Liquitex Flexible Modeling Pastes

Acrylic and marble putty to build textures on semi-flexible supports and create 3d forms.

What it does: 

• 100% acrylic polymer and marble dust putty builds flexible form and structure.
• Dries to a very hard yet flexible opaque white matte finish, on supports that may be subject to some movement.
• Can be used on its own, mixed with colour or painted once dry.
• Dries more slowly than other modelling pastes.
• Gives minimal shrinkage.
• 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.
• Apply with knife or tool.
• Tint with acrylic colour to make a coloured paste.
• Can be handled like 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.
• If cracks appear, allow to dry and fill in with another thin layer of paste.
• Overpaint once dry with acrylics or most other media.
• To use as a slightly flexible 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 modelling paste to 3 parts liquitex gesso, apply with a trowel/roller, leave to dry, sand smooth and repeat if needed.
• For paper-mache, soak paper in a 50/50 mix of modelling 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.