Hello, my creative friends! Olga Soby here, and welcome to new acrylic pouring video.
Let's create a moon. So I continue my "Dancing Universe" series. It's been so much fun,
some really amazing beautiful planets and galaxies you can see in the previous videos
in this new series right here. And today I'm going to show you how to create a moon or actually two
phases of the moon. We're gonna do the full moon, and we're gonna do Waxing Crescent
for this side. And for this one, for Waxing Crescent, I'm gonna show you
a new fun super-easy way to do it. I think you're gonna love it a lot. And I can't wait to see your
beautiful creations for the moon. That being said let's get started with the process. Let's go.
As you can see I have these two round shapes of my panels. So this is a cookie cutter,
and this was a box from this cookie cutter set.
And I'm gonna use it for this side of the painting. They're about the same diameter,
the difference is like I don't know maybe a quarter of an inch, so it's not really
noticeable. I have already marked with pencil where I'm going to position my moons. Of course,
it's not going to be precise because we're going to use fluid acrylics but this is just something
to give me the idea of where I want to position my moons. And now let's do the secret message.
"Dancing moon" is a secret message today. And you know moon is quite a dancer,
spins constantly, quickly, never turns face away from her partner. So I think this is absolutely
perfect secret message and the meaning behind it. And we're gonna start with the full moon side. So
I'm gonna do it the same way as I did my previous planets. I'm gonna create a look and texture of
the moon and then I will use my form to separate it from the space around it. And for my colors.
By the way, I will include all the supplies that I'm using in the description under the video.
Of course, it's going to be mostly white and silver for the colors. But I have prepared a
few other colors, we need to create some texture in these moons. I prepared a few darker colors
and a few lighter just to give it more color. So I'm pouring the white around
within my circle. This is plenty, now let's add in that silver.
This color, I think it's perfect for shadows. This is iridescent black blue.
I think it will give it a nice, soft shimmer when it's dry. But will also create
a feeling of texture and craters, and you know all these beautiful forms on the moon.
A couple of drops of an even darker one. For this one, I make some blue and magenta. So it's sort of
darker violet. I also thought it can be fun to have some pink. Light soft pink
might look interesting and a little bit of blue. Actually, this is a turquoise color.
Very-very little. Because I really want to keep that
white and silver look. Okay, I think this is actually enough colors. So I'm gonna blow it out.
Making sure that I covered everything within my ring.
This is such a beautiful part here but unfortunately, we need to blow it out,
I will need to scrape it out because this is outside. Maybe a little more right here.
I think this is pretty good now I want to climb on my stepladder to make sure I'm placing it
rather symmetrically.
Next step same as former planets. I'm gonna keep this firm to the panel and push some of
the paint away. Because the right around that's not the planet. Right right around our moon,
our satellite, we need to be adding, we're going to be adding just some dark
space color. But all this white and silver can stay. It will create very nice depth within our
space, all different movements. Now even more fun part we're going to create this Waxing Crescent.
So I want my moon since I'm planning this painting to be vertical, to be in this direction. So I
want it to be sort of tilted a little bit like this. You'll see in a moment. And to create this
shape I'm also going to be using this ring. So I'm actually going to be using it twice.
This is going to be the outside of the moon, and this is going to be the inside of the moon.
So I want to stop here for a few seconds. You can use different rings depending on the look of the
moon that you're trying to achieve. I'm gonna use the same diameter of the ring to create this line
and this line. I kind of like this look the best. If you use a smaller diameter, maybe this one is
too small, but imagine using a little bigger and keep it in the side to create this inner part,
the inner diameter. You will create a bit more sort of a cartoonish look of the moon. I feel
like this one is a little closer to nature. You can use an even bigger diameter for this inner
part. So really depending on which diameter of your rings you use you will be achieving different
look of this vaccine or then in crescent. But I'm going to use the same ring, I'm going to keep it
simple. I also really like the look that it gives. I'm going to also use my pencil.
See if I like it. See this is pretty good shape. I might touch it up when it's going to be dry just
to make it a little more rounded on the edges here but this is good for now. So for this one, it's
going to it does require more steps. And before pouring colors of the moon we are going to pour
a little bit of color of the base. I'm going for dark violet today with a touch of blue.
So this is a blue-violet. So I'm going to push it as close here to my line.
Perfect. I'm gonna put my ring back.
We filled in the negative space of our moon with the color. And now we're gonna create
the moon. So for the colors, it's all the same. Some white, mainly white and silver.
Few other colors.
Again let's blow it out.
Okay, I did not get any paint right here. But I love all this. This is really nice movement.
Let's carefully lift it up, and now place it on the outer part of the moon.
And actually this time I need to make sure that the ring at the bottom of it is quite
clean. Ah, this is so beautiful. I really love how this looks but okay. Let's place it back.
See that my shape has shifted right here a little bit.
Trying to bring it back just with a gentle breath.
But this is something that's definitely going to be easier to touch up when it will dry.
Okay, let's do the same thing and push some of the paint away.
Need to be working very carefully. You don't want to move this one, okay?
See and I just moved it. God, I hope I didn't mess it up.
Gotta make it work. So we'll make it work. Step number... I can't remember. Next step,
we're gonna add this color - the color of our negative space around our moons, and blow it out.
For this one, I'm not going to worry about this part for now. Maybe just pour a little bit. But
we mostly need to focus on creating nice-nice round forms here, especially for the full moon.
