Liquitex Modeling Paste Professional Acrylic Mediums 237 ML
- 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
 - Gives minimal shrinkage
 - Can be overpainted with acrylics, oils, watercolors, graphite or dry pastels
 - Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality
 
How to use it
- Fully intermixable with all Liquitex products
 - Use on rigid supports only
 - Apply with knife or tool
 - Tint with acrylic color to make a colored paste
 - Can be handled like 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
 - If cracks appear, allow to dry and fill in with another thin layer of paste
 - Ensure paste is completely dry before sanding, carving or drilling into
 - Overpaint once dry with acrylics or most other media
 - 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 Modeling Paste to 3 parts Liquitex Gesso, apply with a trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed
 - For flexible supports, ideally use Flexible Modeling Paste, but you can mix Modeling Paste 50/50 with Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel
 - For paper-mache, soak paper in a 50/50 mix of Modeling Paste and Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel
 - Can be mixed with acrylic-compatible powdered pigments or aggregates
 
How not to use it
- Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media
 - Drying too quickly will cause cosmetic (not structural) cracks
 - Do not use on flexible supports unless mixed with another medium
 

  