This is looking gorgeous with a finger swipe. Hello, my creative friends! Olga Soby here,
and welcome to this new acrylic pouring video. So, today I want to go for a rainbow. And
rainbows are some of my most favorite topics when it comes to fluid painting. I have done rainbow
flow on black and white color split base, just on a white base and today it's time to try doing
beautiful rainbow on just black base. If you want to check out some of my previous
rainbow paintings - here is the playlist there. I have done actually rainbow colors with a few
different techniques. So, check it out. Today I'm working on 12 by 24 cradled wood panel. I
have taped the sides. I always get a lot of questions about it. So, because I'm working
on wood - I prime it and I like to tape the sides before the priming to keep that clean
wood edge. I really love the combination of fluid acrylics and the natural beauty of wood.
So after the painting is dry I remove the tape, so keeping just raw wood sides and beautiful
painting finished with epoxy resin. Keep watching till the end to see how it looks when it's all
done and finished. And yeah, without further ado let's get started with this painting. Let's go.
So, today I'm working with colors again mixed with water only. This has been my favorite mixture
lately simple but super effective. And again the base is also mixed with water only. I like my
base and the colors in the flow to be mixed the same exact way. I'm just gonna use my scraper
to move it around. I have been having so much lately with gradient effect and creating a pour
with rainbow colors also, of course, a gradient of some sort because colors of visible spectrum
transition gradually one from another. And today again I'm gonna use the criss-cross
technique to blow this out. But instead of adding colors
in sort of chess order, I want to add them in one line and see how that's gonna turn out.
Okay, the base is done. I always like to torch before adding more colors
to pop those air bubbles. This is just a small mini butane torch, it's also
used in the kitchen. A super handy tool when it comes to removing air bubbles from your paint.
And before I'm going to add my rainbow colors today, because I'm working on black, I want to
add puddles of white color first. Just to create a little bit of separation between my black and my
rainbow colors to help them pop more. So they don't dry too dark. So because I have seven colors
I'm gonna start with the center. Yeah, and today I'll try to add them all like
I said in one line. But again I'm gonna create a separate puddle for each color.
Not perfect but looks about the same doesn't need to be super-duper same distance because I'm gonna
blow it out and it's still gonna look good. And now I'll start with red here and move my way
here so I'm planning to have this painting in vertical orientation but it's just easier to work
on the table and do the video with horizontal, so this color here I have is transparent red.
Here - my orange. This orange is a mix of just a few different oranges, it's vermilion,
and there's some yellow, and there's some red. So I basically just mixed that orange. I'm
gonna add a little bit of that for my yellow. And this yellow is cadmium yellow medium. It
kind of looks like how this looks already reminds dot painting a little bit.
Okay, so that was a turquoise blue and the green was a mix
of phthalo green and sap green with a little bit of white.
This blue is a mix of brilliant blue in ultramarine.
Finally violet. And here have a few different shades of violet also with some white. It's
a little bit dull but it's okay. Because violet is such a dark color and it dries
almost black and black on black is going to look pretty boring. So I added some extra white to it.
Okay, that looks pretty neat. I'm gonna add a little bit of gold to each color.
And some white on top.
Okay, so my previous rainbow which I also did on a long panel I did on a black and white base.
Here is the picture. It turned out gorgeous. So anyways for that rainbow, I started blowing out
from top to the bottom. And this time, I'm going to try blowing from the bottom to the top. I want
to see if it's going to give me any different effect in this criss-cross type of blowout.
I don't know if I should add more color, maybe not. I'll see it as we go. Let's get started.
Looks really cool. I love how this color is pop but for some reason it kind of looks incomplete
to me. And I don't know I feel like I want to add maybe more gold to create that line. I should
have let those colors overmix a little more. I think when I was blowing them out. Line first.
It's a little better now. It's more connected.
I feel like I want to add some more color. I don't know, I want it to be more blossoming,
more bursting. I should have created little bigger puddles of paint from the get-go.
You know what? I just can't help it. That's not how I planned it. That's not how I envisioned
it to be. So, to save up all the paint I don't want to scrape. I'm going to try to
recreate all the same steps. I'm going to try adding more paint again,
let's see how that works, and I'm just going to try blowing it out again. I don't know, something
this just doesn't feel right. And you know what? That happens, that's okay. We just need to learn
not only to create beauty from the first try but also learn how to adapt.
Okay, so I think if I add more colors and blow it out because I already have some colors in my base
it might look actually really cool. I hope. Let me fast-forward this process.
Instead of adding white and gold
inside, I actually want to create flow with white and gold. I hope that should work a little better
and instead of blowing from the bottom up I'm gonna blow from the top to the bottom again.
Let's see. Hopefully, it works out better this time.
Even from the start I really like it better. Although yes, you can
see that there is some paint underneath, and in some sections it's not perfect. But still, I love
more color, I don't know. And I love how they all look like they're from behind each other. So cool.
This is looking gorgeous with finger swipe.
So I want to try to bring a line of flow from each color into the center flow.
I think that's going to look gorgeous.
I should have done it first before doing the main
finger swipe but I just got this idea right now, so it's better
late than never.
Okay, now we're talking. Now it's so beautifully connected.
Well, what can I say? Sometimes you just gotta try a little harder. And I hope you enjoyed the
idea of repurposing used paint as your base paint for the next pour. It really helps to
save some time, save some paint, reduce the waste. I love how it turned out. Especially
with all those lines. Oh, it's so now all connected. All right, so let's see how it dries,
some of those pops of gold. I will be right back, and I will also show you the
canvas without the sides, without the tape. So, keep watching. I will be right back.
All right, see this beautiful glass-like shiny finish? So, I covered the painting with a layer
of epoxy resin and it's time to remove the tape. Adding the tape is the very first step that I do
when prepping my cradled wood panels and removing the tape is the very last step. I do it after I
finish painting with the varnish or, like for this one, epoxy resin. Isn't it satisfying to see how
perfectly it peels off leaving this sharp crisp edge and clean wood sides? I just totally love it!
And voila, the painting is all done. Can I just say that I totally love it? And honestly, I think
when there is so much action, so much happening at the front having those clean wood sides works
especially well, especially with a dark base because it creates this beautiful contrast.
It really frames the whole painting and sets off the design and all this
busy action that's happening at the front. And honestly, I'm so happy that I kept working on
the painting, and went for a second round, and blew out the painting again. Because it just
wouldn't be the same, and right now it's totally perfect. Especially after I added all those
lines connecting each color to the center flow. Definitely worked amazing. And you can see there
is a lot of gold. It really sparks up on certain angle of light. You just need to catch it, and you
know what I just realized? That I need to do one more rainbow with the red color in the bottom and
purple on the top. So, just the other way around. And that would be a perfect representation of
kundalini awakening energy that goes through all the chakras. If you are also into yoga you know
what I mean. I think with this golden line that connects everything it will be just perfect. So
definitely need to do one more. And this rainbow with a dark base... it has very mystical energy,
yet it's very uprising, and happy, and cheerful. And see the fact that I had some colors initially
plus I added some white it really helped my colors stand out even on black. Although they
did dry darker and there is a lot more depth compared to just wet result. I actually like
it better dry than wet. But if I didn't add that white at the beginning the colors would just look
too dull against the black. So, if you're also gonna give this a go definitely add white color
between your black and the colors of the rainbows. You have the gold spark stop as I'm moving it.
This is just awesome. Alright, my friends, please let me know how do you like the outcome. I will
be happy to hear from you, and I'll chat with you in the comments down below. Thank you so much for
joining me today! Take care, stay creative, and I'll see you in the next video! Bye-bye!