Hi everyone, it's molly! Welcome back to my channel, thank you for being here!
I am making tonight one painting that you will see on camera, and two others off camera to make a huge
large triptych. It will be two foot by three foot pieces so this is going to be six foot
by three foot wide and it is going in a lovely family's home. I am very excited about it. They are also
here in Florida their window has a gorgeous view out to the ocean.
I hope it turns out well. The colors they want are a bit more
muted , so it is not going to be an ocean blue painting tonight. The colors
they chose are a rich blue, a dark blue and an orange. The base is sky blue and
I mixed it with a lot of white to give a really soft pastel blue.
I am going to be using the floating cup or flip and drag technique tonight for this one.
so i hope that it turns out okay for them and if it does i'm going to make the other three
pieces and I will show you all of them together at the end. Hope you enjoy this video let's paint
all right hello everyone hope you're doing well i am doing something that's actually quite simple
tonight but extremely stunning i've done it a couple of other times and i actually have three of
these to make so i am making a basically a three by six foot piece tonight so um there's good it's
going to be a triptych but i will show you this one and then i'll show you all three of them when
i do them when they're dry i have mixed up three huge tubs of paint here um so this is
like 52 ounces here of pouring medium which is my regular flotrol gloss medium varnish and gac 800
and then i made this almost powder blue color so the client wanted a lighter blue we went through a
grayish blue we went through like a robin's egg blue that i made and we came out with this but
the colors that they want are light blue dark blue bright blue and orange so i'm hoping that
i've done a couple trial pieces and it the orange and the blue have made like a pretty green color
when they've mixed together so and i know that yellow and blue makes green but um it hasn't been
bad so far i'll say so i'm hoping that that will turn out okay i am going to pour some of
this gigantic jug of paint on here and then i'm gonna spread this out and get a little bit more
and then i will be right back i think i'm just going to tilt this okay i feel like the hard
part is done it's so tough to cover this entire canvas i also torched when i started um with a
puddle and then after i spread it out i torch again and i can still see a couple air bubbles
so you're going to want to make sure that you torch well and quite a few times
so what i'm going to do now i'm going to put just a little bit where i'm starting
and a little bit through there and i'm going to torch this
and this is so when i plop my cup down i'll get a good smooth flow so i layered a pretty good amount
of white in the bottom and then i have my tape on the bottom i poked some holes to give it air flow
and then i just dirty poured the colors in so here we go i'm going to turn it over i normally
splat it out right here oh i did really well that time okay okay oh that was the easy part all right
now some people call that oh it's all going to start pouring out if you've got enough air holes
some people call this um a floating cup other people call it a flip and drag because you flip
it and drag it along the canvas so i'm just going to oh you don't want it all to come out
i'm gonna move this on around
i'm twisting the cup and releasing a little bit as i go and don't worry these colors
even though they look like this now as i torch them and stretch them out
the colors aren't going to be muddy they're going to be beautiful
all right i've already got some gorgeous cells popping up on this side
so
okay so there was no silicone in here i was torching to get rid of air bubbles and as i
stretch this out i do i love the color that's mixed in this orange and the blue together
okay again the hard part i'm going to reach under i have a stretcher bar under here under the canvas
i'm going to reach there and start to tilt
there i'm going to touch this one little place right here
it's really hard to do this on a large canvas and i think i'm going to tilt i
don't know because i really like both of these corners all right let's see
already off that corner so i'm going to bring this back
and bring it down this way so hard to do these videos for you guys
now you see the already these cells are gorgeous in here
but the paint that i put down the middle is what's helping flow this and guide it over
the edge so that it's not stretching out so much and i like that but i want this to be a little bit
less i don't want it to cover all of the canvas i may even have to scrape
some parts and pour down some more light blue i don't know i'm going to keep fiddling though
and each of these will be different different composition
okay
now i'm getting it stretched down there
i'm just letting all the paint run where it wants to first and then i'll worry about my
composition
let that go over the edge
okay okay so what i think i might do because i i really love how soft this is here
i might wipe this corner right here this one corner got a little bit muddy for me
i think i might take this one corner
and don't worry i'm going to make a really pretty color out of what's on my table
and when you do that make sure you wipe your side so that when you pour down the new paint it will
look like it belonged there
and then i think i'll tilt it that way again and i think i'll be done
so you want to come in closer towards where the paint is because i'm going to tilt it that way
again and what i'm going to do is swipe it with my spatula to get it smoothed out i'm closer by there
so sometimes you gotta work on what the composition looks like
it's not over until you say it's over
right
i feel like maybe i could even drag down through here a little bit
and it's okay if you don't like it you just wipe it off no big deal right
i am liking this better though
but i do kind of want this part right there gone
okay
okay now let me stretch that out and see how that goes
because that created kind of more of the lines that i wanted
so i'm going to stretch back that way
don't wipe my hands off
okay i really really like this piece i love what's in the center it's beautiful it's really really
nice have to come in like an angle here because i've got my light right there but look at how
this part here i love that it looks that way
almost like not transparent but how it faded into the color
here's some of the wonky cells and lacing and this is the part that i love right here
you can see the light blue sitting over top of the orange i love the hard line that's
right there and that bright orange and can you see the green color that i was talking
about that it made like that slight greenish tint to it but it's beautiful
i really like this one
alright so i will show you the three of them dry now okay here it is just so that you can
get an idea of the scale of this piece it's huge so it is three foot by six foot
here are all the details now the middle one is the one that you see
the details in here are just amazing
such an organic feel from the floating cup or the open cup now this is the one that you saw
and i spent hours trying to figure out how i wanted the three of these to go and this is what
i came up with i like how it flows kind of down this way up this way and then down that way again
and then in this one
so many cool effects oh my kitty cat wants to be in the video
say hi jacob oh thank you so that is the three of them together i really like it
well i hope you enjoyed this video thank you for watching! Happy painting