Glass Bead Gel – Transparent Texture Medium for Acrylic Painting

This professional-grade glass bead gel is a clear acrylic medium embedded with micro glass spheres, designed to create highly tactile texture and relief effects on canvas, board, or mixed media surfaces. The gel dries to a translucent finish, allowing underlying colours to show through or to be built upon with layered acrylics.

• Use alone or mix with acrylic colours to add subtle sparkle and grainy texture

• Can be applied thickly with a palette knife or brushed on thinly for light texture

• Once dry, the surface remains flexible and will not crack or chip

• Suitable for fine art, craft, mixed media, and decorative applications

• Low-carbon formulation: Utilises a binder that delivers 32% fewer carbon emissions during production, making it a more environmentally conscious choice

Once fully dry, the medium can be painted over with acrylics or inks, or left exposed to highlight its crystalline surface.

Key Features:

• Brand: Pébéo

• Type: Acrylic texture gel

• Appearance: Transparent with embedded micro glass beads

• Finish: Light-reflecting and textured

• Application tools: Palette knife, brush, texture tools

• Mixes with: All acrylic colours and mediums

• Surface compatibility: Canvas, board, wood, primed paper

• Flexible and crack-resistant once dry

• Paintable: Yes – can be painted over after drying

• Drying time: Variable depending on thickness (24+ hrs for thick layers)

• Environmental note: Binder developed with 32% fewer carbon emissions