🚨update on the Crackle paste🚨 Thanks to my lovely subscribers, a few suggestions for it are: -use it to make things look antique -cosplay -add it as a frame without a fame -building models and replicas -abstract art -paint pouring

Crackle paste is huge in modeling work. Makes giving life and texture to terrain pieces incredibly easy.

I'd use the crackle paint for painting a cottage or building. It looks like a stone house or castle to me. Then a bunch of greenery around it 👌 also I need all these supplies!

Always keep a small spritzer bottle full of water in your painting supplies for acrylics. You just spritz the painting every now and then and it prevents it from drying before you are done painting.

That liquid biscuit is really satisfying 😛🙌🏽

I‘d use the crackle paste to make something seem really old. Like, a Renaissance Style painting.

I wish more people knew about slow drying medium for acrylic. That’s basically what open acrylics have in them. Golden sells a slow drying medium called retarder and you can add a small bit of that into any acrylic paint you already have even acrylic gouache and you have slow drying acrylic paint without spending the money on whole tubes. And frisket is the same as masking fluid just make sure you get the removable kind

My mom was obsessed with the cracking paint back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. She used it on her DIY home decor crafting projects and on existing wooden furniture to revitalize them. It’s still prominently used in the “primitive inspired” house aesthetic. I received the 20 year old kitchen table and chairs that was in my childhood home as a hand me down and it still has the cracked paint product on all of the legs 😂

The crack paste is great for miniature work like dry land ( drought ), old plaster walls or concrete floors.

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All I can think is about the Crackle Paste is how fun it will be to use for ABSTRACT PAINTINGS!!! Seriously cant wait to get my hands on it😃😃

Rae: Announces a video about weird art supplies that noone uses or has heard of. Also Rae: Shows us a bottle of masking fluid and crackle paste.

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So I use Frisket and slow drying acrylic regularly. To answer your questions why the slow drying acrylic is not used more is that it's more expensive and it takes a major learning curve to get use it. Because if you're not careful, you can easily mess up your painting. Also Rae acting like we all havent reworn clothes during the pandemic

when I started painting with acrylics I saw a video guide in which they mentioned that there are products to mix acrylic and make it faster or slower to dry . That would help, mix the product with your preferred brand of acrylics to achieve a desired result 😊

based on the exterior, that looks like an older michaels (the way its built + the logo) and the interior tiles and lower ceiling make me think the same. feels like a nostalgic place to step into just from the video alone lol

Friskit is masking fluid, besides typical art uses- you can also use it on the skin around your nails/cuticles before you paint your nails so you don’t get nail polish on your skin

Just a normal guy here wanting to say that eyeshadow is KILLING IT. Its so bold and I love it.

I love Rae's Eyelids in every video, it's so colourful and it suits Rae!

Golden open acrylics are SO fantastic! They also have slow dry medium through a bunch of different brands that give the same effect when mixed with your normal acrylics. Another obscure art supply you might like is also by golden! Mica flakes :D Super shiny! Suspended in acrylic medium! Great for impasto techniques.

I would really suggest getting/using a silicone brush for the liquid latex stuff, it will wreck your normal brushes

For the frisket you're not actually supposed to shake it because it can cause air bubbles; like the ones you saw. It's more of a rolling upward motion you're supposed to do? Like, imagine you had a liquid in a cup and wanted to stir it but didn't have a stirrer so move it in circles. Kasey golden did a great video on frisket/masking fluid comparing different ones available & which ones work best in case you are interested in that. I can also imagine crackle paste to be a good scales base for people painting stuff like dragons or lizard sculptures?

the paint that peels off is really handy for someone who picks their skin or bites their nails coming from someone who does those things:D

Absolutely loved the vibrant green eye look!!

Okay but can we appreciate how Rae does her makeup and eyeshadow beautifully for us every video? Like it’s amazing. She’s so beautiful with and without!

My mom used a crackle additive to make my vanity look older. I loved it. It was very much my 14 year old self's style. Not so much anymore, but I was so happy with that piece of furniture.

Acrylic painter here - dry brushing is like one of the first techniques i teach people to do with acrylic. It works perfectly with quick drying acrylics as well.

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My immediate reaction to the crackle paint was for desert landscapes, broken glass, frost or crystals, and a really detailed close up of dried skin ❤️ Haven't seen it used before either but I feel like using a thinner layer could have different/easier results

Tip: don't use nice brushes for the frisket! The latex builds up and ruins the brushes. Use either on old brush, a you don't care about, or rubber brushes made for it.

I was always taught not to shade with black, so every time Rae says people use a ton of black I look at all my leftover black supplies all baffled like, "really??? but these are only for accents and lineart????" 😂😂 hooray for different approaches

Crackle paint has been around for more than 45 yrs. I sold it in a now defunct craft supply/yarn store in Canada. And yes, the thinner the paste the finer the cracks. When I sold it, it was a thick liquid, but if you take the excess water out of it, it would probably have become a thick, fluffy produced like you have tested. "Back in the day", we used to use it for a distressed look on painted objects like a birdhouse or inexpensive furniture.

Love the Christmas nails so much!

Tip for using the liquid frisket: Use an old, wet brush covered in soap! That way you can easily wipe it off and not damage your brush!

I loved your green eye shadow. It was so cute!

That crackle paste with mica added would make a beautiful faux leather for book covers and junk journals💜💜 aaaaanndd it would be kinda cool for steampunk crafts too 😮

"I'm testing art supplies no ones ever heard of!" *Tests masking fluid*

Your liquid mask (Frisket) can be used for sooo many creative things, just be careful to pull back on itself to not damage the paper. You can also use it as a mask for surface etching with a Paasche Air Erasure on glass metal etc. for free hand designs, Bonus: you can use the Air Erasure to remove ink from paper or etch the ink off of soda cans etc.

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I would use the crackle paint to make a zebra or any animal because it shows lots of texture. Also, you can use crackle paint to make birch trees or regular trees!

A lot of people use the crackle paste for doing furniture pieces, it creates an aged effect without actually having damaged the furniture piece

The crackle paste seems like it would be a good tool for making a model kit, or a 3D diorama.

One thing i have been waiting patiently to see is a video based ONLY on dollar tree items you find good, great you would reccomend for low budget artists !

The paste you used, I like to use it on my dioramas. It makes really good desert scenes. Always on sidewalks. I'm just sharing with you on how I use it.

Hey Rae, I remember using crackle paste YEARS AGO to decorate some plant pots, sold a few as well! Was interesting seeing all these unusual art supplies!

Love that golden open, honestly. my trouble with oils has been inconsistent dry times--hard to know *when* it's going to dry or how long it's going to take to be 'ready' (and when it takes a very long time invariably there's cat fur or dust stuck in it). The open acrylics stay workable for several hours, but are *always* completely dry to the touch within 48 hours. Perfect.

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Ok can I just say I LOVE your makeup THE BRIGHT GREEN EYE SHADOW IS SO COOL

im lowkey surprised you havent heard or tried any of these! masking fluid especially is very popular amongst watercolor artists

Crackle paint is very often used in multi media projects and craft projects like ageing a wooden box, ATCs, and multi media board art. Or, of course, just a painting with a cool texture! Loved that yellow! Could paint a stunning poppies painting over it, in a gentle, watery style. The crackles would give a real atmosphere to the piece, evoking timelessness and history. I love the crackle effect, as long as it’s not over done and used on everything. There are many amazing surface effects, like patina and verdigris, which are available. Check them out! I’m in UK so can’t recommend a store, but I think you could have great fun learning all these techniques 😊 As always, your art examples for the charcoal were stunning! Hugs from over the pond

The crackle Paste can be used in miniature sceneries, especially when creating a outdoor scene in which you will need to do mountains or large Rock structures.

Ooo I'd love to see you use the slow drying acrylics for a painting!

The crackle paste is such a cool technique! The texture reminds me of snake or reptile skin, it would be awesome to paint a lizard with that stuff!! A super colourful chameleon or a realistic snake would be cool af.

When I was working at Hobby Lobby people bought crackle paint when they wanted to make a small piece of furniture or a decorative piece look old. They called it 'Antiquing'. I don't ever remember people saying they used it on actual canvass for painting a picture.

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This is kinda off topic but your makeup and nails look soo good 🤩🤩 I will definitely be trying out that frisket supply 😊 have a great day!!

The crackle paint is very popular when it comes to crafting more than painting as far as I know. I remember first discovering crackle paint when researching how to decorate wooden boxes. I remember watching quite a few tutorials and sometimes they used the crackle paint to get some textures to make it look old. I'm pretty sure you could use it for painting as well if you wanted to apply some texture to a part of your paiting.

I love your videos: love your comments and the way you just jump in and go for it! Crackle paste is used in mixed media a lot to add background texture. If you go over the cracks with a thin coat of brown or other dark color ink it highlights the cracks and gives a great grungy look. It's a Tim Holtz staple technique.

I've mostly seen crackles on abstract art but maybe it would look awesome on landscapes or maybe one of those "cracked mask" portraits where a a happy face crumbles away to show a sad face.

The start was so emotional and I hope you recover from this trauma I still will continue to support you and your channel

These weird art supply videos are my favourite. You test them so we don't have to!

No one: Rae: *being emotionally funny in the intro*

Liquid latex is amazing whenever painting models or reliefs with an airbrush; you can easily surround raised details, or fill voids. Once you have the more complex shape masked, you can mask larger areas with masking tape. It’s also possible to use it as a “chipping medium”. Paint areas of a model with bare metal and rust, use liquid latex in irregular blobs over it, paint the model normally over top, then remove the latex. Manually add in some shading and highlights to sell the effect of peeling paint. Crackle paste is likewise great in any kind of scale modeling; it’s particularly useful for creating dry mudflats. Mix it with a dark tone and lay it down relatively thick, then drybrush over it with progressively lighter shades

Woah that crackle paste looks so cool! I imagine using it to create interesting textures using a palette knife in sort of an impasto-style, and adding colour on top.

Okay but that lighting with your green eyeshadow is dope 🔥

So the auto-generated captioning would occasionally say "brisket" instead of "frisket" and it was glorious. "So next I paint a thin line of brisket" Btw, frisket is one of the basic supplies for watercolor painting, I can't believe you've never heard of it!

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Girllll you should make like a portrait and the background would be that crackle paste. Orrr a painting using only the crackle paste omg yes I want see thattttt

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She is so creative....i could never...i'm so proud of you rae it feels so nice to see your channel grow...much more to come tho🌼

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You could use that crackle stuff to do what I call a relief painting. It's a painting where some of the paint is globbed on really thick on certain parts, so that you can feel the shape of the objects in the picture. It gives a nice 3D effect. I have a painting by the artist Harvey Konigsberg, called A Chair and a Sax, which is like this. It was an oil painting that he did in 1968, of a saxophone lying on a chair, on a white background. The thing I always liked about it, is how the paint on the saxophone, especially on the bell end, is applied so thick, that it sticks out so much that you can actually feel the shape of the saxophone. I think you could do something similar with that crackle stuff. If you did a picture with a lot of bright neon colors, where the things in the picture were outlined with the crackle paint, that would be really cool. Maybe a picture of people dancing or playing musical instruments or something, and the instruments would be outlined with it, so they stand out in 3D.

Please Rae , continue those experimentations on this kind of products, it would be very interesting and helpful . Thank you !

The crackle paste is used occasionally in model and diorama making and some times used on the bases of miniatures. I think it would be super cool to see you do a painting using the crackle paste as the focus!

Can we talk about that bright green shadow cause I LOVE IT

Crackle Paste is used, a lot, with scrapbooking and mixed media projects. In scrapbooking, it's spread on really thin. Doing a mixed media canvas, gives it the grungy or distressed look. It also comes in black and clear.

I think crackle paste is more often used in craft projects.

For the crackle paste I guess it's mostly for texture. So for instance if u were making a diarama and wanted to create a dry, barren landscape you could use it for that. Or you could use it as texture for 3D models such as bark or cliff faces.

For the Golden Open Acrylic paint: they are not transparent because of them being longer workable. It's just because of the pigments they used in the set you've bought. The same goes for the bright colours you've mentioned. While there are usually more fancy options for acrylic paint than for oils I won't say that that's typical to have more vibrant paintings just because one is using acrylic paint instead of oil. It's what colours you choose and what you make of it. Sure, sets, especially in the lower price range are often super bright and since many don't know how to mix colour and how to keep acrylic paint workable longer this tends to end up in more flashing paintings. However, if one dives deeper into it it is possible to achieve oil like paintings with acrylics (I had people not believing that I was using acrylic paint in my paintings when I corrected their assumption that it was made by using oil paint). Especially Golden has a great range of colours in different styles from inky fluid to real thick and a lot of mediums that help achieving amazing results. For those thinking of trying their "Open" series: they will feel super weird first. The consistency is quite unique and if you're coming from normal acrylic paint you need to learn to get patient (well, they also dry slow when it's not what you want right now and sometimes you'll need to wait a day or more to have them dried completely, depending on what you were doing). And adjust your technique: they are different and just like graphite and charcoal are similar but not the same it's the same with ordinary acrylic paint and "open" acrylic paint. Anyway: thanks for testing all of that and showing it online!

