The Art of Texture

Mix, layer, pour, build, texturize - there are no limits. Experiment with matte vs. gloss, soft vs. rugged, subtle vs. bold. Combine products for unexpected effects and watch your work evolve in exciting new directions.

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Beyond Acrylic Color: The Gels & Mediums Video Hub

Unlock more from your color, transform your work with gels and mediums that expand what paint can do. From silky smooth to richly textured, from fluid layers to bold, sculptural depth, the possibilities are yours to shape. Thin it out, build it up and create something extraordinary.

Soft Gels Do it All

Thinner than Heavy Body colors, Soft Gels mix with acrylic colors to create luminous, transparent glazes. They also work beautifully as an adhesive for collage—giving you both flexibility and creative control in every layer.

Regular Gels

Regular Gels match the viscosity of Heavy Body Acrylics, making them perfect for extending Heavy Body while maintaining its original consistency. They enhance color transparency without sacrificing body. Ideal for building impasto effects or adding thickness to more fluid paints.

Clear Granular & Glass Bead Gel

Clear Granular Gel contains acrylic solids with a coarse texture that dries translucent, offering excellent clarity and durability.
Glass Bead Gel, made with real glass beads, creates a condensation-like effect. It works best in thin layers over light colors to highlight the beads.

Light Molding Punches Above it's Weight

Over 50% lighter than Molding Paste, Light Molding Paste is ideal for large or thick applications. It dries to an opaque, matte finish with good flexibility, holds stiff peaks for heavy texture, and mixes easily.

Pumice Gels Add the Grit

Pumice Gels dry to hard, durable films and mix easily with GOLDEN Acrylic Colors.
Fine Pumice Gel is ideal as a drawing ground, while Coarse and Extra Coarse Pumice Gels create rough, sand-like textures for concrete-style finishes.

Fluid Mediums

Gloss Medium: Adds gloss, smooth flow, and transparency; good for glazes and preventing discoloration (SID). Matte Medium: Reduces shine, extends color, and strengthens the paint film; can also act as a clear ground. Fluid Matte Medium: Similar to matte medium but thinner—great for use with fluid acrylics while maintaining consistency.

Encaustic Effects with Mediums

Discover how to achieve an Encaustic look using GOLDEN Matte Gels and Mediums. Use interference and other colors to fine tune the look you desire.

GOLDEN Paintworks

GOLDEN Paintworks delivers GOLDEN - quality products for decorative artists, scenic painters, and muralists.

GOLDEN Decorative Textures

GOLDEN Paintworks® produces an intriguing series of architectural Textures. They are all water based, tintable, acrylic coatings, each one having its own personality and unique qualities.

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Behind the Texture

Get to know the creatives beyond their work - join us as we learn and share more about the extraordinary artists in our industry through our blog.

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Create an "Ombre" Finish with Soapstone

How to create an "Ombre" finish using GOLDEN Paintworks® "Soapstone" texture.

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More Texture, More Fun

Explore fresh ways to add (or even dial back) texture in your art, all while having fun, experimenting boldly, and expanding your creative toolkit.

Super Textural Painting

Painting’s history is basically a giant playground of texture. Artists have scraped, smeared, and layered their way into endless surface possibilities. And thanks to their unbeatable stability and flexibility, acrylic paints and mediums are the ultimate partners for this kind of fearless experimentation.

Texture Boost: Acrylic Grounds for Oils

Starting a painting with bold, dynamic texture opens the door to new ideas and surprising results. We’ll dig into five GOLDEN Acrylic products that help you build textured surfaces, perfect for your next oil painting.

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Pour & More

Just because it’s called a “pouring medium” doesn’t mean pouring is its only party trick. CPM Matte has plenty of unexpected uses that make it a surprisingly handy studio sidekick, even if pouring isn’t your vibe.

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Collage With Gels & Mediums

Golden Acrylic Gels and Mediums make outstanding adhesives for collage, offering strong, reliable bonding without sacrificing the look of your work. Their wide range of gel types ensures secure adhesion even on textured or irregular surfaces, while maintaining excellent clarity and flexibility once dry.

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Williamsburg Oil a Palette of Textures

A reflection on how true painters, like true writers, are shaped by devotion to their medium - celebrating Williamsburg’s roots in the tactile, textured, deeply physical world of oil paint.

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PanPastel, Meet Your Match... Acrylic Grounds!

PanPastels create bold, surprising effects on acrylic surfaces. With mark‑making possibilities you can’t get from wet acrylics alone, plus the texture boosting of GOLDEN Gels, Pastes, and Grounds, PanPastel opens the door to a whole new world of color play and creative control.

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