all right, hello everyone it's Molly! welcome back to my channel thank you for being here.
I'm going to do one of my abstract balloon smashes tonight where I blend the acrylic
paint, paint the background, then add my curly cues and then balloon smash.
it's a technique that I'll be teaching at Fab and I do still have some spots open for that one. I am
going to be using.... I may speed some parts of this up, but I wanted to explain to you how I'm layering
the acrylic paint and what I'm doing. so I'm using regular tube paint. I've got Payne's gray Venetian
Rose I don't know if I might use a little bit of fluorescent pink here and I have Rose Madder
so I'm going to start with those and I may blend in a little bit of white I'm not sure
I kind of want this one to be kind of bold and then I have my regular pouring medium which is
thicker consistency than like my blowouts but it's still it's just I would say medium consistency and
then I have these little bottles that will make my curlicues and this is a little bit thinner
than the balloon smash consistency I have my paddle brushes that I will be using and these
are liquitex and then I have this cute little one that's like soft bristled the paddle brush is
actually very thick bristled uh stiff this is very soft I actually got this I think at Home Depot
and then for blending I have these really soft bristle brushes so I have I carry all
kinds of different brushes but to get it started I really just squeeze out
with you know keeping in mind where I think I want my colors and squeeze out some paint
to get started and then you'll see as I start brushing they will blend together
I'm gonna put my Rose Mater where I think I want it
and this part is all about just enjoying the process
figuring out what colors you want to use what you like
I'm going to use the other end of my stick I think I am going to put some fluorescent pink in there
and then I will take my dark color my last color
and put just some very small parts of that in there okay squirt it all out
and I might come in with a little bit of white I'm not sure yet I'm just going to
have to see how these blend so for the first layer I just take I think this is a two inch
paddle brush I don't know like a one and a half inch pedal brush a two
and a half inch paddle brush and then I'm just gonna kind of start going in
where I have color I'm just blending on out some places will be darker it's going to make
a really pretty purple some places will be much lighter and you'll want to have
a paper towel
so that when I get too much of this color because if I just brushed all the way across
I would have this same color everywhere so you want to keep the different colors so
you want to wipe your brush off every now and again and then you can actually blend
those colors together so I really like the Payne's gray there so I'm going to keep that there
and these little short stroking motions when I come back in to really blend it they'll blend away
oh I love the bright color here
so I know that this is too dark over here so I am going to add some of the light color I think
I say too dark but it's not what I wanted there so I can already tell I'm getting more color on
there so I'm just going to blend that off I'm going to wipe that off and go back to blending
so now that I see this and then you'll want to make sure you get your side so
I'm going to go ahead and do that now okay so I've got my sides and you can paint them
first but I actually like them to be the color that I have on there so if you're
paint gets a little bit too dry if it took you too long you can just Spritz with water
and keep working so I'm going to come back in because I want this
to be lighter in some areas with a little bit more pink
and I really liked the
Rose Mater right through here
whoops can't get it off my stick
and I liked the fluorescent pink up in this corner right up through there
there we go all right so I'm going to come back through now with my smaller brush that is clean
and just come right on through there and lighten that area up
and I know that I want this area with that same kind of lighter color
wipe that off come back in with this get catch my sides back up with it
just gonna lighten it all the way down through there
I really like the rosemator through here
now at this point you can do one of two things you can take a soft brush
and just blend this out to be a soft background so I'll show you that
just blending
to be a soft background you can go in One Direction like the band
every now and again you want to wipe this off I'm gonna fold it in half
or you can trade brushes completely I'm working with a dry brush here but if you
want to and this is what I like to do you can dip your brush in and then start creating lines
and this adds depth to the painting and come back in with my small one now
with a little bit where'd my Payne's gray go with a little bit of the Payne's Gray
just come on down through
and it starts to create this really cool depth that you get foreign
underneath and then you've got the pattern over top and you can crisscross your lines
I want a little bit of the lighter pink through here and that'll be my last part
