ART HACK: How To Make Your Own High Flow Acrylic Inks!! *Tutorial* | Serena Bee
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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I wanted to share how I created my own version of Golden high flow acrylics. You will need the Gold Airbrush Medium. This works best with fluid acrylics. In this video I used both a heavier acrylic paint and a more fluid paint, just know that you will need to apply more of the airbrush medium if your paint consistency is heavier.
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Good tips,...you can make your qwn airbrush medium with a mixture of 50% matt or gloss medium and 50% distilled water..of course you can use tap water but using distilled water will keep your paint fungus free and you wont get that funky smell that you get from long term storage...I have been airbrushing almost 40 years now so I do know this recipe to work.
Dennis Turnage did you try white glue and water
Finally someone who explains why I should use distilled water instead! Cheers!
Thank you so much for the tip. Have an abundance of medium so will just get some distilled water and life will be great. This is exactly the information I was looking for so thank you for sharing 😁
Thanks so much for this info?
Dennis Turnage hey Dennis! Thanx for that info. When you say Matt or gloss medium... what exactly is the medium? Do you mea. A gloss or Matt acrylic varnish medium? Thanx so much! 😉👍
Nice video. However, I would like to point out a few things just for clarity for those watching. What you are actually doing is extending your paint, a.k.a. making a glaze. Because you are using the Airbrush medium to do so, it is also thinning the paint to a High Flow consistency and making it able to be sprayed depending on the ratio. This is a great way to save money and something that Golden also recommends for their other color lines if cost is an issue. For instance you can extend Golden Heavy body Acrylics with their Regular Gel Gloss/Matte/Semi-gloss with out effecting the paints consistency. The important thing to remember and one of the reasons the High Flow cost more, is that it is high end paint and Golden has packed as much pigment into the formula as it will allow. When you extend your paints with mediums and gels, you will lose some of that potency and effectively reduce the amount of pigment per ounce in your mixture. If you extend it enough you will have effectively created a glaze and your dried paint film will be more translucent or transparent. Absolutely nothing wrong with doing this, just a personal choice on pigment load vs. cost savings.
Now that's what I call....... INFORMATION!!! Great post. Thanks so much for sharing. Looks like I'm going to Michaels for a bottle of... Airbrush medium. Really great!
DONNA MAY-BRUNET You can also add dry pigment to increase the load yourself. Caution because all of these formulas will have a maximum load before the paint breaks down and that won't be obvious at first. It'll develop cracks and fade after it drys within a few months or so.
Fur and Feathers Dry pigments? Tell me more, where do I find them?
save ur money by making your own great flow medium with 5 parts water 2 parts 99% alcohol and 1/2 part vegetable glycerin
@C.K. Thank you very much! That is actually the info I was looking
for! SO MANY fancy products are comprised of extremely simple and cheap ingredients, I suspected the flow medium to be no different. Thank you again!!
I read on another site, they suggested to rinse out the applicator tips so the paint won't dry up inside the tip. And they also suggested placing a small piece of plastic wrap over the bottle opening and then screw the applicator tip on top (after washed and dried). Thank you for your video. I plan to make my own too, and this will help.
+Chele Rutan A little bit of vaseline around the tip of the applicator & around the top of the bottle will keep the tops from gluing shut too & allow you to open/close your tips(caps) very easily.
I don't know if you have a MIchaels there, but in the Wilton Cake Decorating section, they sell empty 6 oz bottles that all have a red nipple thing on them to keep them from drying out. I do marbling and use these for my mixed up paints. It only shows them in a 2 pack on the website, but I bought them in a round tub of either 16 or 18 bottles. They use them for candy decorating
sue cole thanks for the tip sue!
Great idea, especially if you’re new to high flow. Great way to try the medium without spending a fortune. Thanks for the video :)
Add some flow aid and put a marble in the bottle. Works like magic. Flow aid need to be diluted 1:10 to 1:20 then add that to your mix.
