# 21 Mixing Paint For Blooms, UK Recipe
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- As requested, a more detailed video on how to mix paints and pouring mediums for the bloom technique. Hope this helps x
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Great to have a Brumme like me giving tutorials so fed up with USA Canada Australia as half the time I can’t get what they use so please carry on with your videos and great for Britain thank you so much for your help and saying where we can buy materials from sue
How lovely to have a Brummie leading the way for UK ‘Bloomers!!’
Thank you. X
Aww thank you Clare xx
At last. The hours of searching it took me to find out our UK alternatives.. if only I found this video weeks ago. Great job 😊👌👍
Thank you so much - I was about to give up 🤯🤯🤯 B & Q here I come. Love your straight forward instructions ❤️
Thank you so much for showing this technique. The world of acrylic pouring can be baffling and expensive. You have made my brain click and now I think at last I get it. Can't wait to give it a try. Thank you again you are a star!x
Thank you thank you thank you I've searched the Internet for the bloom technique ingredients all to no avail as I was looking for the USA ingredients. I found you by accident and you now have a very grateful subscriber will get to B&Q as soon as I get paid. My name is Gail by the way don't know why its showing my hubby's name anyway I thank you again x
Thanks Gail, glad you found it useful
Thank for sharing, grateful to have found a pourer in the uk 😊
Thanks for this. Been the easiest version I found to try with a uk recipe. Looking forward to giving it a try now. 🤞🏻
Thank you so, so much. Finally I’ve found out how to make the pillow paint using UK ingredients. I’ve been searching for a video like this for weeks. ❤
Thank you so much for this tutorial, I attempted the technique today using Valspar Masonary base 4, which is £3.00 for a tester pot, and am really happy with the results.
Glad you found it helpful, I will have to try that one, thank you xx
@@OasisAcrylics - The lady in B and Q said that the base 4 is equivalent to the c base, it is a little smelly, is the Base C as well ?
Lisa Cox no I can’t smell anything from it x
Yey!! A UK bloomer they are blooming stunning, I have tried and tried and tried to no avail. I have all your ingredients will have a go tomorrow 👍😊😊 one big problem of mine is bubbles in the pillow paint 😬😬
Thank you so much for your tutorial 💕💕
susan kelly yes the bubbles are a pain ! You can only torch a little aswell. It helps if you let the paint stand for a couple of hours . 💕💕
Hi Ms Brummie, so lovely hearing that great Brummie accent.
Great video I will share on my acrylic art page on Facebook to share your information to my peeps in UK
I have resisted taking part in the blooms craze recipe and try to find easy non complicated recipe 😂😂
I’m in Australia so do have access to the floetrol.
Well done 👍🏼
Gilly Kube acrylic pouring art tutorials aww thanks so much, can’t stand to watch my own videos lol 💕💕
Thanks so so much! Beautiful work x
Thank you so much for this video, I’ve been struggling to find the right product in the UK 🇬🇧
It’s really helped me... I’m off to B&Q
Your so easy to listen to ! Thanks
A very helpful video thank you. I’m really looking forward to trying this.
Apparently silk emulsion is better and less prone to cracking, as the additives in matt emulsion that make it matt, can cause cracking.
I’m really keen to try this technique, please will you show me your tin on silk emulsion so I know what to buy or is it any silk emulation? C rate? Thank you
You have been sooooo helpful thank you.
Thanks for this great explanation.
I spoke to the chap in B&Q and he said don’t buy base C, buy base A. It’s the same stuff but you get more of it in base A. In base C, they have to leave more room in the can for colours that use more pigment, so there’s less base in the can.
thanks foe the tip x
@@OasisAcrylics Hi there, it's true that you get more in a tin of Base A but it's not the same product as Base C. The B&Q assistant who was trying to convince me to take Base A opened tins of both to show me - Base A is used to make their palest colours so it already has some white pigment in it which will obviously affect any colours you mix with it. Base C is almost clear when dry so all the colour comes from your acrylic paint. There's a reason why everyone else uses Base C!
@@cpsart8055 yes I’ve since discovered this thanks.
Thank you for your help i’m off to try it! Fingers crossed 🤞🥰😂
Good luck 👍
thank you. it is beautiful. very helpful
Thankyou I have been using the valspare from b and q but it was my cell activator I have problems with I’m going to try just water. Great ty x
Thank you for the information, being in the UK and most of the CZcamsrs being Aussie or American, it makes it difficult to get the same recipes. Do you seal the tiles with varnish or resin?
Thanks for this but I wanted let others know my experience today: I tried to get some of the base C in Valspar Wood & Metal, but they wouldn't sell it with our adding colour - against some sort of trading standards! Anyway I managed to get around it by asking them to just add two drops of white that they would normally put in a tester pot and then not stir/shack it. I'm hoping it has sunk to the bottom and wont affect it's use for this technique. When I eventually have time to paint!
I've bought untinted paint from Homebase and B&Q without ant problems, maybe a few weird looks but when I explained it was an art project they were fine. Which store were you refused it ?
I've tried in 4 b n q stores now and there adamant not selling it untinted
Same here. I had quite the discussion with a very helpful member of B&Q staff who showed me that their Valspar is graded a b c and only means the quantity of paint each tin holds before they mix colour in. All were white already. They looked at me like I was mad when I asked for it untinted. No such thing they said.😔
Gutted, finally found a UK bloom (er) and cant get the valspar paint :( hopefully Covid19 will be over soon. Brilliant tutorial. Definiately going to subscribe. Thank you.
