I'm not sure how far I"m going to take this. I just turned 71 yesterday and it's a hoot so far. I can see how easy it would be to create hundreds of paintings in a relatively short time. I'm already looking at converting a 3 season room into a all year room so I can paint all the time. I hope to create a few very nice pieces that I can hang up in my house and maybe stop then. Watching your videos and lessons learned have helped me avoid some beginner's mistakes. Still working on paint consistencies!@@LeftBrainedArtist
You give the best tutorials, simple and to the point!! My brain doesn’t do fast anymore. And you don’t fill up time with unnecessary information. We already know the ones to get very technical. And that’s ok if that’s what someone wants. I’m a fan of ‘keep it simple stupid’🤗🤗🤗🤗
I'm just Going to give you a thank you before I even watch this video. Just because I know how useful your videos always are! Keep up the amazing work!
Very interesting with your second pour. It almost has a faux bloom effect. You called it ‘lightning lacing’. This is a good lesson in how density effects what comes out.
I tried the funnel pour with thin paint with silicone oil and it worked out really well creating beautiful cells. Your tutorials are easy to follow and therefore more success. Your calculator is great and makes short work and time.
I thought I was finished pouring and cleaned up for the day. Then I watched this while I ate lunch and now I have to try the one with the negative space. Thanks for another great idea!
@@LeftBrainedArtist I don't love it but I'll let it exist. I think it would've ended better if I had realized using a funnel with an angled end would just let the paint immediately pour out when I put it on the canvas. 🤪
Hi David , loved paintings #3 & #4. I'm going to try the traveling funnel in the near future!. Thanks for this video, as always, excellent information and inspiration to pour.
Thank you for the details and tips. This is super beneficial for someone who is trying to learn and may not have the time/supplies/patience to learn from their own mistakes/experiences. You do a great job on these!
Yay!! 50K!! I'll be with ya when you hit 100K. I have a wall with beautiful paintings, due in no small part to your excellent videos!! Been pouring about a year. So many thanks!! This video has introduced me to negative space; I love the simplicity of the white base and 'trail' of colors. Very elegant looking!
Wow! The differences are really interesting. I like something about all of them but agree that the third one is best. I'm not a huge fan of too much negative space but found the last one very pleasing to the eye too. Thanks so much again.
Congrats on 50k David! I haven't done any pouring for months, but I had already decided that when I get back to it I will be trying some funnel pours. This video is perfect timing and I love all of the results, but number three is absolutely stunning!
I just barely bought the cake spinner since my homemade one was so loud and not very "spinny" if that is a word. So nice. Going ot have to retrofit it to handle bigger paintings.
AS ALWAYS, VERY INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS AND NICE EXPLANATIONS, THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS BY UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH, DAVID. MY BEST WISHES, GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS FROM 🇲🇩.
You are definitely welcome Noemi. Thanks for continuing to watch my videos. I am happy to make a video especially for you if you have some burning questions you want to get answered.
Great experimenting David...loved the second one...but all were awesome!!! Congrat's on your new milestone!! Way to Go!!! PS thanks for the website with the color palatte's...
You are welcome. Being a left brained guy getting colors that look good together can be a real struggle so having a little guide book to help give me ideas like Coolers.co is awesome.
Love watching you experiment & explain how it all works. I was so happy when you used the cake spinner. That canvas turned out beautiful! It’s my favorite. Although, I do like the one with “yellow lightening” a lot also. One of my favorite ways to use the funnel is to flood the canvas & then let the funnel pour from an inch or so above in different patterns, then tilt. I saw BRTurner do it on his UA-cam. It’s fun & very different.
Timely video as usual. My fav is the first one so that's going to be my next pour. I'll let you know how it goes. Today housework, tomorrow paint day♥️
Brilliant description again. Thankyou David for all your insight and information. You didn't use a base puddle? Is there a specific reason for this. Would you lose less paint definition if the base went over the sides instead of the colours? Congrats too on your subscriber milestone 🎨👍♥️🤓
Not really This color palette with silicone didn't work. I have some gorgeous ones that I've done with silicone a la Pouring Your Heart Out that I love.
Because when you tilt the bottom of the corners especially get left without paint. This way I know they are painting up front and don't have to go back and repaint later.
I pretty much always varnish my paitings that I am selling or giving away. Silicone is not a varnish. You generally hvae to clean all the silicone off of the painting before applying a varnish/resin.
Hi David, love your teacher heart, you have saved me mucho mula! Have you got any resources that carries Australian Floetrol, everyone that I have checked is sold out.
Honestly, I have never bought Aussie Floetrol. I just don't see the draw when I believe there are ways to get just a good of cells with local ingredients. I've had quite a bit of success with craftsmart white glue and American Floetrol but I don't have the "this works just as well" recipe yet.
I have a question for you, I bought paint from Hobby lobby that said premixed and ready to pour, what do you think about this product I’m not too sure I’m happy with it have you used it? It is masters touch brand
Ok so I'm a bit confused now... I've watched LoOoTtTsSs of pouring videos from many different artists and each of them do each of same basic techniques a lil differently but always with the basic "rules" (and using that word "rules" very loosely!) of each technique being the same from person to person... Until now... This is the 1st time I've seen someone do funnel pours onto a dry canvas instead of first pouring a puddle on the canvas and then funnel empties into that puddle... The results r quite different between dry canvas and puddle... Both r beautiful tho!
Just depends on the effects you want. I had no silicone in my cup and I didn't put a base coat down to create special lacing/cells. It isn't required just depends on how you want it to look.
@Christina S That's what is SO AMAZING about fluid art!! 👏👏👏 There are no "rules" really, just DIFFERENT techniques and DIFFERENT styles, and DIFFERENT results! 👏😊👏 That's how I see it anyway!🤷♀️🤗 Every creator just does what "feels right", once you start, those creative instincts kick in! Just like when David changed up his plan and decided to do that "spin" to preserve the middle design. I just started this art media when I discovered it on 6/7/22 and I "poured" my first canvas that day! (Well, it didn't really "pour" because I didn't understand about the "medium" and I just used Tempera Paints with no medium! 🤣🤦♀️🤣and I actually love that painting! I have since continued to learn and I have tried so many techniques already on my Channel. You just have pick one technique that you want to try and jump in. It won't always be "successful" or turn out how you "like", BUT you will learn something every time!! 👏👏👏
I have a question about the paint tilted off. Is it possible to strategically stack your colors in such a way that the colors you want to keep are less likely to be tilted off? For example, in a funnel pour the color at the bottom will most likely tilt off, but in a tree ring pour , the color on top will most likely be tilted off, so would it make sense to utilize the idea of a "waste" color? Not meaning waste in the sense of ugly, but maybe save the "special" colors or theme colors for the part less likely to go over the side? It may not even be worth thinking about, but here I am, thinking about it anyway...🤔
You have that exactly right. The last colors out of the cup/funnel will be the ones in the middle of canvas and less likely to tilt off. I use more base paint in either my base coat or on the bottom or top of my cup (depending on how I am pouring it out) to help compensate for this.
I am working on videos like that. I have only done about half of my paint brand comparisons. Here is the playlist - ua-cam.com/video/b_7mQMuuH5U/v-deo.html I'll do a roundup/best of video at the end.
No. It doesn't work the same. It helps paint that gives lacing to give even more lacing but won't make it by itself like silicone will. I have a video from last week about that here - ua-cam.com/video/O4K2SH0WbjI/v-deo.html
I really enjoy your experimental demo's. Helping me as I start painting. Thanks
You are so welcome! Let me know if you have more questions Mike.
I'm not sure how far I"m going to take this. I just turned 71 yesterday and it's a hoot so far. I can see how easy it would be to create hundreds of paintings in a relatively short time. I'm already looking at converting a 3 season room into a all year room so I can paint all the time. I hope to create a few very nice pieces that I can hang up in my house and maybe stop then. Watching your videos and lessons learned have helped me avoid some beginner's mistakes. Still working on paint consistencies!@@LeftBrainedArtist
I think you'll love having your own art in your home!I@@Mike-jl1rl I know the feeling about making hundreds of pieces for sure.
