hi everyone its Keren here with a
mixed-media altered paintbrush tutorial
a few of us have gathered to collaborate on a YouTube hop as we create different
altered paint brushes each one of us created an altered brush and some of us
created tutorials for it that you can hop along and see all the videos
some people are just showing their paintbrushes on their blog and some of
us are even having some giveaways so it's really worth it to go along and just
look at all the different paintbrushes so you can see what we've created a few
of us having giveaways and I'm having one as well so stay tuned to the
end of the video so you can see what I'm giving away and how to enter.
The links
to all the other brush videos and posts are in the description area below as
well as all the materials I use to create my brush the first thing I did is
I took a three inch wide brush and covered it in white gesso I just gave it
a light coat on both sides this brush has long bristles so I could basically
embellish a little bit more than one with short bristles and I went
both front and back and added the gesso I did a couple of coats and dried it in
between so I could really cover the wooden part in terms of the bristles I
actually didn't cover them all I just lightly brushed them with a downward
motion to just create a little bit of white at the edge where the metal
touches it I took a lid from one of my mixed-media
jars and covered it in white gesso as well as this was black.
I guess I could
have used a white lid but all the lids from Finnabair are black so I knew I had
to cover that as well.
Here I am giving another coat to the brush
while I'm drying the lid and then I gave the lid a second coat it didn't
really have to be perfect because I was going to cover it with tissue paper but
I just wanted it to be a little bit of white so you don't see that black
underneath this is a heavy gel lid that I had finished and I saved a bunch of
the lids so I could create a brush I took some Tim Holtz tissue paper and
some liquitex matte medium which is very fluid and liquidy so it's really easy to
use with a tissue paper and using a brush I started applying the tissue
paper in all different areas on the brush and collaging it on top I didn't
want it to be perfect I wanted it to look as if the brush is just covered
with a few different areas of tissue paper so you can have those really cool
that really cool texture and designs on the background and I went all around the
handle both front and back and covered them and even though I was going to add
more mediums onto it the designs peeked through the mixed-media products which
was really nice to see
I'm showcasing two brushes here today but in reality I'm only showing the
process for one of the brushes as both of them are the same just in different
colors
I also used a tissue paper to add a little bit of texture inside the lid and
also cover any mistakes I had made with the gesso not mistake so much as like
you know if it didn't cover that and the black fully this really helped to cover
the areas and I did it on the edges of the lid as well so it would really cover
all the little painting mistakes now I started working with the composition I
took blue friend studios chipboard piece just I actually don't remember the name
of it but it's just a circular kind of embellishment and put the lid on top of
it and then I took a Prima resin butterfly and some other resin pieces
and started up putting them in different places on the brush
these are swirls flourishes that are also resin from Prima marketing and I
started designing how I liked my my brush to look I knew that I wanted the
moth or the butterfly in the center but the rest was kind of playing around with
it and figuring out figure it out where it would they would look nice once I had
everything in place I took some heavy gel from Prima Finnabair and started
gluing all the embellishments to the background the only one that I kept
loose was the butterfly just to have it just to just kind of figure out what I
wanted to do with it I wasn't sure but all the other elements are glued
together then I took a little flower also from
prima and just glued it in between the swirls to kind of hide the areas where I
hadn't filled them in then I took some butcher cord and this is this is
just string you could use any string for this and I wanted to create the
strings that go down the dreamcatcher my idea was to create a dreamcatcher out of
a brush and to have that Center area to be the center of the dreamcatcher so as
you can see here I'm using some glue to kind of make sure that the cords hold
down and I'm able to have them in the place that I want them I use about five
different strings and I knew that I was going to add the feathers later the
only thing I didn't like was that knot on the side so what I ended up doing is I
ended up taking it apart as you will see soon and basically just used glue to
hold the strings together without having anything attached or any bulky knots
anywhere
the next step was to add some art stones because I wanted to have a lot of
texture and I took the mini art stones and some soft matte gel and I love this
technique as I dip my paintbrush in the gel and then dip it inside the art
stones and they stick together really nicely and create this bulky effect with
the stones so that way they don't go all over the place when I'm adding them.
