hi everyone it's molly, welcome back to my channel thank you so much for being here!
today you're gonna see a piece that i created a couple of months ago. i let it sit for a while
i had my show for Artigras and i'll be doing a video i think it's going to be my next video
about how that went, but i didn't know if i was going to use it or not. i was really
working on these pieces for a commission and i guess the point of today's video is
everybody messes up everybody has paintings that they don't like
but i would let them sit for a while and then maybe paint over them embellish them
and sometimes they will grow on you so that's what happened to this one so i'll show you at the end
as well because i didn't even think i was going to keep this painting i didn't show the wet result
i didn't do like a video of the dry result i just let this painting sit in my house for a while
so um i ended up not really filming anything else for it but then they really grew on me
and i decided to put them in the show and two of them actually sold so um so i will
show you what i have at the end from my tent so that you can at least see how it turned out
but i hope that you enjoyed the video and i will follow back up with you again at the end
hi everyone it's molly what a doozy today has been i have spilled a bucket of paint on my
table a bucket of paint in my floor then i slid through the paint on the floor almost did a split
i you know i just got paint on my jeans so now these are my new painting jeans i just you know
i have also tried this painting i was doing out different mixtures i've probably done like 15 of
these paintings small and large over the past week i've been doing a bunch of different um versions
of this so i'm doing a pearl cell pour um some of the artists i'll try to list them down below but
mellie d elise fournier bonnie keane sarah taylor and dwight porce they all do beautiful ones and
i'm sure there's others as well i think uh pieces of tara artistry but i've been doing them for
a long time too i think probably the first people that i saw were um
bonnie and um elise and melly d with the satin enamel so they each use different mixtures
and i am using satin enamel because i had some to use up but it only works with certain paints
so certain brands of white so you've really got to play around with this this is not one that you can
just throw on a canvas and it works i actually had some of the old school artists loft left i
had a half of a bottle so that's what i used in this um artist loft flow acrylic type or white
um and then i'm using amsterdam and creative inspirations for my colors but you also have to
make sure that your canvas is tight super tight my canvas i started on a three foot by four foot one
and the canvas was not tight it sagged and all my cells stretched out towards the center um and
the next one i used and i was trying amsterdam titanium white that does not work as well to
create the cells um then i was using my creative inspirations and it was just kind of running all
over the place i did add a little bit of creative inspirations to this just to make it up to par
but i have flow trawl and i'll put everything in the description flow troll gac 800 and water and
paint and satin enamel my colors i just have flow troll and gac 800 so i'm going to cover the bait
i'm sticking to the floor i'm just going to cover the base with white um and then i am going to and
i'm going to paint my sides really quick too but i'm going to cover the base in white and then i'm
going to pour them in a swirl tilt it out and then the pearl cells will form from the reaction of the
satin enamel coming through so again i'll list all the artists that have done this technique um
to give them credit in the description as well it is a super fun technique but there are so
many nuances to it it is insane so um all right and then i've also set the
canvas already on my drying table leveled it out so that hopefully nothing will move
um this time around so i've done multiple ones of this and it's just oh sometimes it's a struggle
okay all right so let me paint my sides and i'll be right back
and the saga continues i just went to grab my sky blue light and i am out
so i had to dig through the garbage can for the end of my oh i should just go home
oh my goodness i don't know if you'll ever see this video or not um i had to dig through the
trash can to get out the last of it i mixed it up for a big fourth of my forefoot that i'm doing
so i'm like all over the place because i'm getting ready for artigras which is
the art festival that's here in south florida it's february 19th and 20th and i'm just like you know
just going full speed ahead to try to get all of this done okay so here we go i would not be
i swear to you i was just about to say i will not be surprised if i spill this and i spilled it
like some days the painting gods or whatever you want to call it they're just not with you
okay or they're with you but you know just it's not meant to be so i'm going to spread
this out this is just a cake spatula you know so you just have to laugh at yourself because
every now and again you know it doesn't happen like this often but every now and
again i get nights like this that are just brutal everything is wrong nothing goes right but it's
been like that for for me for a week now so hopefully the mojo comes back in full force
it's still sticking to my floor
oh man
okay and the reason that i painted my siding especially for this the paints are
very thin um and so probably about like my blow dryer technique maybe just a little bit thicker
than that but because they're so thin and because the satin enamel reacts especially on the edges
it um it's really really important that you get good coverage you could always just paint the
entire side like a solid color if you wanted or you could try to touch it up but the cells will
go down the side too so it's much harder for me all right so what i also like to do because this
reacts a lot i like to scrape a little bit in the middle so that paint will actually adhere
to the canvas itself and i won't get as much of a reaction in some places so i like to do that
that is totally up to you whatever you want to do but the reaction itself will occur when the paint
rolls over this white paint and you'll see what i'm talking about there so that is
enough and i have some left over because she wants two pieces let me torch this
when you torch you are not torching for a super long time
it's really just kind of torch poppy air bubbles and then be done with it all right
what i'm going to do for my cup i'm going to layer my paints in here and see i was talking to you the
whole time i meant to actually layer them maybe i'll just still just put my cup right here why not
the way that this day has been going so i'm going to start with my dark color in the bottom
then i'm going to go with my aqua green next and i'm just going to dirty pour them in
let me get that out of the way i just feel like
i'm gonna knock something over then i'm gonna go with my bright blue
and then i'm going to go with my sky blue light
okay and i have another cup here if i need to for more color i can do that um but i think let's
let's see where this goes from here this small cup this is a 12 ounce cup this will stretch out
across most of the canvas and she wants some white spaces as well so
sometimes you have to laugh at yourself you guys
okay i kind of want to cover this space up
but leave some in the middle okay
all right let's do this oh wish me luck please
okay now already because i mixed the amsterdam and creative inspirations i have
really cool cells that are forming which is really awesome as well i love those that's very pretty
they are going to stretch out a little bit and then the satin enamel will kind of do its job
i wonder if i should put any more paint on i'm not super sure this is gorgeous or just
i feel like i just want to leave it like this but
just creating some extra lines before i
okay
and i feel like maybe i want a little bit more
i'm just going to use the same cup i kind of want a little bit more of my lighter color there
because i've got a lot of the regular blue but she wants some turquoise
i just put i don't know
that will come off but i like that river turquoise through there as well
that's okay all right let's go ahead and tilt this out get these as far away from me as possible
all right let's go
over to this side you also want to make sure that all your paints
see i wish i'd had more white on that side let me stop that right there
i'm gonna put a little bit more white up in this corner
because i want
i don't want to have to stretch the color out so much that it loses its shape
there was enough down there
okay um so i think i'm going to come back over this way a little bit
i don't know where my paint stands are this is like this rogue part right here how did that
not get covered i don't know or like attached to the other parts i wonder if i can do it now
and then as i stretch that'll probably come off of that side all right
i am not going to flip this like a pizza right now i normally whatever my head but i would probably
break my back or something tonight so now i'm going to stretch all the way over here
okay
i told you today what's going on today
okay
oh i do wish i had a little bit more paint on but this design is not going to stay this
way it's going to sell up so i need to go ahead and get over there and lift it
oh these keep sliding everything is off
when i have days like this i just
paint through it it's you know it's no big deal you just paint through it it happens
move this back down this way some
stretch this corner out the more you stretch your paints out
the more the pearl cells will start to appear
okay
does anybody ever have that happen to them where i swear everything went wrong that day i still
remember in my head that i slipped across the floor and then i stepped in a huge puddle of paint
i spilled a bucket of paint off my table like it was an insane day for sure for painting and of
course the painting didn't come out the way that i originally wanted it was much lighter than i
expected it was the paint broke a little bit in a few places and i let it sit and i painted it again
i covered in some darker areas i really made the aqua parts pop and i really liked it then so a lot
of times if you can just if you have a space let your painting sit for a little while and you can
come back to it and you can kind of reimagine it and turn it into something that you do like i also
wanted to give a shout out in this video for all of the artists that do pearl cells so not all of
them but at least some of them i mentioned some of them i think in the video as i was kind of talking
but there are three artists that really kind of brought it to everyone's attention and that was
bonnie keane um and then elise fournier with house paint and melody with satin enamels for the pearls
then there was kind of the next generation of artists that were that was sarah taylor and
uh pieces of tara um artistry and dwight pores so that was like the next round and i'm sure i'm
missing some please uh michelle uh gali from grateful creations she's been exploring with
it too and i've been exploring with it the whole time it's never been something that's
been super predominant for me something that i've made a ton of but trying for these commissions
this past couple of months i have made so many and i must say the results are breathtaking so
pieces of tara um artistry she's been blowing them out with dutch pores dwight i love his for just
his minimalistic look sarah taylor i love hers for just the beautiful colors that she chooses in her
composition so there's so much to do with this one and so many different ways that you can make this
medium to create this effect so this one really gave me a run for my money i hope that you enjoyed
the video i hope that you enjoyed the little sneak peek of my art show and i'll be showing you the
rest of that in the next video and hope everyone is staying safe out there and staying well
and just i hope that everyone's mind is at ease so thank you for watching happy painting bye