all right hello everyone! so something totally different for me! i'm very excited to try it.
i'm gonna do one of the swipe techniques that i've been doing, but i saw Rinske Douna
do these beautiful blooms with pearl paint and i just thought they were phenomenal, and i'm going to
link her channel below. she's a good friend. But i wanted to try these out and see if it would work
as a swipe with the Australian floetrol. now pearlescent or pearl paints they
look white but they have the shade mixed in in like sometimes it's like in a mica powder type
shade so it's almost like an iridescent kind of pearlescent almost what you would see on a car.
when it dries it's like shimmery. so i've got pearl blue and it actually looks like that
pearl violet pearl green and pearl red here so i'm going to take these four
colors and i'm going to layer with black and these need to really be pearlescent paints in
order to get the effect need to be on a darker base so that the reflective light underneath it
can work the way it's supposed to that's what i think at least um and so i'm doing a black base
and i'm swiping with black as well and hoping that these will show up so they are white in the
container i've mixed it with floetrol and gloss medium 70/30% because that is what works with my
with the australian floetrol and amsterdam mix that i use. so i'm gonna take these and put them
behind me. i have my swiping tools here that i'm gonna use i think i'll probably
use this one and maybe if i have some smaller spaces. and then i'll put this right down here
i have my little towel here but i'm gonna start with the black base and i'm gonna leave
these lids on so that i know what color they are because it's very hard to tell
otherwise so i'm going to start with the black base on the canvas
and it's a little bit blue because i had a little bit of extra blue mixed in and that is
totally okay and then i'm going to put a little bit on my corners to make sure it gets there
there we go
oh i hope i have enough all right
stretch that out just a bit should be enough yeah
should be enough and really not too many air bubbles
what are you get you out of there all right so i'm just gonna give it one good torch
good i do see one little thing let me get my
tweezers
let me just see
that black paint sat for a really long time so i just want to see if that is something
i can't tell i'll have to wait and see all right so i'm going to start i think i want to do it
like a color gradient so i think i'm going to do it yeah i think i'm going to start with the red
i'm going to put them pretty close to each other
and it literally looks
white looks off-white really
i was closing a lid the other day and it exploded
it cracked it was a big jug though like a jug like i poured for the base and just exploded
everywhere it was like that's how my day is going all right here is the green
oh i'm excited to see what these turn up like once i swipe them out okay red green and then blue
and i left these pretty thick so that my swipe would hold
and then violet i have a feeling that my that the violet is going to be my favorite and you guys
really check out laurence kadana's channel she has done some of the most amazing pearl blooms
they're they're not like shelly art blooms they're her dutch pore blooms she calls them the dutch
bloom and they are just stunning and when she uses those pearl paints it's absolutely phenomenal
so i'm hoping i can get something similar right
so i'm going to pour my black down
just a little
and i'm going to see i have it down here and i'm just going to swipe like this
get some on there i've got a little bit of gunk from oh i got to get that off hold on
okay all better it was dried paint and that would have not created a smooth
surface so all i did was just take another palette knife and just scrape
and that happened because i was lazy and didn't clean it off
right when i should have after i painted but all better okay let's try this again i'm gonna swipe
into the black paint okay here we go wish me luck
oh i can already see the violet starting to show up
oh i had a little bit of a dip here
okay so let me see if i want to pull this out any this looks gorgeous i can see the i think that's
the green and i can see the violet right now but it looked white in the container you saw it
wow that is so cool
a little bit more black don't need much
i really think that's it
yeah i'm going to stretch this out i don't know
oh i hope this turns out it looks so simple right now it just looks like white and a little bit
of or black and a little bit of white that's what it looks like but it's not
okay let me clean up my space i was so messy i finally cleaned my garage and man
does it feel more creative okay
all right
i feel like it's going to stretch out on its own so i'm not going to do anything else
to it a lot of times i fiddle a lot more and because i want to keep a lot of the purple
i'm going to go to that side first and stretch to that corner
wow this is so cool i am hoping that the colors once they dry these colors show up
a little bit better but if not that purple alone is stunning all right flip you around
i'm already dripping everywhere i'm not in my little
space that i should be but whatever i'm going to take it over to that side
and i'm going to bring this back down here stretch that side out
wow
super interesting and i can see the blue starting to show up i can see the green the red not as much
but let me there's that one little piece again it was something
okay spin it around for this last side this one is so cool i'm very happy about this one
i could just not drip everywhere did i drip in my hair
okay i could have just turned it right back to that side i don't know why i did that
okay that was a good amount of paint i don't want it to come off
too much but i do want it to hit this end down here
okay
now again i see one little
or i saw so i can see the red starting to show up right along there
my cells got a little wonky coming out here i think i may stretch it back just a little bit
yes i see you
do
okay
so i definitely dripped black and i mean look at my arms oh it's right here you wonder how
my bra has black paint on it so this part i do i'm just going to i don't know i just feel like
love that down there
i don't know how this part is going to dry
because i can see this little
i really didn't want that to show up i wanted it to not be but since it's there
there's this one too
i can't even describe to you what this looks like it's like
um i am going to continue this on down i'm actually just following the lines
that were already created by the swipe until i make it to the outside
again maybe not the perfect composition but i am going to do it again
but the pearl paints are spectacular
so thank you rinska
there now it looks like that was a river up meeting there because
i've got this black line going here i've got that line going to the outside here
i've got that one there there we go
it's super cool i cannot wait to see how this dries let me show you what it looks
like wet and then we will take a look at it dry okay so i tried to get you out of the light
but it is just not but you can see here's the pearl red
green blue is a little bit harder to tell right there and then purple and that purple
and there's this tiny little piece right down there so that's what it looks like
and i'll show you what it looks like dry okay how cool is this let me see if i can actually see
there you go you can see the iridescence there oh my goodness so needs a little bit of work
um you know this composition's not quite but you can even see the little purple part
my light is in the way but you can see the little purple part there that is so cool
looks almost like electricity the blue showed up really well even though it
was like white at the beginning so definitely needs a dark base and
orinsko is definitely on to something with these pearl colors that is awesome so i am going to try
it again the composition is not what i want i actually don't even mind these lines running
through it that's not what it is but i wish that i had stretched it out a little bit further um down
the canvas and when i do it next time i had placed all the colors like on almost on top of each other
i'm gonna have them separate i think just barely touching the next time but man oh man is that cool
well i hope that you enjoyed the video i'm looking forward to playing around with these and
doing some more with the swipe technique with the pearl colors and i will see you in the next video