Thank you, really wanted to know what the difference is. I'm new and I've been trying out two different acrylic paints and haven't been getting the result I want. And I think I might try out heavy body to see where that lands me.
I want to spend some time with the fluids because I always put everything down too thick, even though I'm content with thick and it seems like the fluid takes a little more time to dry
s there a way to get acrylic to be heavy bodied yet fluid.? I like the heavy body but fluid look. Almost sculptural, like an impasto look but for long strokes not short strokes
Minahil Raza So I did some research on dirty pours (I wasn’t too familiar with the method - really cool! I wanna try this sometime 😊) and that’s quite simple. Just add some water and a thin acrylic medium to your heavy body acrylics. Experiment with the flow consistency. Here’s a good article to read about it. www.justpaint.org/understanding-the-techniques-of-pouring-acrylics/
The problem with adding water to thin your heavy bodied acrylics is that if you use more than 30% water you begin to dilute the paint so that the they need binding to keep thepaint together and if you get more than 30% water but itIf you get more than 30% water the acrylic is too thinIt breaks down the binding of the pigments the best I can describe it but you can send them with water and with your poor a medium just watch your ratio
Hey enjoyed your demonstration. I am looking for away to use my soft fluid acrylics as heavy bodied acrylics now that I’m ready to paint on the canvas is rather then Rather than poor. If you have any information I would love to hear what I could do
Jewell Dean Herbrandson-Stokes For sure, there’s a happy place between adding too much water - keeping a good ratio helps. As for making fluids thicker I like using a gel medium. You can buy them in different thicknesses/textures. My favorite one would be labeled as “tar” (it may differ by brand). I’d suggest buying a multi pack of sample sizes of gel mediums and experiment. 😊
I'm making my own colors and mostly using Golden fluid acrylics. Some of the colors I need are only available in the heavy body. If I want to mix colors based on the formula from the Golden website, I assume that I need to make the heavy body more 'liquid', or pourable? And what medium would I use for that? I have air brush medium that I use to make some of them high flow - would that work on the heavy body acrylics? I'm new to this so thanks for your input!!
Awesome! I love that you're mixing your own paints! Other than just adding some water I would recommend trying something called a "flow aid" (Liquitex makes a nice one). Flow aids also help with extending the drying time of acrylic paint. Or maybe try "floetrol" which is used in a lot of acrylic pouring. Basically, anything that is lower in viscosity and water-based will mix with acrylics. My preference is mixing my heavy bodies with water and clear Elmer's glue, but that's because of the painting technique I usually do where I need to make the paint washable and adding the Elmer's essentially does that. Hope this helps!
@@KeziaCarter thank you! I'm painting needlepoint canvases, so not worries about drying time as much as getting true color (college-specific colors, for example) and good penetration and coverage. I'm finding that some of the darker colors look weak or paler than they should. Maybe too much water? I'm following the mixing guidelines on Golden's website for the Pantones. What about using Golden Airbrush medium instead of water? I've had luck using that to change the consistency of some cheaper paints I use - I wonder if that could be used for this, too? Thanks for the advice!
@@carolinebrand7261 The airbrush medium sounds like it would work for what you're making. I've never experimented with it before. The Golden mixing guideline is a good reference for getting a specific hue. Just a thought - It might be worth it for you to create your own mixing guideline with all the paints you have that aren't Golden brand for future reference. It takes a little time to do, but if you're really interested in getting particular hues it could be worth it for you :). I'd be excited to hear how your painting turns out!
@@carolinebrand7261 oh, and yes. It's possible there was too much water in what you mentioned. The pigment will sort of "break" when too much water is added - the color will look super weak. I would recommend trying fluids - they are highly pigmented with a low viscosity so you can easily manipulate them to do what it sounds like you're looking for. :)
Thank you, really wanted to know what the difference is. I'm new and I've been trying out two different acrylic paints and haven't been getting the result I want. And I think I might try out heavy body to see where that lands me.
I want to spend some time with the fluids because I always put everything down too thick, even though I'm content with thick and it seems like the fluid takes a little more time to dry
I always mix some medium into my paints, I prefer the tube, but not used to heavy body. Thanks for the great explanation.
