Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acrylics, because they are water-based, can be thinned with water to create transparent washes. But the pigments don’t tend to ...

I also have some alkid-based clear glazing medium here that I'm going to lubricate the whole canvas with so we're getting a glaze effect over the top of this dried acrylic under painting. For brushes ...

Acrylics, because they are water-based, can be thinned with water to create transparent washes. But the pigments don’t tend to adhere very well once this is done, which is where glazing media come in.