The editors at AcrylicPouring.com asked if I would consider participating in their bimonthly painting swap and make a video about it. (Registration for the June swap is open until May 31.) The idea of making a painting for a person I’d never met sounded fun, but it was also a little intimidating. What if the …
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This painting was so much fun to make, and I hope that comes through in the video! The canvas is really big—24 by 30 inches. That’s over four square feet of acrylic pouring! The painting was a commissioned piece intended as a gift for a good friend’s mother. As you’ll see in the video, creating …
Whenever I do a pour painting, my natural inclination is to pick up several shades of blue and start mixing. Turquoise is my favorite color, and the liquid nature of pouring pushes toward a water-themed painting almost every time. Almost every time—but not this time. On this pour, I wanted something different. I wanted something …
As you may have experienced, making pour paintings is addictive. Sometimes it’s just so hard to stop! But eventually, you either run out of canvases, run out of paint, or it’s midnight and you have to go to bed. Whatever the case, eventually you have to do the last pour of the day. My favorite …
Sometimes it’s hard to say No. I recently had a friend ask if I would make an acrylic pour painting for her. She needed just the right piece for a corner in her living room. The catch? The room is almost all white, and she asked if I would make a painting that was subtle, …
One of the many things I love about making acrylic pour paintings is how one idea leads to another. In this case I had previously created a pour using just the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. I used the three colors in roughly equal amounts and the painting turned out lovely, but I was …
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While unpacking some new paints recently, I realized something. Whenever I make a pour, I always include white or black in addition to my main colors. So I thought, Why not go back to the basics and do the simplest of pours, using only the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue? This video is …
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