you know sometimes the community has the best ideas for content in a while ago someone on
this channel asked me if pouring medium makes a great alternative for liquid clear when you
work in acrylics and doing wet on wet and you know what i have no idea which is weird
because i use pouring medium all the time in my acrylic pores so you know what tally and i are
going to put pouring medium to the test and find out if it makes a great substitute and alternative
for all you acrylic artists out there that want to do wet on wet painting here we go so uh
what is acrylic pouring medium well to put it in general terms when you introduce this medium
to your paints it's going to take your thicker paints and make them more flexible and more flowy
it's also going to reduce the chance of your paints crazing or cracking and generally most
pouring mediums add in a high gloss finish and for a win on wet on wet artists generally
most pouring mediums make your paints wetter for longer which is probably generally why someone
suggested this as an alternative for liquid clear so let's put it to the test here on our canvas
we're going to divide it into two sides on the left tally will be working in a more traditional
sense but we're going to treat the pouring medium just like we would normal liquid clear and wet
the canvas only on the right side we'll be wetting the canvas but also mixing the pouring medium with
our colors to see if we get a more wetter wet on wet technique for this test we're going to
be using golden open acrylics which allows longer drying times which is again perfect for wet on wet
with the left side of our canvas wet tally starts painting like normal when it comes to painting the
sky we are actually extremely happy with how the colors stayed wet allowing us to blend the colors
naturally right on the canvas achieving awesome gradients as you can see here however that's
where our happiness stopped you see when tally started painting i had the idea of actually
timing the painting process of when we might start having issues and you know what we started having
issues right around minute two and 30 seconds minute two? two minutes and 30 seconds that seems
like a better way of saying it you see our pain actually started tacking up so much in fact that
it actually started causing brush marks to show we also noticed that the color isn't actually really
sticking well it's actually like not sticking at all most likely due to the pouring medium already
tacking up and creating a barrier between the color and the canvas i mean like literally look
how poorly this is actually blending right now oh and from here on out everything just went downhill
nothing's staying wet nothing is blending in the way that we want and it is a pain in the ass to
mimic the wet on wet style so basically stopped yeah we just plain out stopped because everything
was looking like poop acrylic pouring medium does not work as a liquid clear alternative for
acrylics when you want to paint like bob ross in the wet on wet style but before you stop watching
rather than calling it quits tally actually had a good suggestion pouring mediums just generally
used for mixing in with your paints and going from there so on the right side of the canvas we're not
going to put down the pouring medium like we would liquid clear and kind of mimp the same thing we're
rather just going to put the pouring medium in our paints mix it up then apply it on canvas and
see how that goes which means it's my turn up to paint now remember since we know applying a
pouring medium to the canvas didn't work at all i'm skipping that crappy step instead i'm just
going to be adding a 50 mixture of the pouring medium to the colors that i'll be painting with
and again yes i'm using golden open acrylics when painting my sky again i was actually really happy
with the way i was able to blend colors to create an awesome sunset gradient but when it came to
evening out and leveling my brush strokes like i would with normal wet on wet painting i was not a
happy camper and i mean like not at all trying to blend out my brush strokes and going side to side
actually added more brush marks and strokes when i moved on to my ocean yes i was able to get my
colors to stick better than tally but it still looked like crap clowns stuck and blended like
crap ocean reflections blended and faded like crap it was just straight up crap all around i was not
happy with how this pouring medium experiment was going i was i was hoping for better results you
weren't even close to being what we wanted which is so weird because it has everything that we want
in it you know i can't safely recommend acrylic pouring medium if you plan on using acrylics to
try to mimic the wet on wet style however there are some other mediums that work 10 times better
than this i can safely recommend the golden gloss glazing medium the golden thinner and the
golden retarder that works a lot better than the pouring medium and that's the bottom line because
wild said so if you clicked on this video hoping that pouring medium was going to be the perfect
liquid clear and that you could take that and mix it with your titanium white to make the perfect
liquid white for acrylic artists i'm sorry it's not that but you know what is this video over here
to the side where i share with you my super secret recipe to make wilds wet white which is perfect
for all you acrylic artists out there give that video a shot and i'll catch you all on the next
one thanks for watching this video make sure to like subscribe give that super thanks do whatever
you want to show your appreciation and i'll catch you next time take care and of course peace