Professional Mediums
Professional Satin Gel Medium
Key Features
- Gives paint a satin finish
- Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality
- Extends color without affecting acrylic stability
- Gives heavier body paint an oil-like color brilliance
- Increases viscosity of soft body paints, giving a thicker consistency
How to Use
- Mix as much as you like into acrylic color to create the viscosity and transparency you want - the more you add, the more transparent the color will become
- Can be thinned by diluting with up to 25% water - distilled water will give best results
- Mix into Heavy Body Acrylic to extend volume and maintain viscosity
- Mix into Soft Body or Acrylic Ink to extend volume and thicken
- This is semi-opaque when wet, transparent when dry. When used very thickly it may dry semi-opaque
MEET LIQUTEX PROFESSIONAL GELS & PASTES
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Other creatives have asked us...
I cut the nozzle on my Soft Body or Acrylic Gouache too far down -can I get another one from you?
You can't get replacement nozzles for Liquitex Soft Body; but can use a nozzle from another bottle.
What's the best extender for Soft Body?
It depends what kind of finish you want. Ultra Matte Medium will double your volume without changing the viscosity, color position or opacity, but will give a matte finish. Alternatively Gloss and Medium Mediums will keep the viscosity but increase transparency a little.
Is it true that Soft Body was the first acrylic paint ever invented?
Yes it's true that it was the first commercially available water-based acrylic paint designed for artists, back in the 1950s. Then it was called Liquitex Medium Viscosity.
I used to be able to buy your Soft Body paint in either a tube or pot can I still get it in a tube?
The older Soft Body packaging in tubes has been discontinued.
Do the new big Soft Body bottles also come with nozzles?
Large Soft Body bottles also have nozzle lids, except for tiny sample sizes.
Can I get the same consistency and result as Soft Body by watering down my Heavy Body paint?
You can thin Heavy Body paint with water, but it may reduce color intensity. We would always advise that you'll get the result by choosing the appropriate paint for the task.
I cut the nozzle on my Soft Body or Acrylic Gouache too far down -can I get another one from you?
You can't get replacement nozzles for Liquitex Soft Body; but can use a nozzle from another bottle.
What's the difference between Liquitex Basics Acrylic Fluid and Liquitex Professional Soft Body Acrylic?
Liquitex Basics Acrylic Fluid is more fluid and has a lower pigment load than Liquitex Professional Soft Body Acrylic.