Which Acrylic Paints for Gel Painting?

Which paint for Acrylic painting on Gel Plates? Liquitex? Pēbeo? Amsterdam? Inexpensive Brands?  

Choose the Best you can afford. 

Acrylic paint can be cheap or expensive depending on the quality available. If you think you are going to like gel printing then go for a medium range of paint. I have bought cheap paint but I find it can be made with chemicals that smell or it contains mediums which take a while to dry or don’t mix well with other paints. Eventually I decided cheap is more expensive in the long run. I personally find Liquitex paints are good quality, reasonably priced, dry quickly and mix well. They also make all sorts of mediums and all their products are guaranteed to mix together. This is important as I have had issues before with certain brands of paints not mixing with other brands and I had to throw out a whole batch of paint. Now I stick with Liquitex. But if you find other brands for example Pēbeo or Amsterdam paints, no worries. They are good quality paints too. I have used them with Liquitex and found they mixed together without any issues. For example I prefer Amsterdam Ivory Black as I find it’s darker and more opaque than Liquitex. You can buy directly from Liquitex from your local art supplier or if none of the above products are available nearby try Amazon. They always have a stock and their prices are reasonable. 

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