Do you recommend a brand name?
Hi & thanks for tutorial! I have been looking for a way to do this! I want to use them with liquitex pouring medium- which states "use with" soft body or liquid/inks acrylics. I didn't want to invest in a bunch of soft body or inks yet plus the cost is crazy! I finally figured out after much research that using the liquitex airbrush medium ( I'm use mostly liquitex products) with acrylics would work. I don't know how I missed your UA-cam! Damn! Anyway, I found it on Amazon $13.00 & it arrives tomorrow, can't wait to try it! Some people say to just add water, I'm my humble novice opinion, the density of paint color is comprised, problems with paint adherence & cracking. I have numerous examples.......trust me! I tried Flow Aid but I think I screwed it up so I'll also try that again. My only caution is that shaking paint & medium creates a lot of bubbles so stirring is the best route unless you don't mind the bubbles. Otherwise you have to wait a few+ days for bubbles to dissipate. Check out some "Pouring" tutorials they are really beautiful, messy but amazing & fun! Thanks again! ✌🏼
Thank you for sharing this video. You are so correct that the liquid acrylics are so very expensive. It is nice to see a video on how to make your own. Thank you again for sharing this idea.
I like that you are experimenting with the airbrush medium, a lot of acrylic painters use it instead of water for general thinning and brush soaking as it will not break down the polymer binders in the paints, but understand that diluting soft body paint with airbrush medium does not make a paint product with the pigment load equal to Golden's high flow acrylic. It is also a matter of pigment amount, not just how the paint flows. .Happy painting!
Another thing aritsts may want to consider is that Golden high flow acrylics also penetrate and adhere to substrates much more effectively than a soft bodied paint that's been diluted with airbrush medium.
So do you know of any way to avoid buying the high flow acrylics? I've tried these for marbling and they are perfect but I want to try re-create this type of paint myself as it is for a commercial idea. I've tried adding diluited liquitex flow aid and golden high flow release to heavy bodied acryclic paints but it hasnt produced the same results :-( any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
Niall Keller there is a message from a year ago here by zamathiel that has a recipe.
I have a tip so that you do not need to use more of the medium. If you add a little water at a time to make the paint liquid, you can then add the medium one part to one part paint, and it will run better. But this is a great video thank you so much!
+Karen Jones agreed
If you have flow medium, then of course you can use it. However, this video was using airbrush medium and so I commented towards the use of that. Medium is not cheap, and water is the most essential to getting your paint right. Now, that is also using heavy body acrylics. If you are using Liquitex paint that is soft body, you would use less water. But use what you have. Also, flow medium would work better with heavy body then soft, because it is made to force the flow. If you use flow medium with soft body, it could turn more watery than you want, even if you lessen the water used. Air brush medium is something you should have in your tool box anyway, because it also aids in making your own sprays, and flow medium will not work for that. Air brush medium is just a great tool. And her video was a really good one, so I really should not be the one telling this. I just know that medium of any kind is not cheap, so water is your best friend when mixing. You just do not want to use to much of it if you do not need too. Flow medium used with soft body should be less water then with heavy body though, so if you use the flow aid, keep that in mind depending upon the paint your using. I hope I could help.
+Zyzyzx Zyzer f you use too much water and not enough medium, then the paint will not create a stable film, and will fail to bond to the surface. You can use maybe a little water to a lot of medium, but it's not worth trying to save a little money and ruining the paint chemistry.
+Chelfyn Baxter Absolutely! The problem is it is really easy to add too much water and not even realize it until your painting starts flaking away. For me, The extra $.50 or $1 worth of medium is not worth potentially destroying all of my hard work so I agree w/you all the way. Save the water for clean -up and try to stick to only using medium.
Water can be used hit water or cold water or boiled water ?? Kindly clarify ...!
This is exactly what I was looking for...you made a new subscriber!
