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Thank you so much for this video. I use the black and white a lot and they have run out before all my other colors. Adding only water lessened the intensity of the black, so I use added some black acrylic along with the water and it worked. Don't need to buy a new one. Happy I found this video.
Hi, don't know if you will see this given that your comment is from 4 years ago, but do you know the mixture you use of acrylic and water when you refill?
@@collinmccormack I've just started getting into airbrushing, and i reduce my cheap 50cent walmart water-based acrylic paints by 2:1 distilled water to paint to make it spray through a .3mm tip. works decently as cheap paint for practice. I haven't refilled any posca pens, but judging by the thickness of the paint, i would assume you could thin standard acrylics with a 1:1 ratio. you only need some distilled water to thin the paint and some time to experiment.. For more vivid colors and better coverage, use a better acrylic paint like Golden or Liquitex and by extension, you can use their mediums to achieve better reduction than plain old water. As an example, you can reduce your paint with some GAC100 and distilled water. I can imagine 16oz of medium and a gallon of distilled water with your paint of choice would refill several dozen markers.
I just wanna thank you so much for introducing me to these amazing paint pens! I absolutely love them and would have never known about them until I starting watching your videos. I have ordered 3 sets of multiple colors, 3M 5M and a pack of 8 bold point. They are awesome pens. And thanks for the refill tip too.
Awesome trick, works like a charm! The black Posca marker is the best I've found so far, the colour is a nice solid black (as opposed to dark grey with Bic markers) and it doesn't bleed through paper, so I'm glad it can be revived. Thanks for sharing!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! I BOUGHT THIS AT MY LOCAL GRAFITTI STORE &THEY SAID IT IS NOT REFILLABLE BUT I DO TAGGING AND I WAS UPSET BUT YOUU HELPED ME FIND OUT HOW TO UNSCREW AND I COULD USE MY PAINT TO REFILL IT!!!!
this saved me!! was running out of a color during an art project for school and i didn’t have enough time to purchase more online because no stores near me carried them.
Thanks! Great video! Ive been trying so hard to get the top off, of course i tried to screw it of the "right way", worked much better screwing it off the other way. Thanks again!
It's a cool suggestion! A pen which was not drawing anymore started to be useful again, however not with such a strong colour as before. Thanks for great tip!
Great video! Cool video most pens, mechanical pencils , gel pens, and markers are assembled for the ink cartridge to pop out like the Bic pens and Papermate ones plus Pilot G2s to refills or reuse :) I replace the ink cartridges:) Or its just a easy throw them whole in the recycle bin since the recycle sorting process will grind up the plastic and magnetically separate metal particles to remelt and reuse for something new!:)
Just an FYI for everyone, the Shaprie paint markers made in Japan also twist rightward to unscrew. The Italian markers I have do as well. But the German markers do it the normal way...that's all I've got
Well when you get a chance to get some you are going to love the pens! They are so much fun. Haha yea the Jetski was a big project. The pens don't work well on paper so I would suggest canvas. Thank you for the comment.
I owe you so much, thank you for posting this video and helping out your community. I had just gotten these pens a month ago and they already started dying out, I was very disappointed because of how expensive they are. Because of your amazing advice i was able to save my gift!
Elyse Fournier just recently did a video on how to refill Posca Pens with Fluid Inks, also water based. Messy, yes. Not just watered down paint, but the higher pigment inks. It was just the way you showed it. Why aren't all paint pens (acrylic/water-based) made refillable? Or maybe I just haven't found the secrets yet...
thought it couldnt be refilled for so long because i was turning it the wrong way. Now going to refill it with molotov paint for sure. thanx for this video.
if you want to recycle you gota use liquid acrylic varnish. if you use water then the line appears the same but it wont be able to cover over other colors at all because the pigment is weak.
That was a very handy tip!! Did you know these pens work on ice as well? My daughter learnt it from her figure skating trainer. Being a trainer herself now, her boys and girls love the markings and little drawing that make practice much more fun and easier.
I read on ehow that you are to use 1/4 paint thinner and 3/4 acrylic paint for the rest. It said to use an old dry erase marker with the felt inside removed. That wasn't going to work because the chisel tip doesn't have a housing to block and throttle the liquid. So i took apart an dried up Elmers Painters pen (which is the same as these picaso markers) and use that. It sort of works, although it's not that great. I wish I would have tried this video first considering the water based markers.
yeah I would say any water base paint will work. You can even water down some acrylic. I haven't tried that let maybe that will make for a good next video.
im asking myself if there is a EMPTY PEN that allows own fillings... like what if i fill an empty pen with acrylic paint? dows it work? or is there a specific empty pen that can do that with normal paint?
