How to apply glazing techniques to acrylic paintings - Royal Talens
How to apply glazing techniques to acrylic paintings - Royal Talens

Create transparent, deep color layers with Amsterdam glazing medium

Did you know you can use traditional glazing techniques with acrylic paint as well? Amsterdam glazing medium allows you to add those even, transparent layers to your work. This medium makes your paint smoother, easier to spread and more even (without visible brush strokes). The medium is self-leveling, so it helps you create those beautiful glazing layers to achieve an optical color mixing effect with the colors of the underlying layers. Glazing works especially well with transparent colors in the final layers of your painting. Adding a medium also makes the paint film even more elastic and flexible.

In this video, we show you the effect of Amsterdam glazing medium in different amounts. You can add more or less of the medium to make the paint the ideal transparency for your work.

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