Reddit reviews Liquitex 125408 Professional Slow-Dri Gel Retarder Effects Medium, 8-oz
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A binder-free gel with slow drying agents.Designed to be used with Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Color and Heavy Body mediums.Increases ‘open‘ (working) time of acrylic paint.
Sure. You can use Liquithick which is a thickening gel medium. It helps acrylics act more like oils. Which, also means that they take longer to dry. If you want it to take even longer to dry--and be workabe longer--then you can use a Slow Dry medium.
Here's a brief video of what using the Liquithick looks like. It's by a professor that developed an allergy to oil paint, so he's using acrylics now.
Using acrylics with a higher amount of pigment also give you a richer, deeper colour. If you already have the paint and don't want to buy more, you can get paint pigment powder to add to your palette. It can be pricy though and you should always* work with a face mask so that you don't breathe in the pigment. As the compounds used to make powdered pigment can be toxic, heavy metals.