Cool. It's always fun to make your own stuff.
thanks for watching!
this is so fun! I'm totally going to add this technique to my summer of love minibook!! LOVE
I've done this before and it is a great alternative. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic DIY! It's in my faves list and I'll be referring back to it when I get back into art journaling again. Thanks so much for sharing this really helpful info! Big hugs, Kristina
Great Tip! I love making my own art supplies to save money! Thank's for sharing and have a blessed day :0)
thank you thank you thank you. I too was intimitated by the high cost. I bought a starter pack of Golden on sale but I am running out of colours and cash! Again God bless you and thanks for sharing!
YES!
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Very good video, thank you. Boy, that really beats the price, right? I'm with you on that one - it's just so much more economical. I had to share your video on my facebook page, I know my art friends will enjoy this, also.
The consistency was fine... You needed to mix better and longer plus a heavy body paint from liquitex has a different binder and good pigmentation. You could mix some water tru the mix to get it more like the black
It should probably be noted (and you kinda did), that if you're using a low quality paint mixing the the airbrush medium it can cause adhesion problems on certain surfaces. Additionally student and craft paint has a lower pigment load and won't have the same vibrant color or tint strength as professional acrylics. I'm sure your method is good for your crafty projects, but for a larger more in depth piece this could cause you some problems.
This was so informative Serena. I didn't know very much about high flow paints, but now I do. I am going to make some of these for sure. Thanks so much for sharing this idea! Very helpful.
thanks Sue, thanks for watching, i do hope you give them a go, you're going to love using high flow paints.
EXCELLENT JOB 👏🏿👏🏿
Use Unicorn Spit, which is a dye gel concentrated colors, that can be diluted. This product uses this technique on wood, one of tons of things you can do with this product.
The more we scroll through the comments, the more informative and cheaper it becomes. lol thanks.
Serena Bee TFS - looks a good idea and maybe a nice alternative to spray inks too....
hi! thanks for watching, it is if you add more of the medium you can create sprays as well, it says so on the bottle.
Def gonna use as a spraying ink replacement 😊
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but if you add 1 ml Flow Aid per 60 ml of mixture it will allow the paint to run even smoother and self level. I found this tip out when searching for ways to save a buck making my own airbrush medium. (2 parts Distilled Water, 1 part IPA (99% rubbing alcohol) and 1 ml retarder and flow aid per 60ml mixed) so 40ml DW 20 ml IPA 1 ml retarder and flow aid. This is also great for making washes.
Zathamiel your statements sounds interesting but a little confusing please clarify, i get confused when you say retarder then flow aid, are these two separate products.
retarder is (slo - dry fluid retarder) it lengthens the time it takes to dry to reduce tidemarks from drying. and flow aid, is to reduce surface tension allowing it to level better and recede into the nooks. together you pretty much get the airbrush conditioner. when you add it to the distilled water IPA mixture. And this can be used to thin down most anything unless the alcohol reacts poorly with that paint.
I don't mind...but I don't think they like being called retarded. Sluggish or dimwitted is way more politically correct but we're not running for office.
Alcohol breaks off the acrylic binder...
Great job Serena! I saved this in favorites for later and thumbs up girl!! Woot! I love tutorials and dupes on DIY materials to save money! Thanks! xoxo JEn
thanks Jen!! hope you can give this tutorial a try
Thank you SO much for this video! I knew that this must be possible.
This is an awesome idea! I've only watered my acrylics down but this looks like a great idea for that drippy effect! I never see the real deal high flow acrylics in Michaels but I believe AC Moore carries them. They are so vibrant and pretty. Kudos to you for a money saving tip for all. :)
thanks crystal!! with my 3rd bottle i made a nice lavender one i can't wait to play with it in my art journal. i think ac moore and joanns might carry them they are probably cheaper in the states and you can use a coupon on them, or you can just buy the medium and make them your own, and its a great way to use up some of your paints.
VERY USEFUL!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING :D
Good tutorial video, going to save me lots of money.
