hey guys in today's video I am preparing the cloud mix in front of you in a real time a lot
of people have told me that they're struggling with the cloud mix so I'm gonna try and give you
as much information as I can think of today so most importantly the recipe you need the DecoArt
satin enamels and another brand of white paint I use the artist Loft Flow acrylic I'm suggesting
this brand if you don't have it maybe use a cheap brand of white paint that's thick like this one so
in a tube maybe like Amsterdam or maybe liquitex basics something like that something that's thick
if you don't have this one as long as you have this I think it could work but the original recipe
is really these two here so what i'm gonna do is eyeball it okay so half of each now when you're
preparing artist loft on its own you have to think about the amount of water that's gonna
be in your cup because it takes a lot of water to get the right consistency but with this one here
it doesn't take a lot of water so we can go in and put a lot there I'm gonna go with that I also want
to have space to be able to mix it properly so that is my first 50% approximate now I bought the
bottle that has this thing on top but I don't like it okay so just like no here we go so I have some
luck till there so what I do is I pre eyeball it in my head so I'm gonna go up to there since the
bottom part is smaller and then it gets bigger so let's say there and then I look at where I had put
my finger there we go that's it done so if there's a little bit more it's still gonna work you guys
what you need to know is that this is the powerful one so the more there is of this one the more it
will take over your whole painting and that's not what we want okay so these two are done now
when you're mixing colors together you mix and you see the transformation you see the new color
that's appearing but when you're mixing white with white you can't see anything so basically
I just mix it for a long time the goal is to make sure that these two are mixed well together
so now let's talk about pouring medium I do not believe that the pouring medium is absolutely
necessary for this I think that you can use just the water and it's gonna work why do I
say this because I only put a little small amount of pouring medium and pouring medium helps with
fluidity now if you like to use floetrol the amount of liquitex pouring medium that I put
in there I think that if you are using floetrol it wouldn't change anything because it's just so
small of an amount the only thing I'm gonna ask you I'm gonna beg you please people don't put
glue if you please just don't put glue in this mix okay just don't put anything if you want
to put glue just don't put anything and just put water okay so there we go now the amount
here doesn't really matter this is always how I prepare my paint I just there that's it how much
was that I don't know a tablespoon maybe doesn't matter it's just gonna make it it's gonna help it
become a little bit more fluid but not so much that's the thing like if you're using liquitex
or like real pouring medium then you don't need to put a lot you can just get the right
consistency with water afterwards instead of putting like half floetrol half water and then
you lose your color it seems that people who use a lot of floetrol in their colors then like the
colors they lose it's not pretty in the end it doesn't dry well anyways not important now water
now the question is how much water well I go gradually and the goal is to have a good pouring
consistency I don't want it too thin now if you guys have been following me for a while you know
that when I used to do puddle pours the way I would get cells would be by making my paints
really thick but I would make all my paints equally thin throughout the whole painting but
for the cloud mix like what you're doing tree rings you don't want the paint to be too thin
because or else they don't they mix all up and become muddy in the cup so I just go gradually
and what's fun about the climates that I like is like I'm gonna cover it up with a plastic
wrap afterwards and it lasts really long like I don't even have to add water but today I'm going
to go use some of it in a week well it's still good it makes more now right now I'm up to here
so I don't think that there's a way to really say like the consistency warm honey or when it
drizzle drizzles off because yes you can say that for certain brands of paint but there's
some brands of paint that even though you like you go like that it drizzles but it
doesn't mean that it's the right consistency you know like if you would use that technique
saying oh it's drizzling well it's still way too thick I can see it in there so it
takes practice you guys it's normal you have to try it on your own you can't just watch a video
and say okay I'm gonna do it and it's gonna work right away it's gonna take a few times
as long as all of the paints in your painting are the same consistency okay that's what you want if
it helps the paint flow better now I'm up to here and I'm good okay I can see that that's good but
I mean can I really show you hmm yeah here we go I'm not sure how to explain this but this
is what it looks like so while I'm mixing these I'm gonna continue on with the paint brands that
you can use now these are the paint brands that I've tried for the cloud for the liquitex basics
is the best one it's better than Amsterdam it's better than art Asia it's better than
Deco art and of course it's better than this crap oh sorry but yeah but I'm not saying that
the liquitex basics is a better quality paint in general than all of these that's not what
