so while back i showed you guys the hack
of mixing in cornstarch with cheap
watery paint to make it look like
expensive paint
and everybody went absolutely crazy for
that hack it absolutely went totally
viral on my youtube shorts channel
and since then i've been on a mission
looking for other art hacks like that
where i get everyday household items
stuff that i have laying around my house
stuff that i never use
and using those everyday items as art
hacks and through my research of trying
to find these art hacks it actually
turns out that
there are a lot of random things that
you could use to make artwork with and
today of course i'm going to be testing
them out so you guys don't have to so
this should be fun this should be quite
interesting in our findings but before
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with that being said let's see what
household items we have lying around the
house that apparently can be used for
artwork all right so for this very first
video this is actually the one that
inspired me to make this entire video to
begin with and by the way if these don't
work out for me still please support
these creators and just because it
didn't work out for me doesn't
necessarily mean that it won't work out
for other people you know what i'm
saying but yeah we support small
creators on this channel so for this
first hack it's basically how to get
your acrylic paint to dry slowly using
veggie glycerin to keep acrylic paint
from drying you only need a few drops
you'll need more if you're outside
don't add too much or it will never dry
mix thanks for asking happy to answer
questions
and that's it so if you didn't catch
that basically they used vegetable
glycerin as a mix-in for their acrylic
paint and not only does it make the
paint more smooth but it also supposedly
stops it from drying out now i've never
heard of this before i've never thought
of this before i've never seen anybody
do this before so i'm very curious about
this one let's try it out what even is
glycerin like what's what's the point of
it for this art hack i got literally the
exact same bottle as they did the brand
is equate you guys know me i'm a walmart
girl so yeah this ingredient should work
exactly like the original posters first
we're gonna do it without the vegetable
glycerin and this will give me an idea
of how long it takes to dry regular
acrylic and of course how it blends
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so it took exactly 10 minutes for this
to be dry and now let's try this exact
same experiment again except with the
vegetable glycerin
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it's actually only been like one minute
since i started this and it's already
kind of drying so maybe i need to add
more vegetable glycerin
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my brain is like broken right now i'm
having like a hard time just explaining
what's even happening so the best way to
describe this technique is that yes it
does make it much easier to blend but i
don't think i would do this again
because it really really thinned out my
paint like made it really really
transparent and it kind of gave the
paint like a really weird texture i feel
like this is kind of like using oil
paint except you don't get like that
extra
oomphness with oil paint you know where
it's like really thick and you can like
thin it down it's still very thick but
yeah this was really interesting i can
see why the person really likes it i bet
this would be amazing for skin tones and
just as an update it's been about 20
minutes now and if you guys remember the
just regular acrylic paint dried in 10
minutes and this one is still going it's
like still super wet
but i can definitely see why this would
appeal to somebody but for me personally
i don't think i would do this again but
i think the whole entire concept in
technique was really cool to try so i'm
gonna give it
i don't know maybe like a six or seven
out of ten
oh i just realized that the lights they
match my hair the pink and blue
it matches
okay anyway for this next art hack this
is another one that i had made a video
about a long long ass time ago it was
like how to make paint from eggs but
anyway when i tried that video
apparently i was doing it incorrectly
and this whole entire tik-tok account is
dedicated to this artist's work using
only egg tempra and they make the most
beautiful artworks that you've ever seen
and it just so happens that in one of
the videos she actually shows you the
correct way to make egg tempra so first
of course you need an egg and so what
you're gonna do is crack the egg and
you're gonna separate the shell and the
egg white from the yolk then you're
gently going to rock the yolk back and
forth on your hands and as you are
rocking it back and forth on each hand
you're gonna wipe the egg white off of
your hand then you're gently going to
pop the yolk you don't want the egg yolk
sac in your egg emulsions then you're
going to do
a one to one ratio of water
to yolk mix it all up real good
and that is your egg emulsion watch for
part two
look before this hack starts i have a
phobia of eggs so if there's a lot of
cuts in this video section it's because
i'm making unflattering noises ugh i
hate eggs i hate eggs i hate eggs this
is the worst all right here we go so all
you do is just crack it
okay and then i'm gonna separate
mommy it's slimy
oh this is horrendous
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okay everybody i got the egg yolk my
eyes are watering i hate eggs all right
so i have the egg yolk and i am going to
mix the content of the egg yolk with
water
oh god i don't know if i can do this i
don't know if i can do this i hate eggs
so much
oh my god i did it okay it's done
it's done
i'm gonna immediately run to the
bathroom and wash my hands because i
hate this i hate this
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look how pretty that looks oh my gosh
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oh my god this is working out so much
better than the first time i had tried
this this is like perfect this paint has
a really interesting texture it's not
super watery like it's a pure water but
it's not super thick either oh my gosh
this is so cool
now i gotta say that i have done
countless diy paints for this channel
i've made paints out of pretty much
everything that you can imagine and i
gotta say that this is the best diy
paint that i've ever made in a weird way
it kind of reminds me of like watercolor
like the way it works and the way it
blends but it doesn't dry like
watercolor it kind of dries like gouache
i can definitely see what the appeal to
this would be it gives me so much
respect for the artist and what they're
able to create out of this i like this i
like this a lot this is really cool i'm
giving it a literal 10 out of 10.
