Hi Everyone, It's Kellie here from Kellie Chasse Fine Art. Today we're going to
show you how to do some string paintings and I'm testing out a few different
types of paints here for you and a couple different types of paper so stick
around at the end I do have a few others at the very end with some other colors
and we'll go over how to do this with watercolor with Bombay ink and also with
some jacquard Pinata inks so stick
around and I'll show you all the details
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little bell and you'll never miss one so today I'm going to show you how to use
A string for string painting and we're going to try a couple different options
here we're gonna try some Pinata inks we're gonna try a little bit of the
golden high-flow acrylic paints and we're going to also try some watercolor
just so you can see the difference here now I posted the video I don't know if
you saw it on my facebook page (kellieChasseFineArt) last week and it was the first time it wasn't the
first time I'd seen it I had seen it about 6 months prior to that and I tried
it using alcohol ink and it just didn't work for me and then I saw it again
somebody posted it on my wall and it had like 42 shares just from my Kellie Chasse Fine Art
Facebook page so I was like just shocked and it went everywhere
on it the next few days I saw everybody trying it so that was awesome so if you
didn't get a chance to see it I will post a link for it down below here as
well and feel free to share this one with your friends as well like I said
here I am trying just the pinata alcohol inks on some heavyweight card stock and
you can see here because the inks are fairly heavy and they just soaked in and
I really had a little bit too much ink now strings you can try different
strings this one I'm using here is a fairly thick one it's cotton so I did
soak up the inks a little bit more than some maybe some nylon ones or some
thinner strings so that was a card stock paper we're gonna go ahead and try it on
some watercolor paper and this is a 140-pound
I do not read dip this I'm just gonna use what I had in there I think that's
gonna work a little bit better because I have less ink on my string now so I'm
gonna do one side of the paper and the other side is going to be the watercolor
paper so I have a heavy book here a thick book and I just used that to kind
of press that down so as I pull that string out it's a little bit easier so
you can see the inks did go through a few pages here that's kind of cool and
here it is on the watercolor paper so again looks much better but look at this
one this one came out fabulous just the regular cardstock paper so with
the watercolor paper it wanted to suck in a little bit more and it did have a
little bit of texture in there so it wasn't quite as smooth as the one on the
left but that one is absolutely beautiful
love that one so that's with alcohol ink so I tried it again with alcohol ink on
some yupo paper and it was a hot mess I'll post it here for you I don't have
the full video but here's a picture of it
I think if I were to try that one again I might let the string the alcohol ink
absorb a little bit on the string similar to the one I did on this last
one here in the purple and I think that might make a difference but if you try
try it on yupo paper I would love to see your results so feel free to tag me
on instagram @kelliechasse_fineart and let me know what you guys thought
you could post a comment down below let me know if you've tried something
different than what I'm trying here and we would love to hear your results
because I think sharing this is always fun and everybody always has some new
ideas to bring to the table so we're gonna try some of the high-flow now this
is an acrylic paint once again I'm going to dip that string in and like I said if
you have some thinner strings you know try some different ways try it with some
different paints try it with different type of papers you know and and let me
know what you think because you know you might have some really good experiences
something I haven't tried so I'm gonna pull that out there this tended to get a
little bit tied up inside the bottle here I'll pull that out now I think I
have a lot of a lot of paint on here once again but the acrylic paints are
not quite as thick so let's just see what this does on the heavyweight card
stock here and I could see I have awful lot of paint on there but let's give it
a try now if you have a book that you don't want to ruin I would recommend if
you don't want to ruin it don't use it this is an old book I've used this one a
hundred times so we're not worried about it but you can also put some a few extra
pieces of paper in there too you don't want to ruin like if you see the purple
is on a couple of the pages there okay so that obviously was way too much paint
now it's interesting that the acrylic did not seep through like the alcohol
ink did so it contained it a little bit more but it was still very very wet and
that is not what we want with our string technique so let's try it again once
again using the same string without dipping it back into the paint and let's
see how this works again so closing that book up just
putting a little pressure on there and then just slightly pulling that string
out from the bottom it's always fun like let's see what it
does open it up a little bit better still any guess I might be still a
little bit too wet there let's see the one on the other side worked a little
bit better let's try it one more time so this is the third pull third time's a charm most
like a little shape of a question mark there all right let's see and I'm gonna
