Hullo, excellent job with the recipes and ideas for creating this elusive painting supply! I like how you used the Golden line of painting supplies too! They are widely available and those who are a bit tight with their coin can find alternatives as Golden has excellent information about their products. Thank you for sharing all of your ideas and videos!
HAHAHAHAH YES THIS IS THE BEST 5:24 PART LOVE IT!!!! Thanks for all the hard work and research in making this video Wild. It astounds me to this day why no company has come up with an acrylic equivalent to Oils Liquid White ................. OH WAIT UNTIL NOW !! BAM! Love it bro!
Thanks for the awesome kind words. I have the prefect video for you if you are struggling with clouds. Give it a peep: ua-cam.com/video/i4ax8C8H47o/v-deo.html
Just putting it out there: one alternative if you can’t find OPEN Acrylics would be to get some Golden Fluid Acrylics Titantium White (a very high pigment load concentrated into a very small volume of liquidy acrylic medium, to provide the pigment) & get some Slow Drying Acrylic Gel (to provide the slow-drying acrylic base)… I’m not sure exactly what the ratio would be to get an optimally professional-looking concentration of the titanium white pigment into whatever volume of the Slow-Dry gel while still using enough Slow-Drying gel to retain optimally long drying times, but all it would take is a bit of experimentation to figure that out, & this should get you results very similar to OPEN Acrylics (I’m pretty sure they are literally just the same pigments they use in their other lines, but in a slow-drying acrylic gel base, so as long as the slow-dry gel is a high quality variety/brand with a normal gel consistency [as opposed to some extra heavy or light consistency variety] I’d expect that the result would be pretty identical to OPEN Acrylics). I’ve never used high-flow, but it’s the same basic idea (a very high pigment load concentrated in an even thinner, ink-like consistency medium), so I don’t know for sure if it would mix as well, but I’d expect similar results I’d you had that on hand (try a small batch first because I can’t make any promises)… you could hypothetically use soft-body or heavy-body Titanium White paints to provide the pigment, mixed with the Slow Dry Gel, but at that point you’re essentially still watering down the concoction with a lot of the fast-drying acrylic base that’s in these paints, so those will certainly dry faster than the stuff that’s almost all just pigment in a little fluid… But mixing it with the Slow-Dry gel before mixing with the other stuff will probably still get you a significantly slower dry time… My main concern at that point would be that diluting these paints (which already have a less concentrated pigment load) with much slow-drying gel will already start to give you a kind of translucent end product which won’t have the same high quality pigment load you usually want, so these would be far less ideal options… Although Titanium White is already one of the most opaque, most strongly covering pigments out there, so depending on the quality of the initial paint, maybe you can get away with it… But especially if you’re going to be diluting the pigment load with MULTIPLE other additives, like this Gloss Medium & Retarder recipe, you really want to start with a healthy, concentrated pigment load, because by the time you’ve watered it down with so much other stuff you still want it to look like proper paint. Granted, painting white all over the background, especially if you’ve already primed your canvas with a strong, titanium white gesso, I have no idea how obvious the difference in pigment concentration would end up being… However, if you’re using it to blend & create white features within the painting, like clouds or fog or whatever else, the way Bob Ross does, then yeah. I think you probably want a good strong white. Still I’d definitely say if you can’t get OPEN Acrylics, fluid acrylics (or some other highly concentrated pigment source that won’t contribute too much to the overall base/binder of the end product- perhaps even pure pigment powder if you know how to mix it with binder adequately homogeneously) + Slow Dry Gel would be an ideal alternative, & then if you need to add a little more of the fluid Titanium White to give it back some strength/opacity after adding all the Gloss Medium & Retarder & such, you can do that without really disrupting the rest of the balance much at all. I believe a bottle of Golden fluid Titanium White is only about $8 (I can’t imagine it’s in one of the higher series), & it may not be much volume wise, but you get a good bit of pigment in there, so if you’ll be mixing it with other acrylic bases/additives anyways it’s a good way to go. Slow Dry Gel probably varies a lot in price & quality depending on brand, & I’m not sure whether I’ve ever bought it not on clearance. But compared to OPEN Acrylics I’d guess you could get a pretty nice volume of it pretty cheaply. Haven’t done that comparison, but at very least it’s a good alternative for those who already have that range of stuff on hand. Also if you’re using fluid acrylics you could probably just add a relatively small amount of slow-dry medium & get a consistency more like what you’re going for without necessarily needing a thinner. Or if you can find a slow-dry liquid medium instead of the thicker gel, you could probably use that instead & have no need for a thinner… Having to buy thinner when you’re already thinning with glazing medium, & retarder… It just seems excessive & like probably not the most efficient method to achieve that consistency. For that matter, a little floetrol (like we use in larger amounts for pouring) would greatly increase the drying time & create a far more fluid consistency, & that stuff is cheap as dirt compared to all these Golden products (though if you can afford to, I think it’s worthwhile to support worker-owned businesses as much as you can- all respect to Golden). You’d have to work out the right ratios though, because too much & you’ll have a pouring paint which will require you to keep it level to prevent it from running while it dries. Too little & it won’t do what you want it to. But my point is, even just off the top of my head, there are options.
