Golden Artist Colors – Extra Heavy Gel, 8oz

Golden Artist Colors Extra Heavy Gel is a professional-grade, 100% acrylic polymer medium with the thickest, stiffest consistency offered by the brand. Designed for maximum body, it holds extreme impasto peaks and tool marks, making it ideal for sculptural, high-texture painting, and collage work. It dries with excellent flexibility, water, and UV resistance. 

Key Features and Benefits:

• Highest Viscosity: It is thicker than Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, offering a consistency often described as "creamy peanut butter" or very stiff, allowing for dramatic, 3D textured effects.
• Finishes: Available in Gloss, Semi-Gloss, and Matte to suit different sheen preferences.
• Versatility: Can be blended with acrylic paints to extend color while increasing body and texture.
• Adhesion: Excellent as a strong adhesive for collage, mixed media, and attaching heavy materials to surfaces.
• Drying: Dries translucent, which allows for increased transparency when mixed with color, or a clear finish when used alone. 
   

Common Uses:

• Impasto Painting: Creating raised, textured, and structural effects using brushes or palette knives.
• Extending Paint: Increasing the volume of acrylic paint without losing the stiff, "short" rheology (it breaks short, retaining brush strokes/peaks).
• Mixed Media: Acting as a strong adhesive for heavy collage materials.
• Glazing: Creating transparent glazes with increased body. 
   

It is recommended to use this gel for structural techniques, as it holds peaks better than Soft or Heavy Gels.