hi everyone it's molly! welcome back to my channel thank you so much for being here! I wanted to do
an older technique tonight. some people call it a floating cup others call it a flip and drag. it is where
you flip the cup upside down and drag it along the canvas. it creates some really gorgeous
designs. it was actually one of the first videos that I ever published and one of the first techniques
i ever posted to youtube and that was december of 2018. so here we are 2021 now i can't believe
it's passed so fast and i really just wanted to get back to something that is
just fun and beautiful to do. so that's what I'm gonna do tonight. i hope you enjoy it. let's paint!
all right hello! I'm getting back to big canvas work oh I hope the show doesn't get cancelled
because of everything that's going on but for now i am in make mode so i actually this was one
of my first paintings similar to this it was one of my first it was my first video that I ever
posted it is gonna be I'm gonna layer a base coat of a color you can pick whatever color you want
and then i made these cups that somewhere in the video you'll be able to see exactly how i made
them how i layered them and then i'm going to flip them over and drag them along so it's kind of like
an open cup but it starts as a dirty pour instead of actually pouring each color into the cup
so i thought all right let's see let's let's go back to my roots here my pouring medium is my
flotrol gloss medium varnish and gac 800 which is an anti-cracking anti-crazing medium when
i go thicker that is the mixture that i use and i am using creative inspiration
paints this time not amsterdam and my paints are much thicker it leaves a mound on a mound
or really just a mound and a trace on the top of the paint so i'm going to start
this was such i spent all morning mixing because i didn't have any with this porn medium made up
and i mean that part is actually kind of therapeutic to me as well
it's just mixing all the paint and then i'll still be able to scrape my table for whatever runs off
and get a really pretty color out of it and because this is white i didn't have to paint
my sides so i'm just spreading this around this is actually the lowly buffy scraper that comes
with it when you buy the mats but it actually works really well to spread the paint around
and i'm still going to tilt this to get it even i just wanted to get a good layer on there first
so this was a 32 ounce and i used a pretty good amount of it i've maybe got like 10 ounces left
if you want to know how much paint to use when you're using bigger canvases
and i recommend overestimating a little bit you can always go to olga from smart
art materials go to her paint calculator online on her website it's really helpful
all right okay so i've got this to the point where i think i'm going to tilt now and
i'm using my paint stands here which
are good for these kind of big canvases and i hope you'll be able to see most of it on screen
so i'm just going to let this run to the
sides
so
this one was leaking a little bit so i did put oh you know what let me pop my air bubbles first
i do see if you don't pop the air bubbles you'll have pinholes everywhere
okay let's tilt this first cup okay here we go you ready
okay all right so now what i'm going to do is take this off and it will immediately if you
don't hold it down you'll see if you let it go the paint starts coming out immediately and now
i'm just going to glide that on around
i let a bunch of it go right there so couple things like here my canvas actually um i i had my
cup too hard on my canvas so what i'm gonna do is just take that paint and just rub it right there
and i i almost feel like this is too much as it is
with this one i should have done less paint in my cups
okay i think i made you one more up this way starting
right there i'm gonna save that cup maybe i'll do a smaller one with that cup because i still have
some white paint left over too okay so i've got my tape off and i'm just gonna release up slowly
and i love this area right here so i don't want to do too much with that area
this extra swirl gives it a nice
there we go
and because i did a dirty pour these colors have blended and they're just gorgeous
now if you had done this as a regular open cup
where you pour the color and a big puddle of white you do end up getting more cells but
sometimes i like it without cells sometimes it's just fun just the way that it is just with lines
just popping my air bubbles okay you could technically if there wasn't so much paint on
it leave it like this because i actually love this so i might do another one just like this
hmm this gave me another idea okay i'm gonna stretch this one though here we go
stretching it out
i'm trying to decide on the composition of where i want it to go
and bring it back and then i think all the way off this end
back again
down to this corner
oh yes love it
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous i do feel like i want this one part right here
to come down this way a little bit okay let me wipe my hands
working with big canvases is always much more difficult oh i had a clump
somebody asked me the other day why do you pick so much stuff out of your paint sorry i i feel like
maybe
