G'day art adventurers and welcome back to my channel. Today
I'm going to be trying out Aquabord for the first time. If you don't know what aquabord is - and I didn't until recently -
It is a chip board like backed
product with a surface that's covered in a treated clay. And it really does feel like cool clay with a bumpy -
very bumpy - rough texture on the the front of it.
You can pause the video and read about it here if you like.
But basically it says that you can paint watercolor paints on top of it and lift and glaze them as much as you like, and
that it's also archival.
From watching another youtuber use this product I
decided to trace my image onto the aquabord. If you try to sketch onto it and erase it you can damage the delicate
clay surface.
And from also watching another youtuber
I really recommend that you fully wet the whole
surface before you begin to paint. When you wet the whole clay board
little bubbles appear, and that would have disrupted your paints, if you had have started to paint directly.
So, trace an image on and
Also wet it fully -
Those are probably the two biggest tips that I can give you if you want to try out this product and you don't know where
to start or you haven't used it before. So,
if you think of anything else that you would like to know about it, you can ask me in the comments below but
for now, I'll talk a little bit about the painting itself.
I've chosen a kookaburra
to represent my original nationality.
I'm Australian, and these birds - the kookaburra - are really common in
my home country for a large part of Australia, but
particularly along the eastern coast - from my memory anyway, and that's where I come from originally. And you
can't really miss these birds because their call is
incredibly loud and very distinctive. The laugh of the kookaburra is
something that's really synonymous with the Australian bush and
there are songs and nursery rhymes, and all sorts of things, that make it a part of Australian culture, but
I'll include the call of the kookaburra right at the end of the video.
The only other fact about kookaburras that comes to mind is that the kookaburra is a Kingfisher.
It's a bird in the Kingfisher family and maybe one of the largest, or the largest Kingfisher on Earth.
Okay, and let's actually now talk about the painting process itself
I didn't find it too different than working on watercolor paper,
But there were some differences.
The paints flow across the clay board or aquabord surface well,
but they seem to also be sinking in, and that might be
to do with the rough texture of the board.
It just feels like a
Fairly rough - sort of
sandpapery or gravelly texture, but the amazing thing is that you can go back and lift paints, and
Change your painting quite a lot even almost getting back to pure white. I think on the
advertising it says you can lift back to complete white.
I didn't get -I don't think - to total white again in some cases,
but I got very close even, after lifting dark paint,
which was really quite surprising! And so it seems that this
surface, or this clay board or aquabord, is really quite a forgiving medium and
if you're new to watercoloring, and
you're scared of making mistakes, It could be a really great idea to try out this aquabord.
It is a little pricey though, so I
would probably recommend
doing some practice studies on
some cheap watercolor paper first, and then once you're getting a little bit more confident, and you want to try a
more finished piece, then move on to the aquabord.
Myself, I'd probably recommend
practicing or painting for a good few months
before - if you're a complete beginner at watercolor - before you switch to trying out this aquabord.
But, of course it's completely up to you!
Myself, I've been painting for about six years now, and even I got nervous and
stopped messing with the the painting after about this layer for the background.
I was really happy with how the background was looking at this point,
But I didn't know what would happen if I kept on
using the aquabord more, so I decided to leave it at that point, and then just touch up the
the trees,
And the Kookaburra itself. And that worked out well for me -
I was really pleased with the result - because I did want a bokeh kind of background - a blurred sort of
background with the kookaburra being the object in focus,
along with the branch that it's sitting on. And so I put more detail and time into
those elements - the bird itself and the
nearest branch - the branch that it's sitting on.
I was really happy with how well the paints layered
on top of each other.
I didn't seem to reach a point where
the aquabord wouldn't take any more layers. So that was also really great!
I've also tried some new editing techniques with my editing software during this video -
Especially using zooms. So I'd love to hear if you like that more, or if you found it more annoying.
But hopefully, it's allowing you to see some of the detail work a little bit more clearly,
especially when I've shown close-ups of the feathers, and the eye, and those sorts of areas.
We're almost at the end of this video,
so if you've enjoyed watching me paint this little kookaburra, I'd love if you could take the time to give me a like or
subscribe if you haven't already.
And if you
are interested in trying out something new, I can recommend the aquabord.
It's definitely an interesting experience to paint on!
Oh, and I also leave you with the call of a kookaburra to finish! So I'll see you guys soon for another art adventure!
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
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