okay today i got a fun little treat for you i was working on some acrylic pours
and alejandra saw that she wants to try her very first one so ollie are you ready to try
your very first one yes okay what color are you thinking of doing pink red and yellow
okay are you nervous yeah a little bit okay well let's let's go get a shot in us and
we'll we'll take away the nervousness how about that okay yeah okay yeah all
right we'll be right back we're gonna take a quick shot to make sure she's not nervous
come on we got ART to make!
okay so i thought for this video would be fun if i walked ollie through how to do her very first
acrylic pour painting which is perfect for anyone out there that wants to try one
of their own so our very first step is is alejandra
you have to pick out three colors so why don't you do that right now
okay so what colors did you pick ollie i picked gold raspberry and orchid okay i
think those all look good so let's get to mixing the colors up all right okay
okay so ollie when it comes to an acrylic pour you want to make sure that you make
your colors flow to do that we're going to take our base paint
introduce liquid mediums into it and the medium i'm going to use is a combination of flotrol and
water i'm going to do about 30% flotrol in about 20% water mixed with our paint so ollie
get ready to mix some colors because you're gonna have to work these colors nice and hard innuendo
dramatic angle
this color is so pretty it has gold in it you like that color yeah i love it oh it's beautiful
so our next step we're going to do is we're going to take our canvas even though it's
dirty and messy just give it a nice little wipe off here and we're going to do a dutch pour so
a lot of it's going to be negative space in white we mixed up a bunch of white here and
ollie is going to pour it on the canvas and we're going to move to the overhead camera here we go
okay now comes color time so we decided that we're gonna have our colors be in our corners and then
we're gonna have a nice beautiful white band in the middle so ollie's gonna take her colors and
pool some colors here on this corner and pool some colors on this corner and then
we're gonna blow them into each other leaving a nice separation of a white band in the center
at least only that's our plan let's see if we can do it let's do it now nice drama that was the best
dramatic pause i've ever seen on youtube ever hold wait do it one more time let's do it now
okay well now just now just sounds like you're in bed faking it jeez
okay so ollie has her weapon in hand all right what we're going to do is we're
going to blow the color around now i've already explained to ollie extensively
that she wants to work from the corners and blow out to the center we're going to imagine
there's an imaginary white band coming across and what that's going to do is it's going to make it
look like colors blooming out from our corners and have this nice separation but bleeding beautifully
in the center do you think ollie can do it yes i can wow so much enthusiasm you have no faith i can
okay so ollie made a very good beginner mistake as you can see
she blew a little too hard with color which made the color ball up and spit across our
canvas here so ollie to fix this where you want to grab a popsicle stick go ahead and get one
and what we're gonna do is here hand it to me you grab the camera follow me down here we're
going to take this popsicle stick and we're just going to come in here and we're going to grab and
just pull away this color because we don't need it we can always replace it with other color
on top of it which is going to be our white color and that'll be fine and if you have
colors like this look we can just blend it out because there's so little of it it won't matter
okay ollie didn't do too bad but she needed some instruction she was a little
not confident with pushing the hair dryer
needed a lot of directions as you can see there but the one thing that we're going to do down here
is you can see this beautiful white banding we have going around these nice cells and spider
webbing but we want to keep this natural distance here but you can see this is too strong of a band
so we're going to introduce more white and then feathered in softly okay so let's do that
okay so ollie's already really liking it a lot but what we need to do is really accentuate the
colors of where they're meeting to the middle and to do this is the most light-headed part to
start so ollie over there in our little caddy is a giant straw pick your favorite color
what color is that blue blue okay come on back over here
and i'm going to show you what we have to do here because it's easier to show
rather than just explain so i'll show you at home and then ollie's going to do the rest from here
so she might just ruin her painting are you going to ruin it no are you sure yeah you're sounding a
lot more comfortable beautiful okay it's already beautiful it is yeah i think it does too okay
we should have known ollie's really good at blowing things so she did really good at that job
all right well if you're good at blowing things are you good with fire uh-huh okay fire time
okay so we popped all the bubbles with the torch and now we just have to decide if we like it or
not now ollie loves the canvas so far right yes i love it now i think it looks beautiful
but in my personal opinion i think in the corners it could use just a tiny bit of white crackle on
top now we'll leave it up to ollie but it's my youtube channel so we'll see what we come to so
guess what happened i lost the vote so we're not adding white because ollie says she loves it and
you know a woman always gets what she wants so our next step is we gotta get down on her
knees ollie's also really good at that guys and we want to look for if there's any bumps
sitting on the horizon of our canvas and what this indicates is if there's any dried paints
or chunks or spots that we did not mix up well sticking out of the paint and what that does
is when it dries it's going to add these unnatural bumps in your painting which we do not want okay
you can actually see we pulled off one right here which is a nice little paint chunk see if we can
get that my finger tip for you guys these are the things that we're trying to eliminate sorry
if that's blurry but look for these and eliminate them out of your painting and what i like to use
is this nice little palette knife to pull anything out so let's see what ollie
can find we're getting a lot of boob shots here ollie i see one you see one all right point to it
um i think it's right there right there that's a bump okay i don't know it's really small can
you hold that let's see are you lost was that the bump yep okay it's really small
no you're right got that on camera perfect example wanna drop right there
boom perfect okay i really like it all right so ollie's in love with it already so yay for
me because i don't worry about anything we got one last step we gotta clean up
our edges as you can see everything drips off the side here not making it pleasant
and even worse that you have these big old dribbles which makes it hard to hang your canvas
so what we need to do is basically just rub it out and i'm very good at rubbing it out
yeah you are
do you guys see your rose i guess i kind of see it all right ollie likes the rose i do
all right well we survived and ollie made her very first acrylic pour painting so what did you think
i had a lot of fun and i love it and i love the colors for valentine's day what's your favorite
part i love the crackles the gold crackles and i love this side it's actually my favorite with all
the gold over here yeah it does look really good it's really pretty so do you think it was tough
um no i think anybody can do it it's really fun and i think it was
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