Back To Basics! Beginner's Flip Cup | Understanding Pouring Mediums & How To Use Them

hello my friend welcome back to another video if you're new to my channel welcome i appreciate you being here if you're a subscriber of mine already i thank you for joining me again it's truly appreciated so let's go back to the beginning we are going to go through a series of videos over the next few weeks that explore the original forms of acrylic pouring um we gotta erase if you're a new pourer if you are new to pouring i should say uh and have been doing it less than a year then i need you to kind of clear your mind of everything you learned and go back to the beginning with me so to start it off we all know acrylic pouring is taking an acrylic paint of any brand and turing turning it into a fluid form by adding something to it now this is where it gets tricky for people there are countless recipes that you can use and what determines the recipe that you're going to be using is a the technique that you're doing and b the kind of effects that you want to see in your acrylic pour so to start off let me just say there are multiple mediums you can do this with including just water you can take your acrylic paint thin it down with some water and pour it onto a canvas or you can make what's known as a pouring medium now an actual um an actual store-bought pouring medium something like a liquitex pouring medium this is what was intended to use with acrylic paint to achieve an acrylic pore painting but through testing and experimentation artists have figured out other mediums that you can use to do the same exact thing except some of these combined together may have a different result than using a pouring medium so the first thing i want to do is tell you about some of many different items that you can use to make a homemade type of pouring medium if you don't want to buy liquitex okay the first thing that you can do like i said is water the only thing with water is paints have a threshold when it comes to adding water to them at some point if you add too much water it will break down the paint the tension in the paint and what that can cause is it can cause your paint to flake off the canvas you know after a few months when it's dry it could dull out the colors so if you're trying to do this with only water you need to really use a more expensive type of paint that has a lot of pigment in it and each paint company will tell you what their threshold is for water you can find that out through a simple google search but the average is between 30 to 50 percent uh 50 would be extremely high for a deco art you wouldn't want to do that but something like a golden heavy body paint would hold that much water the thing is with using just paint and water you're not going to get any cells except for if you're doing something like the dutch pore and you're using a paint that has a base in it that likes to create cells like if you use amsterdam white something with their paint base it will produce great cells for you if you use just water but if you use something like deco art with just water you're not going to get cells okay so let's go over the different pouring mediums that you can make and i'm going to give you ratios and all that i do however have a video that i'm gonna link in the description where i did do six different recipes with actual mixing instructions and measurements in that video right now i'm just going to give you some examples of items you can add together to make your own pouring medium so a little little let me go back a little bit golden gac 800 not a lot of people know this this was golden's pouring medium at one time now they have golden it's a it says golden on it and it says color pouring medium or something like that on the bottle but way back when they had horrible branding and they released this gac 800 which we use now in the pouring world we'll add a little squirt into our paints to avoid cracking but it was the original pouring medium for gold in colors that prevented low crazing not a lot of people know that it was a really really bad marketing job they did when it first came out we're talking years ago when pouring wasn't a really big thing back then but this was golden's original pouring medium now they have their own you know a different jar and they reserved this to use in pouring to reduce crazing but you can use this as a pouring medium all on its own if you wanted to very expensive if this bottle was like 30 bucks so very expensive i wouldn't suggest it but you could if you wanted to another thing now when it comes to pouring mediums there's tons of different brands actual porting mediums you have artists loft you have vallejo has a thick pouring medium now what's the difference between a thick and a regular you would want to use a thicker pouring medium for something like a ring pour where you want to hold definition right color pour has a pouring medium there are a ton of pouring mediums but there are other things if you cannot find an actual pouring medium that you can mix together as i said so the first and cheapest one would be glue and water and that's it what is the ratio seventy percent glue thirty percent water so what you can do if you buy any size bottle of of glue all you wanna dump out one third of the bottle fill it up with water shake it your pouring medium is all done add it to your colors if you want to have just a nice composition with no cells don't add anything to it just the glue in the water if you're looking for cells you're gonna have to use a silicone oil in your colors something like a vallejo or there's treadmill belt you can use wd-40 silicone brand uh i've used ky personal lubricant that was 100 100 dimethicone that's another one that makes great cells there's tons of silicone spray products out there even hair serums so but if you wanted to get cells using glue and water you'd have to use something like a silicone oil now another thing you can do to make a pory medium would be to use flotrol you can use just good old american flow troll mix with your paints the ratio again i