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Great experimentings. people are convinced that you need certain products because they are failing at this but you don't .It's all about the technique and the thickness of the paints

It's already October, but I hope that you stil see my comment. Thank you for this wonderful video. It gives só much info. I am a 72 year old beginner and eager to learn. 😆 Greetings from South Africa.

I read that a messy desk is a sign of a creative mind. That’s my excuse, and I am sticking with it! 🤣😂🤣

LOL! I watched that with bated breath hoping it would work and I wasn’t just fluking it! 😍🤣 My recipe is: PM: owetrol floetrol, jo Sonja varnish and gac 800 (but it looks like the owetrol is fine on its own) CA: Aussie flood and Amsterdam t white PILLOW: I’ve used everything but owetrol and white works just as well as anything (it’s all about consistency) Thanks for mentions hun! I’m not on you tube but do have an IG page if anyone is interested in seeing my results using this mix - DINODAISY Cheers, Kate xxx

Stuck with you to the end, you made me lol so much. Interesting experiments and glad your happy to do them as this helps all of us. 😀

I don’t think your workspace is bad! Mine gets bad a then I clean up! Glad you are experimenting! Thanks!

A messy workspace is a sign of a creative mind! Thank you for this it was very informative.

Yes that’s awesome, I have done a few with floetrol, it does work.

Good day, when i think that i spent so much time and money to find untinted base and varnish to get average result ! your technique give AMAZING result with cheap stuff compared to what others recommend for bloom thanks for sharing ....

I almost cried when you scrape that. I didn’t care about the negative space it was beautiful. UGh!!

Hi Erica, I love your work and you are very likeable and relatable! I did fine Art, so abstract wasn't something I was ever interested in, but during this pandemic, your work has inspired me to try things out of my comfort zone. I hope you and your family are well? Btw, I am OCD with mess and germs (so this pandemic has really tested me!) But when I do my pours, I cannot help but make a mess!!! I have to wait until my daughter goes to bed as we all get covered, lol. Soooo, many learning curves through trial and error, any tips for British puddles and pouring recipes very welcome and appreciated!!.Keep doing your thing and I am happy to be along for the journey! Thanks and take care,, Jo xxx

I love the bloom technique and all, but am happy that you are going to be going back and doing other things as well. It seems that everyone is doing this bloom thing and it's getting quite boring to watch day after day, artist to artist. I LOVE your art and I normally just quietly watch your videos. You have taught me a lot and look forward to your other techniques and videos :D much luv from Alberta Canada

I watch to the very end, thank you...i have tried everything but the paint and water for the cell activator.... so thank you....and my table looks just like yours 😂😂

It's nice to see that it's not just me that has paintings not turn out right the 1st time... second one was nice! Thank you for teaching!

Hey Erica. I did stick with you to the end. I’m always trying to learn new things myself as a beginner. In the first one I was beginning to see the makings of a beautiful butterfly. I laughed at you talking about your mess. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone yet in any videos that didn’t have a mess. Just do what you do because I love your videos. I’m already subscribed but I do hope you get to that magical number soon.

You crack me up lol and I loved the one you scraped off and thank you so much for sharing a new cheaper version it's awesome and greatly appreciated keep up the good work and I can't wait to see your ring pours again

I always like to see comparisons done. It helps everyone to see what works or could work and what doesn't. Thanks! Lots of gorgeous color as well and only using 3 colors and your cel activator. Lori 💙

I found you yesterday and I’m so darn glad that I did I think I’m gonna stay in Stalk you for a while ; )

Hi! Love your attitude! 😊😊Since you talked about Pouring your heart out...she did something during an experiment, flipped her pillow onto itself! Great idea to save paint and continue on with this mad scientist art form! 💖

Thank you for explaining this so easily that I could understand.

Wow!!! This is awesome!! So many ways to achieve the bloom technique.

I like the experiments. I use Floetrol - I live in South Australia.

Great to know we have options!! Thanks for the sharing! Always appreciated

Thank you for sharing your talent and information.

I really like your color choices for your experiment and the cells came out great . Makes me want to try it.

I am the same way as you by the way with my work space. It’s called being real and I have had friends tell me it’s the sign of a true artist. 🤣 I call it just being me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hi gorgeous...thankyou for your loving dedication & sharing 💖 Just thought I'd add something as I have been using floetrol for years (Am in Australia) & no cells as I don't really like them (do love your blooms though xx) Another friend loves cells and she doesn't use floetrol at all! It seems it is a chemical reaction of the different paints mixing together...Another Artist Mely D has also found this! Hope that helps, much love & Magic 💖😇🙏

Isn't that incredible? I know I'll be playing with the American floetral to try this! I'm amazed how well it turned out! Beautiful! Thank you, Erica! I hope girl you mentioned posts something here in the comments. I would love to see her videos as well!

