Golden - Matte Medium
Matte Medium
Extend colors while maintaining translucency and a soft, matte finish
Matte Medium transforms how acrylic paint behaves without compromising its structural integrity. Pour it directly into your colors to extend working volume while maintaining proper binder ratios, essential when you're covering large areas or need your pigments to go further without weakening the paint film. The medium increases translucency beautifully, letting you build luminous glazes and veils of color that maintain the flat, non-reflective surface quality matte finishes provide.
Golden formulates this as their most translucent matte medium, which matters when you're layering. Unlike heavier matte gels, this pourable consistency integrates smoothly into paint without creating texture, keeping your surfaces even and controlled. It proves particularly valuable when you've added excessive water or dry pigments to your acrylics, the medium restores proper acrylic polymer content, preventing weak, chalky layers that crack or delaminate over time.
Apply it undiluted as a translucent ground that provides excellent tooth for subsequent layers while eliminating canvas glare. The versatility extends from studio economy to technical problem-solving: extending student-grade paints, adjusting professional colors for scumbling techniques, or correcting mixtures that have become too diluted. You get reliable matte finish and structural soundness in one straightforward medium.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
- Pourable acrylic medium extends colors economically
- Increases translucency while decreasing gloss
- Strengthens film integrity with added pigments
- Most translucent of Golden matte products
- Works as translucent ground preparation
- Ideal for creating glazes and washes
