Hello, my creative friends! Olga Soby here, and welcome to new acrylic pouring video.
Today I'm going to create a painting inspired by Butterfly Nebula. So, Butterfly Nebula or Bug
Nebula - it's a super beautiful, unique, enormous cloud of dust and gas in constellation
Scorpius. And it has very complex and unique structure. So it's a bipolar planetary nebula,
and it has two primary lobes that have these rounded shapes and they do look like butterfly. I
think it's so beautiful. So today I'm going to use my ring to try and create those rounded shapes,
rounded the lobes in this nebula. And I use this huge cookie cutter again to separate my
positive space from negative space. So I keep exploring different shapes and variations in my
"Dancing Universe" series, and if you haven't seen my planets yet, oh, my God, definitely
check them out. The playlist is right here. This technique is super cool. Also, in the next video
we are going to do the Moon. Ah, it's gonna be out on Saturday. I have prepared something
super special for that video. So definitely join me this coming Saturday! I can't wait to
share that video with you! And today, let's get started with this Butterfly Nebula. Let's go!
Alright, let's get started with the base. So, I want to do a sort of multi-color dirty pour. So,
this base is all nice and dynamic with dark deep cosmic colors. Here I have some greenish-blue,
and I wanna just, I'm just gonna pour colors right in. I don't really need to layer them. I don't
mind them overmixing. So, that one was black mixed with some red-violet, this is oriental violet.
I think I also want to add some magenta in it. It's a lighter color but it dries very
transparently. So I think it will also help to achieve some transparency within this flow. Okay,
this is plenty. I can always add some more if I desire so. So, I'm just going in quite a random
motion. Oh, beautiful colors. I love those colors. I think they're just perfectly what I need. I add
a touch of my dark color around. It will help me to tilt it without needing to lose too much paint.
So, I'm gonna have a little something in here, let me grab a toothpick
and raise it to here. Okay, I need to start tilting again so I can see better.
Just a little piece of dry paint, happens.
Okay, I think this base is absolutely perfect. I really love all the movement. I don't know
if you actually can see it in camera maybe it's just all looking black but there are
some nice violets and blues and they're nicely blended and creating a very dynamic flow. Okay,
so I'm going to use the ring to create first
one part of my Butterfly Nebula, and then the other. I'm just trying to think.
So, one can go like this. The corner is a little not inside but that's okay. For the colors
of my sections of this Nebula, I want to have some white, some iridescent
red-blue, it will give me beautiful shine on a dry result, and also turquoise blue.
Yeah, so all these colors. And the core of my Nebula, it has to be white. So it's nice,
bright and warm. I'm just adding some white here, and my ring will help to keep all this blowout
inside without shifting it here to maintain that shape. Next is iridescent red-blue again. Such
a beautiful color. It looks sort of pinkish but it dries with a nice actually violet tint to it.
Some of the magenta. I think magenta colors, violets - they're perfect for space because
they dry transparent and then really increase the
feeling of depth in it. So, some turquoise. This is opeque color. So I don't want to use
too much of it. Or it's going to be too much opaque and will blend with white creating
two solid open areas. A couple drops of this iridescent blue-green. So, let's blow it out.
I might have used too much white though I hope. Let's see how these cells will take over here
or not. So, I think this is perfect. Now let's carefully remove it. Nice, ah, the shape is just
amazing. I love it. I love how this iridescent sort of shines from under there right.
So, I might actually work on this corner a little more. I add some of my base color here.
Looks a little more like a butterfly. I want this corner to be a little more
dark and solid. Well, I love it. This lacing is fabulous. This is what happens when using
these beautiful iridescent colors. Okay, I wiped the ring. And now let's do this second side. So,
let me see. I want it to be sort of not fully symmetrical. I think
we don't really need to be 100% symmetrical with this composition. So,
this ring I shifted a little bit towards this corner, and this one the opposite,
a little bit towards upper corner. So let's repeat all the steps. Some of white inside.
I
pick up just a little bit of extra white, just use a syringe for that.
Okay, I do exactly the same colors. So, iridescent red-blue, some magenta,
turquoise blue,
few small drops of iridescent blue-green.
Okay, let's blow this out. I love all this transparency in this one. So gorgeous.
This is better. Okay, let's let it sit for a few seconds same as with the other one, and that
lacing is forming and pushing towards the core. So that's exactly what we want. This is beautiful.
Ta-da!
Well, it's not the ta-da yet. Okay? I just need to add a couple more things. But I love it. Wow,
I will connect this, of course, in the center but while this lacing here is forming the same as on
the other side. Man, that's so beautiful! So, I want to do the same thing on here,
I want to make it look, I want this corner to be just darker.
