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Mini Canvases Acrylic Pouring Paintings
For the last month, I have been working a bit on my pouring paintings. I had already some pre mixed pouring paints. Still, the paints said you needed to get some medium into them. The medium everyone online kept pointing to was floetrol. I got myself a bottle of it to try it out. I can easily say that it was not my cup of tea. It had a compatibility issue with all my paints. This sucked considering the fact that I had plenty of paints to choose from. I tend to get from a bunch of...
My Next Little Series of Pouring Paintings
A couple of weeks ago, I did a couple of pouring paintings. This is the other set of six paintings that I made. The paintings are in no particular order. The first one was made by adding a flat color of purple paint. I flattened the paint with a straw. I then added some colors in the middle. I then used a stick to make the little star shape. The final round dots were added one droplet at a time. I used a syringe to add the color droplets. The colors had a bit of water in the mix. I...
My First Set of Pouring Paintings
Over the last couple of days, I was looking up tutorials for pouring paintings. With the videos, it did go a little better than my first try at that medium. Since I was still practicing, I decided to do tiny paintings. I usually prefer smaller paintings, because it uses up less paint. With larger works, I start getting desperate, and annoyed. I had that first feeling about it, when I painted the Virgin Mary. I used my first big canvas. It took about two weeks to complete the painting. I even started to get a little bit nervous with my...