There is a "Spot Preventer" liquid product (not dish soap), that is made to go into dishwashers. It comes in a bottle, and is a good flow aid. It can be found where the dish soap is. It is called a rinse aid. Rinse aid contain chemicals called surfactants, which lower the surface tension of water. So instead of forming droplets, the water spreads into thinner sheets. Jet Dry, is a popular brand hear in the USA.
Wow... omg... thank you for sharing that little tidbit of info! When I had a dishwasher, I used to buy that stuff. I may even still have some leftover which would be pretty great and save me some money. I'm just now learning about pour painting and trying to figure out how to successfully do it on the cheap-cheap so that is very interesting that you mentioned Jet-Dry. It makes perfect sense! Again, thanks for sharing. Have a great day! 🙂
omg thank you so much! I can't really afford any kind of added paint mediums but I was wanting something like this for fluid paintings. This is a life saver!
This is awesome and I can't wait to try it! Thank you so much. I am just starting to get interested in color theory and pour painting and everything seems sooooo expensive! I knew there had to be a cheaper DIY alternative. 👍 I never really thought about surface tension but it makes perfect sense and you did an excellent job demonstrating and explaining. I'm in the US and someone commented that Jet-Dry is a very good alternative, too, because its purpose is to reduce surface tension so your dishwasher doesn't leave water spots on your dishes. I realize this video was posted years ago but valuable, money-saving, info NEVER goes out of style!! LOL! 😄 Thanks so much for sharing. Have a gr-r-r-reat day! 🙂
Thank you so much! I'm going to be trying my hand at airbrushing, but I was having a LOT of sticker shock at all the "extras". And having been crafting for years, I knew there had to be reasonable "alternatives" for most of it.
Really helpful, i heard a lot of similar advice but was always shy to try it myself, i use it on canvas mixed with brush painted acrylics an i am in doubt of its reliability/durability when there is soap in the mixture. I feared the layers might not hold up together and peel of or something. So i learned the hard and expensive way, - i bought the vallejo flow improver which was recommended on other places, - guess what- it helped - but- after some minutes spraying i always felt some headache or even small amount of dizziness, which would go away for hours afterwards. And the vallejo stuff has this slight unhealthy smell, i had a bad feeling from the start. The frustration about the stuttering paint flow began to grow again as i stopped using the vallejo, so today i went on with your simple advice with some drops of cheap handwash soap - and to my surprise problem is mostly gone! i also added some extra acrylics emulsion for security reasons - i will make tests of its reliability. Thanks! What also helped was greasing the needle and the nozzle from the inside. Clogging reduced. I used regular bearing grease from the bicycle first, but ordered some teflon based stuff for less maintenance.
I've been using spray guns for decades. Comparatively, Airbrushes are a nightmare. Airbrushes use very little paint, so, it dries extremely fast. Including inside the the brush. The smaller the nozzle, the finer the line you can spray, but, the easier it clogs.. External mix Airbrushes are a little better than the dual action sprayers, but you lose a little precision.. I haven't found the right thinner yet.. I'm trying soap next. It makes sense..
Thank you so much. It would be Amazing if we knew all sort of home goods we can use instead of expensive art materials 😊. Thank you so much again. As for the mixture of 50/50 PVA glue and Water, is it used for both Prepping a canvas as well as varnishing an end result painting please?
Well if you gently dropped the same amount of glue as you did the first one it wouldn't of spread out the way it did. It was so bleedin obvious what you did there. You just hammered it out of the dropper on that second one.
You said in your video :- The only reason you're using PVA glue is so we can see the PVA glue spread more easily Therefore I assume instead of PVA glue we can simply add a drop of any kind, any brand of washing up liquid to any acrylic paint and that will enable the acrylic paint to spread more easily That begs the question : Why didn't you use "White Acrylic Paint" I'm sure many of us will be wondering how the PVA glue came to be used instead of "White Acrylic Paint" Did you have any paint ?
