescent colors are naturally less lightfast.

Opacity/Transparency | We communicate opacity/transparency clearly on our packaging based on three categories:

  • Opaque: these colors do not allow light to pass through the color layer and offer the best coverage or hiding power.
  • Semi-opaque: these allow for some light to pass through the color layer and sit between opaque and transparent colors
  • Transparent: these colors offer the least coverage and allow light to pass through the color layer to the surface below.
  • Series:
    Pigments come from a variety of sources and have different prices according to their rarity, processing and milling costs. We group our colors into a 'series' pricing structure according to how much each one takes to make. Series 1 colors contain the most inexpensive pigments, while Series 4 and 5 color contain the most expensive pigments.


MEET LIQUTEX PROFESSIONAL GELS & PASTES

UNLOCK MORE PERFORMANCE IN YOUR ACRYLIC PAINT

Ready to unlock more performance from your acrylic paints? Try our Professional Gels & Pastes Mediums. All 12 professional formulas – available in your choice of weights, surface sheens and effects – maintain your paint’s structure, so it dries normally, stays robust and keeps its archival quality. This range can also help you add impressive thickness and texture to your acrylics and make them go further. So, whether you’re working with mattifying gels or modeling pastes, you’ll have what you need to elevate your paint.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Other creatives have asked us...

Liquitex Flow Aid is now called an additive, is it a different formulation?

Liquitex Flow Aid is renamed Liquitex Flow Aid Additive but remains the same formulation.
My acrylic paint dries too fast. What can I do?

We suggest you first avoid adding water to your paint and minimize heat and air flow in your painting environment. Secondly. make use of acrylic mediums to extend the color, especially Slow-Dri Fluid or Gel, Airbrush Medium or Slow-Dri Fluid or Gel Additive. All of these will extend the open time and workability of your color. Remember that only one additive should be used within a color mix as combining additives can compromise the paint film stability.
What is an additive?

Additives are used to adjust the chemistry of acrylic paints, but they are very different to the rest of the mediums family. Most acrylic mediums contain high proportions of acrylic resins, but additives do not. With most acrylic mediums, you can add as much as you like to your color without weakening the stability of the acrylic film, while additives will dilute the strength of the acrylic film. This means that you need to be more careful about how much you mix into to your paint or it will have issues around drying, tackiness, separation and durability. Our four additives offer really useful individual benefits, so just make sure you follow the directions for use before starting to work with them.