Yes, see it's... I tried to do it a little bit like a butterfly shape.
Butterfly wing not super defined you know but very
subtle. It's only you and I know.
My God, this is beautiful. This one I like better because it has I think better shape. I like that
I have such distinct turquoise here. Here it's more blended in. This part is beautiful,
both of these are beautiful. You know, they're the same but different. I love this brighter pops
of this iridescent overmixed with white, overmixed with magenta. Nice beautiful pink color might dry
darker. Not might - it will, it absolutely will. Okay, so next step - I want to create
more of a connection here.
No, it's kind of a mess.
You know, I think I'm gonna live it. I try to do some you know lines here but
just doesn't fit with the rest of the painting. Okay, so the last step we need to add some
stars. So, I'm gonna use some of the paint that I scooped out, it's not fully white but that's okay.
This one will be a little grayish, so I think it's even better. I will have some grayish stars
and after that, some white ones. So grayish will appear more like they're far behind,
so their light doesn't reach us. That's good.
Some bright white.
Now this is cool.
This is the perfect shape of the moon. Should I leave it? I don't like this one.
But this moon - oh, my God, this is cool.
I love it. Many stars over my sections of the wings of the butterfly too so that it looks
more transparent and you know like stars are shining through it as well.
I love it. Colors are beautiful. All right, you guys, I will let it dry. I think I'm gonna do
the touch up. So keep watching to see what we do with it, and I will be right back. Okay,
here it is dry, and this Nebula Butterfly was working out really well until it dried. Oh,
my God, it did not dry very pretty. Everything was fine but it dried so dark, and I absolutely did
not like it. So this part of the Nebula, this is how it dried. You can see that, of course,
white is quite bright but all this section is so dark, so muted and definitely not to my liking.
So I was just playing around with it on this side trying to see if I can make it work, and if i can
touch it up, and make it look organic with the rest of the painting. But actually make it nice
and bright and beautiful. And this is what I did. This part is finished. I actually really-really
like it. I think this is beautiful now hopefully. So, right now I'm going to do the same thing on
the other side, and I'm just going to show you some tips and tricks on how you can touch up
your dry painting also using fluidart techniques. So let's get to it. First of all,
I want to touch up this part - the white part. You see I made it more rounded and sharp.
Let's go work on this section. So next, we're going to do some blowing and when blowing I'm
going to be using my metal straw for that. It's much easier to blow away from yourself, so just
turn your canvas, don't try to blow like this. I mean you can do it, it's just way less convenient
and way less control. To create this beautiful feathering pops of color we're gonna do our fluid
art technique but sort of in a smaller scale. So I'm going to use all the same colors, I have some
turquoise, and iridescent colors, and white. I'm just going to blow them out in smaller sections.
Now to connect this blowout with this blowout I'm using a very small brush.
I'm drawing the line from white towards the white inside of here.
If there are some white segments inside here I'm just making them a little brighter.
So you're basically trying to create these lines. This side, it had a lot of this white
lacing so it was super easy for me to recreate this here just to extend those lines here. See
I have less of those lacing so I will actually need to draw them manually.
Hey, guys, so here it is dry and finished with layer of epoxy resin.
And if you take anything from this video - may be the fact that not everything always turns out
as planned, trust me with myself too. But I still wanted to share this one with you and I think that
every time something goes off it's really just a perfect opportunity to challenge yourself to try
out something new modifying your painting. I think that now this one looks somewhere in between the
Butterfly Nebula, the one I showed you as a reference at the beginning of the video
and the more natural real butterfly shape. I mean this shapes, they definitely look a lot
more like a butterfly wings but, yeah, there is still some transparency in layers and all the
stars so it does have that space feeling. So, definitely sits somewhere in between the two.
I think it's pretty cool. There is just something about it that gives it a very
dreamy vibe. I think I want to try doing a similar nebula again but with adjusted color palette. What
do you think? Would you like to see another try with the similar inspiration but hopefully the
better outcome? Let me know and let me know what you think about the outcome for this one. Also
even though I'm not fully happy with my nebula butterfly - check out this mini. Oh, my Goodness,
I love this small planet so-so much. I think it's so pretty, turned out really cool. And I just used
some leftover colors. So it really makes me happy. I don't know small yet super pretty.
By the way if you want to sign up for updates regarding my coming
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I'll chat with you in the comments down below, and I'll see you in the next video creating the Moon.
That one's gonna be super awesome, so definitely join me this coming Saturday! Thank you so much
for watching! Take care, stay creative, and i'll see you in the next video! Bye-bye!