Liquitex Light Modeling Paste

What it does

• 100% acrylic polymer and marble dust lightweight putty builds form and structure
• Dries to a hard, opaque white matte finish
• Can be used on its own, mixed with colour or painted once dry
• Gives minimal shrinkage
• Can be used to add body to paint and create pastel tints
• Can be overpainted with acrylics, oils, watercolours, graphite or dry pastels
• Maintains paint adhesion, durability and archival quality

How to use it

• Fully intermixable with all Liquitex products
• Use on rigid supports only
• Apply with knife or tool
• Tint with acrylic colour to make a coloured paste
• Can be handled like a lightweight clay - for best results remove the lid to let some of the water slowly evaporate until you get the texture you want
• For sculptural texture, build up in thin layers (each no more than a quarter of an inch thick), allowing each to dry
• Dry slowly by covering loosely with plastic wrap to avoid shrinkage cracks
• Overpaint once dry with acrylics or most other media
• To use as a ground - apply a thin layer to rigid surface with knife/trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed
• To make an absorbent ground, mix 1 part Modeling Paste to 3 parts Liquitex Gesso, apply with a trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed
• For flexible supports, ideally use Flexible Modeling Paste but you can mix Modeling Paste 50/50 with Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel
• For paper-mache, soak paper in a 50/50 mix of Modeling Paste and Gloss/Matte Gel/Gloss Heavy Gel
• Can be mixed with acrylic-compatible powdered pigments or aggregates

How not to use it

• Do not use with any non-acrylic compatible media
• Drying too quickly will cause cosmetic (not structural) cracks
• Do not use on flexible supports unless mixed with another medium