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Golden Gels and Molding Pastes offer artists many ways to build texture. They range in consistency from pourable to moldable with varying degrees of sheen and transparency. Use them to create glazes, extend paints, build texture, change finishes. Many are excellent glues for collage artwork. Features include:

- Ready-to-Use Formulas
- Intermixable with all Golden waterborne products
- Lightfast; Permanent; Flexible
- Water-based, ACMI AP (Approved Product)

1. Make your own student grade paint
2. Change your paint surface
3. Crate texture in your paint

Download our Application Guide (PDF) for Gels and Molding Pastes to find out how to create these effects and get answers to frequently asked questions.

Soft Gel
Soft Gel has a creamy consistency. When mixed with a small amount of color it will produce a rich brilliant glaze. Its smooth bodied consistency enables movement and placement of collage materials and it is not as "wet" as Matte Medium, so it causes less curl to paper collage pieces. Creates soft rolled edges of paint strokes in contrast to a heavier gel. Creates beautiful velvety textures when panting into with soft brushes.

Regular Gel
Regular Gels are creamy like Heavy Body Acrylic colors and are ideal for extending paint and regulating transparency without changing the consistency of the Heavy Body color. Useful for impasto glazing effects.

Heavy Gel
Heavy Gels are thicker than Heavy Body Acrylic colors and may be blended with colors to increase body. Excellent for holding peaks and dry translucent.

Extra Heavy Gel
Extra Heavy Gels, along with High Solid Gels, are the thickest Golden gels and create thicker textures than Heavy Gels. Excellent for holding peaks and dry translucent.

Extra Heavy/Molding Paste
A blend of Extra Heavy Gel and Molding Paste, dries to a satin, semi-opaque finish. Blends well with colors. Excellent for increasing viscosity and building surfaces.

High Solid Gel
This really stiff and thick. Wonderful for palette knife effects and major impasto looks. Shrinks less than all the other gels. The matte High Solid Gel creates a very waxy look. Holds very sharp deep Scrafitto incisions when carved into while wet.

Pumice Gels
Three grades of gritty textures, Fine, Coarse and Extra Coarse. Fine Pumice Gel dries to a finely textured surface because the particles are very small, imparting a velvety quality to the paint. Useful for creating grounds for Pastels, Oil Pastels and Paint Sticks. Coarse and Extra Coarse Pumice Gel create coarse granular concrete-like textures. Add color to any Pumice Gel or wash fluid glazes onto the grainy texture and you can create almost "sparkly" looks. Great textures for use of drybrush techniques.

Fine Pumice	Coarse	Extra Coarse

Garnet Gels
A beautiful assortment of gritty textures with speckled color ranging from a rosy gray umber to a pink umber with rosy sienna grains in Fine, Coarse and Extra Coarse grit. In a more traditional use, create wonderful textures for beach, landscape, foliage, rock formations. Create abstract textures or unusual colored grounds and surfaces for Pastels, Oil Pastels and Oil Sticks.

Fine	Coarse	Extra Coarse

Clear Granular Gel
Clear, tiny, transparent plastic particles loaded into a gel. Creates very unusual surfaces and dries clear, creating unique glazing applications. Wash color over dried layers of Granular Gel for unusual colorful textured effects.

Clear Tar Gel
Very long stringy rheology, which means it will pour in long narrow drips without breaking. Mix a bit of color with it and "draw" as it drips off the end of a palette knife or brush. Makes flat shiny or "oily" like surfaces when laid out with a palette knife. Very "pully" to paint with. Create some wild marble effects by dropping color onto a layer of wet Clear Tar Gel and using combs to "marble" or you can paint directly into the wet surface.

Molding Paste
Because Molding Paste is made with white marble dust, it dries to a hard opaque white surface. It can be used for texturing and palette knifed out, it resembles a fresco surface. Use as a ground to paint on, the hardness will keep the paint sitting on the surface and is totally non-absorbent.

Hard Molding Paste
Provides the hardest opaque, matte finish. It blends well with Golden Acrylic colors. Hard Molding Paste is useful for creating tough, durable finishes. Self-leveling for smooth hard surfaces or rounded peaks. The dried film can be carved with hand or power tools.

Light Molding Paste
Offers dramatic weight reduction in thick texture. Its unique whiteness creates extraordinary qualities when mixed with color. A "space age" microscopic air bubble replaces the marble dust in regular Molding Paste making it 50% lighter. This material gives the Light Molding Paste a "fluffy" consistency similar to cake frosting or whipped cream. When dry, it has an oddly absorbent quality that allows for some beautiful rich saturated washes of color.

Self Leveling Clear Gel
Designed to produce an even film with excellent clarity. The gel has a unique resinous, stringy consistency resulting from the leveling property. This product dries to a flexible, high gloss film, which can increase the transparency and sheen, while imparting a leveling quality to other Golden Acrylic products. Blends with Golden Acrylic colors to produce glazes.