pull it out from the bottom again look through my book to find my page there we go so
that's pretty good so that worked on just a regular paper that was the
acrylic high flow so you can see the first time was horrible second time was
a little bit better and I think the third time was really the best out of
that one so a little bit less ink and again I have a very thick string so that
really could make a difference so let's go ahead and try some watercolor have my
little tub here when I fill it up with just a little bit of water and I'm gonna
put the my big brush in here and get some pigment out of it
this is alizarin crimson and I am dipping that in. Now I know these are artists quality
paints so the pigments a little bit stronger but it's gonna be still quite
light because I have quite a bit of water in here so let's grab our string we're
gonna dip that string into our container here I'm just gonna use my brush here to
move that around kind of squish it down in there now you can see how light the
string is it's very it's a very light pink so I'm expecting this to be quite
light when we pull this out of here we're gonna head go ahead and try this
on some watercolor paper again and like I said try them on different papers see
what you think I think it's all part of the fun
so this one I have just the card stock here I'm just gonna fold this right in
half now I don't have to waste two pieces of paper this would make perfect
card you can do these all day if it turns out good so let's pull that out of
there see if I get any drips off there and
don't lay that string down there no particular order close that one up close
the book I'm smoothing that to the edge there and again pushing down on it and
I'm gonna pull that string right out okay let's see what we got
ooh that's pretty still a little wet there but that that came out nice it's
very pale very light and airy looking so that's a winner that works I think
these are all working really pretty good all right so for the last little trial
here let's go ahead and try the Bombay ink now this actually was the first one
that I used that worked this was actually one of my favorites to work
with but since then I've tried some of the others and I was pleasantly
surprised at how well they actually worked if you had the right amount of
ink or the right amount of pigment on your string so the Bombay ink I'm gonna
give it a little bit of shake here and grab my string once again and this is
black this is very elegant I think this one turned out very pretty so again
using my heavyweight string not even quite an arm length here of string that
depending on the size of your paper you know more paper you have the longer you
you want your string but you just want to make sure that you don't have the ink
all the way to the very end of it so leave yourself a little bit of room to
pull that way doesn't get all over your hands and I'm just using the dropper
here just to kind of push this in makes it a little easier I grabbed I think a
little bit more string on this one that I have on the other ones
now if you are interested in my online classes don't forget to check those out
they are on my website at www.kelliechassefineart.com and if you have tried this string technique
make sure you leave a comment down below like I said earlier and let us know how
it went share your stories so I'm gonna pull
this out of here now oh that really tied up I was I thought initially that was a
big clump of something you might hate but it's actually the string I'm just
gonna un-knot this you're that there we go
that funny how that just wraps right up in there let's move that aside and we'll
plop this down on the heavyweight card stock again
these are just regular sheets of paper by the way and I'll give it a little
spin here got a little bit on my paper well that's alright let's lay another
sheet on top and again pushing down giving a little pressure and pulling the
string out from the bottom last one let's make it count
right so that kind of come through a little bit - ooh look at that one that
one's a little messier in though on the right the one on the left came out
absolutely almost perfect look at that ooh I think the black is very elegant so
this is my absolute favorite let me know what you think give me a comment down
below tell me which color was your favorite now I decided to take my little
gold pen I love this thing just to jazz it up a little bit this is a little gel
pen and I have all of my supplies here my Amazon Shop if you want to check that
out I have them listed in there including the Bombay inks the alcohol
inks and even the water colors too and the Pens are on there so if you just
head over to the main page there there's a link up at the top says purchase
products anything that you purchase there I appreciate it because like
a little portion and it helps me buy it more supply so I can continue to do
these free YouTube videos which I really enjoy cuz I really get to play with
these so I'm just gonna doctor this up a little bit you could use the white gel
pen you could use silver let your imagination run wild I recently did a
alcohol ink doodling Zen doodle course on our conference that we had for the
alcohol in our community and that if you saw that this is another great way to
doodle
so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this and if you want to see some other videos
I'll post a link here for you so you can check out a few of my other alcohol ink
videos on YouTube I do have a playlist here for you and I look forward to
seeing you guys next Tuesday and we will see you soon take care have a great week