hi everyone it's molly! welcome back to my channel thank you for being here. i am very excited for
this next series of paintings i'm doing darker bases to start. i am doing
metallic swipes this time. my first one i want it to be really minimalist,
so i'm just doing a black base with bronze and gold. it's kind of like a bronze-copper and
gold. and that's it! and then i'm gonna kind of see where that leads me. i have a couple of ideas
for some other metallic swipes so i love it when this happens when kind of something just
comes to you and you just go with it and you get to play and experiment so
i can't wait for you all to see these i hope that you enjoyed this video paint
hi everyone hope you are doing all right so i'm going to do something that i think
is going to be interesting so i did my bright line series and that was either a
white or a black base with super bright rainbow colors in the middle as a swipe
so this time i wanted to play with some and i might do a white base as well but some darker
bases and just all metallics or maybe a metallic and a pop of color as a swipe and i think this
first one i'm gonna do it super minimalist so i'm gonna use kind of like almost like the rule
of thirds i'm gonna go for a third of the canvas like down here as the focal point and have this
be just really negative black space here so i hope that's gonna work out i'm not gonna paint my
edges because when i use gloss medium and flotrol in my mixture it covers the sides really well so i
don't need to paint them i am using i need to stir it up a little bit more actually i am using
the.... i was about to say Amsterdam floetrol! I am using the Amsterdam white and Australian floetrol
mixed about one part paint to about three parts pouring medium. this is what i mean
everybody asks where i get it. i get it on ebay. the fluid art company also has this. and then i am using gloss medium varnish.
here it is. when i say gloss medium varnish it is one product and i get this
from "jerry's artarama" it i don't use it as a varnish i use it as a medium so it's a polymer
gloss medium and varnish but i like liquitex gloss varnish to actually finish my paintings
because it has really good UV protection and this creative inspirations ones creative
inspirations is normally like a student grade paint but i use them all the time um
but it does not say on the back how good the uv protection is so that's why i still
varnish over them with liquitex gloss varnish i am going to grab just a piece of paper to swipe
wipe off my swipe tool with and then i'm gonna get started. okay so i like to reuse things, so i
just take my artist loft the cardboard that comes with it. it is like the flimsy stuff that cardstock i guess
that comes on the canvas and i just reused those pieces. so i'm gonna lay this down here and this i
will swipe my with the white so the first one that i'm gonna do and i am gonna probably make this a
series as well so let me see i'm gonna start down here so i'm gonna pour a bigger puddle up here
and some down there
um so for this i am going to make this a series and i think i'm going to do like i said metallics
and maybe a pop of color i'm going to play around with negative space this is just going to kind of
be an exploration one i still have a couple from the brightline series that i want to try
i want to cover the canvas in color because i i did those pretty minimal swipes in the middle
and i want to do another swipe and scoop with a lot more color the one
that kind of looked like a turkey that one was very minimalist as well i want
to do like super bright so i do have some more of those as well that i want to do
just pop in those extra air bubbles all right so tonight is gonna be super simple
it is going to be this kind of copper bronze color
and i'm gonna do it right up in here and if i go off the edge on this side that's totally okay
and then i'm gonna do my creative inspirations gold for silver i like soho silver better
for gold i like i like soho gold as well and creative inspirations but soho
paints and creative inspiration paints they are so cell reactive it's insane
and so in my medium i'm using
floetrol gloss medium varnish and a ratio of about 70 to 30 and like i said my
Amsterdam and Australian floetrol is about
one to three parts one part paint in about i would say two to three parts
Australian floetrol and then for the paints i do about one to three as well um they're really
thick though okay so i want this to be kind of minimal so i'm just going to start swiping
you want to just get the top edge and just kind of let it start to react just like that
and that's it that's going to stretch out over there
oh wow that is gorgeous so i'm going to take my
smaller palette knife i just got these palette knives on
amazon i'm going to take the small one
and i'm just going to swipe this actual color i think a little bit down here
and then i'm going to take this white because this is like a big chunk of white right here
i'm just going to dip on in and kind of roll it on around so that i get the actual metallic color to
