Liquitex Professional Modelling Paste

Liquitex Professional Modelling Paste

Supporting and collaborating with artists, creatives, and their communities. Developing and offering the boldest range of acrylic paints, mediums and tools to help everyone take an idea, big or small, and make it real. And proudly, passionately, relentlessly doing it all since 1955.

This is Liquitex - the world's first commercial water-based artists' acrylic paint.


About this product:

• 100% acrylic polymer and marble dust putty builds form and structure;
• Dries to a very hard 'stone-like' opaque white matte finish that you can sand, drill or carve;
• Can be used on its own, mixed with color or painted once dry;
• Can be overpainted with acrylics, oils, watercolors, graphite or dry pastels;
• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality;
• Can be handled like a lightweight clay - for best results remove the lid to let some of the water slowly evaporate until you get the texture you want;
• For sculptural texture, build up in thin layers (each no more than a quarter of an inch thick), allowing each to dry;
• Dry slowly by covering loosely with plastic wrap to avoid shrinkage cracks;
• To use as a ground - apply a thin layer to rigid surface with knife/trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed;
• To make an absorbent ground, mix 1 part Modelling Paste to 3 parts Liquitex Gesso, apply with a trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed;
• For paper-mache, soak paper in a 50/50 mix of Modelling Paste and Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel.