Base Coat vs Flow Extender - They are the same right?

A lot of things about the base coat and the flow extender are the same. We want to keep as much of our composition as possible without losing it to tilting, both of the edge and rolling over itself. Both a flow extender and a base coat help this.

They are not identical in their behavior either. The more paint you have the more like each other they become. My easy answer to most people is the base coat allows you stretch from the outside in and a flow extender allows you to stretch from the inside out.

The paint with flow extender is actually on top of the painting surface with no other wet paint underneath. That anchors the paint there and lets you stretch outward. While the base coat has wet paint underneath and your main composition will slide in whatever direct you are going. Once paint drops of the edge or stays on the outside as you move around that paint gets more quickly pulled from outside in.

In this video I try to demonstrate why the base coat and flow extender are different.

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