Some of the youtubers I like to follow all picked up on the bandwagon of acrylic pour. That’s when you mix a bunch of acrylic paint with water/medium, pour it into a cup all together, then glop it all out onto a canvas and let it morph and dry as it wants to.
I caved. When the endless lockdown was opened up enough to be able to go to retail that was not just supermarkets, I went to a nearby shop and got a bunch of craft acrylic paints, some flow medium, and off I went.
I didn’t take photos during but I did do this on a zoom craft call so that people got to watch it. I hope they enjoyed it.
It was messy. I covered everything with bags and paint dripped over me and everything. It was FUN.
I don’t think I got the mixes consistant or right but it didn’t matter. The main thing in this craft is to not try to control the outcome. It’s all happy accidents. Lots of the crafters I’ve watched tend to do the sort of art where they have total control; if this is what you want you’re going to freak out doing this. I had to learn to let go when I started using watercolour; enjoy the chaos, I say.
I squirted silicon bike grease in to get ‘cells’ that pop and explode.
I sprinkled water onto the still wet canvases to give more texture and interest. Its something I do as a watercolourist and is a cool thing to try. It tended to expose the colour under the top layers and that made it interesting.
I used smallish canvasses (max 15cm long) that I happened to have. I also dropped excess paints over the top of the poured paints to see what would happen. Blobbles. Blobbles happened.
I’m not really sure what to do with them now. I don’t consider them art per se, but they are fun and artistic. I actually own a large piece of enamel poured art, have done for years, that is this technique but done utterly beautifully, that I DO consider art; but these little ones are just fun.
This one is my favorite – it reminds me of the sky in Flash Gordon, or else the Matmoss.
