![]() They are heat cured at temperatures similar to Genesis. These liquids can be mixed with pigments to create paint, used as adhesives, mixed into clay to soften it, or combined with Genesis paint. In spite of the “liquid clay” name, these mostly do not have any clay ingredients, so I’ll call them polymer heat-set mediums. In particular, all three major lines of polymer clay (Sculpey, Fimo, Kato) offer so-called liquid clay, which appears to be very similar to the clear Plastisol bases used in silk-screen printing. Plastisols are widely used in screen printing and other industrial applications, with new products under development, and the polymer clay vendors seem to be taking advantage of this more than Genesis. If you want to reach me, I’m on g mail using the name jaymacazbd.īoth Genesis and the polymer clays are plastisols, mixtures of PVC with a softening plasticizer that keeps the product workable until heat is applied. I’ll insert here that I’m happy to communicate with anyone about these paints, but I had to close comments because of spam. The problems remain (even with new thick medium and a few new colors that I bought to see if they have changed anything), but I stumbled upon some intriguing possibilities of combining them with products from the polymer clay world (Update: and mediums from the world of plastisol screen printing, which I finally tried. I eventually set them aside, but I recently pulled them out and did a few more paintings. If you don’t want to buy that, make your own heat box, or use your kitchen oven (I sure wouldn’t do that), you will be limited to small sizes up to 12″ x 12″ that fit in a convection oven. I invested a fair amount of money in the Genesis oven, and can still only go to 24 x 24 inches. Only ovens are really sound, in my opinion the heat gun is too hard to use long enough and evenly. Difficulties with heating arrangements, especially with large canvases.I find Fredrix gesso (and Fredrix pre-primed canvas) the best for a smooth, slick feel, and Golden gesso is useful for more brush drag. I believe the plasticizer can even soften some acrylic gessos, which can border on disastrous. Many acrylic-pre-primed surfaces are too absorbent and suck the plasticizer out of the paint. A small range of surfaces that the paint is reliably compatible with, unless you gesso it yourself.Tendency to thicken dramatically on the palette and canvas over time (that’s thixotropy).A very narrow range of mediums with very limited behavior, and no way to overcome the ever-present thixotropy without weakening the paint.Genesis can match oil paint for color density, especially compared to paints like Golden Open and Atelier Interactive, which are often portrayed as oil substitutes.īut, Genesis also has distressing disadvantages:.The biggest problem is that paint mixes last so long that they can gather dust. ![]() ![]() You can really just walk away from your painting and come back to it days later. Brushes can be set aside for days without cleaning. ![]() As with acrylics, mediums can be used for translucent effects that would have oil painters wallowing in problems with linseed oil yellowing. ![]() Mediums dry without yellowing, at least in the years I have had my paintings.Indirect techniques and multiple glazes are possible without long waiting periods.Paint stays open indefinitely until heat set.I did 20 or so paintings with Genesis heat set paints several years ago. ![]()
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