Fluid Art Pillow Talk! Perfect Results with this bloom pillow recipe.🤩

Acrylic pouring and fluid art inspiration! After having some trials and tribulations over the last six months with my bloom swipe paintings cracking and not drying well, I went back to something I know always works and I’m never changing it again! Recipes below👇
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Basecoat Pillow:
1 part Behr 7300 deep bass enamel
1 part white acrylic (Blick student)
.25 Part GAC800
.25 Part water to get “warm honey” consistency
Paint PM:
2 part Behr 7300 deep base enamel
1 part varathane triple thick polyurethane
1 part Josagnio gloss varnish
water to get “warm honey” consistency
Cell activator:
1 part titanium white or black oxide Amsterdam paint
3 part Australian floetrol
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[@daya820]

I love the negative space, color combination and design. You are the master of this art. Thank you for sharing

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you so much!

[@CJ-qm6zf]

I cannot stop watching your channel. I just started fluid art earlier this year I know that I have learned a lot from you.🙏🏾

[@SaraTaylor]

I’m so glad you’re here, thank you for watching and hopefully I can continue to teach and inspire.🙏🤙

[@bostonbutterfly4473]

Tell me about it…I literally watch some of her videos 10x and even on slo-mo sometimes 🤣. I owe everything I’ve learned so far to this wonderful little lady who packs a very big punch. 🧡🤎🩵

[@Christinefreedomfidos]

Your colors are always so beautiful and soothing. I always call them the "Sara Taylor Collection!" 😉💙💛💙

[@BookOfMormon4GenZ]

Just wanted to say, WOW!!!

[@SaraTaylor]

I appreciate that. thank you 🙏

[@evemahony671]

Wow!❤. That’s all I can say!

[@shawna444]

Thank you, Lady S. Your advice led to finally making my blooms look like something other than roadkill. Lol You are a truly authentic inspiration and I wish you and your beautiful family blessings and peace.

[@SaraTaylor]

That is awesome! I’m so glad it’s helped 🙏✌️❤️

[@OAKbyBetina]

Sara, What a great recipe. I use whatever is available and affordable for me and tweak it to the desired consistency. But it's great to have just one can of paint for bloom pillow, PM and pearls. WOW. That's a winner. And of course as always, your bloom is beautiful. Thank you for always being so open and sharing. You are very kind.

[@janmaulMansfield5436]

Another heartfelt thank you Sara for always having our backs. I have learned so much from you, the best of the best.❤

[@SaraTaylor]

Jan, thank you so much for being here and for your lovely comment!🙏✨

[@bettywebber3744]

Your making me happy with all the vibrant colors lately. I'm a wine girl myself🥂

[@dreamcatcher3861]

Your art just makes me smile every time. 🙏🏻🌻🌻🌻

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you, that makes me smile!❤️

[@brenh8786]

Sara, this is gorgeous! I just love your color palette choices. Thanks so much for all the hard work of trial and errors behind the scenes. And for you to share your successes!! You truly are a blessing to all. Whether sharing your success in your paints or your magnificent canvases!🥰🥰

[@SaraTaylor]

Thanks Bren, it is quite incredible how much trial and error happens of camera… Lol thanks for recognizing that!🙏❤️✨

[@cynthiachalmers4730]

Truly beautiful!! Thank you for all of your experiments to give us a great recipe.

[@bonwestlake3928]

Definitely knows her art. One of my top three fluid art genius. Thank you Ms. Sara! Bob. Libby, MT. 🇺🇸

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you so much, Bob! I really appreciate that.🙏💕

[@jeanjolly5267]

Love this one - the colors - the composition - the cells!

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you 🙏

[@MommaBearsCorner]

so helpful and such beautiful work. tks for sharing

[@vegasmainiac7745]

This bloom swipe is breathtaking 😍

[@gratefulcreations]

Stunning!! That pillow looks so fluffy. Gorgeous results. This is a must try. Thanks chica!!

