Dump & Swirl Pour - Natural Cells (NOT for beginners)

In this video I'm working on a 20"x20" level 3 canvas from Michaels. I dump the paint on, swirl it around and tilt to fill the canvas.
Products used:
- Artist Loft flow acrylic in white and black
- DecoArt Americana in saffron yellow, orange flame and calico red.
- Liquitex pouring medium
- Water
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[@touchstonejean2877]

Holy crap...I DID IT! I did it so good, I made two! Going for round 3 here in a minute. Easiest pour EVER and...sooooo Beautiful!

[@MelyDartist]

That's what I'm talkin' about 👊

[@MzRiaG]

What ratio did you use for paint to pm/water?

[@marilynshull4279]

Touchstone Jean what ratio did you use? Any floetrol?

[@evelynmillican2611]

Awesome. You can always make something wonderful out of throwing paint on a canvas. You are fearless.

[@PieraB]

Wow! SO glad you are back girl! I"m a huge fan. I can't believe how that black just sat on top with mixing with the white! And then the magic just popped from underneath. This is my fav effect!

[@merbadeau5543]

At 2:33 the music crescendo happened just when the black took over! Genius! Beautiful outcome on those colors.

[@lindamckendree2991]

Don’t know how this one got past me! This is gorgeous, Mely!! So cool😎 I LOVE the colors!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Be well.❤️

[@karenmanson1782]

👋 MelyD. Oh my I could just die in the Saffron Yellow. Love how you Swirl 🧡. Absolutely gorgeous my new favourite. Karen NZ

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you so much Karen :)

[@theresarasche3173]

Oh my...this is gorgeous!!!

[@evypetre949]

Stunning! Awesome palette.

[@Sharla1213]

Just like magic. So cool to watch it develop

[@lillianruiz464]

Wow, this is amazing how quickly he just pour those pains on the Calvin is what it around and dump it out and stuff and create face. It’s amazing;

[@JennyLee57]

Wow! Incredible results!!! Absolutely love it!!!!!

[@minavillegas5637]

Gorgeous colors, and those cells!!! Wow! Hope you have a wonderful day ❤️

[@staceycordell607]

Wow! The effects are so interesting. I love it and can't wait to see your modified recipe painting as well. Beautiful.

[@shanedogacrylics3287]

This was Fascinating to watch!!! Very very cool outcome! Have a great day MelyD!!

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you!!

[@brucesr8744]

when the paints are carefull consistent in viscosity the specific gravity allows the lighter weights to rise and shine. your pour technique allows you the fantastic results you get. the 3D effects of tinted yellows under a resin topcoat, gloss, is a soecial effect being chased by quite a few people. I like the way you prepare and attack the process and don't overwork it. the cells don't deform that way, smart lady you are.

[@MonicaTiaMoniArts6973]

Great colors MelyD. Fun cloudy cells and i love the colors in the cracks.

[@LSGARTS]

Great color combo:) really digging it! Very cool watching the cells form.

[@CandiceColorArt]

Radiant and Beautiful, I can't wait to try it. Once you varnish it, the colors will just pop off the wall.

[@triciasohn8307]

Holy cow...you are amazing! This is beyond stunning!

[@deblily3446]

Very impressive!!! Love your paintings and techniques.

[@LorieWitt]

The first one is beautiful. And the yellow one is beautiful as well.

[@faeleia]

Yay!! Nice to see you back! :D congrats on your new experiment success!

[@ChristinaWelch]

Holy crap is right, that developed so cool! Love it!

[@barbtemplin7864]

Wow, that is so awesome! Love it!

[@annelizotte9317]

Wow! That's amazing!

[@cherylsanders2753]

Incredibly awesome!!!

[@osarene]

Thanks for this. It reminds me to be a bit more fearless about putting paint on canvas.

[@eshascorner4382]

OH MY GOODNESS. That is amazing. The things you create without even trying. Beautiful. 🤯🤯❤️❤️❤️

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you :)

[@sophiet5885]

Totally stunning!!!

[@dianitamora6003]

*OMG I'm definitely going to try this* it is Beautiful!! 😍😍😍

[@itchy711]

Holy shit! That’s beautiful! You never cease to amaze me!!!

[@cindyreitz984]

Wow! Gorgeous! ❤️❤️❤️

[@basema187]

Stunning! All those cells without silicone.

[@anuradhabhalla5483]

It’s so stunning. Dear. Lovely 💕

[@cathyherring6424]

WOW!!!love this soooo much amazing!!!!!

