Mediums and Additives offer artists infinite control of changing acrylic colors. Use Mediums to control transparency, viscosity and surface sheen. Use Additives to control the paint's working properties. Features include:

- 17 Different Products
- Modify Paint
- Waterbased
- Conforms to ASTM 4236
- Extensive Technical Support

1. Slow drying times for oil-like blending with acrylics

2. Use Airbrush Medium for spray applications

3. Extend color, increase transparency or create glazes

4. Use Silkscreen Medium for screened applications

5. Create watercolor effects with Acrylic Flow Release

GAC100 - Universal Acrylic Polymer
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion useful for diluting and extending colors as well as increasing flexibility and film integrity. Wets out solids more readily than other polymers and is useful for creating homemade paints.

GAC200 - Acrylic Polymer for Increasing Film Hardness
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion that is the hardest and least flexible of GOLDEN acrylics. Useful for increasing film hardness and reducing tack. Increases adhesion to non-porous surfaces, such as glass. Used in its pure form, it is limited to applications on non-flexible supports. Generally recommend a maximum level of GAC-200 be 33% of the entire paint mixture.

GAC400 - Acrylic Polymer for Stiffening Fabrics
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion which dries to a hard, stiff film. When applied over a fabric support, such as cotton, linen or silk, the GAC 400 will serve to dramatically stiffen the support. This allows the artist to transform a lightweight fabric into a free-standing form that will hold its shape. If laundering stability is essential, the polymer can be heat-set.

GAC500 - Acrylic Polymer for Self-Leveling Applications
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion with leveling ability, that forms a hard, glossy film. Useful for increasing film hardness and reducing tack, while maintaining flexibility. The hardest polymer that is suitable for flexible supports.

GAC700 - Acrylic Polymer for Increasing Film Clarity
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion that offers excellent film clarity and gloss. Excellent for sealing various supports to protect against Support Induced Discoloration. Useful for glaze applications, but care needs to be exercised to avoid foaming. Offers reduced shrinkage.

GAC800 - Acrylic Polymer for Reducing Craze
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion that does not craze in pours/puddles. That is to say that it dries with the same uniform surface and dimensional integrity as when wet (other GACs will craze, developing shrinkage crevices running across the surface). Dries with good gloss and flexibility, but only moderate clarity. Useful to increase adhesion to chalky surfaces.

GAC900 - Acrylic Polymer for Clothing Artists
A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion which when heat-set offers a very soft hand and laundering stability. This product is most useful to artists painting on clothing. GAC 900 can be blended with various acrylic colors to produce fabric paints that can be airbrush, hand brush or screen applied.

Acrylic Flow Release
Golden Acrylic Flow Release is an additive used to reduce surface tension of the water in the acrylic emulsion, therefore increasing the slickness and flow of the paint. It is effective for achieving rich stains on a porous surface. Health Labeled (HL) Product. Not for use by children.

Acrylic Glazing Liquid
Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid is a slow-drying acrylic medium originally designed for interior decorative finishes. Because it is made with 100% pure acrylic water-based polymer emulsions, it can has many uses for fine artists. Glazing Liquid can be blended with housepaints and artist acrylic paints to create an incredible variety of color glazes.

Fluid Matte Medium
A liquid medium useful for extending colors, decreasing gloss and increasing film integrity. Useful for blending with Golden Fluid Acrylics to decrease the gloss, without increasing viscosity.

Polymer Medium (Gloss)
A general purpose liquid medium useful for creating glazes, extending colors, enhancing gloss and translucency and increasing film integrity. Has a unique feel that is much more oil-like or resinous in nature and that promotes flow and leveling.

Matte Medium
Golden Matte Medium is a pourable acrylic medium useful for extending colors for economy, increasing translucency and decreasing gloss. It also increases film integrity when excessive pigment/filler solids or water is added. The most translucent of the matte mediums and gels, Golden Matte Medium is also useful as a translucent ground.

Silkscreen Medium
A water-borne system designed to blend with acrylic paints for silkscreen application. Increases working time and retards paint from drying in the screen. Safe to use with minimal odor. Mix 1 part Silkscreen Medium with 1 part Golden Acrylic colors (Heavy Body, Matte or Fluid) and use this mixture to screen with. The Silkscreen Medium is not designed to impart opacity, hence the opacity of the mixture will be determined by the nature of color being used and the ratio of paint to Medium used.

Retarder
Golden Retarder is an additive used to increase the open (drying) time of acrylic paints. Useful for "wet in wet" techniques and reducing skinning on the palette.