hi everyone it's molly hope you're doing well i'm gonna walk you through
this piece that i have made and it went through so many stages so where you see it
right now i had already laid down just a base of acrylic blended colors of gray and white and black
i then had started layering in some alcohol inks and my paint was still a little bit wet and
if you apply metallic alcohol ink over paint especially if it's not dry yet
the alcohol ink will tend to crack and break a little bit it does give a great textured look
i just felt like the painting needed a little bit more it's kind of all over the place so i
came in with some regular tube metallics after this had dried and sat for about a week or two
and i started to just play around and add some shading and add in some metallic color to some
of the of the spots so depending on the paint brand metallic that you use some of those
metallics will be opaque and some of them will be transparent and so if you brush them on lightly
then you can almost get a wash over your colors so i'm using copper bronze a bright gold an old gold
and a graphite to basically blend in some of the areas and add some more interest to this i thought
the regular acrylic paint really complemented the alcohol inks that i had originally placed on there
when i'm starting a piece from scratch and i have no idea in my head what is going
to come out a lot of times i'll paint part of it and then just let it sit for a while
and i just kind of look at it and think what else does this need to make it complete and sometimes
you can overdo it but a lot of times adding to paintings or letting them sit and revisiting them
is just something that is is really nice to do and can really advance your artwork
and i know inevitably someone is going to say that i should have put this on a table
because i'm going to hurt my back and you're right it was tough bending over doing this but
sometimes it's just nice to be barefoot and on the floor and just with your piece of art
i will show you at the end of the video what i do because there's a
lot more that i did to it than what you'll see here but i forgot to video part of it
the beginning and then at the end i last minute added some crushed glass that you'll see
so here i decided that i was going to paint over this again and drip some more alcohol ink on there
i dripped it right on top of the paints that i had just painted and i'm pouring it straight out
of the bottle and it's just kind of giving these little blobs that i don't care for
so what you're gonna see me do here is take a little piece of tissue paper
you could do this with a brush as well and i'm just kind of creating little wispies around
and trying to kind of play with it and get some type of composition in the middle
this video is cut and edited so you won't see all the time it took for me to really
look at it step back think about it take a break come back to it but that is really what art is
about for me just looking at it finding places where things should go what kind of finishes
and creates a composition that's what i love about art and sometimes when i'm doing fluid art
those are the things that i miss from my brushwork paintings the things that i don't
miss are the amount of time and scrutiny on myself thinking that it's not good enough or
that it doesn't look realistic enough and that's why i love abstract art hands down
so here i'm just doing the same thing again just taking a little piece of paper towel
you could use a brush or a sponge and just creating some extra kind of lines
and definition and the alcohol inks the metallics are amazing they dry with such a beautiful shine
i did fully varnish this painting before i put the crystals and the crushed glass on so that i could
protect all of the paints and the inks and the inks did not move the metallics did not move
when i brushed the varnish on as well it went on nice and clear
so this is golden fluid acrylics and what you're gonna see here is me
dropping this on in little droplets and then i'm going to add water to this
and the white kind of spreads out and gets this very hazy look
so you can't see it really here but i'm spritzing and spraying water on those parts
now i will say while i do this it looks great but if you move your painting at all or if you spray
too much water on the already fluid acrylics they will crack and break and you can see
there how they start spreading out and almost like little dendrites start coming off of them
now i decided i'm going to add some really harsh lines because there was so much chaos
in the middle that i just thought kind of painting out some very you know
i don't i i say harsh but then it's really honestly peaceful to me because it's large
blocks of color it lets the eye rest just a little bit
the piece that i'm working on up top it really reminds me of some type of flower
maybe not a sunflower but maybe like a sunflower and dandelion mixed together
but this piece is really just about creativity i had no idea where i was going to go with this
and i challenge you to sit down with a blank canvas and no plan whatsoever and if you do
let me know what you make i would be so interested to know here because
that reminded me of a flower i'm just kind of brushing in some lines to give some movement
almost that it it looks like little petals that are flowing through in the
wind
i'm going through and almost like a 3d look highlighting some of the black areas again
so that the metallics that are in the middle can really pop against the background and again it's
giving your eye a focal point throughout all the chaos that's there in the middle
this was a true mixed media piece for me and i'm really really proud of it
it took months to actually finish the painting came back to it bit and bit
time and time again adding a little bit more and i just really fell in love with the process
and you really have to trust the process this is you know it looks like nothing when you start but
then when you step back and get the full picture i personally think it's really really interesting
well i hope you enjoyed this let me know if you have any questions
and you can catch the end of the video where you will see how i added the crushed glass and i show
you the final result thank you so much so this one is a little hard to get all in camera because it's
three feet by four feet but i just wanted to show you some of kind of the details up close
and i'll tell you what i ended up doing to this afterwards so i really liked what i had gotten
and i just felt like it needed something a little bit more i really love kind of the play on
kind of organic shapes and then adding some of like the geometric shapes in there
i really just i just like how this looks now what i did i dyed
crushed glass with alcohol ink and added that on and i attached it with resin
and i just feel like it gave it kind of the extra texture and pop that it needed
but this was just so much fun to play around with so like i said
it has acrylic paint as the backdrop it's got alcohol ink it's got crushed
glass this is a true mixed media piece look at how that glistens
it has fluid acrylics on top that's the white and you can let me see if i can find kind of how it
how it spreads out the fluid acrylic once you put the water on it and i will say
sometimes that fluid acrylic if you spray it too much it will break let me see if i can find
like that right there
you can see it but whoops got you out of focus but the texture in this is just amazing
i really don't mind it at all i'm going to try to back up from the table so that you can see it
so i hope that you liked this one
i've been trying a ton of different things just really getting my creativity out and
on canvas instead of in my head and it's really just really pushing me to try to be better
i hope that you enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching happy painting
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