(635) Basic Dip Technique *Step By Step*

Good morning everyone. Today I'm going to do another how-to video and I'm going to show how I do just a basic dip technique. I started doing this as one of the very first techniques that I was ever doing. I actually had to look back at my videos and video number 15, so a long time ago, three years ago four years ago actually now I did one in purple a little bit of white and some bright rose gold so I'm going to do another one of those today I haven't worked with this color palette in quite a long time so I have my paint water my pouring medium which I'm going to be using Floetrol again today and then I have some cups to mix up my paint and my stir sticks and some water. So with this technique I don't set my canvases on any cups. What I'm going to be doing is dipping my canvas right on the surface of my table. So I just have some small eight inch canvases. I do tape off the back so that the back will stay clean but I'm going to set those aside for now and we will just start getting our paint in our cups. I use probably about three to four parts of Floetrol to one part paint. I find that I can get a lot of cells this way so the the less paint you have the more pouring medium you have especially with the Floetrol the more I find that I'll get cells. So this is also one technique that I really like to use to make coasters but I don't have any wood coasters that I can work with right now but I will do I'll do a how-to on a coaster video at a later time so I'm doing quite a bit of purple that's going to be my main color that I'm using for the dip and then just a little bit of white I don't want too much white in this I really want that purple and the rose gold to show up so just a small amount. And then I'm just going to shake this up. And then I just kind of eyeball it. If you want to be more precise with your measurements, you could always get a small scale, either one for mail or a small food scale, so that you can actually weigh out your paint and then weigh out how much pouring medium you're adding. I know some people do that to keep their measurements really precise. I just don't worry about it all that much. So before I add my water I incorporate my paint and my pouring medium and then I check to see what the consistency is and then I'll start adding a little bit of water. Okay so the purple is quite a bit thicker. The white and the rose gold are a little bit thinner so I won't be adding as much water to those But I just have my small cup here, and I'm just going to add a little bit at a time That was probably just about a tablespoon of water, and I don't want it really thin Once I dip the I find that I like a little bit of a thicker consistency for the dip. That's actually pretty nice There's a couple of lumps in there from my Floetrol, but I can get those out. There's one right there Okay, so really nice smooth consistency not too thin so we'll add just a tiny bit of water teaspoons to the white if you want a lot of cells in your piece for this you could always add some liquid silicone one drop per container or even sometimes when I do silicone I only add one drop to one color and that's enough that I find will create a lot of cells throughout your piece but I just prefer not to use it so I'm not going to add any in okay so that's a really good consistency nice smooth so we'll do this purple and a little bit more probably do two tablespoons of water because that purple is quite a bit thicker and just keep going small amount at a time pretty good okay so we've got a really nice consistency of that purple so that'll be good so I'm just gonna move my paint and my water out of the way so what I like to do when I'm doing a dip like this like I said I put my paint down on my surface and then I dip my canvas right into it so to make sure that I have enough paint down on my surface I just take a pen I just have a pen and I mark off the edges or the corners of my paint of my canvas that I'm dipping into it so that when I remove it I know that I need to fill up this space with paint so that I don't have any areas of my canvas that won't be covered in the paint so from here you could do any design that you like I haven't done one of these in a while so I'm just going to decide how I want to do this put most of my purple and then I'm going to have you can also just take your stick and smooth it out a little bit. You do get quite a bit of paint on your surface this way and I'm working on freezer paper and when the paint dries on the freezer paper once it's all dry it peels right off so I'm not concerned about having a lot of leftover paint on my surface because I can save it for other projects. So we're just going to do some white and then some of this rose gold and this purple and the rose gold together are really really pretty and I ended up I have two canvases so I'm going to dip more than once and just show you what that looks like because you can reuse your paint that you have on your surface a few times so we're just going to dip this do I want just a little bit of purple through there so one thing you want to do too is when you're putting your canvas down just gently press in the middle so that any air that may have gotten trapped under there gets pushed out and then from here you can grab it on any corner you could pull it up I like to go from a corner so I'm going to pull from this corner and oh look at that that is really pretty so I do have some canvas showing so I'm going to re-dip it really quick because I want to get that that filled in so where did I have I did not push down enough right in those areas but you can see I'm getting a lot of cells in this from that rose gold I'm actually going to stick a little more right through there and we're going to re-dip it get all that nice paint filled in let's try this again oh look at that so that's better so I really like the style of this this is just one of the techniques that I prefer and then so you can see my edges are white so what I'm going to do now is just very carefully dip the edges of my painting so this is one reason why I don't want my paint too thin because as you tilt to dip the sides you could tilt your design off in a way that you don't want it so we are going to do this so just dip that side this I try and line it up to the same colors I'm a little off on this one but that's okay dip that and then dip this side so there you go you have uh I'll just lift it up you have all your sides dipped so that they match your surface so I'm going to set this one aside and do one more because I have all this beautiful paint I am really liking this rose gold and so I want more of that in here and then a little bit of that white in a few areas so we're going to dip one more time and again we'll just push this down into the paint try and remove any air that might be underneath there and then this time I'll just pull from this angle and oh look at that that one is really pretty too and just those cells are just popping like crazy so I have a little bit of canvas still showing in there so I just fill that in and then I'm going to dip my sides again make sure yep so I've got all my sides dipped again and then you know like I said there's a lot of paint left on this surface sometimes I just take paper and dip it in and then use that paper for skins later so I may do a little bit of that but you can let this dry and then use portions of this that look really nice for other projects. This area right in here I really like. I like the separation of that purple and the rose gold and then all the cells that I have throughout here. You could make some small pendants out of these. So that just looks really pretty. But I hope you guys like this video. Let me know what you think down in the comments below. I hope this was helpful in just learning a little bit how I mix my paints for a technique that I really like to do. If you want to see some other colors in this let me know and I can do some other dips like this I have been doing a lot of the balloon dips lately and haven't really stuck with this technique that was a really simple one that I started out learning how to do four years ago so don't forget to hit that subscribe button and hit that bell for notifications I do put out three videos a week and I will see you guys in the next one thank you for watching today