30+ years ago we used to play with nail polish in my grandparents bird bath and plastic tubs by dripping the polish in the water, watching it spread, and picking it up with our fingers or pencils.
you need to put them on popsicle sticks then put them in styrofoam to dry, or tie a string through the Loop to hang to dry, and Make deeper water, that way you can put it all the way in the water at the edge and pull it out up through the polish
Ran across this video after buying clear ornaments the day before. I have lots of nail polishes and had this in mind but wasn’t sure exactly how to do it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. The ornaments are beautiful. Got a new subscriber. 😊
I had some left over netting/ribbon brom making wreaths and I also had some clear ornaments so I took a long strip of that netting ribbon and fed it into a clear ornament using a chop stick. Then I just spray painted the top in gold briefly. It turned out beautiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. In case interested: I've done alcohol ink on glass ornaments before but not hydro-dipping. I put one color at a time inside the ornament and used canned air to disburse. Use the same method for each layer of color.
Whoever gave a thumbs down, has never tried doing a live teaching demonstration. They should just turn to another channel and move instead of being rude.
Whaaaaaaaat???!! You haven’t even started and my mind is already going crazy with ideas. I didn’t know. 😮 I’m so excited! I have a tub of nail polishes and a dollar tree on my list of to dos today!
Hi thanks for your lovely idea I have never seen this before and it is great i have lots of nail polish never used was going to give it away but now I am going to find something to dip have you thought about using a bit of string to hang your bobbles on to dry or maybe the naill polish . might run of. Thanks for your lovely painting from Annie Scotland UK. Happy thanks giving.
Hi my name is Claire from upstate New York and this looks like a phenomenal decoration to make never thought about nail polish in the water nice job merry Christmas!
I've watched experts dip guitar bodies and paper before-they use less paint (or nail polish) and then take a chop stick and swirl through the paint creating all kinds of neat patterns. Then they take the item they are dipping and they don't roll the item around on the surface. Simply push the item straight down through the paint and pull it straight out. It's pretty interesting. They also use bins that are much deeper than what they are dipping down into the water.
I can confirm that the nail polish leaves a very thin invisible film across the water surface. All the nail polish will do it but the worst one is the iridescent (or any color that is a "shimmer" ). As you saw how quickly it spread out, unless it is completely dried, it will spread out evenly across the water's surface even to the point where there is no more mica visible. You will just have a clear film that affects the surface tension. The more quickly and evenly it spreads is an indicator of the culprit. I have used paper towels to try and remove the film but I could still see broken pieces left behind and floating around freely. If a symmetrical spread of your colors is needed, these pieces can interfere with the new polish spreading out. I have never considered using alcohol inks before as I also believe that it will simply dissipate in clean water buttons give me an idea. You could try filling the surface of the water with with the iridescent then add the alcohol ink on top and swirl it. Or create custom colors by mixing the alcohol ink into iridescent nail polish before putting it in the water. Also one trick I used to do if previous colors were showing in new dips, instead of changing the water and cleaning the bowl, I would after cleaning up the polish, pour some clear in it to push the other colors away to the sides of my bowl. Sometimes I would clean the clear before doing my next color but if I still got interference from the previous colors I would just start my new pour on top the clear. I just realized this is a three year old post but if you should happen to see this I would love to see the alcohol ink on top the nail polish experiment.
Place the popsicle sticks inside first then dip, then you can put them on the foam board to dry. You could also put them on the strings first and dip then hang to dry.
You are a fantastic artist and i love watching every video that you make, so inspirational to me as I am just starting out with acrylic pouring and have learnt so much, so thank you very much for everything. Charlene. Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
Might be a good idea to keep track of which colors have more problems in this type of application. Different ingredients for those specific colors could cause the problem.
The alcohol ink is great on candles too. Acrylic will not stick over all that mess or it will peel off. That is the rule for oil painters.You can paint over acrylic with oil but not over oils with acrylic it will eventually peel and crack.
❤😊 If you pull the sticks out of the styrofoam and place them in the bulb as you're dipping it and then you can turn it upside down and put it back into the styrofoam and you won't have to touch it with your fingers and I won't make as much of a mess
Have you ever thought to modge podge an ornament for texture before hydro dipping? I would love to see blue, purple, black & silver. I think it would be gorgeous.
I hope you will always be given good health and hopefully you will always make beautiful karia. try to make something that has never been made by anyone else. except for me ... try to make karia like mixing epoxy resin with various colors, then diApply it to the door so chances are that it will change and look like a marble stone or an expensive stone like a sapphire ... or a five colored stone ... success awaits
Missed the live so watching replay from Sunshine Coast Australia 🇦🇺 If you dip bottom of a cup when they are finished can you spray a finish on top to seal for dishwasher or washing up?
You didn't dip quick enough. Once you put the polish in the water, you have to work quickly. That eliminates the blobs of color that you're getting. Love your channel btw!!!
If you were to put the ornament under the water, not through the paint initially, and then pull it UP through the paint, would that cover the bulb differently or more/less fully? ALSO, are you using glass or plastic ornaments?
Want you can do is take styrofoam take a then stick or small popsicles sticks and stick in the styrofoam wide enough that the bulbs don’t touch,I have done this before it works ,just a little advice
I attempted this yesterday for a friend that wanted white, red and silver ornaments. I bought 3 different shades of red but they all look pink 😞. I am wondering if coating the inside with something... Glifter? Silver or red paint? ...would darken them or if they wouldn't look as good because it would take away the translucency? Suggestions anyone?
I am thinking that if you pushed a stick into a piece of clay or maybe little pieces of styrofoam and then inserted that into the open end of the ball then you would not have to touch them to push the stick into the foam block.
Anyone....can other paints be used? If using three colors it would cost $1.25 x5(three polishes and two ornaments). Im wondering if paint might be more cost effective?
You're not using entire bottles of nail polish on one to 2 ornaments so that math isn't quite accurate. This technique can be done with nail polish or spray paint, which is more expensive.
Because of the nail polish, I wouldn't think they would HAVE to be sealed. But I, personally, would do a clear spray paint coat. It would mimic the top coat 😁