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An important note: acrylic is different chemically than oils. That includes how it actually dries and behaves while/when drying. You risk introducing crazing (cracks, gaps) to an acrylic painting if your outer acrylic layer dries faster than the interior. In a Bob Ross context, this would be most likely in areas where palette knife is used: cabins, mountains, chunky rocks, chunky tree foliage, etc.
Thank you for making this video and gave us the exact percentage of each ingredient!! Def trying this Wild’s Wet White recipe out this week xD I tried bob ross’ painting without magic Hwite and it was a disaster lol
I just tried last week and it worked great. I made the liquid white without the gloss glazing liquid, because I don’t want too much gloss filming the video. I used 10% more retarder like you mentioned and it was still wet after I was done with it. Work time was about an hour and half.
Hey wild! I just found your channel a few days ago and it’s full of amazing tips! Thanks so much and subscribed! 😁 I’m usually an acrylic painter but am very curious about oils. I’ve heard a lot of negativity around oils though like you shouldn’t do them in an apt due to fumes and proper disposal isn’t easy, etc. Could you make a video for a newbie 100% inexperienced oil painter with what’s needed and proper setup?
If you use 50% vegetable glycerin and 50% propylene glycol mix and use a 50 to 50 ration of that mix to your white paint it will make your pain to g dry like oile I had one that took two weeks to dry and it was acrylic.
@@WildCreates Have you looked at the MSDS for Golden's products? The retarder and thinner are composed of at least 70% propylene glycol (it's all that is shown as far as chemicals go). Same with the glaze, with a couple of added ingredients (like, ammonia). All of their paints are a ratio of propylene glycol and ammonia. So, basically, you could have just used the retarder instead of the thinner. As a matter of fact, Golden's site says you can use the thinner as a retarder.
I have supplies on the way to me and one of the things I ordered was Open (golden) Acrylic Gel Medium. If I use that as the 50, will it act as liquid clear? I have some black canvasses and would love to make use of them for wet on wet style painting. Yes, I'm a total Noob for acrylic (or any kind of) painting.
You or I will have to check 😋 But I think the gel is NOT an extender of drying time. BUT double check. Either way that gel medium is a good medium and I think you will like it.
Was wondering... Could I mix up all the parts in a squeeze bottle and save it. Then add it to whatever colors I was going to be using for a background? Whether it was Ultramarine Blue, or whichever. I presently have a squeeze bottle mixed with your white and it has stayed good for 5 weeks now and it still works great.
I haven't tested that - So I couldn't be 100% BUT I think it would work, provided it was air tight and stored correctly. Give it a go and see what you find out 👌
It can still work but you will need to add more medium to break it down to be the right consistency for you. You can always buy a cheap bottle/tub of white for the base white too :)
Man, thanks a bunch! This recipe really helped me elevate my painting immensely! Have been using it for a lot of paintings now and it really works a charm! One thing I just wondered: Could you just leave out the white to get an acrylic equivalent for liquid clear by just using an 80/20 mixture of retarder/thinner?
Glad It could help. I think you could get close to a version that will work for you... Obviously you would have to play around with it and see what works best for your style. Good luck buddy
Sadly in my research and testing I haven't found anything that mimic LC perfectly. Some have told me to try mixing some glycerins together. But I haven't got around to that. If I find anything worth wild I will be sure to make a video on it.