Thank you so much...i'm from Italy and it's so difficult for me getting paints and enamel that i see in videos! Sorry for my bad english🤦🤷😍

I like your yellow orange one with the blue background bloom the best. You are really consistent with your designs. Your pieces are so brilliant that it inspired me to paint again.

Great results. I am having trouble with cells so this was great. Time to experiment.

Bahaha your opening killed me regarding the worst ring pour ever. Just the way you said it. Ok back to watching😘

Fantastic!! Was watching Sandra Lett doing this too. She had good results with one of her mixes. Thanks for demonstrating your technique!! 😊

That 1st one, looks like a beautiful butterfly wing, and awesome how big it got!

Thanks for all of the info Erika. I enjoyed watching.

Just ordered myself some Homebase paint! Haven’t tried he Shelee bloom yet, been busy making birthday cards so haven’t poured for a little! Those colours are amazing! I stuck with you to the end!

Wonderful!!! Thanks for the experiments. I am definitely going to give these a try!

I think Kate heard your call below. I love how you are so willing to share your experiments with us. You have been my mentor since I began this paint journey. thank you. Love the colors.

Was with you til the end and I love that you posted even though you never really got a perfect stretched one. Thanks

Just saw this - so wish I’d seen it months ago! Thank you for experimenting, you’ll save me lots of money if it works for me, can’t wait to try. For clean up I use butcher paper under my pour then if I like the “drips” I’ll save it for skins, if not can just change it easily between pours. Oh yes, what “body” is the paint?

Thank you for your experiments. I appreciate this very much ❤️

Stunning Erica! Absolutely love the colors! I never tried owatal but would like too. I do have fairly good results with 🇺🇸 floetral. Great comparison. 🥰🌹

You are so informative. Thank you for this video

I think you'd be hard pushed to find a neat and tidy pourer in experimental mode. We are not messy, we are creative xx

This is so helpful thank you for sharing

What did you add to the house paint? Thanks love your work

Hi Erica, love the coasters. I am very messy too.

I'm still watching!! You didn't lose me!

Very helpful. Thanks 😊

Newbie here and enjoyed your video! I do have a question though...was the house paint base mixed with anything?

Experimenting with a glue, varnish, flow aid and pouring medium recipe. Cracking results so far

Thanks so much for the experiments. I have been hoping for some time that someone would come up with a combination that we in the UK can use to do the bloom technique. I use Owatrol a lot and its great for swipes when you want you art to look more like a skyline and as Judy below noticed you dont get the measles.

Tidy work space? What is this? My garage looks like Michael's painting section exploded out there. Lol I love your work and your experimenting on camera for us! It's always nice to watch someone else's process, as well as the bloopers rather than always when it goes right. For those starting out, it can get disheartening and intimidating if they only see videos where everything goes right. Thanks for being so open and REAL!

Others I've seen with this technique mentioned the paint circle before blowing needed to take up a third of the canvas.

Wow. Can NOT believe that is just with owatrol. Look at the big chunky cells. I’ll most definitely be experimenting with that over the weekend 🤓

Hi Erica, so loved this video! You put so much out there to all of us! I'm grateful for sure! They came out awesome! Gorgeous colors! I've spent a small fortune on product and have had little success. So this video put some hope back into my pours (pun pores...ha) I see the bottle looks the same as the Owatrol I can purchase in the States. Ordered it from Amazon as I watched your video! LOL Today I noticed they are right here in Florida just about 20 minutes away! I do hope it IS the same product as yours. Do you know? On another note, the house paint seems to crack on me. I've used GAC 800 & it still cracks. 😣 I believe I have mixed everyone's recipes and continue to fail at this technique. I pay close attention to my consistencies & feel strongly they are right. Alas, I MUST be doing something wrong. Can't believe I can be so bad at this. 😭 But, I will keep trying until I get it right. Thank you again for your hard work and all of your experimenting! 😍😂🥰🐇💗

I liked your experiments...very cool. I'm from Australia 🦘...and just subscribed.

Love it! What do you use for your pillow paint? I’ve never tried the bloom technique but would like to

Hi Erica, absolutely love love love your work!! I just tried my fist attempt on the bloom technique and quite liked it but my pillow seemed too thick, my paint was swimming on top and when tilting it was runnier than the pillow. After watching so many videos I'm still confused on what you use for the pillow. Do you mix it with varnish? What did you use in this video? Thank you so much for all the awesome videos, I really enjoy them.

Love to hang with you I learn so much. Alas, cost wise I am stuck with Floetrol, but I’ll keep trying 😄

Gonna have to give this a try but with just reg floetrol that I can get in Canada.... hopefully it works too.

Thanks so much I will try it. Will have to look for the Australia flo

Brilliant experimenting......don’t ever stop 😘

Great video! I did it with my pour paint line and it works great as well. I sent you a Facebook message btw.

