Swiping A SheleeArt “Bloom” With A Palette Knife

Today I’m doing a “Bloom Swipe” with a palette knife. The bloom technique was made made popular by Shelee Art, and uses a very different recipe to typical acrylic pours to produce 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 2:1 Untinted Semigloss House Paint (a neutral base, not a white base for light colors) and Minwax Polycrylic. I then mix it with my colors until they flow well but are still quite 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! This painting was part of my 31-Paintings-For-The-New-Year series, to demonstrate many of the incredible techniques you can use in fluid art - great for beginners and experienced painters alike! My colors are Pale Gray-Blue (semigloss house paint) Dark Navy (Blick studio acrylics Phthalo Blue with Apple Barrel black) Metallic Teal (Blick Studion Acrylics) Metallic Sea Mist (Craft Smart) Pillow: White semigloss house paint Cell Activator: Titanium White (Amsterdam) Subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss each new video! New tutorials every Monday and Saturday! Relaxing instrumental videos every Thursday! You can buy this painting here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/11556395... I’m Anna, a mom of 3 living in small-town West Virginia. I’ve been fluid painting since 2019 and loving every minute! My Etsy shop: https://Etsy.com/shop/AnnasButterflyShop “Anna Blount Art” on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...) Music: “Propius Extraneous” by Ben Somerville   / bensomerville   Https://bensomerville.com