Liquitex Professional Glass Beads Texture Gel

Liquitex Professional Glass Beads Texture Gel

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:

• Glass microspheres add shimmering structure and texture to this 100% acrylic polymer gel;
• Dries to a reflective, undulating finish, for a bubble-like effect;
• Highly flexible and adhesive - will not chip or crack on canvas;
• Can be used on its own, mixed with color or overpainted with acrylics or oils once dry;
• Apply thickly to create dramatic 3D effects, or finely to give surface texture;
• Provides an undulating ground for acrylics and oils;
• Apply with knife or brush - can be thinned with small amount of distilled water if required;
• Mix with different consistencies and ratios of acrylic color/medium to create custom texture;
• Mix with Gloss Medium to create a textured glaze;
• Start by adding very small amounts of color and build up as needed;
• For dramatic reflective effects, mix with transparent/semi-opaque colors or apply 'neat' over dried paint;
• For reflective textured glazes, mix with Gloss Medium and small amounts of Soft Body.