How To REVIVE DRIED UP PAINT for Your Paint By Number PBN Paintings #fixdriedpaint

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In this video I will demonstrate my technique for reviving COMPLETELY DRIED OUT PAINT in your paint pot.

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[KaraPeterson]

Flow Aid and Clear Gesso were gamechangers for me. Thanks for all your info. You are a godsend to crafters.

[abigailbyrd]

So helpful! It was relieving my stress just listening to the music and hearing you talk about it 😊

[elizabethsirois]

I will try and get me some flow aid. My daughter send me a Van Gogh paint by numbers and the paints are gummy almost dry. Now these are acrylic paint. I stopped using acrylic for this reason. I forgot to mention that to her. Besides the fact you said they look very transparent. That is correct I have gone even 5 times over same area and still transparent. You can see the numbers. For that reason I started using paint by numbers with oil paints. Easier to thin out and more coverage. Thx for sharing dear.

[yazosoyo]

As always great info!
I’ve reconstituted paints with water and glycerin (I’m still waiting for my flow aid 🙁)
I did take it out of the pot and worked it with a spatula. It did work. It seems I have been extremely unlucky with the paints in my 1st 2 kits!
I cannot wait to finish the 2nd so I can start with my Aanabanana kits!
That painting is so cool that I would definitely switch out the paints!

[perothing]

I had a pot with a lump of blue rotten acrylic paint. I poured the stinky water out, scrapped the globby bulk in a blender, added some acryl binder, a bit retarder, a few drops of ammonia, and a little bit of acrylic medium in it, shook it for a couple of minutes in that blender and voila...the 30-year-old paint was like new.

[drunkwoodswyllia]

What is flowaid? Where can I get it or can I make it?

[FrostyMiLo]

Hi! I find your video about using this flow-aid product hopeful for my dried paint by number paints. But have your paints ever become so dried and it's like a plastic texture? I really want to revive my paints but it doesn't look like it will be liquify :/

[eepruls]

Can you explain when to use full strength flow-aid versus the diluted stuff? Is the info I read about full strength damaging the paint not true?

[eld]

What capacity is your dropper you use for Flow-Aid? 1ml? It fits so nicely in the hole in the bottle, I don't want to order ones that are too big!

[dendenpadilla]

Can this tutorial work in different brands of acrylic flow mediums?

[carlahall]

I don't have that so how do I fix my paint without it?

[chrisshaimas]

Hey Mel ive been doing som paintings how ca I send you pic of it tell me what I’m doing wrong it’s not coming out like it should

[annapurnaSingh-lppk]

Can we even regain the dried out asian paints?

[doryr.tabuena-salyers]

I would have returned it. Sellers should check their products before sending them out

[zeod]

I need a ghetto way to thin paint 😂can’t u just cut it with xylitol or acetone maybe alcohol

[MelodicEgghead]

"Push it down in there, I want to make sure all of it gets wet" 4:57 Amen sister!!! But in all seriousness, I liked and subbed because your process looks like it works, but I'm working with a quart of chroma key paint and it's only a little bit in there. Wondering if I should just buy a new quart or spend the money on flowaid... I think a quart was under $30...

[uninspiredclover]

Currently doing an old paint by numbers I bought yrs ago. Grateful for your video

[whatzup]

Boy, I didn't think you were going to make that one work at all. Good job! Guess a little patience pays off!

[wingchangwow]

I have a paint cup that was already a pain to use, but now a year later I notice some spots I missed on my painting and the paint pot has turned to a rubber puck. I tried your solution, bought some flow aid, and I've managed to break up the clump, but now It's more like mashed potatoes than a paint. I've been going at it for an hour trying to break up the clumps even smaller and I'm just making a mess. The pot is now full and spilling out. Should I leave it sitting over night or should I keep trying to mash at it?

[emilyc]

Great advice thanks! For me, flow aid changed a frustrating painting process to a whole lot of fun!