The last was my fav. Thank you for your teaching
Always a pleasure Josie. Thanks for continuing to watch.
Love the last one
Mine too.
Love the 3rd and last ones. So beautiful 😊
Thank you Daisy! 😊
You give the best tutorials, simple and to the point!! My brain doesn’t do fast anymore. And you don’t fill up time with unnecessary information. We already know the ones to get very technical. And that’s ok if that’s what someone wants.
I’m a fan of ‘keep it simple stupid’🤗🤗🤗🤗
Me too. KISS is my mantra for sure Josie.
I love the last one!
Thanks Sarobey. I do love a good open cup with negative space.
The travelling funnel……I love love it !!!
Thanks Margaret. I love those paintings with just a tad of color pop.
That was fun!
I love the last one.
Thanks Bobbie. The funnel is pretty fun.
Awesome. I learn something from all your videos.
Awesome, thank you!
First time watching you and I must say you are a great teacher.
Wow, thank you Lucie. I really appreciate that. Let me know if you have any questions about pouring.
I like #3 & #4 the best!
Thanks Sunny.
I'm just Going to give you a thank you before I even watch this video. Just because I know how useful your videos always are! Keep up the amazing work!
Aw, thanks so much Natacha.
@@LeftBrainedArtist always welcome!!! I hope to someday put up a video too! Wish me luck.
Really cool thx. I like the 3rd one and the last one was cool too
That's my like order also. Thanks for watching.
Very interesting. I find your tutorials to be very informative. I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing.❤
You are so welcome Barbara.
Very interesting with your second pour. It almost has a faux bloom effect. You called it ‘lightning lacing’. This is a good lesson in how density effects what comes out.
Yes! That is totally what causes that.
I love the fourth one the most
Thanks Jenefer. This is a fun technique for sure.
Last white one is the BEST of all of them. Im going to try little funnel now! Thanks.
Good luck!
Very clever,and great work.😊
Thank you Lee Anne! 😊
All nice. My favorite is the thin paint with the spinner. Thank you David.☮️💖🎶
You are so welcome Marcey. Thanks for continuing to watching my videos.
Thank you, I like the best as far as out come the 2 you do.
Awesome, thank you Barbara.
I love the white one. I am inspired to try that.
Thanks Dee. I did like how different they turned out.
Thank you so much for your tutorials and analysis, it has really educated me on the process, kudos to you! Very much appreciated!
My pleasure.
Really like the third and fourth painting.
Thanks Patricia. Those were my favorites too.
I tried the funnel pour with thin paint with silicone oil and it worked out really well creating beautiful cells. Your tutorials are easy to follow and therefore more success. Your calculator is great and makes short work and time.
That is awesome to hear Roslyn. Excellent job. Glad these videos are helpful.
Thanks so much all ways enjoy your painting
Glad to help Hyacinth. So many great techniques still to try.
I thought I was finished pouring and cleaned up for the day. Then I watched this while I ate lunch and now I have to try the one with the negative space. Thanks for another great idea!
How did it turn out Melanie?
@@LeftBrainedArtist I don't love it but I'll let it exist.
I think it would've ended better if I had realized using a funnel with an angled end would just let the paint immediately pour out when I put it on the canvas. 🤪
Love the 4th. 😊
Thanks. Negative space done right is very simple yet elegant I think.
Hi David , loved paintings #3 & #4. I'm going to try the traveling funnel in the near future!. Thanks for this video, as always, excellent information and inspiration to pour.
Good luck!
You're a great instructor! Thanks for sharing
My pleasure Theresa.
Thank you for the details and tips. This is super beneficial for someone who is trying to learn and may not have the time/supplies/patience to learn from their own mistakes/experiences. You do a great job on these!
Thank you so much. So glad I could help you.
