I have seen a few people using wall paint in their fluid acrylic pours so I just wanted to add my experience of using household emulsion in paintings so that people are aware of some pitfalls. Of course art being art, you can use exactly what you want to in paintings, there really are no… Read More Can I Use Wall Paint in My Pours?
I have been using resin for a while now on my paintings and I use the lovely Art Resin which works on a 1 to 1 basis of resin and hardener. In a bid to figure out how much resin should I use on my paintings I looked on the Art Resin online calculator. This… Read More How Much Resin Should I Use on My Painting?
Resin is my favourite finish for fluid acrylic paintings as it really brings out the colours and gives a glass like finish but one of the problems with resin is how to stop those holes from appearing in the resin when it dries. The reason these holes form is usually because it reacts with the… Read More How to Stop Pitted Resin Holes
So up to earlier this year, if you wanted to use silicone in your paint pouring, then you just went out and bought silicone oil that was designed for use elsewhere, most usually silicone treadmill oil which comes in small bottles in liquid form. You could also buy spray silicone oil which also worked well… Read More Silicone for Acrylic Pouring
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 have bought 8 small canvases that are going to form part of some goody bags that will be given to visitors to my studio during my Open Studio in June this year. I wanted to include an acrylic pour canvas in each bag as well as a bunch of other little gifts to… Read More Small Pours with Silicone
Fluid Acrylic Painting with a Hairdryer So I often use my hairdryer in my paintings to get out the bubbles from the paint and resin and to get some cells appearing with the silicone but I decided this time to use it to actually move the paint around. The video is included below and for… Read More Using a Hairdryer in a Painting
I have seen some people and some videos recently where the artists use a Lazy Susan when creating their fluid acrylic/acrylic pour paintings and thought this could be quite useful. The videos that I have seen to create fluid acrylics using a Lazy Susan, use it in varying degrees to either just help the artist… Read More Fluid Acrylics Using a Lazy Susan
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
This is the detailed description for the video that I have posted on YouTube which is a nice pour (in my opinion!) which uses 5 colours in blue shades together with Floetrol, silicone and iridescent medium and produces some nice cells. I mixed up the 4 colours in seperate cups as follows: White mixed with… Read More Fluid Pour with Blues
