I have always been fascinated by the sea and in particular the fabulous colours in seas other than those in the UK! Having lived in Dubai I have seen what colour a turquoise sea can be and those are the seas we all dream about (although I know there are even more fantastic ones that… Read More Fluid Acrylic Wave Paintings
So I was doing some small canvas pours for freebies for my upcoming open studios and this is the one that I think has come out the nicest. I used 5 paint colours in this pour as follows: white permanent magenta velvet purple silver deep turquoise I only used a really small amount of the… Read More Purple & Pink Dirty Cup Pour
So I was experimenting with some other designs that revolved around squirts of paint and lots of different colours and I wanted to have a fluid acrylic painting as a base. I came up with the following painting after a couple of other efforts and I really like how it has come out. The base… Read More Using a Fluid Acrylic Painting as a Base
So I have been creating fluid acrylic paintings for over 10 years and in that time I have just used water as a medium to add to the paint (plus a bit of a venture into the Liquitex pouring medium). I have found that using different viscosity of paint can give different effects, whether that… Read More Trying to Create Cells Using Silicone
I recently created a slightly different purple abstract painting using fluid acrylic paints. The method was as per the long instructions that you can find on this page. Further information is below: This painting used quite a lot of white paint, I wanted to have the effect of the purple floating through the painting with… Read More Purple and Gold Abstract Painting
Created with watered down acrylics on canvas with a gloss varnish. There were 4 different shades of green, watered down. It is always good to have one really dark colour to mix with the others and also I often have a watered down white which makes some really nice pale greens too. In addition there… Read More Painting – Water, Green
The featured image is only a portion of this painting which has a resin coating. The painting was created using different pinks including alizarin crimson and rose pink, together with plenty of white. Some water was added once the colours were mixed so that there is a kind of river effect in the middle. It… Read More Painting – Pink Vortex
Number 259 is another fluid acrylic painting using browns. I used burnt umber as the darkest brown and then some lighter browns together with a fair bit of white. This is a smallish canvas so this gives a different effect to when a larger canvas is used.
A fluid acrylic painting in reds and yellows.
Deep Purple