i'm gonna put that video down below because for different pores you want different thicknesses right now we're gonna concentrate on the original one technique acrylic pour that i'm going to be doing but um you can use just flow trial and water in your paints you can use just flow trial no water depending on how thick you want them and then you can combine everything there's people that like to use flotrol because it creates cells they like to use a gloss medium and varnish because the paints dry a little bit glossy they'll also kick in some glue because glue works as a really good binder right so they'll kick in a little bit of glue and then some water so my point being is you have to figure out how pricey you want this to be that's what it comes down to are you a glue and water type of person because that's what your budget allows for if so look for videos where artists use glue and water for their pouring medium um do you want to do a pore a dutch pore that has a lot of cells and the best way to go about that is with the flow drop again though if you use better better uh quality paints and use just water in them they'll produce some cells not a lot some you have to decide on what type of products you want to buy the best way to learn how all these different mediums work together is to watch a lot of different videos now through this series i'm going to attempt to use a different pouring medium for every recipe for every technique so that you can see how they all perform differently um i'm going to use silicone in some some i'm not and when i get to those videos i will explain why but the the key is is to really do your research find out what you want to to achieve in your painting if you don't want to have to varnish it or resonate then you need to add in something like a gloss medium and varnish that dries with some shine huge tip right here this pory medium by artist loft is the shiniest result i have ever seen it literally looks like there's three coats of varnish on your painting when you're done using this so i mean it all depends on what you want to use me personally okay for all of the techniques i do i like to use uh flotra if i were to use anything other than floetrol and water i would use a pouring medium like let's say i wanted to do a ring pour i would probably choose this thick pouring medium by vallejo if i wanted to do a flip cup again you can use just the flow troll you can use just the glue and water they're very versatile they all work so figure out what you want figure out what products you want to have to buy or use and uh go from there each artist has their own different way and that's what's really confusing not everybody does this differently but that's the name of the game that's why you have to watch a lot of videos and kind of teach yourself hey artist a is using some gak she's using flotrol and she's using this i like the way her paintings come out i'm gonna try that recipe well artist b is now only using this so that's where the confusion can come in but just know that using any of these products either on their own or combined together will achieve a beautiful painting all right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to set up to mix up my pouring medium with you with the collars obviously and i'm going to show you the consistency that you need to do the the type of pour that i am going to do next so i am going to show you how to do your basic flip cup today using glue and water for my pouring medium so you have choices for the glue the two best would be glue wall or an actual pva glue that's what this one here is here i have both in my amazon shop under a can of mediums mediums for pouring for acrylic pouring um this is actually a book binding glue but it's a pure pva glue so it works beautiful and then glue all has pva properties to it also but it's not a full pva glue as this one is so when you want to make your pouring medium out of glue and water you're going to put 70 glue 30 water that simple so we'll fill up no matter what size the cup is just figure out where about 70 percent is it's probably not quite accurate but it's close enough uh figure out where it's about 70 full would be and then fill it up the rest of the way with water that simple mix it together and you're done okay so we're gonna just fill it up i like to leave a little room at the top of the cup to stir and now we're going to put our water in until we fill that line or reach that line that's it mix the two together and your medium is done give it a good mix nice and slow and then there's your pouring medium if you would like to see how thick that actually is i'll put some on a piece of paper maybe a little bit more so this way you can kind of judge what the consistency of it should be okay so that's the consistency of it and if you want to look at this at a different angle an even easier angle you could always get yourself a pouring medium okay and put some in a cup to see what the consistency is like this would be a better um choice just a regular pouring medium not a thick pouring medium put some of this in a cup so you can see what it looks like put some glue in your cup and add water to it until it gets like this consistency that would be the easiest way then you don't even have to measure you can just put a bunch of glue in a cup and add water and get it right here which i will show you the consistency of this also just for reference and you know what i'll actually do i'll actually do a side-by-side flip cup for you so you can see the difference between using the two different products so you can see that's uh pretty fluid if you want i'll even put it on a piece of paper so here they are side by side glue and pouring medium you see they're running together there okay so it's it's approximately the same as the pouring medium and now what we will do is i will mix up one color with you in each medium but just know that the rest of the colors i'm using were mixed exactly the same all right first thing we need to do is to make our base coat so you decide whatever color you want to use you can use any