Hi everyone it is molly! Welcome back to my channel, thank you for being here. I wanted to
take this time to wish everyone a happy new year. I cannot thank you enough for being with me
this past year on this crazy journey that I have had. I just want to say thank you. I
appreciate all of you. As the year comes to an end, so does the introductory price for our course, so
starting in the new year it will go to regular price. You can find more information about it at
the website www.smartartcourses.com. I wanted to bring in the new year with something that I
hope I will carry forward into the next year. That is keeping it, fun with
no judgments and continuing to push myself. I wanted to try something a little different tonight.
I wanted to try to get a starburst effect so I am going to layer the paints in a circular motion
and I am going to blow them outward and I am hoping that the way that I layer them
will give a gradient of color almost like a starburst or a tie-dyed effect.
Let's paint. Hello everyone I have just been in a really fun and playful mood
experimenting with different techniques and different color combos and today I want to do
a tie-dye painting. I want
to start with white in the center, and then silver and then light blue to dark blue
and i want to go just all the way out so that i look like i'm getting like a color explosion on
the canvas. I am going to paint my sides and then I will start layering the colors. Okay
so now I have the sides painted I just use my paddle brush and go around it. now the color
that i used is the color that's going to be on the outside which is the phthalo blue and the
phthalo blue is transparent so you can even see as i like not you can see but as i brushed you
can see the canvas a little bit but it's just to give it a base coat but you'll want to make sure
that you even out the edges so that you don't have any ridges of paint there because it will
impede the paint running off the canvas well so okay i i as usual do not have too much of
a plan here but i am gonna start with a pretty good amount of white in the center and if this
is not like completely centered it's it'll be okay um and then i can always add more
white as i go so my next color i think will be silver and i may intertwine the silver
and the white in more layers as i go there's a little clump
okay next i think i'm gonna do my sky blue
and in this next layer i think i'm going to leave just a little bit of room
so that when i blow the colors will mix together well i think my next one
because if you put them right up against each other sometimes
the color that's closest to the center will swallow the others
so i'm going to leave a little room so that when i blow i really get a gradient of all of them
now
trying to get kind of even layers throughout do i want any more of that sky blue i feel like
maybe i should do that color instead of white right through here whoops then i'm gonna do my
i have no idea how this is going to turn out this it's the exciting part of it sometimes
i'm going to add just a little bit of white
through there
maybe even a little bit of white right through here
again it doesn't have to be perfect
hmm i am going to add just the rest of my blue around these edges
and maybe this blue for these edges since i have it left over
and see again i'm not so worried because if i don't make it there quite there
it'll still be okay because i painted my sides all right let me pop any air bubbles
i only added the silver i'm wondering if i should add maybe just a touch of silver right in here
may not be the true gradient that i was looking for but
all right let's blow this out i'm going to start in the middle
and just take a section and blow all the way down and keep going that way and let's see what happens
oh i'm sorry i didn't mean to scream this is
gorgeous i am so happy oh my gosh
i love it oh i hope it dries this way the beautiful lacing so i'm so happy i added
that silver because it created the rest of the cells that went outward oh i am so happy
so there's just touch-ups on the side to do and i'm not i'm not touching this i this one little
part does bother me a little bit right here but i feel like if i blow it again i'm just gonna
mess everything up it really does look like a crystalline snowflake
oh okay let me let me show you this one
i cannot be happier look at the beautiful cells look at the center
now my white did have i needed to pop more air bubbles
so there are little flecks of white but i don't even care look at that
wow
i love it it's gorgeous
all right i'll show you the dried result man oh man i love this piece now a couple of things
my table was not level so you can see well i moved it to another table to dry and you can see just
that tiny just a tiny bit off and all the paint started to move right there but overall it mostly
stayed in place and i just i don't know why it just tickles me this is just beautiful that silver
is just shining and you can let me know what this what you think this looks like because at
first i kept saying snowflake now it looks like an eyeball like a tie-dyed eyeball i don't know
but a starburst you know who knows i feel like this is in the galaxy somewhere that this exploded
but i just couldn't be happier with the cells
that are there this lacing some people ask what is lacing this is lacing
this is what i'm talking about when i say lacing cells are actual you know circular type
ringlets of colors that is lacing and that is created by the metallic that i used
and the brands of paint some of them are glossy some of them are more matte some of them are
opaque it's all those interactions together that help create that effect but you can let
me know if you like it i i don't know why i was so tickled by this one but i really was
all right thank you guys so much for watching happy new year to you all and happy painting
bye