Awesome! Glad I could help.
s there a way to get acrylic to be heavy bodied yet fluid.? I like the heavy body but fluid look. Almost sculptural, like an impasto look but for long strokes not short strokes
can you please explain when and where to use heavy body and fluid.
Great video! i have heavy fluid acrylics, and want to make fluid paintings using the dirty pour method. how do i make them as fluid for it?
Minahil Raza So I did some research on dirty pours (I wasn’t too familiar with the method - really cool! I wanna try this sometime 😊) and that’s quite simple. Just add some water and a thin acrylic medium to your heavy body acrylics. Experiment with the flow consistency. Here’s a good article to read about it.
www.justpaint.org/understanding-the-techniques-of-pouring-acrylics/
The problem with adding water to thin your heavy bodied acrylics is that if you use more than 30% water you begin to dilute the paint so that the they need binding to keep thepaint together and if you get more than 30% water but itIf you get more than 30% water the acrylic is too thinIt breaks down the binding of the pigments the best I can describe it but you can send them with water and with your poor a medium just watch your ratio
Hey enjoyed your demonstration. I am looking for away to use my soft fluid acrylics as heavy bodied acrylics now that I’m ready to paint on the canvas is rather then Rather than poor. If you have any information I would love to hear what I could do
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Jewell Dean Herbrandson-Stokes For sure, there’s a happy place between adding too much water - keeping a good ratio helps. As for making fluids thicker I like using a gel medium. You can buy them in different thicknesses/textures. My favorite one would be labeled as “tar” (it may differ by brand). I’d suggest buying a multi pack of sample sizes of gel mediums and experiment. 😊
15 seconds in, and it's already twice as good as the previous two. 😂 "fluidos!" Hahahaha! #riffqueen
I'm making my own colors and mostly using Golden fluid acrylics. Some of the colors I need are only available in the heavy body. If I want to mix colors based on the formula from the Golden website, I assume that I need to make the heavy body more 'liquid', or pourable? And what medium would I use for that? I have air brush medium that I use to make some of them high flow - would that work on the heavy body acrylics? I'm new to this so thanks for your input!!
Awesome! I love that you're mixing your own paints! Other than just adding some water I would recommend trying something called a "flow aid" (Liquitex makes a nice one). Flow aids also help with extending the drying time of acrylic paint. Or maybe try "floetrol" which is used in a lot of acrylic pouring. Basically, anything that is lower in viscosity and water-based will mix with acrylics. My preference is mixing my heavy bodies with water and clear Elmer's glue, but that's because of the painting technique I usually do where I need to make the paint washable and adding the Elmer's essentially does that. Hope this helps!
@@KeziaCarter thank you! I'm painting needlepoint canvases, so not worries about drying time as much as getting true color (college-specific colors, for example) and good penetration and coverage. I'm finding that some of the darker colors look weak or paler than they should. Maybe too much water? I'm following the mixing guidelines on Golden's website for the Pantones. What about using Golden Airbrush medium instead of water? I've had luck using that to change the consistency of some cheaper paints I use - I wonder if that could be used for this, too? Thanks for the advice!
@@carolinebrand7261 The airbrush medium sounds like it would work for what you're making. I've never experimented with it before. The Golden mixing guideline is a good reference for getting a specific hue. Just a thought - It might be worth it for you to create your own mixing guideline with all the paints you have that aren't Golden brand for future reference. It takes a little time to do, but if you're really interested in getting particular hues it could be worth it for you :). I'd be excited to hear how your painting turns out!
@@carolinebrand7261 oh, and yes. It's possible there was too much water in what you mentioned. The pigment will sort of "break" when too much water is added - the color will look super weak. I would recommend trying fluids - they are highly pigmented with a low viscosity so you can easily manipulate them to do what it sounds like you're looking for. :)
1. Great explantion.
2. Very nice work on your site.
3. Those eyes! Wow. (Just had to)
Fluid paint with abstract paintings, will they work with mediums too?
If I'm understanding the question correctly, fluid acrylics will mix with other water based mediums like matte mediums or gels or things like that.
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I liked the way you said ' fluidos ' 😂
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What a ridiculous comment! She put out all this good info and all you can do is fixate on some superstitious nonsense. How rude!