alright hello everyone! welcome back to my channel thank you for being here. I'm going to do something
really fun tonight and special. and I'm doing it as a collaboration with a fellow artist her name is
Karen from waterfall acrylics. I'm going to be doing one of her deconstructed blooms tonight.
I have not done this yet uh believe it or not um on a video at least I did one yesterday and
I made the entire video and man oh man were so many things wrong so I might come out with that
video and kind of talk to you about what I did wrong and I'll talk to you about it a little bit
here so technically it's my second time doing it now but we decided to do this she's going
to be doing one of my techniques or one that I do it's not mine but one that I do often which is the
swipe and scoop uh technique and we chose colors together she added in she said burnt umber which
Karen but all I have was Van Dyke brown so that's what I'm using and we both have been
loving orange and turquoise so those are the other two colors that we're using we are both
participating in the fluid art Boutique along with five other artists it's going to be so
much fun in October I'm actually sold out of three classes right now so there's very few spots left
at this point which makes me even more nervous to have to be teaching so many people um but I
am excited to do this one I'm gonna get started I'll talk you through some things and I am using
how cute is this I'm using a little mini blow dryer one of the issues in my last video that
I did uh the one that I tried this I used this blow dryer and let me tell you this blow dryer
on low does not blow without an attachment on it and on high it would have blown you across
the room so I've put that one to the side for now I'm gonna try out this brand new one her name's
Berta I've seen a lot of other artists use it I think Olga also uses it I got it off Amazon
it was like 10 bucks or something like that so I'm gonna see if that works I'm using my pouring
medium to try this out and then decided to use black as my cell activator so I don't know how
this is going to work but I'm going to go ahead and get started so wish me luck I made this
light powder blue color just out of a blue that I had and white one of my issues before was that
I didn't have enough paint down on the canvas to start so I'm going to really get a lot of paint
on there and just save this last little bit to do any touch-ups let me pop my air bubbles
that was the other thing I tried this other torch because I'm like on a mission to find another
torch I like because the urban creator doesn't make it anymore and I didn't like this torch I
couldn't fill it it was like difficult to fill all the butane was like spewing out everywhere
and the flame I don't really care for the flame so we're back to the drawing board
on that I'm back to using my oldie but goodie here until it runs out
thank you I somehow already have my hair in the
bed oh you're in there now buddy okay so last time I did the brown
and I think I'm gonna do that again I did I did two puddles this time
I made you a couple extra puddles I'm not sure but I'm gonna start with one up here
one down here I also used way too much paint last time maybe I'll just do one right there
I used way too much paint and then I'm gonna go with my orange
so what Karen does for these deconstructed blooms she takes a regular Bloom and she uses her recipe
so many air bubbles because I just mixed this and then she blows them with the blow dryer
which I've also never done and then she um stretches them so that they don't really look
like a bloom anymore so she deconstructs them and I think it's really cool concept
all right I am now going to add and of course this all kind of spawned from the Shelly art technique
that was released a little while back
Who does these beautiful blooms all right now so the last time I did this as well
this copper bronze that I had was like paint out of the tube it was so thick
it was like ridiculous I didn't even think about it I just opened up my cup
and poured it and it had like solidified it was not good all right one more torch
it's time to refill that with butane okay here comes my cell activator I feel like
there should be a little bit of white in this I'm not gonna do it let's just see what happens
and I'm gonna push the cell activator out onto the other color so I don't want a ton
but I might just do like one tiny little ring
I don't know that is not how Karen does this
all right
okay Karen I hope I make you proud I don't know
okay so I'm gonna blow this out okay Berta here we go do me good Berta do me good
I don't know if I should go on low or high let's see if it blows on low
foreign
things first this blow dryer is so much better two I added a little bit of extra Australian
flow trial to my cell activator but just to thin it back out because it had thickened up a little
bit and I think I may have thinned it out too much with that said I love the color combination
super interesting I lost a little bit of the orange but that's okay
this blow dryer on low worked perfectly it's got a very small mouth so the petals are very
small but the power in this I'm like amazed because this one on low look I mean look at the
this one did not blow at all so this is although I didn't have the air concentrator
on but I really like this I like the petals I'm just trying to decide if there's anything