[@jancochran8339]

Stunning

[@sandiguinnartescape]

It’s so pretty.

[@tamzart7974]

Yes it is PERFECTION. The richness of the colours and the pillow have made such voluptuous end result Sara. Thank you for sharing and being here. Much love to you Sara and your beautiful family. 💖🤗😊😂👌👍💖

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you love ❤️

[@leehill7598]

Fabulous Cells 😊

[@MariainTheWNCMountains]

Woot woot 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Yeyyyy…I’m pretty positive I just bought this precious one on your website!!! I’m so excited😍😍😍😍 thank you Sara! Can’t wait to have this beauty hung on my wall 🤗

[@SaraTaylor]

Yay, thank you so much! I hope you love it.❤️❤️

[@leehill7598]

O beautiful. Simply perfect.😊

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you! 😊

[@jackies2379]

So gorgeous! Breathtakingly beautiful art! ❤

[@poppy171]

This is beautiful , Sara . Thank you very much for sharing your pillow paint recipe ❤

[@SaraTaylor]

You are so welcome!

[@joycedavidson895]

Absolutely gorgeous. I think I have all the ingredients for this pillow. I’ll try it today. Thank you Sara. ❤

[@pinkmyhair]

Love this palette and composition. You make magic with using negative space like no one else does! What a beautiful and elevated bloom swipe result! ❤️

[@nimsthakkar3192]

Superb palette.

[@robertalordagarcia9992]

1st hello my beautiful neighbor ❤ looking forward to this one,and as always I pray that this day finds you blessed and paint splattered 😍 🙏 ♥

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you! I wish the same for you 😁🙏

[@gloriacarretero446]

Absolutely stunning!

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you so much!

[@eunicekimber7141]

Hi Sara, love your work, thanks for putting in large print your colours used, I am hard of hearing thus helps so much, send love and a hug Eunice Kimber SA

[@karl-friedrichjagau9974]

Absolutely magnificent pouring Sara👍🏼⭐️⭐️😊😊👨🏻‍🎨

[@mariacanales1870]

I seen a few of your work and your composition are very beautiful….❤

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you 🙏

[@GratefulSoul60]

Sara, thank you for sharing your experience with the pillow paint, specifically live in different climates. I live in VT and I have been having the same issue with my pillow paint.

[@SaraTaylor]

Oh, you’re welcome! I hope this is helpful.🙏

[@02pomai4]

Simply gorgeous❣️and very informative of your pillow mix. Mahalo Sara 🌺🤙

[@SaraTaylor]

Mahalo!

[@margaritasantiago3805]

Beautiful colors, gorgeous composition 🤩👏🏼

[@marthacunningham2028]

That is really gorgeous, thank you for explaining so clearly. 😊

[@acryliccreationsbyjwitty8074]

Absolutely stunning! Now you got me wanting to go play with bloom swipes again! 😁

[@marilynyarbrough7951]

Beautiful colors. You did it again, Sara! Thanks for sharing.

[@angelagahimer266]

Thank you very much. I didn't know what pillow paint was so I started watching videos and learning about it but I didn't know how to make it lol so this is GREAT!!!! Thank you so much for sharing ☺️ your art is just beautiful ❤️ oh and I live in Northern Washington, Okanogan county actually 🙂

[@leehill7598]

Beautiful

[@cherylwilliams2347]

Thanks Sara! I noticed if I add any water to my house paint at all, it cracks. And yes, it's very thick. Definitely going to try using your recipe, thank you!

[@SaraTaylor]

So good to hear Cheryl! You won’t be disappointed with this recipe.

[@joyceblackburn6431]

My, my…this is so beautiful!! 🥰 I started blooming technique and we were told to use Glidden Premium in Canada. It was cracking (NEVER had cracking in my paintings since 2 years!!) and had much too many bubbles, doing white spots everywhere. 😤 I went back to my old Sico Evolution that does a perfect pillow and dries uniformly. Glad I’m not the only one !! Thanks Sara, beautiful painting as always! I wish I could be part of your symposium in Texas !!!🤔

[@jessicaschubach4174]

This turned out really nice. I love the color palette! Thank you Sara💜

[@donnatabares7029]

Wow! Beautiful colors!

