GOLDEN Glass Bead Gels

Great acrylic medium to add texture. Mixes well with Golden Acrylics, Opus Essential Acrylics, Liquitex Acrylics and Kroma Acrylics. Dries slightly soft, so it holds on Canvas. Varnishes well. Happy with it!

I applied the glass beads at the bottom of an acrylic painting hoping it would look like sand. It didn't so I added several layers of paint but the the regular glass bead texture just seemed to amplify.
Be sure you want that type of texture in the area you put it. I could add some knife strokes but I think it would be too distracting at the bottom of the painting as I wanted the emphasis on the figure in the water above.
Perhaps I should have scrubbed them off in the first layer with alcohol? I do love experimenting with all of the different media.

I love this material! So versatile to apply textures, from very subtle to very vivid. I sometimes mix it with paint, sometimes paint over it. It is easy to combine with other gels for infinite texture variations.