Hey, guys, Olga Soby here, and welcome to the new
fluid acrylic painting tutorial. Today I want to do a painting with a color split base
with a little bit of twist. So, I want to create a day and night sky kind of painting.
For my night sky, I want to have dark moody blues and some movement for some depth. For the day sky,
of course, I want to have some lighter sky blue with pops of white. And in between my
day and night parts, I want to create a really vibrant flow with the colors of the sunrise.
So, those are going to be the colors. Here I have some magenta, gold, some oranges, violets. It's
a very vibrant color palette. Let's see how it turns out. Without further ado let's get started.
"Celestial flow" is a secret message today, and of course, I hope to achieve beautiful
celestial harmony in this painting. I'm working on an 18 by 24 cradled wood panel.
These are going to be the colors of the color split base, color of the flow. And I will include
the links to the exact color brands that I'm using in the description. For my color split,
I want to go for a wavy movement. I don't want to be... I don't want it to be fully symmetrical.
So this is going to be the water between my day and night sections. And
this is the color that I have, it's going to be primarily blue. I mixed some turquoise,
and brilliant blue, and some white for this color. So, I want to use this color for my
day, daytime sky but I will also add a couple other colors in it, so it looks
nice and interesting. For my night sky, here I have a couple dark colors. One is blue-green,
one is phthalo blue and one is Prussian blue for like really dark parts. I feel like actually,
I want to add a bit more of the phthalo blue in here. I don't mind if my colors overmix.
Maybe let's add a touch more of Prussian blue. Oh, okay and let's pour it out.
This is looking gorgeous. I'm gonna blow out some of these colors so they're not gonna stay
exactly like this. But I just love this deep combination of colors. So, for the lighter one,
I also want to add a bit of turquoise blue which is kind of close to the one that I
have but has a little more greenish tint to it undertone. This is an iridescent color
I need to add a couple drops of darker one as well.
And definitely want some white here.
Next, I'm gonna blow out the base to blend in the colors. So, let's get to it.
I'm not too worried about creating too much movement in the center part because this is
where my flow is going to be. But I love even the difference between these two, already has
this yin-yang, day-night kind of vibe. So next, I'm going to create my flow and I added white in
between my dark and light parts. First of all, so that the colors don't overmix when I blow it out,
and second because I'm going to be using some magentas and violet, just to help my colors stand
out better because they're quite transparent. It's definitely a good idea to use them over white.
So I really love this color, I think it will look really beautiful,
beautifully for this color palette. This is permanent magenta, and see I'm having
some over white but I'm also taking it in the dark part as well. It will create this nice
transition from more vibrant magenta to deeper shades where it dries over the dark color.
This one here it's a mix of yellow and white - interesting color. It's very opaque,
so it helps some more transparent colors stand out. This is another color, that's quite opaque.
Having a touch of violet, of course, you want some violet in your sunset.
A bit of gold.
So, there are a couple splashes of gold and silver inside of this flow as well.
And the last one here I have orange, this is iridescent orange-yellow. With this one
you need to be careful because you don't want it to overmix with blue and turquoise,
it will create mud. So I'm only adding it over other colors. Quite a bit of color in this flow
I think I'm gonna blow it out now. And if I'm gonna feel like I need more color in a few
sections I can always do that. Okay, let's do it. I think I'm gonna go from the top part first.
This is stunning. The way these colors blend with dark blue - I love it so so much.
Color palette here...I'm just loving it! And I love how I got some of the transparency
effects right here, here results blending in nicely. So time to work on some details.
The colors here are overmixed bit much, I think I wanna
do a couple more rounds.
And I want to have more flow towards this part.
Oh, look at this beautiful lacing here.
Yeah, it's all coming together. Looking very beautiful. I had to work a little
extra on the bottom part, the top part. It was just perfect from the get-go. So now
I'm gonna let it dry. So keep watching, I'll be right back!
How to mess up your painting 101? Hey, guys, my name is Olga Soby, and in this video,
I'm going to teach you how to mess up a perfectly fine painting. Let's get started.
Hey, guys, so here it is dry. It looks pretty cool from the distance,
right? But if you look from up close you will see that this painting is just full of
little nasty divots, some cracks, and a lot of not very good-looking texture.
So with this beauty, I made two major mistakes during and after the drying which created all
these problems. And I want you to use this video as a guide on what not to do. So first of all,
I moved my drying shelf, and I didn't check the level, and of course, it was off level. So
naturally, when I put my painting for drying a little bit of design shifted.
So what I did do next? I decided that I want to fix a few sections, and the next mistake that I
made is that I didn't let my initial layer of the paint on the panel to fully cure before applying
any paint on top. And usually, I wait for at least a week but with this one, I was very impatient,
so I start fixing the parts on the bottom here and in the blue negative space and I ended up adding
quite a bit of paint. And this is what has created and this is what has led to all these divots and
cracks all over this section. So why did this happen? Well, it's pretty simple, when the paint
dries the water, the moisture from it evaporates, and if you add another layer on top the moisture,
that's in the first layer, it will still find its way through creating all these divots,
and sometimes even really big cracks. So this is just a perfect example of why I always say to
make sure you wait for 2-3 weeks before you apply your varnish
or epoxy resin. Because you just have to let your paint to fully cure. You don't want to lock
any moisture inside. And trust me it is not fun for me to share something that I have messed up.
It is definitely a lot more fulfilling to share a painting that I'm perfectly happy with.
But you know what? Keeping it real, things happen. I mess up quite regularly, actually,
and just learn the lesson and move on. And I want you to use this video as a reminder or
maybe this is the first time you're hearing this - make sure to check your level of your table or
drying shelf or whatever you're using. And learn to be patient with your paintings, let them cure
before you paint anything on top, or seal them with varnish or resin or whatever you're using.
So for this one, what's going to happen to this one now? I really like it. Regardless to all these
little divots I really like the concept with day and night, I love this flow.
So I want to give this painting a chance, I'm gonna let it cure
for another I think four weeks just to make sure that all the moisture from the top layer and
from the layer underneath evaporates. And then I'm gonna do some touch ups, I'm gonna try to cover up
all of these little holes and divots. And I'm not too worried about texture, because texture...
because I'm using epoxy resin as a finish, and it will just level out all the texture. But these
parts where you can actually like see the cracks, the resin will not fix that so need to paint over.
And if this happens to you if it's something minor or this is painting that you really really like
you can definitely touch it up on top. But if you got a lot of crazing and cracking in my
opinion it's just really not worth it, just use this messed up canvas or panel as your practice
panel and learn the lesson and move on to the next one. I really hope that you enjoyed this
tutorial regardless the result, and I hope this was helpful for some of you, guys. And please let
me know does it ever happen to you? Do you ever get any cracking or crazing in your paintings? And
what do you do about it or what do you do to prevent it? I would also love to hear from you
how do you like the outcome, how do you like this day and night and sunrise colors
idea. I'll chat with you in the comments down below, and thank you so much for joining
me today. Take care, create with passion, and I'll see you in the next one! Bye-bye!