Your trials are great, learn a lot, thank you ❣️

Hi Erica, I was just wonder what is the difference between owatrol and floetrol? Is it just brand?

Thanks for showing your experiments. I am traveling through Australia next week (from the US) and can't wait to pick up Australian Floetrol. Might need to be an extra suitcase! :-)

Thank you for this! Great insights

Very cool! Maybe spinning helps at times.

Love that colour combination ❤️ I’m in the uk. What is house paint? Is it emulsion ( what we use on walls) or gloss ( we use on woodwork)? Thanks in advance x x

thank you sooooo much !!!!!

My studio looks like yours ALL. THE. TIME!!! I get in my creative zone and it’s all over. I desperately need to scrub my loli vefe mats but when I get an idea in my head, who has time?!?! It’s a race to create before the idea flies outta my head! Anyway...you are not alone!

See I agree... I don't think you need to add all these other potentially toxic chemicals! This works beautifully!

I stayed till the end! All said and done, which of these Cell Activators would you recommend: 1) Am Tit White + Owatrol + Liquitex Tit White Ink + Water 2) Am Tit White + Aussie Floetrol or 3) Am Tit White + Water Thank you so much for sharing this experiment!

This was interesting. I am thinking about trying my hand at this. Any advice?

I see it like it is with cooking if you don't make a mess your not cooking, if your not making a mess your not painting. I love how they both came out. Both the one you scraped and the one after it that is that you stretched out.

I am Australian so I use Australian Floetrol but only in my cell activator. I just use water in my colours. I am a learner but I have tested things like glue and a little water plus others. I have been told more than once that there is no difference using Australian or American Floetrol for a cell activator. I haven’t tested it. I am still trying to find out how to get colotarte sets. I loved your experiments. 🌷

what a great vid the first time and the second when you started pouring back over i was like what the did i miss something why but clearly got it thats what i call true experimenting amazing what you come up with after trialing is it just me or is the lighting so much brighter awesome anyway very enjoyable vid thanks for bringing us along on your arcylic art adventures love peace harmony happiness safe healthy loving journeys to you and all infinity BELOVE

Looks like a butterfly wing. Beautiful

Great experimenting! I stick till the end, here to learn and enjoy. Have you seen Tammy Anderson’s pouring on the cheep👍🏼

I don’t or have I seen a clean tidy spot as one is in the middle of paintings , I have split up my cleaning to the next morning, I have a pan of water and dawn , put all washable supplies in the water after I clean of excess paint, cups, spatulas anything plastic or silicone soaks until next morning , I usually will paint in the evening , so don’t worry about what you think is a mess , it’s also drying art for other projects 😊

Have you put colour art powders to the floetrol? I can not get a bloom pour to dry without cracking

Looks like butterfly wings. Beautiful

See.... I don't think you have to add all these other potentially toxic chemicals!!! This works beautifully!!

Just finished Shelee's course & waiting for the ok on FB. Looking for a Canadian recipe for blooms.

Thank you Erica for the great Tip about Owatrol Floetrol. I live in the Netherlands so the Australian is hard to get. I did a piece with Owatrol in the cell activator but it didn't work out. After your video I tried Owatrol in the paint and oly water in the cell activator and it worked!! I used Amsterdam white and black for the cell activator and I think the black worked better than the white. Friday I get my Australian Flood Flotrol (yeahhh). I'm very very curious. Dear Dutch painters, you can now order it again via Amazon.nl!! If anybody in the Netherlands has any tips about Dutch brands of materials for making my own PM for the paints, I'd like to hear from you. Thank you in advance. Happy Painting!!!!

I use Owatrol all the time but i havent done any bloom technique,thought it sounded too complicatd-thanks for sharing! S/O to Kate(?) for original ...

Still here!!!! Thanks for sharing!!

I’m totally lost with paint pouring. I used homemade floetrol and in that I added glycerine. Then I mixed the floetrol and paint as advised on KZfaq and then added silicone lubricant to the mixture but when I did the paint pour there were no cells at all. This was after i spread it around the canvas. 😒🙄😄 what did I do wrong 🤷‍♀️

I bet if you were to spin out the last multiple pour canvas it would have been beautiful. Maybe an idea for another experiment! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the testing👍

Das Bild ist wunderbar geworden... tolle Farben @olandix

Hi Erica and thanks for sharing your video. I would like to know please the brand of your basic white color (the one you put on the canvas first). Thanks for your answer Jean-Pierre

Great video Erica! Can you show the Owatrol up close? Just so we can see the container.

hi, very nice, thanks for the video. what is the difference between owatrol and floetrol? also, does the pillow coat have to be a housepaint?

Inspired

Is cell activator same as silicon oil?

Curious ro know how these dried. Ive been experimentingwith this for a while now. It does work but dried results not that great.

I am messy, messy, messy. I move to another room until I run out of rooms, then have a big clean up and start over