all right everyone, so what I am going to try for you is test out different mediums.
I mixed Amsterdam and water, floetrol from Australia, US floetrol
with a couple drops of the pre-stain from Minwax which is a wood conditioner, and then
regular US floetrol. a couple differences that I'll say the floetrol from Australia is just
a little bit thinner than the American one. so this I mixed one two one this I mixed one two
probably one point two five one point five when I act I took that same mixture and just added a
couple drops I think three little drops of the wood pre-stain and then this one I normally
measure in volume but I did it in grams so that you guys could have a measurement and it was I
believe I did 18 grams of paint and then I did I mixed it with the water until it got up to I
think 25 or 26 grams total so it is thicker than usual I'll show you the consistency and
it's been sitting there for a while so you see that's pretty thick it's leaving like a little
let me see if I can get you on this side it's leaving like a little mound there much thicker
than I do for my Dutch pour base so let me get the rest of them set up and we'll get going so
I'm going to start this is just regular paint and I'm gonna do just a ring pour here this is
my pouring medium my base way too much paint but I wanted to make sure that I had enough and then
this is the regular float roll and I'm just gonna take my stick pour it into the middle
and then let me get behind you and I'll blow maybe I can blow from the side so as you can see some
tiny little cells popped up in there and I will stretch this out so you guys can see you always
need to give it just a second my head will be in the way each time I blow so sorry about that but
so as I stretch this out you can see some of the little cells stayed but for the most part
it's just not it's not the effect it's not that Shelee bloom effect okay so you guys we're asking
so that is regular float float trauma and you guys can let me know at the end which one you
like the best so now I'm gonna move to the float all with wood conditioner so I'm just gonna pour
again it is too much paint that's in here four and a half by four and a half or four and a quarter
inch tile you really only need about an ounce of paint but I wanted to make sure that I had
enough to stretch it especially when it's thick weird all the colors go just got a some blue
on here it looks like okay so same technique I'm just gonna put it straight in the center
okay and now I'm going to blow come around on the side to blow this one no I want I'm on this side
I get my hair in there so for this one you can
see it definitely created more of those and then as I stretch this out
they do kind of hold their shape see if you guys can see that tilt towards you
but I'll show you what I don't super care for with this one see with thick paint you
really do have to use enough to get to the edges okay step this one definitely looks
more like the Shelee technique with the lacing that you get right here but again it's super
kind of opaque in the center and I don't like this when I take you in I'll show you it kind
of bleeds a lot into the other colors but this is definitely if you're in the u.s. that is an
option to add this Minwax pre stained wood conditioner just a couple drops will do you
alright so let's move on to the Australian floetrol. now I'm going to do this one
same thing I'm gonna look just kidding same thing I'm gonna add just a little bit to the
center same consistency tried to on these oops sorry I was in your way the whole time and then
I'm gonna blow on this okay so blowing on this one all my rainbow colors are underneath when
I blew down on this one over here it still didn't create any of those beautiful tiny
rainbow cells that this one does so this is the Australian flow flow trough so now I'm gonna give
it a second I can still see that it's kind of indented in the center here and if you wanted
if I was doing this for an actual piece I could blow these parts more and get more cells to pop
up but and this is just with my pouring medium as well so so again see how the center is has
stayed where it is because I had to blow so hard down into it if this was a bigger tile I
could stretch this out a little bit more as well I'm not going for composition here so
one more little and I may have even had my may have even had it a little bit too thin because
it's my colors are bleeding into it a little bit but if you can see in here those spiderweb
lacings here let me see if I can just close you up see all that spiderweb lacing that's in here
and then in there and in that Center now again if I had blown better this would have been a
different but I'm just showing you guys four oops alright so that is Australian flow tall
so let me do just Amsterdam and water now this is the one that I'm most excited about because
if this works then I don't need to buy any of the floetrol. I'm trying to say it
right guys I've been practicing but I never get it so you guys let me know if you found
this helpful if there's any other comparisons you would like me to do you know my channel
is about my art but it's also about helping you guys learn and figure things out so just
let me know I'm gonna put this on here it also matters the other thing that I didn't
pay too much attention to that also could have mattered is how much white I put in the center
so that will be my one kind of you know as I'm doing my trial that was the one thing I should
have done differently but okay let me blow this one out my head's gonna be in the way
now look at that I think the Amsterdam paint is the magic now I don't know if these are gonna
hold up as well when I tilt them but the paint is thick that was my always my concern is that
I know that this reaction happens when I do Dutch pours with Amsterdam and water but that
is very thin so I didn't know if it would do this effect with just a thicker base but it obviously
does and I am in love I think this might be my favorite one actually so here let me take you
in on all the little spider webs before I tilt so that you can see them and this right here I'm
on camera trying to show you this this right here is the type of cells that I get in the Dutch pore
with like that little ring around the outside of them yeah all right so let me get you back
right okay so now I'm gonna stretch this one out and see if this holds so again I've got
a little spot that touched the canvas there that is not going to move the same so for my
come on get on down there and I had another little spot right there so for composition
this is not going to be you know these are not great but I just wanted to show you the reaction
and I maybe could have even gone just a little bit thicker on on these paints but I the the
reaction would be pretty much the same I just wanted to to show you the and if I'm sure if
I used the actual Shelee pouring medium maybe my results would even be better but I was just
trying to find a way that people could try this without having to get all those ingredients so
I'm gonna take you down and show you each of the pieces and the types of cells that they create
and you guys can let me know which one you like alright so here is regular flow trawl got maybe
just the tiniest bit of cells right there but a pretty piece I love this corner right there but
just not really the bloom effect that is with adding the wood conditioner if you are using
us float all super cool cells and again this could have just been I'm trying I was trying
to blow on camera so this could have been a blowing air but you see the cells stretch out
and get kind of big these two are more like the actual technique where you get all that veining
and lasing and colors underneath oh my gosh that's pretty and again I just if you would
have blown more you would have gotten all this white out of there and then this is Amsterdam
and water and this is probably my favorite it's definitely my favorite out of the four
again could some more there so this was not for composition this was for testing it out
and seeing if it works so if you guys found this helpful please give the video a thumbs up let me
know what you think I do video tutorials weekly that one's really growing on me I actually like
it a lot and I'm in love with that one all right thank you guys for watching happy painting bye