Hello, my creative friends! Olga Soby here, and
welcome to new acrylic pouring video. So what's gonna happen today? Today I'm working on this
huge canvas, and I continue my "Breaking through the limits" series exploring the 3d effect in
acrylic pouring. And today, I want to try using a triangle shape to achieve that 3d effect.
So in first three paintings of this series, I used different kinds of ring shapes. So it
was a bigger circle, smaller, double ring, and it turned out really awesome. If you haven't seen
the previous three at the beginning of the series, check it out right here. But today, I feel like
time to change things up and try something new. So the inspiration for today's piece is going to
be also very interesting. So for my inspiration, I want to use an album cover "Dark Side of the
Moon" by Pink Floyd. I know you all have seen this album cover before. This is the image where a ray
of white light enters the triangle and then exits in the spectrum of visible light, so colors
of the rainbow. I am super thrilled and excited to see how this one turns out. So
without further ado, let's get started! So just like on that album cover, I'm
gonna work on the dark background today. And today, I'm working on 24 by
36 inch canvas. For a change, I'm not working on cradled wood. This
is the canvas. Um, just felt like if I'm trying something new need to change things
up completely. So I have painted the sides, you've seen it at the beginning of the
video, just to save myself some headache of touching up the sides after the piece is
dry. And yeah, let's create that base first. I'm tilting the canvas just to help
my paint level out a little more to create nice and smooth base for the blowout. All right, the base is done. I
torched it out to pop the air bubbles, and now let's plan the composition. So, of
course, the triangle is going to be in the center, and the rainbow colors or the
colors of spectrum go this way. I'm going to start just layering them in. But I don't want to have too
much paint in the center because the triangle should be rather empty. So on the album cover, the colors of the
rainbow they sort of go a little bit downwards, but this is the fluid art interpretation. I want
to change few things up just a notch. So I want my colors to go sort of open this way, just
to take up all this side. And the white is going to go downwards like this a little
bit, and I think I'll add it in right now. But the white color I'm gonna blow out
last. Because just really need to reverse engineer here to achieve that 3d effect. You'll
know, you'll see what I mean just in a moment. So before blowing this side up, I kind of
want to add a few metallic colors just, oh, my lid wasn't tight, just on top here. Just
to add a little more definition to the colors and to help some of these cells pop. So the
first one was copper, just a few touches of gold in yellow, maybe in green. And this one is
iridescent blue-green, and this is iridescent red-violet. Just gonna add it here. All right,
looking good. Just need to top it up with white to brighten up, to bring out some tints of these
colors. Because it's very important when you are working on a dark background, and that will also
help more cells pop. One important tip that I want to share with you, guys, I've shared it before.
But really I can't stress enough how important this is. When you work in a dark background, if
you don't want your colors to look super dark, and dull the next day when the paint is dry,
make sure to choose opaque colors. So here, all of my colors are either opaque or a mixed
opaque color with semi-transparent to achieve the shade the hue that I want. Because if you're
using straight up transparent colors on dark, the dark is going to shine through your colors,
and it's just going to look super dull and muted when the paint is dry. And we definitely don't
want that. Okay, let's blow the rainbow! Shall we? Looking awesome. I love this explosion. So you
might have noticed that closer to the outer edge, the paint wasn't moving very well, and the reason
is - because the overall thickness of paint here almost to the side is very thin. So when this
happens, when you see that your paint's not going (because here it was moving no problem, only
closer to the edge), don't force it. Because it's not going to work out anyway. So just
stop, add a little bit of that base color and then just blow it over again. And this way,
it's gonna, at this time it's gonna just blow much easier. Because, for Dutch pour
technique, for blowing techniques, in general, you don't need that base layer. So your top colors can sort of glide
and slide over it. It really helps. This part I'm gonna work on a little later after I
do the triangle but otherwise... Oh! It's awesome! So I think I'm gonna stop with the rainbow or the
spectrum, however you want to call it, for now. Time to work on the triangle. You might
be wondering how the heck am I going to do it. So I have tried a few things. And with the
ring, with circle, you kind of have to have this round shape. But this is what I'm going
to be using for triangle. I don't really need to use the actual triangle shape. I can
create each side individually. So this is... um... this is a scraper. I'm not sure if
this is the exact official name of this tool, but I got it in the hardware store. This is for
walls, it was like super cheap, and it's flat, it's rigid. I love it. So let's try using this
guy for creating a triangle. And first of all, I want to make sure I'm still in the
center here. So this is 36 divided by 2, is 18. I just want to sort of make a mark on
18. I'm just gonna sort of push the paint out a little bit. Okay, I need to remember to touch
it up after, but this is gonna be my orientation for the center of the triangle. Okay, so I think
I'm gonna do the bottom line first. Of course, I don't need to be like super duper precise here,
but you know, as close as I can make it work. The triangle I want to make white. So I'm gonna add
some white on the side here. So I'm gonna scoop up a little bit of white paint on this scraper.
