TURQUOISE TUMBLER TUTORIAL!

https://youtu.be/qkzLYYDjXcE Hey guys, I bought this adorable water bottle at TJ Maxx for $ 12.99. While it does have a cute marble on it, I'm going to make it look a lot prettier taking off everything taking off the stickers removing all those, and prepping my cup. This is my inspiration picture, some genuine turquoise. I wanted to mix vintage teal and seaside from australium, spraying it on splotchy, making sure I don't go too heavy in one spot. I don't want any drips, but other than that, haphazardly spraying it on, then here's my second color. You can see we're getting that splotchy multi-colored look that you have with any natural stone like turquoise. With this cup, it's going to be a lot of painting underneath the epoxy, and that's mainly where we're getting our stone look from is everything that's underneath, you're going to see a lot of painting, but these are the two colors for the spray paint that I did. I added a little bit more of that lighter color. Once that was dry, I took my craft bright acrylic paints. I have black and white, two different colors of gray, and this turquoise color got my picture out ready for inspiration and to guide me for what I'm doing, squirting some out on some paper. So then I had a bunch of different paint brushes, and I first mixed a dark like it's almost gray, but it's not. It's got a greenish color to it. So I'm taking that, and then I was doing a test and decided it was too thick. So I got a smaller paintbrush. I started painting lines and veins on; if you know me, you know that I love to try to imitate the natural look of Stone. So this is the first one I've done on a cup with like painting I've done where I do like marbling on a cup with the epoxy and using the epoxy to do the marbling. This is the first time I've painted it on a cup, and it's tough to make your hand do the more random natural, looking motions like thicker and thinner, which I've been learning over time, and I'm still getting better at. Still, your Instinct is to do a nice, even wavy line, and that's not what we want to do. We're trying to make it look as realistic as possible, and you know that any natural stone has tons of Imperfection imperfections. So it's very uneven blotchy, tons of different colors and tones of shades in there we're going through and trying to imitate that look with all these different colors and different sizes of paint brushes. I'm using that same color more. The base veining, but if I could do one thing on cups, it would be this, where I imitate the look of different stones. So now I'm taking these two colors, darker gray and turquoise. Then I added a little bit of the lighter gray to make a little bit of a lighter shade, and then I went, you know, next to some of the lines and branched out from some of those lines and again made them thicker and thinner And you know more pigmented and more faded and tried to keep going on the whole cup. Then I mixed some of the gray and White. I used a little bit of the turquoise color to make a lighter Shade, and with this more delicate shade, I didn't do too much, like a few accents here and there. In contrast, for the darker colors, I did more all over the whole thing for Oliver's veining. I wanted to get some chemistry. Then I took an almost all-black. I'm mixing in a little bit of the dark gray and doing a detailed veining throughout on those darker lines deepening and darkening, like smaller little veins inside, if that makes sense. Once that was dry, I wanted more of this turquoise Color. I took a bigger brush and less paint, and I'm adding it. I didn't want the parts without veining to look flat with the spray paint. I said this in different spots and brought it up in other areas. Then I'm using the craft's bright brass gilding paint. This is lighter, more pale gold than the original gold. Taking that on a fine brush and painting on the gold lines and with the turquoise, the gold is what makes this beautiful and stand out and pop. Make sure you're adding some beautiful gold. This is my favorite paint, but you could also use gold leaf. I prefer to paint gold leaf; it gets messy and all over the place, and I need help getting it in excellent lines. I can paint and add this wherever you feel like, but keep the brush strokes random and irregular. You want to make it Look more natural and not smooth the nice even lines, and I did somehow, but my camera stopped recording right in the middle of the gold. That's why I don't have it all registered, but you get the point of what I was doing. Then once that was dry, I decided to add the original gold color. It's a little bit darker and warmer, and you can't tell in this what you know the difference. Still, it added a different color of gold which makes it add a more realistic effect adding to the veins here and there. I only did a little of this. Still, it added an excellent depth to it to where the gold had, you know, different colors and dimensions to it, and it looked perfect. Once that was completely dry, I went in with my epoxy. This is the uh original artisan epoxy I ended up doing. There are three layers on top of this, and this first layer is the only one I added any color to wanted to add a little bit of extra dimension; I'm using this Greenish mica powder. This is a sample I had. It should add a little bit of shimmer because, with any like stone, it has these pockets of beautiful shimmer and color. So adding that might be cool. I didn't even use a heat gun to blow it out. I let it spin as it was. Here is the second coat, and as I said, I did three total, but it's the same thing putting it on and smoothing it all over. I usually wait about five minutes to torch it. So here it is wholly done, taking it off the turner and putting the lid on, and I did this cup entirely. It turned out cool I'm delighted I tried this. I could improve on making things look more realistic, but practice makes perfect. Bye.