Winsor & Newton Water Colour - Mediums Gum Arabic
Water Colour Mediums are used to create an even wider variety of techniques and effects for your work; from increasing drying time, improving flow and changing gloss and texture, they provide limitless opportunities. The Winsor & Newton range also includes art masking fluids to keep areas of the paper white. Gum Arabic is a pale coloured water colour medium that is used to increase the brilliance, gloss and achieve areas of transparency. Adding Gum Arabic to your water colour has three effects: it slows down the drying time of the paint allowing for increased workability, giving you slightly longer to work on creating your image or working wet into wet; it adds further transparency to your water colours and it increases gloss. Gum Arabic washes will have greater depth and appear more luminous than colour washes alone.
- Gum Arabic is usually mixed into the water colour wash but can be added to the jar of water if you prefer to use it throughout the painting.
- Gum Arabic should not be used directly from the bottle because thick films will be brittle.
- Pale coloured solution that controls the spread of wet colour
- Increase transparency brilliance and gloss
- Reduces staining slows down the drying time of the paint allowing for increased workability
- Size - 75ml