What Is Plastic Paint Medium?

Plastic Paint Medium is a
painting medium for visual artists, consisting in the use of epoxy
resins (as agglutinating) mixed with color pigments (as colorants),
obtaining as a result a very unique finish. This technique was created
by contemporary artist (painter) Josignacio in 1984.
Definition of Plastic Paint Medium: The term medium in art it is used to describe a category of painting, such as oil painting, alkyd, acrylics, or watercolors like egg tempera, casein, gouache, encaustic, plaster, etc, which are the materials or technique used by an artist to produce a work of art. Medium can also refer to what carries paint's pigment and is also called a vehicle or a base. The medium is what determines what kind of paint is produced. A painter can mix a medium with its solvents, pigments and other substances in order to make paint and control its consistency. A variety of mediums are available that provide a matte, semi-gloss or glossy finish, as well as texture and volume. Different types of paint used by artists are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working characteristics of the paint, such as viscosity, miscibility, solubility, drying time, etc.
Plastic Paint Medium is a painting technique for plastic artists (painters, sculptors, etc), which consist in the use of Epoxy Resin (any of a class of resins derived by polymerization from epoxies: Used essentially in adhesives, coatings, and castings), mixed with pigments such as dry pigment, oil painting or acrylic paintings, etc, obtaining as a result a very hard, shining and very durable finish, similar to Plexiglas (a thermoplastic polymer of methyl methacrylic that is light in weight). Plastic Paint Medium is very resistant to the corrosive effects of weathering and an excellent blocker against the devastating UV's rays. Plastic Paint Medium it is not water based neither water-soluble, its drying or curing time is approximately six hours, depending on some factors such humidity, temperature or amount of pigment added to mix. It has being said is new because until that moment was almost impossible to obtain such shining, hardens, transparency, and real 3D effects with the conventional known mediums, this versatility put this medium in a standalone status. Similar effects can be obtained with newer generation of acrylic paintings for artists developed by Mark Golden that are unique in the ways in which the materials can be used in concert and in combination, making blending and application opportunities endless.