I like this floating medium for several reasons...
1) it keeps the paint on your palette from drying so fast and
2) it thins the paint so that the acrylics can be used as more of a glaze like watercolors (acrylics are opaque for the most part).
Sometimes though a mistake can be very very helpful. I unthinkingly used this one day with my underglazes while bisque painting ceramic tiles. (There is a somewhat similar rewetting substance for underglazes) It was not until I was cleaning up for the day that I realized my mistake and by then it was inappropriate to consider undoing the areas that I painted. I decided to go ahead with my firing. I fired my work with this floating medium blended into the underglazes up to cone 04 with no problems at all! The colors were vibrant there was no raising or crazing. Oh and there was another
use for it on bisque-ware too.... with a stiff brush it can help remove any unwanted (unfired) colors.
This stuff is really really useful in so many ways and apparently with many different medias too.
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Floating medium arrived partly open, spilled on the label of the Magic Palette Guide, however it did not cause any serious damage to the mixing guide itself. About an eight of the liquid was gone.
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