Wow love this ❤❤
Aw, these are fun to do for sure.
Yay!! 50K!! I'll be with ya when you hit 100K. I have a wall with beautiful paintings, due in no small part to your excellent videos!! Been pouring about a year. So many thanks!! This video has introduced me to negative space; I love the simplicity of the white base and 'trail' of colors. Very elegant looking!
That is exactly how I feel about negative space. Realy highlights the "painted" portion of the painting.
Negative space is very important in any composition,been using dick blick paints and supplies for a long time in my other "fine" art, great supplier.
Thank you for your detailed explanations. 😁 Have a beautiful day!
You are so welcome!
Newbie here. You are a great Teacher. #4 was my favorite! Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for watching and the lovely comment.
They all turned out very interesting. I also like the 3rd one the best. The first one looks very Spring/Easter looking.
Thanks Mary. Such and interesting test.
Your videos are informative, I take notes
Thanks Tammy. Glad to help.
I like #3 best.
Thanks Tammy. Me too for sure.
These are all fab but I especially like the last one, I just love the effect of the colours against the white
So true. That is just a classic combo.
💜🦄Great tutorial🦄💜
Thanks so much.
Wow! The differences are really interesting. I like something about all of them but agree that the third one is best. I'm not a huge fan of too much negative space but found the last one very pleasing to the eye too. Thanks so much again.
Thanks for sharing Hawk.
It's just amazing how you got different paintings.They are all pretty but my favorite is the 3rd. Thank you for another great video!!
Thank you so much Julie. I agree on the third one. I was going to keep it but already got a viewer that wants to buy it. 😀
@@LeftBrainedArtist Selling it is even better for you!! Congratulations 💰
Congrats on 50k David! I haven't done any pouring for months, but I had already decided that when I get back to it I will be trying some funnel pours. This video is perfect timing and I love all of the results, but number three is absolutely stunning!
I just barely bought the cake spinner since my homemade one was so loud and not very "spinny" if that is a word. So nice. Going ot have to retrofit it to handle bigger paintings.
@@LeftBrainedArtist 🤣 I'd vote "spinny" IS a word!! 🤣
AS ALWAYS, VERY INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS AND NICE EXPLANATIONS, THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS BY UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH, DAVID. MY BEST WISHES, GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS FROM 🇲🇩.
Thanks again Oguis.
Just how I want to paint!, thanks
Any time Nancy.
Love the negative space paintings, I've been doing more of those lately...
They are just so simple yet stunning whne done right.
Cool tutorial. Thank you
You are definitely welcome Noemi. Thanks for continuing to watch my videos. I am happy to make a video especially for you if you have some burning questions you want to get answered.
The3rd on is my favorite.
And I like the fourth one. Te funnel makes kool art. I'm going to buy one.
$1 store specials.
Great experimenting David...loved the second one...but all were awesome!!! Congrat's on your new milestone!! Way to Go!!! PS thanks for the website with the color palatte's...
You are welcome. Being a left brained guy getting colors that look good together can be a real struggle so having a little guide book to help give me ideas like Coolers.co is awesome.
Great video David!
They are all so unique!
I bought a set of 3 funnels from Dollar Tree last week, but I haven't used them yet.
It's on my list! 🤗
They are a really fun addition to my repertoire
All fab but I love the last one with the negative space! Will give that a try!
Have fun Jacqui. I love negative space travelling pours like that one.
Very informative.
Thanks for watching Marie.
My face is the 4th...hands down!
Me too!
Love watching you experiment & explain how it all works. I was so happy when you used the cake spinner. That canvas turned out beautiful! It’s my favorite. Although, I do like the one with “yellow lightening” a lot also. One of my favorite ways to use the funnel is to flood the canvas & then let the funnel pour from an inch or so above in different patterns, then tilt. I saw BRTurner do it on his UA-cam. It’s fun & very different.
Yeah, I love how BRTurner's paintings end up. He rarely gets mud even though he is using all the primary colors almost every time.
Very informative 😊
Glad it was helpful Jodi.
Thank you
Glad to help Rebecca.
super😃
Thanks Angeline.
👍👍#3 💙
Thanks Susan.
15:00 😍👏🏻👍🏼🌸
Thanks. I like that halo looking paint section too.
Fun. Thank you. You know you can make your own funnel by rolling a piece of paper. I use magazine pages. The thicker ones.
That's a great idea!
Timely video as usual. My fav is the first one so that's going to be my next pour. I'll let you know how it goes. Today housework, tomorrow paint day♥️
Nice Kathi. I look forward to seeing your results.
Do you have an own channel where you show your work, or somewhere else?
3rd and 4th speak to me, but they're all cool.
Thanks for watching Shari.
@@LeftBrainedArtist Are you kidding?! I LOVE your videos and have recommended them to many other people! You're welcome! 👍👍👍
Brilliant description again. Thankyou David for all your insight and information. You didn't use a base puddle? Is there a specific reason for this. Would you lose less paint definition if the base went over the sides instead of the colours? Congrats too on your subscriber milestone 🎨👍♥️🤓
Thanks Flora. The base could change how the composition looks like for sure.
Great experiment. I just don't like using silicone. I think the results speak to that.
Not really This color palette with silicone didn't work. I have some gorgeous ones that I've done with silicone a la Pouring Your Heart Out that I love.
Love all the time you put into helping us paint. Where do you get the small needle dropper
It came with my silicone which I got on Amazon.
Wow ! All four are so beautiful! You are a wery good teacher!Do you not make pearl pour ?
Not with a funnel although you could pretty easily.
Thank you for another informative video. All your paintings are beautiful.
Why do you put the paint on the corners?
Because when you tilt the bottom of the corners especially get left without paint. This way I know they are painting up front and don't have to go back and repaint later.
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thank you. I haven't seen anybody else do that.
Thanks for this video.
Do you ever put a varnish on it, or is that the idea of using silicone, please?
I pretty much always varnish my paitings that I am selling or giving away. Silicone is not a varnish. You generally hvae to clean all the silicone off of the painting before applying a varnish/resin.
Hi David, love your teacher heart, you have saved me mucho mula! Have you got any resources that carries Australian Floetrol, everyone that I have checked is sold out.
Honestly, I have never bought Aussie Floetrol. I just don't see the draw when I believe there are ways to get just a good of cells with local ingredients. I've had quite a bit of success with craftsmart white glue and American Floetrol but I don't have the "this works just as well" recipe yet.
hi there just wanted to know that plastic container your painting over that is such a good idea, do you know where you got that size container from ?
Here is my video about this container that I am using - ua-cam.com/video/TLHcqW9AKwo/v-deo.html
I have a question for you, I bought paint from Hobby lobby that said premixed and ready to pour, what do you think about this product I’m not too sure I’m happy with it have you used it? It is masters touch brand
I haven't tried it. It is quick and easy that is for sure as you don't have to do any mixing. Just pour.
David, I have one hand and I like to do a funnel pour.. It is out of the question For me? I ask five people And they say no. They were too busy. 😢
I can't think of an easy way to do it with one hand but I'll keep thinking about it and let you know.
I know just what to do, 2 brick, A funnel in the middle, And Painter's tape And Funnel pour 🎉
Building bricks.
@@victoriaking5401 Apparently you are better at this than me . . . as you should be. 8)
Since my payday is the third I'm going to pay the ten dollars for the LeftBrained artist Subscription.
Ok so I'm a bit confused now...
I've watched LoOoTtTsSs of pouring videos from many different artists and each of them do each of same basic techniques a lil differently but always with the basic "rules" (and using that word "rules" very loosely!) of each technique being the same from person to person...
Until now... This is the 1st time I've seen someone do funnel pours onto a dry canvas instead of first pouring a puddle on the canvas and then funnel empties into that puddle...
The results r quite different between dry canvas and puddle... Both r beautiful tho!