color i'm going with classic white okay so what you want to do is put one part paint meaning however much paint you're gonna put in means what i'm trying to say is we're going to do one part paint two parts medium pouring medium or glue and water pouring medium um what cons what that means when people say one part to two parts it means however much paint you put in the cup you're now going to add twice as much of the glue and water mixture so that's one part paint two parts glue and water homemade pouring medium same thing over here now this is where this becomes tricky you can into this you can use this much white paint put a little dash of pouring medium in it not the two parts just a little dash of it and then thin it the way the rest of the way with water but remember what i said if you're using cheaper paints this is a cheaper paint the threshold for the water you have to be careful so that's why i like to add more pouring medium to thin it out even further so that two parts this way when i go to add my water i don't have to add that much water in there because it's already almost thin enough so let's give this a whirl this one and this probably isn't enough no water was needed to this one for this one it flows off the stick this is actually a perfect consistency for a flip cup and i'm going to show you that on the paper because people whoops got a little tag along there people tend to like that paper test because it just shows what the consistency is like now this one here is also perfect okay so i don't have to add water to either of those colors but now what happens if for my colors i want to use that uh a paint like deco art with this here heavy body this is really thick paint if i put a little bit of this paint in this cup with some of this uh glue mixture you're gonna have to add water but with a paint like this you're not going to have to so the the consistencies of the paints themselves matter also is what i'm trying to say um if you're new maybe try sticking to all one brand paint so that you can get used to it and get used to how things work as far as how much you have to add of what but you know when you get more experience then you can start adding in things like this like the thicker body paints more expensive paints and you'll know hey it's not as thick as the it's not as thin as this one so now i'm going to add some water maybe that will help you i'm not sure but i'm going to pick out a couple of colors here what the heck we'll go with the fluorescent orange by golden another thing you're going to have to learn is transparencies hopefully you know through this this bass backed basic series i'll be able to teach all of it um but different paints have different transparencies for example this here i'll show you up close this fluorescent orange see how you can see the lines through it that's because it's a transparent paint so what if you were to use this in a pore in this color was on top of say a purple you're gonna see the purple through the orange and it's gonna look like mud okay um this here this prussian blue see how the line is solid that means that it's an opaque paint and it'll tell you to on the back here um i'm not sure if the deco art does that usually it's the better brand paints that let you know if it's a transparent or a opaque paint but what you can do is you can stick a stick into your bottle and kind of or even paint it on a piece of paper if you can see the paper through the paint that means it's going to be a transparent color that's for another lesson right now we're going to do that orange and then on the other uh pouring medium side i'm gonna mix up this ultramarine blue red shade now this is a soft body acrylic which means it's a little thinner and creamier than the heavy body so i'm gonna just put some in there also the the better quality the pigments are the less you have to use because they're more pigmented because you are adding in a product that has um especially when you use flow trial flotrol can dull colors so if you're using a less expensive type of paint like this it's not going to have the pigment in it that this golden does this is two dollars bottle this is 12 i believe or no maybe this was nine so there's a huge difference in price but there's a lot more pigment in there now for this here i would have used a half a cup of paint that i used not even a teaspoon of paint so now into the cup i put about a teaspoon of paint i'm going to add in two teaspoons of my pouring medium if you want to add well the glue and water pouring medium they made you can give it a mix it's going to be too thick you can add a little bit more in there if you want or now you can start thinning with water if i can get away with not using water in my paintings then i'm going to i'd much rather there's already water in this um i'd much rather do that but sometimes it's unavoidable and i haven't forgotten about the whites on the paper i'm just gonna put it all on there so this next one now pouring medium there's again a not even a teaspoon of paint this because it is so pigmented i can add an ounce of that pouring medium in there and it will be very vibrant still a lot i have to be honest though a lot of people that do pouring don't use product the way i'm using right now they'll use a thicker paint that's a better quality um so that they can use less of this and more water than using something like this soft body paint i mean you saw how much pouring medium i had to use but again it's all based on what you can afford to spend if you want to do it the cheapest way possible glue and water is the way to go i feel like using just water with paints it's just you're not going to be able to get decent results the only technique that i see that's decent with just water is the dutch pore that's the only one all right so i have those two mixed up let me show you these on paper you want them to be a little bit on the thicker side so that they hold their shape the cells that we're going to get i'll show you them on paper so here are the two whites see how they run at the same same rate of speed that's