Size dries clear and tacky. Its tackiness remain for weeks enabling reattachment touch up of gold leaves, decoupage tissues and labels. Easy application with brush or a spritz spray bottle. Adhere well gold leaves, tissue and thin gauge paper, cloth, dried leaves on glass, glazed ceramics, metal, plastics. In double layer gilding application of size ensures strong adhesion. Its tack assists adhesion of acrylic paints as a paint primer even on EVA , polystyrene foam. soft plastic or silicon rubber. As soon as the primer dries tacky, acrylic painting can commence. Similarly size is useful in acrylic painting where random gold gilding is part of the art. Powder sparkles, holographic glitters, glo in dark powder, iron oxides weathering, landscape organics are attached where needed even on candle waxy surfaces with balance dust off the non size prime areas. Mixed with color oxides primer perform as a light oxide wash. Powder puff oxides to enhance weathering effect over tacky spots.
A versatile adhesion promoter as tackiness is not easily rubbed off. This lasting tack is perfect as a primer especially on soft flexible surfaces like plastic, silicon, canvas frames for subsequent acrylic painting. This adhesion promoter primer prevent acrylic paints from flaking when flexed. As dried acrylics is brittle, flexible H20 covercoat varnish film reinforces paint from cracking. Combined with flexible tacky primer, and flexible H20 covercoat, acrylic paints adhesion is well secured on plastics and soft squeezable plastics from flaking. Glass painting need this primer as it dries clear tacky to prevent acrylic paint shrinkage from flaking in drying.
Wash brush in running water and scrub clean with Multifilla brush cleaner to rid tackiness. Over areas of unwanted tackiness can be neutralized by brushing over a coating of brush cleaner.