Best thing to do if you don't have pillers just take the nib of the pen add water into the pen (very less) put the nib back on take some paper to wipe out the extra water leaking out of the pen shake it (some paint might come out) then use it it's fresh and watery like it is new
And also if you see the front of the tip is dirty with other coloured paint or damaged you can pull it off and turn it the other way so now you have a fresh new tip.
Great Video... Great Information... Thank you for sharing this video... NOTE ... the background music was a little too loud, distracting and unnecessary .
Hi, I’ve not tried this yet as I don’t have any pens that are empty, but I will definitely try it the next time one runs out. Also, I wanted to ask you if there was some product, or just hot water and a q tip that will remove all the black ink from the barrel because I want to see if I can make it so that I can put in a completely different shade of paint (from a tube of any paint and, this may be something that you can answer - does it have to be water colour paint tubes or does it not matter what type of paint you use?), and then have that paint work in a pen receptacle. So that I can have my own complete different colour paint pen in any colour I choose? Do you know how to completely clean and get rid of any existing original colour? Nail polish remover? I would be very grateful for any hints on how I could do that 😃
Thank you so much for this video. I use the black and white a lot and they have run out before all my other colors. Adding only water lessened the intensity of the black, so I use added some black acrylic along with the water and it worked. Don't need to buy a new one. Happy I found this video.
did you know , you can make a new batch of watered down acrylic paint and water and add the mix?? i have had the same black pen for years!!!
Hi, don't know if you will see this given that your comment is from 4 years ago, but do you know the mixture you use of acrylic and water when you refill?
oh my god i also would love to know
@@collinmccormack I've just started getting into airbrushing, and i reduce my cheap 50cent walmart water-based acrylic paints by 2:1 distilled water to paint to make it spray through a .3mm tip. works decently as cheap paint for practice.
I haven't refilled any posca pens, but judging by the thickness of the paint, i would assume you could thin standard acrylics with a 1:1 ratio. you only need some distilled water to thin the paint and some time to experiment..
For more vivid colors and better coverage, use a better acrylic paint like Golden or Liquitex and by extension, you can use their mediums to achieve better reduction than plain old water. As an example, you can reduce your paint with some GAC100 and distilled water.
I can imagine 16oz of medium and a gallon of distilled water with your paint of choice would refill several dozen markers.
How?
no i didnt , thx
Some pens from Asia, particularly Japan is what I'm thinking of, you open the pens by turning right, not left like in the US.
There's a lot of things in the US that are made with reverse thread, for example, the pedals on a bicycle.
I just wanna thank you so much for introducing me to these amazing paint pens! I absolutely love them and would have never known about them until I starting watching your videos. I have ordered 3 sets of multiple colors, 3M 5M and a pack of 8 bold point. They are awesome pens. And thanks for the refill tip too.
Thanks
Awesome trick, works like a charm! The black Posca marker is the best I've found so far, the colour is a nice solid black (as opposed to dark grey with Bic markers) and it doesn't bleed through paper, so I'm glad it can be revived. Thanks for sharing!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! I BOUGHT THIS AT MY LOCAL GRAFITTI STORE &THEY SAID IT IS NOT REFILLABLE BUT I DO TAGGING AND I WAS UPSET BUT YOUU HELPED ME FIND OUT HOW TO UNSCREW AND I COULD USE MY PAINT TO REFILL IT!!!!
this saved me!! was running out of a color during an art project for school and i didn’t have enough time to purchase more online because no stores near me carried them.
Thank you so much! This worked amazingly! Great way to get a little more life out of my favorite paint pens!
Thanks! Great video! Ive been trying so hard to get the top off, of course i tried to screw it of the "right way", worked much better screwing it off the other way. Thanks again!
I know
It's a cool suggestion! A pen which was not drawing anymore started to be useful again, however not with such a strong colour as before.
Thanks for great tip!
Thank youuuu!! I filled the black and the red with Golden Fluid color and worked nice.
This is great info, thanks! I want to make my own custom color markers. Do you think cheap craft acrylic paint with water would work in these?
