This pour had been building in my mind ever since I made the video called “Huge Flip Cup.” The painting for that video was 24×30 inches and pushed the limits of my small art studio, but I knew I wanted to go even bigger. As I planned things out, I thought about what I would …
There has been quite a lot of interest in the art community lately about embellished and geode style pours. I’ve receive hundred of messages about mine after posting them on Instagram and Facebook, and I wanted to share an easy way to get started embellishing your acrylic pours to make them look like geodes. The …
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It’s that time of the month again when I take part in the Acrylic Pouring Challenge. Our #FebruaryPouringChallenge was set by Meghan of Ethereal Orb. She set an interesting challenge this month without telling us which colors or which techniques we should use, and left much more open to our imagination. I’ve not yet seen …
Acrylic Pouring Spin Technique: Lord of the Rings Inspired Painting Read More »
I’ve had this weird tool in my craft box for ages! I did buy it originally intending to try it out for swiping, then I just put it to one side and forgot about it until my recent clear up. Now I’m ready to give this tool a try for swiping. Will it create a …
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Did you see the pretty ‘garden dip painting‘ that I did recently? I had liked it so much that I soon wanted to do another and this time it’s a beach scene I have in mind. I just love blues, so anytime I get the chance, I’m grabbing some of those blue paints and trying to …
Acrylic Pouring Dip Technique: Beautiful Beach and Ocean Scene Read More »
Have you ever seen the fluid artworks by Holton Rower? His paintings make me happy. Lots of colors, and a very 3d look. Check out some examples of his work here. I’ve been wanting to try to recreate some of these for a while now and today I’ll be doing my first painting inspired by …
How to Do Holton Rower Style Acrylic Pour Over a Pop Bottle Read More »
Trying something new today. I’ve made paintings with the ‘Butterfly Technique’ in the past where I have dipped one canvas on top of another and made two near-identical paintings and I love those. See previous examples here and here. But today something a little bit different, where I will do a similar technique, but using …
Acrylic Pouring Dip Technique: Relaxing Garden Vibes Read More »
I had a dream….in which I created the most amazing spiral swipe pattern. Do you ever dream of painting success? I do ALL the time. Of course, in reality, things never turn out quite as planned, but this dream was so vivid and so colorful that I simply have to give it a try. I’ll …
Spiral Swipe Acrylic Pouring Technique On a Vinyl Record Read More »
Today I’m going to try a new way of swiping. One of the group members wrote and told me about swiping with a wet paper towel and I’m intrigued to give it a try. It has some advantages that I think could make this a great method for swiping large canvases. pouring paintings. Video tutorial.” …
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One of the things I love the most about our chat group is how inspiring it can be, and how people so openly share their ideas, results, experiments and more. One such case recently caused a storm of excitement in the group when Bobbi shared her ‘eye’ painting. She hasn’t let on how she created …