Not really sure what you are asking. If you are asking If open gloss can be a acrylic substitute for Liquid Clear, It can be to a degree. It works but does not give the same long wet effect. But it will work in a pinch
Glad to help out - You can always take a look at water mixable oil too. I have a video on them if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/r7GEA8ag7Hk/v-deo.html
100% they can - I have just had the best and personal experience with Golden BUT I always recommend you experiment and try new things. Glad to help you out - You can always show your appreciation by become a YT Channel Member (link below): ua-cam.com/channels/J0nGU-oZthfagTyVVXiVQA.htmljoin
So the retarder and the thinner both don't have a medium in them aka they don't have binder so you have to be double careful how much you use. Have you tried using the open slow dry medium they have a liquid one I know this was 3 years ago though just a thought Love your videos though and this is coming from somebody who had an art teacher for a mom who was babysat by Jackson Pollock and my great uncle is in the modern museum of art and the national museum of art and was on the cover of Time magazine. So that compliment means something and I don't give compliments often
I am slowly working my way through many of the different mediums/thinners. I find it fun to discover new products to achieve different styles... one of the fun parts of being an artist :)
@@WildCreates I agree! I just figured that checking out the mediums might be something good to tell new artists so that they don't have to worry about accidentally putting too much in. It just gives them another option it helped me out a lot when I first really dove into acrylics. I can't use oil My mom used oil and unfortunately because she got her turpentine from the hardware store back in the '80s you know starving artist and all it led to being one of the things that triggered genetic lung fibrosis. Let me be clear to anybody who reads this My mom used products that were not safe in a room that only had a space air conditioner without open windows! We also have a genetic chance of getting pulmonary fibrosis. If doing oil paint safely in a well-ventilated area 95% of the population will not have an issue but it doesn't matter if you have a genetic disorder or not you have to use a well-ventilated studio even if your mineral spirits say odorless! I have seen that they do have water soluble oil paint now which I need to check out because I can use that safely and the golden open acrylics with the golden open mediums and a dash of the retarder helps me to keep the paint from drying and if I don't have my open paints or medium I have found that if I want to get the blending techniques with acrylics like with oils a super fine mist spray bottle spritzed on the paint and a mop brush does an amazing job! Anyway again love your tutorials need more! Would love to have more acrylic ones and I'm pretty sure that I can kind of use the same techniques that you're doing with the oil in acrylics if I'm not mistaken am I right or wrong about that? Inquiring minds all over this world would probably like to know because it's sometimes difficult to find good acrylic tutorials especially ones on clouds I've been into painting clouds and I need more cloud tutorials!
I would love to go through all the painting tool, mediums and supplies and make product reviews on them. I actually have fun testing and playing with them. I should have more acrylic videos coming this summer when it warms up a little. So stay tuned for that.
@@WildCreates yeah that would be fun! I like making my own paint out of pigments I have a collection of probably over 200 different pigments most of them some sort of crazy color shift. I do a lot of acrylic paint pouring I saw you have some videos on that I haven't even gotten into that section of videos yet lol but because of learning fluid acrylics it has helped me a lot with figuring out how to make different paint concoctions to use. I also do something that I call acrylic paint erosion. That's my therapy therapy I can do it for hours. It's definitely unique abstract and sometimes I'll use things like mood ring paint. It's a thermochromatic paint that goes through all of those mood ring colors and changes between 60 and 90° but it's very finicky to work with. I cannot wait to see some more acrylic tutorials! I'm very picky on who I like to watch for tutorials. They have to funny dark humor is great love that sarcastic is awesome slamming a beer during a video that checks a box I love for Bob Ross never hurts though finding somebody who doesn't love Bob Ross's as rare as a pink and purple cat. I've only seen one just happened to be my cat and no I did not color my cat he did it himself. Anyway on that note have a wonderful weekend I'm cleaning up my studio so that I can paint more I refuse to paint until I get this place cleaned up cuz I'm a walking disaster area
Yes you can BUT... it won't wont the way you are thinking ( that is if you are trying to mimic Liquid Clear from Bob Ross). If you do go that route, do it in small section and work from there, Otherwise just mix it with your colors before applying it to the canvas for better more wetter results. Hope that helps
Why invest so much money? In any ordinary acrylic paint, add a little glycerin or pure glycerol and/or propylene glycol (both ingredients are used in the production of e-cigarette liquids). The colors blend fantastically, dry very slowly, and both ingredients in quantities of one liter each (those two liters will last you forever) cost less than 15 dollars together. I constantly use this mixture, I have never had any problems, and I have painted at least 20 pictures using the wet-on-wet technique with acrylic paints.