Try to keep these forms in place, this one is heavier and it's not going to go anywhere.
This is lighter so I'm going to keep it flat to the surface. Okay, let's do it.
Definitely don't like that I have too much white in few sections of this
blowout here. I don't mind a little bit of white and silver in my negative space but
this is too much. Especially right here. So.
All right, all right that's better. I want to add maybe a bit of this color.
Maybe, yeah, just a few drops of turquoise. I don't know I just feel like
it'll be nice with this violet. But I really need to blow it in, blow it out and make sure it's all
blended into the violet otherwise it's going to be too bright and will steal attention from my moons.
This is good. Are you guys intrigued to see how this is gonna look when I remove my shapes?
Cause I am super intrigued. But one more step before I do it. Need to add stars.
Then we'll lift it and see how it looks. So for stars, I think I'm gonna do white and pink.
I don't really want to add any stars inside here because technically
we can't see stars through the moon. So even if I'll get I might even paint over them.
I think this is good. I might add a few more on the dry painting. So let's remove our rings.
Shall we? Which one do you want to see first? Full moon
or this one? Let's do this one first. So I need to pop the film.
God, I love it. These parts, they need to go further. They really really do.
Push it a little bit.
You know some things are so much easier to do on dry painting. But I'm still doing it on wet. I
don't know why. Just too tempting. I'm too much of a perfectionist sometimes, really just trying to.
Yeah, this is good! I will fill in this dry painting.
To round this end a little bit. But it's going to be super easy peasy to do because we have
just the violet color there. Let's do the full moon. God, I hope I can remove this. No problem.
Ah, so beautiful. Okay, I love it! My goodness, you guys.
This is so good. Okay, I like this part. This inner part it's not super sharp and
perfect. It really bothers me but I keep telling myself inside: "Stop! Don't touch
it! You can touch it up when it's dry. Don't do it! Don't do it. You're gonna mess it up." So.
My hands itching to do it. But maybe I'll just make this thing a little thinner. Okay,
I'm gonna stop now. Guys, keep watching. Let's see a little quick touch up here, and then I
will be back to show you fully dry finished resin moons. Super pumped, super excited about this. So
we'll be right back, stay with me. All right, you guys, so here it is dry. So first of all,
what is this? So this is the part that I was messing around with. You remember when I was
trying to fix it, and, yeah, definitely didn't work out. But on the bright side, the colors
are so good. You can see all the silver and this iridescent black blue in my negative space as well
as in my moon. It is stunning. So time to do some touch ups. So let's get started with this one.
First, I think I'm gonna just pretty much cover the whole
area. I don't like this at all. So I'm just gonna paint right over, and we do the whole thing.
Okay, let's leave this one to dry for now. I'm just gonna
work a little bit on some details around my full moon also, fill in a few sections that
I don't really like how they dried. They're too light and just take away from my moon.
You know I keep looking at this painting and as much as I love it it feels a little bit out of
balance for me just because of this empty space. So I decided that before extending this part of my
crescent I want to do something with this part. So instead of making it dark and leaving it empty,
I want to fill in with the color that will be a little darker than my negative space,
but of course much lighter because I still want to keep this form.
And slightly outline
with the pencil, you don't need to press too hard, and very fine line just to direct me.
Yeah, this is good. And here I have some violet, the same one I used in the base, and some of that
black blue iridescent color. So first, I'm gonna add it maybe then I'll add some silver as well.
I'm gonna blow it out with a straw. Let's see how that turns out.
I love it. Wow, super cool. We'll need to work on this line to blend it all in.
But I want to let this part dry first otherwise it might be just
I can mess it up and I definitely don't want it. I love it.
Well, that one's drying, can work on this one a little bit.
Oh, wow. The way it looks dry and fully finished is so cool. And, guys, I think that this silver,
the iridescent blue-green, and, especially, this iridescent black blue combined with some darker
colors like violet, like in this painting, or blue, or black - they work so amazing for cosmic
and space type of painting. Because they create this depth, especially, new negative space,
right? And that shimmer in the dry result, it has very mysterious energy. And I just love it.
And of course, the silver is especially perfect if you want to create a moon-inspired painting.
So, yeah, I am very happy with the way my moons turned out. The full moon is absolutely
fantastic. It was quite perfect immediately I would say. But I especially love the crescent.
I worked on this one more when it was dry. As you have seen just really need to master the creation
of the shape with double ring technique a bit more. I also blended this edge more. I really
love this softer transition better between this part and my negative space. I also think that
adding some texture and filling in some of this empty space definitely worked better in terms
of the overall composition and balance within this painting. The interesting part about this
painting is that I initially planned to hang it vertically just like you saw it a moment ago
but it also looks quite amazing in this layout. So in a horizontal position, this type of layout
also works quite well in my opinion. So there are definitely options here and I think the position
or the orientation of this painting can be changed depending on the mood and on a cycle of the moon.
Why not? That's a pretty cool concept. What do you think and which orientation or position do
you like the best? So this beautiful Dancing Moons painting I finished with a layer of epoxy raisin
for a glossy glass-like finish. I think it works especially perfectly with the Dancing Universe
series. And a quick reminder that currently, I'm working on my epoxy resin finish mastery course.
It's still in the process, it's still in the works and if you want to be notified about release date,
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check it out. Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate! Thank you so much for joining me today!
Please let me know how do you like the outcome, I will chat with you in the comments down below.
Take care, stay creative, and I'll see you in the next video! Bye-bye!