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  • Water Base
  • Exterior/Interior

Decorative Painter’s Products are a must for the professional and serious amateur decorative painter who wants to create beautiful decorative/faux finishes using extraordinary, professional-grade, water base products. Typical decorative finishes include wall glazing/broken color, aged finishes, raised ornament, stenciling and faux finishes such as wood, marble, minerals (lapis lazuli, malachite, bone) and hide (ivory, leather, shagreen).

PRODUCT LINE
Colorant
Platinum Series Colorants (PSGC)

These water base, high strength, pre-colored glazes are formulated for the utmost in controlled color strength. They have a smooth fluid consistency for decorative painting techniques and can be used to tint glazes.

For use with: Wall Glazing Cream, Furniture & Cabinet Glazing Cream, Glass Bead Gel, Tintable Glaze, ShimmerStone

Sizes Available:
  • 16 oz.
Wall Glaze
Wall Glazing Cream (PSWGC)

Wall Glazing Cream is a water base, slow-drying, translucent glaze, formulated for maximum “working time” with excellent durability. It is ideal for decorative wall finishes and complex faux finishes.

For best results tint with Platinum Series Colorants.

Sizes Available:
  • Quart
Coverage: 150-200 sq. ft/quart
FC Glaze
Furniture & Cabinetry Glazing Cream (PSFGC)

Furniture & Cabinetry Glazing Cream is a water base, slow-drying, translucent glaze, formulated for maximum “working time” with excellent durability. It's lower viscosity allows for a sheerer application, designed to reduce the amount of glaze required while providing more fluid patterns and advanced effects.

For best results tint with Platinum Series Colorants.

Sizes Available:
  • Quart
Coverage: 10-200 sq. ft./quart
Glass Bead Gel (PSGB501)

This water base transparent gel medium contains small glass beads. It can be troweled or brushed onto various surfaces in patterns or full coverage. When dry, the Glass Bead Gel is clear allowing the undertone colors from previous layers of paint and decorative finishes to reflect through, magnifying the beauty of the underlying finish. The Glass Bead Gel also gives a desired crystal like appearance to enhance any surface.

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
Coverage: 40-65 sq. ft./gal
crackle
Crackle for Latex Paint (DP601)

This clear, water base medium offers a consistent crack that works every time. Apply between two layers of flat latex paint to cause the top color to crack revealing glimpses of the base color, creating an antique look. Use Modern Masters Metallic Paint Collection™ colors as a base coat for dramatic, shimmering cracks. It can also be used to crack Modern Masters Venetian Plaster and ShimmerStone. Perfect for enhancing furniture, woodwork, trim, lamps and decorative accessories.

Sizes Available:
  • Quart
Coverage: 82-100 sq. ft./quart
Tintable Glaze (DP608)

Our original translucent and durable water base glaze has a 1 hour “open time” with optimum viscosity for maintaining patterns on vertical surfaces. Ideal for any decorative paint/faux finish such as Marbling, Wood Graining, Exotic Mineral, Bone, and Overglazing. This glaze can be tinted with Platinum Series Colorants or Universal colorants.

Sizes Available:
  • Quart
Coverage: 150-200 sq. ft./quart
dead flat
Dead Flat Varnish (DP609)*

This premium quality, water base, non-yellowing Dead Flat Varnish is a clear finish coat formulated to have the optimum level of clarity with the least amount of sheen. It will remove undesirable variations in sheen created by using semi-gloss base coats with Decorative Glazes and allows the finish to maintain that aged effect.

*not for sale in Southern California

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
  • Quart
Coverage: 350-450 sq. ft./gallon
dead flat low
Dead Flat Varnish Low VOC (DP400)

This premium quality, water base, non-yellowing Dead Flat Varnish is a low VOC, clear finish coat formulated to have the optimum level of clarity with the least amount of sheen. It will remove undesirable variations in sheen created by using semi-gloss base coats with Decorative Glazes and allows the finish to maintain that aged effect.

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
  • Quart
Coverage: 350-450 sq. ft./gallon
ex dead flat
Exterior Dead Flat Varnish (DP612)*

This premium quality, water base, UV protective Dead Flat Varnish is a clear finish coat formulated to have the optimum level of clarity with the least amount of sheen. It will protect exterior finishes, murals, etc. while maintaining an aged effect.

*not for sale in Southern California

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
  • Quart
Coverage: 350-450 sq. ft./gallon
ex dead flat low
Exterior Dead Flat Varnish Low VOC (DP401)

This premium quality, water base, UV protective Dead Flat Varnish is a low VOC clear finish coat formulated to have the optimum level of clarity with the least amount of sheen.  It will protect exterior finishes, murals, etc. while maintaining an aged effect.

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
  • Quart
Coverage: 350-450 sq. ft./gallon
texture
Texture Effects (TEX100)

This versatile product is a water base, acrylic, tintable, plaster-like medium that is ideal for raised relief, dimensional stenciling, and heavy distressed textures, but it goes way beyond that. It is readily sandable so it can be used to fill existing textures (orange peel and knock-down) and correct wall imperfections without shrinking or cracking during the drying process. It is self-priming and tintable, eliminating extra steps in the finish. Texture Effects is also self-sealing, so once dry, it can be over-glazed without the worry of it absorbing the glaze.

Sizes Available:
  • Gallon
Coverage: 90-140 sq. ft./gallon
Trowels
Japanese Trowels

We searched the globe for a set of trowels with the right balance of feel and strength to apply our texture products and found them in Japan. Produced in the same region as the famous Samurai swords, these light weight trowels are made of 3 mm stainless steel, the thinnest in the world, which makes them extremely flexible and yet, incredibly strong. Our Modern Masters branded Japanese trowels are professional grade and will outlast and out perform other imported Japanese trowels.

For use with: Venetian Plaster, ShimmerStone, Texture Effects, Glass Bead Gel

Sizes Available:
  • 240 mm
Natural Sea Sponge Roller
Natural Sea Sponge Roller

This 6” natural sea sponge roller creates a simple and quick decorative finish.

For use with: Metallic Paint Collection, Shimmerstone, Venetian Plaster and Glazes

Sizes Available:
  • 6"
COLOR PALETTE
Platinum Series Colorants
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