 What's up everyone? Sorry, I've been in my lately had a lot going on But we're here and we're live and it's great. So I Wanted to talk to you guys about Leveling up your Ocean artwork and to do that I'm gonna show you what I do to add texture to oceans So people want to buy on what's up? What's up everyone? So this is one that I did a while Some of you have been here for a while Recognize this piece, but I put a textured. What's that Betty Julie? Susan Shelley everyone So you can see on this the awesome texture from having this Seafoam and so I'm gonna add I'm gonna add a wave onto this one and this is my a seafoam blend it is just a mixture of Mod Podge and water and white color Like an ink. I can't tell you the ratio because I don't remember myself But you can either fiddle around with it the different measurements on your own or you can just get it from me at artist-till-debt.com and Add super awesome bubbles To your work how fun is that just in in the jug If you're new hoppin in This is what we're creating today. I Find that a lot of people are really into textured artwork lately And so I want to make sure that my oceans are included into that This piece I just finished With a lot of texture of a video on How I made Madonna soon, hey Jenny, so let's get Started I have done a video on this before so if you've seen that And thank you for watching So we're gonna make these bubbles. Yes My hands look horrible All of the paints all of the time So let's move you guys in a little closer Sorry for all the movement I want to get you guys looking at the important parts. Cool. Cool. Cool. Just have your own is A this this is a big Be what's this called like a bubble tea straw? You're probably also use a McDonald's straw. You have handy this one is from Baskin Robbins Bless you my love Thank you three board chicks. So if you order this from me, it is seafoam blend on the website I Would shake it up when you get it if you find that it's too thick then just add Like my newt's amount of water It should be pretty fluid, but still have a thick consistency to it. I guess I can show you It's a really really fluid. All right, you can close the lid to create bubbles or you can So you can Blow it like you're making chocolate milk bubbles or you can close the lid and just Blow nope shake it and create a whole bunch of bubbles that way totally up to you Smoothies drop that one works. So you just saw how I shook it with the lid on it. You can also Do some of that stuff, but then it gets real messy So just be advised I'm gonna use the straw method because I don't like taking time to close The jar I know first world so I'm gonna scoop out some of my Bubbles and you can see on the side. I'm drain you can see on the side I'm draining out any of the excess fluid. Some bubbles are gonna go with it. That's perfectly fine And then just lay those bad boys out wherever it is That you want to have these bubbles. I will say that the bigger bubbles are less likely to stay I don't know why that is but I do know that that is You can just see that one just popped you can reapply In the big bubble areas if you so choose and I always advise people to Drain out any of the excess fluid because that's just gonna kind of leave a film And it's not gonna be that attractive You just have a film on there So drain out any of that excess Because this is Mod Pod so it's essentially kind of like a glue. You don't want to have just a gluey film on your piece That's not gonna help you sell any artwork Unless that's a look you're going for and that's the case then Get after it rock on Make your own niche of glue filmy Oceans, I've just never had a request for for anything like that now you can see I've Scooped out most of the bubbles that I already had so at this point I can close the lid and shake up it or Just blow some more back in there if I'm not doing it alive I'll usually put the cap back on like this If you think it will be babe, then you can just do it down here another trick is to take I'm just using a shish kebab skewer because we're making kebabs for dinner It may be too big to do this but you can with a toothpick just swirl around in here And it'll pick up a whole bunch of bubbles, but apparently that is not that is a Small toothpick size only so all I did was pop big bubbles So I'm gonna scoop out the little ones Drain any excess fluids Then my front row done. I can start Applying kind of like that dragging way look I tried this method my bubbles jarred flat I'm wondering if humidity was a factor as I've been working outside in the heat so Sarah it could be that The humidity had something to do with it if you did it outside the wind may have Had a factor in it as well if there was like a slight breeze that can also flatten your your bubbles If you have some Mod Podge, I would mix a little bit more into whatever I don't know if you have my mixture or my major own, but I would mix in just a little bit more Mod Podge that way These I don't know there we go the dome of these Bubbles Probably needed a little bit more than Mod Podge, which is the glue That's in the mixture So with a little bit more Mod Podge, you may have a more durable bubble dome Bubble dome does that sound like a thing? Can we pretend it's a thing? I tried really hard in the past to make these bigger bubbles work, but They just don't so To save myself from trying to work with them I just pop them before I even start pulling out any of the little bubbles It does sound like a thing Sarah So what I'm doing now is just applying Some of our mixture and doing it same as the the original Layer that we did but I'm dragging my bubble mixture back as I go So that's gonna give that kind of sweeping Tide pulling look That a lot of oceans waves you'll see so much easier to put the lid on and blow your bubbles Way less messy And it gives you a lot of bigger bubbles, but a bubble size that will last a lot of times when I do this technique I'll do it I'll do a couple layers of it just to build up a little bit extra Height but to do that you have to wait for the first layer to To set up or dry a little bit It'll just work better that way It's hard to stack these bubbles without flattening flattening them