what you want and the colors are the same exact consistency as these so i won't bother doing those so really quick funny story i'm here mixing up the rest of my colors for the video and i said why is that orange so light it should be brighter so i had to stop the video go back and rewind to see what i did i picked up the cup that said glue and water that i put the white paint into and added it to my orange so i know a lot of you probably saw that too so please excuse the hot mess that i am it's a little lighter but it has glue and water and white in it apparently now so let's continue on okay so on one side of the deck we have various colors and brands mixed with our glue and water mixture and on the other side of the deck we have various brands and colors mixed with straight artists love pouring medium in the back we have the white with pouring medium and the white over here with the glue all in water um and what i thought i would do is two separate split cups one using my trusty old friend here ky trufield personal no premium intimate lubricant the important ingredient i'm not sure if it says it on here or in the box or if you'll even be able to read it at this point um somewhere on here it says 100 percent dimethicone not all ky uh lubricants are 100 dimethicone this one is though so i'll try to remember to put it in my amazon shop but you can get a cvs stop and shop whatever grocery store you have uh or drugstore okay and then on the other side here we're going to try this vallejo silicone oil because i've never tried it and i want to try it so how do you do a flip cup what you want to do is you want to put your colors in a cup in the dirty poor fashion or you can layer them what's a dirty pore dirty pore is when you just pour colors into each other you would start with the orange pour some in then you would go to the magenta and pour it on top of the orange and they all kind of turn in the cup and then you flip it over and pour it or you can do the layered approach which is what i'm going to do but the first thing we need to do before we fill our cup is put the silicone in so what we need to do here is we need to put a drop or two of silicone in all the colors except for the metallics why not the metallics i personally feel and this is just my opinion in my experience trust me i've been doing it long enough that metallics do not act right when they have either silicone in them or a lot of water like if you mix up a metallic paint and you go to add water into it you'll notice the particles of mica trying to flutter away from the water and although you mix it back in sometimes when your painting dries it looks grainy or it's broken apart mica doesn't like water or silicone in my opinion so that's why i add it to all the colors that are not metallic okay and then over here the same exact thing so right here the ky i'm going to add two drops the magenta two drops the dioxazine purple not that one that one was a metallic i believe ultramarine blue deep blue green and that's it okay that was a peacock feather i believe by deco art over on this side again two drops in the magenta two drops in the deep violet two drops in the prussian blue that is a metallic two drops in the lime green two drops in the ultramarine blue now next thing you want to ask yourself is do i want big cells or do i want tiny small cells or do i want a combination of both well if you want big cells one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten stirs just mix it in a little bit like this and that's it if you want a little cells really really beat it in good or you could do a combination of both that one didn't have any so just a couple mixes because i like them big i like them to come out with lots of color in them and open up and all that jazz so just give them a whirl a few times and then you're good to go so for the first cup i'm going to do it on screen with you so you can see how i layer my colors and then for the second one i'm going to do it on screen button time lapse to save a little time so this is the glue and water mixture i'm going to start off with a little bit of white i'm going to pour right down the side of my cup just like so i'm going to save that gold for somewhere other next to them to the white no particular reason i just don't want the white to dull it and then i'm just going to pour the colors in just like this separate it every once in a while buy some white uh you can separate overlay if you want it to have a lot of weight in it separate it by every uh with in between every layer of paint you could put some white or do a couple of colors like i do and then add the white it's all personal preference what colors work good together get yourself a color wheel or go on to pinterest and type in color palette ideas you'll be surprised at all of the different color schemes there are that go together like odd colors you would never think would go together good go on there that's a huge help so now i've added my colors into that cup you can either keep going and add a little bit more or you can stop right there again depends on their canvas these are 5 ounces which will be plenty to cover this canvas so i would say 10 ounces for a canvas that's 12 by 16. um you add just a little more orange and magenta into this and then on top of that magenta i'm going to add this blue to make a pretty different shade of purple you could also combine your colors or add them together in the cup next to each other so they make a secondary color okay so that's how you layer the cup so now it's time to flip the cup there's two different ways you can do this if you're doing just one cup full of paint and you're not doing an experiment like i am you have one big cup of paint that you're gonna flip onto this canvas what you can do is hold the cup on the bottom take your canvas um put it on top of the paint like so hold it and then come over like this you should have room when you do it though unlike me right now with all these cups everywhere okay so now it's there another way to do and this may be let's try it with the spreader i've never