In this video I’ll show you how to turn one of your flip cup pours into a landscape. I was surprised at just how easy it is. At this point in your Pour Painting Journey I’m assuming you are comfortable using the flip cup technique; if not, you should come back to this video a …
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Recently there has been a lot written in the AP blog about using two part epoxy. What is Epoxy Resin Used For in Art? overview describing how resin can be used to create jewelry, coat furniture, seal organic items like dried flowers, and so many other things. Sara Wagner got way more specific when she …
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Seven paintings and several weeks ago, I set out to learn how to create a landscape using pour painting techniques. I went back through my blog entries and found this line from the very first landscape blog: “My goal is to find a way to create an image that is undeniably a landscape but is …
For this poured landscape, my 6th in the series, my goal was simple. I wanted to make sure I could find some level of consistency with the techniques I’ve been developing. With repetition comes confidence. When you are confident in what you are doing you spend less time second-guessing yourself and more time focused on …
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Is is possible to recreate the magic? I was pretty sure that I could but you always worry just a little bit. I was so satisfied with my last poured landscape that I wanted that quality, that look, to be my new starting point. In painting, as in life, sometimes you find yourself in one …
Thank you for staying with me over the last few weeks. All of the experimentation, research, note taking, and determination has paid off. The painting you see above is the vision I had in my head when I started this project. My goal was to figure out how to use acrylic pouring techniques to create …
If you haven’t been following along you may want to skip back and watch the two previous videos—Beginning an Acrylic Pouring Landscape Series and Continuing in Creating an Acrylic Pouring Landscape. What I am trying to do is figure out how to use acrylic pouring techniques to create paintings that retain the beautiful unpredictability of …
For the second video of this series I decided to use a different technique. Instead of pouring lines of paint and tilting them, I decided to try swiping the paint across the canvas to get the horizontal lines of my abstract landscape. I also tried something I haven’t done in awhile which is to pour …
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As artists (and people) we are always on a journey. Something will capture our interest and inspire us to want to learn more. Whatever it may be—drawing, painting, sculpting, pouring—that new thing becomes the focus of our attention. We may spend weeks, months, or even decades exploring whatever it is that has captured our fancy. …
This week I was asked to review two products from Arteza, their set of 36 metallic paints and their 12×12 premium canvases. Both are available from amazon.com and the Arteza website: Arteza Site Links (Usually cheaper than Amazon) Metallic Paints 36 Colors 12×12 premium canvases Amazon Links Both products get great reviews on Amazon—the paints …
