OK, this is part
two of our watercolor, we're getting to the watercolor painting.
But if you missed step one, you might go back and watch that video as well.
We made homemade watercolor paint, which is finally ready
to go after 24 plus hours of drying out.
I want to show you if you have, if you can't get out
and you just have to use what you have laying around
how you could actually make watercolor paper from scratch.
I know it looks like I got a lot of stuff on this table,
but believe it or not, you don't need all of these things.
I just want to take like every excuse off the table, quite literally.
So these are different options.
So let's go over what you could use to make homemade watercolor paper.
first thing you're probably going to need is paper.
I have just computer paper, just garbage computer paper
that we could use, and that will work perfect.
Now, the coveted
I shouldn't even show this.
It's worth probably like $1,000,000 at this point is toilet paper.
Believe it or not, if you don't have a blender,
the blender is going to be
one of the things we're going to need to make the pulp, right?
Now, if you don't have a blender, believe it or not, this stuff will,
you know, it's meant to do it right, it literally dissolves almost in water.
And you could rip it up, tear it up into a tiny, tiny little shreds.
And that would actually work.
However, considering
the situation we're in, you may want to ask for permission
even if you're an adult before you go tearing up the coveted toilet paper.
Next thing beyond the blenders, we've got paper, blender.
We're going to need water.
So, I've got a big pitcher of water.
The next thing you're going to need is some sort of frame.
I have just an old picture frame.
It's very old. Actually, it's destroyed, but that's perfect.
Some sort of picture frame, it does not need to be this big.
Actually, I would have preferred it be about half the size, but that's OK.
So you can see it. So a picture frame.
Next thing this is old screen from like a screened in window or a porch.
I had some extra and I kept it,
which I'm glad I did, because now I'm going to use it.
If you don't have this laying around, you could use an old cotton shirt.
I've done it before.
It's not easy sometimes to get it off, but hey, don't worry about it.
We could use it.
Next, I have a staple gun.
And now, if you don't have a staple gun at home, don't worry,
you could use the ultimate most important art tool in the world.
The duct tape.
So if you have duct tape, that will work as well.
Now I know some of you are thinking, Wait, Elmer's glue.
What?
I like putting a little bit of Elmer's glue in my paper pulp mixture
just to make it that much more stronger.
Last but not least, which you're going to need is some sort of container
to put the liquid in and then we're going to lift it out.
I have two containers.
This one, you might have, nine by twelve inch pan.
Pretty common. You could make this work.
And I also have this big bad boy.
This is just a, you know, storage container.
I usually put clay materials, all kinds of junk in here to store.
I just pull them out.
I'm going to use this because this is big,
and it's actually just going to be easier for me
when I go put that frame in and pull it out.
The rolling pin, you don't need this.
I don't.
I actually kind of like a little texture to my paper,
but if you want your paper to be super smooth
after we take it off the frame, you're going to want a rolling pin.
Now that I've gone through, like far too many materials that you could use,
let's finally make some homemade watercolor paper.
First up, I'm going to tear this paper into like
little tiny, like one by one inch pieces would be best.
So I'll do, I don't know, 5,6, 7,8 sheets.
I don't know, just enough to kind of fill it up a little bit.
The other thing I didn't mention is dryer lint,
some people actually put dryer lint into here just a little bit
to blend it in and you get this, you know, these little fibers throughout.
Or,some people like putting food coloring in.
So we like, you know, if you want to make it a color,
I kind of want it as close to white as possible.
I might add a little bit of this just for fun.
Just because I am such a high roller, I'm going to put in a little toilet paper
just because I'm feeling crazy.
I know somebody at home is watching this with their mouth dropped to the ground
right there, just like he's pulling toilet paper in there.
Now, all right, so now I'm pouring in the water.
I'm going to start
this on low, and again, I'm just trying to get it to a pulp state.
You need to be careful, especially if you have a nice blender.
You don't want to burn your blender up doing this.
If you're an art teacher at home, you know what I'm talking about, right?
Like, usually you have a blender that you only use for this purpose
only because it will burn the motor up if you do it too much.
So be careful.
OK, so what I'm going to do
next is let that soak for just a little bit.
So while it's soaking
and kind of absorbing even more of the water,
even though I just pureed this thing to death, I am now going to make the frame.
For the frame I'm just going to lay this out
and make it just a little bit larger than the frame itself.
All right, so I'm ready, I finally got it.
The screen on there, I pulled it pretty tight.
It's, you know, I don't want any big bubbles in it.
Otherwise it's going to be more difficult to get it off the screen
once we have the paper pulp on there.
Next up, I'm just going to kind of start
blending this in with my hand.
All right.
Next up, I'm going to add a like I said, I like adding a little bit of Elmer's
glue into here. I find it just makes the paper really strong.
I took the lid off.
So I'm going to add, I don't know,
maybe a quarter of the container or not quite half so somewhere around there.
So before I do this, I'm going to kind of agitate
the water, get the paper pulp up to the surface as best I can,
and then I'm going to be coming in, obviously with the screen up, right?
I'm going to come in as close as I can to the edge and then I'm going to slowly
move across to kind of get it to the bottom and slowly
come up.
All right, so I carefully pulled out the screen,
and this is going to be an awesome, thick piece of watercolor paper.
What I'm going to do, I'm actually going to let this drip dry for quite a while
flat like this, and then I'm actually just going to leave it here on the screen.
I pulled my screen pretty tight.
So what I'm going to do is leave it on here overnight.
Let it dry and I'll carefully pull it off with my spatula.
OK, fast forward.
It's been about two days I've been letting this paper dry.
It actually popped off
really nice and easy, and I think it's because I made the paper so thick.
I don't know if you can see this and I'll shoot a close up of it,
but this paper is crazy big, but that's OK.
I like the texture
and I'm going to cut it in half so I can get two different small canvases.
If you've made your paper.
You have got one of two steps completed.
If you missed my first video on how to make homemade watercolor paints,
go find that one.
Now that we've got these two components together, literally with all homemade
materials, we're ready to finally create a watercolor painting
and that will be my next video, so be sure to tune in.
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