hi everyone it's molly! I have missed you! I've been on a little bit of a break while I had my
show - "Artigras" and I took a lot of video clips. I'm gonna have a kind of tips and tricks
for art festivals. i've done a couple of those videos thus far, so i will kind of have what i've
been up to, and what led up to it. Then I will tell you how the show went in a video as well but
to save the suspense..... it went amazing! it was one of the best shows that I've had yet. I
got to meet so many fans i'm so appreciative of everyone that stopped by and for all the well
wishes so thank you so much for that. tonight is going to be an abstract underwater flower garden
it's going to be in really light blues and aquas and turquoise with a a white base
and it's going to be on a 16 by 40 inch canvas and i'm going to be doing two of them you'll
see one in the video but if you stick around till the end i'll show you both of them so this one's
super fun it reminds me and it was inspired by the painting that is behind me on my facebook
page so if you haven't checked that one out check that one out that was a two foot by
four foot piece though and this one's going to be a 16 by 40 inch, so a little bit shorter so i hope
that you enjoy the video again i missed you all so much i'm so glad to be back and let's paint
okay this is a long one there are actually going to be two pieces that go along with this one so
i'm gonna make one because that's all i could fit on my table and in camera but when you see
them dry if you stick around till the end of the video i will show you both of the ones that i made
he wanted a really long piece but we decided to do two instead and it's in a design that i did
actually off camera but it's the background of my facebook uh profile for my art page so
check that out if you haven't and i'm going to so i'm going to start with just white up here
and then what i'm going to do is actually blow
i'm going to put it down a little bit further i'm actually going gonna blow
the paint oh that was a bubble um i'm gonna have white up here blue i cannot talk to you
at the same time what i'm doing like why can't i do two things at one time um white up here and
then i'm gonna have different striations of blue down here and then i'm gonna blow upwards on the
corner and just a little bit into the middle so let me torch this and then i will blow it out
now you always want to give these a really good torch
and sometimes come back in and torch like two or three times
especially if you just mixed your paints and you have a lot of air bubbles in there so
i have had pinholes before because that's why we torch right is to get rid of those air bubbles
and i have come back in and just um painted back over it with just regular tube acrylic paint
um but there's an issue if you don't have the color that you originally used or if it's in an
area where there's a bunch of colors that are mixed so i just try to go ahead and have all
the colors uh to get all the pen holes out get all the air bubbles out so i blew the white back down
a little bit further this way because i am going to blow upward into it i think the hardest part
for me is because this is smaller i did this originally on a two foot by four foot canvas
this is a smaller dimension this way i'm gonna try not to blow as far up into there we'll see
we'll see how it goes okay so i'm going to start which also means don't put a ton of paint molly
i'm going to put it right up to the side though here because i want that to be able to go over
and then i'm just going to go just like this almost in like a zigzag
and he wanted light blues i normally have like a couple dark blues for contrast
but he wanted light blues and then again on the end i'm gonna come in with a bunch of color
so that can roll off the edge and i can paint that with my finger i did not paint my sides here but
this blue is pretty pigmented so i'm hoping that it will blow out pretty well okay for my next
color i think i'm gonna go with the really light blue next this is sky blue again now i'm going
in the areas that i didn't have blue before what i did for this lighter blue i took phthalo blue
and literally just mixed it with a little bit of white and it gave me almost a cerulean blue color
if i had kept going with the white i would have ended up with almost like the sky glue
it's amazing what white can do to your colors and i do want a little bit overlapping here
because these are going to blow up more and i have a lot of paint there so i think i'm good
okay now i'm gonna come in i don't expect a ton of cells with this either because i'm using
pretty similar opaque you know uh opaque versus transparency i'm using pretty opaque colors
and they are all the same brand basically so there may be a little bit of cells into the white
but i'm not using a metallic i'm not mixing a bunch of brands together so
there probably won't be a ton of cells this will probably just be a floral
okay
now this turquoise blue you know i'm going to pour it into a smaller container because
i really don't want to use a ton of it
i'm just going to go in those areas because it's very similar to the other colors
just gonna drizzle i'm just really hitting the areas that didn't have anything
at this point and then like i said a little bit more on the edges there okay so now i
think i'm going to drizzle a little bit of white throughout and then i'm ready to blow this out
and then i have to make an entire another one
but that is okay i think this will be a really nice statement piece
all right let me torch
so i'm going to bring my colors back down to the edge a little bit because what i don't want to do
is blow this way and then up this way what i'm really going to try to do is just blow up that way
i don't know maybe i should i wonder if i should just like tilt it like this a little bit and have
them run off to run down the sides oh that was perfect that is how i just covered these sides
huh
that worked out great actually
now i don't have to worry about blowing back this way to cover those sides
and they're not going to look just painted either great idea molly good job
okay now i'm going to blow these up i mean i'm not going to blow them up
i'm going to blow them upwards oh boy watch youtube flag me for
okay here we go
do
so
i like this i do it's different than my one that you'll see on facebook because
that one has a lot of darker colors in it i really love darker colors for contrast but
just a little something there this is very pretty it almost looks like a flower garden
like growing up um and then when i so like i said there's not a ton of cells but when i torch this
when i torch amsterdam paint it kind of not that i'm heating it too much but it kind of bubbles
a little bit so you'll hopefully when i do the close-up you'll see what i mean yeah there we go
it's really important you know when you're when you're working and and trying to figure all this
out to really try to figure out the reactions different chemical reactions that the paint has
that will really allow you to create pieces exactly the way that you want you know
you'll never be able to get the exact same piece in
in fluid art right but you can predict certain reactions that happen which is awesome
so i'm actually really happy with this this is what i wanted and it's i wanted it to look like
it's growing up like a little flower garden and so the other piece is basically going to be exactly
like this one and then they're gonna go side by side now the one thing uh it's actually already
got some of the flowing that i normally do i just i don't like how jagged this is
i okay i almost said it i almost said it
i didn't want that to look like horns
okay okay now i'm done all right let me show you well i almost forgot to show you
the wet result
really pretty
super simple design
but just really nice
all right i will show you the two of them when they dry okay here it is it's large
so it does it reminds me of like an abstract
flower garden and i'll show you the one that's below it too they don't look exactly the same
but i actually like it with not a ton of cells and like i said in the video i knew that that would
happen because i was using primarily opaque colors and of the same brand so i knew i would just get
some tiny cells from torching and that's about it oh i just stepped on something and that's about it
here is the one below it and it's not exactly the same i blew up the blue
blew up the blue i just keep saying i blew upwards the blue
and i had to mix a little bit more paint and you can totally see the difference because this this
one had a little bit of creative inspirations in there and you can see the difference in the cells
that popped up so almost like an experiment i just had some leftover paint i ran out on the
second canvas and i used some that i already had pre-mixed but you can see the difference so here
is when i mix my creative inspirations in amsterdam and if you don't want those then
stick with the same brand you can see so here very little cells here
ton of cells but i really like it i think it looks like a little underwater flower garden
all right thank you so much for watching! happy painting! bye!