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@sandraroney3059

9 ай бұрын

I have already joined your tutorial group

Famtastic gratitude extended. 68 year old retired Nurse Consultant as at 30.1.24 Have not done any painting in 50 years after High school, marriage motherhood and work kicked in place. Now all the time on my hands plus living in Africa using house hold paints will be the most cheapest option for me. I am definitely your follower.

Yes .. house paints always give me better pours .. they always end up looking better than acrylic tube paints .. they also almost dry exactly like how they looked when they are wet

Another fantastic video

WHAT?! That is awesome! I have spent a few grand on paint in the time I've been trying to get this down. I've kinda paused on trying and I'm back to watching. As I type I'm surrounded by approx 80 baby food containers half full w left over paint from failed pours. This video is very informative and has sparked interest in me. However I'm cautious about spending more on paint. I can't wait to meet with you for my lesson. I know you will set me straight Gee, rhanks

You’re such a great teacher!

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you🥰🥰

@sheilaroberts6560

2 жыл бұрын

How interesting and so much cheaper! Thank you for sharing!❤❤❤

Finally someone who explains.thankyou so very much...your the best

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Heidi! ☺️ happy pouring!

Fabulous! Again, great information. Finally someone who has explained the house paints. I am in the uk and we call them different names ie, emulsion (wall paint) or gloss paints (which is paint for doors and woodwork) Thank you xxx

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cindy! Yeah they go by different names, but they’re essentially the same 😊

I have been trying for a year to understand the bloom technique and I have had no success at all until I started watching your videos. I just want to say thank you so much! Tonight for the very first time I successfully did a bloom pour! If not for your videos I don't think I would have been able to do it. I was so happy and excited when it came out right!! It was a great feeling!! Thank you so very much!!

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad I could be of help! The bloom is a particularly tricky technique to get a hang of but oh so rewarding when you do!😁

Great teaching. U are one I plan on following!👍🏻❣️

I’ve used house paint but not for blooms. Your ratios really helped. Than you

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome!😄 thanks for watching Sonja!

I love that black and white cell activator combination. Love that blue and green combo. Excellent Job.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Michelle!

Amazing indeed 👏👏👏

Thank you for all you have taught me.

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

Im honored to have helped you on your artistic journey😊

@patriciakuster2927

Жыл бұрын

@@GeePours I never thought of myself as an artist. I guess I am. Thank you for that.

Ty Gee, watched 3 video. ❤

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Phyllis!

Very nice and well explained thx..

This was really cool! I'll have to watch a few more times. So interesting.

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

thank you! its surprising what you can do with some of the cheaper materials!

Great video dude!!! Great explanation on how enamel paint works different from other house paint

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! I really appreciate it😊

I love you dude!!! I've been obsessed with acrylic pours since I saw my first video years ago. I want to eventually start my own channel too. I truly think ur the BEST ARTIST and TEACHER I've come across! Rock on!!

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the nicest compliments I’ve ever gotten🥹 thank you so much! I hope that youdo, ive been considering how to expand past pouring, if it should be towards other forms of art, or talk about stuff like marketing yourself and using social media and stuff like that. What do you think?

@nadiaafreen218

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeePours most definitely

@nadiaafreen218

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeePours When I first heard about fluid acrylic pours years ago, a friend of mine was just getting started. When I saw this type of Art, I absolutely HAD TO DO IT MYSELF! First 3 months of trying and watching lots of KZread videos I just couldn't figure it out. I refused to stop! I was GOING TO FIGURE THIS ART CHEMISTRY NO MATTER WHAT! It almost seemed like there was secret behind it all. A lot of artist where using silicone, different oils things like that. And of course I got cells when oils are mixed into water bases. Then my friend turned me onto triple thick and said mixing Amsterdam white and black with floetrol would activate my art. She was right. Im extremely critical of my work eventhou I've been told otherwise. I don't think I'm good enough to start my own channel on youtube. Eventhou, it's my dream eventually and I'm working towards that. Out of all the artist I've seen and countless videos I've watched over and over. I've never seen someone actually teach as good as you. Nobody has been easier to learn from. And NOBODY HAS BEEN AS GOOD AS YOU ARE AT THIS and you make it look so easy, effortless. How long have u been on KZread? Bc I'm spreading your name to all my friends trying to learn or improve. Subscribe to Gee Pours hes most def the best ever. ❤️❤️

This is so exciting. Thank you for sharing your break though. Now I can put all that mistinted paint I find to good use.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome😊😊 absolutely! The mistints are even cheaper too!