and then i'll tilt that a little bit
maybe even
and then i'll tilt that and here again
yes just to give it a little bit more movement i think and then i'm gonna tilt this
now with these stands as you get paint on them they will become sticky so i do have the little
um holes to put them in
a lot of paint there stretching it out to this end
gorgeous
just going to fix my sides where i was holding it
run your finger along the edges
wow this is beautiful
this is it i think i'm done with this
okay so i actually haven't done this in a while so i wanted to show you how i do the cup you have
to be careful because sometimes it will get the entire top if you don't do it fast enough i will
say if you are doing this please be careful if you're using fire if you're using something sharp
please be safe when you're doing this but so i'm just going to very lightly touch right
there and then i'm just going to try to poke a hole and you may have to do it a couple of times
there we go what i'm doing there is just creating the air flow because what i'm going to do i'm
going to take this cup flip it over and then drag it almost like an open cup but i'm going to layer
them all in here first so when you do that it's going to suction and if you don't have this hole
here then you won't the paint won't come out it will literally just be stuck to the canvas
so what i'm going to do after that is just cut a very small piece of tape and you want to make
sure your hole is big enough if you need to just again and kind of wiggle it on around in there
to get it a little bit bigger that's fine if you need to make if you notice you're still getting
suction you may need to make a couple of holes but then all i'm going to do is just tape that up
and i'm going to use my cup like regular so i'm going to make three of those because i'm going
to use three for my canvas and then i will layer the paints okay so here is my paint you can see
it's kind of a thin consistency not like my dutch pores though this still
leaves a little bit of a mound and you can see the trace on the cup
i'll show you another color this color may be a little bit thicker but you see
leaves a trace so thicker definitely thicker than my dutch pores and what
i'm gonna do now if you immediately see if you immediately see paint coming out
of your cup then you didn't tape appropriately that has happened to me as well now i'm gonna
do alternating colors and i'm gonna actually kind of dirty pour this into here so that it
sinks a little bit and mixes together some and then others i will layer so this is just to get
a paint reaction and you guys will see there we go and this has no silicone or anything in it
all right i think i'm gonna go with my light color now this one you can pour down the
side you could pour in there the same way it doesn't matter i'm gonna pour it down the side
i love that blue color so this one is sky blue
now i'm gonna come in with a little bit of my payne's gray
and i'm gonna dirty pour this part too right on that blue
i'm gonna use the rest of this pins gray
in another painting that's why i mixed up big jugs because i'm preparing for my show i'm trying to
do multiple paintings per day right now i have to give them enough time to cure and varnish
and now i'm gonna go with this beautiful cerulean blue i'm gonna pour this i think
on this other side over here and i've just noticed that oh my gosh do you guys see what
that caused right there can you see it i don't know if you can see it it's gorgeous
oh that's so pretty
so i'm back to using creative inspirations for these types of pores
because i really like
the reaction that i get when i thin them out just a little bit
okay i think i'm gonna do i really like this color
i think i'll do that
you don't need a full cup so this is all i'm gonna do
okay and that is how i do my cups so now so i will take you in on the corners
look at how beautiful that is that is just regular
when you do a straight pour and you mix the colors together those beautiful cells will come up
just naturally but the depth from all those colors kind of blending together
to me it's just really really pretty it's so organic looking
little clusters that's from where i torched and stretched this right here is where i
added that little line of interest with the palette knife and i really like that as well
overall i really really like it i like the composition
it's really pretty all right so i think the first person i ever saw do this was christina welch
and maybe ann osborne with their flippin drags and they were just so beautiful and i just i loved it
all right i'll show you the dried result
how beautiful is this i think my favorite part is this swirl that goes all the way
through and comes back up and this corner right there love it this was so much fun
oh just back to kind of how i started
gorgeous i'm gonna be playing around a lot more this one's for my show but yes
just stunning i love the dark blue in there as well i feel like it really
makes it pop the colors are really really rich the little clusters
there's no silicone in this those are just kind of little density cells that popped up
stretched out look at that so interesting
all right well i hope you guys enjoyed this thank you for watching happy painting bye