Toilet paper + Glue = Realistic Ocean water

Hello and welcome to another video tutorial with Mar Sweden today we are going to make

water

and like

ocean

or lake

water

in the design. I had a problem with this and didn't really make water until I found a method that I found suitable for me, of course, it is based on

toilet

paper

and

glue

. Another big advantage of this method is that the waves are created on the bottom layer and not the top, making it less demanding and more likely to get a good looking result. I have a plywood base for my Lake, but the stof form will work just as well.

I start by removing a bunch of

toilet

paper

sheets and then it's time to put some

glue

on my plywood. I use wood glue as usual and thin it out. with a little water I apply the water and glue mixture with a brush like this then it's time to start covering the plywood with the first layer of toilet paper. I first put them in the glue and then I add extra glue on top so that all the paper gets very soaked in the water and glue mixture as soon as I finish the first layer of toilet paper, I add another layer and also soak this layer in a lot of mixture of glue with water if you use the same pretty toilet paper. used with small hearts, you may want to get rid of the pattern and that is easily done by simply erasing it with the brush.

The same goes for the edges. Between the leaves, you don't want those lines to be visible, so you erase. With the brush as soon as the second layer is complete, I add a third layer of toilet paper. Same thing here I soak it with a water glue mixture and erase all the edges and patterns on the paper and this is what it looks like when the third layer of toilet paper is in place and now for the fun part which is making the waves for this design i will make arc shaped waves like this, the waves are made with the brush and i just push the toilet paper forward to form it. waves, oh, at this stage I also place small objects in the water that I intend to have there later and so I can shape them, like in this case, the waves coming from the boat moving forward, oh, pretty impressive, this is what it looks like the final. result with a little light from the side so you can see the waves clearly and now comes the complicated part and that is as always the painting.

I use an ivory green, burnt black, umber and titanium white acrylic. I prefer to put the colors I intend. to mix next to each other and therefore I start with the green in the middle. I put the black on one side, the white on the other, and the burnt umber a little on the side. Then I pour water into another bowl to use as a thinner if you look through the water in the sea, Flor, you'll see patterns of a kind of fuzzy green and areas like round shapes that are a little blurry, so to achieve that with a brush, I choose kind of a soft round brush, this one.

It's a number 12, but I mean it depends on how big your water area is going to be, of course the sea bottom closest to the beach or the water front is kind of a brownish green. It's time to start painting. I start next to the beach. a light color, uh, in this case it turned grayish brown. Then I continue later with a little more green in the mix. I make sure not to dilute the colors at this stage. Keep them thick and undiluted. Here I also start to add black in the mix, this is a mix of green black brown and this is a mix of black green and in very deep waters I use almost only black.

The next stage is to blend the edges between the different shades of green, which is achieved by using a clean brush that in the water and moving from the light colored areas to the darker colored areas like this, hey, this is starting to look pretty good and this is the final result after painting the toilet paper, it's not too bad, you can see the waves, you can see it's deeper in some areas more green towards brown in some areas not too bad this is a good base For the clear coat let it dry now for at least 72 hours because if you apply the clear coat too soon the entire clear coat will crack.

Yeah, I've been to I already did, I use one of these, it's a fan heater, so when everything is nice and dry, then it's time to put on the clear coat. A few things are important with clear coat also come to mind, maybe three, it should be a high gloss clear coat, uh. Colorless, of course, and I prefer water-based. I've tried solvent based too, but they tend to turn yellow and it might also be harder to get it to work with the acrylic color you have underneath. Another word about how shiny it should be. be high gloss, gloss is rated on gloss value and water based only goes up to 70, gloss rating 70 uh for today which might change in the future while solvent based goes up 90 , but honestly, I started with a shine. index 40, which is a floor paint and, um, it worked pretty well, it didn't look good when you had very bright lighting, like when you're taking pictures and stuff, but for everyday use, gloss index 40 worked well, however, now I bought a can of 70 water based gloss, so it has a very high gloss and it is best to start with water to cover the entire area with a layer of this coat.

When this first layer of clear coat has dried, I add another layer with glue. is to increase the depth and as soon as it's completely dry and then completely dry, I add at least four coats of clear coat on top to get that really shiny water-like look and voila, this is the final result. The waves are now a little lower than initially when we made them in the paper because of the things we added. Thanks for watching this tutorial. I hope you liked it if you want to see more videos, subscribe to the channel and you will.

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