hello my creative friends olga soby here
and welcome to another acrylic pouring video
today i want to create an acrylic pouring feather
using the paint kiss technique and i get a lot of questions about this technique
and different aspects of it so today i decided to give
you a full paint kiss feather tutorial and i'm
gonna explain every step of this technique share some
of my tips and answer all of the common questions so i
hope you find this interesting and helpful and if you give
this technique a go and share your results on social media
please tag me i would be happy to see your results alright so now let's get
started with the feather tutorial
today i'm working on 11 by 14 canvas and for the feather technique i prefer
to work on a rectangular rectangular shape
rather than square i think the feather aligns much better this way
so my paint today is mixed with floetrol and
glue i prefer to work with a rather medium consistency for the feather
technique medium a bit thicker paint helps to hold
the shape of the feather better than fluid consistency and the
mixture details you can find in the video description
so for the feather technique my feather is going to go
this way so first i like to apply my base and
working on black base today
so as you can see i have applied a very thin
layer of paint almost no paint in the center of the canvas and
this is where my feather is going to be and honestly i think this is one
of the most important things to do for the feather techniques
we're going to pour some paint to create a feather right here
and if we pour over the black the overall thickness of paint is going
to be it's going to be just too thick so the feather is going to spread
out as it's drying and having a very thin layer of paint
in the center or you can even don't add any base to the center at all
really helps preventing that overgrowth or the spread of the paint
during the drying i hope this makes sense
all right now let's quickly pop the air bubbles
so for the paint kiss feather you would need two cups and i'm using those
small silicone bowls they work very well for this technique
i'm also going to include the link in the description so
to one of the cups you're going to add the color of the base so
black in this case and to the other cup we're gonna
layer our colors of the feather
i get a lot of questions about how much paint to use for the feather in these
cups well i don't have the exact measurement
or a calculation to tell you exactly how much to use but generally for
this size it's 11 by 14 a little smaller a little bigger
also works i use approximately one and a half
ounce of paint in each cup so these cups are 1.75 ounce
each and i'm not adding the paint to the rim
so this is approximately one and a half ounces of paint and this should this is
the amount that works very well for this size
i think this is great so next i like to turn my canvas a little and this is how
i'm going to be traveling my cups so keeping the canvas
on diagonally really helps to control the flow
so this is how i hold cups for the pour the black goes against the flow of the
feather and colors go towards the flow of the feather this is
really important and now let's do the feather kiss
all right this looks great so notice that the colors that were
on top of my color cup they end up in the center of the feather
and the colors on the bottom they land more on the outer edge of the
feather so i actually really like this so far
next i like to tilt my feather just a little
to help it level out
when you travel in your cup in a paint kiss
uh don't go too fast don't go too slow you will need to find the speed that
works the best for you to create the nice thickness of the feather you
also need to consider that it might spread out a little bit anyway during
the drying but if your base layer at the center is
not too thick it would not spread much so after i finish the paint kiss i look
at the design and i decide whether i want to blow out
the edges of my feather or leave it as is
today i think i'm perfectly happy with the way it turned out already so i'm not
gonna blow out the edges of the feather but if you want to
see a video where i did it check out the link right here
in the corner it also creates a very beautiful and
unique effect so now let's just add
the center line and it's going to be finished
voila the feather is finished let me know how you like this feather i
think these colors look stunning together
and some of these are metallics so gonna look even better dry
you know what before i finish up the video today i'm gonna try something a
bit different for my negative space
not much just a little glowing that's coming
from the feather i actually really like this effect
i think it's really good all right my friends
please let me know if you have any questions left about the process of the
feather creation i would be happy to chat with you in the
comments down below and as always thank you so much for
watching hope to see you in the next video
and happy pouring bye bye have an awesome weekend