Modern Minimal made EASY with Fluid Acrylic Art!

Hello, my name is Nate. Welcome to my art channel. I was very honored to be asked to be the guest artist for the Thousand and Below Club. This is the group of artists who are fairly new to YouTube and they haven't hit their thousand subscriber threshold yet in order to get monetized and I'm happy to do my part to help bring some awareness to their newer channels. They're all very good artists and you should follow them. So there's a playlist in my video description. I hope you check those out. Give them some love, give them a like, give them a comment and most of all, please subscribe. Since I was the guest artist, I was given the opportunity to set the rules for our little collaboration today and I like to set rules and so that I can break them. Okay, I asked them all to do something modern and minimal. The rules were that they could only use three colors and including the base coat color and those three colors had to be one opaque color, one transparent color and one metallic. For me, this is the ideal very balanced color palette because usually the transparent colors are darker. An opaque color and a transparent color when the consistency is thin gives you lots of variation because there's going to be blending and then the metallic color gives it some spark and some, you know, sparkle but also it is a good mid-tone between these dark color, light color and mid-tone. So it's very balanced and we can create something really interesting using just those three colors. You don't always have to have 19 colors and you don't always have to have your colors covering the entire surface. It's nice to have some negative space to allow the eye to rest to focus on the interesting pattern that you make or the design that you make your composition. So I'm going to do a very thin consistency puddle pour kind of thing. You can see I'm working on a 24 inch round. This is marine grade MDF and I have put on a coat of gesso on top of this and my opaque color is titanium white. This is just mixed three parts US Floetrol to one part titanium white and then lots of water until it gets to a point where it leaves no mound when it's drizzled off of the stir stick. This is the kind of consistency that I would use for a pearl pour. It's thinner than a Dutch pour and I'm specifically going for this consistency because I want these colors to move and blend a lot. I have it on my spinner but I do not plan on spinning this out. I am going to tilt it but the reason I have it on my spinner is because it'll make it easier for me to work on multiple sides. These round shapes are very difficult if they don't have a lip on the back to tilt. It's hard to pick them up. The paint comes underneath and makes it very slippery on the other side so this makes it very easy for me to kind of anchor it and brace it and tilt it without fear of dropping it or less fear of dropping it. I should say famous last words so I'm going to pour a nice puddle of this here in the center. I probably won't need all of this but I'm going to reserve some just in case and I'm going to spin this out a little bit just to spread that puddle out and see how much more I need. Yeah I do need more. Let's just go ahead and pour around. I do want to cover my whole canvas but not until I'm ready to tilt so I just want to spread this out because when I layer my next colors I don't want to pour them into a puddle. They'll blend too much. I want to maintain some color integrity but we can get fairly close with this to the edge. I want to leave some room for tilting. We're just going to move this around. See how easy it is to brace this on the spinner and tilt. I didn't want to pound in my push pins into the back of this since it's MDF. I didn't want to ruin the integrity of the surface. Okay so that's probably good for now. Let's use a torch and get rid of some of these air bubbles. There's still quite a bit of paint here so I'll be tilting a lot of this off. The good thing about a thin consistency paint is the air bubbles rise very quickly so we shouldn't have to worry about too much of air bubbles disrupting our pattern. I'm going to go with the gold first. My metallic color is tri-art iridescent pale gold and I'm going to do a nice little zigzaggy shape here in the center and then I'm going to sandwich that on either side with Amsterdam Prussian blue phthalo. I'm going to put it on both sides but I am leaving a little bit of a gap in between. I don't necessarily want these colors to interact too much together and that's it. That's all of the paint layering I'm going to do. The first thing I'm going to do is bring the paint off of the end down here. Try and kind of keep it in the center. I want to anchor that. Come around the other side and do the same and just bring it off of the edge. That's good. Bring the weight of the paint back to the center. There we go and now we're going to tilt straight down this way. Tell me that you need me, I wouldn't bother. If you're with enough, tell me that you saw me. My cold shoulder is yours since we're older. See you got what you asked with a wish. Now it wasn't you used to say how you needed a solid way to be yourself. Now you're free in every way and you see I was all wrapped up. So tell me that you need me, I wouldn't bother. If you're with enough, tell me that you saw me. My cold shoulder is yours since we're older. See you got what you asked with a wish. So tell me that you need me, I wouldn't bother. If you're with enough, tell me that you saw me. My cold shoulder is yours since we're older. See you got what you asked. Well I wasn't expecting pearl cells from titanium white and floetrol but I definitely got some. Look at this. Perfect little pearls. Aren't they pretty? Some of them were starting to show up before I even started tilting but the ones that are arising now that it's sitting and resting are perfectly shaped. The others got kind of got stretched out in fun ways. I think this is a great example of using just three colors and getting lots of interest in composition but also in color variety. Look at that. In fact if you follow the gold most metallics are also at least semi-transparent so you can see the blue underneath that gold there and it adds a really fun shadow. I love that. This is pretty cool. I like it. Fluid art, something always unexpected. So let's see if this is dry in the morning. So here we have the dry results and isn't she beautiful? I love these three colors together. That dark phthalo blue dries really dark but it's still definitely a blue and I love how it blends into the white. Still not sure how I got pearl cells with just titanium white and floetrol but there you go. Happy accidents. I love how the gold blings and brings some drama and you know you can create so much interest with just three colors. I'm super happy with this. I hope you like it too. Now let's see what the rest of the people in the collab have done. What beautiful art they've made. If you're not joining us on premiere day please go to the description box. There's a playlist of all of the videos in this collab. I hope you check it out. I hope you subscribe to somebody new and find some new inspiration and thanks again for watching. Go mix up some paints and be fearless.