New Year 🎉 - New Series! - What's on My Shelf? - Swipe + Pearl Cells! - Acrylic Pouring

new year new series! not really a new me so you'll have to deal with that part of it! but I am starting after talking with everybody in the comments and getting y'all's opinion we are going to do what's on the Shelf so I have accumulated so many things over the years that we are going to use some of these things I impulse bu art supplies it is it's an issue and I'm working on it for this year so this should be a super fun series sprinkled all throughout the year and so let's see what's on my shelf okay so I am honing in here to start and at the end of the video I think I'll show you a lot of my shelves and show show you kind of what there is um to choose from but I think I'm going to start with some satin enamels I have all kinds of colors back there and again this is over the years so no judging me but let's paint okay so I picked out the satin enamels from the Shelf now I you're seeing this like right after but I experimented actually with quite a few things here I'll show you so here I was experimenting with swipes adding the satin enamel into the swipe mixture and I mean these have been on my shelf um for a few minutes so they're like starting to like move in they're still wet you can see as I just brought it over but um I was doing a tester with my regular swipe mixture which still does beautiful lacing but adding the satin enamel this was the one it completely wiped out the Australian flow trol effect in it then I moved over and tried a little bit of um a uh satin enamel and gac800 didn't work so all of these were tests but I came up with something else in the mean time and that's really what the series is all about so it's kind of like my cloud series my um Cloud Series where I swipe with the satin enamel but it's not going to be in my swipe it's going to be around the outside of all the colors so I want there to be lacing in the center I want it to be super soft and then I want the kind of bottom satin enamel to kind of eat up some of the colors so I might call this one a disappearing act I don't know we're going to find out together let's get started okay so there's a lot that's probably going to go into these videos um because I'm mixing up new okay I have lots of different whites here so this is just regular Amsterdam and my regular pouring medium which is flotrol and gloss medium and a little bit of water it is kind of medium thickness you can see as I go around it leaves a trace and sits on the top for a few seconds same as my colors all of that is the same so the white I'm going to pour in the middle and my colors are all the exact same way the Australian flow trol and Amsterdam titanium white that I'm using exact same thing same consistency basically as these paints mixed uh Amsterdam titanium white and Australian flotrol same as my regular swipe technique mixtures um and I have like a little swipe technique guide uh if you would like to check that out and download it it's free but the fat and enamel so the part that I grabbed off the shelf I am going to pour it around the outside and when I swipe through it I'm hoping it's going to give me these big puffy cloudy kind of I don't know cells and then I'm hoping that I'm going to get a reaction around the outside that's going to be like Pearl cells so okay so I'm going to start I I tested this out on a little tile and it the this satin enamel mixture definitely swallows up those paints so um you will definitely want to make sure you just use a very small amount of it and I'll list it in the description how I made it but for the inside here we go inside section is just going to be regular white I'm just doing a small circle and I'm going to have my colors be big throughout here because the rest of them are going to get swallowed up along the sides I think H should I layer the white and then the colors I don't know I think I'll layer my colors so that I know where this white is and I'm going to do a big strip of it oh I hope this works so almost this entire Center and I'm using colors that are saturated and dark darker I should say so that um if they disappear off the sides I'll still get a hint of them okay so now for my inside mixture here it's going to be hard keeping all these whites separate hoping there that I got the consistency pretty close at least and I may need I don't know do I need more around the outer edges that should be enough I'm hoping okay all right now for my swipe this is so fun to experiment again I'm so happy I'm doing this series and so when I show you my shelves at the end if you want to leave me a comment letting me know if you see something on the Shelf like hey I've always wanted to experiment with that drop it in the comments and then I will hopefully use your comments to make those videos all right I want to do I like to do what I want to do but I also like to do what you want to do or what you want to experiment with and since I already have the supplies I'm happy to experiment for you and maybe it saves you some money and time and heartache okay here we go okay I'm going to swipe through starting over here I don't want to get any of that inside swipe now I have a lot of ideas for this Watch What Happens as I pick this up along the satin enamel there the cells just go crazy right there at that end okay so I'm going to do another one I think do I come back this way I think so I think so super excited to see if any of those cells start popping up on this one okay so that's one thing I'm going to experiment more in the new year I want to continue on with using some new palettes and I'm just really just excited to get going I can already see cells the the reaction starting to pop up along those edges where it looks like I dragged a little bit of that in this could be super interesting I'm really excited about this so I'm going to start o start again I wanted to have big color big bold color through there oh you can see it already oh my gosh I'll have to make sure that I do a closeup of that section yes it gives such a softer lacing I just hope it doesn't disappear that's the only thing I experimented for hours trying trying to make satin enamel in the swipe mixture work but the paint it's the only way I can describe it is it's just too strong it doesn't allow for the surface tension to glide through even though running paints over it will create this reaction so it's just very interesting to me the science behind it is super interesting okay so I'm going to come in through here and I think for this year I want to work on my turntable a little bit more that Erica Hughes art gave me cuz I do love the effect of spinning it out a lot of artists spin out their artwork and I think it's beautiful okay I think we are to the point of to look at these big cells starting to pop up yes okay let me