Achieve a Refined, Glare-Free Finish with Amsterdam Acrylic Painting Medium Matt 117
Amsterdam Acrylic Painting Medium Matt 117 is an essential professional tool designed to extend and thin your acrylic paints while preserving their structural integrity. While thinning with water is common, excessive use can leave pigments under-bound and vulnerable to damage. This medium reinforces your work by replenishing the acrylic resin, ensuring your colors remain durable, flexible, and securely adhered to the surface—all while providing a sophisticated, non-reflective finish.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Refined Matt Finish: Specially formulated to reduce surface gloss, this medium allows you to create glare-free layers that are ideal for work displayed under bright gallery lighting.
- Reinforced Paint Film: By adding pure acrylic resin back into the mix, it increases the flexibility and durability of the paint film, protecting against smudging and cracking.
- Optimal Pigment Protection: Unlike heavy dilution with water, this medium ensures pigments are properly encapsulated in a resin binder, maintaining the permanence and professional quality of your work.
- Controlled Transparency and Flow: Easily increase the transparency of your colors for delicate glazing while improving the "spreadability" of the paint, allowing you to cover larger surface areas more efficiently.
- Consistent Drying Profile: Engineered to integrate perfectly with your current workflow, it does not alter the standard drying time of your acrylic paints.
- Transparent Results: The medium appears milky white when wet to assist in even application, but dries to a completely colorless and transparent film.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Preparation: Matt mediums contain matting agents that can settle. Shake the bottle well before use to ensure a consistent, uniform finish across your work.
- Mixing: Blend directly with acrylic colors on your palette. Increasing the amount of medium will result in higher transparency and a more pronounced matt effect.
- Tool Care: Maintain your equipment by cleaning brushes and utensils with water immediately after use.
- Environmental Conditions: For successful film formation, apply at temperatures above 10° Celsius.
- Storage: Store in a cool, dry place and ensure the product remains free of frost to protect the acrylic emulsion.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: 117 Matt
- Finish Profile: Non-Reflective Matt and Transparent
- Base Chemistry: 100% Acrylic Resin Emulsion
- Effect on Drying: Neutral (Does not affect paint drying time)
- Water Resistance: Waterproof once fully dry
- Cleanup Requirement: Clean utensils with water
- Origin: Crafted to Amsterdam’s Premium Quality Standards
