Bring on the bright colors! It’s been a while since I did a rainbow swipe on a tile so I thought it was about time I did another one, this time on a canvas. I’ll be doing a slightly different layout of the paints and a slightly different swipe technique, in this rainbow colored acrylic pour and swipe painting video.
I fancied doing something just a little different with the swipe today. I’ve done swipes in two directions before, both down and then back again, usually with different swipe colors. Today I’m leaving a much broader area of white paint than I usually work with because I want to selectively swipe just narrow bands of color back up into the white. Not sure until I try if the paint will bleed and feather or not. Let’s try it and see!
Materials used in this project:
Acrylic paints in rainbow colors
11 by 14-inch gallery wrapped canvas
Floetrol
Treadmill belt lubricant
Recipe for this project:
All paints were premixed at a ratio of 1:2 Floetrol to paint
Water was added as necessary to get the right pouring consistency
All colors contained silicone oil including the white
Now that is yummy – just my style with the very bright colors and the high contrast. The turquoise was a surprise in this one. I’ve used a cobalt blue in the past, and I wasn’t expecting the turquoise paint to be quite so dominant, but it still worked. This one will go for sale in the Etsy shop soon.
As usual, take a look below at the photos of this painting, both wet and dry, and close ups of the details. Thanks for watching 🙂
After being told in high school that she was so bad at art that she should switch to another subject, Deby didn’t paint again for 35 years. Then a stroke released a new wave of creativity and she began exploring with dot painting, abstract and eventually acrylic pouring, and at last the joy of working with color returned. You don’t need ‘talent’ to be an acrylic pouring artist – just enthusiasm, some basic instruction, and a willingness to try, fail and try again. Paint along with her and learn from her many mistakes, and you’ll soon make great art together.