[@gailbolton4891]

Absolutely WOW!

[@jolac46]

It looks amazing

[@janilledutton139]

You are fearless! This is spectacular! Thank you for sharing. :D

[@lindajakub624]

So beautiful

[@chezzapie]

Wow, the first try looks like a coral reef/beach. Looks great to me. I’m thinking you give yourself a hard time Ms Mely. Loving that technique! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@josiecapps2555]

Another great work of art❣️love watching and listening to you

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you so much :)

[@glorimarlabrador8786]

Amazing!😍🙌🏼

[@janadarnold2500]

Missed u a lot. Love this technique. Will have to try

[@nickmanno1]

I love this. I want cells like that. I have yet to get them that large or as many. Beautiful 🌹

[@lindajohnston759]

This is beyond my imagination! Oh Lord, I hope it works for me!

[@rachelmcfarland4069]

Wow amazing

[@miekewwood6909]

Wow pretty amazing !

[@lisabrons4169]

Beautiful

[@stacy9089]

Love this!

[@mikereed5224]

Love it!

[@TracieReed]

It's quite stunning! 💜

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you!

[@brendawillems4804]

WoW is this the paint that creates this result??? You are such a inspiration!!! WHAT a Great artist you are! Thanks so much for sharing your talent!!! 👌🏽😍

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you so much and yes it is! That's how fluid painting works :) by working with paint! :)

[@marilynshull4279]

I am so inspired, watch you every chance I get. Would you share the ratio of paint/floetrol/water. I would love to be be able to make something similar. Keep painting and keep me inspired! Thanks in advance.

[@OnlineCollegeofArtandDesign]

Amazing!

[@1tribble]

Wow, you have magic paint! I’m on my way to the studio right now to try this...

[@honest5621]

so does it works ? coze she said without silicone

[@louisestubois9241]

❤️❤️❤️ the awesomest!!

[@mysticmae12]

I hope you’re feeling better. You are an amazing artist! I can relate to your feelings at the beginning of the video. Painting always helps me when I’m depressed, if I can get the motivation to actually do it. It’s hard sometimes, and making videos too..I’ve only made two, but I could have made so many more. I will again eventually. Sending lots of love and hugs your way! 💖

[@MelyDartist]

Thank you so much 🖤

[@vgod99]

Awesomeness!

[@dawnwhiting17]

Just WOW!

[@IntelligenceONE]

Nice one!!

[@lillianruiz464]

I really wanna learn how to do this you are so amazing with yourselves. My name is Lily I watch you all the time pool a lot. And I have tried so many ways and then nothing comes out no problem just the sweetest little things and that’s it no pearls nothing

[@lindafrier1615]

Something else! 😲 wow

[@vmedija]

Awesome 😍 😍 😍

[@enanadecasa4710]

Wunderbar.😊 👍

[@guylainedrapeau1301]

Omg superbe bravo 😉😉😉

[@GinaDeLuca]

This is how Siqueiros discovered the technique, but he used primarily enamels. The Americana line is matte finish. Matte paints create cells when in this consistency. The satin enamel white is so matte (even though labeled satin) that only a touch of it will make another paint cell. Cells of different densities can create cells like this, or mixing mattes with non matte paints...I think they are different reactions with similar results.

[@MelyDartist]

By mixing mattes with non matte paints... I agree! Don't you find the satin enamel doesn't dry matte thought? I'm surprised you say it is so matte. I didn't know that.

[@GinaDeLuca]

MelyD.artist the first time I saw the satin enamel dried I thought to use it as an additive to make other paints matte. I’ve used matte medium with some success too. The thinner consistency is key I think to cause the reaction between matte and not. I did swatch sheets of all my paints to see which were matte about a year ago. I had never used craft paint and decoart sent me a bunch of stuff to try it included the Americana line. I was psyched to see they were all matte. Some produced better cells than others. But they all reacted in a straight pour. Almost any matte paint will give you these results. And you can make any paint matte.

[@MelyDartist]

@@GinaDeLuca I'm still not sure I understand. How can the satin enamel be such a matte paint when it says satin on the bottle and dries satin? Is there a certain property or ingredient that tells you a paint is matte besides what's written on the bottle? And since the Americana line is matte as you say, which I believe 100% (accept the satin line ofcourse) then why would you add the satin enamels to it to make it even more matte? Isn't it the opposite? Mix matte with none-matte? Sorry for this.... I completely agree on thin consistency and mixing brands.