[@kellywarner8264]

Very nice. Love the colors.

[@debrahaberman5592]

Gorgeous!

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you! 😊

[@kellydriver]

Fabulous colours, amazing depth to your artwork. So beautiful!

[@royalriverart]

This is amazing, I love the lacing. Just beautiful.

[@laurienye7514]

Magnificent, Sara, and love those colors.

[@lisapoulin1853]

Beautiful! Love the effect and the colors. You are very talented! Thank you.

[@cherichauvin1195]

Your talent is amazing!!! Love your work. Wish I could have gone to Dallas.

[@maryannlowrance6034]

Beautiful. You never disappoint.

[@janbatin4708]

Outstanding, Sara. 🎶💞🎶

[@SorayaZiziArtist]

A good talk Sara, very informative.😀 Beautiful painting 💞

[@gailmunson2478]

Thanks!

[@vesna2604]

ThankYou

[@coryflowers2904]

So beautiful. The swipe is my favorite technique. You do it all soo well!

[@SaraTaylor]

Oh thank you so much 😌🙏

[@alpapatel4229]

Beautiful colors.Thank you for sharing your recipe.

[@ednabarone8531]

Beautiful results as always. Love to see you create.

[@SaskiaFluidArtForAll]

Beautiful Sara❤️🌺

[@mariantwohig5156]

Love, love, love this! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! ❤️

[@SaraTaylor]

It’s actually OK if it’s a self producing white acrylic here for the pillow, I just use my black because I don’t use it for other techniques. You could use artist loft flow or really any affordable white acrylic.

[@lindastirling8451]

I absolutely love this style of painting, beautiful 😍. Can I also ask about the background music it’s relaxing and very easy listening?

[@deidremillerdeesart9273]

Amazing painting Sara stunning colors 👏👏🙏

[@patriciabrowning5741]

Love it! Colors are beautiful!

[@CheriBomzArt]

Thanks for the "PILLOW" TWAK😆💕

[@SaraTaylor]

😂😁🙏

[@AmysCreativeArt]

This is so Beautiful Sara. I love the colors. Amazing lacing. FABULOUS work as always 🤩😍🤩😍

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you Amy 😁🙏

[@katharinathiele6901]

This is realy intresting to watch. when you started Iit looked like darkdark but spinning it brought the colors out realy beautiful. You are truly an magician only you don`t use a wand but a palletknife ;-)

[@paulineosullivan7340]

Sarah, you are my go to for inspiration and recipes....thank you....lovely work, sound recipe advice, and an uncontrived beautiful style! Just love your work! Cheers from Oz

[@SaraTaylor]

Thanks for the awesome comment, you really made me smile this morning!😁🙏❣️

[@hanatekaste6449]

Very pretty!

[@jofritzinger8381]

You always make it look so easy and beautiful 😍

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you 🙏

[@michellemyers8439]

Another beautiful piece. You continue to gain the notoriety and respect in the art community I told you, you would from the very beginning. Did I have the eye or what? 😅🤗

[@marzannaciepielewska3489]

Super, love it. Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰❤marzanna

[@candycaleb2713]

Very beautiful Sara!

[@theresahenderson5637]

Beautiful 🌞

[@anitazebregs293]

Sara want is the gelactivator you use? I am from Holland and I mix the paint with Floetrol, liquitex, satijn enamal, gac 800. Gr Anita

[@gcaxelson]

Sara; Love your work, I'm reading your mixing instructions and need some clarification on your header Paint:PM what do you use this for ? your colors? thanks for sharing

[@gorgeousmixedmedia]

Gorgeous piece and great information. Thank you for sharing 🙂

[@SaraTaylor]

Your welcome!