so
here I am adding some stones in some area this is part this area at the
bottom but also adding some inside the circle towards the bottom of the circle
I just wanted to kind of add texture not everywhere but in some areas to really
make it look as if the stones are falling down the brush so here I am
adding at the top and then some of the edges as well and then I go inside once
I finished with the other art stones I took the smaller ones and added a few
more with a little spoon in the wet areas where the glue was then I took my
moth or butterfly and added a lot of gel and included to the center of my circle
I let this dry overnight I actually let it dry more almost like two days because
I was busy and I hadn't had time to get back to it so it was really drying to
start adding they Ken Oliver color bursts and I knew that's how I wanted to
color it so I took them and I started adding the powder onto the backgrounds
you have to make sure that you use something to protect your mat with them
or with any basically any ink because you really want to be able to clean them
after.
I used two colors from the Caribbean collection lime green and
turquoise and then I sprayed them with water to spread it around
then I took some of the metallic colors bursts metallic sky and metallic Jade
because they were both blue and green and matched perfectly with the brush
that I was creating when you're playing with color bursts you have to add them
in layers to really build up the color so what I did is I dried in between
layers first I dried the ones that I added in powdered form and then I put
the metallic ones and again I dried it and I played around back and forth with
the colors to make sure that the color really builds up
the next color I added was the metallic copper again from the color bursts from
Ken Oliver because I really wanted to add that oxidized look to it and create
kind of a patina effect so I added it in certain areas just to add a little bit
of that distressed look and then I took the tangerine color bursts from the
Caribbean set just to add more rust effect to the background
I still felt like the rusted effect was not enough so I took some alcohol inks
this is the ginger color and I just started adding it a little bit darker
tones in certain areas and spread them around to really low make it look rusty
then I went back with a metallic sky and just added it to the butterfly to just
color it in and give it a little bit more of that blue color and then a
little bit of the Jade one as well so I have to play back and forth with the
colors which is always the thing that you have to do with different things to
be able to get the look that you like so I just continue playing until I like it
and that is according to what one person likes you don't you might not you might
like it less colorful or less dark and that's up to you to decide so you can
basically play around with the colors until you are happy with the result it
doesn't have to be exactly like mine I also took the copper color and some of
the other metallic colors and started coloring the strings just to add a
little bit color so to take away that whiteness from the actual butcher cord
I went ahead and lighten it up using some gold metallic color bursts and I
basically went around in certain areas kind of in the center of the
butterfly and different embellishments to just add a little bit
of highlights of the gold because after had added the blue and the green it
really became very dark and I wanted to just kind of lighten it up
since the color bursts inks don't have any fixative in them I use some pixie
dust fixative from prima finnabair to just add on top of the ink that way it
will not run when it's displayed I took some feathers from my stash and
using some copper wire I wrapped them around the butcher cord at the edge of
it to basically finish up the dreamcatcher and have feathers on each
one I took some two different colors of the feathers to just bunch them up
together and tie them up at the bottom of the cord
then I took the alcohol ink and just basically added a few drips of it on
the feathers to kind of make them match the rest of the brush and have that rest
look on them as well finally I took some prima finnabair art alchemy wax
aged brass and just added a few highlights on certain areas to just make
everything shine and bring up that really nice luster to the surface
finally I just want to show you another brush that I made at the same time as
this one just in different colors this I use purples and blues but I use the
exact same techniques with the asite exact same at products and just use
different colors feathers and different colored inks here you can see the
texture of the first brush and the colors and how everything came together
I really love how the texture came out and I love this type of dreamcatcher
theme then you can see the second one which is purplish and it just really I
still added the alcohol ink on it but I use purples and blues in the background
and the alcohol ink the ginger color was just to create that really nice rusted
look thank you so much for watching go on and hop to the next brush video so
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