in between the layers So just give them a little bit of time to dry Don't try to hit them with a heat gun to dry them because that's gonna be air And that'll pop your dome. I swear if my Seafoam mix catches on I'm gonna have merch that says don't pop your dome I'm gonna do it. Watch and see. I have a lot of people requesting Textured oceans and when they do this is what I give them when you do something like this you can mark up your price because one it takes more material to create it takes more time to create and And the most important of those Nope, most important of the reasons you can charge more is because not a lot of people are really doing this and pushing this look yet So you can be like in the front of Kind of a trend you start doing this That was a good one. I'm gonna show you guys a close in a second. Actually, I could do that probably right now It's so difficult to remember sometimes to drain out any of that excess liquid But once you accidentally put too much of it down It'll help you remember not to do that moving forward Right. Also, who doesn't love making bubbles of any kind whether it's in chocolate milk or Little Mod Podge Seafoam bubbles In general, I would say well usually I art in the early evenings and so by Morning everything's fully set up and I can add the next layer. So I haven't really watched it to see How long it actually for real takes to dry but I Would say the less water you have in your mixture the shorter the dry time is and then More water you have the longer it takes I would argue that This should dry and So hard for me to think and art sometimes at the same time I would say Depending on your ambient temperature, maybe four or five hours But that's just an estimation based off of My area and how long it takes Mod Podge to dry during other applications Man, I don't want to pop that one to see if it lasted but I have these other ones that I can see If they last maybe I'll try to put one more big. Nope It's gonna try to put another big bubble, but it burst When you're applying these bubbles just like with actual real life wave kind of very How deep you pull your Bubbles out because if you pull them all to the exact same depth all the way down your shore It's not gonna look real because that's just not realistic to have a wave that isn't You know waving and undulating essentially that is what a wave is and does So I'm gonna pull a little bit extra back over here And then if you make a mixture like this and you find that you did not put enough white ink in And it kind of dries kind of on the green side or the clear side Then what I do is I just rough brush Some white paint on it and I'll show you how I do that on the other one that I just showed you guys I'm just gonna give you guys a quick flyover on this one and then we'll move on to We have all of our domes still on our bigger bubbles You can tell how late in the process your your bubble domes pop because if say this one That's intact. I'm gonna leave it intact because I find this look beautiful This graduating bubble situation if I were to pop this now with everything being very very fluid it would close in But if it pops later, then you're just gonna end up with kind of a shell Where you can see the outline of the Bubble dome but it won't have that dome part So that's all of our foam for this ocean Got a lot of bigger bubbles a lot of smaller bubbles We pulled them back in varying distances And it's gonna look beautiful. I'll definitely do a true color video in the morning with this So I'm gonna slowly walk this bad boy To the dust-free zone because I don't want any wind Is the one I showed you guys at the top of the it's kind of a green Color and that is because When you mix dish soap, oh dish soap is another part mod podge water dish soap white ink When you you make this mixture it just turns kind of a greeny Color because of the color of the dish soap. I haven't used the clear dish soap I haven't tried it with that. I don't see why it wouldn't work I am not sure if I'm gonna flood coat the the piece or not it depends on how high the bubbles How high the bubbles? stay the domes I Can't remember the ratio exactly Shannon, but if you message me later, I'll see if I can find it. I do have Jars just like this available for sale on my website or just told at comm but I'll also Try to figure it out by tomorrow And be prepared and so I can Be more accurate with those ratios, so I'm taking a very rough bristle brush It is not at all even and I am putting a thicker body paint. I'm just kind of Stamping the brush into it so it's kind of splayed It's not gonna focus cool cool cool cool But once you have a loaded brush, I don't have any water on the brush at all Me zoom you guys back in I am just dry brushing the white paint over the surface I don't want to have too much paint on if your bristles aren't Split at the ends and it's just solid paint then you have too much paint on and you'll just have to dab it off The like on a plate or a palette or whatever it is that you have and lightly skimming over the surface of my bubbles and That's gonna deposit paint just on The tops I Don't want to go into my bubbles Because that's gonna kind of take away some of the depth if I paint all the way down to the surface And also I have the cells from the pour under it that I don't want to cover up So we're just lightly brushing Over top Hopefully you guys can see a difference there So it's already brightening up All those bubbles and cells some of these did pop And so they aren't domed anymore. I think this is one of my first Mixture tests and so I think I didn't have enough Mod Podge in this mix, but that's okay Because I do the test so you don't have to Erica you have to remind me how much I love water color. Thank you again Oh, you have reminded me how much I love water color. I am so glad I helped you to remember your love for water color I think it's important Side note small tangent. I think it's a very important as an artist to Not limit yourself to any one medium That's why on this channel we we do a lot of different kinds of things because I think when you Try other mediums it helps you to open your eyes to other possibilities in your main