This gel has an extremely resinous and stringy consistency, which makes it feel very different than other acrylics. It was easy to skim the top of the surface with a wet palette knife, to decrease the texture with both the pure paste and also the paste that had been mixed with acrylic. It dried completely clear. Golden Clear Tar Gel. golden® clear tar gel $17.99 - $156.99 Buy One Get One 50% Off - Add Two to Qualify Quickview. The scratch marks were easy to produce and bit into the medium well without dragging it. It did feel quite thin and bled out. It was easy to handle and create different effects. This makes it hard to handle, control and scratch into. Me again. I found when we tested these mediums that within two days all of them were touch dry and after a week they all were hard but dentable with a nail, however, during the testing period, the temperature was over 22 degrees. Free shipping for many products! From £13.99 Product Description. Quick view Compare Choose Options. I found it quite hard to achieve decent strings after mixing the tar gel with fluid acrylic, and I found the working time was very short, before it started being too gloopy to make long strings. Extra Heavy Molding Paste created softened edges but still held peaks and marks really well. This is becasue the polymer acts mainly as a “glue”, rather than as the body of the gel. There are five consistencies of Golden plain acrylic gels the thickest being Extra Heavy Gel, then Heavy Gel, Regular Gel and Soft Gel, they also offer High Solid Gels that have a similar consistency to Heavy Gels but have even less shrinkage. It was incredibly absorbent and felt really easy to wash over. Colour washes over the top will run into the cracks. The Golden Extra Heavy Acrylic Gel was quite milky when it was first applied, so there was a big drying shift. It was difficult to scratch into and removing areas cleanly was nearly impossible. This is the most commonly used polymer in paint and is the most flexible with a moderate amount of tack and gloss. All of this is possible without the shrinkage and crazing (cracks) you can get when only using heavy body acrylic paint. Reduces crazing and is useful for pouring. It is very absorbent, but if you try to create high peaks, it crumbles slightly after drying. It would be interesting to layer over already dried colour, and have it reflect the light on top. over-view of the whole range. 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The hardest and least flexible of all Golden products, it increases film hardness and needs to be used in pure form on rigid surfaces. Required fields are marked *, © JACKSON'S ART SUPPLIES 2009-2020 | JACKSON'S ART SUPPLIES, 1 FARLEIGH PLACE, LONDON N16 7SX020 7254 0077 9-5:30 Mon-Fri. Clear Tar Gel is used to create drips and strings of painting, like in Jackson Pollock’s work. When I washed over the dried, cracked paste layer, it did absorb into the surface but also bled into the cracks that acted like waterways. Pumice Gels Golden. For acrylics and other water-based media, if the painting is composed of thin layers, waiting a day or two before applying the isolation layer, followed by another two days to a … For more information please go to our website http://www.goldenpaints.com The reflections are most effective when it is applied at a thickness of a single bead. 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