[@thetwokerrys]

Beautiful as always Sara! 😊💕

[@Falcone777]

Can you please tell how much parts paint? Paint PM: 2 part Behr 7300 deep base enamel 1 part varathane triple thick polyurethane 1 part Josagnio gloss varnish water to get “warm honey” consistency

[@SaraTaylor]

Great question! It actually depends on the paint. Some paints have more pigment than others. If it’s a typical Amsterdam type to paint about one part, if it’s a high pigmented fluid paint, you can use less.

[@64Bogota]

Love the results as always!

[@klrroewert]

Sara, your work is amazing! I have been working on bloom swipes-finally got one I liked and it developed one crack when it dried. I don’t think I got enough paint spun off. 😢 You talked about cracking ‘ pillow paint consistency so I will keep trying. I live in Arizona, so hot and dry. However, do you know of a way to fix a crack? I would love to be able to salvage this piece if at all possible. Thank you for sharing all your art wisdom!!

[@SaraTaylor]

Thank you so much, that’s the one thing that’s difficult with blooms swipes and blooms is the cracking. The recipe I have in this particular video I’ve had the most luck with! My best suggestion to fix a crack would be to try to correct the color of the crack the best you can, maybe with the color of cell activator that you used. After that you can resin the painting so you can’t see the indentation of the crack. I hope this is helpful, thanks for your support!

[@corneliaeckstein2805]

You are my princess of fluid art and bloom technic. I wish my paints will look only 1/2 so good as yours, but I have no Australian floetrol, no spinner, only 1 Euro paints and only 300 € for 1 month for all. But I like you videos, at the beginning you was a little bit shy, but now you are a powerfull women, she knows what she have and what she is going to do in the next time. Your videos are so good, because I learn every time from the best. For swiping I like coz creation, Cathleen is a helpful powerwomen. I think it's better for me, if i try to paint abstrakt art, without the expensive thinks I never get a bloom swipe, I try it with amsterdam white, but it's not enough. I wish you and your family a happy and healthy new year 2023.

[@SaraTaylor]

Oh thank you so much for your lovely support! I too love Cathleen ❤️. Happy new year to you as well.✨

[@susanbrocksmith4255]

Amazing as always! Question- after you spin can you torch for bubbles or no?

[@SaraTaylor]

Susan, yes, you can torture bubbles. Ideally with this technique you’re not going to have air bubbles, you want to paint to sit for at least 24 hours to get the air out of it.

[@robindong3802]

Dear Sara, I love your design and art most so far. After bought all these art supplies online, finally, I started to follow your video to do this pouring art. However, none of my cell is as big as yours. I used silicon drops to my colors and used blow dryer too. They are all very small tiny cells. Can you help me with reasons for this problem. Thank you for your help.

[@Profhedy]

Hello Sara…simply lovely as usual. May I ask what color brand is your “mauve”?

[@SaraTaylor]

I usually use the Amsterdam expert mauve. Often times I’ll mix a tiny bit of raw sienna and titanium white.

[@CnBArtStudio]

It is beautiful Sara. Will try this for pillow base. I imagine this recipe would also work well for colored bases because the 7300 is untinted. Do you know Which other whites will work to mix in with it as non cell makers aside from blicks?

[@jeannecain9541]

Well! That’s as near perfect as we humans can get…!Txz for your perseverance and generosity! Could you suggest a substitute for Josagnio varnish ?Jeanne

[@SaraTaylor]

I don’t always use Josagno, it’s a good additive, but it’s not 100% necessary. I’ve mixed my paints with just the polyurethane and 7300 house paint and it’s been fine. You will need to use a bit of water to get it to the correct consistency. The Josagnio is good for thinning it out.👍❣️

[@nonnie2428]

Hello Ms.Sara. You mentioned you would share about the translucent pour over canvass prior to adding your colors but I failed to catch that recipe some how. It’s so pretty with the gold underneath it & I would like to know how to do that. I checked in the description box below but still don’t understand 😕. Loved the painting !

[@SaraTaylor]

Are you referring to the Translucent Pearl basecoat? I do have a video on that under my translucent Pearl playlist.