Great Video explaining this type of pouring- 5 stars to you!

Your paints are so different in Egypt than they are in Canada. So cool Great video! Cool cells!

So interesting! Ty!

Very interesting video. Cool idea to use house paint as cell activator👏👍🏼😊👨🏻‍🎨

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Its saved me a lot of money, thats for sure😃

😍Bravo Gaser !, you have shown that you are a man of resources, this house paint that you use is the same that they sell in paint stores and they make you the color you choose?, Because that paint is untinted, the same as we use for mixing paints for the bloom. There is an artist who also has a KZread channel who always uses house paint and dyes them with water-based dyes, it's interesting, maybe you can take a look at it and get some ideas. This man is called Djamel Belghomari.😊

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Actually most paint thats colored starts as untinted - and it gets colored at the paint store/hardware store if they have that paint tumbler. paints that are this vibrant in color are Base C - which is what I buy untinted. The difference is their colorant costs nothing, and tube paints cost a lotttttt

Thank you! This is awesome.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Nalaka☺️

😊😊😊 Great video, thanks

Very interesting video. I work a lot with housepaints, love the detailed background knowledge you give. Might try the bloom technique this way some time.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! yeah i have a ton lying around too, and very little access to high end paint so I experiment a lot and read technical data sheets to try to understand how to replicate what I dont have 😅 do let me know how this works out for you!

Your lesson has just saved me from throwing cans of house paint in the trash. I have just been advised they won’t work. Thanks Gee

@GeePours

9 ай бұрын

We dont throw away art supplies!😄 what was the issue with the house paint you had?

@sandraroney3059

9 ай бұрын

@@GeePours just a couple of videos I watched claimed house paint is a no no. I have now joined your tutorial course

@GeePours

9 ай бұрын

@@sandraroney3059 they’re typically used as the “pillow” layer in the bloom technique - its differentiated from a generic base because bases are made with acrylic paint. You CAN use colored house paint as you would acrylics in the thicker techniques, but they generally dont handle being thinned out too well

@sandraroney3059

9 ай бұрын

@@GeePours it was the bloom you did that I was watching so I decided to leave the paint until I am up to trying it

@GeePours

9 ай бұрын

@sandraroney3059 blooms are a tricky technique and i generally recommend you approach them after you’ve gotten comfortable understanding consistency because its one thing when you want just one consistency through out the painting, its a whole other thing when you have to be precise with three consistencies😄

...interesting! Thank you

Great video, I needed this one! 😊

Lovely video my friend 🥰 a very nice detailed explanation 😍

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Surbhi!😃

Look at those Jellybeans

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Yessss! Let me know if it works for you!

TIP: I like to put painter's tape on the back of albums I paint. Removable. Use the hole to hang pieces. Could hot glue hangers on back. Researching. May ask hardware store...

Beautiful results. I just discovered you and subscribed!

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I really appreciate that🙏😊

Gee - Just bought a bunch of sample house paints on sale because of this video, so thank you. Question? Is your pillow 3 to 1 - House paint-3 to pouring medium-1 or is it the reverse? House paint-1 to pouring medium-3? I got the rest of your ratios but this one went by me. thanks again so much for all your videos and explanations. Also, do you have a recipe for homemade pouring medium, video?

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

Right so with house paint I would first test how the house paint dries in a puddle and see of it even needs pouring medium to begin with. Some might be thin enough to be pourable and can hold themselves together without cracking if left in a puddle. If not, thats when you add pouring medium. If you’re in the US, theres a couple of brands that are used straight out of the can as a pillow like SW color to go. A basic homemade medium can be pva glue and water. About 70:30 or 60:40

P.s. very cool you're in Egypt as thats high on my list of places I need to see in person✌️

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you😄 you’ll love it here!

