Lumpy paint. Nothing about that phrase exactly screams “ideal medium”, does it? If you too have wondered “how to fix chunky paint”, you have arrived at the perfect acrylic paint blog post! Lumpy paint is annoying and can feel like a real piece ruiner, but you can completely avoid lumps and fix them if they’ve appeared in your painting. …
I’m back to test a couple more potential finishes you can use on your acrylic poured tiles, if you want to use them as functional coasters. You will need a finish that is both water and heat resistant and doesn’t mark with the hot mug of coffee test. I have previously tested several other potential …
Resin vs Spray Lacquer to Finish Painted Coasters & Tiles (Test) Read More »
If I had to pick out some of my favorite paintings, this one would be high on the list. So I would like to try to recreate something similar today but using completely different colors and metallic paints. I still love the black background and hope it will make the sparkle of the metallics really …
Metallic Flip Cup Acrylic Pour with Black Negative Space Read More »
Another trip to scour the local stores this time to find more possible options for how to get a nice glossy seal on painted tiles that will stand up to the heat of a hot coffee mug. My local car part supplier yielded three possible spray finishes to try on my tiles. I am trying …
Best Heat Resistant Sealing Finishes for Tiles and Coasters Read More »
You know I love to swipe my paintings and today I’m adding ALL my colors for a fun circular swipe. I’ll be swiping twice too, so let’s see what that does! I usually swipe in a straight line, don’t we all (mostly), but I have done one wavy swipe in the past on this one. …
Bring on the Color Shift Paints! I’ve only used one of these so far, the purple in this previous painting and it had been magnificent with the black. Time to try an acrylic flip cup with the other Color Shift colors. I brought these FolkArt Color Shift paints back from my trip to the conference in …
You know I love my Polycrylic. I talk about it all the time, and I even wrote an article some time back about why it is my favorite finish for acrylic paintings. But there are always more finishes to try and today I’ll give a couple of spray finishes a try. I love the thicky …
Best Spray Finish for Acrylic Pour Paintings (Test) Read More »
You may have heard that in order to create cells, or in order to get a good poured painting, that you need to use a balanced mix of opaque and transparent paints. Is that true? Let’s try it out and see. Quick Links For your convenience, here are store links to items we mentioned in …
Using Transparent Paints for Acrylic Pouring (Experiment) Read More »
Part 3 in our dimethicone oil test today and this time a different type of product. The last two have been personal lubricants, this one today is found with the hair products. We’ll be testing the hair serum which contains a lesser concentration of the dimethicone but it does include other products. How will this …
Testing Dimethicone for Acrylic Pouring Cells: Coconut Milk Hair Serum (Part 3) Read More »
If you follow my YouTube channel or this blog, you’ll see that I like to paint on ceramic tiles. They are easy to find, inexpensive, practical, don’t take much paint and are easy to wipe off and reuse if the results are less than stellar – which often happens. However I have found that in …
