If you’re like me, so often I get a creative spark within me. I get all excited, unwrap the canvas, set up the stands, pull down and shake up the bottle of floetrol and then; the question of the day… What colors should I use? In my 20 years of construction management, I’ve worked with …
The 2020 Experimenting With Colors Pour Challenge Read More »
In this post we’ll go over how to create a tree ring pour. First, you will need to decide on what colors you’ll use and what size and type of surface you want your artwork to be on. If you need some color inspiration, you can always refer to a color wheel like the …
What are all the techniques you can try with acrylic pouring? There are so many different ways to approach any art form, but it helps to have some guidance, especially for beginners. We’ve created this step-by-step guide to help you with the most common techniques in paint pouring. So go through them all, or find …
Whether you call it fluid art, flow art, liquid art, pour painting or acrylic pouring, chances are good that you’ve come across this art form once or twice while scrolling through Facebook! pour painting is where an artist mixes acrylic paints and pour them onto your canvas or other surfaces creating abstract designs. Paint pouring …
The ability to recreate patterns of nature in pouring is what brought me to this type of art. In particular I love beautiful knotty wood with all kinds of variations in their patterns and colors. In part one, I went over the invading ring pour, which is basically starting with one tree ring and then …
Part 2: Rouge Pour Turns into Grafting Technique Read More »
Once in a while, you just need to try something new, something out of your comfort zone. This is a two part series on doing just that. The first pour is a technique I call Invading Tree Rings. It is the first of two techniques I want to share. Part two will be explaining the …
New Technique: Invading Tree Ring Acrylic Pouring Read More »
The beauty of a tree ring pour is the distinct bands of color, circling each other without mixing. Preventing this style of painting from turning into an undefined, muddy mess requires more than simply mastering the physical technique of rotating your hand as you pour. Below are my Top 4 pro tips beyond pouring technique …
Four Pro Tips for Perfectly Crisp Tree Ring Pours Read More »
If you took a look at my last pour you might remember my fascination with this old gold paint I found. I really couldn’t tell you how long I’ve had it, but it was an interesting multi-faceted color that I knew I wanted to do more with. And after finding it I wondered to myself …
Last week I created a painting that reminded me of some pretty cool rocks and that gave me inspiration to build on what I already had. I’ve never re-poured on a canvas before, not even on one that I wasn’t super fond of, let alone one that I really loved. I was taking a real …
Sometimes inspiration strikes at very strange times and carries you and your art to places you wouldn’t expect. I had one of those experiences with this pour. Supplies I Used: in antique gold and rose gold in Mars black Water and I recently noticed all of the gold and black and opulence in the Versace …
A Metallic Color Scheme For a Desert Copper Pour Read More »
