There’s something almost erotic about the feedback that Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Acrylics gives you when you spread its thick, buttery pigments across a canvas. It’s like slightly melted chocolate with its satin sheen and rich professional-level pigments that give you both the perfect level of coverage, as well as the body to stand on its own for impasto techniques.
Adaptability of this Paint
You can easily modify the sheen, viscosity, and transparency with Liquitex Acrylic Mediums in order to pull off the intended look or technique. For instance, you can add a heavy gel or super heavy gel medium to create a stiffer paint, or you can add Liquitex Flow Aid Medium to minimize brush strokes and improve flow, absorbency, and blending.
Texture and Body Galore
Being a texture fiend, these acrylic paints are my go-to for leaving my mark on a canvas. When I revisit a finished work, I am fondly reminded of each painting-knife stroke, which brings back the state of mind I was experiencing when I created the work. It’s beautiful to see the strokes and brush marks working together to create the movement and emotion of the story that developed from the canvas ground.
I also feel a kinship to my artist hero, Vincent Van Gogh, who is said to be a pioneer of the use of impasto, as I dab these luscious paints. I imagine us visiting each other’s studios and natural haunts, speaking of the challenges of painting, the art world, and the intrinsic need to express that which is in the heart.
Why Go Pro?
I was encouraged, a long time ago, to invest in good substrates and professional-grade mediums, and that advice was so on point. While I definitely use a broad range of paint types, from thinner craft paints to these pro-grade acrylic paints, I depend on the heavy body paints for the base layers in my paintings. I can depend on their archival quality, pigment saturation, and light-fastness.
If you, too, are looking to follow the wisdom of that advice, I cannot more heartily recommend Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Paint. They come in sets of 6, 12, and 24, or you can buy them one tube at a time.