Are you in Africa, if so do you have any suggestions as to which brands to use.

I am new to pouring. We are wanting to make our own art for the room but using a mix of acrylic colours and our emulsion that we’ve used int he room. Is this possible? Does it crack? Thank you x

Ah ha, very interesting!, Here in Canada we don't have house paint with emulsion. I wonder if our house paints would work. What country are you in?

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Im in Egypt, but you definitely have emulsion paint, a few of my Canadian friends use it too😊

Where on earth did you find that spinner? Love your work!

@GeePours

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha thats my old and terrible plastic spinner (you cant tell because it has about a year’s worth of residual paint on it😂) do yourself a favor and skip the plastic ones and go straight for the aluminum ones

I bought some Sherwinn Williams indoor outdoor high gloss paint on sale. I usually use Valspar. Anyways I put it down and thousands of bubbles. I could not get them out with the torch and skewer for the life of me. I went ahead and did a pour anyways and of course it was a awesome painting but with lots of tiny house paint cells everywhere. Any suggestions to make this work? I’m stuck with 2 gallons. Grrr….

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Are you mixing it with anything? If so it might need to rest overnight. Its harder to get bubbles out of house paint because its so thick, so its always best to avoid causing bubbles in the first place

@deonaeddy7749

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeePours I don't mix it with anything. I let it rest and still millions of bubbles. The bubbles were in it when I bought it. I bought 2 gal that were on sale so I can't take them back. I've never had this happen in house paint. Not thos many bubbles. I've never used indoor outdoor high gloss before either. I usually use indoor satin so I don't know if the bubbles are from what I'm using currently. I'm gonna stick to Valspar. I do have a question. When you layer your transparent on the bottom of the opaque s. Does it matter?

Hey gee. Was wondering if you've ever used any of the Australian house paint and if you have what one did you use as I'm an Australian and wondering what one to use as a pillow cheers mate

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

I havent used them myself but i can tell you itll probably be british paints flat white indoor paint for the pillow, and Taubman’s doors and trims neutral if you’re gonna bloom and need a pouring medium

🤍LOVE how round & cleanly outliined your cells are!!🤯Also wondering if u've tried Penetrol in place of minwax wood oil for a cell activator? Thanks for such great videos & appreciate your calming voice😊

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

I wouldve tried it but none of Flood Floetrol products come here - they’ll let me bring things like floetrol with ppl’s luggage, but no way they let u do that with flammable oil based materials like penetrol

@SalemSphynx

Жыл бұрын

@@GeePours I just got a can so will try it & report back my findings lol😊

Can you put the acrylic putty down on the CD before painting?

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you have to put it down before and let it set before painting it

what country are you in? Where did you buy those paints? Seem they are some sort of acrylic.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Penny! Im based in Cairo, Egypt. All latex emulsion paint has some percentage of acrylic content in it, and then they add a polymer for durability

Do I use water based enamel paint the same as emulsion paint in terms of proportions to a pouring medium and silicone?

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

No not quite - its best to not use silicone oil as a reference with blooms with blooms, the emulsion paint is the pillow layer (and if the paint is fluid enough it doesnt need thinning, this is true in the US, but not other places) The water based enamel is actually mixed with a water based polyurethane to make the pouring medium for the colors layer. Generally 1 enamel to 3 of polyurethane. You add your colors to this mix 😊

Hi! I appreciate your description. i'm confused about cell activator vs. pouring medium. Are they one and the same? You mentioned a kind of primer that is usually used before painting wood as your cell activator. Not sure what that is and if it's necessary. I just bought a pouring medium for the first time and it is very liquidy. Even doing 1:1 ratio it seems too thin for me. And zero cells. I am using acrylic housepaint. I had some mixed glossy and some matte. I'm unclear as to whether the glossy will work, so today experimented with the matte. No cells. Not sure why not. Any tips or clarifications?

