What happens when primary colors mix and mingle while making a flip pour? Rainbow happiness! Just the 3 primary colors were added to the cup, along with white, and a whole lot more color appeared. Along with a whole bunch of cells. https://youtu.be/h315nrr0Oqc Watch Rainbow Flip Pour from just the Primary Colors on YouTube. To help [...]
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There are only 3 steps to making these marbled papers. To get set up, all you need to do is put plain old tap water into a container then get ready to have fun playing! Sprinkle on the Easy Marble. Swirl the color around with a toothpick. Put your paper on the water and lift [...]
Ever have trouble covering up a background? That didn’t happen here. Starting with an ugly background makes it easy to cover up. What did I use to cover it up? Stencil masks. They transformed the background that was yuck into colorful creatures. Feel free to chuckle about what my daughter pointed out to me in [...]
What can you do if you don’t love your paint pouring at the moment? Give it a few swipes to get that color moving and shifting. Just swishing a palette knife, or anything you’ve got handy, can shift the color and pattern on the canvas, just like it did for me in the middle of [...]
Washi tape is a great element to add to an art journal page, especially when you do it as one of the early layers. Why? Because then the color go right over it and make it fit right in with your style of journaling. In the video, notice how much the tape stands out as [...]
When paint pouring, if you want a plan, you can have that but if you’d like a playful adventure, you can just dump the paint on the canvas and see what happens! As my day was winding down, I added all the leftover paints to the canvas willy nilly style. Feel free to laugh at [...]
This all started with an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly, when I spilled an entire bottle of Art Spray. The quest to keep that from happening again introduced me to what I call Splotters. Splotters are empty bottles with a dauber top that I filled with the rainbow. They became juicy, fat graffiti style markers to [...]
The leftover paint in the bottom of the cup from a dirty pour is an invitation to make another canvas. Plus it feels criminal to not use that gorgeous color mingling in the cup. So I just have to make another canvas. Can you see the muse twisting my arm and forcing me to play? But there isn’t [...]
If you can pour paint out of a cup and can tilt a canvas, then you have all the necessary skills to make a colorful piece of art to hang on your wall with paint pouring. We’re going to unleash the rainbow using just 3 colors plus white. In the video, I’m sharing how to set up your [...]
What can you do with leftover paint that drips off canvases when doing acrylic paint pouring? Capture all that colorful pattern with gel plates and make acrylic skins. The gel plates capture each and every detail! https://youtu.be/n9pliq0FiF8 Watch Capture the Pattern in Paint Pouring Leftovers with Gel Plates on YouTube. Put a gel plate, any [...]