Roni Dyer thank you 💕
Really enjoyed your no nonsense and informative tutorial. Yay UK products! Struggling to get the C base. Going to go to a B&Q counter to make sure I get the right stuff. Do you think PVA would work instead of mod podge? Your accent is lovely - reminds me of some of my Cannock family!
Aww thanks, it worth trying pva, it's all about experimenting x
So many recipes. Thanks so much for sharing. What do you think the Hodge Podge does?
Hi. Thanks for making this for us the in UK, the whole mixing of paints has been baffling me 😄😄. In the video you don't mention what sort of quantity of the home base emulsion you used when you mixed in the gac800? Also, how do you finish them off? Do you resin or varnish them and what about the undersides if you were using them for coasters? Thanks very much
Hi Elle, I didn't weigh the paint but it was roughly half a pint of emulsion and to that I added 4oz of GAC 800 and then the water. You don't have to be exact with the emulsion as long as your consistency is right so that the colours can sit on top of it without sinking through it you should be fine 💕
I normally resin them to finish them x
Thank you for relevant information! But is the valspar wood and metal paint oil based or water based?
It is water based x
Hia. Just wondering if the valspar is still working for you now the branding has changed? Seems the recipe has also, although in my local store they deny that, even though base c is extremely white now - they opened a can to show me! Thanks 😊
Can I use homebase silk emulsion for the pillow?
Jenny D yes x
Alternate of valsper wood and metal base c untinted paint
Hi Can i ask what Golden gel you use as they have several
heavy gel gloss
Have you ever used the liquitex ones
Thank you
@@OasisAcrylics have you used the liquitex ones Thank you
@@gillferris2457 I haven't tried them
Hi thanks for this fab video. Have you updated your recipe since you posted this? Did you find a cheaper alternative to the valspar gloss?
Hi Jane, yes there is an updated recipe in video #50. I haven't found a better alternative yet, you can use varnish but it doesn't really work out any cheaper x
Hi, thanks for making a video that helps us beginners here in the UK........is VALSPAR TRADE GLOSS WOOD & METAL PAINT PURE BRILLIANT WHITE from Screwfix any good to use as a pillow paint?....OR... Do you only use Valspar wood and metal blend 700 base C from B&Q as a pillow paint.... I am struggling to make sense of all the video info at the moment as most folks mention products we can't get here in the UK....SOOOOOOOOO...... glad you are doing your videos. Thank you.
No not white. I get it from b&q, if you go to the desk where they mix the paints to your colour choice and ask for valspar wood & metal base c, they will ask what colour you want, just tell them you don't want it tinted with anything and that it's for an art project they're fine about it x
Hi sorry didn't read the whole message, the pillow paint is just normal wall and ceiling paint brilliant white, though you can use any colour. The colours go on top of the emulsion which are mixed with the untinted valspar and mod podge. Then the cell activator which is Amsterdam titanium white and Australian floetrol goes on top of the colours, hope that helpsx
Thank you i follow you and wach your videos many times .unfortunately Australian floet roll I do not have What else I can use for cell activator .Thank you very much .
Ana Frzina you can use titanium white and water and still get great results, my earlier videos are using just paint and water x
Thank you very much for replay this soon . I am greatful.
Hi thanks for the video went to B&Q today to buy the Valspar paint today and they would not sell me any.
adrianne trickett oh, I didn’t have a problem, which b&q was it ? Did they give you a reason why ?
@@OasisAcrylics B&Q at Corton Wood in Barnsley
adrianne trickett I bought mine from my local b&q in Halesowen. Did they give you a reason why ?
Heya.
I tried this recipe.
Dulux white emulsion as a pillow (i also tested other paints)
Gloss wood stain + gloss modpodge according to your ratio +paint
And cell activator I tested with paint and just water, and I tried with paint + floetrol + water.
I ALWAYS get same results- the paint separates!
I wasted so much money on the materials and I keep failing.
Any ideas what am I doing wrong?
Please can you help me?
EveryUniverse did you use valspar wood & metal base c ?
Oasis Acrylics no I used wood stain I saw others using it or just varnish.I know that in usa they are usually using polycrylic miniwax.
EveryUniverse I did try it with different varnishes but none of them worked. The thing with American products is that when we buy what we think is the equivalent they probably have different ingredients to theirs. All I can say is that if you use the same as I used in the video you will have success 💕
Oasis Acrylics yes that makes sense, thanks so much!
I was actually looking for this valspar but I couldn’t find any, where are you ordering from?
EveryUniverse I got mine from B&Q, just asked for it and told them I wanted it untinted x
The GAC800 is very expensive, anyone come up with a cheaper alternative?
Wish I could
@@OasisAcrylics I have read that the cracking happens if you base is to think, not thick in consistency but thick in mm's. Maybe try using less.
Thats the problem, they have none of valspar in stock, awwww...
I know, it's terrible at the moment getting stock of so many things x
where are you.. ? i think by the accent you might be close? have i jsut found a paint friend?!!!!
black country, near bearwood lol
@@OasisAcrylics walsall!! not far! lol I've been so sad everyone is always so far away
You can't miss a Brummie accent! Lol. (Says a Geordie). 🙂🙂
Dana parsons Liquid Cosmos Art I’m also near by I’m in cannock I was thinking the same watching this too
@@emmaking9643 so close!