come through and same thing right here i think i'm just going to kind of swipe this on along
this edge
i don't
i think i want to do any more
i'm debating right here whether or not to just kind of
lift this part up
i'm gonna regret that i know i think i'm gonna regret that i should have left it alone
i mean we'll see right so all right so i'm gonna stretch this out i am going to stretch
to the bottom over here first move these out of the way and try not to knock them over
so yeah i am going to stretch to this side first and go ahead and get
my paints covered my canvas covered see here i am i can't talk to you i'm debating whether or
not i want to put a little bit more black there i wanted to save it in case i needed it up here
because i know what's going to happen it's going to roll over
the edge and then it's just all going to kind of be down here but let's see
okay
okay i like that part
this is just absolutely stunning do you still have some air bubbles
you know i haven't said it in a while those of you that watch my channel often
know what i'm talking about i'm sure i'm gonna i'm not gonna say it bubbles
oh my goodness okay so see this is all gonna kind of smush together until i get right down there
and like i said i knew that that was gonna go off that edge but that's okay
because i want this to be really minimal
i should have put a little bit more paint there but that's okay so now
i'm gonna stretch this on down this way i'm holding underneath so that i don't
see that's just going to stretch all that lacing out and it's going to be
phenomenal let that roll over the edge there
i'm gonna come up to this side up here and then
i think that might be it i might drag just a little bit along there
but i just wanted this one to be super simple
i am going to pour the rest of this paint on here because it's thicker
it normally takes a little bit more paint to cover all the sides and kind of get it to flow
all right so let me wipe my i'm like such a mess i'm step my i'm sticking to the floor because i
was painting big paintings i spilled a bunch of paint over there it's just been a go at it
okay so now i'm going to come down now the first thing i did was made sure that this right here
was moving in the center and not to the side because i'm going to come up
this way and then over to the side a little bit so now i'm stretching that out and the reason
that i did that was so that i wouldn't lose my whole design over the side initially and then
i can bring this back and i think this is about the perfect amount of negative space i want
yes
so i think all i'm going to do
is take and i can get my sides in a second i
am going to take this and kind of make it a little bit wispier
and take this i like that little dot there i'm leaving it
and then take this part up here
nope you don't like that part you don't like it you just touch your finger on it
there we go broke that back up
my hand along because there was some color underneath there i like that better
i think i think maybe i'm done
yeah i don't i i'm happy with this the way that it is it has good amount of negative space
maybe the one thing i would do is stretch this back over to the side
just a little bit let's see if i can actually do it let's see if the paint's moving at all anymore
okay bring it back
yep done i love how it kind of fades in over here all right i'm going to touch up
my sides and then i'm going to bring you in for a close-up all right this one may be a little bit
difficult i think i'm gonna it's gonna go it's gonna hang that way but i've got my lights
you'll be able to see it more when i show the finished result but look at that
and the lacing is from the australian floetrol mixed with the amsterdam
and also mixed with that gloss medium varnish and then it just kind of softly dissipates up there
so i will show you what this one looks like dry
so here it is i am so happy with this i do have my studio lights on so there may
be a little bit of a glare but that metallic it is so pretty
it dried so smooth and you know i have been straight so you know i always get those little
kind of uh little i hate to say it like booger type things and it's not from the floetrol
it's because i have my paints i'm a little messy right now but i have them in these containers and
i save them and i scrape them off my table and reuse them and when i do that the little ledges
and lips and on the inside they have um little dried pieces of paint and so i've been straining
before i use it and look how smooth it is and it's not varnished yet that's just kind
of the shine from the gloss medium but here i'll stop talking and take you in
i love it i have so many ideas for this you're gonna be seeing quite i hope you like this type
of painting because you're going to be seeing quite a few of these i have an idea for like
one on both ends i'm going to start adding a pop of color i want to do one in white
i love it when i start a new series for something but this was super minimalist
love how it fades wispy there ah super happy with this one
well i hope that you enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching! happy painting! bye