I wanted a big strip of it there to lighten it up and then a small strip of it there
and that is how I blend the background for this I love it I think it's beautiful
I am going to take just a smaller brush here with a little bit of the fluorescent pink
and come back through with some smaller lines here
keep
a little bit more interest running through here
I think that added a nice touch and I'm going to do the same thing up here so with the paddle brush
definitely a bigger blend than if you use like a soft bristled flat brush
there's so much that I learned when I was doing this technique
oh okay perfect love it I'm gonna do one tiny little maybe Rose Mater right down here
and again if you mess up or want to re-blend apart totally okay just re-wet your paint a little bit
and it's no problem okay now for the fun part as if that wasn't fun enough blending acrylic paint
I could leave this painting like this I really like it that way so the next part is my tiny
bit thinner paint in the bottles and I've already down here drawn and made sure that they're pretty
good consistency but I'm just going to start off the canvas
roll it on around
and once once you run out of your squeeze that's okay you can always restart right there
but what's going to happen is where I make these curly cues are going to be where my
balloon smashes go because the pain is very difficult to come out of these fully
so I'm going to start over here get it going and again if those mess up that's okay
hold it a little bit away from the canvas stop your squeeze and then come back to it
you could even start down here
and meet it up there but again the Saving Grace of this is wherever you don't like
you can always balloon smash so now I'm going to come in with this really
pretty this is actually a table leftover color and I don't want to do too many
of these and you want to go kind of slow give it time to come out of the bottle and if your colors
meet right here and they blend together a little bit that's okay that could be another smash area
and I start it off the canvas so that I get a good running kind of go at it
now I'm going to get going a little bit more here
again around the corner is okay
and if there's air bubbles that's all right too I'm going to start off this side
right back on
I shook this bottle and I shouldn't have before I started
okay so now I'm going to come in with the fun part a little bit of purple
right where
the lines come through
and these are going to and you could do these balloon smashes
without the extra lines if you wanted as well
some of them I'm gonna add the gold to
and some of them I'm not going to puddle at all but I'll touch
what I've already puddled onto the next one
and I really this this phthalo blue is kind of harsh so I don't know if I'm going to use
any more of it I might use it maybe in just like one or two balloon smashes and that's it
I do love the gold though all right let's get to Smashing so you're going to press straight down
and then pick straight up and it's going to create the striations same thing here
oh love that one and then if they overlap totally okay that's what's going to give it dimension
go right to the side right there that's beautiful
this one right here is going to be one that overlaps
oh love that then you can make a decision of which
one you want to be your predominant one or if you want them to blend in together
do you want this one I am going to roll this one
just a little bit to blend those colors right there
this one
that's got a lot of the turquoise I'm going to put a little bit more of the purple down in there
wipe off the balloon go back down and then I will have created some of the purple striations
and I really do feel like maybe just one tiny one right there oh yeah connect my line right here
love it only thing I have left to do is I want a little bit of the purple in this one as well
oh yes yes and then just a tiny bit of purple in that one that's a smash and a smash
and I'm gonna re-smash that one I hope I want to get the same shape though to Overlay it
now I don't like that when I'm going to put a little bit of gold in there
foreign
good enough
but okay I'm pretty happy with this and I am going to let it dry and then like I said you can always
do any extra touch-ups that you need and yeah I'll take you in show you what it looks like
okay here it is and I want to show you how beautiful those are
in the center that was a smash and a smash my paint here it's still a little bit thin
I think I'm going to touch it up just a little bit more got these
super fun
but there you have it I'll show you what it looks like dry
oh this is still one of my favorite techniques the Blended background I love
always adds so much depth and interest and then look striations that are in these balloon smashes
like to paint these details would be so difficult
and these are done with the balloon it's just amazing
I don't know if you can see but these lines
they dry even though they look thick they dry pretty flat and you can just
trim them on up with the brush but yeah I love it super excited
all right well thank you so much for watching I will see some of you in October! happy painting! bye