HUGE Textured Flower - Unbelievable Lacing + Swipe (& SIMPLE DIY Technique!) | AB Creative Tutorial

Today I'm doing something big, big, big. I'll be using a simple texture paste technique to make a beautiful art piece that you can try at home. I'll even be attempting my biggest ever swipe. Let me show you how it's done. Now, as you can see from a different background, I'm on holiday now. Therefore, to avoid messing up the table, I'm going to cover it today. Never do it at home because I can easily wipe my table cloth. In comparison to my really tiny station, which is that wide, the canvas for today is pretty big, 50 by 30. That's what I got from a local shop. Looks very nice. The color palette is going to be pretty minimalist. These will be the most important ones today, black and white, titanium white, ivory black. We've got Amsterdam and Liquitex and Lippo Artezas, ultramarine blue and cobalt blue. And titanium white again. Now, I was thinking of combining some simple techniques, some of my absolute favorites, that means swipe. So we'll be doing some pouring and swiping. And I know how much you've loved the 3D flowers. So I'm going to combine those two techniques today. It's not easy to be away from home. So all my equipment today will be rather unusual. So I've been mixing my paint in the cup. No worries, the cup is mine. I've added just Floetrol to my paint, half and half. I just added some water here, but it's still on the thick side. So here comes some water. Look at this little, oops. Looks very posh today. I'm going to show you the consistency after I've added quite a lot of water, actually. Can you see that? I hope you can. It's pretty runny now. Running off the spoon, yes, it is spoon. I feel like I'm about to drink this one. So I am going to take a little bit of each color and I'm going to put them in separate containers. And then I'm going to add a couple of drops of silicone. This is my white cream. Not sure how much, how much do we need? Not that much, probably. I have to be sure that I'm covering the background, that that's enough. Now I've bought this. This is coconut hair serum. It's not coconut oil or milk. Well, it's called coconut milk, but it's a hair product with dimethicone. So this is going to be my silicone replacement today. Hopefully I'll get a drop. Bit worried that I'll get too much. One, two, all right. Now I'm going to mix it in a sec. I'm a bit apprehensive. I have to cover quite a lot of surface. I realized, of course, I didn't take my palette knife with me, which is a disaster. So I was looking in the cupboard at various utensils. I could use a knife, but this is not very, very useful. And then I came across something incredible. Super old medical steel. This is going to be perfect. Look at that. So it's my palette knife for today. I'm going to start with white. But where do I want my partition? Somewhere here. So all this is going to be white. Oh, please, please be enough. It's because, you know, I don't have my equipment, so it really took me long. Oh, I do have this little thing. Oh, it's really small, but it works to paint the bubbles. Black. Spreading black. Maybe I want a bit more black. So I'm going a bit lower with my black. My medical tool is working. Paint is rather thin. Now I am adding black with silicone somewhere here. It's actually quite a lot. And I am going to add white with silicone this side. What else do we need? We need paper towel. Just a regular paper towel, but I get the edges moist. I added water. And because the canvas is pretty big, I'm going to use two sheets. Position it very gently. We're ready to swipe. Lovely. However, I want that edge as well, so I'm going to retouch it. Here. Part. Oh, my goodness. I actually, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I forgot to add the blue. I was going to add blue. So I'll have to improvise completely. Now it's going to be black and white, and we'll add blue later on. We are at this stage now. Painting is dry, and I cleaned it. Can you see those marks here? They are from silicone. You often ask me, how do we remove silicone residue? I either use isopropyl alcohol or a sponge with soapy water, and that's what I did this time. And then I clean it thoroughly, and I wash it off. I've got tons of cells. I didn't expect actually so many and so tiny. I drew a flower. It's going to be one flower. I've never done one, but this is what I fancy doing now. I just drew the flower roughly on a piece of paper. I don't even have baking paper. Yes, I could go to the shop and look for it, but once I'm in the mood, I want to create. I'm going to cut it out, position it on the painting, and see whether I like it or not. Right, I'll be back once I cut this ginormous flower. One of my petals is missing the ending, so I am going to attach the ending. Fix the problem. The flower is going to cover the partition, which will look quite good, I think. That's the position I want my flower to be. I found a soft pencil, 6B, so I am going to draw around. I'll show you once I finish. I've got the petals. Can you see the lines? I don't have any texture paste available here, and I don't have my Liquitex Heavy Gesso, which I really like for that purpose, so I am using all-purpose filler