that I want to do this right here kind of connected together so I might just
because one thing that happened in the first time that I tried this is I stretched it and
then tried to create designs within the negative space and it just didn't work out very well so
I'm going to do that now so that when I do stretch it's just gonna be done basically
oh I dropped one little drop in there
I really like this Karen you are on to something woman
all right let's stretch this out let's deconstruct it as Karen would say oh the weight of my paint is
back here I think I'm going to go this way first I actually hate to lose these beautiful blooms
but let's do it
and that corner I want to save as much as possible so that is gorgeous
down to this corner
and back over oh
I love this
oh that is pretty okay this one like what's happening right here I do not like that
I just don't like that piece right there I'm gonna have to figure that out the rest of it though I am
really happy with I may have to stretch the heck of it this way I don't know we'll see we will see
I have got paint all over the back of this campus at this point
I may end up I don't want to like super stretch it out and completely lose that corner
because I really like that corner I'm going to go off the edge a little bit
and then here I'll spin it back to you paint all over me at this point
okay
I think I may scrape this whole section right here blow another one I think that's what I'm gonna do
foreign
scrapings are going to look like with this brown in there but we'll see okay
all right I'm gonna do I have a lot of brown already so I'm only doing a very small amount
and then I'm gonna do a pretty good amount of my orange because I didn't really have that
because I layered it on the bottom of these oh I should have layered
the turquoise next and then the orange maybe I would have had a pop of it top
it's a long video guys longer than my usual ones when I do a
video I normally know exactly what I'm going to do this one I do not
gonna touch that paint into meat right there already
I'm liking this all right Berta no paint on her yet
I don't know which way to stretch at this point I love this part just the way that it is
all right I'll stretch that way first let's see what happens
I'm gonna stretch over
and up
because now the bottom part really isn't oh did I do it
do it
I feel like I kind of did it right
I mean it's definitely not as good as carrots but you know what it's it's mine and
I'm gonna take ownership of this one I am going to bring that brown back out
I can I can nope okay
I hope you're proud of me Karen
all right so I'm gonna take you down thank you for bearing with me while I struggled through this one
um I'm gonna take you down and show you all the little pieces and the bits I this is different
than just regular swiping because while I was doing it I thought like this end piece
really just looks like I swiped it but up here where the bloom kind of stayed
a little bit intact are those beautiful cells that you get from puddling over top
so that's really interesting I've got like River Rocks going through the middle here
I think that I I I'm happy with this so I'm going to show you
okay so here it is I really like it so here it is I'm gonna try to go slow
look at that that is my favorite part and this is different than swiping because you
get these clusters of cells so I've got that one and then it kind of bleeds out here into
the other colors which I think is really pretty and then I've got a little bit of the negative
space color through here which I actually really like I think it adds a nice kind of contrast
and then down here when I stretched it out it looked a little bit more like my swipe
but it's still got these extra clusters so I really like this technique I asked
Karen if I could continue on doing a few more deconstructed blooms and she was like uh yeah
so I'm gonna try some different colors of these and you know some different techniques she's
done them all though so I I was talking to her like have you tried this and she's like yeah
I've done that that's this video so but I'm just gonna play around and have fun with it
and I cannot wait for the fluid art Boutique and to see everybody that's coming and for
all the other great artists that are there and yeah I'll show you what this one looks like dry
well as Karen would say tada
I think this is so cool and can you see the metallic color there
super cool look at those cells my base color came through a little bit there and when it
dried I really do like it in the composition there like Little River Rocks look at that
I am really in love with this technique I asked Karen I was like Karen can I do
some more of these she was like yeah of course foreign I love it I have
some ideas with some rainbow colors and trying out the different swipe colors
super happy about it thank you so much for doing this collaboration with me Karen and
I cannot wait for Fab for all of those that have signed up thank you so much I will see everyone
there and I can't wait to meet all the other artists please make sure to check out the link
um I am pretty much sold out except for my balloon smash class
um but there are a lot of great artists there that you can learn from and I can't
wait to meet everyone. thank you so much for watching. happy painting! bye!