There is no recipe. It depends on the season, if it's very warm and a little paint dries quickly on the palette, I add more, I mix the paint on the spot. If I added a lot, I use Calcium Carbonate (chalk powder) to increase the density of the paint, until it is as thick as oil paint. But yes, not more than 7-8% (both ingredients together, sometimes even less then 5% - It depends of the paint too). But, I always have a prepared mixture in a spray bottle in the ratio of up to 10% of both ingredients together and the rest is pure water (1/2 liter total with water). I keep the canvas wet with that spray, not so much though. I blow dry with the hair dryer (do not tell my wife), if I need to slow down..etc. So, I always have time to correct mistakes, and when I'm sure, I dry to add another layer. That is all. There is no recipe for these things, just a feeling, when it turns out well you know it is OK, when it doesn't - you know that too. I Love your channel! @@WildCreates
I have a question. Is it able to make a liquid black As same as this recipe? Or Should I need to change a little bit making a liquid black? And one more How long It will take If I use Other Golden Titanium White paint?(like Heavy body or else.)
Yes you can use black instead of white to make a liquid black version. Just make sure to use Open Acrylics ( geni.us/GoldenOpenPainsts ) If you dont use open, your dry time will be cut down by like 50% to 60%
I have only used floetrol for acrylic pours - I haven't tried painting with it in a mixture of color. I don't see why it wouldn't work, you would have have to get the ratios correct... I might have to do some experimenting 💪
Golden is one of the biggest manufactures of mediums for acrylics & Golden is very budget friendly when it comes to mediums. You are more than welcome to research and discover other mediums. I am just sharing the ones I found and that were available to me at my art store.
Acrylic Liquid White Recipe is in the video description. Make sure to check it out!
Happy Painting
The ratios: are those by volume or weight? ie., 50g of GOTW etc, or 1/2 Tablespoons to 3/10 Tablespoons ant 1/10 and 1/10?
Hullo, excellent job with the recipes and ideas for creating this elusive painting supply! I like how you used the Golden line of painting supplies too! They are widely available and those who are a bit tight with their coin can find alternatives as Golden has excellent information about their products. Thank you for sharing all of your ideas and videos!
Love me some golden paints and their mediums 🔥
Exactly what I needed to know. You for sharing your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
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Thank you so much! I'm not brave enough to try oils yet and I really wanted to try the Wet into Wet technique. Can't wait to try this out!
Nah take the plunge ha ha ha ha. No joke every one that has tried oils LOVES it. So give it a go when you can :)
I'm with you on the oils. They're so expensive - acrylic is costly enough for me.
Thank you 😊
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I tried water mixable linseed oil whit Ackrylis it also works fine
I am glad you found a recipe that works for you 💪
Thank you SO MUCH for this recipe! You rock ❤❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
HAHAHAHAH YES THIS IS THE BEST 5:24 PART LOVE IT!!!! Thanks for all the hard work and research in making this video Wild. It astounds me to this day why no company has come up with an acrylic equivalent to Oils Liquid White ................. OH WAIT UNTIL NOW !! BAM! Love it bro!
Glad you enjoyed it and make you laugh at the same time 😝
Now get out there and dominate with acrylics.
Soo glad to have found your channel! Thanks for the great vid. Clouds are my nemesis atm, I'm hoping not for long 🥴
Thanks for the awesome kind words. I have the prefect video for you if you are struggling with clouds. Give it a peep: ua-cam.com/video/i4ax8C8H47o/v-deo.html
Oh! Thanks... :) Now I got hours, instead of minutes... Thanks a lot man...