Im all late lmao, but this def helped for me
Hi just a quicky tip in oz (australia:) we have a product called floetrol it comes in large containers n is a much cheaper version of the golden 1 n I think it's sold around the world:))
Oops forgot to write but I think it has a binder in it as its for airbrushing 2!!!
Good to know, thanks for sharing, serious money saver!!!
it really is! thanks so much for watching
would you know if this type of flow would work as paint marker refills (for like liquitex or molotow markers)?
Thank you for your sharing.
Hi, thanks a lot for the interesting Video. If one have thicker acrylic paints, may be it would help to dilute them a bit with water before adding the medium ? I´ll try it by the time. Kind regards from Germany
+Bolli24584 thanks for watching!!
+Bolli24584 You don't want more than 30% water mixed with your acrylic paint. This is why you use the airbrush medium. The airbrush medium allows the acrylic paint to still bond with your canvas/surface. Water breaks down the bond, and if you use too much, you'll notice in time that your paint will begin to flake off. Who wants that when we spend hours and hours on our work?!?! Airbrush medium is the way to go for flow!
Great tip Serena. Always interested in ways to save money. Golden paints are very expensive over here too. Xx
thanks Lynn, you can definitely save a few pennys and more using this tutorial. hope you can give it a try.
awesome! I must try - thanks for the info! :)
thanks a lot for the helpful tutorial Arcylic inks reply
...*its very expensive 2 be an artist....*
There are many ways to be frugal as an artist. We can be very resourceful. It helps to just buy one good quality thing as you can afford it. Also, many craft stores like Hobby Lobby and Michael's have coupons that are 40% or more off the regular price. I buy my expensive things using coupons.
*thx 4 the tip julia*
I googled the difference btwn the two and here is an explanation for those who wonder like me: www.google.com/#q=difference+between+ink+and+acrylic+paint
Certainly here in the UK we pay quite a bit more than the US and they def have better ranges than us..BUT 1/2 of the joy of being an artist is experimentation and it's amazing how what we have in our kitchens doubles up as art eqip,For instance over here those GelliArts gel printing plates are hideously expensive and I've achieved some great effects from printing off one of those non stick rubbery heat proof baking sheets and they come in huge sizes,same size for an A3 would be over $80 in the UK..Also I'm a vege so use Agar Agar but gelatine would work ,if made up double strength in something like a photographic tray or even a baking tin tray with a lip edge ,then pouring the gel mix and refridgerating it makes the best print tray ever esp to use high flow inks and layering stencils etc ..just place paper or even cotton fabric on top and it works a treat.Also that polysterene sheet stuff that comes inside nasty cheap frozen pizza boxes if it's inscribed with an old biro or stylus,or cogs.wheels etc are pressed into it..again if inked up with acrylic on a child's foam roller and a medium and some burnished off to give definition with a rag or cotton wool buds if thin cotton is place on top and pressed to get air bubbles out then effects similar to an etching plate can be achieved..The Agar plates if cleaned off and stored in fridge can be used 50+times..Yep I'm 50 soon ,still poor as a church mouse but have learnt a few 'hacks' as kids say along the way:) ..Sorry it's long but it's good to share techniques xx Sophie ps if you are from the US sorry about my English ..well English spelling;)
Nah,.. materials are cheap as fuck,. all depends if you're good enough to sell your work.. There is actually no better scam, you just have no skills,..
Awesome!!
Golden instructions require medium to heavy body to be mixed 1st 1:1 ratio paint and water. Then again 1:1 ratio mixed paint with Golden airbrush medium,mixed well. This will ensure consistency comes out closer, when using different bodies of paint.
BRILLIANT!
Evelyn Lee Barney h
only critique: mix more efficiently with what i use - a handheld milk frother. you can buy one on amazon for like 20 bucks. it gets ALL of those chunks out. otherwise, great vid.
+Daniel Gomez really cool, thanks for the tip
Thanks for the tip. Love it;)
this is so helpful ! thank you!
