--- In mini-painter@y..., "Judith Northwood" <judith@n...> wrote:

In theory, all water-based paints can be intermixed or overlaid with
no significant problems. Also in theory, though, there might be
longevity issues that would be a problem for fine artists that aren't likely to
mean anything to mini painters.

What you might experience, though, is the need for a bit more work in
blending the two different formulas fully and completely. That being
said, I've had good luck in blending moist watercolors (the kind that
come in the tube) with Vallejo and Golden matte mediums, and Vallejo's
metallic medium and Liquitex's iridescent medium. Using a minimum
ratio of 50-50 medium to paint provides a waterproof paint film. Be
prepared, though, that moist watercolors are more transparent than acrylic
paints, and the paint film is more delicate than pure acrylic paint provides,
since the gum arabic used in the moist watercolor is still in the mix.
Now mixing a bit of moist watercolor with acrylic paint, that's
somewhat like mixing an ink with the paint for the delicacy of a tint that can
be achieved.

I've also successfully used a few different brands of artist inks and
Golden Liquid and Airbrush acrylics with the Vallejos, both mixing and
layering, including Vallejo's Matte Medium with Golden Airbrush colors
and Vallejo's Metallic Medium with Golden's Fluid Acrylics. I've had
fun this week. <g> I've found that I like the Golden Airbrush
Transparent Mixing Grey and Transparent Burnt Umber just about as much
as I like Vallejo's Smoke.

The only thing I don't like about the inks and the Golden paints that
I've used is that they have more shine/gloss than the regular Vallejo
vinyl acrylics. Golden has a Matte Fluid Acrylic line that I will
likely experiment with, and Maimeri has a vinyl acrylic formula I'll
probably try at some point, and then there's the Cartoon Colour and
Chromacolour lines of matte acrylics that are based on animation cel
paint. I already love the feel of the Cartoon Colour brand thanks to
Deane's demonstrating them for me at Origins this past summer, so, to
quote Dork Tower "It must be mine!"

Hope that rambling bit of nonsense was helpful!

:^)

Judith
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and a follow up

I'd also recommend not going more than a 50-50 blend of the Vallejo
Slow Dry to the paint you're using, since more than that tends to slow the
cure on the paint film a *lot* - it will look dry, but will be very
easily lifted off, torn, wrinkled, or otherwise damaged for a lot
longer than usual for the thickness of coat applied. This will be true of
any product specifically designed to slow the drying of acrylic paints.

It likely goes without saying to mix it well, but my first couple of
tries this week showed me that it was possible to get streaks of color
if the gel wasn't blended fully with the paint. Live and learn, live
and learn.