Glad I can come in clutch for you. Hit that sub button and we will call it even
@@WildCreates Done, thanks my Man 😁👍
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Just putting it out there: one alternative if you can’t find OPEN Acrylics would be to get some Golden Fluid Acrylics Titantium White (a very high pigment load concentrated into a very small volume of liquidy acrylic medium, to provide the pigment) & get some Slow Drying Acrylic Gel (to provide the slow-drying acrylic base)… I’m not sure exactly what the ratio would be to get an optimally professional-looking concentration of the titanium white pigment into whatever volume of the Slow-Dry gel while still using enough Slow-Drying gel to retain optimally long drying times, but all it would take is a bit of experimentation to figure that out, & this should get you results very similar to OPEN Acrylics (I’m pretty sure they are literally just the same pigments they use in their other lines, but in a slow-drying acrylic gel base, so as long as the slow-dry gel is a high quality variety/brand with a normal gel consistency [as opposed to some extra heavy or light consistency variety] I’d expect that the result would be pretty identical to OPEN Acrylics). I’ve never used high-flow, but it’s the same basic idea (a very high pigment load concentrated in an even thinner, ink-like consistency medium), so I don’t know for sure if it would mix as well, but I’d expect similar results I’d you had that on hand (try a small batch first because I can’t make any promises)… you could hypothetically use soft-body or heavy-body Titanium White paints to provide the pigment, mixed with the Slow Dry Gel, but at that point you’re essentially still watering down the concoction with a lot of the fast-drying acrylic base that’s in these paints, so those will certainly dry faster than the stuff that’s almost all just pigment in a little fluid… But mixing it with the Slow-Dry gel before mixing with the other stuff will probably still get you a significantly slower dry time… My main concern at that point would be that diluting these paints (which already have a less concentrated pigment load) with much slow-drying gel will already start to give you a kind of translucent end product which won’t have the same high quality pigment load you usually want, so these would be far less ideal options… Although Titanium White is already one of the most opaque, most strongly covering pigments out there, so depending on the quality of the initial paint, maybe you can get away with it… But especially if you’re going to be diluting the pigment load with MULTIPLE other additives, like this Gloss Medium & Retarder recipe, you really want to start with a healthy, concentrated pigment load, because by the time you’ve watered it down with so much other stuff you still want it to look like proper paint. Granted, painting white all over the background, especially if you’ve already primed your canvas with a strong, titanium white gesso, I have no idea how obvious the difference in pigment concentration would end up being… However, if you’re using it to blend & create white features within the painting, like clouds or fog or whatever else, the way Bob Ross does, then yeah. I think you probably want a good strong white.
Still I’d definitely say if you can’t get OPEN Acrylics, fluid acrylics (or some other highly concentrated pigment source that won’t contribute too much to the overall base/binder of the end product- perhaps even pure pigment powder if you know how to mix it with binder adequately homogeneously) + Slow Dry Gel would be an ideal alternative, & then if you need to add a little more of the fluid Titanium White to give it back some strength/opacity after adding all the Gloss Medium & Retarder & such, you can do that without really disrupting the rest of the balance much at all. I believe a bottle of Golden fluid Titanium White is only about $8 (I can’t imagine it’s in one of the higher series), & it may not be much volume wise, but you get a good bit of pigment in there, so if you’ll be mixing it with other acrylic bases/additives anyways it’s a good way to go. Slow Dry Gel probably varies a lot in price & quality depending on brand, & I’m not sure whether I’ve ever bought it not on clearance. But compared to OPEN Acrylics I’d guess you could get a pretty nice volume of it pretty cheaply. Haven’t done that comparison, but at very least it’s a good alternative for those who already have that range of stuff on hand. Also if you’re using fluid acrylics you could probably just add a relatively small amount of slow-dry medium & get a consistency more like what you’re going for without necessarily needing a thinner.
Or if you can find a slow-dry liquid medium instead of the thicker gel, you could probably use that instead & have no need for a thinner… Having to buy thinner when you’re already thinning with glazing medium, & retarder… It just seems excessive & like probably not the most efficient method to achieve that consistency. For that matter, a little floetrol (like we use in larger amounts for pouring) would greatly increase the drying time & create a far more fluid consistency, & that stuff is cheap as dirt compared to all these Golden products (though if you can afford to, I think it’s worthwhile to support worker-owned businesses as much as you can- all respect to Golden). You’d have to work out the right ratios though, because too much & you’ll have a pouring paint which will require you to keep it level to prevent it from running while it dries. Too little & it won’t do what you want it to. But my point is, even just off the top of my head, there are options.
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Going to try this recipe. I've been looking for something to treat the canvas for putting in large portions of sky easily in my acrylic paintings.
I am glad that you found the video - I am sure it will help you out. Let me know how if goes for ya.
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An important note: acrylic is different chemically than oils. That includes how it actually dries and behaves while/when drying. You risk introducing crazing (cracks, gaps) to an acrylic painting if your outer acrylic layer dries faster than the interior. In a Bob Ross context, this would be most likely in areas where palette knife is used: cabins, mountains, chunky rocks, chunky tree foliage, etc.
There are big differences between acrylic and oil - Always good to research before jumping in.
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Bwah haa ha ha - HEY... I and my wallet enjoy Coors Light ha ha ha
You are amazing!! FROM AOTEAROA New Zealand 🎉❤
Glad I can help you out with your painting adventures.
Thank you hope the Wild created wet works, frustrated with trying to paint Bob Ross with acrylics for now..
Let me know how it goes for you.
I will be interested to know :)
Thank you for making this video and gave us the exact percentage of each ingredient!! Def trying this Wild’s Wet White recipe out this week xD I tried bob ross’ painting without magic Hwite and it was a disaster lol
Heck Ya buddy.
