So with my shipment of Floetrol having arrived I decided to go straight into testing it out with a small painting ( 6 x 6 inches) in bright colours.

I wanted to do a painting that used the fluorescent paints that I had (I had fluorescent pink, orange, and green and also a really bright yellow). To this paints I added the lovely sky blue that I had bought last week as I thought it went quite well.

I also decided that this time I would make the paint slightly thicker than normal for my fluid acrylic paintings as I didn’t want the colours to blend in with each other too easily and I wanted some kind of circles and lines that could be distinguishable.

As some of my paints were different makes they were all different consistencies and so I needed to add differing amounts of Floetrol to each one to get the same consistency of mixed paint.

Once I had settled on the consistency I added some of the spray silicone to each colour.

Although I did put all of the different colours into one cup, I didn’t mix it too much and instead of turning the cup upside down on the canvas I poured the paint on the canvas from the cup. I wanted to do this to get some swirls and lines that I might not otherwise get.

So for this experiment I found that I didn’t really get any cells. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t add any water to the paint, or the paint was too thick, but I suspect that might be the case. I may well try this one again but with the paint being more fluid and see what happens there. I don’t want to become too disheartened with the Floetrol as I know it works for other people so I will obviously keep on going with it.

This is the finished painting:

The colours came out nicely as I had hoped anyway and I think it will look really nice once I have painted the edges and put a coat of resin on top, so I will be keeping/selling this painting.

Anyway, here is the video below, let me know if I have missed out any information or if you have any questions: