hi everyone it's molly welcome back to my channel thank you for being here i am going to do an all
blue painting tonight it is a commission for a lovely person named mark hi mark thank you so much
but i had done it one time before and i kind of blew it out differently it ended up i ended
up calling it snowflake it ended up um kind of flowing all over the canvas and he really wanted
something with a lot more negative space so this is going to be take two at it and that happens
sometimes commissions don't always work out on the first try right nobody's perfect um but i really
really want this one to turn out great for him so let's paint
hi everyone so this is going to be a commission piece but i had already done it once and while i
loved the painting and he did too it wasn't quite what he wanted and so i'm doing it again
um and that happens on commission pieces you know it's not perfect it's very hard to
if you're creating something from scratch creating what's in someone's head can be
very very difficult but it is fun to try and so i will continue doing so but i
i agreed it wasn't what he had originally asked for so i'm going to keep it and uh
get it ready and sell it that's what i do with the commission pieces that people want me to
if i can't rework it at the time then i keep it and sell it all right let me pop these air bubbles
so this is going to be a sky blue piece and i have a bunch of blues and silver
so i went with contrasting colors here i have a blue green phthalo blue and a prussian blue
and then i have a turquoise blue and the sky blue will be the base and then a little bit of silver
and white so let me blow this out the last time that i did this because i always tell you guys
learn from your mistakes right so the last time i used too much paint and a lot of you asked
how to figure out how much paint to put on the canvas for the colors it it'll depend on your
design and your technique but for this technique um for the base coat you can always use smart art
materials paint calculator if you just google that because i just go by experience i know how much to
mix in my cups for how much i'm using um and then for the colors it's going to depend on the design
like in the other picture i used a lot of color in the middle and i had to blow it all off the canvas
so it wouldn't crack and to get a design but that ended up looking i'm going to call it snowflake
it ended up looking more like a snowflake for this one i'm going to do smaller puddles
and just blow out like the regular kind of floral dutch pore that's what he was looking for
so i'm going to start now i have to remind myself to not do again what i just said
so i'm going to start with the darkest color and these are big cups too because i mixed
them for a couple different paintings so i have to remember not to go too much
and then i alternate my colors so next i think i'm going to do
the phthalo blue
again not too much
i think i'll come in with a little bit of the
blue green oops oh i'm getting to a lot
then i'll come back in
with the turquoise so before i had three big puddles like this and when you this is gonna be
after i add the white and the silver this will be plenty to kind of fan out because
he wanted a lot of negative space some people don't like that but i do
a little bit more contrast in there just some drips really
because when these color oh gosh oh boy when these drips
um when they mix together the reason that i'm kind of puddling these in different orders is because
when you blow over they're gonna mix together and then when you fan out you'll get those
beautiful cells and the cell reaction is from this i use either soho there's a fly soho or creative
inspirations and that for me is what gives me the cells mixing the different brands together
one last little tip i just mix all these and then wipe them off and you
can use them over and over again until they get old so you don't have to waste
your stir sticks so i'm going to take a little bit of white right there in the center
a little bit on these pooled parts okay and then my silver i'm just gonna drizzle over
oh man i hope this isn't too much paint again okay so i think i have enough on the canvas so i'm not
going to add any more i can look and see that i have a good layer on there
so i'm going to torch this and blow it out
and hope for the best
all right i i will put maybe just a tiny little bit right here
okay just the tiniest bit in here okay i said i wasn't going to do any of that but i did it anyway
all right let's go
wow that is gorgeous so now i'm going to blow up this way and out this way
if you don't want your paints to get muddy do not pass back over this multiple times
once you pass back over it be done with it accept it blow it out and fiddle with
your mouth or with the straw but the blow dryer multiple times will muddy your pants
okay i'm gonna blow upward this way out this way see what i get
oh this is really pretty okay so the rest of it i'm going to kind of blow with my mouth
now if you are blowing with your mouth and you want to really have something kind of float over
i would recommend putting a little bit of paint down wherever you're going to blow and then
it blows out so much easier
you guys know i like to do some curly q type action here
it's much more difficult on a large campus than it is on a small canvas
okay i'm liking that
i don't like it when the lines get kind of squiggly
unless i'm making them that way so i like them to be kind of soft
but that's just my personal preference
so
and i actually i'm not loving what i've blown so far everything i blew
on this side so far i need to kind of fiddle with a little bit more
okay i love that i love this it really looks like
the petal of a flower so i think i'm gonna try to do that up here as well and
i really want that to be a solid color
yes
okay this was pretty big 20 inch by 20 inch i must say i really like it i actually ended up taking
almost all my little uh blowouts that i did with my breath and kind of fiddling with those again
to get a softer look on the edge there and when it dries it is just going to be absolutely gorgeous
i added a little bit of dark over here and over here just to kind of bring the eye around i may
still fiddle with that one little portion right there but other than that it's done and i really
like it i hope he does too mark i hope you like it all right i'll show you guys the dry result
okay here it is i had to fiddle with this one a lot as well there's just something about
just the way i blew this this one out that i just really needed to kind of fiddle
but i really like it now it would have been fine if i had just blown it out and
kind of left it but i felt like oops the edges up here were just a little bit too
hard i wanted it to be kind of softer and then on the inside you can see that shine from the silver
all the beautiful details up through there how that blue pops out i'm really really happy with
it mark i hope you like it too all right thank you guys for watching happy painting
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