torch this is what I wanted I wanted there to be a swipe but I wanted the Pearl cell reaction too so fingers crossed y'all fingers crossed I added in a little bit of gloss medium to the base um just because it really helps as a a good binder okay so now what do I do I feel like I need to pour the rest of the white around here because I don't want this to stretch out too much so this was a 10 oz cup after yeah 10 oz after I made everything and then I used 5 oz in the center and then my colors I might have even needed just a little bit more paint I'm already to this corner so I might as well start here bring it back over to that corner now bring it down to this corner I want those colors to start running over and it's going to be a stretch to that bottom oh you can see the reaction [Music] happening and I didn't want it to happen in the center that's why I used my regular paint and pouring medium in the center o am I going to make it down there oh I don't want my cells to get too wonky okay I think as an experiment I'm just going to leave it there it's already starting so my composition in the center is I don't love that I might drag my hand through it maybe I'm excited and I don't love this portion right here but again I didn't mix up quite enough paint so I don't love this not quite sure just kind of softening this up oh my goodness I'm so happy I'm so excited it's not quite there it's not quite there but I am going to try this again for sure dang it's just this one little super duper interesting a few more things that I want to see what happens and test out putting the gloss medium in it still let me have that reaction but I want to see if the colors hold a little bit better sometimes when you use satin enamel you get this like breaking or um it's not really floculation but it's like the paint cracks a little bit or or breaks a little bit um with the pigments there so I want to see if these hold up well because I've always left the gloss medium out um so that I could get more of a cell reaction but this is happening no matter what I am so excited oh okay I'll show you all clothes then we will see how it dries I will show you my shelves you can pick out some new ones I'm going to do a few more experiments with this I hope you have a safe and happy New Year I hope that I wish for you the most creativity in this next year and whatever you're doing and I'll show you the web result okay so here are my shelves now of course I have my goldens I love those I have my Golden Fluid acrylics these Global ones I don't even know if they're good or not still the company sent them to me back I think in 2020 maybe 2019 um I didn't really promote them at the time because they were only available in Australia and the shipping was crazy so I didn't want to exactly promote something to my followers that was going to cost them like exorbitant amounts of money when we have products like this here I don't know if that's changed for them now of course I have all of these I would get these every time they were on sale at Michaels um but I need to use them up I don't even know if these are good um these I believe Gail bursten uh from life and splatters sent me I know she's been doing a lot of Photography lately and uh peo I have been doing I wanted to do some experiments with those I Posta markers let's see obviously I have all my paints and I want to use up these colors I have told myself because you can make a lot of these colors that I'm not I'm going to try not to purchase anymore except white black and the primary colors and just use up what I've got let's see let's go to my other shelf over here obviously I'm not going to use my Clorox wipes but I do have um some gloss medium gac800 crackle paste light molding paste these are just varnishes up here and some spray varnishes I've got glitter crushed glass I've got some spray paint back here over here I've got uh the blackest black the goldest gold mirror paint let me see mirror paint um I've got some masking fluid and then some markers and some pigments so get ready it's going to be a year of experimentation for sure okay so now you can see why I said disappearing act because this is where I put the regular color and you can see how the colors just fade around the edges you can see like a little semblance of color popping through but it's really just white but but it is so cool look at those different types of cells the Pearl cells that is a beautiful Corner up there I love the swipe that's coming through the center right there now this is new to me I don't know if anybody else has tried this but super cool look at that oh now my composition I'm not quite 100% with it because it's going off this side and it's not going off any of the other sides but I'm super happy with this I am going to play around some more and then after I read your comments we will find another thing on my shelf to experiment with Happy New Year to everybody and I'll show you what this looks like dry here it is and so the first thing I want to point out is I set these up and then left them for a couple of days to dry and it fell off my stand it must have been the the second day and it all just kind of moved that way on the edge and I'm so upset because you can see it just all kind of started right here and just kind of slid to the end but this was an experiment to see if this new kind of for me mixture would work um and adding the gloss I didn't have any breaking of any of the colors down here I got some really pretty like colors peeping through but adding that tiny little bit of gloss and look you can see it up here too it all started to spew down to that end otherwise it would have just been these beautiful clouds of pearls all around it I ended up getting and it's kind of fitting because I feel like this reminds me a little bit of of a reptile like the scales that are there this swipe with this part turned out so beautiful and then I had drawn a little part with my finger up here and it caught the the Pearl mixture underneath and it started to make a snake up here too so I feel like that's kind of fitting I love that section right there as well so I would say this is a success even though the drying of it wasn't such a success for the the fuxa it was this this right here this corner fell off the stand and everything tilted that way but I am going to play around with these some more I think my next one I'm going to see if I can tint the Pearl mixture with a light blue I do want to do one in fire colors and I want to do a big one as well I think so I am super excited to play around with this I hope you like the what's on the Shelf series you're going to be seeing a few of these throughout the year um as I try to use up some of the supplies that I have and I hope everyone has an amazingly creative New Year! thank you so much for watching! happy painting! bye!