Let me know how it goes for you and your painting adventures.
I just tried last week and it worked great. I made the liquid white without the gloss glazing liquid, because I don’t want too much gloss filming the video. I used 10% more retarder like you mentioned and it was still wet after I was done with it. Work time was about an hour and half.
Oh my gosh me too. I thought i could just use a medium to water down my titanium white. What a mistake!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! And glad I could help out.
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Hey wild! I just found your channel a few days ago and it’s full of amazing tips! Thanks so much and subscribed! 😁
I’m usually an acrylic painter but am very curious about oils. I’ve heard a lot of negativity around oils though like you shouldn’t do them in an apt due to fumes and proper disposal isn’t easy, etc. Could you make a video for a newbie 100% inexperienced oil painter with what’s needed and proper setup?
Yeah - I will see what I can do in a future video for ya.
Really enjoying the channel but I wanted to say that the golden range of acrylic stuff costs more than twice as much as the Liquitex one in the UK!
Sorry to hear that - with Covid prices are all over the place. Hopefully you can find a deal or a substitute in your region
If you use 50% vegetable glycerin and 50% propylene glycol mix and use a 50 to 50 ration of that mix to your white paint it will make your pain to g dry like oile I had one that took two weeks to dry and it was acrylic.
How is the paint adhesion with this formula?
I will have to give this a shot - Thanks for the suggestion.
@@WildCreates Have you looked at the MSDS for Golden's products? The retarder and thinner are composed of at least 70% propylene glycol (it's all that is shown as far as chemicals go). Same with the glaze, with a couple of added ingredients (like, ammonia). All of their paints are a ratio of propylene glycol and ammonia. So, basically, you could have just used the retarder instead of the thinner. As a matter of fact, Golden's site says you can use the thinner as a retarder.
I have supplies on the way to me and one of the things I ordered was Open (golden) Acrylic Gel Medium. If I use that as the 50, will it act as liquid clear? I have some black canvasses and would love to make use of them for wet on wet style painting. Yes, I'm a total Noob for acrylic (or any kind of) painting.
You or I will have to check 😋
But I think the gel is NOT an extender of drying time. BUT double check. Either way that gel medium is a good medium and I think you will like it.
So…may as well go with all Golden paints as well?
I am a fan of Golden but many different paints can work. Golden is just widely available in my area :)
Was wondering... Could I mix up all the parts in a squeeze bottle and save it. Then add it to whatever colors I was going to be using for a background? Whether it was Ultramarine Blue, or whichever.
I presently have a squeeze bottle mixed with your white and it has stayed good for 5 weeks now and it still works great.
I haven't tested that - So I couldn't be 100% BUT I think it would work, provided it was air tight and stored correctly.
Give it a go and see what you find out 👌
How would a heavy body white vs soft body work. I have just bought a good bit of heavy body and need to use it before buying more. Thanks
It can still work but you will need to add more medium to break it down to be the right consistency for you. You can always buy a cheap bottle/tub of white for the base white too :)
Man, thanks a bunch! This recipe really helped me elevate my painting immensely! Have been using it for a lot of paintings now and it really works a charm!
One thing I just wondered: Could you just leave out the white to get an acrylic equivalent for liquid clear by just using an 80/20 mixture of retarder/thinner?
Glad It could help.
I think you could get close to a version that will work for you... Obviously you would have to play around with it and see what works best for your style. Good luck buddy
How do you make liquid clear for acrylic wet on wet? Thanks! Love your channel
Sadly in my research and testing I haven't found anything that mimic LC perfectly. Some have told me to try mixing some glycerins together. But I haven't got around to that.
If I find anything worth wild I will be sure to make a video on it.
What about "liquid clear" - would that just be to replace the open ti white with, say, open gloss acrylic medium?
Not really sure what you are asking. If you are asking If open gloss can be a acrylic substitute for Liquid Clear, It can be to a degree. It works but does not give the same long wet effect. But it will work in a pinch
What about liquid acrylic black ?
When I run out of oil paints I want to try the switch to acrylic. Oil is so toxic. Thanks
Glad to help out - You can always take a look at water mixable oil too. I have a video on them if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/r7GEA8ag7Hk/v-deo.html
What color replaces crimson in acrylic
They make crimson in acrylic - Golden makes a great version.
Sorry for all the questions, but your videos are really helping me. Can a liquitex or other retarder brands be used instead of Golden retarders?
100% they can - I have just had the best and personal experience with Golden BUT I always recommend you experiment and try new things.
