okay! i did a while back a ring pour in the Amsterdam pearl paints.
i am going to do another one of those but this time i'm going to wreck it and i'm going bigger!
this time ever since i saw Rinske Douna do her Dutch blooms
with those pearl paints i fell in love with them, so thank you for the inspiration Rinske!
i have wanted to play around with them and i have a ton of techniques i want to try. I also just saw
fiona art, she just did one of her flower dips with the pearl paints and they are really cool! there is
a little bit of a difference between pearl paints and iridescent paints. iridescent is a medium that
you can add to it or you can buy the paints already with it in there but for iridescence.
you want to think about a bubble and the colors all the rainbow prism of colors that you see
in it. it will add that type of shimmer to your paints. for pearl paints paint and pigment ....
you know paint is pigment with a binder, so basically pearl paints and pearlescent paints
are paints that you basically have these almost mother of pearl type small tiny particles mixed
into the binder and that is what creates that effect. and when light hits it at different points
or bounces off of it, then it gives you that shimmer. there's also interference paints i
haven't worked much with those, but those will give you one color if you look at it one way
or one color when you look at it another way and these can all be mixed together. i was researching
pearl paints because i was really interested about how these actually how this reaction happens.
i saw a lot about interference paints and the iridescent colors as well. there's actually
not as much on pearl paints, but i thought it was really interesting and i did a little experiment
that i'll show you. i took the pearl paints and just painted them on the white
paper and then i also used a black stripe and painted them on it. so let me show you that.
okay so you can see here these are this is pearl blue, violet, green and red. i'm still waiting on my
yellow to come in, i don't have it yet but that one shows up almost like a gold but you can see
hopefully you can see how they show on a white base versus a black base
and when i first had talked to Rinske and asked her about using them,
she said it needs to be on a dark base and that is absolutely true. so you can see the difference
there in the shimmer and i also was reading about them and i found out that you can mix those pearl
paints in with other paints to create a metallic color they were saying that metallics basically
are like those pearl paints just they are much more opaque. so again, this is all just me
researching it to figure it out, so if you know a lot more about it please you can comment in the
comment box and in the description below. but enough of that let's get started! so i'm going to layer so
since i'm using a dark base i'm going to puddle the black on the canvas and then i'm going to
layer the cup in front of you and then in between each layer i'm going to put a layer of a small
layer of black as well and then i'm gonna wreck it i have my paints over here on this side i am gonna
start i think i want blue to be so pearl blue i'm gonna start with the pearl blue in the bottom here
and i'm hoping that these are all the same consistency i don't know
oh i've got a lot of bubbles
okay you could also just tap
or blow to get the bubbles out
so now i did my layer whoops black that'll be okay so blue next i'm gonna go with the red
and my paints should be good because they're not sinking on top or down below one another
i think i'm gonna do the violet next and the green last
so if i were to put them just all right next to each other i don't think that they would react
the same i still have a lot of playing around to do with these um because i just started
using them but i've had some people comment on my ring pore video that oh i've used them they don't
react the same they don't show up so and i try to keep these a little bit on the thicker side
and not put too much water in them okay so i got my green i'm going to start back over with
my blue this is a 20 by 20 cup i'm gonna fill it all the way up because when i wreck a painting
i like to draw my lines through it and then stretch it out to be whatever i want it to be
so i do like to use enough paint because it gives you the liberty
of being able to stretch it out if you're if you only have enough paint to stretch to the edges
it never works out it always stretches your design i'm just messy here okay blue red
and i think i'll only have enough room for violet
the last time i forgot i took the lids off
and i didn't know which color was which i had to paint them on the black line to figure it out
okay put these lids back on here and move them out of the way
time to paint put that back in there
okay so here's my cup it's like magic
just looks white and black at this point
stretch out a good base on there
move that on around a bit
and torch it out
okay here we go
oh i hope these aren't too thin
i'm gonna wreck it i have to keep telling myself that so it's gonna be okay molly
take my time in the center
all right so i do have some of the actual black ringed around there as well the colors are
already starting to show up i'm going to start with my small stick to wreck it
and i actually ended up getting some cells pop up right around here
i don't know if i want to wreck that center i'm going to
i'm gonna come through here
i feel like that might be enough honestly i'm gonna come in with the big stick
i'm just breaking up any like large areas of color i i think i'm done yeah i think i'm done
i can already tell that this is so i i don't know if i wanted to leave my center or not because i
haven't stretched it out yet but i feel like this has a little bit more interest to it so
i feel like this one might i might stretch it out to be offset off center not super sure yet
just working it around to each edge first and my paints are a little thin
i can just tell by the way that they're reacting not that it's gonna
change anything or be bad it's just a little bit thinner than i normally do for my wrecked pores
okay i have to hold it like this this time
and i knew that this one would go off center
but i am going to bring it back maybe i'll take a little bit more off this side
i'm just opening up the colors basically i actually think i'm gonna take it right up here
i think i'm gonna leave this alone because and i'll tell you why
as if i wasn't going to tell you why i like i don't want to
i like this river of blue that's going through there
now i'll tell you right now i see a little bit of purple i see very little green but i only put
one layer of green in there the only place that i see green right now is right there and right
there and one little strip through there and i see almost no red either so again this is all
going to depend on how you layer your cup and how you pour the paints out of the cup so i am pretty
happy with this composition as well i have no idea what this is going to dry like at this point so
i am just going to fingers crossed i'll show you what it looks like wet and then
i'll show you what it looks like dry okay so i turned almost all of my lights off
so there's a little bit of the green that that's purple that's going to be blue
there's a little bit more green and red i think
and this is that bed of like cells and river rocks i call them that i didn't want to touch
so i am glad that i wrecked that center all right so that's what it looks like
there's a little bit more green right there but i think that's predominantly gonna be blue because
blue was what i had at the bottom of the cup but let's see how this turns out
here it is look at that blue it's like an electric blue so first off boy oh boy was i
wrong because i thought all that red was violet and the violet is just there up by the green
swirled in between there's that green river so i've got tiny little specks of it the blue was
in the center of the cup so i expected that but that red really surprised me
let me see if i can get you in over here it is so shimmery so cool so i have so many ideas um so
this was a wrecked ring pour um i want to just do a regular straight pour kind of like saramac does
i want to try to maybe add these to some colors and see if i can make some really cool metallics
but super happy about this it looks very 3d the light is shining let me see if i can get my head
there so you can see it there's that center so i am glad i went through the center i feel like it
kind of brought the whole piece back together feel like the wind is blowing it that way
well right i hope that you enjoyed this video. i sure did. thank you for watching! happy painting!
bye!