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hey guys it's molly i did this piece
a couple of weeks ago i did it off camera because it was a commission and i had never done a square
wave before so i wanted to make sure that i got it to crest right and spent a lot of time on it
but that gave me the idea to do one with this sky blue background now i'm sure you guys have seen
a ton of my waves and i recently did one where i painted it i'll try to link that one for you
but i i did an abstract cloud background but i just wanted something kind of pure
and simple but instead of using white i'm going to use sky blue let's see what happens
all right hi guys hope everyone's doing all right so i had done a commission piece um sometimes i do
them off camera just because i want to make sure i get it right and i had never done it before
so i did um a square ocean wave for a client and i always do them on elongated canvases and she used
a different color palette she really wanted a navy and some really soft colors so that is what i'm
using tonight i'm using a bluish gray sky blue a blue that i mixed out of a cerulean blue and white
and then i'm using a prussian blue and paynes gray mix i'm going to crest it
the same way but i thought today instead of doing white up here like i normally do
let's do a sky blue color let's have this an all blue ocean wave so that is what i'm gonna do
do
so some of you may ask why i didn't paint the blue side here and it's because this color is opaque
and it gets pretty good side coverage and if not i can always just repaint that
but for the other sides i love the look of the drips that go down and so i wanted those to
um i paint them so that i don't have to go back in and paint little crevices later on
so i'm just popping air bubbles right now because if you don't then you will end up
with little pinholes in your paintings and nobody wants that so i'm going to start
i'm going to not go all the way to the edge with this blue color with the navy because
a little slimer there these are left over from the commission um i'm not gonna go all the way
to the edge because when i blow i'm gonna blow to the edge and i saved a little bit of the dark blue
to come up in through the lighter colors to get some contrast so i think next i want to go with
hmm i'm debating maybe i'll go with this blue
and i am gonna save a little bit for the crest as well i always forget to do that
now i will come in this this uh grayish blue is just such a beautiful color
okay now i will go with my sky blue through here
and again it's the same color as this background so i don't know we'll see how it works out now i'm
going to come back in with a little bit more of this blue i am going to go ahead and crest
that portion right there you don't want to do a lot in this crest up here because when
you blow it out that's the part that takes me the longest but if there's a big puddle of paint there
you're not going to be able to shape the crest the way that you want it to
come back in now with a little bit of this contrasting blue next to the sky glue
okay gorgeous colors
so one thing if you let your paint sit overnight sometimes they will dry out a
little bit it's normally what's dried on the side
that when it gets reactivated and wet again it'll create that clump
a little bit more of this blue and the finale will be my white i'm going to do it with my stick
i'm really loving that uh sky blue background on this
and if you guys end up doing one of these tag me let me see what i have inspired you to do
i love seeing it on instagram on tick tock pinterest i'm on them all
really want to get some right up in there this
last little bit of white i want to do through there
okay starting to look like a gorgeous ocean wave
all right pop the air bubbles and then i'll blow this out
let's do it
so
okay at this point i feel like i wanted this over a little bit further so if i have
any of this dark blue left because i really like the contrast of the dark blue in there i'm
actually going to crest that up there because i didn't want it to be this
tiny little crest and when i blow it's going to blow it over there i hope i do
want a little bit of the sky blue even though it's there i just want a little bit in there
and then i feel like i'm missing i made just enough paint for this
okay let me blow this out
okay so i am good with everything here i had a little mishap here in the center i had to
go back in and add a little bit more color in there i didn't like what was happening if you
don't have enough color your um like paint on the canvas the colors will drag along each other and
they will make a muddy mess so i added some more blue to keep those streaks going through there
and i'm really pleased with the outcome so i want to fiddle with this portion up here and i do that
normally by dragging my fingers and blowing um and so i'm gonna do that part because of where
my cameras are i don't think that i'll be able to show you that part now but i will fiddle with this
and i will show you the wet result and then i'll show you the drive result okay so i set my camera
up from the other side that you could maybe see me fiddle just a little bit to get this cresting wave
what i want so i don't like these ridged portions right here and i want all of this i'm going to
blow this in and kind of curve it on around and you can just do all this with your mouth
i have a paper towel here so if this gets like
too muddy right there then i'm just gonna i take my paper towel and i just wipe that whole area
so like i'm gonna go in right here and just get rid of some of that paint
that's there on these i always end up using just a little bit more paint than i need so
that i can really blow and get all those cells and all the colors to mix together
and then because these are all blue you can scrape your table while the paint is still
wet and have a beautiful like robin's egg blue color so nothing goes to waste
so there we go got that this part right here i feel like is going to give me some issues so all
i do is just touch the napkin down and you can fix it what do i always tell you guys nothing is lost
in this art right so i'm just going to take this little piece
make that more of a crest there and then whatever sky blue i have left
just pour that right back in there
this will all blend together when it dries and it'll be perfect
so
okay so for this portion right here i'm going to blow out this way
you always want to come back and look at your way from the other side so that you can make
sure that this crest is what you want but i'm just going to take my finger drag that on along
and it starts to get that beautiful striation and it moves all the colors inward as well
waves aren't perfect right so i do want to fiddle a little bit up here
so here's those paint drippings off the table and look at what a beautiful blue color that is
so i'll use this in another pour so you don't have to waste i cannot be happier i love it
i love the blue background i love all these cells let me take my auto focus off
there's no silicone in here this is just paint and water and i get this cell reaction
from using creative inspirations mixed with amsterdam oh i love it
all right i'll show you the dried result
wow i am so in love with this piece i actually showed it to a friend and another artist and she
purchased it already so this one is not available but look at how 3d
that looks that's from adding the let me see if i can take my hand off without wobbling too much
that's from adding the dark in with the light and then blowing back
this way a little bit i love the grayish blue in there it adds kind of a different feel to the wave
and i love love love the sky blue as the backdrop on this one i feel like this one
curls a little bit differently as well on the square canvas so second try at the square canvas
and i must say i love it hope you guys enjoyed peppa painting
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