OMG IT REALLY WORKS!!! thank u for the tips for my black posca pen😁😆😊😀😃😄
THat´s genius m8!! THANKS FOR SHARING! YEAH!
This was so helpful I'm was painting something and I ran out of ink so I watched a tutorial and this was helpful 😊
Great video! Cool video most pens, mechanical pencils , gel pens, and markers are assembled for the ink cartridge to pop out like the Bic pens and Papermate ones plus Pilot G2s to refills or reuse :) I replace the ink cartridges:) Or its just a easy throw them whole in the recycle bin since the recycle sorting process will grind up the plastic and magnetically separate metal particles to remelt and reuse for something new!:)
Thank you, I should receive tomorrow my Posca pens 😊
I want to share an important tip too: gloves.
Just an FYI for everyone, the Shaprie paint markers made in Japan also twist rightward to unscrew. The Italian markers I have do as well. But the German markers do it the normal way...that's all I've got
Well when you get a chance to get some you are going to love the pens! They are so much fun. Haha yea the Jetski was a big project. The pens don't work well on paper so I would suggest canvas. Thank you for the comment.
Do you know how long posca pens usually last? I dont want to over use mine...
Oh wow this really helped cos one of me nibs dried out but there was still paint in there so I undid it and cleaned the nib and now it works again 😊
Thank you for your clear directions, this was beyond helpful.
Worked. Thanks a lot for this! Those pens are so expensive, this helps them last that little bit longer
This is very helpful but the thing i can’t do is take off the top
Same!
same its fucking hard as fuck omg
I owe you so much, thank you for posting this video and helping out your community. I had just gotten these pens a month ago and they already started dying out, I was very disappointed because of how expensive they are. Because of your amazing advice i was able to save my gift!
Best video ever!
Cheers mate...let's grab a pint sometime!!!
Thank you! you can do it just once. To get the best results just refill it with about 75% full.
Elyse Fournier just recently did a video on how to refill Posca Pens with Fluid Inks, also water based. Messy, yes. Not just watered down paint, but the higher pigment inks. It was just the way you showed it. Why aren't all paint pens (acrylic/water-based) made refillable? Or maybe I just haven't found the secrets yet...
You can mix arcylic paint and thinner together and unscrew your marker/pen and refill them. I've been using them forever.
Can you share the ratio between the paint and the thinner?
Thanks dude... definitely trying this on a few when I get in the studio tomorrow! :D ✌️
Thanks Joe!!! This is really great. Now I can buy Posca pens knowing that it is recyclable!
this is such a good way to save your poscas! i just can’t get the lid off that you need to refill with water 😂
have any advice for getting that off?
Omg same
Yeah me too!
This was so helpful
thought it couldnt be refilled for so long because i was turning it the wrong way. Now going to refill it with molotov paint for sure. thanx for this video.
Thank you man, you have fixed my posca pen!
It worked. Good to know how to open them. Thank you very much!
Can you refill the paint pen with acrylic paints?
Posca pens are water based acrylic.
this probably the best hack there is.. my non writing hand always end up all painted like yours lol.. good shit!
could you replace the water with a solvent or something for faster drying times
i was wondering how many times you can reuse/refill a marker? this is a wonderful video btw! thank you for uploading!
probably twice before it starts to fade
also9years ago lol
Thank you for this video. It helped a lot.
Thank you so much I really had to refill the black one
if you want to recycle you gota use liquid acrylic varnish. if you use water then the line appears the same but it wont be able to cover over other colors at all because the pigment is weak.
I would imagine you could buy some simple water based paint to refill them with as well. Have to be cheaper than rebuying new pens.
Just mix half acrylic, half water and add it back in. Super opaque!
Thank you. Gonna try this right now!!😊
That was a very handy tip!!
Did you know these pens work on ice as well?
My daughter learnt it from her figure skating trainer. Being a trainer herself now, her boys and girls love the markings and little drawing that make practice much
more fun and easier.
Does it work I’m scared to try it the pens were expensive
I was just about to order new black pens. Thank you
no I havent tried that I've seen it before but I'll have to give it a go. I bet you can make some cool custom colors.
OMG I NEVER KNEW THAT THX SO MUCH UR THE BEST
Tip for feeling how much water you’ve filled it with… either use warm or really cold water and you’ll be able to feel the level a lot easier
Nobody would go that far
@@brookzera218 but you'd go as far as the rest of this video but you wouldn't use the hot water tap instead of the cold water tap?
Your Posca pen videos are awesome - thank you 😊
hello i have one questions
how long do they last? like the 5m and the 3m? thanks alot great vid!
Thanks this worked really well!
Thanks for this great idea!!
Well I just recently discovered Canvas paper. Pretty cheap and no prep need. You should give that a try.
I read on ehow that you are to use 1/4 paint thinner and 3/4 acrylic paint for the rest. It said to use an old dry erase marker with the felt inside removed. That wasn't going to work because the chisel tip doesn't have a housing to block and throttle the liquid. So i took apart an dried up Elmers Painters pen (which is the same as these picaso markers) and use that. It sort of works, although it's not that great. I wish I would have tried this video first considering the water based markers.
thank you so much its so simple
Wow! great work! thanks
This is a really helpful hack. Thanks so much!
FASCINATING !
High flow acrylic paint will also work, thanks🌻
great tip. Just did it and it works great.
Should I get size 3m or 5m? What were the pink ones at the beginning?
yeah I would say any water base paint will work. You can even water down some acrylic. I haven't tried that let maybe that will make for a good next video.
Omg that works so much its soooo much batter now thanks a lot man keep it up 🔥
Your paintings are amazing
If u use them how do u make them normal colour just say u had a blue and u wanted to make it like how u got it white and dry
i got paint all over me and my kitchen.....
Sperdie lol me too
But mine is worse
Your fault
Same
How are so many people getting paint all over?? Seriously i don't understand what you guys are doing lol
im asking myself if there is a EMPTY PEN that allows own fillings... like what if i fill an empty pen with acrylic paint? dows it work? or is there a specific empty pen that can do that with normal paint?
I just got uni posca pens and the ink ran out litterally within a day, idk if that normal or bad but this is also helpful thanks!
That's not normal I have had mine for about a year a d the college rs I used most are the only ones that don't work. Hope this helped -Levy Mcgarden
I was just looking for a way to make non-refillable markers refillable lol but this works too
Great tip, thanks Joe!
You sir ah amazing! Thanks! You just saved me a whole lot of cash!
Does that trick work on other colors to or just the color black ??? I haven’t tried it yet
All colors
You are the best thank you so much for the help
Wow I’m here 10 yes later😮
thank you this really helped!
It's working thank you bro😊 6:39
Thanks! I definetly will!
Do you have any idea if its available in sweden?
Amazing video thanks
i saw a vid where u can also ake the coler and putmix paint and water then poor it into the pen
cant believe i didnt think of this lmao thank u sm for making this video lmfao
Big ones are okay, 0.7 mm are practically unscrewable though :(
i may have to pass this along on my channel but if i do I will be sure to give you credit , promise
This vid was awesome thank you!
so will u need to fill it up with more paint eventually too? and if so can u do it with acrylics?
Thank you very for the video, it helped a lot!
Thank you so much your the best
Like with the pink one will they be the same type of opaque?
I'm not familiar with the .9 pens but if its a paint pen I would say yes.
big thanks for this tip in 2022
do you have any videos on painting wings with the posca pens? if not that would be a great idea
Best thing to do if you don't have pillers just take the nib of the pen add water into the pen (very less) put the nib back on take some paper to wipe out the extra water leaking out of the pen shake it (some paint might come out) then use it it's fresh and watery like it is new
Tysm for helping ❤
great idea thank you for sharing this idea when will you be doing another posca give away
Fantastic tip, thanks!
And also if you see the front of the tip is dirty with other coloured paint or damaged you can pull it off and turn it the other way so now you have a fresh new tip.
Great! It works well! Thank you!
Great Video...
Great Information...
Thank you for sharing this video...
NOTE ... the background music was a
little too loud, distracting and unnecessary .
Hi, I’ve not tried this yet as I don’t have any pens that are empty, but I will definitely try it the next time one runs out.
Also, I wanted to ask you if there was some product, or just hot water and a q tip that will remove all the black ink from the barrel because I want to see if I can make it so that I can put in a completely different shade of paint (from a tube of any paint and, this may be something that you can answer - does it have to be water colour paint tubes or does it not matter what type of paint you use?), and then have that paint work in a pen receptacle. So that I can have my own complete different colour paint pen in any colour I choose? Do you know how to completely clean and get rid of any existing original colour? Nail polish remover? I would be very grateful for any hints on how I could do that 😃