medium for me It would be resin or Jeff. It would be airbrush And so we've kind of incorporated a lot of what we've learned playing with other mediums We've incorporated that into our resin work and so It it makes my whole heart happy to know that I helped you To revisit a medium that you used to do or used to love doing It's not about profit only on my channel it's about It's about just what you said Susan. It's about helping people to Get back to doing art if they haven't done it in a while. It's about Helping people to become a better version of the artists that they already are even if they don't know that they're an artist already There's a lot of people Don't consider themselves an artist. They just like to art and That's fine, but I would consider you an artist I Feel like if you create art then you're an artist and art is not limited to Paint brushes. It's not limited to resin. It's not limited to Any of that I think chefs are artists. I think hairdressers are artists. I think Bakers are both mad scientists and artists Good day, Sue I'll be seeing you in person before too long If you can make it to my classes Sue would love to see you Also, Shelley, I know you're in Australia and anyone else out there that is some of our Australian fam You have a hard time saying that you're an artist That's I find that's pretty common with people So don't feel alone in that and don't feel less than because you have those thoughts because I mean it's common and It's okay, and you don't have to call yourself an artist if it makes you uncomfortable I'm gonna call you an artist, but you don't have to if you don't want to Depending on the quality of paint that you have it may take a few coats the paint that I'm using is I Have no idea what this brand is. Well, it's thicker. It is not the most High-end it's a bulk by paint However, it does the job What are the dates or where can we find them? We have to see how Rhonda does today with her Surgery or not surgery or possible surgery and then we'll be booking flights the first stop I believe is birth But as soon as we have it narrowed down, I'll let you guys know right now. It's looking like middle October But I'll let you guys know as soon as I know more for sure another reason why you really want to paint your waves is a Lot of Mod Podge is not light fast It'll yellow it'll amber And so painting over it with a good quality white will mask Hey canvas, he doesn't want to play right now in this man. She's like you called me No, thank you so much Where's the party horn? I love that that one has Applause behind it because I applaud I applaud you guys for just being here watching me art let alone Donating to the cause that is this channel. I Really truly appreciate it. All right Now we have our Waves it truly means a lot to me Gail. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, that's a ways zoomed in. Okay so now we have Our white tip waves So hopefully I can get close enough to where you can see yeah, you can see through here You can see the waves from The poor that's underneath it and I really wanted to not hide those because I Love how they look So you can see these waves continuing all the way under our texture wave and so You can see that these did pop But they popped a late and so you can see if it focuses That there's no dome on it. I can touch all the way to the base, but it hasn't closed in So those popped late in the drying process I think they look really good. I'll probably come in and edge up my Frontline and I will be repainting my sand Because that's just not a good look But I love it. What's up Paula? How are you doing? I believe I just shipped something to you So let's check on our Existing ocean. Oh, no that one popped That we were gonna save but the other ones are still Not popped you can see this shiny on the dome there That's a good big one They all look good still We'll see what happens. I mean, y'all know with it. What's up in Kate. I know it is soon be in Brisbane on the 30th I will do my best Julie says I'm a hairdresser and I had no idea until you're in Ronda That I could possibly be any other type of artist. Thank you so much Julie it is my sincerest sincerest pleasure And you are an artist until anyone tell you different Is it Sue? I'm sorry. Hold on With impasto paint. I had okay, so I've been doing a lot of palette knife paintings because I have a client wanting a really really really large commission and it's an Impressionistic piece which is mostly centered in the period of impressionistic painters, so I've been trying to Refine my hand at palette knife art Emma I can do my best to we don't have the entire schedule out yet and we get to just pick where we're going so I'll do my best to make that happen. I did this one earlier today I'm so glad you guys recognized who it was. I was worried. I posted it on Facebook and someone was like It is a great self-portrait But anyways, I think she looks great That's what happens when she wants to play and he does not want to play. I will Shelley. I'll tell you it's a compliment It could be the eyes All right guys, these two are getting real anxious. I can't disagree with you Susan So I got to take these babes out for a walk But thank you guys for hopping in and seeing what I'm up to today Definitely level up your oceans with this C-phone blend Okay, okay, so you guys have an awesome evening we love you guys so very much and I will be posting more videos that are pre-recorded because I've been working on a lot of artwork, but it just doesn't make sense and You know one hour long Pieces for the live, so I'm just been recording them and I'll be posting those full process videos soon You guys mean the world to us. Thank you so much. Thank you for purchasing through my shop If you haven't use code ATD for five percent off of your C-phone blend and Have a great evening be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through I like one hour lives, too But it would be for example if I were to have done this piece on a live it would have been Seven or eight one hour videos Okay, you guys have an awesome evening. We'll see you guys next time. Bye I said She bothering you bubba, okay, let's take her outside Okay