for this next one this is from a very
interesting tick tock account this one
is not dedicated to artwork
whatsoever this is from the tiktok
account sc convict and what makes this
account very interesting is that this
individual actually spent some time in
prison and their whole entire account is
now dedicated to how they've changed
their life around and just in general
talking about life behind bars and this
whole entire page is absolute gold some
of his recent bangers include how to fry
an egg in prison with saran wrap how to
make tattoo ink in prison and of course
how to make prison ice cream where he
literally makes ice cream with nothing
more than salt ice milk products and a
ziploc bag it's the most incredible
thing i've ever seen in my life so here
it is how to make paint in prison how to
make paint from candy in prison put your
skittles in whatever you want to use for
the paint add about half a chapstick cap
of warm water
let it sit for about five minutes till
all the color comes off the scoop mix
them around until they're solid white
after the skittles are finished you're
left with a colored liquid use white
lotion to mix with it so it gets the
right thickness and consistency mix the
lotion until it gets a thicker
consistency you gotta mix it real good
finished product prison candy paint
and i have made an entire video on like
diy prison art supplies before but this
recipe is straight up from somebody who
has experienced who has made it and it's
way more authentic than the one that i
tried to make on my own yeah this one is
absolutely fascinating stuff so let's
try it out so the very first step for
this will be to
get skittles i'm always smelling stuff
on my channel i swear to god but these
smells so good
and for the color since there's no blue
skittle that comes with these i guess
i'll go ahead and
is there really no blue skittle isn't
the whole thing taste the rainbow and
there's not a blue
so instead i'm just going to use the
purple and the red
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and for my lotion i don't know if this
is like actually good lotion or not i
literally just bought it because it
smells good because as we know i'm
really big on smells but this is the
bath and body aromatherapy ocean
essentials meditative ocean waves with
natural essential oils bergamot and
cedarwood sea salt minerals body cream
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okay uh he was not kidding that was
insanely difficult to mix and that's
okay because already as i was mixing i
could tell that it was already like
thickening up and basically turning into
a paint
by the way like i thought this lotion
smelled good i thought the skittles
smelled good but like a combination of
the two
it smells like straight heaven
anyway let's try out this paint and see
what the situation is
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wow this recipe is so much better than
the first time that i tried this a long
time ago just looking at this on camera
it doesn't look that good but i can
guarantee you and will in real life it
looks way way way better this paint is
actually drying really fast which i
didn't think it was going to because of
the lotion if you look at the paint it's
very flat it's very even there's not a
lot of streaks to it and there's hardly
any stickiness at all to it because of
the lotion the logistics of actually
using it for a painting might be
a little off but yeah this one worked
exactly like they said it would this one
really took me by surprise they did a
really great job explaining how to make
it i'm going to give this one a 8 out of
10.
now for this very last art hack consider
this one a rapid fire i figured we end
this one on a bang because if you didn't
know there are all kinds of non-art
supplies that you can add to watercolor
to give it different textures so
guys get ready because i am going to
rapid fire all of those things right now
first let me get a drink because this is
going to happen really quickly
starting with salt
you can add lemon juice
random stuff from outside
handles
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tissue paper is a big one
rubbing alcohol
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saran wrap is another popular one that i
see all the time bubble wrap
and lastly to end this you can add rice
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well there you guys go that was every
non-art supply item that you can use for
artwork i hope you guys learned a little
something something again please check
out betterhelp like i said they are a
service that i have been using for
entire year at this point if you want to
see more art hacks i'll leave a playlist
right here and with that being said guys
i hope you have a good day and i will
see you guys next video