Golden High Flow Medium: Professional Transparency Control and Enhanced Film Hardness
Golden High Flow Medium (formerly Airbrush Transparent Extender) is a professional-grade, 100% acrylic binder system engineered to modify Golden High Flow Acrylics and Airbrush Colors. Designed to meet the exacting standards of illustrators and airbrush artists, this medium increases film hardness and transparency while maintaining a low viscosity. It is specifically formulated to minimize common technical hurdles such as nozzle clogging, tip build-up, and surface defects, ensuring a smooth and reliable spray performance.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Precision Transparency Control: Can be blended in any ratio to allow for total mastery over color strength, which is essential for sophisticated shading, glazing, and seamless gradations.
- Increased Film Hardness: Enhances the structural durability of the paint film, providing a tougher finish that is more resistant to physical handling compared to standard diluted mixtures.
- Optimized for Masking and Frisketing: Dries more rapidly than standard airbrush mediums, making it the ideal choice for technical applications where masking film must be removed without lifting the underlying paint.
- High-Clarity Gloss Finish: Maintains the brilliance of pigments and promotes higher reflectance when used with Iridescent or Interference colors compared to other extenders.
- Balanced Drying Profile: Formulated with a lower level of retarders to allow for faster drying times, which facilitates efficient layering and reduces the likelihood of surface defects in humid conditions.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Mixing for Transparency: A ratio of 5 to 10 parts medium to 1 part color is a recommended starting point for achieving high transparency; stir gently to avoid entrapping air bubbles that could cause surface defects.
- Universal Compatibility: While optimized for High Flow Acrylics, it can be used to further thin Heavy Body or Fluid Acrylics—especially when mixtures already contain Airbrush Medium—to keep the drying time balanced.
- Water Dilution Limits: If water is required, do not exceed a 1:2 ratio of water to High Flow Medium; exceeding this limit may result in a hazy or fragile dried film due to excessive binder extension.
- Safety and Environment: Apply to any non-oily surface; ensure non-absorbent substrates are abraded for maximum adhesion. As with all spray media, ensure adequate ventilation and use appropriate respiratory protection.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Golden Artist Colors High Flow Medium (Formerly Airbrush Transparent Extender)
- Base Chemistry: 100% Acrylic Resin Emulsion
- Finish: High Gloss and Hard
- Viscosity: Ultra-Low (Fluid)
- Cleanup Requirements: Water and Soap (Keep tools wet; do not allow to dry in airbrush)
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