Liquitex Flexible Modelling Paste

Use with

• Acrylic paints & mediums

Use on

• All non-oily, absorbent surfaces
• Techniques
• 3D modeling
• Sculptural applications
• Mixed media
• Paper-mache

• 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 Modeling 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 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