[@GinaDeLuca]

MelyD.artist I know its weird. When I my paintings (15&16) dried, I noticed the cells were matte. So I did a swatch chart (my whole theory is explained in 20 and I show the swatch chart.) with every paint I had. I had a 48 piece liquitex set. Liquitex is branded and a satin paint. If you look at a swatch of them on paper, you will see a very big difference in the sheen. Light magenta is glossy and cad yellow light is matte. The cad yellow light is such a cell maker I use it like the satin enamel, an additive to make other paints cell.

[@LadyEdHD805]

Wow!! 😍

[@barbaraausperger7819]

Crazy👍

[@karcon2065]

Wow!

[@pattyaap7345]

This is wickedly awesome! watch it not work for me but I'm going to try it anyway! LOL! I also use Artist Loft a lot.

[@MelyDartist]

Please dont get discouraged after only 1 try!!

[@pattyaap7345]

Nah, I’m stubborn enough that if it doesn’t work the first time, I won’t let it go until it works for me. 😂. Thank you so much for sharing this. ❤️

[@FXAcrylics]

I'm going to try it with lube and see what I get..lol That's off the chain Mely. Gorgeous!!!

[@minpuno7150]

Beautiful as usual. Looks like a fun pour, will like to try it. Would like to know how much medium added to the paints.

[@user-pu4xn3ju6p]

Wow! 😮😮😮😮

[@because88]

don't comment normally, but that's fucking lovely. bravo!

[@annlengyell5976]

Some of the best things are created by accident !!

[@MzRiaG]

Holy Crap is right!!!! This is soooo cool. I love it! How much paint to pm/water did you use? Was it very watery? I really want to try this

[@nelsonveloso1501]

Very very nice!!! Im learning... and you win one more subscrive! Thanks!!! ❤

[@touchstonejean2877]

Holy crap is right!!!

[@tonimcglasker6212]

Pow!

[@jcga30346]

Wow! Wonderful. Are you paints on the thicker or thinner side? Also, do you tend to lean toward a thicker or thinner consistency?

[@HeatherMaderArt]

So gorgeous! Do you think the Liquitex Pouring Medium was what brought about those cells - or was it the thinned paint? :) I've been working on getting those cells on my channel with watery acrylics. But I didn't like the way the painting dried

[@MelyDartist]

Pouring medium wasn't created to produce cells. Cells appear naturally because of how the paints are diluted to a certain consistency and then moved into each other. It's a question of ingredients in the paint, not the pouring medium.

[@HeatherMaderArt]

I agree - most mediums I've tried don't produce cells, and yes the consistency is key.... But I've found the Liquitex Pouring Medium, which is labeled "E" for "Effects" actually creates cells anytime I use it. Its almost as if they designed it with the fluid artist in mind! :) Maybe its just been a coincidence with the paint I've been using. But I don't use silicone or any other pouring medium but floetrol, so when I started adding the Liquitex I noticed it gave effects immediately. @@MelyDartist

[@MelyDartist]

@@HeatherMaderArt I honestly think it's a coincidence with the paint you're using. I dont use Floetrol but I've read and heard multiple times that it gives more cells than l.p.m. hard not to believe it so I trust them on that. BUT I still prefer to work with the reaction of different paints and I'm 99% sure that it's not the l.p.m. that creates the cells but the combination of ingredients from different brands of paints in the same painting. Hope that makes sense lol

[@marilynshull4279]

MelyD.artist you stated you do not use floetrol. What do you use to thin your paints?

[@cptnvegetable]

Lol fun to watch

[@gerriestone6679]

This is so so beautiful! Do you normally paint your canvas a base coat first and if so, pour while it is wet?

[@MelyDartist]

With a brush? No I only paint the sides.

[@louisestubois9241]

Be well, my friend. Blessings.

[@ArtbySusanKing]

Awesome, did you have a wet white base coat down first? Or did you paint over the canvas and let it dry before you poured the colours on to the canvas? Thanks

[@MelyDartist]

I'm not sure I understand your question. This was a canvas that I had poured on and didn't like so I washed it off. I poured the paints here on the dried canvas with no base coat.

[@ArtbySusanKing]

@@MelyDartist Okay, thanks! Thant's what I meant. Was the canvas dry when you started pouring the puddles. Thanks for the explanation.

