 Hey guys, so we are here with another episode of the artsy trio I want to say messy journal, but that's not the video we're doing. However, I Have a YouTube series here that I've been doing called the messy journal or where we play with a particular journal of mine This one Which we do really messy things in to create interesting Artistic pages sometimes I have to take it outside because it just gets really messy and I do splattering and all kinds of stuff so There's a reason I'm sharing this with you in this video so I Was thinking about this Months mood board that Mike Deakin my friend Mike Deakin has put together and by the way the artsy trio is a Series I do with my friend good friend Mike Deakin and Bea grob Their videos will be linked in the video description when you're done with this one Please go watch theirs and give everything a like share and subscribe. That would be great. All right spiel is done I was looking at this month's vision board from Mike Which is this one you can get your own copy of this vision board in the arty trio Facebook group, which will also be linked down below He has these beautiful colors. You've got this pinky magenta color. You've got this tealy green and there's some gold and I Looked at it and said messy journaling. I don't know why I did And also said acrylic pouring wait, can you do that in our journal because that's like really messy and it like goes everywhere But then wait, why can't you? But it's really messy. It's gonna go everywhere, but let's try it So I think we're gonna have to try it. We're gonna use just a little teeny tiny paint I'm going to tape the journal off like I do with the messy journal or We are we have our box here This is the box I use when I do the messy journal ours inside or out and the plastic so we are going to you can tell Okay, so we are going to prep the journal and we are gonna see if we can do an acrylic pour on it And then see where we go from there last month we did the alcohol ink page experiment and We had all this on the back. That's okay because I'm gonna want a place to make notes and to put The vision board I don't care if there's a stain on the page. That's fine We're gonna actually work on this one and I'm actually not gonna even glue the vision board in or do the notes until the end because When I say this part's gonna be messy Yeah, it's gonna be messy. So let's prep our journal. Let's tape everything off and get it ready to go And then we can mix up our paint. I will speed forward through my process and I will be back I'm gonna put gloves on because it was a pain in the neck to get my hands clean and FYI if you're gonna try this I do recommend you actually put gloves on. I just want to try stretching it a little bit and pouring off some of the paint that's Accumulating in the middle But again, ultimately well, can you do an acrylic pour on like a journal page? I have no idea so we're gonna find out because it's too late now to decide Okay, I just can't leave it alone I need to walk away, but I do like the addition of the gold paint now that was dropped on from the bottle This is a model paint like for car car models and miniatures and it's from Hobby Lobby and It's called model color acrylic acrylic colors, and this is their gold. It's by Vallejo I don't have tons of metallic paint, but I do have a few. This is actually one of my favorite ones It's not super expensive. You don't get like 20 tons of it If you don't use a lot of gold paint this little bottle will last you a long time Anyway, I love we're gonna walk away We're gonna try hard and let it dry and then we can see what happens Will it crack? I Don't know. I don't know if it's gonna crack as it dries or because it's on a piece of paper It's thick paper. It's watercolor paper, but yeah, I don't know. We'll find out together. All right. I'll be back Okay, so It's the next day. I know for you. It's just a few seconds, but it's the next day now most of this is dry Except for this little spot right here is still wet. I can see it. However, I think we're gonna carefully pull it out of the box and Take all the plastic and tape off and Open the journal carefully so I can do my notes on the other side But I better put gloves on first in case something down there is also wet It was really hard to clean my hands yesterday. So There's that. All right, let me get my gloves and I'll be back Okay We've made our notes on this side. Our paint is continuing to dry on this side This part again is mostly dry. This part is not it doesn't appear to be cracking or anything Which actually surprises me because I expected that If I got too much paint on here, it would crack. I did have a discussion with my cohorts here in the RC trio and I was I told them I told Mike especially, you know, right away for whatever reason your mood board Inspired me to think can you do an acrylic pour in a journal? And we kind of all were in agreement that sure you probably can you just need to make sure you don't put too much paint Which I said in the beginning of the video in this conversation actually happened last night after I'd done it already So I do think if you're going to experiment with this you do need to make sure you don't use too much paint, but also Again, I do think I say earlier in a prior clip. This is watercolor paper And you need to use really thick Heavy paper or chipboard to do this I think I think anything thinner is Probably not going to work. Well that being said, are we probably going to try it in a messy journal or episode? More than likely so stay tuned for that Anyway, we're going to continue to let this dry. I'm going to set it aside I've got other things to work on and I will be back with you for me It'll be probably another day for you just a couple seconds Hey guys, so Our acrylic pour experiment in my art journal is a success It I still think there's a spot like right there That might be a little bit wet, but it's mostly dry and How pretty is that? I can't wait to do some more experimenting. So again, I think What I did to accommodate doing this in the art journal was I made sure I picked my experiments journal Which is really thick watercolor or heavy mixed media paper I also didn't add a lot of water to most of the paints The only one I added water to was the gold because it was a little bit of a thicker paint So I wouldn't add too much water to them and Don't use too much paint on this one. I kind of this is borderline maybe too much paint But it's drying Uh-uh fairly flat. I mean it's warped a little bit, but it's not too bad So yeah, anyway, give it a try. 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