How to make shimmering, metallic watercolours with just two ingredients
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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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Chapters or Timestamps
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!! 🎨
@KathrynCraftmehappy
3 ай бұрын
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 😉
I use metallic eye shadow powder from Dollar Tree to do this sort of thing
@KathrynCraftmehappy
Ай бұрын
Brilliant, I’ll have to give that a try!
Incredible. Thank you so much!
@KathrynCraftmehappy
2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome! ♥️
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 😊
@KathrynCraftmehappy
2 жыл бұрын
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.
That gold is gorgeous
@KathrynCraftmehappy
7 ай бұрын
That’s one of my favourites too!
Omgosh thank you so much
@KathrynCraftmehappy
Жыл бұрын
You’re very welcome!
Wow ❤
@KathrynCraftmehappy
5 ай бұрын
♥️🥰
A tiny bit of honey could be put in along with glycerine for rewettability. These are beautiful!
@KathrynCraftmehappy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for that, that’s really helpful!
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?
@KathrynCraftmehappy
6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. I just used a little baker’s glycerin from the supermarket and it worked well.
Did you say golden orchid is the brand of powder?ty
@KathrynCraftmehappy
Жыл бұрын
No, golden orchid is the colour. The brand is WTRCSV - the product affiliate link is in the description.
Podría ponerlo traducido en español porfavor
@KathrynCraftmehappy
11 ай бұрын
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.
Water colour
Can we Use on walls
@KathrynCraftmehappy
5 ай бұрын
I would use them as you would use any watercolours.
What can be used instead of Arabic gum
@KathrynCraftmehappy
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@kathakdevanshi9979
2 жыл бұрын
@@KathrynCraftmehappy ok thank you so much ❣️
Can you use this paint over polymer clay and can you seal it?
@KathrynCraftmehappy
5 ай бұрын
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.