[@nonnie2428]

@@SaraTaylor yes ma’am

[@iLUVEoz]

Love all your paintings and appreciate your tutorials so much!! I’m wondering where you got the pallet knife? I’ve looked and cannot find anything like it.

[@iLUVEoz]

The one that looks like a pedal or duck bill 😊 not sure how to describe it.

[@SaraTaylor]

You can get them at Fluid Art Co, they have a wonderful website! fluid-art.co/collections/tools/products/standard-fluid-art-palette-knives?variant=43649231126758 These knives are all RGM, great brand.

[@iLUVEoz]

@@SaraTaylor thank you, actually I found it on your Amazon page 👍🏻 and I love fluidart co 🥰

[@wilhat]

Art by me ,beautiful.

[@marisabermudez9891]

Hi Sara! First of all, congratulations for your gorgeous art! Any technique is just perfect. I have a question. In this pillow paint, can I replace Gac 800 by Golden color pouring medium? Here in Spain it is so expensive to have it... Thanks a lot if you answer! me

[@SaraTaylor]

Absolutely, they are actually just about the same product.👍✨

[@marisabermudez9891]

Sara it has worked perfect! So happy! Thanks again for your help!

[@sharonwhitrock7614]

Can you please share the 'ingredients' for the Mauve Mix and Nickel Azo Mix paints? Just love your pour designs and can't wait to try and master one or more myself! Thank you

[@creativeroadsartbyjulialee9973]

Ty you for your video!! This is magnificent and makes me want to try swiping Not sure why I’m scarrred lol

[@SaraTaylor]

It’s all about consistency! It’s really a beautiful and fun technique when she get it figured out.😁🙏 I do have private classes you can book on my website, we could do an hour session and I could help you with this.

[@moniquebree7736]

Hi sara, i realy looooove this peace! But What do you mean with the paint pm??

[@SaraTaylor]

PM is short for pouring medium.🤙

[@moniquebree7736]

@@SaraTaylor I know, but I was surprises about the ingredients.

[@joeycasey2323]

This is so beautiful, but I live in Canada, would you happen to have an alternative to the Blick paint, shipping from the States is really expensive!

[@SaraTaylor]

Hey Joey, you can really use any affordable white acrylic paint to mix this. The important factor here is using the untinted enamel house paint. It works beautifully!

[@joeycasey2323]

@@SaraTaylor Thank you, that's great to hear!!

[@susanbrocksmith4255]

@@SaraTaylorOh! So if I wanted to tint the pillow I CAN use acrylic to mix in with the satin enamel?

[@k8paints]

What ratio is your PM TO PAINT. I'm using the 7050 which makes them all pastel.

[@SaraTaylor]

Yeah the 7050 has white pigment in it, so you want to go with the 8300 or 7300 those deep bass. My p.m. to paint is about 1 to 3.

[@soul_kiss]

beautiful! How do you varnish your art or its not needed to be varnish?

[@SaraTaylor]

I usually do a Liquatex Varnish on these:)

[@soul_kiss]

@@SaraTaylorThank you! I found one of your tutorial about polycrylic semi gloss. Do you still use polycrylic or Liquatex better?

[@LottieOfWales]

I can’t find behr 7300 or 8300 in the United States. Where do you get your paint?

[@SaraTaylor]

I get that st Home Depot

[@moniquebree7736]

Hi Sara, how are you??? Cute kids you have! Beautifull. I am still strugeling to Find the right products here in the netherlands… are the behr products and the varatane you use water based??

[@SaraTaylor]

Sorry for the delay, yes they are all water based products.

[@silviam-artstudio]

I tried Gliden because it was cheaper. What a waste! I’m using Behr 8300 because I can stretch it a lot and doesn’t alter the pigments Love your work and your videos PS I live in the hot climate of Florida

[@SaraTaylor]

That’s awesome, I totally agree! 8300 or 7300 they both work wonderfully!😁❤️