I think this is a perfect spot for the bottom. I'm gonna keep it for a few seconds just to
allow my white paint to slide off a little bit. There is nothing! I swear when I was testing
this out on smaller canvas, it worked. I didn't make a triangle, just testing
out some lines. What if I add right over? Okay, this is pretty good. It doesn't
need to be perfect line. This is the fluid art painting so it actually should be a
little, you know, fluid, have the character. Should I just do the same thing for the other
two sides? I'm gonna clean this up first. Still going to dip in a little bit of white paint. I think that's the center. So again, I'm not sure
if you, guys, are going to be able to see what I'm doing here. But I'm just pouring a little bit,
don't need lots, a little bit of white paint over. This is pretty good! I like it! I still would
probably want to highlight it a little more. Okay, and last time. Again I'm pouring white paint
not on the canvas but on this, you know, the bottom of this scraper. And
then I'm allowing the paint to glide down, to slide down sort of. Okay, the third one is like
not perfect, least perfect out of three. Okay. I love it! I love it! It's freaking awesome. You
know why...why I do not just paint triangle after? Because I kind of like when it has a little bit
of that fluid paint energy when it's not perfect when it has some parts of the painting where it's
thicker thinner. It just makes it more dynamic. And it blends in better with the style of the
rest of the painting. So this is pretty good! Okay, let's clean up this baby right away.
And time to work on white part. Okay, so this has to go up, I want to save this corner,
and then I'm just gonna trust my hand to do it. Hang on just a second. I need to break
up this solid white a little bit. Oh my God, story of my life. I
always dip everything in paint. Okay, the corner is just a little too solid. But the rest is pretty good. I'm loving it so far. This corner shifted
the tiniest bit, would need to work on that. But other than that looks awesome.
I love the energy! This is epic! I need to work on the last part, third
part of this piece - the center, here. And I want to create a bit of a spiral,
like they're blending inside of each other. All right you guys, I think this piece is
totally awesome! The energy of it and the flow totally just captivates me. And you can see that
this part of the triangle, it begins to wiggle just a little bit. Because this is where I have
the most paint. And when the acrylic paint begins to dry, when the fluid paint begins to dry, it
always tends to level out. And as it levels out, it might shift just a little bit. So I'm still
going to highlight this triangle a little bit. I still want to keep this, you know the fluid
painting style, to it. Because I kind of like it about it, and I want to keep it this
way. Just want to make it maybe a touch more straight and a touch more thick. All right
you guys, please let me know how do you like this painting? How do you like the whole concept?
And would you like to see me trying out different forms and shapes in this "Breaking
through the limits" series (triangle, maybe something else)? I would love to
hear from you! Please let me know in the comments down below. I'll chat with you there. And if
you share your beautiful creation in this style online - don't forget to use this hashtag, so
I can find and see your beautiful paintings! Thank you for watching! Take care, stay creative,
and I'll see you in the next video! Bye! Bye!
