Hi everyone, I’m excited to do my second blog post on this double manipulation style! Hopefully it will help you on your journey in acrylic pouring. My experience has had ups and downs, I’ve practiced a lot, some pours I love and I’ve also had a lot of pours that I did not like at …
Seven paintings and several weeks ago, I set out to learn how to create a landscape using pour painting techniques. I went back through my blog entries and found this line from the very first landscape blog: “My goal is to find a way to create an image that is undeniably a landscape but is …
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 …
Hi everyone, I’m excited to do my first blog on this style of acrylic pour! Supplies I Used: paint I use mostly apple barrel paints, Elmer’s Glue any kind, treadmill silicone and water for my acrylic pours, I use all of these simply because I can pick them up locally,I don’t live near a big …
Manipulating an Acrylic Pour with Popsicle Sticks and Air Read More »
A common question I am asked by other alcohol ink artists is “How do I get some of that softer edging with alcohol inks?” People really love the fading technique and the lighter, more gentle-looking effect it can provide to your creations! In this blog post and video, I will show you exactly how to …
Thank you for staying with me over the last few weeks. All of the experimentation, research, note taking, and determination has paid off. The painting you see above is the vision I had in my head when I started this project. My goal was to figure out how to use acrylic pouring techniques to create …
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 »
If you haven’t been following along you may want to skip back and watch the two previous videos—Beginning an Acrylic Pouring Landscape Series and Continuing in Creating an Acrylic Pouring Landscape. What I am trying to do is figure out how to use acrylic pouring techniques to create paintings that retain the beautiful unpredictability of …
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 »
There’s a quote I like to think of every now and then by Samuel Beckett: “try again, fail again. Fail better.” and if that’s not true of art then I don’t know what he was talking about! Supplies I Used: in Bright Yellow, Bright Green, Bright Blue, and Magenta So immediately after my last funnel …
