How to make shimmering, metallic watercolours with just two ingredients
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- This video accompanies my blog post on how to make shimmering, metallic watercolour paints using just mica and gum Arabic. You can also add a drop of glycerin for a paint that is less likely to crack and rewets more easily.
About 4 minutes in, there's an example of how mica powders and gum arabic form a non-Newtonion fluid as they only turn to liquid when you hit it or slam it down on the table.
Please visit my blog post for a lot more information. - www.craftmehappy.com/2021/04/...
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0:00 Introduction
0:16 Image of all of the materials needed to make shimmering, metallic watercolour paints
0:42 Weighing out the mica powder
1:31 Adding the gum arabic
2:38 Stirring the mica powder and gum arabic
4:15 Demonstrating that mica powder and gum arabic form a Non-Newtonian fluid
5:02 Making a colour sample sheet of all of the colours
5:48 painting a card with shimmering watercolor paints
6:16 The finished card made with home made shimmering watercolour paints 
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The banging it on the table to make it liquid was truly science in action, love it!! 🎨
Thank you! That’s my favourite part too 😀
Thank you for actually pointing out the obvious!
I have watched soooo many videos of how to mix this properly, I also have the cheap affordable zip sealed 52 colour set, I'm sorry if that reads bad, but I can't afford the brand names already bonded!
But I couldn't understand why some of the packets were half empty! I now know it's a weight thing and not a volume thing
The Gum Arabic is 1-4 ratio
not 1 scoop to 4 scoops ratio, It all needs measured in weight 👌
Good call btw.
I have tried Everything and failed, even the 'hairspray fix' 🙄
but you just fixed it all....thank you sooo much haha 😉
Incredible. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome! ♥️
I use metallic eye shadow powder from Dollar Tree to do this sort of thing
Brilliant, I’ll have to give that a try!
Very nice! Thanks for the demonstration, I wanted to try to make some shimmery colours, got the mica powders but didn’t really know what to do next without investing into a whole range of extra products, so I like the method you show that only involves liquid gum Arabic. Thank you so much! 😃 will try it tomorrow 😊
I’m glad you found it helpful!
Do take a look at the blog post I wrote about making the shimmering watercolours. I found that by adding a little bit of glycerin to the liquid gum Arabic improved the rewetting properties of the watercolours.
Omgosh thank you so much
You’re very welcome!
Wow ❤
♥️🥰
This was SO helpful! I would like to have glycerin available too, but there are a lot of varieties out there and I'm not really sure which one is the "right" one?
Thank you so much. I just used a little baker’s glycerin from the supermarket and it worked well.
A tiny bit of honey could be put in along with glycerine for rewettability. These are beautiful!
Thank you for that, that’s really helpful!
Did you say golden orchid is the brand of powder?ty
No, golden orchid is the colour. The brand is WTRCSV - the product affiliate link is in the description.
Can we
Use on walls
I would use them as you would use any watercolours.
That gold is gorgeous
That’s one of my favourites too!
Podría ponerlo traducido en español porfavor
I can’t translate the video to Spanish but there is a blog version of this video that you could translate using Google Translate www-craftmehappy-com.translate.goog/2021/04/how-to-make-shimmering-watercolour.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
I hope this link helps.
What can be used instead of Arabic gum
I’m afraid I’m not an expert in making watercolours. This was my first attempt.
I’ve used PVA to make a kind of acrylic paint. Others use gum tragacanth but gum Arabic, along with glycerin or honey are the most popular mediums.
@@KathrynCraftmehappy ok thank you so much ❣️
Water colour
Can you use this paint over polymer clay and can you seal it?
I don’t think watercolours are the best paints to use on polymer clay as it doesn’t absorb liquids. I have made shimmering paints by mixing mica powder with PVA glue. I haven’t tried it but it feels like this would be better on polymer clay.