I’ve been using a much larger variety of acrylic mediums in my new set of paintings and it’s really opened up a lot of possibilities in texture for me. Very exciting to experiment!
I worked on this painting yesterday. For the washes and drips I added some Acrylic Flow Release to thinned liquid paint - it gives a completely different feel to the wash, a much deeper stain, than just plain water. I’ve been doing lots of stains and drips and layers of medium (I’ll add a thick layer of gloss gel to this at some point, which separates the layers of color and gives a lot of depth to the painting).
The only disadvantage to doing all these layers of medium is that it takes so long to dry in between layers. You can hurry it along with a hairdryer, but that can lead to cracking and other possibly-undesirable effects so I try to avoid it. It is hard to be patient!