[@kaynewsom6780]

This is where DwightPours got this idea I bet. Wow

[@MelyDartist]

Yup :)

[@sherrym2840]

Wow amazing. Do you make all the paints the same consistancy or is some thinner than the others?

[@MelyDartist]

The same as best as I can

[@marial9925]

Wow Mely! Do do you think it is the craft paint or the flow? I'm sure the PM is playing into it.

[@MelyDartist]

I think, well actually I know that it's the reaction between the Artist Loft and DecoArt Americana. The pouring medium has nothing to do with it. What it does is add fluidity to the paint and helps bind the pigments so water can be added. Pouring medium is not made to create cells. It is a product created for fluid painting to help with the flow. Cells appear because the paints are diluted to a certain consistency and moved into each other. Then you gotta work with different brands to see which ingredients react which way with each other.

[@marial9925]

@@MelyDartist Thank you for the explanation. And I love all of your work

[@hawes-wintersart]

Miss your videos Mely

[@redpillgirl1843]

😲

[@ahsat25tasha]

How do you mix your paints and pouring medium?

[@SweetPieWizard]

This turned out nice. Were all your paints the same thickness? Or was the top layer, black, thicker than the other layers?

[@billdefrances4314]

Jennifer Ferguson the black must have been made heavier?

[@MelyDartist]

The paints always have to be the same consistency as best as possible for the paints to flow smoothly. If one is thicker it will not work.

[@Mvictoria2]

I have one just like this with blues and greens. Lol sounds like the same mix.... lol

[@dianavincent2535]

Beautiful painting. Did you ever figure out how to tone down the "jelly-fish effect" I get that a lot.

[@lucianasabatino5926]

What is your mixture for the black color? Ratios?

[@bstanevich]

Amazing!!! Do you think this is the same effect that Gina DeLuca got in her film #20 (and others)? I believe she attributed it to a difference in the transparency of the paints. I could be remembering that wrong....... Do you have a theory on why this happens? I'd like to know how to make sure it didn't happen in some circumstances!!

[@MelyDartist]

I have not watched Gina's videos and don't know her theory but it happened because of the reaction between the Artist Loft and the Decoart Americana. It's as simple as that. Did you scroll down the comments a bit? I feel like a machine repeating myself lol

[@geetasarup]

Did you paint over the old canvas???

[@MelyDartist]

It was one I washed off while still wet.

[@murkywaters1090]

does this only work on canvas? or can i do this on any material? Specifically like a plastic. I know this is probably a dumb question but i just wanna make suree, thxx

[@MelyDartist]

It's not a dumb question at all. I'm not sure because the only time I poured on plastic was not using this technique and it was on a lamp shade so roundish. I'm gonna go with yes it will probably work. If you do try it and it doesn't, feel free to correct me.

[@louisestubois9241]

Mely , no matter what, I cannot get cells, of course nothing like this. Is it possible I’m using old paint?

[@MelyDartist]

What have you tried? Have you tried Artist Loft and DecoArt Americana? Do you make your paints thin? Do you create a lot of movement for the cells to appear? So many questions I know ;) it's hard to help when you are far and have no information

[@louisestubois9241]

MelyD.artist, thanks. Ive tried thinner mixing, always making sure the consistency is the same in all colors. I wanted cells without using any additives and yes, i am more successful with satin enamel, however I’m not sure i have the ratios of white to satin . Practice, practice until i get what i want. You are so gracious to respond so quickly. Thank you. You are one talented woman!

[@MelyDartist]

@@louisestubois9241 well what I can tell you from what you just told me is that I think you're problem is the brands of paint you're using. Some create cells easily and some not at all. The Satin Enamel creates a cloudy effect, not cells really. I would strongly suggest the Artist loft white or black with the Decoart Americana colors until you get used to it. Those 2 work best I believe. Although I havent tried every brand. Hope this helps a bit. X

[@lindajakub624]

My canvas stays black with a small touch of color. Could I be using too much Liquatex pouring medium . Would that inhibit cell formation. Please let me know your tgoughts.

[@MelyDartist]

I think your either using too much black, your paint is not thin enough or you're not using the right brands of paint. If you're using real pouring medium, that's not the problem. Try thinner and less black on top :)

[@lindajakub624]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WILL TRY.

[@joannesarlo518]

this is amazing MelyD!!! are your paints very thin? this is how you get this effect??? thank you for sharing this video!!!

[@MelyDartist]

Yes my paints seem to be thinner than others.