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

Hey Robin. You've grouped and confused several things together so lets start from scratch. A pouring medium is a water based material used to thin acrylic paints into a fluid state. A cell activator is a recipe that includes a pouring medium in it. A cell activator is also separate from a cell additive - which is a single ingredient like silicone oil. The material I use on wood before painting it is called Gesso, it's like a primer for painting. You paint over this after it dries. In this technique called the Bloom, there's three layers. The pillow is made of house paint and a medium to thin it if needed. The colors are a mix of acrylic paint and the pouring medium. The cell activator is what's different from the rest, generally this will use a paint conditioner like Australian Floetrol. I didn't have any in this video so I used the only local one we have. This is a more updated explanation of this technique as this video is quite old: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGd3xdpmfsKyoJs.html

@RobinRainbowGate

Жыл бұрын

@@GeePours I so appreciate your quick and detailed response. I also watched the other video that you recommended, as well as some others of yours! I've only ever done the flip cup pouring method - with glue, with a spritz of lubricant oil which I'm not sure has silicone oil but it's all I can find where I live - and inconsistent results. Now, today I'm being introduced to this new bloom technique. I'm not so attracted to the technique but am interested in achieving producing cells on purpose in the flip cup technique. I will see if applying the info you've shared about thicker on bottom and the paint with the "activator" on top and thinner, and see if that helps. I'm so glad to have found you today! You have a lovely voice.

@SalemSphynx

Жыл бұрын

Robin~1 tip thats helped me keep each techniques "recipes" straight is to write them out on recipe cards or notes section in my phone! Most Artist's on KZread also include what they used for each painting in the "description" or more info. section beneath video title & you can just take a pic of that or screenshot from phone.. The # of paint pouring related pics stored on my cell is obnoxious but oh well lol🤷🏻‍♀️

@GeePours

Жыл бұрын

You’re actually going to confuse yourself like this - the bloom’s technique and materials are only used in the bloom. Its a very thick recipe that doesn’t really play well in any other technique besides the swipe. The flip cup is a lot easier to master and getting cells will not be an issue but let me give you some pointers. Lubricant oil is usually silicone, but if you cant verify that it is 100% silicone , its best to not use that. Silicone oil is not flammable, whereas things like wd40 are. 1-2 drops total in the cup being flipped (stirred separately into the colors you choose) Glue is a high surface tension material - when you use it as a pouring medium, the cells dont automatically jump to the surface like they do with floetrol. You need to apply some heat with a small kitchen torch. Try this and let me know how it goes!

@RobinRainbowGate

Жыл бұрын

@@GeePours Oh my goodness, such a generous response, I appreciate you for that, Gee. BTW I'm in the middle of the online course, so hopefully by the end I will have things clearer. Did you really mean to say to NOT use 100% silicone oil? I did not realize that with glue you need to torch for cells in contrast to floetrol. After all these years of doing the flip cup method (the only one I've tried till now) I'm just now learning this. I want to clarify something about my question regarding the use of acrylic matte vs. acrylic glossy house paint: I have bought many litres of tinted housepaints, some matte, some glossy (all acrylic). My question is a general one, for ANY pouring technique. Is it okay to use the glossy tinted house paint for ANY of the pouring techiques? Does the varnish in them change the pouring recipes, or ruin them? In other words: Can I use them with the same results and success as with the matte tinted house paints? I hope my question is answerable! Thanks so much Gee! I am trying to get all this information straight so I can begin again and have better results with ANY method (starting with the flip cup, because it's what I've been doing.)

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I don't understand what is your PM? Flotrol with what? It's hard for me to understand the accent. 😅 I always fail with the pilow no matter how many times I tried.

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Any pouring medium can be used with your pillow. floetrol if you have that, varnish is also an option, so is water (although no more than 10% of the weight)

@Loonit23

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeePours I'll try, thank you!

I've been watching your videos and your work is BEAUTIFUL but you tend to contradict yourself alot ,you put ca white as base coat then the same ca white on top of colors and water alot down . I think alot people know oil and water will create cells and enamel paint is a form of oil

@GeePours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, but Im not sure why you’re convinced my base is a CA. It isn’t. In fact i dont even have enamel paint here. My bases are always latex emulsion.

Are you in Africa, if so do you have any suggestions as to which brands to use.

@GeePours

10 ай бұрын

Jotun and Scib have worked for me

@desireevandermerwe6971

10 ай бұрын

Thank you much appreciated