Daler-Rowney System3 Fluid Acrylic 29.5ml 10 Pack
Rated 1 out of
5
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Littlewings85 from
Not fluid acrylics at all!
I got 3 of these colours in an art subscription box (Scrawlrbox) last month and was actually really excited as I've been slowly buying bits and pieces to start playing around with fluid art. Learning from online resources it is really difficult to judge how thick/thin (viscous) the paint needs to be for various different fluid art techniques so randomly gaining some was a great way to be able to see the consistency of professional, already mixed fluid acrylics for myself before attempting to mix my own - or so I thought!
Having decided to practice on some spare watercolour paper (cold pressed, 300gsm - so fairly heavy-duty paper) instead of wasting any canvases/canvas or wooden boards, I added washi tape around the edges to create a border and also to create a kind of paper 'block' to minimise buckling. Then I tried to add the paint and tilt the page to create a mini acrylic pour kind of effect....it barely moved. Looking back at some swatches I did when it arrived I noticed that it actually held its shape on the paper and created raised texture when dried; something I usually would associate with heavy body acrylics! I tried using a metal straw and my breath to blow the paint around and it was a little bit easier but if I had carried on I probably would have become woozy and passed out (that may be a minor exaggeration but the point stands lol!) I decided to use a pipette to add water directly into the tubes and then shook them to mix it with the paints. I did this a few times and tried again to get the paint to move around the paper. It was a tiny bit thinner but still barely moved. I used a palette knife to move the paint around and when this dried it also held its shape, although it was a softer, more rounded version of the paint at full thickness. I repeated the process with the water a few more times - trying to be mindful of how much water I was adding so as to not dilute the binders in the paint too much and end up ruining the paint itself - and eventually managed to get it to a consistency that would slowly move around the page and would move by being blown with the straw although it still took a lot to get it to cover the whole page and it was only from an A5 pad.
The paints themselves are great quality, as all Studio 3 acrylics I have tried have been. They are pigmented and their colours stay vibrant after drying, darkening much less than other acrylic paint I have used so the colours remain very bright and similar to the colours when wet. They are thick enough to be opaque in at most 2 layers (depending on the surface they are used on and how that surface was primed, for example an unprimed wooden panel will require a few more coats as the paint is absorbed by the wood and can remain patchy for several layers). If I were just describing regular acrylic paints I would be giving 4-5* reviews as they're great paints. However, these are marketed as fluid acrylics, and you would assume that "fluid acrylics" would be suitable for creating fluid art. Yes, different techniques require different consistencies (for example acrylic pouring/blowout techniques require paint to be very thin indeed, whereas something like a Tree Ring pour/requires it to be a little thicker so the different rings hold their shape) but you would think that it would be at least fluid enough to do some of the thicker techniques or at the very least actually move on the page/canvas and this is just not the case.
Due to the containers/tubes they are in they would probably be good for adding design elements or some basic details to a painting as they have the little nozzle bit to pour from but to be honest you'd be better using acrylic paint pens or using the paint on a small detail brush so you don't end up with any accidental splodges if the tubes have air bubbles in or you squeeze too hard.
Overall, the quality of the paints is great, as long as you don't actually need them to be fluid acrylic paints.
Date published: 2023-03-20
Rated 1 out of
5
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DaisyDoo56 from
Daler Rowney system 3 fluid paints
Great colours but unfortunately almost impossible to squeeze out after first go, they just don't flow. I keep trying but it's too frustrating!!
Date published: 2022-05-11
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