MATISSE DRY MEDIUMS
Derivan has explored an extensive variety of minerals and man-made additives before finalising their selection of 18 Matisse Dry Mediums. These mediums, designed to mix with the existing Matisse and Derivan mediums such as MM4 Gel Medium or MM7 Polymer Gloss Medium, have a wealth of purposes. Many of them will provide magnificent textural effects, never previously achievable. Others have a specific function, for example, Microspheres, which provide bulk without weight – a great benefit for artists who work with texture on large canvasses.
Artists will be delighted with the effects achievable according to the method used to apply the Matisse Dry Mediums. Applied smoothly or in troughs or peaks, the texture made possible will surprise and please both the artist and the viewer. Where a rough texture has been chosen, care should be taken as the hard, rough surface may scratch the unwary once the work is dry.
Artists gain total control, because Derivan has packaged these Matisse Dry Mediums in this inventive form. The artists themselves win the flexibility to decide the proportion of dry medium to wet medium according to the effect desired. Matisse Dry Mediums come in a convenient 50ml size chosen on the basis of value, to enable the artist to try a selection of dry mediums economically or in a larger 250ml size when large amounts of a particular Dry Medium is required. Overall, a generous amount will give a superior effect to a sparse amount in the case of texture effects.
It is suggested that oil painters, wishing to use Matisse Dry Mediums for underlying texture, use the Matisse mediums suggested to prepare their surface. However, those wishing to work totally in oils will find the Matisse Dry Mediums just as inviting as acrylic artists, as they can all be mixed successfully with oil paint and oil painting mediums. More information can be found at www.derivan.com.au. It should be taken into account that oil paints and mediums, by their very nature, when used liberally will take much longer to dry than acrylics.
Each of the Matisse Dry Mediums has a myriad of potential uses, limited only by your imagination.