Paint Pouring using acrylic paints

Equipment

· Acrylic paints (I used the tubes of student paint I had)

· Liquitex Paint pouring medium

· Silicone oil( the silicone oil breaks the paint into paint cells)

· Canvas (you can use watercolour paper,Tiles, Glass, wood, yupo paper as well)

· Paper or plastic cups

· Small catering blowtorch

· Small plastic bottles with nozzles to put paint mix into.

· A sheet/ plastic bags to cover surface where you are working (it is messy)

· Wooden spatula’s(coffee stirrers) to stir/mix paint

· Tooth picks

· Plastic disposable gloves protection for hands

· Paper towels

Making up each colour for plastic bottles

I marked on the side where to pour up to on the side of the bottle. Pour the paint in followed by the pouring medium then a couple of drops of silicone oil. Shake to mix everything. You need 70% of pouring medium, 30% acrylic paint and a couple of drops of silicone oil. Mix as many colours as wish to use each in their own bottle. The paint when pouring should have the consistency of liquid honey.

Putting colours together ready to pour

Squeeze colours you want to use into a paper cup.

When all colours are in give a gentle stir with a wooden spatula See picture far right

Pouring

Balance canvas on top of cup with paint mixture in. Pick up canvas holding the cup in place and turn gently over. Allow time for the paint to come out of cup and onto the canvas.

This is the messy bit. You will need to tilt the canvas in one direction at a time. The paint will flow. Some off the canvas. Hence the messy bit. Eventually the whole canvas can be covered if you wish. Anything that goes onto the edges can be used as well as left over paint to cover the edges.

Use the catering blowtorch it helps to get rid of air bubbles from the stirring process and heats up the silicone oil and helps it to rise and contributes to the formation of cells. The torch should be passed gently over the paint at about 6-8in(15-20cm) away. Stand finished canvas on the cups to dry.

Drying time

It will take 3-5 days to dry properly

Experiments

In the image carousel you will see two paint pouring pictures. The third paint pouring and then dribbling individual colour down and using a tooth pick pulling through the colours and the last one allows for each colour to dry. Sky created paint pour first. The sea using left over blue and pulling across it with a tooth pick to create the waves. The paint pour for the sand. When dry used acylic paint to paint in the land horizon below the sky and beginnings of the groins. Have fun.

Useful books and You tube sites

Acrylic paint pouring -Tanja Jung

There are many youtube sites for paint pouring. Some artists do not use silicone oil. Some instead of Liquitex pouring medium use PVA glue with water.

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