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So the retarder and the thinner both don't have a medium in them aka they don't have binder so you have to be double careful how much you use. Have you tried using the open slow dry medium they have a liquid one I know this was 3 years ago though just a thought Love your videos though and this is coming from somebody who had an art teacher for a mom who was babysat by Jackson Pollock and my great uncle is in the modern museum of art and the national museum of art and was on the cover of Time magazine. So that compliment means something and I don't give compliments often
I am slowly working my way through many of the different mediums/thinners. I find it fun to discover new products to achieve different styles... one of the fun parts of being an artist :)
@@WildCreates I agree! I just figured that checking out the mediums might be something good to tell new artists so that they don't have to worry about accidentally putting too much in. It just gives them another option it helped me out a lot when I first really dove into acrylics. I can't use oil My mom used oil and unfortunately because she got her turpentine from the hardware store back in the '80s you know starving artist and all it led to being one of the things that triggered genetic lung fibrosis. Let me be clear to anybody who reads this My mom used products that were not safe in a room that only had a space air conditioner without open windows! We also have a genetic chance of getting pulmonary fibrosis. If doing oil paint safely in a well-ventilated area 95% of the population will not have an issue but it doesn't matter if you have a genetic disorder or not you have to use a well-ventilated studio even if your mineral spirits say odorless! I have seen that they do have water soluble oil paint now which I need to check out because I can use that safely and the golden open acrylics with the golden open mediums and a dash of the retarder helps me to keep the paint from drying and if I don't have my open paints or medium I have found that if I want to get the blending techniques with acrylics like with oils a super fine mist spray bottle spritzed on the paint and a mop brush does an amazing job! Anyway again love your tutorials need more! Would love to have more acrylic ones and I'm pretty sure that I can kind of use the same techniques that you're doing with the oil in acrylics if I'm not mistaken am I right or wrong about that? Inquiring minds all over this world would probably like to know because it's sometimes difficult to find good acrylic tutorials especially ones on clouds I've been into painting clouds and I need more cloud tutorials!
I would love to go through all the painting tool, mediums and supplies and make product reviews on them. I actually have fun testing and playing with them.
I should have more acrylic videos coming this summer when it warms up a little. So stay tuned for that.
@@WildCreates yeah that would be fun! I like making my own paint out of pigments I have a collection of probably over 200 different pigments most of them some sort of crazy color shift. I do a lot of acrylic paint pouring I saw you have some videos on that I haven't even gotten into that section of videos yet lol but because of learning fluid acrylics it has helped me a lot with figuring out how to make different paint concoctions to use. I also do something that I call acrylic paint erosion. That's my therapy therapy I can do it for hours. It's definitely unique abstract and sometimes I'll use things like mood ring paint. It's a thermochromatic paint that goes through all of those mood ring colors and changes between 60 and 90° but it's very finicky to work with. I cannot wait to see some more acrylic tutorials! I'm very picky on who I like to watch for tutorials. They have to funny dark humor is great love that sarcastic is awesome slamming a beer during a video that checks a box I love for Bob Ross never hurts though finding somebody who doesn't love Bob Ross's as rare as a pink and purple cat. I've only seen one just happened to be my cat and no I did not color my cat he did it himself. Anyway on that note have a wonderful weekend I'm cleaning up my studio so that I can paint more I refuse to paint until I get this place cleaned up cuz I'm a walking disaster area
Can I use this recipe for liquid white if I’m using water soluble oil paints? Thanks.
You will want to use this recipe here:
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Can we use a sprey bottle of water for keeping the canvas wet as we paint? Great videos .
Yes, you can mist your paints as you go ( provided its not oil paint you are talking about ) 💪
@@WildCreates Thanks.
Glad to help out!
I have a question, Can this mixture be made without the paint to make the liquid clear ?
Yes you can - there are a few others too BUT they all have different effects. You can see some of them here: ua-cam.com/video/nI5D-HC7e5o/v-deo.html
Can I use Acrylic Retarder on the canvas before I paint or is it better on the paint that I am using. Ex. Blue, Black, Red and etc?????
Yes you can BUT... it won't wont the way you are thinking ( that is if you are trying to mimic Liquid Clear from Bob Ross). If you do go that route, do it in small section and work from there,
Otherwise just mix it with your colors before applying it to the canvas for better more wetter results.
Hope that helps
Can you do this with black to make the ack canvases he paints on?
Yes you can - just what ever color you want in.