Just depends on the effects you want. I had no silicone in my cup and I didn't put a base coat down to create special lacing/cells. It isn't required just depends on how you want it to look.
@Christina S
That's what is SO AMAZING about fluid art!! 👏👏👏
There are no "rules" really, just DIFFERENT techniques and DIFFERENT styles, and DIFFERENT results! 👏😊👏
That's how I see it anyway!🤷♀️🤗
Every creator just does what "feels right", once you start, those creative instincts kick in! Just like when David changed up his plan and decided to do that "spin" to preserve the middle design.
I just started this art media when I discovered it on 6/7/22 and I "poured" my first canvas that day! (Well, it didn't really "pour" because I didn't understand about the "medium" and I just used Tempera Paints with no medium! 🤣🤦♀️🤣and I actually love that painting!
I have since continued to learn and I have tried so many techniques already on my Channel.
You just have pick one technique that you want to try and jump in.
It won't always be "successful" or turn out how you "like", BUT you will learn something every time!! 👏👏👏
I have a question about the paint tilted off. Is it possible to strategically stack your colors in such a way that the colors you want to keep are less likely to be tilted off? For example, in a funnel pour the color at the bottom will most likely tilt off, but in a tree ring pour , the color on top will most likely be tilted off, so would it make sense to utilize the idea of a "waste" color? Not meaning waste in the sense of ugly, but maybe save the "special" colors or theme colors for the part less likely to go over the side? It may not even be worth thinking about, but here I am, thinking about it anyway...🤔
You have that exactly right. The last colors out of the cup/funnel will be the ones in the middle of canvas and less likely to tilt off. I use more base paint in either my base coat or on the bottom or top of my cup (depending on how I am pouring it out) to help compensate for this.
Do you have a video where you compare different acrylic paint brands? What brands do you recommend (besides craft smart)
I am working on videos like that. I have only done about half of my paint brand comparisons. Here is the playlist - ua-cam.com/video/b_7mQMuuH5U/v-deo.html I'll do a roundup/best of video at the end.
hi, a question, what happens if one have to much silicon oil in a color?
Too much silicone makes caterpillar cells or cells that just keep growing and meshing in to each other.
#4 is my fave, then #3...not so much #1 or 2.
👍👍
Can you use penetrol instead of silicone for cells and lacing?
No. It doesn't work the same. It helps paint that gives lacing to give even more lacing but won't make it by itself like silicone will. I have a video from last week about that here - ua-cam.com/video/O4K2SH0WbjI/v-deo.html
Thank you. 😊
What is the best way to make sure the sides are covered?
If I am worred about them I paint them first. Generally I used the tilted off paint at the end to make sure all the sides get covered.
What did you use as the pan to put the canvas on top of
ua-cam.com/video/TLHcqW9AKwo/v-deo.html this is my homemade pouring container.
@@LeftBrainedArtist thank you
Wow! #3 💜💜💜
What the name of the Paint Pouring Calculator?
Thanks Rose. I'll probably be keeping the 3rd one.
@@LeftBrainedArtist and the calculator name? I'm a total newbie and gathering all the info I can first!
I really do like the last one you did too!💜
How thick is your base paint? Thin like the rest, or thicker?
Same consistency as the rest.
Buy "thick paint" do you mean heavy body paint
For these procedures do you need to flood the canvas
Not heavy body paint. Just paint that hasn't been diluted with water or medium so it is still a thicker consistency.
My fave, not my face -- altho that would be pretty face paint too
👍👍
I noticed you put gray in between each color, was that so that it didn't mix into each other or get muddy
That was the goal yes.
Beautiful but a waste of paint
Thanks.
you paid 10 times more ordering from amazon when you could have gotten them from any grocery store or 99 cent store lol
True, but it was only 2x and it was convenient. My time is worth more than the drive there.
N nb.
🤔
Can you tell me what kind of turntable you're using? Seems like it has a nice sturdy base and yet a wide top...
I use a metal cake turntable - amzn.to/3cuLZcS
I love the last one!
Thanks Marian. That one turned out great too I thought.