Oh, this is looking... Hello, my creative friends! Olga Soby here, and welcome to new acrylic pouring
video. Lately, I have been having a lot of fun with rainbow colors. I did quite a few flows
mostly with the blowout, and they all spark so amazing. So today I want to use rainbow colors
for chain pull butterfly. I think it's going to be a little challenging. I'm super excited to see if
I'm able to make it work with rainbow colors. And for this technique, for chain pull technique, my
colors are mixed with Floetrol and water. So this is not my Dutch pour mixture, and the consistency
is medium to medium thin. It's thicker than Dutch pour consistency in case you are familiar with it.
And I find that a little thicker consistency works better for chain pull, it just gives more
control to overall technique. I will include my mixture details and color names in the
description under the video. So please check it out. And without further, ado let's get started!
So I'm working on black base today, and this is super small 10 by 10 cradled wood panel
primed with gesso, taped the sides. Watch till the end of the video if you want to see a very
final look when it's all finished, and tape removed. See I'm spreading just with spatula, and
the paint for chain pull technique, you want your base to be super thin,
you definitely don't want it to be very thick. So just trying to create nice and even layer.
And for my butterfly, for adding the colors, today I'm not going to add them in lines, I'm going to
add them in drops like I did for this butterfly which turned out really amazing. And before adding
colors of the rainbow I actually want to add white first. So I'm going to create the outline of the
butterfly with white paint. And all of this is acrylic paint mixed with Floetrol and water,
all of the colors mix the same way. I like the base and the colors of the flow to be the same
consistency and the same recipe. So first I'm gonna align my butterfly with white,
and then I'm gonna add colors of the rainbow on top of the white. I really hope that it's
gonna help me, help my rainbow color stand out a little better on this
black base, and especially when it's going to be dry. Let's go with that.
Even though white has sinked a bit, it will help the rest of my colors stand out a lot.
Okay, let's try, and make this thing as symmetrical as possible. It will take some focus.
Looks close enough, and even if there is a little bit asymmetrical layout, it's not going
to be that obvious after we do the chain pull. So don't get upset if it's not 100% symmetrical.
So now let's add in those colors. I want to have go from violet to red at the bottom.
Rainbow butterfly but also chakra butterfly. And I'm trying to add those colors right on top
of my... oops... white dots. And just as I'm saying that, of course, I had to miss
one drop. Actually no, it's fine. I'm just gonna leave it there.
Oh, wow...I got a lot of paint in this section, let's try to fix this because I
don't think it will look perfect when I'm gonna do the pulling. Because the problem is that
with chain pull technique you want to have as little paint as possible, otherwise, it puddles
up and it just doesn't work out as well for this technique. So this is not good to have that much.
I hope that this side is not going to be the same.
Working with squeeze bottles is definitely easier for this technique rather than pouring out of the
cup. Because it gives you more control but even with squeeze bottles you still
lose control sometimes. See I want to overlap those colors a little bit, so there is nicer
transition from color to color. So I want to add a few drops of ultramarine over my violet, okay.
Okay, this is looking great. I just want to see if I want to add any more
color anywhere. I'll make these green drops a little bigger.
This color dries dark, and it's quite transparent, so I'm worried that it's actually gonna
disappear for the most part when the painting is drying.
I guess we'll see. Okay, so this is looking great but on top of adding my rainbow colors,
I also want to add a few metallics just to create nice accents in my pour.
Metallics always look amazing when they dry. So I want to have a little bit of gold.
I have some copper here, and it's going to be just on the red part,
touch on yellow as well. I hope you can see that but I keep trying to add all those colors
symmetrically as well just to maintain the same amount of colors on both sides.
Have some pink, and I think I can add it on violet.
And I'm not gonna edit in every single drop, more like an accents.
Okay, time to do the chain pull. So I'm gonna add my chains on the outer edge of these droplets.
So I'm still staying sort of within the droplets but not in the center closer to the outer edge.
I'm staying super focused here, taking my time adding in super slowly.
And once the chain is all aligned - drag it slowly, again very slowly, towards the center.
Oh, this is looking beautiful.
Perfect, it is looking perfect. So, you can see that there is a lot of paint here. We need to
get rid of that. So there are a few options here. You can dip it out with paper towel
or I want to pick it up with bottle. So this is a empty, bottle I have all the black in here.
So I'm squeezing the bottle and creating some vacuum and that actually works pretty well.
You can also use a syringe or eye droplets the same principle to
remove all this paint from the center. Okay, let's do the next one. So all exactly the same steps.
Move very slowly, allowing all this paint wave to shift towards
the center. If you move too fast it will overlap the chain, will break your design.
Okay, this part looks a little messy but I'm gonna
take care of it last after I do all the chain pulls.
This is stunning. Wow! Oh, my god! So far this one is my favorite, absolutely perfect. And I
moved my chain a little towards the top, I love how it worked. I think this is a good thing to do.
Okay, so let's hope the last one turns out just as perfect.
I definitely love how it looks with dragging the chain towards the top part. I wish
I had a little more white on outer edges, but that's okay. Even like this, it's pretty awesome.
Now that all four are finished - time to work on some details. So I'm taking my
painting knife with the most pointy end and just gonna try to
connect some of those lines that didn't work perfectly in the center.
What happened here? I accidentally dropped some of my turquoise...
Yeah, it's not bad.
I love it when with these dots in the center. So perfect. Okay, how do I connect this all?
I think I'm also gonna do it with a chain.
Beautiful. The center part is still a little bit messed up, I'm gonna add just another drop
of red here, but the rest of it I feel like I'm gonna touch it up when the paint is dry.
Because otherwise, this is looking amazing.
Let's see how it dries, I will show you all of my touch-ups. So keep watching, I will be right back.
The butterfly is dry, and now I want to do some touch-ups. I'm adding more color
where the paint dried too dark or not as sharp as I would like it to be. I'm using
the same exact paint mixture as I used for my chain pull. So all the colors that I'm using
for touch up are also mixed with Floetrol and water. And most importantly in this touch-up,
I want to work on the center a little bit, just change it up and make it more crisp and vibrant.
I think this is looking perfect. So time for the next step. After the painting was all done
and finished, I covered it with epoxy resin for this beautiful glossy glass-like finish.
And now I remove the tape. I really love the clean wood sides. I think it frames it super nicely. And
there you have it! I'm so happy how it turned out with all these vibrant colors really jump on such
a dark base. So I did some touch-ups, especially in my center part. I think it looks really neat
now, and I love that it's not just dots but it has some shapes. I think it matches the overall
energy and style of the painting much better. I really love how metallics worked for this
butterfly. Even though I mostly use the rainbow colors, the metallic brings so much more interest
to the dry painting, especially, when you look at them against the light. And this gold,
first of all, it makes this darker section more bright, more interesting, otherwise, this part
will be light and bright, and this one would be just dark. And with having some of that gold and
some of that lighter metallic pink it's just a lot more balanced. Plus it really works amazing with
Eden gold on this part. So it all nicely, you know, matches and the composition is definitely
a lot more balanced overall. So, yeah, I am definitely very happy with how my dot rainbow
butterfly turned out. I think I want to try doing it on a larger panel maybe 16 by 16 or so. What do
you guys think? Would you like to see the similar concept for the butterfly but just on a large
panel? Please, let me know and let me know how you like the outcome? How do you like this chakra or
rainbow butterfly? I'd love to hear from you. I'll chat with you in the comments down below. Thank
you so much for joining me today! See you in the next video. Take care and stay creative! Bye-bye!