hi everyone it's molly welcome back to my channel thank you for being here
what you're going to see tonight is a piece that i did a little while back and it is
a kind of like a a cloud pour or a pearl cell acrylic painting and i did it for a show
and i absolutely loved it it's huge three foot by four foot there are a lot of great artists that
have been doing pearl cell pores and i'm going to list them all in the description below because
they are definitely the inspirational artist for this but i love the technique
and i think it has some absolutely beautiful outcomes so thank you so much for watching
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pretty sure i just created the prettiest piece i've ever done
so this is just they're like pearl cells from house paint the reaction i get with
semi-gloss not so much the satin with the mixture that i use and in my cups i'm going to try to
go slow so you can get some of these details because like look at the lacing that's in there
that's just from torching the creative inspirations
so in my cup i had amsterdam white mixed with water only thick consistency then i had
my creative inspirations mixed with my regular pouring medium and my base coat
was i would say maybe like 40 semi-gloss house paint um because i had it left over
in a big jug from when i was doing coasters when i do my functional art i normally use
the house paint as the base not always but i mean i i can't even get all the details in here for you
but it is stunning i love the negative space too it's really pretty
all right so let me see how this develops and i will show you the dried result
y'all i love this one i had to stand all the way back here so i'll take you in
and show you some i mean how stunning is that it doesn't even fit the other way because it's
36 by 48 but i'll come in and show you some of the details and talk a little bit about
so my house paint mixture i found out a long time ago did this and again there's a ton of
other great artists doing um these kind of pearl type cells bonnie keane was the first
um then i saw like i had said um melody with the satin enamels and then elise fournier was using
house paint as well and then um more recently i've seen uh dwight pores and sarah taylor doing them
and bonnie uses no satin enamel or house paint she is a magician um
and i like house paint for this technique i find that there's like a huge ton of cells
when i use the satin enamel it almost eats all of the color um but i like that as well so
here in the center my paint's pooled because this canvas if you can see is not
stretched all the way so it was loose and so in those areas it's actually textured and you can
see the flocculation and the the crazing that happened here it almost looks you can see it
it gives it like a wintry feel it was almost like little dendritic parts happened
so what i've already started to do is layer over these with regular white paint
and i think what i'm gonna do is where there's this blue shading i think i'm gonna go in and
fill this in with some more blue color and shading and then i don't know i might leave the center
this way because i really like it like this
i am always afraid of um not afraid but i do worry about like it adhering to the canvas
but i put um a varnish over top of it that seals it all in so i'm not really super worried about
like cracking and breaking off but there's those like powdered cells here
so what i would do different i would actually put a little bit more acrylic paint in my mixture
and less of the house paint and i would also make sure that my canvas is tight
and maybe stretch a little bit more of the paint off of the center and i think it would get rid of
a little bit um of this kind of pooled effect in the center but the rest of it
that granulation is coming from the water and the and the house paint um so i think it just needed
a little bit more binder and a little bit more um what do you want to call it a little bit more
um actual acrylic paint in there but still really really beautiful
and this part over here this is just the most interesting
part there so kudos to all the other artists that are doing this technique this is a great technique
for large canvases and i absolutely love it i'm going to add some more detail i don't know if
i'll be able to get it into this video or not but i will show you guys on my stories and my
instagram and all that when i finish the piece thank you guys for watching happy painting bye