hi everyone it's molly! welcome back to my channel thank you for being here.
i did, a while back, a four foot by four foot painting and i was going for a spiral with a swipe
through it and it came out a little bit too green and my lacing got a little bit stretched out.
so i had some recommendations maybe stretch it before you swipe so i'm gonna be trying it again
it's gonna be a big canvas four foot by four foot i'm gonna see if i stretch it out um before
i swipe how that reacts to it um it is for a commission this will be my second time at it
i do have three four foot by four foot canvases i'm hoping i don't have to use my last one but
you never know with this so fingers crossed for me let's paint
hi everyone it's molly you are far away from me on this one this is a four foot by four foot canvas
i have painted off the sides and i am going to be doing my largest swipe yet now i did one the
colors just weren't correct because this is for a commission it came out very green um so i changed
up the colors a little bit they really wanted more kind of ocean blues with a pop of orange
and yellow in there so that's what i'm doing i am gonna be pouring i have three two liter containers
here of paint i mixed up i spent all day mixing um it is mixed with flotrol and gloss medium varnish
and i'll put everything down below and then i'm going to pour some almost like reverse
ring pour so instead of pouring just the ring like this i'm going to come outward and then
pour it inward toward the center so i'm going to do three of those stretch them out a little bit
swipe with the Australian floetrol mixture and then stretch it out the
rest of the way and hopefully i'm going to get just some interesting lines and
keep your fingers crossed for me so my husband's going to come out and help me tilt
because this one is very large and i'm going to go ahead and get started so i think i'll start
with this one right here and this is what i mean by kind of reverse ring core so i'm going to start
this way and then here come all my colors
whoops swiped through it with
the container and then here is the light blue
for the contrast oh i really like that one oh i like these colors so much better already
if i remember i'll show you the other one
now i just got these these are just like pictures um containers but the
paint because it's so thick poor i don't even know if you can see this pouring out of that edge
right there is very hard so the center doesn't always get like perfect but you can just take
your finger just touch it like that in the center but i'm going to swipe through most of this so
it should be okay all right for my next one i think i'm going to come around on this side
and i've paint all over my floor i've been doing a ton of big pieces
this container is so heavy
now if i had just poured straight in the middle
i might reverse this one if i had just poured straight from the middle it would be very large
puddles and all the colors all of these colors would be lost so that's why i really tried to
reverse ring for them and stretch them out not to say that you can't but if you're working on
large canvases like that and you're doing a ring pour it's better to kind of reverse it and start
from your edges and work your way inward i love this color combination so much better
than the other one that i did the other one's pretty it's just it's mostly green honestly
and that is not what we had wanted for this so my last one i'm gonna do right here
oh there's a lot of orange i'm going to try to mitigate that right here
see i'm just swirling that on in getting some of those other colors around it instead
there we go i'm gonna swirl the i did the blue in the center on the other two
so i'm gonna swirl the blue on around and then make my way back into the center on this one
so it does not have to be perfect but that's just kind of my thought process behind it i feel like
maybe i should have had one over here but i don't so i'll stretch to this corner first to get a lot
of the paint over here so the point of doing this as a ring pour is to add some interest
so when i swipe i'm going to swipe through these sections first and then i'll decide which ones i
kind of want to dissect like that ring looks a little bit different but these two look
really cool so i may try to leave some of this intact um all right so let me get my swipe set up
man i've had a week
all the amounts of i guess i'll call them learning experiences that i had
this was uh and they were all big big canvases because i'm getting ready for a show and let me
tell you it's just things were not working in my favor but i went back to the drawing board
i thought about each of them and what went wrong and then i tried again and that's i feel like all
you can do so i just bought this at the dollar store i saw and i was like oh my goodness this is
a perfect swiping tool and i think it's perfect size to kind of swipe down through the middle
but i'm going to get my husband and i'm going to tilt this a little bit first so if i had
can you guys hear me sticking to my plastic on the floor if i what i did on the last one i swiped
like this right now and as i tilted to the edges it was very very difficult to um to move the paint
uh to sorry it was very very difficult to stretch it and hold this the lacing
so if i figure if i stretch it a little bit later in the
swipe a little bit later in the process then the lacing will kind of keep intact
and be more predominant i think i am going to pour a little bit of blue right here
you ready ben yeah okay you're on camera
pick straight up yep tilt to that corner
tilt a little bit faster
okay stop
bring it back tilt to this corner
stop drop your side
okay stop a little bit more okay stop that side drop your side and then no pick it up a little bit
okay now back towards go to that corner okay okay
okay so i'm going to layer this on get a good layer
try to get a good layer
okay wish me luck i'm going to swipe on through
so there was one swipe
and that this was okay i think my next swipe i'm gonna go with my longer one
this one's a little bit muddy so i think i'll come through this one
not muddy but
okay that was really pretty
i like this one so i don't want to swipe straight through the center of it
i do need one that's over on that side over there what do you think
oh yeah he thought i was talking to the camera didn't you
or jacob yeah our cat came to pay us a visit out here
okay last swipe
jacob
now i'm going to reassess and see if i want any more swipes in any other areas
because i actually really like the interest and the design
feel like maybe just one swipe
in this
corner even though it'll go off
that's going to stretch out really pretty i think and then i feel like
one more
i think
along this edge
okay
i just don't know we won't know until we stretch it out i guess huh
my husband deserves a medal for putting up with me and being so supportive and coming out to help me
we ended up talking to each other and basically we ended up saying like left hand up
right hand down and that's how we tried to get in sync to really stretch this out together
it's very difficult to do i had some people asking and commenting on the last one we did as well
how did you you know move the canvas together like that and it really takes a lot of communication
it's really important the way you stretch it out because that will dictate how your
lacing stretches out and where the focal point of your painting will be
at this point i knew that this probably wasn't going to be it this wasn't going to be the one
just from the way that it ended up stretching out i i liked it but still doing the lacing
stretching it and then swiping i think i stretched maybe a little too much
because i felt like the lacing was still just a little bit too small this time so my first one
lacing was too big this time i feel like maybe the lacing was a little bit small
and i'm still not completely 100 satisfied with the colors so i think i'm gonna have to go back
to the drawing board yet again one more time but i'll show you what this one looks like dry
this is like way too big for me to even get all the way in so i wanted to show you this way
first it is still not quite what i envisioned there is less green
there is more blue but i think it's it was this and just leaving that without swiping through it
i think is what's throwing me off and i think the lacing is a little bit too small this time so
maybe i'm gonna be able to do goldilocks and go let me get you over here and go in between the two
and spread just a little bit but i fiddled a lot with this one
you know once i knew that it wasn't it i was just trying different things out i do like that corner
but that was the corner that this corner and this stripe that was the piece that the other
that the client didn't care for so this will be my third try coming up at trying to create this
four foot by four foot um kind of ring pour swipe and hopefully that will be it but you know what it
does not always work out i'm learning a lot each time i'm probably gonna use this canvas as a um
canvas to kind of you know play with and see what's going on and try something different but
it's pretty don't get me wrong it's just again not what they wanted
so back to the drawing board one more time and we'll see how that one goes i like to show you
my my failure i won't call it a failure but i like to show you the things that don't work out
and the things that are successes because nobody's perfect and commissions are hard
so if you're going through this no you are not alone i've been doing this for years
and this still happens to me too all right okay thank you so much for watching. happy painting! bye!