I love your videos so much! It’s amazing to me how you get bad or random art supplies and make an amazing art piece. I’ve learned a lot from your channel.

Acrylics are super versatile. Acrylic mediums are used to alter acrylic paint ie. medium + pigments. These paints are available in various medium like ink, soft body, heavy body and slow drying medium. The only thing that’s need to be remembered is once water is evaporated, it will set immediately. So keep on misting the paint if you don’t want it to set so quickly, put your palette inside a sealed container with wet paper towels on the bottom to prevent moisture from escaping.

I was genuinely so excited about those charcoal erasers because that's my favorite medium to use but I honestly think malleable erasers work better for that kind of stuff. I've been using mine since 2016 and haven't had to replace it, yet so that's a plus!

The golden open acrylics are AMAZING. They have a luminosity and color vibrance like oil. But they’re water dissolvable and layer greatttt. Amazing color selection too!

Everyone has their own style art piece and I love yours ❤️.. You're such a talented artist 😄.

When the notification for the video popped up on my iPad, I read it as I *tasted* art supplies… Visions of Rae licking crayons and watercolours instantly sprang to mind 😝

Who else loves how Michael’s smells around Christmas time?? The smell of cinnamon pinecones🥰 (also When she said Frisket I heard brisket and now I’m hungry)🤣🤣

I would go crazy with the crackle for surreal impressionistic portraits or nature related elements in a painting. Like Peter Doig or Mamma Andersson

For the crackle paint there are 2 ideas I have 1) that paint seems like it'd be absolutely PERFECT for recreating old Renaissance art or 2) you could highlight the cracks with something like watercolor which could make a really cool background or just abstract art

I think the art Sherpa likes to use that paint that dries slow. She mixes something in with her paint that causes it to dry slow too. It’s pretty cool and helpful. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen any of the art sherpas stuff but she is an amazing soul and I love to follow her tutorials. She’s also a really positive person and just really comforting so a lot of times when I am going to sleep I will put her on just because she is so comforting. My sister and I really like to do the wine and paint stuff but it’s expensive so we will follow her at home and drink and eat as much as we like while we follow her tutorials haha. :-)

I only knew about crackle nail polish. But of course it’s used in painting stuff. Oh. Amsterdam makes a great acrylic paint extender that is a clear fluid that mixes in with a few drops and it’s a lot better than other mediums I’ve tried. Edit: My husband just told me that he uses crackle fluid for Warhammer paint. So much I didn’t know about 🥴🤔😃😂

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OMG, Rae, I love 💕 your channel!! I've been subscribed for a long time!! You've been a lifesaver during all this pandemic crap, thank you!

The crackle paste kind of makes me think of scales on a snake or dragon. It could also be cool to use in a desert landscape.

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I think the crackling paste would be great for hyperrealistic surrealism. Like painting a hyperrealistic portrait but at one point the person just crackles and falls apart or something like that. I'd 100% use the paste for this. To me it's just going the extra mile, not just painting the crackles but creating them with this paste and giving it a nice mixed medium look.

A lot of crackle mediums are for decoupage. It's quite popular to make decoupaged things look old. Especially since this whole genre of art is very rustical

Crackle paste can also be used in mix media art. It’s a lot of fun I highly recommend!!!

I had this crazy idea of painting a volcano 🌋 with the crackle paint! It would come out so realistic with all the cracks and dimensions because of the crackle paint!

For the liquid frisket (also known as masking fluid,) its super normal for separation in the bottle. It just needs to be kept somewhere where it can avoid UV damage and keep it tightly sealed to avoid it oxidizing and setting. I've lost soooo many bottles of it when not sealing it correctly and the liquid latex literally seals the bottle shut :( This stuff can also completely destroy brushes, i learned a technique from someone online where you can coat your brush in dawn dish soap, let it dry completely and then use the product to avoid completely clogging the brush with latex. Hope this helps for anyone in the comments whos interested. It's SUCH an important tool in my watercolour paintings so I highly recommend it!

I've seen crackle paint used for flower pots and other crafts like that, picture frames, etc., to give a weathered look. Interesting videos, thanks!