Painting With Mica Powders? ✨ How To Use Them In Acrylic Pouring 🧡💛💜 Tropical SheleeArt Bloom!
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Want to learn how to use mica powders to create your own metallic paints? It’s very simple to use them, especially in a standard “bloom” pour. Color-shifting or single-color, they are really cool and fun!
Want to try some of the mica powders or chameleon powders? You can find them here!
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“Blooms” were made made popular by Shelee Art. It uses a very different recipe to typical acrylic pours, but produces a stunning lace effect! There are three components to a bloom pour: the Pillow, the Colors, and the Cell Activator.
-Pillow paint is just your base coat that the colors sit on top of. It provides enough paint mass to stretch out a small design over the whole canvas. It’s typically white house paint, and I am using semigloss today.
-Your colors are standard acrylic paints, mixed with a different pouring medium. My medium is 3:1 Untinted Semigloss House Paint (a neutral base, not a white base for light colors) and Minwax Polycrylic. I then mix it with my colors or powders until they flow well but are still pretty thick feeling.
-Cell Activator is the magic ingredient that creates lacing when it is blown or swiped over the regular colors! Traditional cell activator is 1 part Amsterdam Titanium White to 3 parts Australian Floetrol, but Aussie floetrol is RIDICULOUSLY expensive if you don’t live there. So I use just the Amsterdam paint mixed with water until it flows off of a stick. The consistency is thinner than that of your other colors. It’s much less expensive and still makes great results!
Thanks @ThePaintedDreamer for the floating bloom inspiration!
My colors are:
Orchid (Let’s Resin Mica Powder)
Tangerine (Let’s Resin Mica Powder)
Magenta (Let’s Resin Chameleon Powder)
Lemon Yellow (Creative Inspirations)
Pillow (Valspar white semigloss house paint)
Cell Activator (Amsterdam Titanium White and water)
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro and mica powders
3:34 Mixing the pigment into the medium
8:44 Using the pigments in a bloom!
10:10 Adding the pillow
11:13 Layering the colors
13:39 Blowing it out!
14:48 Spinning and modifying
19:51 Closeup! (Wet result)
20:55 Dry result; applying resin
22:34 Finished closeup!
Music: “Everything Has A Beginning” by Joel Cummins
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There’s so much to like about this painting. The yellow is an eye catcher, it IS the happiest color 😊. The middle swirl is perfect and of course the cells
Great colors and beautiful bloom.
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Loved watching this. I’m very insecure about mixing paint colors and embellishing. But I love this form of art and look forward to your videos!
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah any time I have a pretty design I get scared that I’ll mess it up by embellishing!
Lovely! I think I’m now ready to purchase some of these powders for my next project.
@AnnaBlountArt
7 ай бұрын
Fun! Good luck!
This is beautiful, Anna! The colors worked SO well together and I love the lacing! Great job!! :)
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nikki!
I just got some! Thank you for having this up!
@AnnaBlountArt
3 ай бұрын
Sure thing! Enjoy!
@Terisemptycanvas
3 ай бұрын
@@AnnaBlountArt just curious. Have you ever tried using masking fluid under paints and coming back in after drying to hand paint the covered space?
@AnnaBlountArt
3 ай бұрын
@@Terisemptycanvas I don’t think I’ve put the masking fluid on a bare canvas before. If I’m going to hand paint, I usually do it right on top of the pour!
Beautiful Anna 💕
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Really loved your color choices! Reminds me of a hibiscus 🌺.
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yeah I loved those colors together.
Thanks for this tutorial, have you tried Behr 8300 high gloss untainted enamel is so transparent your micas and acrylics paint look exactly like the tube or mica color, it’s really the most transparent I have tried
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
I haven’t yet…couldn’t get that one when I first tried blooms. But I literally bought a can of it yesterday!
Thanks!
@AnnaBlountArt
7 ай бұрын
Thank YOU!
Hi, this is beautiful. I just bought the set of 10 chameleon pigments and thought I'd watch a few videos before I use them. I mainly use my pigments in paint pours. Tried the bloom technique a few times and I will need more practice for sure. I hope the chameleons work for that!
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yes, this video shows chameleon powders in a bloom pour. I have another video that shows how to mix them for regular acrylic pours by adding them to gloss gel first!
@joeycasey2323
Жыл бұрын
@@AnnaBlountArt Oh great, heading there now. That's how I do my other pigments too.
Great video. Loved your color choices. I finish my paintings with resin as I like the way it looks . The only down side is it is so expensive.
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yeah I haven’t used resin much but it does make a very unique look.
What size was this please. It is beautiful. I am learning to use mica powders and your video was so helpful.
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
The canvas? 10x10”
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
And I’m glad it was helpful! I have another video that shows how to mix them for a more “normal” mixture, rather than a bloom pour.
Thank you for sharing! It is hard to see the shimmer effect when it is dry, I think if you used a flash or ring light we would be able to see it better! I really appreciate this video as I’m gathering lots of tips and info regarding the use of mica powders. Can you see the colour shift I wonder?
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
I’m glad it was helpful! The last few shots at the end of the video show the shimmer and the color shift pretty well I think. Definitely flashier in person and hard to catch on camera.
Anna, do you have one of those tiny blowers? Looks like a leaf blower
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
No I don’t have one of the mini blowers BUT I just got a mini hair dryer!
@lauriewilson4741
2 жыл бұрын
@@AnnaBlountArt it’s hard to find one that shoots cool air w/o holding down the “cool shot” button. I bought one off Amazon that advertised the cool wd stay on but nope. Maybe do a vid with your new blower so we know if u like 👍
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
@@lauriewilson4741 Next Monday!
Referring to house paint; is this interior or exterior? Relating to pillow paint.
@AnnaBlountArt
11 ай бұрын
Interior latex house paint!
You mention in many of your videos your "Bloom Mixture". I am new to this, but what exactly is your "Bloom Mixture"?
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
Yes! The bloom pouring medium is different than any other pouring medium. Here’s how I mix mine! kzread.info/dash/bejne/amiCrdioeMnMp84.html
I think it’s Carols Art room that does modifications that I think are cool. If you haven’t watched her, go ck out.
Good morning!
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Hi!
my acrylics just eat my mica T_T you can't see it at all
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
That’s too bad! Are you mixing your powders straight into your paint? Or do you mean that the mixed mica gets swallowed up in the actual painting?
Hi, love your work. You make it look so easy. Thanks for sharing. ps.Just wondering if you have seen this lady and how she embellish? kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z42al9WGm5q2l9I.html
@AnnaBlountArt
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! No I haven’t seen her before, but those are some beautiful embellishments!
There’s so much to like about this painting. The yellow is an eye catcher, it IS the happiest color 😊. The middle swirl is perfect and of course the cells
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yeah I love this one 😁
@lauriewilson4741
2 жыл бұрын
@@AnnaBlountArt it’s flipping gorgeous. You’re a wonderful painter
@AnnaBlountArt
2 жыл бұрын
@@lauriewilson4741 Aw thank you! 😊