hi everyone, it's molly! welcome to my art channel thank you for being here. I am going to be doing
the next in the metallic swipe series. this time so far I've done a minimalist swipe,
i've done almost filling the canvas swipe with just a little bit of negative space.
this time i want the negative space to be in the center and i want the swipes to come from both
sides and kind of twist and meet in the middle i have it in my head how i think i'm going to do it
i don't know if it's going to turn out that way or not but let's see let's paint
all right hello everyone i am not ready to move on yet from these
so i am doing kind of this metallic little bit of negative space
i don't know series i guess and i'm just using really two colors and white and black and in this
one i think and i haven't moved on to adding like a pop of color yet but i think i'm going to do a
swipe on this end swipe on this end negative space in the middle on this one and see if i can
curve them into each other the the curve in the middle almost like it's twisting
will be the part so i'm going to swipe up this way in this one and this way and this one and i
think i'm going to start with the black in the center so check the description below
for how i mix my paints for this one i am using Australian floetrol and Amsterdam
as my swipe and i'm just using regular acrylic paints float us floetrol and gloss medium varnish
for my colors so it sounds a little bit difficult but it's actually not that many ingredients
so i'm gonna start i was debating this one what i should do here and i think what i'm gonna do
is just start with the black in the center and stretch that out because
when i get uh oh that's a lot of black actually but when i get
when i start pouring from side to side my swipe i know is going to get a little bit wonky and i
want that part to kind of just stay where it is at least in my head that it works out that way
so i'm just going to stretch this all the way until it stops moving basically get my sides
and i've been scraping my table after each one of these and
i have a really pretty brown color metallic brown like expresso color now
which is really cool it almost looks black but it's like a brown oh i dripped a little bit
of it in there that's going to be in this painting now so i think this part is good
and then i think i'm gonna do one side at a time so now i'm going to
just that on the side
it might have been a little bit too much i might have gotten a little too zealous there
but i'm going to do so what did i say i was going to swipe up this way
so i'm going to pour my colors i'm going to start i always start with the bronze
i call it bronze copper because creative inspirations believe it or not calls this
color bronze it's the redder color and their copper is a more muted it does it looks like a
like a copper pipe but then in the other brands they call
this color copper so i just call it my bronze copper and then i think i'll end with gold
okay so see that paint is pushing a little bit into what i already had here
which is totally fine and i'm going to
pour out my white i've been just pouring the white onto this like that
and it saves me a little bit and then i can just kind of run it on along
there we go okay here we go
very slow movement
and what i'm doing is stretching the white over to create the lacing oh no oh no
i didn't swoosh the way that i wanted to
okay i'm gonna have to come in the next one i keep forgetting what i said i wanted to come in
this way so maybe i'll swoop this one on around into that i've already messed up y'all
who cares right who cares
i'm having fun that is all that matters there all right so more white down
and then i'm gonna come up i've i've lost it again from across and over this way okay
start slow oh i had a little bit of my black in there gonna carry on through
okay that did not work oh my gosh my stomach i don't know if you guys could hear that i'm hungry
so i need my smaller spatula i feel like
i'm going to leave it
i'm going to leave it and see if i can get it to touch a little bit later
so now i'm going to stretch the side out
by itself
get it to go over the side down there and then over
okay that was kind of that's what i'm going for and then i want this to kind of meet
there i'm okay with this corner i'll touch up that corner with black and then when i tilt this
one i'll be able to tilt them both and kind of get them together all right okay but i mean the
whole point is that i want negative space in the middle and that i'm pretty sure i will get
and see i put that middle down and then this side down and it's already flat perfect
all right so i did the bronze first i'm going to do gold for okay so i'm going to come
layer it the way that i'm going to swap
oh i can't but i just couldn't get that flow in my mind but i got it now
oh i think i did the same way the last time but oh well
y'all i have to eat something my stomach is like going crazy right now
so i'm gonna swipe through and this way on this one
i hope
all right you can let me know if you tried this technique
with these metallics since i started the series
still figuring out what i'm calling this one i'm not sure yet
all right so first swipe over here slow
let those cells start to form
kind of meet in the center
and again i can always add a little bit of paint drag it along through
the center so i'm not worried about that yet okay let me go one more time
and right up through here
trying to start in the colors not in the black
okay okay let's see what this looks like when i
stretch it out and then i'll fiddle fiddle fiddle with the middle
y'all how corny was that and i didn't even mean to
oh okay i'm gonna fiddle with them oh my gosh okay all right i'm gonna be quiet now
okay the one thing that i am worried about is that i didn't quite get over to there but let's see if
i can do it without going off the side no couldn't quite get there but that's okay that's okay
and then this side over here see the paint the weight of the paint started to kind of hmm
i wonder what i should do with that what should i do with that
let me tilt it let me spin it around for you
and then i'm gonna go back down here first bring that back
up a little bit here and bring that gold off the side
okay all right i'm kind of getting the look that i was going for
i'm gonna swing it back around and tilt back this way now
so back down
to this side
it's getting there it's just really slow to move which means i have a pretty decent amount of
paint on the canvas okay so now i've got it on both sides now i'm just going to take my finger
and see if i can kind of i think actually i may take oh you know what i'm going to do
i may take this and just dip it in the gold and see what that does
okay i'm not hating that
uh
i wish you could see the shimmer
that is on that
wow
this one i'm just going to maybe i'll do it with the other color
i don't know because there's not a ton of that other color on there i just got just a tiny bit
just a very tiny bit on there
i'm going to touch that with my finger
i like it
different different for sure
this is the one that i don't like
i think i'm gonna leave it
yeah i think i'm gonna leave it and i'm sure everyone will let me know
what they thought but yeah i think i'm gonna i do just feel like this right here if i just had
this kind of going off the edge there and i really wanted this gold here to kind of
continue on along
okay i think that's it i wanted it to look almost you know how smoke looks when it's kind of
billowing and it curls around itself that's kind of what i was going for so i'm actually really
happy with this and i am going to show you what it looks like this one is really interesting to me
i mean of course i love the way that this you know the lacing and the metallics look
but that right there and that little piece that's feathered out it looks
it's gonna look like like swissy smoke or something and then here is over here
just super interesting the corners just everything about it i really like this one
all right i'm going to show you what it looks like dry
here it is
the metallics are amazing and the center i actually you know at first i was like um i
don't think the center worked out well but i do it looks almost 3d right there
oh
super cool well i hope that maybe this has been giving you some inspiration
for different compositions and different techniques i'm really loving it i am gonna
try one with a white base but i don't think it's gonna pop as much as the black base does but
i'm willing to try all right thank you so much for watching happy painting! bye bye!