Professional Matte Medium for Flattening Sheen and Extending Color

Liquitex Professional Ultra Matte Medium is specifically designed to reduce surface gloss, delivering a true matte finish with no visible sheen—ideal for artists who want a flat, light-diffusing surface. This medium significantly lowers the viscosity of heavier-bodied paints, improving flow while maintaining color strength and stability. It’s especially useful for extending opaque colors up to double their original volume without compromising archival quality. The slowed drying time gives artists more flexibility when blending subtle transitions, making this medium a valuable addition to both studio and illustrative workflows.

Semi-opaque when wet and drying to a transparent, dead matte finish, Ultra Matte Medium can be used to create smooth, non-reflective underpaintings or to make the most of limited paint supplies. It can also be thinned with up to 25% distilled water for additional control. Like all Liquitex mediums, it’s fully intermixable with other Liquitex products and maintains excellent adhesion and durability. Whether you're reducing glare in detailed pieces or working large-scale with budget efficiency, this medium helps you achieve a clean, professional result.

Key Features

• Produces a true, dead matte surface with no sheen
• Extends paint volume without compromising color or stability
• Slows drying time for better blending and smoother transitions

Perfect For

• Artists seeking a flat, non-glossy finish
• Economically extending opaque colors
• Underpainting or layering subtle color fields
• Reducing glare in fine detail work
• Improving paint flow and consistency without altering hue