I’m still in pursuit of those delicious sharp large cells from a dirty pour…..Of course all this trying uses lots of paint so here I’ve combined it with another issue, trying to use housepaint white as its so much cheaper than the art white paint!
I’ve got Much closer to the results I’m after but still having issues with the house paint cracking. Its not deep cracking, but along the edges where paint dried first, so maybe it was just too quick drying there? I’ve asked for help via facebook groups and one of the suggestions was to slow down drying by placing a box over the artwork. I’ll try that, along with other suggestions of increasing floetrol ration etc. I’ve a list of things to try, that’s probably going to be next video. I’m using Matt paint here, so I’ll try silk or satin ( or both if I have them), plus i was pouring over an old painting, and maybe with house paint it needs to be virgin substrate not over old works. I’ve done it successfully with ordinary paint loads of times but maybe the house paint reacts differently?
Below you can see the final painting dry and close up of the cracks. The cells though were much closer to what I’m aiming at so cracks not withstanding I’m happy 😉