This is so perfect honeybun!! Very thorough and very informative! I'm so sorry ur video doesn't have as many more views as it deserves.
Love this x a million! Thank you for sharing on my blog! Subbing :)
+Understand Blue thanks for watching!!
+Understand Blue if you shared this technique on your blog i would love to see it, please share you link.
thanks for the tip gonna pick some up for my airbrush iv bin using windex and water but the looks like a lot less headache. thanks so much.ps I like the blue hair the best all very cute though.
Really helpful! So I can make and mix my own colour Posca Pen. Frustrated by their limited colours.
have you tried putting alcohol onto the ink after its on the paper, is there a good reaction if you have?
You can add distilled water to the air brush medium and paint to thin it out. Distilled water is your friend when using acrylics as long as you don't use too much water.
THANKS A LOT ABOUT THE USEFUL TUTORIAL
Beautiful
if you want to save more money try diluting your acrylic with plain water. i always buy thick acrylics and dilute them to get the consistency i want for each project and i haven't had any problems yet.
awesome tutorial : ) thanks!!
thanks for watching lisa!
Part of the trick is to get a high denticity pigmented paint, a artist level 3 type paint. This applies also to refilling paint pens too. Craft paint doesn't come close.
I am just starting to play with acrylics and this was very helpful! thank you so much!
great idea.
wow, thanks. never thought of this- have been paying the high dollar....
I had no idea you could use the airbrush medium! from golden! so its prob the same thing?
Made my own as well love that stuff
which colors did you make?
You'll never get it quite where the High Flow are because the pigments in High Flow are ground much finer.
Hello! I bought Liquitex Professional Flow Aid Effects Medium. Can I use that the same way you used the Golden Airbrush medium?
Great video! I also live in Canada and find a number of the products a lot more expensive. TFS!
everything here in canada seems to be double if not triple in price but such is life. I hope you will give this tutorial a try if ever you are in need of a high flow paint.
Thank you
Do you know if high flow acrylics would work on a smooth wood surface that has a coat of primer on it? Thanks so much for your videos! So helpful! :)
What if you added water in the mixture?
Would that make it runnier?
Hi, do you think there's a difference between the Goden Wetting Agent and the High Flow Medium from Golden?
Hi Serena Bee Creative!! I was just at an art store yesterday and asked what I could use to make high flow acrylic paint. The lady who works there told me to buy Golden's GAC100 Acrylic Primer and Extender. Will this work because it's not the one your using. Just curious about this choice this lady suggested to me. I didn't ask her about your Golden Airbrush mix because I just saw this video you made after I was there. Thanks in advance for your advice!
thank u ,great explainations :-)
2 parts water, 1 part white paint, 1 color of choice, mix, enjoy.
+Lee Chaiken Too much water. Over time, the paint will begin to flake off the surface, as the bond has been broken between the paint particles.
@@owls381 Absolutely correct. All acrylic paints are slightly different so ymmv, but as a general guide, *_no_* acrylic paint should be diluted beyond an absolute maximum of 40%, as it will break down - if not immediately, then a few months down the line.
And nobody wants that... 😔
I want to make my own graffiti ink for my marker got a few acrylic tubes, can I only mix it with alcohol and put it after a couple of days in the marker?
You can buy small glass beads on Amazon to drop into your bottles as a stirrer. 😀
I use the Fineline applicator bottles with 20 gauge or 18 gauge tips
I'm so grateful for these tutorials! ~jennyinseattle
***** thank you so much for watching jenny!
Golden is a professional artist quality acrylic paint. It is supposed to be thicker and is thicker than any other acrylic paint that you will find in your hobby or craft store. It also has the highest pigment load. That is why you pay more for Golden products. All of their products are Archival or Museum Quality.
All paint is archival if kept out of direct sun light. I have ink drawings done as a kid that are over 40 years old that still look good. The ink was not professional level ink.