Happy Painting Buddy :)
Why invest so much money? In any ordinary acrylic paint, add a little glycerin or pure glycerol and/or propylene glycol (both ingredients are used in the production of e-cigarette liquids). The colors blend fantastically, dry very slowly, and both ingredients in quantities of one liter each (those two liters will last you forever) cost less than 15 dollars together. I constantly use this mixture, I have never had any problems, and I have painted at least 20 pictures using the wet-on-wet technique with acrylic paints.
Curios to know what ratio you use? I have only experimented with like 5% to 10% of PG.
There is no recipe. It depends on the season, if it's very warm and a little paint dries quickly on the palette, I add more, I mix the paint on the spot. If I added a lot, I use Calcium Carbonate (chalk powder) to increase the density of the paint, until it is as thick as oil paint. But yes, not more than 7-8% (both ingredients together, sometimes even less then 5% - It depends of the paint too). But, I always have a prepared mixture in a spray bottle in the ratio of up to 10% of both ingredients together and the rest is pure water (1/2 liter total with water). I keep the canvas wet with that spray, not so much though. I blow dry with the hair dryer (do not tell my wife), if I need to slow down..etc. So, I always have time to correct mistakes, and when I'm sure, I dry to add another layer. That is all. There is no recipe for these things, just a feeling, when it turns out well you know it is OK, when it doesn't - you know that too. I Love your channel! @@WildCreates
Awesome buddy - Thanks for sharing your process with me 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Glad you like the video
I have a question. Is it able to make a liquid black As same as this recipe? Or Should I need to change a little bit making a liquid black?
And one more How long It will take If I use Other Golden Titanium White paint?(like Heavy body or else.)
Yes you can use black instead of white to make a liquid black version. Just make sure to use Open Acrylics ( geni.us/GoldenOpenPainsts )
If you dont use open, your dry time will be cut down by like 50% to 60%
@@WildCreates I see. One more, How Could I Preserve the acrylic liquid white If I don't paint? And What if It has become harden?
I would just make it as you need it - best way to say paint and money - it if gets hard, just toss it.
Hey can i mix floetrol in my white instead?
I have only used floetrol for acrylic pours - I haven't tried painting with it in a mixture of color. I don't see why it wouldn't work, you would have have to get the ratios correct...
I might have to do some experimenting 💪
can i substitute open thinner for anything else? I don't think i can get that where i'm from
Not sure - I will have to do a little bit of research and see what I can find
@@WildCreates will normal acrylic thinner work?
bonjour est-il possible d'avoir un tuto tableau avec ce blanc magique acrylique. merci d'avance .cordialement
Je ne sais pas ce que vous entendez par tableau noir. Voulez-vous dire une toile noire? Faites le moi savoir
How much should I be putting on the canvas
Here you go buddy - This should help you out and give you an idea:
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What happens if we use bob Ross liquid white instead of your for acrylic
acrylic wont bond to oil so it wont work
Question: have you tried doing the same thing with black?
Yup. Just sub out the white with black color. Just make sure you use golden open acrylic paint. Link in the description.
Hope that helps.
30% retarder? Is that exact or can it be flexible?
Flexible due to variables - I always recommend you test first
Liquid Hwite :)
Handle it 😜
$500 later. I was going for cheap.
$16 for any medium and $25 for Open White.... far from $500.
This is my kingdom come
Bwah ha ha ha - Nice :)
Did you say combinded???
Perhaps... video is almost 3 years old... who remembers ha ha ha
@@WildCreates 3:36
Good vid thank you. Do you use the retarder on the other paints as well or just the " Wet, Wild " liquid white?
Depend on what I am paint BUT yes I will use a few drops here and there to achieve different effects
I changed my profile picture and my profile name use to be the arty art
Hope you enjoy the new name :p
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Hello there 💪
this was like a 'golden ad'. Not everyone can afford golden. I'm sure there are other brands that can be used. oh well.
Golden is one of the biggest manufactures of mediums for acrylics & Golden is very budget friendly when it comes to mediums. You are more than welcome to research and discover other mediums. I am just sharing the ones I found and that were available to me at my art store.
5:30 😂
Glad I can make ya laugh a little 😂
Liquid hwite.
lower case "h" Upper Case "W" ha ha ha
Wild Creates yes! Capitalization is important!
For sure buddy 😂
when you dont have the money for that
Add them to a watch list and wait for them to go on sale - Or use a Michaels coupon code to save some cash
A saw you do gaming
I do - Gamer at heart
Too expensive recipe for me.
Sorry to hear that.
Go with Golden open acrylic and work in sections and that will help a ton 🔥
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