done this with a spreader before so oh boy wish me luck i i can feel it coming already okay okay keep pressure so it doesn't come we're gonna leave it right there all right what you want to do is go forward with your cup a little bit slide it forward and then pull it back just like so kind of slowly drag it along and this may be too much paint for this whole this canvas but we'll go with it now we have this other guy here that we're gonna slide off of the the scraper onto the canvas and we're going to go forward again and then pull back just like so we could blend those up into each other okay now what you want to do is you can go ahead and torch your paint you're going to get all the silicone oil rising to the top here let me zoom you in for that that's always a pretty sight there we go we'll do this area right here the heat from the torch helps to bring the silicone up to the surface and what it is happening is the oil and the water in the paint are rejecting each other explode exposing all of those beautiful colors underneath absolutely magnificent i put the flash on for you just so you can really see them this area is really really sexy in here i like this and then you go over to the glue and water side and you know we've got some action going on there we still have to tilt so there is that yeah i like it a lot all right so tilting now we still have to put a little bit of white paint on that other side it doesn't have to be white you can use any of your leftover colors that you may have i just have some of the white left over so that's why i'm doing that these paints you can store them they will last months so if you have any leftovers one tip i have for you for leftovers if you don't have containers you can take your dirty rubber glove let it dry off and then here's some white paint i have a cylinder thingy just put it over the top and now it's sealed off okay saran wrap in a uh um elastic i'm just gonna use my finger and kind of spread this out a little bit just like so just to give it a little aid you want it to be able to flow around the canvas and now you want to start your tilt just do that look for the spot you like the most for me it's this side and try to save that the best you can it's very very hard to get used to tilting go really really slow okay come back up and you know the color palette is not going to look great on this one because i was experimenting but it is what it is so you just take your time and tilt around get it to a composition that you're pleased with try not to wreck yourselves like i just did it's very easy to do that by tilting too fast like i am but for the sake of the video unfortunately you guys don't want to be here for an hour with me while i'm tilting around so i'm just tilting it all off not taking my time whatsoever totally ruined it but it's okay you saw the cells you saw what you can do what can be done with it um let me show you one other thing that you can do there's this thing called a ribbon and what you can do is take one of your cups doesn't matter that you had your uh colors in and let's see let's do some pretty ribbons a bunch of cells will continue to pop out here i want to do my ribbons first though let me dump some of this muddy paint out so it doesn't get involved with our pore our ribbon i should say so there's some blue more blue purple magenta we get a little bit of white here that's the wrong way because this is the glue side oh no more white okay well what you can do is you can take your colors and ribbon ribbon them through and now you watch this you get all the pretty cells coming back again i have a lot of silicone oil on the top here which by the way i'm going to link down below a video that shows you how to clean this off before your resin or varnish it so you can do a little rip pretty ribbon like that you can take your straight gold and kind of go through there also if you want to have fun with it that that's the main idea is to have fun okay that's the main idea we just want to have fun with it and relax and forget all of our problems for a little bit okay you can also do straight pour right on top just pour it right in there some bright blue on top of that these are all the glue colors i'm using by the way and then you can swipe it out you can swipe out areas you don't have to stick to the same technique throughout the whole thing okay you just do whatever you want and enjoy yourself so my friends that is the end of this demonstration i feel like one of those people at the fair that's showing you all the fancy chopping knives i'll give you a close-up of my not so masterpiece and uh i hope this video was helpful i'm gonna go through all the techniques it was for flip cup this time next time it may be the uh uh dirty poor straight poor we'll say we'll see where life takes us key is you have some pretty colors some pretty cells and you know how to do a flip cup now so if you enjoyed the the tutorial one that i ruined i tilted off that entire beautiful area that is so sad but again i don't have time to sit here with you guys and stretch for 40 minutes because you go really slow you should be really tilting slow when you're doing this uh trying to avoid doing what i just did and you know another thing is is nobody can teach you how to tilt you have to practice that that is a learned um technique you you have to do it and fail and figure out which way you're tilting that's going wrong the only way you're going to better yourself at that is to do it but anyways i hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please click like if you aren't subscribed please consider doing so i have a facebook group united we pour fluid art group uh the link is in the description along with all the codes to all the products that i use that i have a discount for and my amazon shop where you can find a lot of these supplies including that ky [Music] lubricant for the silicone i hope you all had a great new years and happy pouring

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Length: 49min 31sec (2971 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021