🎨There is absolutely no substitute for Golden High Flow acrylic paint!
Would it work for regular paint pen refills
Have you tried using pouring medium instead? I feel like if you are looking for paint to run maybe that will work better.
I don’t want any paint to run, I am looking for a medium to make heavy body flow/movie easier/ better WITHOUT making the paint lighter in color/more transparent. Because glaze, flow aid, gloss gel and all those mediums that are made for making it flow better, they all make the paint more transparent…
So, now I am looking at pouring medium and airbrush instead. But I won’t use an airbrush And I won’t do pours. I just want the one who maintain the paint the best.
How big of a difference in color did you see in real life?
I live in Vancouver bc! I subcribed
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what about putting plastic wrap on it then screw the lid on for storage?
Golden has much more pigment and has almost no binders just one simple polymerbinder , its very simple ..the secret is pigment powder, propyleen glycol (no glyserine that makes t sticky) ,kodac photoflow and pledge floor wax...., first disolve the pigment in water and alcohol 99% let it stand over night then ad the rest . Kodac photo flow just 3 drops together with the pledge floor wax that is by the way almost the same as airbrush medium Then the glycol,, the photoflow makes the water and fluids more wet and t runs better over paper and canvas the pledge has a little wax polymer in t that acts like a binder ...dont use prefab paint for this that wil not work u wil see the acrylic binders that in highflow are not useful .Then ad water to get the right flow . that is as close as it gets with household items.
Would you be kind enough to tell me if the result is water resistant?
Thank you immensely
a Canadian artist ;)
Hi Serena maybe a little alcohol to your home made inks will help the flow
i cant get this stuff so i do my own airbrush paint .using acrylic meduom (not airbrush meduom) and i mix it first with sweet water then i add the paint and works for me very fine.
+ahmad yusuf great tip!
Serena Bee Creative thank you .great video.
Hi Ahmad, what is "sweet water"?
+DMichigan its mean drinking water .
+ahmad yusuf Thank you, Ahmad.
Golden actually has High Flow medium, which is different from the airbrush medium...
Liquitex has a pouring medium maybe that would help if you mixed with the liquitex basics paint? Do share if you try it 👌🏼😁
It's my understanding that this should be used on a non porous substrait. The paper you are using is problematic for these. But I appreciate seeing how I can make my own mixes.
Inks and acrylics are totally different beasts - in face true ink doesn't mix with acrylics.
When starting, you should make your mixture by weight.
Will paint thinner work?
Serena, where did you buy the Airbrush medium? Was it Michaels, or some other generic walmart style store? Thanks.
+JC Locke sorry for the long wait! i bought it at my local art store called Deserres. they do not sell it at michaels but people have found it at Blicks or in other american craft stores. hope you found it!
+Serena Bee Hi, no worries. Thanks for getting back to me even now. Since i first watched this, I ended up doing some research, and found a medium that works well for my airbrush. Its been a real God's send, and using craft paints now in my airbrush has saved me a fortune! The color range of the craft paints made available to me is also incredible. So thanks, this was a very helpful video.
+JC Locke What medium did you find to replace airbrush medium??
Believe it or not those replaced there inks there a airbrush paint slash ink slash glazing paint.
Can you make dentrites with this mixture
I see people use regular acrylic! but just adding water
can you add a photo so that this video can be added to pinterest?
Just a bit confused here. I don't think Golden make Acrylic inks. You are using acrylic paints and adding 2 parts Airbrush Medium and in this case 1 part Basics Acrylic paint. Very helpful video!
LindieLee I have discovered that Golden High Flow acrylics works about the same as acrylic ink, having used both.
+LindieLee Golden artists describe it as an acrylic ink in their own demo video for when this product came out.
+aygo From what I have heard , it has the same chemical ingredients, whichever name you use.
It's my understanding that this should be used on a non porous substrait. The papaer you ae using is problematic for these.
So then what about adding Modpodge or glue over the paper first? What substrate do you recommend?