Very talented fellow. My favorite part was the background music. I hesitated to click on it, because it’s VERY early in the morning (for me), and it was so perfect that I let it run from the beginning to the end (usually, no matter how interesting the subject, either I have to hit mute, or I just quit watching). Beautiful homage to Vincent.
Ebru is supposed to be an ancient historical method by which one “paints” on water (altered for increased viscosity), and then transfers the result to paper. I think.
The results are incredible, but so it the process:
He clearly has technique. I would like to see him really reach out aesthetically.
@f00l there is a technique that I’ve used to paint my fingernails called water marbling.
/youtube my simple pleasures water marble
/youtube my simple pleasures water marble neon
Eventually YouTube started suggesting other things that included paint on water for other objects. There is so many neat videos, but this one blew me away.
@RiotDemon Truly amazing indeed. Similar to your experience, your vid reminded me of this vid I saw a few years back: It’s the more technical side of the craft.
@gregormehndel this looks really cool. Hopefully I can remember to come back and watch the video with sound when I have more time. I watched on mute. I’m envious of how easily the paints drop onto the water and the rigs they have set up to drop multiple dots and the needle drag things. Trying to do similar things with nail polish take so much trial and error.
@RiotDemon Yeah, it might be hard to create such tools for the nail process, since the water cup is small. Off the top of my head: you could take an old comb or plastic fork and break out some of the tines and drag that through the polish to get precise spacing. Or one of those hair picks that have wire tines, just cut the little plastic balls off the ends. Ooh fun. Now I kinda want to try it. I’m just not the type of guy who paints his nails.
@RiotDemon and BTW, when you listen to the vid I posted you’ll see that they don’t use just plain water. They add carrageenan (from seaweed) to make it viscous. You can buy carrageenan in some grocery stores, but I’m not sure how it would work with nail polish.
@gregormehndel thanks for the ideas. I’ll have to try that one day! I usually use a needle/sewing pins to drag through my polish, so maybe even a few pins glued to a small stick would work.
The viscous part is what is really tough about nail polish. There’s a bunch of tips and tricks out there about the temperature of the water, filtered versus tap water versus bottled, what brands of polish, etc. You still have to just sit there and try a bunch until you find the perfect combo with the colors you want to achieve.
@RiotDemon I like it. Maybe instead of gluing pins to a stick, drive the pins through a chopstick. Be careful! If you try it, post pics of your finished nail art!
(I would go with distilled water. Purity seems key, and it’s cheap!)
I don’t get it. Wouldn’t it be easier just to find a high-res version on the internet and print it with a really good printer? This method seems like too much work.
Very talented fellow. My favorite part was the background music. I hesitated to click on it, because it’s VERY early in the morning (for me), and it was so perfect that I let it run from the beginning to the end (usually, no matter how interesting the subject, either I have to hit mute, or I just quit watching). Beautiful homage to Vincent.
@Shrdlu Glad you enjoyed it.
Word of the day: ebru. I’d seen the results but never appreciated what it took. Thanks for posting.
beautiful.
Wow! Thank you.
@RiotDemon
This is gorgeous.
I know absolutely nothing about painting and so I was puzzled about how he was working.
The artist, Garip Ay, has a Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJ_8v25P6uyFRhe3cI45CQ
and a blog, explaining what he does:
https://garipay.blogspot.com/
Ebru is supposed to be an ancient historical method by which one “paints” on water (altered for increased viscosity), and then transfers the result to paper. I think.
The results are incredible, but so it the process:
He clearly has technique. I would like to see him really reach out aesthetically.
@f00l there is a technique that I’ve used to paint my fingernails called water marbling.
/youtube my simple pleasures water marble
/youtube my simple pleasures water marble neon
Eventually YouTube started suggesting other things that included paint on water for other objects. There is so many neat videos, but this one blew me away.
@f00l Reminds me of the summer I spent making a macrame couch.
@UncleVinny Photo? I neeeeed to see a macrame couch.
Reminds me of hydrodipping
@awk had the same thought. Maybe somebody stuck one of these videos in these forums some time ago.
@RiotDemon Truly amazing indeed. Similar to your experience, your vid reminded me of this vid I saw a few years back: It’s the more technical side of the craft.
@gregormehndel this looks really cool. Hopefully I can remember to come back and watch the video with sound when I have more time. I watched on mute. I’m envious of how easily the paints drop onto the water and the rigs they have set up to drop multiple dots and the needle drag things. Trying to do similar things with nail polish take so much trial and error.
@RiotDemon Yeah, it might be hard to create such tools for the nail process, since the water cup is small. Off the top of my head: you could take an old comb or plastic fork and break out some of the tines and drag that through the polish to get precise spacing. Or one of those hair picks that have wire tines, just cut the little plastic balls off the ends. Ooh fun. Now I kinda want to try it. I’m just not the type of guy who paints his nails.
@RiotDemon and BTW, when you listen to the vid I posted you’ll see that they don’t use just plain water. They add carrageenan (from seaweed) to make it viscous. You can buy carrageenan in some grocery stores, but I’m not sure how it would work with nail polish.
@gregormehndel thanks for the ideas. I’ll have to try that one day! I usually use a needle/sewing pins to drag through my polish, so maybe even a few pins glued to a small stick would work.
The viscous part is what is really tough about nail polish. There’s a bunch of tips and tricks out there about the temperature of the water, filtered versus tap water versus bottled, what brands of polish, etc. You still have to just sit there and try a bunch until you find the perfect combo with the colors you want to achieve.
@RiotDemon I like it. Maybe instead of gluing pins to a stick, drive the pins through a chopstick. Be careful! If you try it, post pics of your finished nail art!
(I would go with distilled water. Purity seems key, and it’s cheap!)
Ha lend me your ear
@cranky1950
The interest rate on that loan is eerie.
/giphy eerie
I really thought that last thing was going to turn out to be a delicious-looking egg sandwich, for a while.
I don’t get it. Wouldn’t it be easier just to find a high-res version on the internet and print it with a really good printer? This method seems like too much work.