I'm saying I'm saying that the way it's made its ingredients work well with this mix here
for the final result they all react differently and those crisp lines come from the liquitex the
other paints like the cloud mix takes over the Amsterdam like so much it looks gritty kind of
I've heard a lot of people tell me that they've had a greediness in their cloud ports try and
think of the brown of paint used with it okay no I'm done I was gonna add Enquirer water but no I
was gonna add more water I was so last one here and I'm not gonna like mix this and continue on
blabbing away so I have paint up to here and that's it that's how I prepare the cloud makes
you guys so I hope this helped and I'm going to decide on the colors for this painting I'm going
to be doing it on a round yep I'll see you back in a few so I'm back and this is two days later
I've got three colors by liquitex these are the only ones I had left yellow orange and red so
that's gonna be the combo for today and I've never tried it so yay and I just want to say one thing
before I start one brand that I didn't mention that I had tried out was golden fluid and that's
because golden fluid does not work with this clam mix recipe trust me I have tried if you want to
work with golden fluid and the cloud effect I'm going to link the video up there for you I did
manage to find a recipe that worked after a lot of experimentation okay so firstly the cup you want
to have two colors in first your two main colors because those are the colors that are gonna be
on top of your cloud and the most dominant ones so which two main colors do you want to appear
only a little bit of each and then a little bit of the cloud mix but not a lot that's enough
same thing two dominant colors that you want not a lot and then the cloud mix just a little
bit that's it and now you don't need any more of this you don't want any more or else it's
gonna take over the rest of the paint that we're gonna put in there is going to be for the pillow
so the underneath part of the cloud that's going to help us move it around and stretch it out so I
want yellow so the amount here doesn't matter I'm just gonna put a lot see normally it goes
on top but that cloud mix came back up there does matter there that is enough paint for sure
so I'm gonna straight pour first
and then when I see the white coming through you can see it coming there it is then I start trying
and what you see there is the cloud and you don't want to go too far this
is perfect Wow like this part here the middle part there is going to
be my cloud and the rest underneath is going to help me stretch it so slowly
the round goes so well for this you guys I recently just discovered this and I can't
wait for the stores to open so I can go buy more just to be clear at the beginning of
the video I called these paints really cheap like the liquid and the liquid Tex and the
Amsterdam but what I meant by that is that they're very thick so they're sort of cheap
for fluid painting but they're not cheap for hand painting like not Han but with a brush
when you don't need to dilute them what's best actually for fluid painting is ready to pour
paints and that's why it got so popular that a lot of companies have started coming out with
ready to pour paints but the more water you're gonna add into your paint the more the less the
pigment is going to be intense there you know okay so when we get to this point here you have
options either you stop cuz like it's so pretty or what I usually do is you see like in there I
could continue stretching that out and that is gonna make like that that's what I usually do
but I'm really loving that intense yellow down there so I think I'm not gonna stretch it out
too much I think I'm just gonna gonna stop there you guys instead of stretching it out
a lot like usual it's so cool it's very fiery okay I'm gonna go wash my hands and bring you
up closer here and here we have it the best cloud poor recipe it's perfect and you know not because
the paint's are cheaper and like that you put so much water in them that it's not gonna work
it's always a question of ingredients with fluid art it's crazy like the best quality
paints which are golden fluid don't even work with this and check that out and what I love
the most about the liquitex how they react is that there is no grittiness at all look at that
now that Center that Center looks like the Sun in heaven
fascinating and I'm still on my kitchen table you guys I've been here for like what two
months now and I still have two more months I'm in between art rooms for you guys there
are new subs and by the way my friend convinced me to start a patrons page so if you would like
to support me and become a patron the link is in the description and it's a bit exciting I'm
kind of happy to start that new sort of little community I can't wait to do giveaways and yep
it took me a lot of time I'm in for years now but I finally did it stay tuned for the dried result
back with the I'll say 95% tried painting on my lowly FFA silicone mat you guys should
check those out they're awesome I have a huge one for my table on a smaller one so that part
here is the red is not a hundred percent dry but the rest is and this is what I meant by
crisp lines because of the reaction of the satin enamels normally with other brands you don't get
crisp lines like that now I haven't tried every brand on the planet you guys you know I try what
I can get my hands on and in Canada it's not like in the u.s. there's a couple of brands of
paints that I can't I can't get my hands on but I work with what I have and I find that
this is awesome and it works so I hope this video helped you guys out have a good one
you