with acrylic paint, and hopefully that will give me the right consistency. Titanium white. I'm not adding a lot because I don't want it to be too runny. Really nice. Nice and creamy. I found a small cellophane bag. I know how you enjoyed the white flowers video, which was a 3D paste, my first big flower. This will be even bigger, and I am intending to use different color. Okay, so now I need to find a rubber band. So I might start with one that's going to be most hidden, partially hidden, which is in my mind, be this one. I'm cutting quite a biggish, oh, that's quite big. All right, let me start applying like this. Oh, it flows so nicely. And this is the moment that I might change some of the design. I've never done such a big one, and it's so, so satisfying. All right, so now here, I'm going to add a bit more. Because I don't want this to be clogged or dry, I think I'm going to put it in a jar or something. To fill the petals inside, I'm going to use a brush. I might actually even use a palette knife. That's possible. But I think it's probably easier using a brush. May want to test both. We need water to do it. I don't want this edge thick at all. Therefore, I'm spreading the paste towards the center, making some grooves. Can make the petals a bit more uneven. All those lines, once it's dry, will be visible. And I definitely want them. It doesn't matter that you can see the background. It's all going to be painted. You see the lines? I want some imperfections, because this was supposed to be a real flower. One done. I can do now this one on top. This one, I want with a bit of a curved edge. Slightly overlapping. I will add some more to fill the inside. I want this one to be a little bit thicker or a bit more raised, so I am adding more paste inside. But I am going to add a bit more paste here to make an impression of a raised area. Time for the third one. I think you will see this one better on this speckled background. I think this is probably, in my opinion, one of the most satisfying techniques. And you know, your own piping bag. So easy to make. I can't believe it. I just, I think I'll have to make paste for one petal only. Oh my goodness. And I know that there'll be many of you making similar work. So can you please send me a picture via Instagram? I would really appreciate it. If you're posting it on social media and you're inspired by my work, thank you very much for mentioning me as a source of inspiration. I think it's such a kind, wonderful thing that people appreciate the source of their inspiration. What kind of flower is that? I'm imagining like a huge cosmos flower. Now I think I want a big blob in the middle. I'm not sure if I want it so curved. Let me just spread it. Is it big enough? Oh, that's the stem. Still got some paste left. And now how do I want my stem to go? And I'll just wait for it to dry. It dried beautifully. I'm sure you remember that I was going to add blue to the background and then I strangely forgotten. I still, of course, have the mix. I am going to add the blue using a brush. Oh, that's a nice, very light hint of blue. I'm liking it on the white. But you know that I don't do anything before. This is me trying it first time. If anything goes wrong, we'll do something else. In my opinion, adding blue to anything will make it look better, but it's just me. Here we've got cobalt blue, phthalo blue, ultramarine, and I'm still not happy. I need a bit more gray. My gray is silver. Might add black. Let's add a bit of black. Oh, that's a lot. Okay, tested. What do you think? I want a bit of blue behind my flowers. That was my intention in the first place before I'd forgotten what I was doing. I might add a little bit of a shadow here. Before I apply the final color to my flower, I am going to paint it white to make it all uniform and to get rid of those, the sections with the peeping background. I'm going to paint the petals now. I want to make some kind of a beigey, grayish hue. I've got white, a bit of black, even some gold, maybe a drop of burnt amber. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for at the moment. Let me put some white here, maybe a bit of gold. We'll see on the petals what it looks. All right, not bad. I made the petals quite uniform with the blues and the beige, and now I've got a little bit of a darker shade with more Mars black. Smaller brush for some detail. Now, I think I'm going to paint around the mid-center with the same dark color, or even more black, maybe. Black and blue. I'll go around with this color and then add some dots. I really want some dots. Yeah, it should be darker on this side because of the shadow and a bit lighter on top. I am going to paint the mid-part blue. I want just one quick layer. Oh, just like that. I want it covered because I'll be adding lighter sections. Now, some lighter dots. And even lighter. Almost lighter. Well, I hope you enjoyed. If you did, I would really appreciate you leaving a comment with your thoughts. If you want more exciting content, please check out my Patreon, where for just $2 a month, you get extended versions of my tutorials each week and more. I hope you all have a great day, and I'll see you all next week. Thank you so much for watching. Bye-bye.