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 …
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 …
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 …
Primary Pour: How to Do a Super Easy Flip Cup Pour Using Only Primary Colors Read More »
When was the first time a piece of artwork took your breath away? For me, it was the first time I saw a triptych. I was young, visiting the New York State Museum with my grandmother, and we were meandering through a revolving art exhibition. I can’t remember the name of the painting, but I’ll …
How to Pour Beautiful Polyptychs: Using Multiple Canvases Without Fear Read More »
By the time this article and video reaches the blog and everything gets edited and uploaded, Valentines Day will be over. But this ‘sexy’ color scheme of black, red and silver is my husbands favorite so he’s now the new owner of this tile for his Valentines present this year. As usual, he was underwhelmed …
Pouring with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics: Sexy Colors Read More »
We’ve had an expensive year and we agreed not to buy each other Christmas presents this year. Hubby was a sweetheart and broke the rules and he did buy me some paints from our local equivalent of the Dollar Store, so I thought it would be the ideal opportunity to try some acrylic pouring techniques …
How to Do Acrylic Pouring On a Budget with Cheap Paints Read More »
I recently made this record pour with a split dirty pour – different colors in each side of the cup. It worked beautifully for a dirty pour, but what would happen if I tried to do a flip cup acrylic pour and used the same idea, to put totally different colors on each half of …
Split Color Half and Half Flip Cup Acrylic Pour Read More »
I’ve had this idea on my mind for a while. How many colors do you need for a successful acrylic pour painting? Five? Three? How about just two? Could I create a painting that had only two colors – a negative space of background color and one featured color? And of course one of them …
Only Two Colors – Flip and Drag with Gold and Black Read More »
Time to break out the tiny cups! I’m trying some more crazy colors today and using up a few leftovers. I’ve just got these teeny tiny cups and they make me so happy, so its time for another multi-cup flip cup painting. I like how flexible this idea is. You can really move the paint around to …
Oh darn it. Things went wrong with this one. Wrong with the painting and wrong with the video. I had intended to recreate the #NovemberPouringChallenge flip cup and drag video but it didn’t quite work out. First, just as I had everything set up and ready to start filming, along came the whirr, grind, slashing …
