Matisse Structure Formula is Australia's finest quality acrylic paints that use only the best ingredients and pigments. Matisse Structure colours are heavy-body, water-resistant, high-viscosity paint line perfectly suited for texture and impasto applications. Available in wonderful range of 96 colours that includes metallics and several unique Australian colours. Matisse Structure Formulahas outstanding light fastness or permanent ratings of ASTM 1 or 2. These archival quality colours are powerful enough to last for a long time.
Application When used undiluted by a knife or a brush Matisse Structure paints provide an intense impasto finish. For watercolour effects these colours need to be thinned by adding some water. This applies even for colour washes.
Mediums When Matisse Structure colours are mixed with Matisse Mediums the paint's features gets transformed. The radiant and versatile Matisse Structure Formula is made even more flexible by the Matisse painting mediums. Apply MM7 Polymer Gloss Varnish or MM5 Matt Medium for adjusting the gloss of the painting surface. Apply MM2 Impasto Medium for creating structure and MM4 Gel Medium for gleaming high gloss glazes, and list goes on, please visit our medium section for more information.
Acrylics & Oils Acrylics may be applied under oil paints and on top of them. Acrylics are better not mixed with any oil paints. If you desire oil like finish with your acrylics, you could go for Matisse MM31 Open Medium.
I only buy what works. In using this product for over 30 years I've swapped and tested other brands but found there are limitations where Matisse has provided consistent results. Its not perfect for every process but it is highly flexible with the Derivan Mediums of which I use a lot. All artists have prefered result in finish and feel of paint also in application the brush or knife method must be natural and hold form properly when making marks. Matisse Medium 2 Impasto used with Structure Formula is very much similar to using sticky oil paint. There is a slight density loss in using impasto but the methods used by professional artists is compensated in technique. New artists or creatives should test how much medium can be used with raw structure to get enough opaque volume of pigment on surfaces without it becoming transparent.
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Judi Hall
Love the huge colour range in Matisse acrylic paints.
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ALFRED BRADFORD
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